yinkaoke:
Great people. I am here again and as usual l need some advice.
I want to tile my building and l am considering using black tiles with few white stripes but am afraid d sitting room might be dark as l want to paint it light ash colour with fainted cream/gold.

Any best advice as to combination of colours for the sitting with appropriate tile colour would be nice if you send sample pictures?

Many thanks l you respond

You can combine. This is one of my projects. Client thinks all cream is boring so we mixed.

EgunMogaji2:


I’ve been here now full time for 22 months.

I say the following with no joy and I expect to catch clack for it.

Here goes:

Nigeria can never be good. All what we can do is find a way to exist within the chaos. Anyone that is expecting vast changes will just die in vain.

Addition:

When I was a toddler, the same issues that I grew up hearing my father complain about is still here. Olopa wahala, armed robbers, government, bribery, oppression, etc. Here we are in 2020 and we’re still on the matter.

The average citizen is a corrupt and ungovernable mfer.

To bring this back on topic. My father lost a plot of land to some Alhadji in Iwo Road in the early 70’s. Fast forward to 2020, people are still loosing land.

Armed robbers are writing letters to community to gather donations. Insurgents are being settled by farmers so they don’t cause havoc.

My micro estate is designed around the Lagos/Ibadan railroad. Guess what, most of the hardware that holds the actual rail line has been stolen already.

Fela died for nothing, his mother died for nothing. No change. Buhari jailed Fela in the 80’s as head of state, Buhari is president today.

I couldn't help but quote you sir.

@ bolded, you just established the same thing my former boss (in his sixties) and a mentor (in his fifties) have being "sounding" to me.

Nothing will change. Don't fool yourself.

Anybody that believe that this country will change is only deceiving himself/herself.
It will only get worse.
Just find a way and survive amidst this ever consistent and increasing chaos that we find ourselves.

EgunMogaji2:
Unfortunate.

Please have a strong reason not to follow the proper process.

I see all manner of things here too

I am very confused pls...

I am being charged 1.130 million for labor cost ONLY for forming of blockwork to lintel level. This doesn't include concrete cast or engineer's fees.

Am I over reacting? See plan below
Building a 4 bedroom Duplex with 2 bedroom flat and BQ

One4me:


Cheesux! I bough them at #680 in 2018.
Where are we going in Nigeria?

I bought it 700 Naria early last year

yinkaoke:
[Thanks for ur response and to all that gave their great advise l appreciate, may God bless you all. However l v decided to use cream tiles but can you give me the best wall colour combinayion for the cream colour ?quote author=hamtabfawaz post=95898842]



Tile Colour: Mixture of Black & Cream Design:
The black tiles would be like a centre Design surrounded by the cream! They Are Special Tiles like that (Tile sellers! Would have such tiles & Tilers understand such settings)

If you don't Understand! You can Ask More Questions!

Am an Interior Designer.



Wooden Floor would Potray More Beauty of your Living Room Tho!

For me, mint green or sky blue living room walls combine with cream floor tiles and brilliant white POP ceiling are a polygamous match made in heaven.

But there is a caveat as it could all easily go wrong.

# your walls must be superbly finished (good plaster job) and primed prior.

# Your POP (no PVC) must be brilliant white.

# You must use a good quality paint.

For consultation and sale of top quality local paint of international standard contact Gbadexy here. You will be glad you did.

ladyteeks:
I am very confused pls...

I am being charged 1.130 million for labor cost ONLY for forming of blockwork to lintel level. This doesn't include concrete cast or engineer's fees.

Am I over reacting? See plan below

Sorry I don't understand the main building plan. I understand the BQ plan but I'm struggling with the main building. So to get a true perspective what are you building?

I am building a 4 bedroom Duplex with two bedroom flat and a BQ

diordaves:


Sorry I don't understand the main building plan. I understand the BQ plan but I'm struggling with the main building. So to get a true perspective what are you building?

ladyteeks:
I am building a 4 bedroom Duplex with two bedroom flat and a BQ

At N60 per block setting that will give you 18,000 blocks to lintel level. Will that plan consume 18,000 blocks to lintel level including foundation? I don't think so. That labour cost MAY be way too much.

The average industry cost for block setting is N60 per block. With this knowledge, go back and re-negotiate.

diordaves:


For me, mint green or sky blue living room walls combine with cream floor tiles and brilliant white POP ceiling are a polygamous match made in heaven.

But there is a caveat as it could all easily go wrong.

# your walls must be superbly finished (good plaster job) and primed prior.

# Your POP (no PVC) must be brilliant white.

# You must use a good quality paint.

For consultation and sale of top quality local paint of international standard contact Gbadexy here. You will be glad you did.

Thank you very much sir.
I feel very honoured to have met your expectations and found worthy of recommendation.
Whatever colour combination you suggest is what I would automatically go with sir.
Your in-depth knowledge on most aspects of building, vast exposure and class made me anxious in supplying you and I was glad I did as you are talk and do.
I advice madam to strongly consider the colour suggestion and wall preparation option given to her.

ladyteeks:
I am very confused pls...

I am being charged 1.130 million for labor cost ONLY for forming of blockwork to lintel level. This doesn't include concrete cast or engineer's fees.

Am I over reacting? See plan below
Building a 4 bedroom Duplex with 2 bedroom flat and BQ

You mean 1 million 130 thousand? Huuuuum smell some rat, shine your eyes

Yes sir, 1 million, one hundred and thirty thousand.

kopell:
You mean 1 million 130 thousand?

Thank you very much. I knew I wasn't overreacting when I said it was way too much. According to the quotation, the estimated blocks to be used is roughly 8500

diordaves:


At N60 per block setting that will give you 18,000 blocks to lintel level. Will that plan consume 18,000 blocks to lintel level including foundation? I don't think so. That labour cost MAY be way too much.

The average industry cost for block setting is N60 per block. With this knowledge, go back and re-negotiate.

I figured too. There is no way labor would cost that much. This is someone I tend to trust and now I am doubting if I want to continue using his services.

kopell:
You mean 1 million 130 thousand? Huuuuum smell some rat, shine your eyes

ladyteeks:
I am very confused pls...

I am being charged 1.130 million for labor cost ONLY for forming of blockwork to lintel level. This doesn't include concrete cast or engineer's fees.

Am I over reacting? See plan below
Building a 4 bedroom Duplex with 2 bedroom flat and BQ

numbers of block x₦50 negotiate Concrete work separately & iron bender/Carpenter

Is concrete work, the same as the German floor? That is not part of the fees.

About how much do you think is the average for the iron bender and capenter?

Chekitaut:
numbers of block x₦50 negotiate Concrete work separately & iron bender/Carpenter

KolaShangOne:


I see all manner of things here too

What is this

yinkaoke:
Am here again oh great engineers n professional builders.
Please which is to come first *fixing of toilet closets , kitchen zinc and all internal water fittings OR tiles?
Help o please you know to manage fund l am doing the supervision n things r expensive so no room for mistakes

Thanks for ur responses

Tiles first.

diordaves:


At N60 per block setting that will give you 18,000 blocks to lintel level. Will that plan consume 18,000 blocks to lintel level including foundation? I don't think so. That labour cost MAY be way too much.

The average industry cost for block setting is N60 per block. With this knowledge, go back and re-negotiate.

I pay N50, just as a side note for negotiations. I also don’t entertain the attempts to charge more for elevated working conditions.

How do you think the average will be for casting, Welder and capenter?

EgunMogaji2:


I pay N50, just as a side note for negotiations. I also don’t entertain the attempts to charge more for elevated working conditions.

How much do you think will cost for the casting excluding the blockwork? Engineer is trying to convince me that it's not just a regular blockwork, that it is up to the stage in the pic attached

EgunMogaji2:


I pay N50, just as a side note for negotiations. I also don’t entertain the attempts to charge more for elevated working conditions.

EgunMogaji2:


I pay N50, just as a side note for negotiations. I also don’t entertain the attempts to charge more for elevated working conditions.

Absolutely! But you never know, maybe the build is in a highbrow area hence the cautious N60 per block.

ladyteeks:
How much do you think will cost for the casting excluding the blockwork? Engineer is trying to convince me that it's not just a regular blockwork, that it is up to the stage in the pic attached

Is the pics above from the supervisor/engineer? If yes, that job doesn’t deserve the amount charged.

Below was done at N50/block. All Labour/Supervision fee for the project was just a little over 1.3m

Project - 3 units of Terraced Duplex

The below was done N70k per block (2 units of attached 2 bedroom flat).

Qty of block - 1200

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Chekitaut:
I thought i have this perspective alone, thank God i hv seen someone with likes mind.

Our parents are simply the reason, we celebrate mediocrity. Father don't want to leave power to children untill death takes it to give to the children.

And where the father is forced to leave and handover to the Child, he continues the same thing the Father was doing: LOOTING.!
Like Father, Like Son.
Even Daughters sef don follow join.

Up till about three years ago, l never wanted to hear anything about Nigeria breaking up, bad prediction or people saying "Eyin Oyinbo, ewa funmi ni Fissa".
I was a very strong supporter of a big, strong, United Nigeria and let me confess, l was one of those 'honest' fools who believe-in and voted for Buhari, l was really expecting that he would use his military experience, take charge and get things done quickly to move Nigeria forward.
I campaigned for him , using his PROMISES. (Power, Anti Corruption, Industrialisation, Roads, Agriculture, Exchange rate, Employment, Housing, etc). But look around you and tell me if corruption has reduced or if insecurity has reduced?
In n this Govt, they used #2Billion to PRAY for the defeat of Boko Haram, that is after five years o!

But now, l realised that I WAS SCAMMED!

Today, l am gradually replacing this Nigeria that l love so much, with another country, in my heart.
My offsprings cannot grow-up in this forsaken environment, unless something is done urgently, starting with breaking up the country into four regions (North, East , West, Middle Belt and South) so that each region can grow at its own pace, practice its own religion, impose its own values and fight its own battles, whatever that may be.

With what l have seen in the last five years, l can bet anybody that Nigeria will slip into Civil war, within the next five years, if things continue to go at the current trajectory. This is my first time of predicting such bad news, not because l want it but because that will be the result of the actions being taken by those in power today.
I hope they will have a rethink so that this bad prediction will not happen, that is my prayer.

Country appears doomed and will be worse that Somalia + Yemen, when Sh!t hits the fan.
Nigerian Leaders, from all regions, the Elites but especially the current ones in Govt, have ruined this country beyond imagination and they have mortgaged its future, for the next 60yrs.
I really weep for this country, so blessed with everything you can imagine, yet so ruined by Evil Politicians and their Elite friends, l hope they all rot in hell, in the hereafter.
May God help us, because even 'Protesting' is not helping us.

n3xt:


Is the pics above from the supervisor/engineer? If yes, that job doesn’t deserve the amount charged.

Below was done at N50/block. All Labour/Supervision fee for the project was just a little over 1.3m

Project - 3 units of Terraced Duplex

But l have seen this particular picture, a long time ago
Prices could have increased dramatically since then, Bros.

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ladyteeks:
I figured too. There is no way labor would cost that much. This is someone I tend to trust and now I am doubting if I want to continue using his services.

The most trusted ones are the ones you should be most careful with, because they know your guards are down.
TRUST BUT VERIFY (just as you are doing now).

Try an estimate the number of Blocks you'll need, based on the dimensions of your building plan.
One Block is 18" long, you can estimate 4 or 5 Coaches to Window level and Four Coaches for Windows (minus window and door areas) , with one or two coaches (max) more, to Lintel level.
Multiply your blocks by #50/#60, to get an idea fo what to negotiate, that #1.13M price dey vibrate my body.

Edit: To be on the safe side, you might confer privately, with our resident @QSFemi, to give you a Material, Quantity and Pricing Schedule, which l think will really help you a lot and save you from Shylock Contractors.
I am certain he is a gentleman (from his random acts of kindness on this thread) and will not charge you a vibrating price, for his service, you will certainly be glad you did.

twinskenny:


Good morning

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ladyteeks:
I am very confused pls...

I am being charged 1.130 million for labor cost ONLY for forming of blockwork to lintel level. This doesn't include concrete cast or engineer's fees.

Am I over reacting? See plan below
Building a 4 bedroom Duplex with 2 bedroom flat and BQ

Exit from the 2bedrooom on the ground floor hmmm i dont understand.

ladyteeks:
Is concrete work, the same as the German floor? That is not part of the fees.

About how much do you think is the average for the iron bender and capenter?

From your statement you sound as if the german floor if the foundation is done, if foundation is not done you will start with blinding where Concrete work will be done. I do not know type of foundation you intend adopt...