gbadexy:

He wasn't referring to your house, it's a greeting to the members of this thread.

tobbyboy2011:


Foundation only

AZUH:
evening house ? What do you mean ?

AZUH:
lol na villiage boy

erico2k2:

All good bro . Nothing do you . I hope you sort the low DPC probs soon coos of water

tobbyboy2011:
Below is the quotation my builder gave me. Please builders in the house help me look into it and advice

Block=4000(amount 800,000)
Sharp sand =90tonnes (amount 189,000)
Soft sand =30tonnes (amount 63,000)
Granite =60tonnes(amount160,000)
Cement =120bags (amount 312,000)
iron rod=100length (amount 190,000)
Gutter rod 30length (amount 51,000)
Larteraite 60tonnes (amount 90,000)
Binding wire (amount 5,000)
Total =1,860,00
Plus (+) workmanship =300,000
Ground TOTAL=2,160,000

Builders in the house please help me, location is ibadan, and its a 6 Flats Of Two Bedroom Flats A Storey Building

chidexy:


100k for the POP is too expensive for 15m². For materials, it shouldn't take more than 7 bags of white cement and 5kg of sponge. Get them to tell you how much they would take per m², which usually is 1k while you purchase the materials. Alternatively, 3k per m² seems fair for both materials and labour. I have just finished almost 200m² of pop

spyder880:


This is an example of an incomplete and unclear quote. There are so many other inputs needed to build a foundation which I couldn't find in this list,

1. I couldn't find any wood in the list, or nails.

2. There is no mention of pegs and materials for setting out the foundation.

3. Cement quantity is so small for a double wing of flats, if he is planning pad footings, blinding and columns plus DPC.

4. Iron rods are not clearly marked out in the right sizes, you will need at least 3 sizes of rods for the building you are describing.

5. Block quantity seems too much to me for a double flat, even with a high foundation you cannot go above 3,000 blocks for foundation only.

6. There is no way in this world anyone can handle the workmanship of such foundation with only N300k, excavations, column bases, concreting, iron fittings, column placement, carpentry, bricklaying, sand filling and soil compaction costs should surpass that?

7. No supervision charges for the man who controls the site?

8. Transportation, loading and offloading?

I think all these should be spelt out to avoid conflict when the work starts. Thanks.

tobbyboy2011:







Thanks Spyder

The location is in IB and a developing area

I bought nails even before I gave him the contract, I have borehole there and they sell woods blocks and cement around the area. He also said during the process we will dig soakaway and use the sand for filling and the remaining blocks for the soakaway, he is like a family friend and he said i should pay him once he's done because he has been begging me to give him a work for the past 5 years so this is our first time working together. I will upload pictures too he said foundation digging cost 70k and he is using 3 to 6 courses for the foundation because of the land condition.

tobbyboy2011:


Foundation pictures attached

Rubbiish:

Is this your project a bungalow or storey building?
If it is a storey building, i hope he left spaces for reinforcement for pillars?
I prefer this block laying method before reinforcement though....More easier to construct...

tobbyboy2011:







Thanks Spyder

The location is in IB and a developing area

I bought nails even before I gave him the contract, I have borehole there and they sell woods blocks and cement around the area. He also said during the process we will dig soakaway and use the sand for filling and the remaining blocks for the soakaway, he is like a family friend and he said i should pay him once he's done because he has been begging me to give him a work for the past 5 years so this is our first time working together. I will upload pictures too he said foundation digging cost 70k and he is using 3 to 6 courses for the foundation because of the land condition.

spyder880:


OK.

But like Rubbiish stated up there, column spaces are supposed to have been clearly dug out, base deepened, basket placed after blinding then column starter bars placed on baskets before block laying. Please contact someone else with a better experience to check if this is the correct process as spelt out in the building plans.

Money is too hard to make these days, not to talk of breaking up and repeating jobs when a mistake has been made. I am working on the assumption that this is a 6 Flats house, 2 story building.

spyder880:


OK.

But like Rubbiish stated up there, column spaces are supposed to have been clearly dug out, base deepened, basket placed after blinding then column starter bars placed on baskets before block laying. I couldn't see any starter bars protruding from the column positions? I am working on the assumption that this is a 6 Flats house, 2 story building. Please contact someone else with a better experience to check if this is the correct process as spelt out in the building plans.

Money is too hard to make these days, not to talk of breaking up and repeating jobs when a mistake has been made.

I was expecting something like this https://www.nairaland.com/3787606/new-8-flats-3-bedrooms

tobbyboy2011:


Yes, there are spaces for reinforcement for pillars

tobbyboy2011:


Yes, there are spaces for reinforcement for pillars

Rubbiish:

Quite true
Just that my storey buildings was constructed using the block before column approach, but is was only after just one coarse. My worry with the op build is the high dpc, baskets & starter bars should have been planted before it got to such height.

erico2k2:

All good bro . Nothing do you . I hope you sort the low DPC probs soon coos of water

AZUH:
any idea? Should I use tiles or bricks around the house ?

AZUH:
any idea? Should I use tiles or bricks around the house ?

tobbyboy2011:


Foundation pictures attached

Memejem:
Hello house!

Please what is the recommended thickness for standard glass windows in Nigeria?

abdulwastecx:


Are you actually building a bungalow or a storey building (building with a suspended floor/slab)?
If it is a bungalow, you can get away with this type of construction without pad footings/basket reinforcement as the case may be but for sorey building that is a Framed structure you will need to make provision for the basket/pad footings reinforcement with a foundation columns/starter bar bend into the basket and tied accordingly.

For best practice, You will also need an engineer to specify the number of these footings, its dimension, the depth at which the pad should be founded below the ground level, the thickness of the footings, the diameter of reinforcements, number and spacing of these reinforcements. But if you are planning to build a storey building with load-bearing walls you may not need to have the basket/pad footings or columns but the foundation has to be designed as a strip footings that will carry the wall load and the block have the minimum strength required to carry th slab and upper floor load.

Rubbiish:

@bold is it possible to build a storey building without columns?

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