Construction mistakes you need to know , I want to open your eyes to some residential building construction mistakes in Nigeria you need to avoid. In our 7 years experience as a construction company, we have repeatedly encountered these residential building mistakes and advice clients against them. Poor Budget Planning This is the most recurring residential building mistake in Nigeria. People begin their dream house construction from a design perspective, rather than from a financial [budget] perspective. The erroneous assumption is to design the best dream house for yourself and then look for the money to build it. While this may sound nice in theory,experience has shown us over and over again that this approach to building your own dream house does not work. Rather, statistics shows that this is the number one reason for most abandoned or uncompleted residential building construction projects in Nigeria. Instead of looking for money to implement your dream house design,...
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Use professionals for your building construction Posted on September 13, 2015 A lot of waste is encountered by some people in a bid to save money at the expense of a quality job, hence they end up shooting themselves in the foot, it is important you employ a professional to oversee your project because he can read the plan well and he is trained to execute such jobs with little assistance, but most artisans can’t comprehend a plan of a building though they may claim to understand it, but cheap technical questions by a professional will expose their inadequacies. So hand over to the professional and save yourself from avoidable wastes from mistakes and also come up with a good project. Think professionally! think Curtis!!
Cause of leakage in structures Posted on September 28, 2015 CAUSES OF LEAKAGE For leakage to occur, 3 conditions must be present · Water in any of its forms must be present. · Water must be moved along by some type of force, including wind, gravity for above-grade envelope components and hydrostatic pressure or capillary action for below-grade components. · Finally and the most important, there must be a breach (hole, bark, or some type of opening) in the envelope to facilitate the entry of water into the protected spaces available water is moved into the interior of a structure by numerous forces that include: · Natural gravity · Surface tension · Wind/Air currents · Capillary action · Hydrostatic pressure The first 3 typically are encountered on above-grade portions of the envelope, whereas the last 2 are recognized at grade or below-grade areas of buildings or Structures