Building in Ghana; Block Laying || Superstructure || DEL Consult ||

[@saiidyy1008]

Beautiful designed house 😍. What block inches you use for the building? When building a standard 4bedroom bungalow, what block size would you recommend, 5 or 6 inches hallow cement block?

[@biglomo5624]

Thank you Sir!!! We used 4 inches for the internal walls, we used 5 inches for the peripheral walls and we used 6 inches to separate the 3 units

[@saiidyy1008]

​​@@biglomo5624 Thank you so much for the response, God bless you. Because I was thinking of using 5 inches hallow blocks to build my entire 4 bedroom bungalow. Guess it's advisable?

[@biglomo5624]

Oh yes please you can

[@yousafkhan7622]

Bro,new subscriber here, in my country we build load bearing house with red bricks which is without any column and beam all load transfer via walls to foundation! but i am thinking to use concrete solid block as load bearing !can be use solid blocks in load bearing house construction?

[@biglomo5624]

Oh yes, Cement solid blocks can be used as load bearing walls but their load bearing capacity must be calculated by a structural engineer and must supervise it . Thank you

[@yousafkhan7622]

@@biglomo5624 bro,thank you so much

[@biglomo5624]

You are welcome my brother. Please note that in terms of cost, the red-bricks for load bearing wall construction is cheaper and doesn’t need proper planning, carefully designing it and high quality construction method as compare with Cement Solid blocks for the same load bearing wall