Wadau Niko na swali , Have noticed many Americans build such Nicely beautiful kind of simple buildings , Now my question is are this kind of houses built using timber ama what’s that material on the walls and if it’s timber how comes the timber is not destroyed by ants like they would do here .I realize the houses last for quite long ,Also why are this kind of houses not done here I think they would be more cost efficient compared to using darugo and stuff .[ATTACH=full]416364[/ATTACH]
This here is a treated timber house, termites don’t stand a chance
we have to keep up with the Joneses, how do you expect us live in timber houses? will we have a face?
Why we don’t build such in Kenya is a matter of our programmed mind, the fear of the uknown. Insecurity in 254 is another factor plus getting a good & trustworthy @Randy to put up the building would be a challenge.
Timber is expensive
Hizi nyumba za mbao huwa na mashida mingi sana, ni vile wao huwa na insurance ya ku-deal nazo. Kwanza mould katikati ya hizo ukuta. As part of the insurance terms, you have to perform annual inspections and undertake maintenance, that’s why they last that long. Huku Kenya ukishajenga unakaa ndee for the next 50 years bila stress.
When I was a keypee I used to wonder how Jerry the mouse would have a ka-passage between walls, kumbe ni juu ukuta ni cardboard. Mimi nilikuwa nafikiria in terms of our stone walls nashindwa panya inatoboa shimo aje kwa ukuta? Alafu water leakage over time runs down and destroys those walls, it doesn’t matter how treated they are, maji haitambui. Ukijenga hizi Kenya utatoa wapi qualified contractor wa kuzi-maintain? In short just work with locally available materials.
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Timber in a tropical country with our terrible maintenance culture won’t do. Ni rahisi tu kujenga na mawe na inakaa tu hivyo.
Here I tend to agree Kwanza the way the timbers are conjoined together is quite professional and there seems to be no gap in between .
It maybe expensive of you’re buying but less expensive if you’re haversting trees from your own farm .
Nowonder they last quite long weeh hapa ants can’t let timber last
Bonobos are immune to creative thinking.
During colonial times, timber houses were very common. Zilikuwa zinaitwa semi permanent housing.
In the 1960s to 80s zilikuwa zinakaa kitu kama hii :
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The horizontal mbao were for middle class citizens. The pastor, teachers etc.
The middle lower class lived in this vertical timber houses :
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@Meria Mata would know zinaitwa aje.
Halafu the poorest still lived in mud walled houses which were very cool on a hot day. Some mud huts were better than timber houses. Zilikuwa zinachapwa plaster ingine haikai bana. Msichana akiingi hio cube ngotha inajiangusha. Of course ngotha ilikuwa a rare commodity.
Wazungus or Asians as well as politicians in Muthaiga lived in the permanent stone houses.
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Naweza kuwekea picha hapa ushangae how good Kenyan timber houses were.
Moi ndio aliharibu maneno ya mbao. Kenya had some of the best carpenters on earth. And you don’t need heat insulation in Kenya so there is really no issue with mould. Kenya Forestry Service ikaingiliwa na corrupt goons, mismanagement of Kenyan forests by corrupt politicians and timber became a rare commodity in Kenya.
In the 1970s nyumba kama hizi za mbao zilikuwa very common. And they were very low maintenance. Huko kwenu Kisii mlikuwa mnaisha kwa nyumba za matope kama zinjanthropus so you can’t really comprehend what I’m going on about :
Not everything American is good. That’s our biggest problem. Tunataka ku copy paste every thing American on top of decaying British stuff.
Unaona vile those wood houses huwa flattened na hurricanes? Nothing remains. They then rebuild with wood again. Stupid gringos.
If our universities were any good, we’d be doing research on reinforced earthen buildings. In the meantime ndarugo na matofali will serve just fine
Not necessarily, they require alot of maintenance.
The cons of this houses outweigh pros as compared to a stone and motar . The reason they are preferred is because wood/timber is readily available and it’s cheap .
Type of material is also determined by end users needs and geographical site conditions.
Kenya hakuna regulations in planning,jinga flani imejenga four storey overlooking jkia…anabomoa pole pole as we speak…land pia aliuziwa ni bonoko,right on the fence,hadi aliulizwa na maasai kama hakujua land yake iko kwa airport.
Si mtamaliza Congo forest
The timber houses are cheap to build but they dont last long. Developers like them because the walls and roofs of those houses are made in factories cheaply and quickly and then taken to site and the parts joined together. So the profits are high but home owner has to deal with termites, water damage hurricanes, fire etc.
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In other words, it’s PROFITABLE.Follow the money.