Below is an image of a newly built house using cement blocks 😎
Guys I greet y'all, hope all is well at your end? It has been a while I post here work hasn't been taking it easy on me lately, my apologies, u do have a lot to share but let me begin with this.
I recently paid a visit to my village i went there actually for my grandma's burial, it was great though very streesful. But you know what? While in the village I observed something new, like a kind of new culture or something...
I noticed that many thatched houses are demolished, I mean houses built with bricks. And after demolition a new structure will be built and this time around with bricks, seeing this development really made me happy. Over time I go to my village the site of old bricks houses just irritate me, I think in that village as at then it was just four houses you can see that was built using cement blocks,of which my family compound is one amongst the four.
I really don't know why it took them long to welcome the cement blocks, because back then a bag of cement didn't cost that much compered to how it is now,anyways I still need to be happy at last my little village is turning into a small town. The surprising thing is that even when they build their homes with the red mud they will use cement to do the plastering then paint it, you will have no idea that the house was built using mud.
Below are images from my village of a house built using red mud and cement to plaster, it now getting urgly day by day if action is not taken the building will fall down.
But the bad side of it is that it won't last long, at the end of the day the cement will begin to wash off, or any will start eating and digging the red mud which will eventually affect the cement outside and in a short time it will begin to fall off, am not just saying this, it's what I have witnessed.
Some of our neighbors in the village will from time to time patching up those areas eating by those ants. Let me just give quick breakdown of what and how it will cost you to in building a house with red mud and you be the judge 🤣😜.
You will need lots of clay soil, the branches of a Palm tree, water, wood, cement and cameron zinc. I think this are the main materials needed to put up a good house with bricks. But some families won't even go far In using cement to plaster the walls, they will just leave it as it is, though no doubt this type of house really use to be so strong but the thing is it doesn't last longer, and you will have to be doing renovation from time to time.
Since it has been a thing in my village, now everyone wants to have a house built using cement blocks, my uncle said he won't be left out he wants a house of his own with cement blocks. Just beside our family house he wants to build his own, he even brought some people that have good experience in moulding blocks locally. He said it wasn't advisable to go buy cement blocks from the factory where they have a good vibrator engine, he said for the blacks to be strong it all matters how often they water the blocks.
And he said most factory failed in that area so he wants to take the stress and do his locally so he will be able to water it with as much water he wants, for it to be very strong.
I was there to help in providing water and I also watched them bring out the blocks, it was amazing, I learnt how to mould blocks locally or with hand vibrator. In most factorys they will mix one bag of cement and get 40 blocks which is wrong by doing so the blocks is bound to be weak. One bag of cement should mould 30 blocks, that is the perfect number.
Most at times you see or hear of building collapse this could be one of the reasons, it could be from the blocks or the engineer. All the same guys if you are building a house please look out for this things it's very important. And please go for the best building materials 😃.
Thanks guys for reading through my block post all comments, upvote and reblogs will be very much appreciated 🙏😎 thanks and stay safe.