sonnie10:

You are right. The company told me that I should be careful so they don’t switch the keys and engine because it is very expensive. They said something like #150k

Goodman001:
it is a 5 bedroom bungalow, spent more than 5million , minus the land… filling of foundation alone with sand cost me 1.3million.

pato231:


I agree, and most of us in the diaspora rely on forums like this because we feel like it’s practiced in the academic world where peer reviewed articles/ journals are regarded as more reliable and reputable in that field ,the forum one would think would have helped sieve out the quacks, fraud etc .lqp
I have learnt the hard way that forums like this actually do little or nothing to guarantee professionalism as the worker would always want to cut corners and telling lies has become a justifiable instrument of their trade . Just do your review in person before hiring any worker off here and do your best to not hire any one living too far away from your building location. I will definitely come back to enumerate my experience with a supposed “professional casement windows” tech I hired for my project off this forum . It’s been 2 months now for a project that started with a 3 weeks delivery agreement and I don’t know when my windows would be completed as agreed .

Charisdesigns:


This kind of floor beam is usually introduced in a sloppy terrain, or where the foundation height needs to be high

The perceived advantage are

1) It connects all the column and make them act monolithically

2) Consider building a tall fence without providing an intermediate beam, it will crumble because of it unsupported height

3) when settlement occurs in the building, the connected beam makes the structure settle in unionism instead of settling differentially

4) with your already 6 foundation block and 10 extra going up, we will have a column height greater than 15ft, hence it (foundation /tie beam) will serve as a column breaker.

5) Also remember that tall foundation will mean more backfilling, hence more load acting on both the internal and external walls, therefore introducing the ground beam will provide more strength to the foundation.

See how we applied it in this project of ours

https://www.nairaland.com/6781323/construction-droyal-apartments-charisdesigns/1

Rapunzel403:
Hello gurus on this educating thread, i want to seize this opportunity to thank you all for the well seasoned information I've gathered from here. We started our kobokobo project 2months ago and below are the pics of how far we have gone. It's a 5 room bungalow with penthouse as the current economy won't permit us own a duplex yet. �.
PS: the height of the foundation is 6coaches of blocks + the beam all round which makes it about 7coaches before German flooring. Please what is the pros and cons of this type of foundation. It's on a dry table and solid ground.
Oga Spyder
Oga Hajj
Oga twinskenny
Oga feigk
All other gurus
Please come Chuck mouth for this matter. Thanks