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No please, dont quit!
Just remember, when Cement was being sold for #2 a Bag, some did not build a house but others built when it was sold at #50 per bag.
Remember that when the Banker earning close to 500K monthly could not build a house, a lowly paid teacher built a Bungalow!
It all boils down to planning, foresight and determination.

YOU will finish this one you have started, in God's name.... by fire, by force. as we say!

Now, how far have you gone?
*How much do you have left (cash)?
*Whatever your projected income stream is, all you need to do is just to "change tactics".

1.) Is your building a "mansion"? (most first builds are) - You can scale it down a bit, for now........... and still build your Mansion later!

2.) Is it possible that you continue with a certain part that you can finish with what money you have (like ground floor), move into it and finish the rest in bits, as money comes in?
Money will come, no bad situation last forever but only those who dont give-up midway, can take advantage of the "change", when it comes! be ready to do so.
3.) Some materials get more expensive quickly than others (Like Cables (prone to high inflation...compared to WC! ). Some Material move a build much further than others (Blocks give the impression you are almost done while Plastering just sucks your money).
Plumbing is the cheapest in finishing while Tiling and Wiring consumes most money!

It is okay to take a break but please, whatever Money you have on you now, dont divert it to other things (like second wife! ), just use it to buy Original Cables or Aluminium Roofing Sheets (they dont expire unlike Cement, they are never out of fashion unlike Accessories).
That Man called AllCopacetic can be very helpful in this regard!) and Keep them safely where you live now (Dont let your Landlord see them o, otherwise you are due for a rent increase! ) You can buy smaller Accessories like Taps, Sinks too, if you have good storage space.
The idea is just to keep your money busy and productive towards your house.

4.) Mould Blocks yourself instead of buying.
Why do you need "Stone Dust" Blocks, when you are not building a mini-vault? Okay, what about buying 15Tons of Stone Dust and some Cement... then get a Moulder to mould it at your site? it will definitely be cheaper than buying ready-made ones!

5.) Sacrifice time to go to the market and buy what yo need for building! There is a very high "extra price" to pay, in you leave every buying decision to your contractor! Ofc, it can save you as much as 35% overall cost but it is a lot of "effort" though like Egun, you can also have fun while doing so.

6.) Develop strong negotiation skills when dealing with Artisans! Remember, they have heard ..and do use the "na Dollar cause am" story as well!
7.) Create time to supervise your build, Lend a hand if need be and you are capable DIY man. (Buy the Tools, they make the work very easy!
When a Carpenter charges you an exorbitant amount just to nail two woods together, ask him to 'break it down' into stages (you are learning! ) and if his price would not come down, DO IT YOURSELF and save the money or just hire a "Labourer" to do the heavy lifting (and pay him a daily rate) while you be the "Oga" and supply the know-how! At the end of the day, you will save about 70% on such not too demanding job.

I know how frustrating it is to be saving to build and prices are skyrocketing daily, especially if you are already at your wits end but what YOU MUST NEVER ENTERTAIN is the thought of abandoning your project!

Keep reminding yourself (infact, write and print it on a Big A4 paper and paste it across your bed so that iy is the first thing you will see each day you wake Up: When the going gets tough, it is the time that ONLY the Tough, get going.... I AM TOUGHER THAN ANYONE THINKS!
Every minute of your spare time, just imagine yourself in your own house, calling the shots and your wife doing Mummy Landlady!

I just hope your Landlord makes life more difficult for you so that when you are not too comfortable where you are now, it will be a tonic/incentive for you to be steadfast and finish your own house!

Look, one Musician called Ebenezer Obey once sang: The Fulfilment in Life starts when you build your own house, may God build mine for me (literally). Its like buying your first 'real' car!

So Bro, we are all supporting you with prayers (Emm...., money would have been better sha but Kontiri is not smiling anywhere! ) and l am betting on you right now, tha you will finish this house of yours!

Now, just dont set a too-tight, completion date for yourself (that can be hard on your health because of stress) but just smile and tell yourself "This House will finish when God says it will finish but finish it will!
Complete "some small chunks/part of it", every three Months and keep at it.

One day IN FUTURE, you will read the post you made today AND SMILE........ so that is how easy it is, to give up on one's dreams?
WINNERS DONT QUIT ..... and l dont see you as a loser because you have already started something!
Just finish up.




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FastShipping:
Nigeria is finished!

Jonathan messed it up and Buhari has no solution to this mess. Building materials cost is through the roof.

Both of them are clueless, One was drinking ogogoro while in office and the current one is drinking fura dai nono and rearing his cattle, it is so sad that in a population of 180 Million these are the kind of people that the electorate deemed fit & qualified enough to elect / select to govern Nigeria, l fore-see hard times ahead except the masses engage in serious civil disobedience and force these criminals called politicians out of power

spyder880:


They better lock down the purchase because this is not funny anymore, how can we go to the market and get 3 increments on the price of most stuff all in one week! This has messed up planning and building professionals are suffering.

I am supposed to start another new project by Monday next week but within this week, I am looking at more than 10% of the agreed amount lost to inflation of cement and rods alone. My dealer refused to accept my advance payment of 1000 bags of cement at N2500 yesterday because he says he is not sure what will happen next. We better stop everything construction and fix this problem once and for all.

Hmmmm

back2sender:

The cabal, cement distributors, Steel rods, manufacturers should go an eat thier PRODUCT.
Nigerians should boycott thier product and see who will lose. Boycott is also a negotiation strategy and Nigerians should start acting it now.
This alarm on increase is a strategy by these set of people to create panic and reap from it.
I will be watching for now the market and not be in n hurry to act,. This is the stage i am guys on my build.
Thanks all for your constructive comments in this thread very helpful

FastShipping:
Nigeria is finished!

Jonathan messed it up and Buhari has no solution to this mess. Building materials cost is through the roof.

back2sender:

The cabal, cement distributors, Steel rods, manufacturers should go an eat thier PRODUCT.
Nigerians should boycott thier product and see who will lose. Boycott is also a negotiation strategy and Nigerians should start acting it now.
This alarm on increase is a strategy by these set of people to create panic and reap from it.
I will be watching for now the market and not be in n hurry to act,. This is the stage i am guys on my build.
Thanks all for your constructive comments in this thread very helpful

EgunMogaji:
Some will ridicule, some will grade/rate, etc, but the intent of postings this stuff is to share back to the group.

I decided to tile the garage apartment as opposed to continue to wait for an outfit that will agree to do a stained concrete floor for me. Incidentally when we finished the tiling my tiler then informed me that he also does stained concrete - aaarrrrggghhhhhhh

I bought tiles that are manufactured by the Chinese in Nigeria. I could have spent days lamenting on finding Italian, Sicillian tiles or whatever and at the end of the day finding out that they were made in Nigeria. My tiler, a Togolese, recommend these tiles, they call them Boko Haram, they are super thick comparable (a few still broke). The tiles are covered with a thin plastic film that is peeled off after install.

They are N4,500 per box of 4 (heard they were N3,000 a few weeks back )

If you are a disporian you can go to this facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nicemadeservices/photos/pcb.1207256662698198/1207255289365002/?type=3&theater to pick a design, note the model number (I chose G66025) and then shop online with vendors.

Of note is that at N4,500 they were not the cheapest, there're tiles of N2,000 per box out there even in this Buhari period

Also of note, there is a clear difference between plans made in the comfort of my air-conditioned home office in California versus the reality of having sweaty balls in Iwo Road Ibadan while arguing vehemently on price with Chucks

"GOODWILL CERAMIC COMPANY

GOODWILL Holding Group’s headquarters is located in Linhai city, Zhejiang provice; the Group’s business covers chemicals, with total assets of nearly 500 million yuan and annual sales of nearly 10 billion yuan. In Nigeria, GOODWILL ceramics factory is located in Guangdong free trade area, Ogun State. The scale of investment is 30 million USD; foreign employees is 500-1000, and daily production of ceramic tiles is 35,000 m2 making it Nigeria’s largest single production line."

EgunMogaji:
Some will ridicule, some will grade/rate, etc, but the intent of postings this stuff is to share back to the group.

I decided to tile the garage apartment as opposed to continue to wait for an outfit that will agree to do a stained concrete floor for me. Incidentally when we finished the tiling my tiler then informed me that he also does stained concrete - aaarrrrggghhhhhhh

I bought tiles that are manufactured by the Chinese in Nigeria. I could have spent days lamenting on finding Italian, Sicillian tiles or whatever and at the end of the day finding out that they were made in Nigeria. My tiler, a Togolese, recommend these tiles, they call them Boko Haram, they are super thick comparable (a few still broke). The tiles are covered with a thin plastic film that is peeled off after install.

They are N4,500 per box of 4 (heard they were N3,000 a few weeks back )

If you are a disporian you can go to this facebook page https://www.facebook.com/nicemadeservices/photos/pcb.1207256662698198/1207255289365002/?type=3&theater to pick a design, note the model number (I chose G66025) and then shop online with vendors.

Of note is that at N4,500 they were not the cheapest, there're tiles of N2,000 per box out there even in this Buhari period

Also of note, there is a clear difference between plans made in the comfort of my air-conditioned home office in California versus the reality of having sweaty balls in Iwo Road Ibadan while arguing vehemently on price with Chucks

"GOODWILL CERAMIC COMPANY

GOODWILL Holding Group’s headquarters is located in Linhai city, Zhejiang provice; the Group’s business covers chemicals, with total assets of nearly 500 million yuan and annual sales of nearly 10 billion yuan. In Nigeria, GOODWILL ceramics factory is located in Guangdong free trade area, Ogun State. The scale of investment is 30 million USD; foreign employees is 500-1000, and daily production of ceramic tiles is 35,000 m2 making it Nigeria’s largest single production line."

kopell:
Thank you Egun. When I wrote last week that my tiller hints me last year, that most of so called Spanish, Italy, tiles are actually made in Nigeria and repackaged as imported. Many may be daunting. Here is another one with headquarters in Ilorin. Pls see the quality for yourself http://padsonindustries.com/our-products/floor-tiles-for-sale-in-nigeria/

Flaghouse1:


Nice one sir,like I said in my previous post,thank you once again for spending your money in Nigeria instead of importing tiles- our crave for foreign goods has so spoilt us that we can't even take time to research and see if we have complementary or similar quality product within our locale.

If all the tile sellers buy local made and sell at reasonable prices rather than passing locally made good as foreign for to unsuspecting customers,greed will reduce in that market hub.

Thank you one again

EgunMogaji:


You're welcome Sir.

If anyone has information in Nigerian paint manufacturers please share.

EgunMogaji:

You're welcome Sir.
If anyone has similar information on Nigerian paint manufacturers please share.

mufutau55:


Egun man, thank you very much on the tiles info. Very useful to many people here... some people like to hide stuffs..
My paint supplier is Gbadexy. He is on NL here. He has supplied many Nairalanders here too... Reasonable price and high quality.
Gbadexy Phone/Whatsapp number is: +234 708 271 5846
He has delivered to many people at Ibadan too.

Hajji M.

Flaghouse1:

This is the spirit we lack as Nigerians ,spirit of oneness, openness ,and help other persons grow ,oga mufu ,egun mogaji we need To be open as Nigerians assist each other in our task to ensure success for our friends,brothers and relations ,just impressed with oga mufu's assistance as regards paints ,very swift and timely to allow proper planing and execution of task for a brother,

A funny thought came to my mind and I believe I need to share this, I am EDO ,egun amd mufu's are Yorubas we need to synergies and assist each other grow despite our ethnic divide, I believe if every individual Nigerian assist in this manner without expecting financial gratification, we would have been able to reduce 45% of our ethic and religious problems in this country.

Nigeria will be good again

Flaghouse1:


This is the spirit we lack as Nigerians ,spirit of oneness, openness ,and help other persons grow ,oga mufu ,egun mogaji we need To be open as Nigerians assist each other in our task to ensure success for our friends,brothers and relations ,just impressed with oga mufu's assistance as regards paints ,very swift and timely to allow proper planing and execution of task for a brother,

A funny thought came to my mind and I believe I need to share this, I am EDO ,egun amd mufu's are Yorubas we need to synergies and assist each other grow despite our ethnic divide, I believe if every individual Nigerian assist in this manner without expecting financial gratification, we would have been able to reduce 45% of our ethic and religious problems in this country.

Nigeria will be good again

rotecch77:
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rotecch77:
Which one there, they are many

rotecch77:
@all, we thank God that some of nigeria made product are now acceptable by our people, range from, iron rod,doors, windows, paint, aluminum material, tiles etc.
But don't be deceived Nigeria made tiles are far difff from Spanish and any others European tiles but nearly close to China or almost same as China made in quality.but not all Nigeria made tiles that are OK,, don't be deceived that most Nigeria tiles are repack as Italy or Spanish tiles

rotecch77:
@all, we thank God that some of nigeria made product are now acceptable by our people, range from, iron rod,doors, windows, paint, aluminum material, tiles etc.
But don't be deceived Nigeria made tiles are far difff from Spanish and any others European tiles but nearly close to China or almost same as China made in quality.but not all Nigeria made tiles that are OK,, don't be deceived that most Nigeria tiles are repack as Italy or Spanish tiles

kopell:
Pls stop, people can buy what ever they like Spanish, China, Italy, America, Oshodi, Orile coker, Aba, if that is what they like good luck. No one is deceiving anybody here ok. What ever quality you are talking about, can never be more than what we see here everyday. I've seen 1single piece of 12 by12 inch tile selling for $85 each. All I am saying is we need to be proud of what we produced, and stop downgrading the Nigeria made products. We need to encourage them and patronized our products .

3strikes:
That is one of main reasons why this administration implemented some of these bans / policies....to make people buy naija made products....nothing good comes easy.

dejavus:
While I do not have any issues with patronising Nigerian business or people on here, a lot of our people seem to have a penchant for lying through their tooth.

I did a Solar install for my folks about 6 months ago, I bought Trojan deep Cycle batteries from a friend who lives in the states and got the Inverter/charge controller from the UK here but due to the logistics of getting the panels to Nigeria on Time I opted to buy from a "supposedly solar engineer" on here, after talking to him on the phone for hours and explaining how I like people to stick to their words, he still bloody tried to pull a fast one on me and supplied inferior quality panels . I was disappointed to say the least I explained to him calmly what I think he did and he understood and rectified the situation.

This was someone whom I spoke to about how I have come to trust Nigerians less and less based on experienced and they always trying to pull a fast one on you but still went ahead to pull a fast one on me.

rotecch77:
@koppell, pls re-check what I wrote, I didnt condemned Nigeria product or downgrade what people purchased, simple point i made there was that Nigeria tiles cant be same as Spanish or Italy or repack and sold as those two countries mentioned, as you all knows I deal in both Nigeria, Spanish, Italian and I do used them plus Nigeria tiles also in my project ....I have sold more than 50,000 square meter of Nigeria made tiles in last 2yrs , so I don't condemned what people used or bought