building a cheap house in the Philippines
building a cheap house in the Philippines 79 By maghanoybarili
Building at a reasonable reasonable price 1. I have read too many blogs where people have spent millions of pesos to build sub-standard sub-standard houses that really will need endless maintenace to keep them liveable. liveable. In my work I constantly constantly see peoples hearts and budgets broken as they attempt to renovate or build a house. Quite often my advice comes post disaster. So it is with this experience and alot of research that I started to build my first house in the Philippines. Philippines. I kept the floor plan simple- 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, bathroom, lounge/family room and large eat in kitchen with verandahs surrounding the entire house. The total area of 140 sq metres. Built on a 100mm concrete slab with tied steel with a concrete post and beam construction. The walls are rendered 100mm filled concrete blocks tied with steel to the slab and horizontal beam. This part of the build is cost and labour intensive intensive but will pay for itself with years of maintenance free living. The roof is corrugated corrugated steel on a steel truss welded and tied to the slab via steel thru the concrete blocks. The total material cost 310,000 pesos Building time approximately 8 weeks with a total labour cost of 80,000 pesos. The total cost of this part of the construction construction is about 400,000 pesos. Listed below is the material breakdown. breakdown. MATERIAL AMOUNT UNIT COST TOTAL 12mm deformed deformed bar (6000mm) (6000mm) -- 210 lengths P -160 P33,600 10mm deformed deformed bar (6000mm) (6000mm) --350 lengths lengths P-112 P39,200 P39,200 #16 G.I. tie wire -- 1 roll P-1,600 P1600 grand grand cement cement --300 bags P-196 P58,800 P58,800 4" concrete hollow hollow blocks -- 2800 P- 9 P25,200 washed sand --18 cu. mtr P -750 P13,500 cr ushed ushed gravel gravel - -18 cu. mtr P-750 P13,500 2"x2" coco lumber --500 lengths P-48.50 P24500 6mm plywood sheets(8'x4') sheets(8'x4') --15 sheets P-250 P3,750 P3,750 4" nails --2 boxes P -840 P1,680 2 1/2" nails --1 box P-910 P910 1 1/2" nails --15 kilo P-49 P735 4" conc nails --5 kilo P-75 P375 1 1/2" fin nails --10 kilo P-55 P550 1 1/2"x3/16" 1/2"x3/16" angle iron --35 lengths lengths P -320 P11,200 4"x2" purlins purlins -- 70 lengths P-415 P29,050 P29,050 welding welding rods -- 1 box P-2,400 P2,400 roofing sheets P50,000 TOTAL P310,300
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THE PROCES
LAYING FOUNDATIONS OF WALLS
THE WALLS GO UP
building a cheap house in the Philippines
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CAPPING THE WALS
