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Complete Home Construction Project Sample

The following outline is for a 32’x60′ 2 Storey Building with 4 bedrooms and 3 toilets and bath.

SHED & LINE UP
1 DAY

  1. Clean lot
  2. Build shed
  3. Set up tank for water
  4. Electricity (Owner responsibility)
  5. Line up building

FOUNDATION & SLAB
30 DAYS

  1. Tie steel
  2. Pile, matt, column, ground beam, top beam, ring beam
  3. Square hole – 5 days
  4. Trenches – 5 days
  5. Pile auger
  6. Put in steel and cast pile, matt ground beam – 2 days
  7. Build starter boxing – 2 days
  8. Cast – 3 days
  9. Put down 6” or 8” concrete blocks and cast – 3 days
  10. Backfill (20-30 loads) – 5 days
  11. Compact – 1 days
  12. Lay polythene, BRCm steel, raise – 3 days
  13. Electrical & Plumbing
  14. Cast slab 5” lath install around slab

SUPERSTRUCTURE – FRAMES, SLABS, STEPS
16 DAYS

  1. Build column boxing – 2 days
  2. Install, cast columns – 2 days
  3. Build decking – 10 days
  4. Tie steel
  5. Install top beams – 2 days
  6. Put ½ steel, 6” apart both ways
  7. Raise floor
  8. Electrical & Plumbing
  9. Cast slab, install 5” lath around, slab

FIRST FLOOR
14 DAYS WORK

  1. Install profile – 2 days
  2. Block upstairs – 14 days
  3. Build window heads, install steel – 2 days
  4. Build door head, install steel – 1 day
  5. Build ring beam, install steel pipes, cans – 1 day
  6. Install door frames – 3 days
  7. Breakout decking

FRAME ROOF
12 DAYS WORK

  1. I beam
  2. 2 purlin
  3. Sheet roof – 5 days
  4. Heat protection – 5 days

 30 DAYS WORK

  1. Company install scaffolding
  2. Plaster interior and exterior of house, upstairs – 30 days
  3. Install plumbing in walls – 3 days
  4. Install steel windows – 3 days
  5. Floors

57 DAYS WORK

  1. Prime house – 10 days
  2. Tile toilet and bath – 7 days
  3. Last coat – 10 days
  4. Tiling of floors – 7 days
  5. Install plumbing fixtures – 3 days
  6. Cupboards, doors, aluminum windows, designer door – 3 days
  7. Cast drain, driveway, pavement – 7 days
  8. Build cesspit and soakway – 2 days
  9. Fencing, chainlink, ½ walls, wrought iron – 10 days
  10. Clean site