Jasobry:
My Mason charged me 300k for plastering, window dressing, grooving and belting as shown in my drawing... Please is the price ideal?

n3xt:
Some few weeks back a friend almost ran into a similar issue with his architect if not for timely intervention.

The building plan has been approved and the project has been built up to lintel stage before he noticed the porch wasn’t facing the front of the land.

He was going to collect his money back from the architect and do all sorts and I ask him “Gbenga, did he send you the plan before you paid him his balance? Were revisions, corrections or adjustments made to his initial submission or not?”

I told him “You don’t know how to interpret a building plan and you want the young architect who has never visited your project to take responsibiliy for your mistake. I hope you learn from this.”

He has started spewing words “Nigerians ”

I don’t know the architect but I’m not going to stand and watch my friend rubbish an innocent guy.

rotecch77:


install pop underneath the decking.

QSFemi:
Where is the attached drawing?

diordaves:


Listening to those audio recordings, I just weak. I don't know if to laugh or cry. But I cried a little for the client sha. I really did.

.........I SAY KEEP QUIET WHEN I TALK TO YOU!!!! I should keep shut while you talk to me after I have EMPLOYED you to deliver a service.

DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE I'M YOUR EMPLOYEE!!!!! Really? So what are you? My father and I'm your child?

I HAVE TOLD YOU MY SCHEDULE, NOW GET OFF MY PHONE, GET OFF MY PHONE!!!! But you called me na. I SAY GET OFF MY PHONE!!! Ogbele o!

As your EMPLOYER, I expect to be part of your SCHEDULE so it does not help how I feel if you have told me of your schedule previously.

I cried at the end of the clip when the client said: you have my money; anything you like you can do. Oh lord, this really touched me. And of course, he did what he liked, he arbitrarily and dictatorially deducted 50% of the mobilisation fee for his effort. Effort at talking to me as a child? So I will pay you 25k to berate me like a child? Wahala dey o.

Well, I'm with Egun on this one: I will pursue you to the ends of the world and back to get my money in FULL just to prove two points: I'm not your child and yes, you ARE my employee.

I have been on Nairaland going a very long time and I've witnessed all Contractor - Client fall out, those audio clips are the worst case study to date.

rajput4real93:

Same here o my brother. When i listened to the two audios, i was speechless. Arrogance at its peak. May the lord bless Darenyx and other good professionals. When i gave him an architectural drawing a few months ago, he nearly killed me with his patience. He corrected it at least seven times despite his tight schedule and still maintained his calmness. I was even embarrassed to tell him the last time.

Access14:
Is it possible to have an Escrow in this group to avoid too much tense of Disappointment from Clients, Contractors and Vendors ?

The Elder's in the house, Pls advice

One4me:



At the bolded:

Which Architect in his right mind, l mean an Architect that really finished School and Completed his training will draw a Plan with the Porch facing the back of the House, when it should be facing the Front? I am sure that even the worst Architect on Nairaland will not make that kind of professional error. How is that the MISTAKE of the Client?

1. Is it that he did not see the layout of the Land from the Survey paln, with the front Road properly described or he wants the Client to be looking into the Bedroom of the people on the other street, when he comes out to have a look at the environment or scenery ?

As a seasoned Professional, there are certain "BASICS" of your Profession that the Client will not be aware-of but you are expected to know, that is why you are being paid for your services. if the Archy dont know such things, then he needs to change Profession.

Imagine employing a Driver and he does not know how to change the gear when climbing a Hill, only to end-up burning the Clutch or making the vehicle roll back and crash!
What would anyone here do, if the Driver's response was: Oga, you should have told me to change to a lower gear, at least you are sitting right behind me or if he says: Oga, you did not ask me whether l can Change Gears when you were interviewing me for this job.
Does that kind of Driver not deserve to pay for any damage, from his salary and does he not deserve to be sacked, before he kills himself and the vehicle owner?

That a Client looked at the Plan and missed certain VERY IMPORTANT BUT BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ARCHY, does not take away liability from the Architect who drew the Plan (I am talking about basic principles of Architecture like Putting a Staircase where there is no Entrance/Exit Opening leading to the Stairs or a Bedroom Door without Door or even not putting any window in a bedroom , only to turn around and claim that since the Client did revisions on the Plan, he should have seen and mentioned it, therefore he is not at fault

Again, imagine if someone claims to be a Builder and he takes a plan and build a House whose floor is lower than the surrounding land in a swampy, flood-prone area, then turns around to tell the Client that: You saw me building the house and should have told me to raise the floor by two boards or more, that was your mistake, not mine!
Why is he an Engineer/Builder if he does not know the BASICS that says the floor of a House/Compound must take into consideration, the level (and even anticipated increases) of the road and surroundings, otherwise the Building will become a Dam for the neighbourhood?

Every 'Professional' is trained and that is why you are better than the ordinary layman (Client), that is why you are to being paid for your Services.
The Client revising the Plan is just to ensure that his 'specific inputs' are also incorporated into the plan, not to take away from the professional input of the Professional Archy. For example he might want a secret door that leads from his bedroom into his wife's bedroom because he does not want the Children to know when Arsenal will get beaten by Man-United (apologies to Arsenal fans, no be my fault that they get beaten often! ) that sort of 'out-of-the-way', non-standard requirement has nothing to do with an Archy, but putting the Porch facing the backyard of the neighbour when it could have been at the front of the Flat, facing the main Road? Abeg, tell me something else.

Thank you for your input Bros.

Access14:
Is it possible to have an Escrow in this group to avoid too much tense of Disappointment from Clients, Contractors and Vendors ?

The Elder's in the house, Pls advice

kingzsoul:
Hello house. Pls is it compulsory to use 16mm iron rod for a raft foundation for 2bedroom with a penthouse?

Jasobry:

I decided not to take note of the cost to avoid crying. But decided that from parapet level.

Parapet : 600k
Wood work: 600k
Stone bridge roof tiles@3300 by 385 sqms

krak101:

Nice thing you have going. What's the land size?

One4me:



Respects Sir!
The above does not solve the heat problem, l have experienced it before and l did exactly that, based on advice.
It was a three storey building with the top decked with concrete, instead of roof. We keep our Generators and other things at the top and also take breeze there at night but during the day time, f[b]rom about 11am till 3am in the middle of the night[/b], you cant stay inside, even with A.C at full blast in the afternoons.
I eventually have to moved out of the house because it was cooking me from the inside, so to speak. Damages everything, from Electronics, to leather Shoes.

After many years, on a visit to a neighbour who persisted to live there, l saw that what they did was to install Polystyrene Insulators on the Concrete deck and this reduced the heat in the house drastically.
The explanation was that the Concrete absorbs the sun's heat in daytime and gives it out from the evenings, till it finally loses that heat completely around 3am in the night.
By gumming such insulators (those white, packing foam) on the Concrete, the Sun's heat is prevented from even reaching the Concrete so that it cant absorb it.

Doing POP "inside" the rooms wont stop the Concrete from absorbing the heat and it will still pour it out in the space between Concrete Ceiling the POP but the POP Ceiling cannot withstand the pressure build-up arising from the sealed space (if completely sealed), as the temperature in-between rises, it will eventually crack and breakdown.
And if not completely sealed, the heat still escapes into the room (as in my own case!) and we were back to square one. within a few weeks, the POP was discoloured and cracking. and dont forget that the Concrete also transmits the heat to the walls because our walls get hot too.

The ultimate solution is one that prevents the rays of the sun from hitting that concrete.
Roof it or insulate it

cjfbn:
I am still waiting for explanations on marble stucco effect.
Please assist.

mobileboy:
I just got a land (half plot, the owner built on the other half) and my lawyer is asking for copies of the following from the seller
1) c of o
2) survey and
3) deed of assignment submitted on the land

But the seller is kinda of sluggish or unwilling to put them down claiming the c of o number is good enough and he's afraid of fraud in the future

As a buyer do I need all the above after buying land, and if yes how can I convince the woman (she is elderly and taking advise from her son and house caretaker)

SurveyorGeo:


Since you have bought the land already, your lawyer suppose to prepare a deed of assignments between you and seller. with c of o number you can get a replica (CTC) of the c of o at land registry, same thing with the deed. just get their numbers, with numbers, you can get replica

QSFemi:
I mean the floor plan.

Ibk2020:


I really wish I get the energy to collect my remaining money from Dennis3D, but I no get that energy ni ooo.

He tried, after few days, I moved ooo...

But it's still painful he held my money,
abused me and also failed to deliver