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jaggernaut
#381 Posted : Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:42:16 AM
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Amicus Curiae wrote:
gotieno wrote:
I have truly learnt alot on construction from you all. I have just began my construction of 300 sq metre maisonnete in Kisumu and have applied most of advice from this posts. Keep up the good spirit of Wazua!

Co-signed. I've been a ghost reader of the contents of this topic and I must say it's quite informative. It encouraged me to kick off my 295sqm 4-br Massionette in Ruiru By-pass area. It's one week now and I've just finished constructing a site house and a 4000L underground tank which will store water for construction and later be covered to be a reservoir. Keep the posts coming.


How is the construction going on for both of you?
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gotieno
#382 Posted : Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:52:53 PM
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After completing the foundation, I took a small break to gather enough finances to do the walling for the ground floor. Already I have on site 1800 feet of masonary stones from Kedowa, and 3000 pieces of fire cured bricks from Nyabondo. Dressing of the stines is currently on going.
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#383 Posted : Wednesday, September 19, 2012 8:25:07 PM
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gotieno wrote:
After completing the foundation, I took a small break to gather enough finances to do the walling for the ground floor. Already I have on site 1800 feet of masonary stones from Kedowa, and 3000 pieces of fire cured bricks from Nyabondo. Dressing of the stines is currently on going.


How much did you spend on foundation including labour?
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Penny-Stocker
#384 Posted : Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:18:12 AM
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gotieno wrote:
After completing the foundation, I took a small break to gather enough finances to do the walling for the ground floor. Already I have on site 1800 feet of masonary stones from Kedowa, and 3000 pieces of fire cured bricks from Nyabondo. Dressing of the stines is currently on going.

Hello there gotieno, how much did you pay for your kedowa stones? I planning on starting a 4 family unit (3bed,2bath) in Kisumu and hoping to get Kedowa and use concrete blocks for partitioning. Do you have any contact for Kedowa stones?
Thanks in advance janam!
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gotieno
#385 Posted : Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:27:50 PM
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Kamundu, for the foundation I spent 800,000 including lanour.
Penny-Stocker,Kedowa stones go for an average of 44 ksh per feet for the large ones( 9 by 9) and 38 per feet for the smaller(9x6) ones. The cost is inclusive of delivery within Kisumu town. My foreman sourced this for me.
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young
#386 Posted : Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:37:58 PM
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REDUCING COST OF SAND

http://www.monitor.co.ug.../-/g1usc6z/-/index.html


This is Uganda situation, hope it will be useful for those building in Kenya.
I will see how applicable it is in our west african region where I am located
and currently building.

Hope it is applicable to other natural resource components like granite, stones etc.

CAVEAT:- This is only a newspaper article, please do your due diligence.
I am only sharing information not experience.
Regards
The wazua spirit as members is to educate and inform and learn from others within the limit of what we know in any chosen area irrespective of our differences in tribes, nationalities, etc. .
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Penny-Stocker
#387 Posted : Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:22:27 PM
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gotieno wrote:
Kamundu, for the foundation I spent 800,000 including lanour.
Penny-Stocker,Kedowa stones go for an average of 44 ksh per feet for the large ones( 9 by 9) and 38 per feet for the smaller(9x6) ones. The cost is inclusive of delivery within Kisumu town. My foreman sourced this for me.

Thanks gotieno.....can you hook me up with your foreman..if that's possible and if you are willing.Thanks janam! Where's your site at? Mine is in Mamboleo.
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gotieno
#388 Posted : Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:35:05 PM
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Penny-Stocker, my site is at Riat near Ukweli. You can contact me on gaotieno at gmail dot com
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Amicus Curiae
#389 Posted : Friday, September 21, 2012 12:49:45 AM
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jaggernaut wrote:
Amicus Curiae wrote:
gotieno wrote:
I have truly learnt alot on construction from you all. I have just began my construction of 300 sq metre maisonnete in Kisumu and have applied most of advice from this posts. Keep up the good spirit of Wazua!

Co-signed. I've been a ghost reader of the contents of this topic and I must say it's quite informative. It encouraged me to kick off my 295sqm 4-br Massionette in Ruiru By-pass area. It's one week now and I've just finished constructing a site house and a 4000L underground tank which will store water for construction and later be covered to be a reservoir. Keep the posts coming.


How is the construction going on for both of you?

@jaggernaut Mine is progressing well so far. We are joining the trappers and all for the slab. So far spent 1.2M; upto foundation slab 750K, walling 200K and the first floor slab has so far cost 250K.I expect the slab to cost another 250K to make it a total of 500K.
Breakdown upto foundation slab: Design and approvals 100K, Site House 25K, Water connection 35K,Tools (Wheel barrow, spades, mattocks etc)10K, Labour for foundation trenches 25K Hard Kamba moja stones - 5 lorries 75K, Sand 64ton 70K, ballast 40ton 60K, cement 130bags 87K, Y12 n others 80K, Mixer hire twice(foundation strip and slab)35K, Masons+Kym+foreman Labor 2wks 50K, misc 10K.

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limanika
#390 Posted : Friday, September 21, 2012 4:42:29 PM
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Tito44 wrote:
Kindly advise on which pipes to use to connect to the sewer line at the parking area. I was advised to check on either conrete or metallic ones which i guess are quite expensive. Haven't checked the prices yet. Can the plastic ones survive without cracking?

Use uPVC heavy duty type. These are golden brown in color and should be easily available in your local hardware. Assuming you are draining from single residential unit, 4inch pipe should be fine. You can use 150mm thick concrete to surround that section of pipe crossing through car park/ driveway.
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GGK
#391 Posted : Friday, September 21, 2012 5:21:43 PM
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Who knows where I can get good quality internal doors at a bargain price?
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Gathige
#392 Posted : Friday, September 21, 2012 6:41:40 PM
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@GGK,

Try Timsales. Bought mine there sometime ago.
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kaifastus
#393 Posted : Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:02:31 AM
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Hallo people. I built one bedroom rental units. However there appears to be some whitish stuff on some parts of the floors. Is there a soln.
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Foz00
#394 Posted : Sunday, September 23, 2012 11:19:53 AM
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dampness, find the cause? did you damp proof?
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Jamani
#395 Posted : Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:02:22 PM
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hoodrat wrote:
I have 2 questions for those who have bought or own apartments.Are you given an individual ownership title and secondly who pays the related land rates and fees?


Yes you are given individual ownership and you pay a portion of the land rates and service charge. In apartments land and common areas are co-owned with the rest of apartment owners.
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kaifastus
#396 Posted : Sunday, September 23, 2012 1:03:28 PM
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Foz00 wrote:
dampness, find the cause? did you damp proof?

What's damp proofing? The white stuff on the floor is not wet. Its soft and flaky.
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Foz00
#397 Posted : Sunday, September 23, 2012 2:53:22 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp_proofing... did you really build ama sio zako?
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kaifastus
#398 Posted : Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:48:05 PM
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Foz00 wrote:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp_proofing... did you really build ama sio zako?

What do you think? Thankks for the link.
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Tito44
#399 Posted : Monday, October 01, 2012 11:09:45 AM
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limanika wrote:
Tito44 wrote:
Kindly advise on which pipes to use to connect to the sewer line at the parking area. I was advised to check on either conrete or metallic ones which i guess are quite expensive. Haven't checked the prices yet. Can the plastic ones survive without cracking?

Use uPVC heavy duty type. These are golden brown in color and should be easily available in your local hardware. Assuming you are draining from single residential unit, 4inch pipe should be fine. You can use 150mm thick concrete to surround that section of pipe crossing through car park/ driveway.

Asante limanika. I will go for the uPVC heavy duty 6inch since i will be draining from several residential units
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Tito44
#400 Posted : Monday, October 01, 2012 11:18:38 AM
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Does anyone have contacts of a fundi who can make a 6m tower to suspend a 5,000ltr water tank? I am looking for one similar to the ones made by steel structures. However steel structures don't want my business just because i used my gmail address. I therefore decided to look a jua kali guy preferably a former employee. This way i will get an exact replica of their work and assist someone who can reply to my gmail address.
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