Flo, I have watched a tone of videos on building because I'm beginning to think of building, none has been as comprehensive and straight to the point as this. Thanks for sharing this
Flo my sake, you're an epitome of an all-around efficiency. You're a really genius. You're a true reflection of what ur name means, light. Your video is a masterpiece, quite educative, an eye-opener, informative, and insightful. Keep the ball rolling
Flo my sister, I do enjoy watching your videos as they are very educative. Despite your busy schedule, you still make out time to do all these research and help a lot of us that are in diaspora. Thanks Sis.
Thank you very much my sister, this video is really going to save me a lot of money as I now know the exact cost or at least the approximate cost of these materials. This will help me and my wife in the project we are about to start in Owerri.
Great job! Pls do some More for after the skeletal of the house is done. From plumbing, electricals, wiring , plastering , screeding. Painting etc . All of which I call part 2. I love your neat presentation and very insightful. You have saved many and encouraged many to see those who are strictly designed to steal and kill and destroy aka acid helpers. Blessings always
Well done!!! the information in this video is priceless. Surely will save me from getting ripped off. If you document the additional details to finish the house i.e. plastering, toilets, lights, cabinets, all other internals etc I would certainly pay for that information. Thanks!
This is lovely. As a structural engineer, this is well basic for anyone who wants to delve into building for sure. We can ensure you a cost efficient safe structure if you want to delve in into your new building.
Flo, you did well in this video, congratulations! I have been into what you are describing here continously since the past 15 years; there is reasonable underestimation; above all you should have pushed in the cost of labour using one city or average of some cities... Presently the cost of labour for the house you are describing will come to an average of about N4.5M for that stage. I apploud your effort. From my recent calculations/experiences, putting up the house you are describing, to the roof cover stage in the SE, Owerri in particular, will cost about N40M! So, congratulations on the presentation!
I'm building a three-story house in the Lagos Lekki area (two stories-Naija). I just completed the pile foundation, and I got stuck. The expense was staggering and unrealistic, as I live in the diaspora. If you ask me, it was just too crazy. I abandoned the project for my sanity for now. Perhaps I may resume after watching your video.
Its why you need a good quantity surveyor, to always estimate your project before venturing into projects, all those contractors go jst dey demand anyhow...well Goodluck
Please take it one safe stage at a time so you will get to the finish line in one piece. A housing project is not an easy one. More grease to your elbows.
If it is for a personal home go ahead when you can. But if you are building for rent or Airbnb forget about getting back the money you will use to build the house. A better option is to put that dollars in a high interest dollar account and it will grow through the power of compound interest. $31250 @ 5% annual interest will compound to $64966 in 15 years. $31250 (50,000,000 @ 1600 per dollar). If you use 50,000,000 to build and get 1,000,000 as rent a year. It will take you 50 years to get back your 50,000,000. And it won’t be the same value because of inflation , naira devaluation and maintenance costs over the years.
@@Norbert4ty5828You are very right even to get 250k rent from Nigerians is storytelling as soon as you get the initial deposit you can’t get rent afterwards.
My dear, thank you for all the efforts you put into bringing this information to us. I just got a crazy quote from my cousin that threw me off balance. Your videos are always enlightening and smart. You are appreciated.
Great video, very informative. I think videos like this should be updated or done every 5 months since prices are not constant. Overall, great job. Keep it up
No wonder some buildings fall due to use of substandard materials. Some people don't have patience to wait for 20 or more years to recover their investment in a building for rental.
Hello Flo. God bless you for what you do. It has given a big understanding of building homes. I'm correctly building 2 x twin terrance home with 2800sqft each. Foundation to DPC was recently completed. putting
Awesome job for providing very important and useful information 👍. My father a senator in first republic unwisely built one of these mansions in the village and we hate going to the village because we whole day clean dust. And this includes maids and cooks helping and these days no one goes to the village except 2 a year or when a close relationship dies. As an architect when I tell people our experience and to build a small villa they don't agree and think I'm envious. Today we have mansions everywhere in the villages with over grown weed. In my humble opinion this is waste of resources hard earned money.
Someone that thinks like me. I wanted to build a 5 bedroom duplex in my village but due to the fact I live outside Nigeria I've decided to build a 4 bedroom bungalow with penthouse. My dad always use to say building a big house is one thing, maintaining a big house is another thing.
@RecklessAbandonZ let's leave finishing aside because in both cases, it depends on one's taste. For just the skeletal part ... because you have everything on the same floor, that your bungalow is surely bigger than the ground floor of this house. That's how your roof will also take more sheets than this one. Then that your penthouse will need a decking, stairs, no? 😂😆Leave matter. I have seen several times where people wanted to build a bungalow thinking it will be cheaper, by the time they see that there's not much difference between a bunglaow "of their taste" and a storey building, they kukuma built a storey building. People tend to overcompensate when building a bungalow thereby adding to the overall cost.
@bukati0427 It's very possible. With money many things are possible. It can be done with bunch of solar-powered cctv cameras mounted at every strategic area of the building, both internally and externally.
Nice video, the location definitely affects the Labour cost also the Design of the house as well, I believe there ways to handle house designs that will help to save some money while building in Nigeria. Kudos to you I love your analysis.
Flo, my sister. Keep up the good work. I noticed that your prices for the granite chipping were neasured in tons, but the sellers i contacted are measuring in tippper. Please how many tons are in 1 full tipper
Greetings Flo, I really appreciate this information. Am concerned about the roofing sheets. Would it be possible to have an estimate of the recent style of roofing without the roofing sheets mentioned in this video.
Quantity Surveyors are the professionals trained to give cost/ estimate (including the Bill of Quantities BOQ )for materials and labour of your building projects.
I really like this video it gives so much great information! But could you please tell me the estimated labour cost and time taken to build this house?
This is the first time I have been watching your video, and I love it. Your video ginger me to build another house more in Nigeria. Keep it up, and l have also subscribed to your RUclips video. Remains blessed forever.
Miss Flo , Insecurity. challenges are the most important issues facing nigeria crisis . How do you deal with this crisis right now ..Nigeria country is bleeding at the moment.
Labour costs, logistics, cost of loading and off loading trucks, omo onile tax in the neighbourhood for allowing your trucks to pass, cost of pipe work and plumbing, electrical material costs, soak away? Drainage nko? Cost of borehole? Before we start finishing and discussing windows, gates, doors, ceiling boards, fitting and fixtures, etc. Omo, these numbers are very, very, very conservative.
Thanks so much ma.... funny enough I just watched the video u made 3 years ago regarding same topic yesterday... we love you so much and your amazing and educative video
This is a modest estimation ooo, i am building a bungalow in Ondo state but i have spent way more than what you estimated, essentially on the parapet. The Parapet alone cost me way more than what you estimated.
Sometimes people underestimate bungalows when it comes to cost. Depending on the number of rooms yours has, your bungalow is probably way bigger than the ground floor of this house because you have everything on the same floor. For the parapet, if you are building a never seen before design, your cost will be higher. Again, depending on the number of rooms, the perimeter of your house is probably bigger than this one. This is for a simple parapet and based on reusing some materials. Also, your total so far includes labour costs and transportation of materials which is not included here. It's not easy, more oil to your lamp. 👍
Materials are very expensive now and it's adding money daily,, every estimations goes contrary on what the person wanna build,, some foundations to dpc level takes alot of money, some decking equally takes alot of money,it all depends on the size of the house
Flo, I have watched a tone of videos on building because I'm beginning to think of building, none has been as comprehensive and straight to the point as this. Thanks for sharing this
This is by far the most comprehensive presentation I’ve seen so far on building in Nigeria . Thanks for sharing your knowledge.🙏🏾
Flo my sake, you're an epitome of an all-around efficiency. You're a really genius. You're a true reflection of what ur name means, light. Your video is a masterpiece, quite educative, an eye-opener, informative, and insightful. Keep the ball rolling
Your calculation makes sense and presentation is on point. I like as you said skeletal part of the house. Thank you for a job well done.
Trust Flo, she is an engineer. Kudos to you, Flo. You don't know how many people you are helping with this video. - I am one of them.
I have watch 100’s of video This is the best video on building in Africa I have watched. I’m from Ghana living outside 👏🏾
Flo my sister, I do enjoy watching your videos as they are very educative. Despite your busy schedule, you still make out time to do all these research and help a lot of us that are in diaspora. Thanks Sis.
I appreciate your recognition of what it takes to put these videos together. ❤ Thank you. ❤
Thank you dear
Thank you very much my sister, this video is really going to save me a lot of money as I now know the exact cost or at least the approximate cost of these materials. This will help me and my wife in the project we are about to start in Owerri.
Thanks for your technical details , 11:49 you have a good command of your profession. Keep up the good work
Impressive presentation succinctly put A million tnx Flo. I contacted Mr John the Screeding guy through your presentation.
Great job! Pls do some
More for after the skeletal of the house is done. From plumbing, electricals, wiring , plastering , screeding. Painting etc . All of which I call part 2. I love your neat presentation and very insightful. You have saved many and encouraged many to see those who are strictly designed to steal and kill and destroy aka acid helpers. Blessings always
omo! dis lady sha! she sabi alot oooo!!! Kudos Flo!!!🥰😍🤩😘
Honestly!!! Even with her busy schedule in the oil industry, Flo nne, jide k'iji!!!
Kai! Flo you are just a super woman. Just 3minutes into this video and I'm already loving it. I like the concept of safe stages you mentioned.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Thank you!
She is amazing
I see professionalism in this video. Good job.
Now when you build through a family or close relative, it will be more. I believe this projection. Well done ma !!!
Well done!!! the information in this video is priceless. Surely will save me from getting ripped off. If you document the additional details to finish the house i.e. plastering, toilets, lights, cabinets, all other internals etc I would certainly pay for that information. Thanks!
I like you, you give detailed breakdown. You remove the myth of building a house.
Honestly,she is fantastic in her presentation
This is lovely.
As a structural engineer, this is well basic for anyone who wants to delve into building for sure.
We can ensure you a cost efficient safe structure if you want to delve in into your new building.
Granites are better because they have no sand at all. So it is stronger for concrete mix.
Great point. 👍
You'll still spend 2 to 3 times that amount before the house is ready. If you want a modern house.
Mydear this is beautiful please keep doing this , yes i must build that house this year in Jesus Mighty name Amen
Flo, you did well in this video, congratulations! I have been into what you are describing here continously since the past 15 years; there is reasonable underestimation; above all you should have pushed in the cost of labour using one city or average of some cities... Presently the cost of labour for the house you are describing will come to an average of about N4.5M for that stage. I apploud your effort. From my recent calculations/experiences, putting up the house you are describing, to the roof cover stage in the SE, Owerri in particular, will cost about N40M!
So, congratulations on the presentation!
Thank you. ❤
Well done Flo, do you work outside Lagos like Oyo/ Osun ?
Sorry you're not Flo,
Can you work in Oyo/Osun State ?
Mr Peter please I need your contact in view of this recent costing .
@@FloFinance please can I also have contact for construction purposes.
can you please do a video for an estimate for the remaining finishing, just with basic minimalistic materials so people can have an idea….
We can also say miscellenous is the cost for labour. Thank you for this information. This will come in handy for me when I want to build.
I'm building a three-story house in the Lagos Lekki area (two stories-Naija). I just completed the pile foundation, and I got stuck. The expense was staggering and unrealistic, as I live in the diaspora. If you ask me, it was just too crazy. I abandoned the project for my sanity for now. Perhaps I may resume after watching your video.
Its why you need a good quantity surveyor, to always estimate your project before venturing into projects, all those contractors go jst dey demand anyhow...well Goodluck
Please take it one safe stage at a time so you will get to the finish line in one piece. A housing project is not an easy one. More grease to your elbows.
If it is for a personal home go ahead when you can. But if you are building for rent or Airbnb forget about getting back the money you will use to build the house. A better option is to put that dollars in a high interest dollar account and it will grow through the power of compound interest. $31250 @ 5% annual interest will compound to $64966 in 15 years. $31250 (50,000,000 @ 1600 per dollar). If you use 50,000,000 to build and get 1,000,000 as rent a year. It will take you 50 years to get back your 50,000,000. And it won’t be the same value because of inflation , naira devaluation and maintenance costs over the years.
@@Norbert4ty5828You are very right even to get 250k rent from Nigerians is storytelling as soon as you get the initial deposit you can’t get rent afterwards.
@@Norbert4ty5828 So, after the 15 years interest that you have accumulated, what will you do with the money?
My dear, thank you for all the efforts you put into bringing this information to us. I just got a crazy quote from my cousin that threw me off balance. Your videos are always enlightening and smart. You are appreciated.
❤❤❤
I must build that house this year!
Amen 🙏
The year already done finish, how you wan take do am
@@Orangelover231na ritualist na
@@Orangelover231with cash, it’s still doable within two months.
Great video, very informative. I think videos like this should be updated or done every 5 months since prices are not constant.
Overall, great job. Keep it up
This was very helpful thanks, I notice hardwork and excellence in your contents
Thank you.
No wonder some buildings fall due to use of substandard materials. Some people don't have patience to wait for 20 or more years to recover their investment in a building for rental.
This is my first time coming across your psge/video. I must say I found it very educative and informative. Thank you so much. ❤ from Chicago.
U are best ever.good and reliable analysis from big sister
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Flo, hope you are doing well and enjoying home.
Hello Flo. God bless you for what you do. It has given a big understanding of building homes.
I'm correctly building 2 x twin terrance home with 2800sqft each. Foundation to DPC was recently completed. putting
Thank you so much for this enlightening video. You are a genius in this field
Thank you for your channel. It very informative and I wish you all the best of luck in all you do.
Great explanation. Thank you. It is still incomplete.
I totally enjoyed listening to you. Very clear and conprehensive.
Awesome job for providing very important and useful information 👍. My father a senator in first republic unwisely built one of these mansions in the village and we hate going to the village because we whole day clean dust. And this includes maids and cooks helping and these days no one goes to the village except 2 a year or when a close relationship dies. As an architect when I tell people our experience and to build a small villa they don't agree and think I'm envious. Today we have mansions everywhere in the villages with over grown weed. In my humble opinion this is waste of resources hard earned money.
Someone that thinks like me. I wanted to build a 5 bedroom duplex in my village but due to the fact I live outside Nigeria I've decided to build a 4 bedroom bungalow with penthouse. My dad always use to say building a big house is one thing, maintaining a big house is another thing.
@RecklessAbandonZ 4 bedroom bungalow with penthouse you say? I bet you the cost of yours won't be far off from the cost of a 5 bedroom house.
@FloFinance Really? I'd say just decking the house alone and the finishes will make a significant difference in prices.
@RecklessAbandonZ let's leave finishing aside because in both cases, it depends on one's taste. For just the skeletal part ... because you have everything on the same floor, that your bungalow is surely bigger than the ground floor of this house. That's how your roof will also take more sheets than this one.
Then that your penthouse will need a decking, stairs, no? 😂😆Leave matter. I have seen several times where people wanted to build a bungalow thinking it will be cheaper, by the time they see that there's not much difference between a bunglaow "of their taste" and a storey building, they kukuma built a storey building. People tend to overcompensate when building a bungalow thereby adding to the overall cost.
@FloFinance Wow thanks so much. Thats why we appreciate what you do.
My husband added a camera in the site and he sees all the engineer and workers do from Europe.
Nice
How possible is that
@@bukati0427
Very easy, you don’t know it doesn’t mean it won’t be possible.
Why do you use zoom to see anyone across the globe.
@bukati0427 It's very possible. With money many things are possible. It can be done with bunch of solar-powered cctv cameras mounted at every strategic area of the building, both internally and externally.
This is so nice
Thank you for this detailed video about building. Aunty Flo, always coming through ❤
Nice video, the location definitely affects the Labour cost also the Design of the house as well, I believe there ways to handle house designs that will help to save some money while building in Nigeria. Kudos to you I love your analysis.
Nice video.... electrical piping needs to be in the decking session
Thanks for sharing and stay blessed ❤
This is 100% encouraging I swear
Flo, my sister. Keep up the good work. I noticed that your prices for the granite chipping were neasured in tons, but the sellers i contacted are measuring in tippper. Please how many tons are in 1 full tipper
Interesting how you build there. God bless you for giving information to others. Thanks
I love your video. Bookmarked for future reference
Thank you 💕 so much for your information, kindly help with the cost of building a two bedroom flat in Nigeria presently.
Thank you
Greetings Flo, I really appreciate this information. Am concerned about the roofing sheets. Would it be possible to have an estimate of the recent style of roofing without the roofing sheets mentioned in this video.
Ada oma ndi igbo @flo may almighty God bless you 🙌🙏❤️
Nice presentation
Thanks Flo, just tumble on your video this afternoon and it's really helpful ❤
This very is powerful Flo. How about the labour cost? I don’t think you covered it
I said why I did not in the video. Always watch my videos till the end else you will miss important information.
Awesome content!!!
Thanks for the insight
Quantity Surveyors are the professionals trained to give cost/ estimate (including the Bill of Quantities BOQ )for materials and labour of your building projects.
Are you saying we shouldn’t take this video? Because I believe this is an estimate from her because she has built a house before.
Amazing content. You got a new subscriber today
I have missed you online Flo sup and congratulations
Thank you Aunty Flo😊
I really like this video it gives so much great information! But could you please tell me the estimated labour cost and time taken to build this house?
This is the first time I have been watching your video, and I love it. Your video ginger me to build another house more in Nigeria. Keep it up, and l have also subscribed to your RUclips video. Remains blessed forever.
Bless you too. Thank you.
Miss Flo , Insecurity. challenges are the most important issues facing nigeria crisis . How do you deal with this crisis right now ..Nigeria country is bleeding at the moment.
Wonderful presentation👌
Thanks my sis God bless you am buying the iron rods now dalu
Well done ma. Great video
This is really helpful, thank you very much
Please make a video about warehouse construction
Good video I really enjoyed it keep it up
Iseee🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 I must build my house THIS year
Very insightful! Than you very much Flo ❤
We built a 4 plex in an area right outside Abuja and have tenants in 3 and have our side locked.
NICE ONE 👍good work keep it up❤
Thank you so much Omalicha!😊
You never disappoint me.
I’m happy to be your fans! Keep up the amazing work.❤👍
Thank you Flo
Big Sis, you finished work in this video. God bless you BIGLY.
Bless you too sis. ❤
Thank you for sharing this. I really appreciate it.
Very nice thank you ❤❤❤
Very informative 💯
Thank you so much I enjoy watching your video
What's type of roofing sheet is more durable, stone coated roofing tile or steel metal
Please my sister can you help us see the flloor plan and how the finished work will look like?
Great job Flo. Thanks for letting me know what I'm going into ❤
Hello please can you do one for a one bedroom flat with an open plan kitchen?
Labour costs, logistics, cost of loading and off loading trucks, omo onile tax in the neighbourhood for allowing your trucks to pass, cost of pipe work and plumbing, electrical material costs, soak away? Drainage nko? Cost of borehole? Before we start finishing and discussing windows, gates, doors, ceiling boards, fitting and fixtures, etc. Omo, these numbers are very, very, very conservative.
Deeply informative.
Thank you dear talk to you soon
Thanks Flo....this is very enlightening
Nne, thank you
Always on point with your explanation in your contents❤️❤️🙏🏽
Thanks so much ma.... funny enough I just watched the video u made 3 years ago regarding same topic yesterday... we love you so much and your amazing and educative video
This is a modest estimation ooo, i am building a bungalow in Ondo state but i have spent way more than what you estimated, essentially on the parapet. The Parapet alone cost me way more than what you estimated.
Sometimes people underestimate bungalows when it comes to cost. Depending on the number of rooms yours has, your bungalow is probably way bigger than the ground floor of this house because you have everything on the same floor.
For the parapet, if you are building a never seen before design, your cost will be higher. Again, depending on the number of rooms, the perimeter of your house is probably bigger than this one. This is for a simple parapet and based on reusing some materials.
Also, your total so far includes labour costs and transportation of materials which is not included here.
It's not easy, more oil to your lamp. 👍
Nneoma Daalu ! amazing usable presentation always .
Have you considered quantity surveying ? I think you would be great at it .
Thanks so much ❤❤
This is amazing 🤩.
Keep it up, I'll definitely reach out to you for more.
Materials are very expensive now and it's adding money daily,, every estimations goes contrary on what the person wanna build,, some foundations to dpc level takes alot of money, some decking equally takes alot of money,it all depends on the size of the house
Thank goodness I stumbled upon this videos 👌👌
Impressive and educative.
Flo after watching your videos, I think i need to resume my abandon project.
You are simply amazing. Thank you Flo Finance ❤