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Pat87
#1 Posted : Wednesday, March 30, 2016 10:11:36 PM
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Please advice,i have got a crazy looking quotation and the first thing i thought was,what do wazuans think??
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labour cost 36% of material cost.
VAT at 16%
28 boxes of floor tiles 300mm*300mm kshs54900
polyfilla(ceiling boards)10kgs kshs21000
ceiling boards Kshs8400
cornice 220ft 30mts Kshs6450
pinotex 4ltrs*2 5600[b]
cement 10 bags Kshs10500
sand 7tonnes 8000
roofing tiles 100pcs*60 kshs6000
polythene heavy gauge(50*180) kshs9000
cover mat bucket(undercoat) 20litres kshs6500
paints 40litres kshs18400
Rem.this is an old govt 3 bedroom hse that i wanna re do for my mum,its not a permanent personal house or anything!so nothing fancy.this budget sounds wayyy to fancy.nkt.
Back to the drawing board,kutafuta someone who can fix that house.floors,roof,ceiling,windows,bathrooms,paintwork,i feel exhausted already.


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kayhara
#2 Posted : Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:50:41 AM
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Unless he is a class 1 contractor tell him his markuo is 30%, and surely a bag of cement is 550-700 not 1,050/-
To Each His Own
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
#3 Posted : Thursday, March 31, 2016 3:58:25 AM
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is he the only fundi around ?
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Musimo
#4 Posted : Thursday, March 31, 2016 4:35:58 AM
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Pat87 wrote:
Please advice,i have got a crazy looking quotation and the first thing i thought was,what do wazuans think??
Here we go
labour cost 36% of material cost.
VAT at 16%
28 boxes of floor tiles 300mm*300mm kshs54900
polyfilla(ceiling boards)10kgs kshs21000
ceiling boards Kshs8400
cornice 220ft 30mts Kshs6450
pinotex 4ltrs*2 5600[b]
cement 10 bags Kshs10500
sand 7tonnes 8000
roofing tiles 100pcs*60 kshs6000
polythene heavy gauge(50*180) kshs9000
cover mat bucket(undercoat) 20litres kshs6500
paints 40litres kshs18400
Rem.this is an old govt 3 bedroom hse that i wanna re do for my mum,its not a permanent personal house or anything!so nothing fancy.this budget sounds wayyy to fancy.nkt.
Back to the drawing board,kutafuta someone who can fix that house.floors,roof,ceiling,windows,bathrooms,paintwork,i feel exhausted already.




Buy the materials, niombe msaada ya kutayarishsa the quote.
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enyands
#5 Posted : Thursday, March 31, 2016 6:42:18 AM
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Pat87 wrote:
Please advice,i have got a crazy looking quotation and the first thing i thought was,what do wazuans think??
Here we go
labour cost 36% of material cost.
VAT at 16%
28 boxes of floor tiles 300mm*300mm kshs54900
polyfilla(ceiling boards)10kgs kshs21000
ceiling boards Kshs8400
cornice 220ft 30mts Kshs6450
pinotex 4ltrs*2 5600[b]
cement 10 bags Kshs10500
sand 7tonnes 8000
roofing tiles 100pcs*60 kshs6000
polythene heavy gauge(50*180) kshs9000
cover mat bucket(undercoat) 20litres kshs6500
paints 40litres kshs18400
Rem.this is an old govt 3 bedroom hse that i wanna re do for my mum,its not a permanent personal house or anything!so nothing fancy.this budget sounds wayyy to fancy.nkt.
Back to the drawing board,kutafuta someone who can fix that house.floors,roof,ceiling,windows,bathrooms,paintwork,i feel exhausted already.





Cement is 800. His math is 10500/10 = 1050 a bag!!!!! That's a red flag about his personality .haya transportation can't be 250 a bag . Unagongwa jamaa. I think you are in diaspora that's why you are taken advantage of. Go there and do it yourself .don't trust people that much
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lexx
#6 Posted : Thursday, March 31, 2016 9:39:13 AM
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Where is the project..
I am a small contractor, I may be of help by offering you a very reasonable quote.

info@urbaneprojects.co.ke
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The Great
#7 Posted : Friday, April 01, 2016 2:05:37 PM
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Contractors also exerggerate the quantities. I had one attempt to replace a ceiling that was perfectly okay.
"Buy when there's blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own."
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UpcomingPaperChaser
#8 Posted : Saturday, April 02, 2016 10:21:37 PM
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willin2learn
#9 Posted : Wednesday, April 13, 2016 3:21:53 PM
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Pole bro. To what extent is a tenant allowed to do refurbishment/variations in government houses?
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Pat87
#10 Posted : Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:41:01 PM
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willin2learn wrote:
Pole bro. To what extent is a tenant allowed to do refurbishment/variations in government houses?


as long as its just soft renovations(finishings),nothing like change of structure or anything.
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