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This house will be huge! Floor space will be over 400 sqmts and in a challenging terrain. the land is hilly, uneven and very stony. But we are here to turn this land into a building site where a very magnificent structure will sit. Construction will start this week and we are getting materials into site and getting other things ready.

This house will have

4 bedrooms, all en-suit
1 master bedroom
1 living room (voided)
1 dining room
1 kitchen
1 bar
1 study room
Ante room
Front porch

Some pictures of how the site looks before we move in.

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more of the surroundings

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Site clearing still in progress, uprooting trees and stumps. Cost: N25,000

Materials will start arriving from tomorrow, sand, stone, block and cement all arranged to land into site.
Pictures of site cleaing to be sent later.

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The terrain is very trick but i trust Lord Spyder880 to come up with pleasant surprises as usual
My only concern is the impact that fuel subsidy palava but not to worry there will always be a way out.
We are watching and learning.

atasteve:

The terrain is very trick but i trust Lord Spyder880 to come up with pleasant surprises as usual
[b]My only concern is the impact that fuel subsidy palava [/b]but not to worry there will always be a way out.
We are watching and learning.

Am afraid this will be an issue, not only in this site but in other site I will work as everything soars in price, but we shall do out best.

clearing of this site has commenced, watch how high the tilt in the land is, almost 10-11 ft height differential in front and back land level

more clearing

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We later brought in some materials today

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Subscribing to this lovely class again

Na wa for that land oh! Am not sure I would have personally bought that land without the concept of a builder/engineer. Waiting and watching all the same.

prince_onx:

Na wa for that land oh! Am not sure I would have personally bought that land without the concept of a builder/engineer. Waiting and watching all the same.

The owner carried me along and I went and saw this land before it was paid for. What I loved about the land was;
1. The area location of this land (best name location in Enugu),
2. The size (over 1400 sqmt)
3. The corner piece position of the land.

The imbalance in the land could be corrected, only that some additional money will be spent, especially in the filling sand and filling labour. We intend to balance out the building and level the compound.

The owner actually suggested bringing in a grader/bulldozer to work on the site but I refused, I will not like the grader to level the land and leave some loose soil on the low side. The implication of this is that we might be doing a foundation on loose soil/dusty sand deposits. Structurally this is unsafe. I will like to cut this foundation into hard ground, balance out the surface by raising the blocks/foundation column and getting a flat block line in the top coach, then fill the insides with laterite filling sand.

I told him that it is safer to use the bulldozer/grader money to buy filling sand and maintain a taller/ safer building.

Following ionately while learning

Nothing beats knowledge.

^^ Well said . . . Even God said it "My people perishes cos of lack of knowledge"

Ol'boy that guy wey dey clear that bush no wear shoe oh! na wa oh!

President Jonathan once didnt have shoes, lol.

Here again to learn another unique type of buliding, oga spyder880, na u biko.
Eze back to school. This time around with Obi big shoe. Lol

prince_onx:

Ol'boy that guy wey dey clear that bush no wear shoe oh! na wa oh!

Those people are really good at what they do . . . .

spyder880:

President Jonathan once didnt have shoes, lol.

Fact . . . and now he is using shoes to rake our money off

men! just thought its kind of risky working in such environment without footwear.

prince_onx:

men! just thought its kind of risky working in such environment without footwear.

Agreed and scary too . . . cos it could be snake that would kiss dem feet or something else, but i think they are immune to some things that we are not

more works today, this tree was so stubborn that it refused to fall.

build space cleared, to be evacuated before digging tomorrow

setting out the site on the ground started today.

meanwhile more materials started to arrive

more sand, even gravel arrived today.