okikigsm:
@egunmojagi pls love the alu window design up there.what is cost?

AZUH:
@egunmogaji does that your window comes with protector inside ?

EgunMogaji:


N31,000, it shouldn't be more than a regular window because it uses just a little bit more aluminum than the regular one.

I'm very cost-conscious on my project and I don;t know why some feel that I have unaffordable pipe dreams. I just like to operate out of the box.

But mine won't have that blue tint and the Persian looking gold inlays though. Totally not my thing.

l like your window design, it is different from mine, mine is a sliding one & it is black tinted.

AZUH:
Is it in Lagos ?

4nobody4every1:
l like your window design, it is different from mine, mine is a sliding one & it is black tinted.

spyder880:
Yes, a good thread, somewhere we can have the freedom to discuss where the next Nairaland property section party is holding I vote for Ibadan first. (with EgunMogaji and Hajji hosting), there will be plenty of non alcoholic Hennessy in circulation

mufutau55:


In my village, we still have some of the storey buildings by all the Baba Latis with pako decking and none of this building ever collapse o.
And we are talking about many, many years o.

Hajji M.

multikolour:


Hajji M I bought a land, I want to put a little fence at the edge of the land to indicate the land is taken. but I don't know how many blocks and cement it will need. I will fence it complete when the economy is back to normal

twinskenny:
God will provide

abdulwastecx:


Leki homes structural collapsed is a case of negligence or lack of proper engineering judgements.

Let me give you an example. An engineer may design a house using an average wind speed of 45m/s, this speed may be arrived at by looking at ten years wind behavior of the area where the building is to be located. After the completion of the house, suppose an unusual wind of 150m/s was now experienced due to unusual natural phenomenon. Would you blame the engineer for the resulting structural collapsed?

Engineers are not magicians but are people equipped with enough mathematics to make guess based on probability of something happening.

I don't know your boss but without basic knowledge of structural design, analysis, materials science, concrete technology, Geotechnics, hydraulics, soil mechanics etc... He is just an experienced artisan doing whatever design giving to him the case may be.

As for the building you uploaded above, I don't see anything special about it. As a matter of fact if it is in Tunisia, the design will be done by a competent consultancy film and not your boss. The construction work can be carried out by any artisans under proper supervision.

I was an artisan some years back, I was a carpenter, my father is a carpenter, I have been doing carpentry all my adult days. Then I used to think that we don't need engineer, building technologist or architect to do our job but the truth is we need them for complex job.

agarawu23:
your case is different from mine. My dad (vice chairman car dealers in ibadan) has 25 years of experience in car biz and he has been handling both good and bad side of it. I am a jack of all business in as much it will fetch me good profit.

You have been absent with your noise maker list o.

multikolour:

Hajji M I bought a land, I want to put a little fence at the edge of the land to indicate the land is taken. but I don't know how many blocks and cement it will need. I will fence it complete when the economy is back to normal

EgunMogaji:
N31,000, it shouldn't be more than a regular window because it uses just a little bit more aluminum than the regular one.

EgunMogaji:


If you look at most older homes, even in the villages with wooden windows, most of them have that design with opening projected part.hot air rises, so you'll be able to vent "some" out naturally. And the casement lower windows offers 100% opening versus only 50% opening for the sliding ones.

Here are some pictures of the wholehouse fan, it's an extremely efficient and low-cost setup. I've used it here in the US and the difference it makes is outstanding.

mufutau55:


With burglary embedded or without?.

Hajji M.

mufutau55:


I am not sure that will help you any bit. The best is to try and do even 5 or 4 coaches of blocks around the land.

Hajji M.

mufutau55:


I am not sure that will help you any bit. The best is to try and do even 5 or 4 coaches of blocks around the land.

Hajji M.

multikolour:


Hajji M I bought a land, I want to put a little fence at the edge of the land to indicate the land is taken. but I don't know how many blocks and cement it will need. I will fence it complete when the economy is back to normal

EgunMogaji:

Unfortunately, with embedded Sir. I'm still torn on trapping my family in the house. It's forcing me to think of alternatives.
https://www.nairaland.com/3033198/call-me-sliding-casement-windows

multikolourhttp://www.nairaland.com/2095730/calculating-numbers-blocks-need-fence:


OK sir, but how many block do I need for 4 coaches and cement

agarawu23:
Builders in the house, is this foundation not too shallow for a 5 bedroom duplex? https://www.nairaland.com/3075906/construction-5-bedroom-duplex-ibadan/1#3075906.51

agarawu23:
Builders in the house, is this foundation not too shallow for a 5 bedroom duplex? https://www.nairaland.com/3075906/construction-5-bedroom-duplex-ibadan/1#3075906.51

EgunMogaji:

https://www.nairaland.com/2095730/calculating-numbers-blocks-need-fence
Though its tempting but go only for 9" blocks, I used 6".

back2sender:

If its not Subject to erosion activities washing off the soil blinding area its okay to me, thats my common sense evaluation

EgunMogaji:


A complete waste of time and money.

You need to erect at least a dwarf fence with a gate of some kind.

This is if the intent is to stake ownership.

Good luck.

P291:
Mr agarawu, ask baba lati now, they are more experienced.

agarawu23:
my baba mufu can't dig such shallow foundation for a duplex, I don't know about your own baba lati

agarawu23:
it's a duplex and not a bungalow no matter the condition of the soil/environment.

back2sender:

Are there not going to be pillars? Its pillars that will be holding the load of the building that will be passed to the soil. The depth of the where the pillars will enter the ground will be deeper than the blinding area where the blocks will sit.
So bugalow or duplex, my concern here is the probability of erosion striking the area and not how deep. If the foundation area is not Subject to erosional activities i have no worries.