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Injere
#51 Posted : Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:17:08 PM
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@Pablo- Excellent stuff! I will do maths as well!Will be interested to learn from your experience on the flooring wood blocks and TNG.Basically, I want to go the same route to be honest.
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anasazi
#52 Posted : Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:43:20 PM
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@Pablo - excellent! Being someone that wants to go the building route rather than buying in the not too distant future, this is good to know.
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Much Know
#53 Posted : Friday, April 09, 2010 7:12:52 AM
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@Pablo? Eish!!, thats like "borrowing" a few seeds, planting your maize, beans, potatoes, wheat, napia grass, carrots dhania, then harvesting the crops later and returning the seed you borrowed, then take some of the harvest to exchange for cows and goats in ukambani, fatten the cows and goats, milk them and make your own cheese and yourghat and tea. Then siaga the maize and brew busaa, then cook some githeri and chapos and chipos, then go to kiamaiko and teach yourself how to slaughter and inspect a goat, then invite SKerians for a Mbuzi, and when someone takes githeri you tell them "all those ingredients are from my farm!", when we drink the busaa you go again "all the ingredients are from my farm!" when we eat the mbuzi "all the.......
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radio
#54 Posted : Friday, April 09, 2010 7:30:54 AM
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@Pablo... Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause Applause I had to save some of this info somewhere incase... looks like I can own a home sooner than I thought. Applause Applause Applause again!
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Tito44
#55 Posted : Friday, April 09, 2010 10:24:26 AM
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I have seen that A4Architect has already updated his site with the info Pablo gave us. At least acknowledge where you got it from man. It is a copy and paste of Pablo's post!
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Pablo
#56 Posted : Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:38:06 AM
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Any link we can follow?
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Seeders
#57 Posted : Saturday, April 10, 2010 4:10:19 PM
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mulika mwizi

http://www.a4architect.c...llast-in-concrete-slab/

Pablo wrote:

@Tito

To get an estimate of the materials for the slab this is what you do
1. Estimate the area the slab will cover in SqM
2. Multiply that by 0.15M which is the depth of the Slab. This gives you the Cubic Meters of Materials.
3. Add 10% or so to cater for beams.
4. Knowing the Cubic meters of material and that 1 cubic Meter of concrete weighs 2.4Tons then you get total tons of mixture. Using the ratio 1:2:4 for Cement:sand:balast you can get the materials.

Eg My slab was 14M x 12M = 168SqM
Multiply by 0.15 = 25.2CubicM
Add 10% =25.2x 1.1 = 27.7CubicM
No of Tons = 27.7 x 2.4 = 66.5Tons

Cement = 66.5/(1+2+4) = 9.5Tons or 190 Bags
Sand = 2 x Cement = 19 Tons
Ballast= 4 x Cement = 38 Tons.

This may be modified slightly by the foreman/engineer. For chumas you need the structural drawing to add up the Y12's, Y16's etc.

By the way I am not an civil engineer but when you dont have all the money in the world youll look for the info.

I hope QS's will forgive me for unleaashing their secret formular.
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Pablo
#58 Posted : Monday, April 12, 2010 7:01:48 AM
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@ A4Architect

Maybe you need to recognise the Wazua forum (this topic in particular) for the info youve published, possibly just as youve recognised other contributors.
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Injere
#59 Posted : Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:05:34 PM
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@A4Architect

A few quick questions - is blue gum recommended/usable for wood flooring and T&G? My reading on the internet suggests that wood floors are expensive to maintain - is that in deed so? Does the type of soil matter - i have in mind black cotton which tends to get a bit damply quite often. I am welcoming anyone with experiences to share please.
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vin
#60 Posted : Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:44:32 PM
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@Pablo ,you are a rare genius in this field.I intend to start building my humble aboard that is around 1400sq.i have acquired all the stones needed and am really into doing it pole pole .My question is if i went really slowly will the end product be affected.slow as for to finish it in early February.
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