twinskenny:


Pop can continue

Demainman1:
Please, I started POP in my BQ but the electrician is of the opinion that wires needs to go through the conduits first before pop to avoid damaging POP if it is done later. This makes sense but does it mean I must stop work on POP?

Advice please.

erico2k2:
Plz lets talk Decking, who has just done his/hers, share your expirience

AZUH:
I just returned from my vacation . Who is looking trouble ? Buhari is a trouble maker and now he's a president . If judges can be arrested and a governor can be rough handled . Who is me ? I just watch mavverick new pop design . Guy you've got something to live for oh . 3strikes is tinubu in this thread don't worry they will soon humiliate you .

Your post made me laugh till l poured my hot Tim Hortons coffee on my steering, chai, Azuh, U go kill person with laugh, U need this koboko, Buhari needs to flog you very hard

diordaves:
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diordaves:
Crayford is a South East London suburb. Just yesterday a burst water main overnight caused flooding chaos across parts of Crayford. Water leaked into an underground car park and caused polystyrene insulation to lift the road surface by 4ft; this led to cars being crushed against the ceiling and has left scores of motorists unable to retrieve vehicles. The burst water main in Crayford caused polystyrene insulation under Townhill Square car park road surface to expand and rise by around four feet, forcing the vehicles trapped inside upwards into the roof. Please see pix below.

Now what got me is not the flooding per se but the fact that polystyrene was used for "decking" (concrete slab) and for foundation in the underground car park. I have visited that car park in the past but I didn't know that the parking bay was embedded in polystyrene. All they did was stacked the polystyrene and tarmacked over it literately.
This held until the water burst. This shows that with creative civil engineering polystyrene may be deployed for foundation (?) and decking (?) in our civil build at home to reduce cost or weight ?

Abdulwastecx has been the champion on adopting polystyrene and I must confess I'm looking into polystyrene deployment in Abuja for temporary accommodation as partitioning walls, but the big question is: if yawa gas in any form as the pix show, will the polystyrene stand the test? This includes polystyrene parapet........Abdulwastecx come answer your father's name.

spyder880:
The number one fear I have for Nigerian used polystyrene parapet is fires. With the way we squeeze houses into small plots in this country, many houses lean into each other, almost shaking hands across the fence If a fire breaks out in one building, the heat can incinerate the next building if parapet was used on it.

The second fear I have against polystyrene parapets is the fear of rodents, birds and even cats that might want to inhabit the ceiling space. Eating up or scratching through a parapet will not be difficult for these small animals, especially for those who lock their house and live abroad.

Oya, abdulwastecx, come and let us look at this issue together

diordaves:


The Rodents and birds is yet another angle. A simple mistake in execution will resonant more with polystyrene parapet than with concrete. But this is not saying the huge cost difference does not matter. Again, the question is: will the cost difference more than compensate for any eventuality?

diordaves:
Crayford is a South East London suburb. Just yesterday a burst water main overnight caused flooding chaos across parts of Crayford. Water leaked into an underground car park and caused polystyrene insulation to lift the road surface by 4ft; this led to cars being crushed against the ceiling and has left scores of motorists unable to retrieve vehicles. The burst water main in Crayford caused polystyrene insulation under Townhill Square car park road surface to expand and rise by around four feet, forcing the vehicles trapped inside upwards into the roof. Please see pix below.

Now what got me is not the flooding per se but the fact that polystyrene was used for "decking" (concrete slab) and for foundation in the underground car park. I have visited that car park in the past but I didn't know that the parking bay was embedded in polystyrene. All they did was stacked the polystyrene and tarmacked over it literately. This held until the water burst. This shows that with creative civil engineering polystyrene may be deployed for foundation (?) and decking (?) in our civil build at home to reduce cost or weight ?

Abdulwastecx has been the champion on adopting polystyrene and I must confess I'm looking into polystyrene deployment in Abuja for temporary accommodation as partitioning walls, but the big question is: if yawa gas in any form as the pix show, will the polystyrene stand the test? This includes polystyrene parapet........Abdulwastecx come answer your father's name.

abdulwastecx:


Good question sir, I will try do some justice to the best of my ability.

To start with, polystyrene in most cases is a non structural form that can be use to reduce weight and cost of structural members like slab, portion walls, roof and concrete fascia ( from a structural perspective). It can be use for non structural form like ceiling, window hood and so many other design.

Can polystyrene be use for foundation? Absolutely yes... Polystyrene can be use for ribbed or waffle foundation as a replacement of concrete volume where a series of rib beam are introduced both ways (waffle) or one way (ribbed slab).

Can polystyrene be use for suspended slab? It can also work like in the foundation as ribbed and waffle slab.

Can it be use as a partition materials? Yes, it can be use as a partition wall and have a great advantage of lightness and faster mode of installation. It made it possible to have a more flexible structural layout because portion load will be negligible. It also make it possible to reduce beam thickness and numbers because lesser load is transmitted.

spyder880:


The cost compensates for the eventuality, the polystyrene parapet is about 60% (or less) of the cost of the concrete parapet. That is a small part of the problem. But in case of any eventuality, making repairs in an inhabited house and the attendant inconvenience to the occupants should be quantified in monetary terms too.

spyder880:


The cost compensates for the eventuality, the polystyrene parapet is about 60% (or less) of the cost of the concrete parapet. That is a small part of the problem. But in case of any eventuality, making repairs in an inhabited house and the attendant inconvenience to the occupants should be quantified in monetary terms too.

abdulwastecx:


Good question sir, I will try do some justice to the best of my ability.

To start with, polystyrene in most cases is a non structural form that can be use to reduce weight and cost of structural members like slab, portion walls, roof and concrete fascia ( from a structural perspective). It can be use for non structural form like ceiling, window hood and so many other design.

Can polystyrene be use for foundation? Absolutely yes... Polystyrene can be use for ribbed or waffle foundation as a replacement of concrete volume where a series of rib beam are introduced both ways (waffle) or one way (ribbed slab).

Can polystyrene be use for suspended slab? It can also work like in the foundation as ribbed and waffle slab.

Can it be use as a partition materials? Yes, it can be use as a partition wall and have a great advantage of lightness and faster mode of installation. It made it possible to have a more flexible structural layout because portion load will be negligible. It also make it possible to reduce beam thickness and numbers because lesser load is transmitted.

mavverick:
Oga spyder880

Pls correct me, but I thought the polystyrene parapet gets plastered in with cement, so why would cats/rodents chew it. Abi which kind cats we get for nija . Pls enlighten me because polystyrene parapet will be considered by myself in the future.

kopell:
Thanks you guys for coming back to start contributing positively again, my question is if these material as being tested proved to be safe to used. Why can we start using them in effective way to attack massive housing for our people at lowest cost, as material cost are pocket friendly.

spyder880:


Yes, a thin layer of cement and bonding gum is applied as screeding for the external surfaces of the polystyrene parapet. But nothing is applied inside ceiling space. If rodents can burrow into this exposed part, and work on it, they can create a space which can lead to the outside.

spyder880:


Which other ways do you suggest we use it, as wall partitioning?

Then again, the problem of our security. In this country, bricks are sometimes preferred because of the relative difficulty in breaking down a wall and gaining illegal entry into a room/house.

What about the possibility of noise transfer in between the partition? Will it be possible to listen to what is happening in the next room just because the walls are not bricks?

kopell:
Thanks you guys for coming back to start contributing positively again, my question is if these material as being tested proved to be safe to used. Why can we start using them in effective way to attack massive housing for our people at lowest cost, as material cost are pocket friendly.

spyder880:


Which other ways do you suggest we use it, as wall partitioning?

Then again, the problem of our security. In this country, bricks are sometimes preferred because of the relative difficulty in breaking down a wall and gaining illegal entry into a room/house.

What about the possibility of noise transfer in between the partition? Will it be possible to listen to what is happening in the next room just because the walls are not bricks?

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