EgunMogaji:


Internal and central courtyard plus lots of trees on the property

We of the potbellied contingency cannot leave anything to chance

Empiree:
. I am not aware of this vacuum of shyte though. My father's house was completed in 1989 but we have been living there even before it was completed. Never for once did we vacum our soakaways. That's almost 30yrs. Why is this though?. We never even had a single problem with it. All i know is we shyte and flush and it goes down succefully

Congrats to your Dad and his builder. They used a properly sized sewage system.

Really, when done properly, the system shouldn't need to be sucked for decades. At least in the US. The work mostly is damage control from tree roots and amateur backhoe operators

FastShipping:



I totally agree with you. This was what prompted me to make the sacrifice and finally get my borehole done after drilling three wells on my property that didn't go deep enough for my liking. Imagine wells that didn't go deep more than 30 feet. Contamination of such wells is a possibility. Those pictures up there are heartbreaking for me. Water treatment facility on my property is a must.

Please can you share the final depth of your borehole and location ( city).

EgunMogaji:


Yeah, the ultimate solution is waste treatment facility. Any individual scheme that still leaves any "flow" into the soil is ultimately still half a solution.

Treating water at home in Nigeria is critical. I'm not at a stage yet to investigate that but I'm sure that there companies providing these setups in Nigeria.

What happened in Flint, USA was an eye opener.

Lead in drinking water is definitely a big no no

spyder880:




Buying directly from the factory will be more expensive than buying from the open market where there distributors sell. This is because the companies will not want to deal directly with every small buyer like me and you. They will like to sell to bigger distributors who will sell to us.

They do the price hike for direct buyers who are not registered distributors to protect their distributors and ensure adequate tracking. I was in Innoson factory and they refused to sell to me directly, I was also trying to buy wires from Cutix cables factory but they referred me to their approved distributors. In this two cases, they agreed to sell to me, at a cost higher than what the distributor was selling. In this two cases they gave me the address of their distributors and advice me to buy from them.

When I asked them the conditions that will make me a distributor, they specified the amount I will pay into the company, and the frequency of my repeat purchase in a year. I was supposed to fill a form and apply to become a distributor. That is when they will sell to me cheaper.

I guess this explain why I paid a lot for my roofing. I bought the Metcoppo directly from Tower factory at Oba Akran in Ikeja lagos

Empiree:
I like "see-through" fences as well. But with insecurity in nija, i'd better go for high fence. Plus, there are things you dont want strangers/passerbys to see. Imagine you wake up in the morning to get fresh air in your compund, with your fresh pot-belly and early morning yawning with towel?. And some folks in this day and age could easily snap you from thier cell phones and place you on facebook

Empiree abeg I don't want to laugh. LOL

Empiree:
. I am not aware of this vacuum of shyte though. My father's house was completed in 1989 but we have been living there even before it was completed. Never for once did we vacum our soakaways. That's almost 30yrs. Why is this though?. We never even had a single problem with it. All i know is we shyte and flush and it goes down succefully

Belief me that soakaway was well built......how do we say it? Gone are the days

lastpage:



Sir,

Methane gas when accumulated, has been shown to be explosive!
Hydrogen Sulphide on the other hand, is the major component of an "evil smelling fart" (the type you give-off after eating bans with the skin! ).

Would these two not constitute a big nuisance to the house and its ocuupant, if allowed to generate in large volumes, as depicted by these bacterial processing method?
How does one suppress them and still achieve stated objective?

They CANNOT be suppressed as they are part of the decomposition process. Even ammonia is sometimes produced. Infact the rate of production of these gases is directly proportional to the efficiency of the sewage system.

Normally their rate of production is small enough not to be noticed during venting to atmosphere. In the end its just a natural rotting process at an accelerated rate

Empiree:
. I am not aware of this vacuum of shyte though. My father's house was completed in 1989 but we have been living there even before it was completed. Never for once did we vacum our soakaways. That's almost 30yrs. Why is this though?. We never even had a single problem with it. All i know is we shyte and flush and it goes down succefully

Technology has been used since the late 1800s .
I know of a particular house that was built in Delta around 1975. It had same system but the treated shyte water was piped to a small open ditch infront of the house.

diordaves:


erico2k2 I've had situation where the fine boys "bail-up" the owner of a high fence property and "jailed" the gate after them. They were in that property for three hours in broad day light with neighbours non the wiser. High fence has its drawback.

If you check them cases . They gained entrance . Fact is they must ha e waited at the gate . With low fence . Dr e bye is easy . People would ha e survey plans for you yard (the negative ones)they can make out weakness in your security system . They know where the Dog is and where all exits are . They know what door to brake down the list is endless . Nigeria ah me I nor dey ohh . The fence on my build is 10 ft high to the left . And I'm. Following suite .

erico2k2:

If you check them cases . They gained entrance . Fact is they must ha e waited at the gate . With low fence . Dr e bye is easy . People would ha e survey plans for you yard (the negative ones)they can make out weakness in your security system . They know where the Dog is and where all exits are . They know what door to brake down the list is endless . Nigeria ah me I nor dey ohh . The fence on my build is 10 ft high to the left . And I'm. Following suite .

My bros i disagree with you on fence height, In fact this does not stop those good boys from visiting. They even bore holes thru fence sef so the height does not matter.
See me i see you fence naa fits naija now, wetin we dey hide sef?
Make i go look for MMM thread, this place too dull this days make dem for no punish because naa serious lectures dey go on.
FOREX has scattered tinzs here but my colleagues doing assignment outside the country are benefitting big time, dey pay dem in dollar which when they convert it, its almost or twice thier salary now locally . Make i go search for outside work

A lot of houses I know with amoured security doors that have been robbed, ended up being burgled with the rubbers breaking the walls beside the doors with a cheap sledge hammer, or simply driving in behind the home owner.

All this security is just to discourage those ones looking for soft target.

Just thinking out loud shaa...

After the wire episode which there was no other way except buy Adulterated wires which is a no no for me had to pay and collet now the POP is always saying things have gone further NORTH wahala dey.
Will be Posting the do's in my Thread

My people,

I'm in the market for tiles o, Please kindly recommend best tiles for me.

BTW, do you do the painting before tiling or the other way around?


Thanks.

back2sender:

My bros i disagree with you on fence height, In fact this does not stop those good boys from visiting. They even bore holes thru fence sef so the height does not matter.
See me i see you fence naa fits naija now, wetin we dey hide sef?
Make i go look for MMM thread, this place too dull this days make dem for no punish because naa serious lectures dey go on.
FOREX has scattered tinzs here but my colleagues doing assignment outside the country are benefitting big time, dey pay dem in dollar which when they convert it, its almost or twice thier salary now locally . Make i go search for outside work

We wey dey abroad dey plan to pot bck 2 9ja. U wan take off?

44chux:
A lot of houses I know with amoured security doors that have been robbed, ended up being burgled with the rubbers breaking the walls beside the doors with a cheap sledge hammer, or simply driving in behind the home owner.

All this security is just to discourage those ones looking for soft target.

Just thinking out loud shaa...

This is correct. See fru wall is soft target.

44chux:
A lot of houses I know with amoured security doors that have been robbed, ended up being burgled with the rubbers breaking the walls beside the doors with a cheap sledge hammer, or simply driving in behind the home owner.

All this security is just to discourage those ones looking for soft target.

Just thinking out loud shaa...

Na only God feet protect man oh, those underworld guys with their AK47 and automatic machine guns will even make one open the doors by himself !!!!

44chux:


Technology has been used since the late 1800s .
I know of a particular house that was built in Delta around 1975. It had same system but the treated shyte water was piped to a small open ditch infront of the house.

But my dad's have no apparent ditch it goes. And there is obviously no open drainage in front of his house. Does that mean shyte dries out in the soakaways?

ice4u999:
At least the good news is that Lagos state government is planning to build a waste treatment facility at ibeju. I just wish other states will follow.

As for ground water contamination I will still advise one invest in deep water drilling to avoid contaminated surface water especially in Lagos ( water areas) and also go the extra length with installing a little treatment facility for chlorine injection for the safety of your family, children and tenants.

I wish Lagos state can plan communal water system too to prevent all this indiscriminate drilling of boreholes. Also most house owners in lagos cant afford to go for deep boreholes as the price could be outrageous....deep boreholes in Lagos ranges from as low as 450k to as high as 5m whereas you can get a shallow borehole for very low prices around 80k to 120k.


https://www.nairaland.com/3236298/know-geophysical-investigation-borehole-drilling

ice4u999:



Please can you share the final depth of your borehole and location ( city).

333 feet. Abeokuta.

44chux:
A lot of houses I know with amoured security doors that have been robbed, ended up being burgled with the rubbers [b]breaking the walls [/b]beside the doors with a cheap sledge hammer, or simply driving in behind the home owner.

All this security is just to discourage those ones looking for soft target.

Just thinking out loud shaa...

The moment that robber breaks the wall with sledge hammer and sneak in with his head, there is ocean of acid waiting to be poured on that robber's head.

Besides, I must have guns in Nigeria. I don't care how I get it. Either the right way or black market route. I went on gun shopping during Christmas and was thinking about having such opportunity in Nigeria.

erico2k2:

We wey dey abroad dey plan to pot bck 2 9ja. U wan take off?

As we say in Yoruba, "pessin wey get head no get hat"

Empiree:
But my dad's have no apparent ditch it goes. And there is obviously no open drainage in front of his house. Does that mean shyte dries out in the soakaways?

That or a leak.

Or maybe we need to investigate the diet your dad has you kids on

FastShipping:


The moment that robber breaks the wall with sledge hammer and sneak in with his head, there is ocean of acid waiting to be poured on that robber head.

Besides, I must have guns in Nigeria. I don't care how I get it. Either the right way or black market route. I went on gun shopping during Christmas and was thinking about having such opportunity in Nigeria.

I won't have a gun. God forbid

The robber will just happen to have brought the gun. I simply overpowered him, got the gun and shot him in self defense

Qc1:



My people,

I'm in the market for tiles o, Please kindly recommend best tiles for me.

BTW, do you do the painting before tiling or the other way around?


Thanks.

Tiling before painting?

twinskenny:


Tiling before painting?

It is the other way around in the US. We paint here before neatly tiling the floor.

AdenijiSeun:
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EgunMogaji:

As we say in Yoruba, "pessin wey get head no get hat"

And sometimes Hat dey but no head to wear am.

Hajji M.

FastShipping:


It is the other way around in the US. We paint here before neatly tiling the floor.

The painting will be messed up here

Qc1:

BTW, do you do the painting before tiling or the other way around?
Thanks.

We are in Nigeria.... Personally for me, Tiling before Painting...

Hajji M.

The collateral na your body. Na to choose which part to break if you no pay.

kopell:
Almost every one need cash in Naija now, why you no start with those Mallam on the street. Another MMM?