hamtabfawaz:


Some Engineers Actually do this! They extort every Contractor , Artisans & and vendors who comes to their site. If you don't give them what they want, they will Paint you & your job badly to the owner.

A good topic for discussion tho.

Should Engineers / Architect /(People Very closely related to the owner) seek ishakole or egunje from Contractors, Artisans & vendors?!!

princenomics:
Please can you sketch or show a 3 bedroom plan with the non negotiable elements, especially point 2 (sun light at the corridor)
Regards

BrickDevo:

There’s one that seemed perfect, i actually downloaded it for reference purposes

Horlardorjah:

If it's open to outsiders and there is still an access door to the main building from there. It's as good as pretending to come for prayers and with matchet forcing occupant to move in also there will surely be a day or even days that the door will be left unlocked from inside by occupants unintentionally n I can just try my luck opening it to access the house.
My thoughts though

uncleteeh:

Yeah. You are right about this.
It's possible.
But those that have engaged architects here always ended up as happy clients.

diordaves:


This is a sprawling four-bedroom bungalow with THREE CAR GARAGE. Despite the size, more than 95% of the design has access to natural ventilation and sunlight.

Notice BEDROOM can you see how the verandah is helping to pour breeze and sunlight into the house?

Most of these are just my personal choice on how I live but the three non-negotiable elements are present: there is the flow, next to non-dark spaces, and very superb ventilation.

uncleteeh:

Not, it can never be perfect.
Criticism will always arise.
An architect only needs to deliver the best.

EgunMogaji2:


If I remember correctly, there was a concern that it didn’t have an ante room and a dedicated VT.

EgunMogaji2:


Okay got it.

FEGEITOK:
My snake in the house experience.

There is a small bath basin, don't think the proper name for it is bath tub: small enough to stand in but not big enough to lie in. I'm sure the description is clear enough to get.

Turns out the finishing between it and the wall/the rest of the bathroom floor was degraded. It was through that space that a snake came into the bathroom/toilet and from there into the house, which thankfully I was able to see as it left the bathroom for one of the rooms.

After the snake was killed, I investigated further.

The bath basin lay on sand, there was no DPC and there was no proper German floor.

The chamber was on the other side of the bathroom wall.

So the snake found its way into either the soakaway or the chamber and from there into the house.

Remediation: built a 6 inch high German floor in the bathroom and thoroughly sealed the point where the floor meets the wall.

Afterthought: It is a very good idea to incorporate DPC into builds and make a thick enough German floor.

Looks like they made a very light mortar paste on the floor and then set up the bath basin and the tiles.

But I then eliminated that bath basin from the bathroom/toilet.

I also think that the bathroom is not the place to economize on the cement to sand ratio given that that area sees a lot of water.

EgunMogaji2:


I’m satisfied with this.

So potential homeowners need to realize this when they come for criticism.

It doesn’t necessarily make the architect an unlicensed baba draftsman.

diordaves:


You make it sound like I'm an architect. I am not an architect............not even close. I just need to get that off the way to avoid any confusion.

Now take a look at the attached plan I lifted online from The Sater Design. This is one plan I admire so much and making some minor changes to for my forever home in Nigeria. This is a sprawling four-bedroom bungalow with THREE CAR GARAGE. Despite the size, more than 95% of the design has access to natural ventilation and sunlight. Notice the flow from the KITCHEN to the DINING ROOM to the LIVING ROOM to the STUDY. All with access to natural ventilation and sunlight.

Notice BEDROOM 1. This is practically the Guest Room. Notice how this was positioned away from the rest of the house and very independent with an ensuite toilet and even a walk-in closet (WIC). Notice how the LEISURE ROOM which is the family is positioned close to the VERANDAH, so you receive guests in the Living room and the rest of the family can unwind in the leisure room. Now see the rendition of the verandah also attached; can you see how the verandah is helping to pour breeze and sunlight into the house?

Now notice the FOYER (I've also attached the rendition of the Foyer), from the rendition attached, can you see how the foyer gives the house a grand stately entry? Every home should have a foyer or as we call it in Nigeria; ante room and a verandah. Nigeria is a hot climate.

Now the MASTER SUITE is a full-blown flat within a bungalow with a MASTER BATH fit for a king.

Most of these are just my personal choice on how I live but the three non-negotiable elements are present: there is the flow, next to non-dark spaces, and very superb ventilation.

spyder880:


The sentence in bold is where I have been have problems believing.

Please, do you have a hole into the soakaway or into the chamber?


I have studied all the soakaway system we have been doing, and I still find it difficult to believe a snake will get into the soakaway system from the surrounding ground, and then find it's way into the house through the pipes, up the chambers and come up from the toilet bowl. The journey seems too far for a reptile to make it into the house.

I can understand the entry point through a broken chamber, but the soakaway seems a more circuitous route for an animal which doesn't live all its life in water. In the tropics like Nigeria, the temperature of the inside of a soakaway could be very high under a hot sun, with very little air circulation.

Another entry point I have been suspecting is the toilet air vent. Those vents which come out from the top walls and is usually covered, a snake can climb down into the pipe if its left uncovered and then climb into the pipe, through the chamber and then find a way to climb into the WC because it can swim in cold water.

We're just investigating sha o

kopell:
How many numbers of apartments this serve, how big can it be in size. If you don’t mind post some of your jobs here for us to see.

kopell:
How many numbers of apartments this serve, how big can it be in size. If you don’t mind post some of your jobs here for us to see.

DFAMEGUY11S:
https://www.nairaland.com/5349601/pick-quality-wall-floor-tiles



https://www.nairaland.com/5349336/executive-toilet-seat-shawer-room


https://www.nairaland.com/5349701/pick-quality-kitchen-bathroom-wall

EgunMogaji2:


I don’t doubt happy customers. My thing is I’m sure if you posted that plan that your client was happy with you’ll still get suggestions.

There’s at least a 40 feet walk from my living room to VT. And I also have a central courtyard. I love my plan but many disagreed with it.

Jasobry:



How much is the wash hand basin

AlphamaleTech1:


The standard size of a bio digester is 2 ft wide and 6ft long.

One digester will serve 4 flats... So if u av 8 flats in aa building, that means you are making 2 bio digester.... It can work for both private and public building and it doesn't affect ground water unlike the old smelling soak away.

The last picture is what we call THE FILTER

It seperates the human waste from the water immediately when u flush.

FEGEITOK:


There were holes in the hollow blocks in the bathroom.

The bathroom did not have a proper German floor.

The chamber shared a wall with the bathroom wall, indeed it was on the other side of the bathroom. There were holes between the bathroom and the chamber.

There was not proper seal or separation between the floor on either side.

The bath basin had a number of rust spots, so water did not just leave the bath through the pipe only but through the partly rusted bath basin.

The quality of the mortar holding the hollow blocks at the floor level had given way.

This is not a recent incident.

Mine had nothing to do with the toilet bowl. I made that abundantly clear.

I hope this helps.

spyder880:


Well noted Sir, thank you.

DFAMEGUY11S:
22k

Horlardorjah:



Exactly, I agree with you on this.
Even homeowners wouldn't give us the brief like they gave their architect prior to coming up with the design. What I just believe is, a good and sound architect will know which to pick and which to ignore from opinions gathered by homeowners from here n sent down to him/her.
But all the same, better soup na money kill am. Your architects can go extra mile provided the right fee is paid. Dont come for me on this oh baba

spyder880:


The sentence in bold is where I have been have problems believing.

Please, do you have a hole into the soakaway or into the chamber?

I have studied all the soakaway system we have been doing, and I still find it difficult to believe a snake will get into the soakaway system from the surrounding ground, and then find it's way into the house through the pipes, up the chambers and come up from the toilet bowl. The journey seems too far for a reptile to make it into the house.

I can understand the entry point through a broken chamber, but the soakaway seems a more circuitous route for an animal which doesn't live all its life in water. In the tropics like Nigeria, the temperature of the inside of a soakaway could be very high under a hot sun, with very little air circulation.

Another entry point I have been suspecting is the toilet air vent. Those vents which come out from the top walls and is usually covered, a snake can climb down into the pipe if its left uncovered and then climb into the pipe, through the chamber and then find a way to climb into the WC because it can swim in cold water.

We're just investigating sha o

EgunMogaji2:


Maybe you did ancient missed it but these are the pertinent information people need.

Now price.

somehow:
Please drop a link to your Facebook page.

Contacted you on whatsapp

somehow:
Okay, before then, do you have any thread on NL you opened specifically for any of your projects with images?

somehow:


Can I see your previous projects?

diordaves:


You make it sound like I'm an architect. I am not an architect............not even close. I just need to get that off the way to avoid any confusion.

Now take a look at the attached plan I lifted online from The Sater Design. This is one plan I admire so much and making some minor changes to for my forever home in Nigeria. This is a sprawling four-bedroom bungalow with THREE CAR GARAGE. Despite the size, more than 95% of the design has access to natural ventilation and sunlight. Notice the flow from the KITCHEN to the DINING ROOM to the LIVING ROOM to the STUDY. All with access to natural ventilation and sunlight.

Notice BEDROOM 1. This is practically the Guest Room. Notice how this was positioned away from the rest of the house and very independent with an ensuite toilet and even a walk-in closet (WIC). Notice how the LEISURE ROOM which is the family is positioned close to the VERANDAH, so you receive guests in the Living room and the rest of the family can unwind in the leisure room. Now see the rendition of the verandah also attached; can you see how the verandah is helping to pour breeze and sunlight into the house?

Now notice the FOYER (I've also attached the rendition of the Foyer), from the rendition attached, can you see how the foyer gives the house a grand stately entry? Every home should have a foyer or as we call it in Nigeria; ante room and a verandah. Nigeria is a hot climate.

Now the MASTER SUITE is a full-blown flat within a bungalow with a MASTER BATH fit for a king.

Most of these are just my personal choice on how I live but the three non-negotiable elements are present: there is the flow, next to non-dark spaces, and very superb ventilation.

Jasobry:


Is there anyone lesser?