I kept the floor plan simple: three bedrooms, one bathroom, a lounge/family room, and a large eat-in kitchen with verandahs surrounding the entire house. The total area was 140 square metres.
I built the house on a 100mm concrete slab with tied steel and concrete post-and-beam construction.
The walls are rendered, 100mm-filled concrete blocks tied to the slab with steel and horizontal beam. This part of the construction was cost- and labour-intensive, but it will for itself with years of maintenance-free living.
The roof is corrugated steel on a steel truss welded and tied to the slab with steel through concrete blocks.
Material cost was 310,000 pesos.
Labour cost of 80,000 pesos.
Construction took about eight weeks.
The total cost of this part of the construction is about 400,000 pesos.
Listed below is the material cost breakdown for the home I build in 2010.
12mm deformed bar (6000mm), 210 lengths@P-160: P33,600
10mm deformed bar (6000mm), 350 lengths@P-112: P39,200
#16 G.I. tie wire,1 roll@P-1,600: P1600
Grand cement, 300 bags@P-196: P58,800
4" concrete hollow blocks, 2800@ P-9: P25,200
Washed sand,18 cu. metres@ P-750: P13,500
Crushed gravel, 18 cu. metres@ P-750: P13,500
2"x2" coco lumber, 500 lengths@ P-48.50: P24500
6mm plywood sheets (8'x4'), 15 sheets @ P-250: P3,750
4" nails, two boxes@ P-840, P1,680
2 1/2" nails, one box@ P-910: P910
1 1/2" nails, 15 kilo@ P-49: P735
4" conc nails, five kilo@ P-75: P375
1 1/2" fin nails, 10 kilo@ P-55: P550
1 1/2"x3/16" angle iron, 35 lengths@ P-320: P11,200
4"x2" purlins, 70 lengths@ P-415: P29,050
Welding rods, one box@ P-2,400: P2,400
Roofing sheets: P50,000
TOTAL: P310,300
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