nannymcphee:
Please can the house recommend an engineer resident in benin city. I am about to start a 2bedroom/1bedroom bungalow.

spyder880:


How can you ask @BiigTee to settle offline? Did he contract Rotech offline? He came here for a reason let it be sorted here. I can see this Rotech of a person is very cunning. I came here in search of reviews onbhis work and I'm sorely disappointed .

BiigTee:
Rotech, once again u are trying to make me look foolish and I don't like it one bit! Pls don't try to play smart here.. Don't even try it!
I told u to pay N500k out of 900k+ spent correcting the slope and out of the overall apprx 1.2m spent correcting all ur mistakes.. Yet u come here to say I spent 500k? Don't try to play games with me bro!

Once again u have proven to be very crooked and not straight forward.. Attached to this post are screenshot of my conversation with rotech this morning

BiigTee:
Rotech, once again u are trying to make me look foolish and I don't like it one bit! Pls don't try to play smart here.. Don't even try it!
I told u to pay N500k out of 900k+ spent correcting the slope and out of the overall apprx 1.2m spent correcting all ur mistakes.. Yet u come here to say I spent 500k? Don't try to play games with me bro!

Once again u have proven to be very crooked and not straight forward.. Attached to this post are screenshot of my conversation with rotech this morning

GlassHearts:



Wow I can't believe this and to think my Inlaw and I almost called his number after recommendation from an associate.. But I said no let me come and investigate this Rotech on nairaland. Wow! This is unfair.Imagine putting my structure in LEKKI ajah in his hands and he won't be accountable for any issues.
Please he needs to reimburse at least half of the. 1.2 million before I will ever consider him that will justify he's an honest business man.
Kindly let us know on this platform how it goes it will really help.
Sorry again sir.
Oga ooooo!

smallsmall:



To resolve any problem amicably, both sides must come out clean and be honest about it.
@Rotech77 should be straight-forward in your statements, there is no need and nothing will be gained from further twist and turns, what happened is very clear to you and everyone else, l am sure you will learn from it and get better, just like @Brabus have learnt from his past mistakes and got better.

@BigTee, l think your "private chats" should not be posted online, when the discussions are still ongoing.
The reason ; say this is so that the issue of 'bruised ego and self preservation', which are normal developments when things get nasty, does not make the current negotiations difficult.
This is different from updating the house, about the progress/outcome of such negotiation, which is important.

I will implore you to be magnanimous in your quest for compensation, see, the money as a loss to you and the contractor, since it is for bad work, not work that is not done. See it like: apart from the 100K he collected for supervision, the other costs and even the new ones you just incurred, were outright losses to his person.

Let the negotiation go on till both of you can finally agree at a figure that is fair, but you will need to be magnanimous and forgot a lot of it, for the sake of tomorrow.
Please, biiko, na you we go beg.
I pray your remedy is the right one.

smallsmall:


To be honest, @Rotech77 is not a bad person nor the work that l really know him for, which is Electrical and Plumbing, not worthy of recommendation. For your associate to recommend him, is also a confirmation of my position. I dont think he has been having issues with his Clients here, non l can remember, l stand correced.
I will recommend him anyday, to anyone who wants to do Plumbing and Electricals.
He just took his eyes off the ball, especially at a very important stage like a Decking.

Decking and Foundation are two areas you cannot delegate to inexperienced hands. You supervise, check and recheck
There is a Turkish Proverb that says: Check Twice, Cut Once!
The reverse is also true but in this case, he just did not check at all but delegated it or maybe he was wrong in using a block to take level, when there are Tools for doing so.

I will still implore the Client to be magnanimous, and accept something substantial and not necessarily half, not y right but y being magnanimous.

GoodFaith:
Bag of cement in Benin City Price

3500 or less
Tell us oh

Chikebrain:

Around here, it's still 3800 but I got a discount from a neighbor working adjacent my site. So I get at 3500

djsjxjfjdisjdjb:


make una dey try do clean work. una no dey see as oyibo people dey tile their own spaces? Attention to details would take any artisan further than experience.

Focusmind:


Attention to detail is a scarce skills among artisans in Nigeria. I nearly landed hot slap on my tiller's apprentice. I was telling him how to make the finishing of the upper and lower part of the door tile areas look good and smooth. He was arguing with me saying "wetin I know for tiling work".

As a professional, if you are not ready to provide proper supervision, please don't take the job.

One funny question EgunMogaji2 usually ask contractor here is whether the person is involved in actually doing the job (hands-on) or whether he is a jobman/supervisor - those that collect jobs and sub-let to other unqualified people. There is nothing wrong with either the two o

hslbroker2:
Our new project at ajah

diordaves:


This is Bungalow with a bonus room. I can relate. Makes good sense. Nice roof design. The bonus room and the roof design will give the building character and accent. Please keep us informed with the finished article. Our eye dey road.

Happy Roofing.

rotecch77:


Infact I like all you have been doing since the beginning of this issue till now.
May Almighty God rewards you and others in better form sir.
As builder by education not self acclaimed we hand BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE plus others related ones.

We really appreciate you by boosting on it that you know us in mechanical and electrical aspect of the building work.
Maybe your mind skip the construction aspect of our work,Soon you will see our old and present real construction work sir.

And to the cleint we have agreed for the payment of 250k back to him.
1st payment today N100k
2nd payment N75k
3rd payment N75k two weeks time.

I really appreciate you all
Thanks

Focusmind:


Attention to detail is a scarce skills among artisans in Nigeria. I nearly landed hot slap on my tiller's apprentice. I was telling him how to make the finishing of the upper and lower part of the door tile areas look good and smooth. He was arguing with me saying "wetin I know for tiling work".

As a professional, if you are not ready to provide proper supervision, please don't take the job.

One funny question EgunMogaji2 usually ask contractor here is whether the person is involved in actually doing the job (hands-on) or whether he is a jobman/supervisor - those that collect jobs and sub-let to other unqualified people. There is nothing wrong with either the two o

Focusmind:


Attention to detail is a scarce skills among artisans in Nigeria. I nearly landed hot slap on my tiller's apprentice. I was telling him how to make the finishing of the upper and lower part of the door tile areas look good and smooth. He was arguing with me saying "wetin I know for tiling work".

As a professional, if you are not ready to provide proper supervision, please don't take the job.

One funny question EgunMogaji2 usually ask contractor here is whether the person is involved in actually doing the job (hands-on) or whether he is a jobman/supervisor - those that collect jobs and sub-let to other unqualified people. There is nothing wrong with either the two o

Focusmind:


Attention to detail is a scarce skills among artisans in Nigeria. I nearly landed hot slap on my tiller's apprentice. I was telling him how to make the finishing of the upper and lower part of the door tile areas look good and smooth. He was arguing with me saying "wetin I know for tiling work".

As a professional, if you are not ready to provide proper supervision, please don't take the job.

One funny question EgunMogaji2 usually ask contractor here is whether the person is involved in actually doing the job (hands-on) or whether he is a jobman/supervisor - those that collect jobs and sub-let to other unqualified people. There is nothing wrong with either the two o

djsjxjfjdisjdjb:


Lol. People do not know that architects are the head in a construction projects. Every other person on that project is answerable to them. Well, this is the case in saner climes.

BiigTee:
Bottomline is Rotech77 casted a decking that's vibrating.. Made a mockery of a staircase and still went on to frame a decking that slopes by a whole 10 inches in some areas.. Yet he sees absolutely nothing wrong in the job he did.. Offered zero compensations despite my spending over 1.2m to recast and reinforce a decking that was cast by someone who claims to be a professional.. The next few images show the extent of correction made!

GlassHearts:



Wow I can't believe this and to think my Inlaw and I almost called his number after recommendation from an associate.. But I said no let me come and investigate this Rotech on nairaland. Wow! This is unfair.Imagine putting my structure in LEKKI ajah in his hands and he won't be accountable for any issues.
Please he needs to reimburse at least half of the. 1.2 million before I will ever consider him that will justify he's an honest business man.
Kindly let us know on this platform how it goes it will really help.
Sorry again sir.
Oga ooooo!

rotecch77:
Good evening all.

My comment here is to say noting but the truth and to all of us both client and contractor, if you do bad and expect good reward it’s a joke you can’t get such,
If you do good and people are ready to paint you bad.... don’t worry your good did will fight for you, I understand that nobody is perfect but we still have good people’s in this world

. Let’s go to the issue at hand now.

@ bigitie contacted us here as others clients do to handle a slab ( decking) work for him in ogun state which both of us agreed.

We are to handle cost of LABOR and SUPERVISION ONLY.NO MATERIALS

Material
The client bought ALL the MATERIALS himself, even when he bought at high rate, it took me and my project manager to went round with him for a whole day to get the remaining materials at good rate in his present and he paid for such and they delivered it to site for him.

Omonile wahala
Hmmm, we almost lost a worker to omolenile, they came to site to stop us 3 diff times with GUN, MATCHES and JUJU, Infact it’s terrible experience.
The day we are casting the client was there with us ( my workers, site supervisor, project manager) that day the client also was TOTALLY CONFUSED he didn’t know what to do again. The omonile deal with my workers seriously and they took money again from us.
This drama lasted for like 3hours, haaaaa omonile hmmm it’s not good ooo. We see segeee dat day.

The slab
The client provides structural design which we follow accordingly without missing any part, ( pics attached)

The stair way
The issue of omonile delayed the casting and we finished the work at night around 9pm with touch light ( at the process ONLY ONE of the RISER plank break ( simple cutting off when-ready to tile the stir) not an issue )


Slab Slope
As you all know the Last level is where to follow while preparing your slab beam which we did after himself and I with others worker checked the building height ( unfortunately nobody sense the buildings height is slightly diff in height by 6” in one side )
We did the formwork we put the reinforcements and he came to check it and he was there the day we casted it.


Last and current issue
@bigitie called me last Sunday that the decking is bouncing in sittingroom area, I said its not possible we did what we supposed to do and you saw it then, he now said another engr as take over the upper structure job ( bcs we don’t agree on price about this upper floor) so I said May be they loaded much block on a sport there, later he said the new man will take care of that.
Later he said the building slope I said my site man will come on 3days time to check ( tue - wed)
But my site man couldn’t make it until 4 days after ( today) they check round with the new man and himself and FOuND OUT THAT ITS 5” or so in slope In ONE side only due to POOR FOUNDATION they did for him with NON accurate block Height which the NEW ENGr that handle the new job also told him in the present of my site supervisor that went there to check. The issue .



Bum bigtie said he will come to public
To publish my name and my workers name.

Well if you do good .., good things shall follow you.

Thank you all

n3xt:


Who recommended this solution?

I think 10 inches thick concrete is just too much load on the structure regardless of the justification the engineer might have given.

Sorry for this error.

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A simple fix for such issue is just to section the slab after confirming that the as-built design of the slab conform with structural design requirement.

diordaves:


To be honest, I'm struggling to see why most contributors are condemning this plan. Personally, I think the plan works and the flow is about right. I think most people didn't see the concept because the concept is just slowly creeping its way into Nigerian Architecture. To me, the plan works. There are two aspects to any plan: Flow and natural sunlight. Flow and sunlight make the house light and airy and energy-efficient.

GROUND FLOOR
You come into the ANTE ROOM and flow into the LIVING ROOM. This is right. The living room has both front and side windows pouring in light. This is right. The visitors' toilet is to the left of the ANTE ROOM. This may not be everybody's cup of tea, but I have seen it done in the UK. It works. From the LIVING ROOM, one could flow into the VISITORS ROOM, STAIRS AREA and the DINING. This is achieved without any dark spaces with light flooding in from the DINING as well. This works very well. The KITCHEN 'blends' into the dining. This works. The kitchen should have a window in the KITCHEN LOBBY area as well.

The BOY QUARTERS is a personal thing in relation to your family and your life chances. So I will not comment on this.

The OUTDOOR ROOM works very well. I wonder why the 'engineer' called this outdoor room. It is called LANAI but hey what's in a name. It doesn't matter. It works. See attached photos for final outcome of a lanai concept. Execute the 'outdoor room' with POP (NO PVC) with a fancy fan and a sliding door or bi-fold doors. The outcome will be very spectacular. Just slide the door open on a warm day and you will have breeze and light flooding in and with a void, the breeze will flow upstairs that you will not need AC.

FIRST FLOOR.
ALL rooms have balcony with cross ventilation and no dark spaces. Even the GALLERIES will benefit from some light. This is no mean achievement. Even the FAMILY LOUNGE has a balcony. This is a very energy efficient floorplan you will seldom need your AC.

For me, it is a good plan as I understand what was going on in the engineer's head. Don't throw the plan away. Sleepover it and visit again after some days.