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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by twinskenny(m): 10:20pm On Jun 08, 2016
EgunMogaji:


So I have two separate structures on my property including a garage which will have petrol, oil and other flammable things.

So with this Nest, I can be alerted the minute smoke is detected and wherever I am. Even if I'm in the us.
yes.. advantage is that devices can be linked together too
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Memejem: 10:53pm On Jun 08, 2016
You can say that again. If I had the money to spend. I would buy it.

Which h model did you buy in eBay and why didn't it work that well?

twinskenny:



i bought one on ebay sometimes ago about 300usd.. its has an app as well, doesnt really work well after installation.


great to have a device with an app... that you will be able to monitor your home at ago. just like having a cctv installed with remote view.

whole house automation is really taking shape nicely now.. like of CONTROL 4, where you can control everything in your house via an APP.

But better soup na money kill am
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by erico2k2(m): 11:04pm On Jun 08, 2016
twinskenny:


there are lots of smoke detector here that uses batteries... disadvantage is that if you forgot to change the batteries over time, it can damage the device...

i have seen nest that oga egun posted look nice to me and very simple too .

here for multi dwelling apartment we are used to either addressable or conventional wired type.

but for a bungalow or a duplex stand alone wireless detector will do just fine...
for me I think thats over spend, we can just buy stand alone all three 30 bucks
the one I have gives you a warning to tell you its working, beeps
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by KolaShangOne(m): 11:25pm On Jun 08, 2016
mufutau55:


Oga Egungun, there is juju/voodoo/ogungun that will put both the Dobermans and Mai-Guard to sleep o.... ask @Kolashangone.

But my "Asabari - Ogun Orokin Special (Gbefun-gbori)" go make those bad boys sweep my whole compound for many days until I stop them ni o.

Hajji M.

Scenes when THEY enter and the EgunMogaji Dobermans be looking at them like..

LOL..

Hajji, there are plenty China versions of this broom now. But I know you got your own from Germany. I'm sure you understand sir grin

Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 11:31pm On Jun 08, 2016
KolaShangOne:


Scenes when THEY enter and the EgunMogaji Dobermans be looking at them like..

LOL..

Hajji, there are plenty China versions of this broom now. But I know you got your own from Germany. I'm sure you understand sir grin

More like this for EgunMogajis crib.

Because Egun himself don go river take bath wink

Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 11:32pm On Jun 08, 2016
erico2k2:

for me I think thats over spend, we can just buy stand alone all three 30 bucks
the one I have gives you a warning to tell you its working, beeps

Have you gone to the site yet and read up.

All this oyel money for under mattress ehn grin

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by mufutau55(m): 12:32am On Jun 09, 2016
KolaShangOne:


Scenes when THEY enter and the EgunMogaji Dobermans be looking at them like..

LOL..

Hajji, there are plenty China versions of this broom now. But I know you got your own from Germany. I'm sure you understand sir grin

True, true o. Nah Germany I get am from o.

Hajji M.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 12:44am On Jun 09, 2016
erico2k2:

for me I think thats over spend, we can just buy stand alone all three 30 bucks
the one I have gives you a warning to tell you its working, beeps

The smoke detectors that I'm familiar with only beep when the battery is dying. Are you sure it's beeping to tell you it's working?

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 12:59am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:


The smoke detectors that I'm familiar with only beep when the battery is dying. Are you sure it's beeping to tell you it's working?

Maybe he meant to type **blinks**

EgunMogaji, translating cockney to proper queens English grin

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 2:01am On Jun 09, 2016
Our secuirty set-up (subject to change)

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

- 10ft high wrought-iron fence (no fancy cars for us in Naija)

- Rose bushes against the fence and below windows

- Motion detector light's

- Window/door sensors

- Glass shatter sensors

- 140db siren if any of the sensors are triggered

- 2 dogs (we love dogs so they will be pets rather than guard dogs)

- Shotgun... for sport. grin grin (shout out to my uncle)
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by mufutau55(m): 2:41am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:
Our secuirty set-up (subject to change)

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.
- 10ft high wrought-iron fence (no fancy cars for us in Naija)
- Rose bushes against the fence and below windows
- Motion detector light's
- Window/door sensors
- Glass shatter sensors
- 140db siren if any of the sensors are triggered
- 2 dogs (we love dogs so they will be pets rather than guard dogs)
- Shotgun... for sport. grin grin (shout out to my uncle)

Very good. I am thinking Honorable EgunMogaji is your Uncle o. 140db? Your neighbors no go sleep o.
The 10ft wrought iron fence will be from the ground or some level with blocks and iron mounted on top?

Hajji M.

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 2:48am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:
Our secuirty set-up (subject to change)

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

- 10ft high wrought-iron fence (no fancy cars for us in Naija)

- Rose bushes against the fence and below windows

- Motion detector light's

- Window/door sensors

- Glass shatter sensors

- 140db siren if any of the sensors are triggered

- 2 dogs (we love dogs so they will be pets rather than guard dogs)

- Shotgun... for sport. grin grin (shout out to my uncle)

Do you have a building plan selected yet?
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 2:51am On Jun 09, 2016
mufutau55:


Very good. I am thinking Honorable EgunMogaji is your Uncle o. 140db? Your neighbors no go sleep o.
The 10ft wrought iron fence will be from the ground or some level with blocks and iron mounted on top?

Hajji M.


From the ground. The post's will be in about
.5m of cement.

Yes ooo. 140db. That should be loud enough to scare anyone away. If not, Oluwa dariji mi.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 3:00am On Jun 09, 2016
EgunMogaji:


Do you have a building plan selected yet?

Building plan is done, unless the queen has another great idea. She mentioned floor to ceiling windows on the ground floor yesterday. I just laughed. That is a no.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by true2home(m): 3:06am On Jun 09, 2016
Hi NL,

I'm trying to purchase this land property from Opic. The place is called New Makun City. I like the location cos its a strategic point for someone like myself that love country living. I'm original from Ilishan right opposite ikenne; and not working or living in Naija full time, i think that location, which is just before the Sagamu/Ore interchange, can be a nice location for a weekend/retirement gate-away house for our family.

As always, the problems with this process is the NIGERIAN WAY OF DOING THINGS; i just find it difficult to give my hard earned money to someone in anticipation of get a land in the near future. I was thinking that by dealing with GOVERNMENT, i will be shielded from fraudulent practices. Nope, i was wrong again!!!

Can you believe someone is telling me to drop #3M+ and go sit down till they decide to allocate land for subscriber( More like Gullible People)?

1ST PROBLEM: I DON'T GET TO PICK THE LAND AM PAYING FOR
2ND PROBLEM: AM PAYING IN FULL WITHOUT ANY CLUE WHERE WHAT IM PAYING FOR IS
3RD PROBLEM: I WILL HAVE TO SUPPORT FRAUDULENT PRACTICE THAT HAS BEEN MADE NORMAL IN NIGERIA; I AM A CIVIL ENGINEER THAT SHOULD KNOW BETTER HOW CIVIL PROJECT SHOULD WORK

[b][/b]NOBODY SHOULD PAY FOR ANY LAND WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE IT IS ( aKA awaiting ON ALLOCATION) ; THATS OUTRIGHT FRAUD!!! GOVERNMENT FOR THAT MATTER!!!

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by mufutau55(m): 3:10am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:

From the ground. The post's will be in about
.5m of cement.

Yes ooo. 140db. That should be loud enough to scare anyone away. If not, Oluwa dariji mi.

The fence will be good... Just make sure the spaces are not wide o.
But that 140db, even a deaf man will hear it... smiley

Hajji M.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by lastpage: 3:27am On Jun 09, 2016
mufutau55:


And that was even recent... I was not in Nigeria for that... but I can go back to Awo vs Akintola time... UPGA and DEMO!
Old folks here will surely remember that... the fight is not with gun but with JUJU o. But that was then.
We are all in Churches and Mosques now... and have abandoned our Cultures... Not all JUJU are bad anyway..
Thanks for that very good narrative Lastpage... you are good at writing than I will ever be.. that delayed my Ph.D for many years.

Hajji M.

Baba Agba,

You are referring to "Wet-tie" now, in western region, abi?

Like you said, Juju is not all bad.
Its a means (knowledge), given to us by Eledumare (What Oyinbos call God) ...to solve our own peculiar problems.
God also gave the white people their own, which they used in solving their own problem and developed their environment and culture.

After solving most of their own problems, they came down to Africa, (with Bible in hand) and told us our own 'legacy' is bad and evil.... we should discard it!

We "gullibly" accepted this.... and condemned our own heritage!
Thus, we are destined to ALWAYS and FOREVER play second-fiddle to the white man.

Question l always ask is:
Was the Bible (Religion in general) not there when you White people were developing your own land, using non-Christian means (mysticism, illuminati, e.t.c).

Just like they are doing with Coal now.
Coal fuelled the industrial revolution in Europe and America in the 30's to the 60's.
When they were done with the "cheap fuel" that Coal is, they came and start telling us that are yet to develop and use our own Coal for development, that the use of Coal is bad and should not be used!

Anyway, l am privileged to have witnessed how "our Native Medicine" is used for good, how powerful and efficacious it is.
I have seen it with my own eyes, used to heal ailments that defy western medicine, used to impose social order, used to control excessive behaviour, used to improve agricultural yields in farms, e.t.c. I can vouch for it 100%
but there are too many "fake Doctors" all over the place! grin

As for "putting thoughts into words" ....... small Boyz like me are looking up to you Sir!
omode o le'lakisa titi, ko'lakisa agba. undecided undecided
Translate = No matter the level of "historic dress" a child might have, he cant have one that is "more historic" than that of the elders".

I remain humble.




Lastpage!

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 3:32am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:


Building plan is done, unless the queen has another great idea. She mentioned floor to ceiling windows on the ground floor yesterday. I just laughed. That is a no.


My floor to ceiling patio windows are facing the internal open courtyard.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 3:44am On Jun 09, 2016
mufutau55:


The fence will be good... Just make sure the spaces are not wide o.
But that 140db, even a deaf man will hear it... smiley

Hajji M.

It's my prayer the siren will never be triggered.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 3:58am On Jun 09, 2016
EgunMogaji:


My floor to ceiling patio windows are facing the internal open courtyard.


Internal open courtyard. Thats interesting.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 4:05am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:


Internal open courtyard. Thats interesting.

Yeah, it's totally ridiculous 15 feet by 35 feet grin

It will have an aluminum trellis at the top to thwart would-be perpetrators from gaining entry via the rooftop. The idea is to still be outside until all dangerous hours of the morning while still technically inside grin

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 4:28am On Jun 09, 2016
EgunMogaji:


Yeah, it's totally ridiculous 15 feet by 35 feet grin

It will have an aluminum trellis at the top to thwart would-be perpetrators from gaining entry via the rooftop. The idea is to still be outside until all dangerous hours of the morning while still technically inside grin


Oh wow. That is nice. Pic 2 is awesome.

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by diordaves(m): 7:09am On Jun 09, 2016
msogunro:
Our secuirty set-up (subject to change)

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

- 10ft high wrought-iron fence (no fancy cars for us in Naija)

- Rose bushes against the fence and below windows

- Motion detector light's

- Window/door sensors

- Glass shatter sensors

- 140db siren if any of the sensors are triggered

- 2 dogs (we love dogs so they will be pets rather than guard dogs)

- Shotgun... for sport. grin grin (shout out to my uncle)

I love the 140db........will disrupt the shyte of any intruder. To be honest, too high a fence and totally enclosed fenced in Nigeria is not encouraged.........Robbers could lay siege inside without neighbours being aware. A see-through fence with high railings is more effective.

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by lastpage: 10:59am On Jun 09, 2016
diordaves:


I love the 140db........will disrupt the shyte of any intruder. To be honest, too high a fence and totally enclosed fenced in Nigeria is not encouraged.........Robbers could lay siege inside without neighbours being aware. A see-through fence with high railings is more effective.

Your head dey there!
Imagine if Neighbours are passing and thinking "That Baba-Olowo is inside enjoying his life ..... not knowing that Armed Robbers have held him hostage for the last five days, eating breakfast +Dinner while finishing-off his Hennessy ontop of some small defilement of innocent souls"! angry angry

Happened at Ayobo almost two decades back, the victim was my MBA classmate and as the Class Guvnor, l personally took charge of the Burial arraignments from the point of view of "academic colleagues", with the consent of the family. It was a horrible story. undecided

As bad as "some neighbours" can be, allowing them to do "Aproko" inside your compound (to a certain degree) could come-in handy. grin




Lastpage!

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Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by tevanso(m): 11:01am On Jun 09, 2016
abdulwastecx:


Fasting a game killer for construction workers o.. Even for supervisor like us na so so sleep we dey do.

This is a bad time to do digging, casting or any high intensive labor work
best time to engage the non Muslims and the egun guys for more productivity, though my idea, but that is what i think
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by tevanso(m): 11:12am On Jun 09, 2016
EgunMogaji:

My floor to ceiling patio windows are facing the internal open courtyard.
if i may ask sir ,why do u need that type of window sir .
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by tevanso(m): 11:12am On Jun 09, 2016
EgunMogaji:

My floor to ceiling patio windows are facing the internal open courtyard.
if i may ask sir ,why do u need that type of window sir .
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by msogunro: 12:51pm On Jun 09, 2016
diordaves:


I love the 140db........will disrupt the shyte of any intruder. To be honest, too high a fence and totally enclosed fenced in Nigeria is not encouraged.........Robbers could lay siege inside without neighbours being aware. A see-through fence with high railings is more effective.

I agree 100%. My fence will be high, but completely see through. I'm using wrought-iron, not blocks.
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by t3stm3: 1:06pm On Jun 09, 2016
Abi na china smoke detector.. grin grin

msogunro:


The smoke detectors that I'm familiar with only beep when the battery is dying. Are you sure it's beeping to tell you it's working?
Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by Nobody: 2:04pm On Jun 09, 2016
tevanso:
if i may ask sir ,why do u need that type of window sir .

To make the house light and airy.

Re: General Topic Thread-To Discuss Anything And Everything in Building Construction by n3xt(m): 3:17pm On Jun 09, 2016
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