5 Disastrous Mistakes To Avoid When Building In Ghana | Building In Ghana

I WOULD ALSO ADVISE TO DESIGN A HOUSE YOU CAN COMPLETE!!!!....dont get super complex building that can never be completed

When your house is finished You'll be an expert 😂😊❤️

Preach on the foundation!!!!! People please listen. This is the first thing I learnt from my Mum.

Back again dropping knowledge...that foundation knowledge is essential!!

Great advice. It is always advisable to allow the filling in the foundation to set before doing the overcast of the foundation

❌The best advise I can give anyone in the diaspora , go and visit , place your project into stages and be on the ground for each stage and get involved , don’t trust anyone and don’t leave it to family

Thats why they need a quality assurance inspection company to check out these homes during the building process to make sure it's up to standards. 2. building with cement was good for the past, but not today its not efficient for these modern times. It absorbs to much heat and it cracks over time. But a quality assurance inspector just like a food safety inspector is needed there. It sucks thats you have to choose your words before you say it, because most people always wanna take things out of context instead of really understanding what's you're saying and its not a put down just the honest truth from your experience and observations. So many programs need to be created in these African countries to help guide and bring up SOME of the standards and hopefully turn them into laws, to better improve on many levels.

Sound advice. In the states it's called a "Bill of Materials.. Or a (BOM). Also can be used to check to see that the quantities they said they were using, are being used. That materials aren't being stolen. Another tip is adding a percentage for waste. Example, concrete. Typically 5% is a good buffer to consider when estimating that material. Im not sure how expensive architects are there, but stamped approved drawings would be good also. That way if the builder changes the plan, it's on them ro correct it. And you are absolutely 100% correct on the foundation. That's the most important part.

I know exactly what you are talking about. I started my project 12 years ago and I am still doing it gradually whenever I am in Ghana. It's a 3 story building with stores and self contained apartments. I made mistakes at the beginning not doing things in the right order. 👌👏 great info and this will definitely save others lots of money

GOOD ADVICE APPROPRIATE FOR ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD

Natrual it all depends on the soil that you are going to build on and how many stories u will be going up general rule is foundation should be 36" wide by two feet high with the appropriate rebar/ iron rods

But my dear like you have said everything goes up every day the only way forward is to get into a common unity, you have to pool yr money together as a team you will need to buy a concrete mixer as a team a group because hiring machinery is too expensive it is best to look to be in a common unity like a school of fishes that way you will look out for each other

Good observation, but one can definitely build faster especially in the dry/summer season with quality material if you've got the money.

Awesome

Great Advise.....thank you.

Great advice !

Very useful and good advice, thanks

Very helpful.

Very specific and informative. Thank u ngg

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