Month: July 2019

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85×85 ft Plot for Sale, Kinoo

kes 22m.

call 0721410684

kes 16m

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Home ownership in Kenya can be achieved easily using step by step sectional land ownership method as below.

 

Land acquisition.

Here the potential home owner will need to decide where they would like to live, land size they would like etc. Most people tend to want to live closest to their place of work, usually large towns or cities. In Nairobi for example, someone can decide to live in outskirts such as along Kiambu road, Thka road, Mombasa road, Ngong road, Kangundo road depending on their budget. The higher the budget, the closer the land will be to Nairobi CBD.

Land closer to the CBD but still out of reach to a potential home owner due to cost can be shared to reduce the costs proportionately. For example, a good residential plot 1/8th acre in Rongai near Nazarene University goes for kes 4m. 4 people can come together and share this 1/8th acre land and build 4 row house type maisonettes designed specifically for this market by www.a4architect.com.

www.a4architect.com has a portal where potential home owners wishing to share such land can put up their request and agree with others on the neighbourhood to settle on then a4architect.com goes ahead and comes up with the row house designs that fit 4 units in a 1/8th acre.

Potential home owners can click on the Submit Ad link here https://www.a4architect.com/classifieds/ and request to be linked with 3 other people in their neighbourhood who are willing to share the land in form of sectional land ownership.

From the above image, its easy to picture how the 4 row house maisonettes can fit within a 1/8th acre plot and give ample car parking space for 2 cars per each house.

The house is designed in such a way that more rooms can be added vertically on the others stories. The house owner can add the extra bedrooms in phases as their income increases. Every floor can have 2 medium sized bedrooms, assuming a maximum of 4 floors, these are like 6 bedrooms which should be more than enough.

Actual Construction.

Once a potential house owner has acquired their section of land through sectional title or lease title, they can now go ahead and begin construction. www.a4architect.com can offer construction management services from the beginning until construction of the project. Safety factors in case of fire etc are well taken care of using party walls . Privacy issues are also well taken care of , with each house having its own gate and own parking space and own septic tank system.

House owner can choose the quality of finishes that they would like for their house, which in turn determines the cost of construction.

www.a4architect.com team is available to offer support and more information to potential home owners at any time. Visit our offices located at Karen Village . See map below

https://www.a4architect.com/contact-us/

Financing.

Potential house owners can use their savings to pool resources with 3 others to acquire the land. They can then save up for the construction and build in phase, with each floor representing a phase. Ground floor has the living room and kitchen. 1st floor has the 2 bedrooms. 2nd 3rd and 4th floors can house additional bedrooms or recreation spaces.

Personal loan types from banks are quick and easy to obtain. Construction loans are larger but take longer to process. www.a4architect.com can link potential home owners to banks that offer construction loans on friendly terms for faster capital sourcing.

Joint Venture.

For potential home owners who have already acquired land but are short of financing for construction, a4architect.com can work with them to re organise and plan their land into 4 sectinal titles then they can sell of the other 3 portions to other people then they use the proceeds acquired to cosntruct their own land. For example, say they own a 1/8th acre valued at kes 4m at Rongai, they can sell off 3 portions and raise kes 3m which they can use to construct their own house in the remaining portion.

Architect Francis Gichuhi kamau.

0721410684

info@a4architect.com

Importance of Having CCTV System in Your Home

They say that “security starts with you.” Well, this saying is not further from the truth. To enjoy some peace of mind, you have to invest time and resources to ensure your home remains secure every time. And how best can you make this happen than investing in a good CCTV system?

You see, a burglar alarm system would be great, but it’s only one part of the equation to a more secure home. You need to install quality CCTV cameras to ensure that your homestead is monitored 24/7.

But you might ask yourself — is it really worth to invest your hard-earned shillings in CCTV systems? How will you benefit in the first place?

To answer these questions, read on and discover three reasons you should be investing in CCTV:

1. Deter Visual Crime

That’s right!

Criminals that know your home is well monitored will be hesitant to even approach your gates. The CCTV gives the impression that you take your security matters seriously. Go ahead and install cameras across every corner — from the main entrance to the compound. No one would dare reveal their identity or risk it all unless they really want to be behind bars.

2. Clear Evidence of Break-In

Now, let’s say that the criminals are stupid enough to proceed with their activities and break into your home. What do they leave behind? Evidence of shots of their faces and activities! Guess what — that’s all you would need to get them tracked down and prosecuted. This benefit gives CCTV cameras an upper hand compared to the alarm systems, as these won’t prove whoever was in action.

3. Peace of Mind

Think about it: When we you know that your home is secured, even when you are not at home, you get that nice reassurance and peace of mind. The feeling that you will find your property intact is matchless. Thanks to technology, you can even purchase CCTV cameras that give you the ability to check your premises whenever you want at the click of a button.

You see? There’s more than one reason why you should consider installing CCTV cameras in your home. Whether you have automatic gates or electric fences, you’ll always do with additional security features to guarantee your home utmost security. When building your home, make this among your priorities, and you won’t regret it!

Perkins generator price list.

POWER RATED Kva	STANDBY Kva	WATER COOLED ENGINE TYPE	CLOSED/SOUNDPROOF WITH ATS AND CHANGE OVER
10	11	PERKINS	1,010,000
14	15	PERKINS	1,062,000
20	22	PERKINS	1,158,000
30	33	PERKINS	1,450,000
45	50	PERKINS	1,555,500
60	66	PERKINS	1,813,000
80	88	PERKINS	1,971,000
100	110	PERKINS	2,409,000
136	149	PERKINS	3,085,000
150	165	PERKINS	3,252,000
180	200	PERKINS	3,635,000
208	230	PERKINS	4,711,200
228	251	PERKINS	4,917,600
250	275	PERKINS	5,035,500
350	385	PERKINS	6,412,000
400	450	PERKINS	6,658,000
450	495	PERKINS	7,503,000
500	550	PERKINS	7,999,000
600	660	PERKINS	9,896,000
650	715	PERKINS	10,998,000
750	825	PERKINS	13,941,000
800	880	PERKINS	14,413,000
1022	1125	PERKINS	19,625,000
1250	1375	PERKINS	27,095,000
1360	1496	PERKINS	29,100,000
1500	1650	PERKINS	30,593,000
1700	1870	PERKINS	33,930,000
1850	2035	PERKINS	43,659,500
2000	2200	PERKINS	45,969,000

 

AFRICA FOR THE CHINESE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir, – In a few days Sir Bartle Frere will return to England, and public attention will be directed to the East Coast of Africa. I am desirous of availing myself of the opportunity to ventilate some speculations of my own, which you may, perhaps, consider of sufficient interest to deserve publication in the Times. My proposal is to make the encouragement of the Chinese settlements at one or more suitable places on the East Coast of Africa a par of our national policy, in the belief that the Chinese immigrants would not only maintain their position, but that they would multiply and their descendants supplant the inferior Negro race. I should expect the large part of the African seaboard, now sparsely occupied by lazy, palavering savages living under the nominal sovereignty of the Zanzibar, or Portugal, might in a few years be tenanted by industrious, order loving Chinese, living either as a semi-detached dependency of China, or else in perfect freedom under their own law. In the latter case their would be similar to that of the inhabitants of Liberia, in West Africa, the territory which was purchased 50 years ago and set apart as an independent State for the reception of freed negroes from America.

The opinion of the public on the real worth of the Negro race has halted between the extreme views which have been long and loudly proclaimed. It refuses to follow those of the early abolitionists, that all the barbarities in Africa are to be traced to the effects of a foreign slave trade, because travelers continually speak of similar barbarities existing in regions to which the slave trade has not penetrated. Captain Colomb has written a well-argued chapter on this matter, in his recent volume. On the other hand, the opinion of the present day repudiates the belief that the negro is an extremely inferior being, because there are notorious instances of negroes possessing high intelligence and culture, some of whom acquire large fortunes in commerce, and others become considerable men in other walks of life. The truth appears to be that individuals of the mental caliber I have just described are much more exceptional in the negro than in the Anglo-Saxon race, and that average negroes possess too little intellect, self-reliance, and self-control to make it possible for them to sustain the burden of any respectable form of civilization without a large measure of external guidance and support. The Chinaman is a being of another kind, who is endowed with a remarkable aptitude for a high material civilization. He is seen to the least advantage in his own country, where a temporary dark age still prevails, which has not sapped the genius of the race, though it has stunted the developed the of each member of it, by the rigid enforcement of an effete system of classical education which treats originality as a social crime. All the bad parts of his character, as his lying and servility, spring from timidity due to an education that has cowed him, and no treatment is better calculated to remedy that evil than location in a free settlement. The natural capacity of the Chinaman shows itself by the success with which, notwithstanding his timidity, he competes with strangers, wherever he may reside. The Chinese emigrants possess an extraordinary instinct for political and social organization; they contrive to establish for themselves a police and internal government, and they give no trouble to their rulers so long as they are left to manage those matters by themselves. They are good-tempered, frugal, industrious, saving, commercially inclined, and extraordinarily prolific. They thrive in all countries, the natives of the Southern provinces being perfectly able to labor and multiply in the hottest climates. Of all known varieties or mankind there is none so appropriate as the Chinaman to become the future occupant of the enormous regions which lie between the tropics, whose extent is far more vast than it appears, from the cramped manner in which those latitudes are pictured in the ordinary maps of the world. But take a globe and examine it, and consider the huge but poorly-peopled bulk of Africa, by whose side the areas of India and of China look insignificant, and think what a field lies there for the development of a suitable race. The Hindoo cannot fulfil the required conditions nearly as well as the Chinaman, for he is inferior to him in strength, industry, aptitude for saving, business habits, and prolific power. The Arab is little more than an eater up of other men�s produce; he is a destroyer rather than a creator, and he is unprolific.

The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of populations, each by a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby. We ourselves are no descendents of the aborigines of Britain, and our colonists were invaders of the regions they now occupy as their lawful home. But the countries into which the Anglo-Saxon race can be transfused are restricted to those where the climate is temperate. The Tropics are not for us, to inhabit permanently; the greater part of Africa is the heritage of people differently constituted to ourselves. On that continent, as elsewhere, one population continually drives out another. Consider its history as it extends over successive centuries. We note how Arab, Tuarick, Fellatah, Negroes of uncounted varieties, Cadre, Hottentot surge and reel to and fro in the struggle for existence. It is into this free flight among all present that I wish to see a new competitor introduced-namely, the Chinaman. The gain would be immense to the whole civilized world if we were to out-breed and finally displace the negro, as completely as the latter has displaced the aborigines of the West Indies. The magnitude of the gain may be partly estimated by making the converse supposition �namely, the loss that would ensue if China were somehow to be depopulated and restocked by negroes.

The pressure of population in China is enormous, and its outflow is great and increasing. There is no lack of material for a suitable immigration into Africa. I do not say that it would be possible at any moment to persuade communities of men and women from Southern China to establish themselves in Africa; but I am assured, by excellent authorities, that occasions of political disturbances frequently arise when it would be practicable to do so by the promise of a free, or nearly free, grant of land. The Chinese have a land hunger, as well as a love for petty traffic, and they would find a field in which to gratify both of these tastes on the East African Coast. There are many Chinese capitalists resident in foreign parts who might speculate in such a system and warmly encourage it. If once successfully started, it ought to maintain itself. The colonist could not starve; and when they began to succeed they would send money to their relatives to enable them to follow, just as they now do from the many other parts of the world where they are located. For these reasons it is probable that the streams of emigration from China have sufficient “head” to enable them to reach and overflow the coasts of Eastern Africa if they were watched and judiciously diverted in that direction.

I have finally to speak of the political effort necessary to secure a free right of occupancy and of settlement at suitable points on the coast. No very serious obstacle seems to stand in the way; certainly none was met with when Liberia was founded. It is probable that as the success of such an enterprise would be of equally great value to all nations commercially interested in those parts, no national jealousy would be excited by its promotion, and the necessary territory could be obtained with little difficulty and at a small cost, to be advanced in the first instance as a charge on the land and hereafter to be redeemed.

Francis Galton

http://www.galton.org/letters/africa-for-chinese/AfricaForTheChinese.htmhttp://www.galton.org/letters/africa-for-chinese/AfricaForTheChinese.htm

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PRODUCTS AND PRICE GUIDE
POWER BACK UP INVERTERS
Used to make sure continuity of work when there is an electric outage, consists of
Batteries
Inverter charger.
When there is electricity the batteries are charged and used when there is no electricity
Advantages over generators
Zero maintenance cost
Automatic change over
Silent operation.
PRICE GUIDE AND APPLICATION
1.4kva +2x200ah batteries + installation-130,000/-
Can be used in
An apartment,medium office with about 5-10computers
Back up will last about 8hrs.
2.5kva +4x200ah batteries + installation-260,000/-
Can be used in
An apartment,town house,medium office with about 10-15computers
Back up will last about 8hrs.
5kva +8x200ah batteries + installation-540,000/-
Can be used in
An apartment,town house,large office with about 15-20computers
Back up will last about 8hrs.
SOLAR WATER PUMPS
CONVERSION OF ELECTRIC BOREHOLE PUMPS TO SOLAR POWERED
Cost will depend on the size of installed motor (kw),location,type of solar mounting stand
Guide
1.1kw motor-340,000/-
1.5kw motor-450,000/-
2.2kw motor-580,000/-
3.0kw motor-700,000/-
4.0kw motor-830,000/-
5.5kw motor -1050000/-
7.5kw motor-1,490,000/-
Client to confirm details or arrange for a site visit for a formal quote with all required accessories for the
job.
BOREHOLE PUMPS INSTALLATIONS,
Client to provide test pumping report for the sales engineer to make a quote, pumps can either be
Solar powered
Electric powered
Generator powered.
Approximate costs based on a discharge of 5000ltr/hr complete installation:
100mtr depth:
Electric-300,000/-
Solar-700,000/-
Generator-400,000/-
150mtr depth
Electric-365,000/-
Solar-850,000/-
Generator-480,000/-
200 mtr depth
Electric-500,000/-
Solar-1,150,000/-
Generator-1000,000/-
Other pumps.
We also have other pumps:
Surface pumps
Hand pumps(Indian mark ii and afridev) for shallow wells not more than 70mtrs
Shallow well pumps:(for hand dug wells upto 150ft)-standard pump price(includes float switch and
avs30amp)-24,000/-
PUMPS ACCESSORIES
We also sell borehole pumps accessories e.g
Upvc pipes
Control panels(digital)
Pump inverters
Submersible cables
Dc accessories (surge arrestors, dc breakers, pv disconnect switches)