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Dec27Above Ground Swimming Pool in Jamaica
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Merry Christmas from Jamaica
What makes us different?
JA Projects is entering a new year and is growing into an establish construction company, full of ideas and trust from our clients around the world. We are currently making new grounds in our bid to give our clients what they want here on the North Coast of Jamaica.We are often asked, what makes us different?
The answer is we give our clients what they asked for and more. JA Projects started out as a website offering clients a way… “To view your property at any time and be assured that everything is fine. We will upload your photographs, in a secure area on our server for you to view, make comments, send email from within the database to your contacts in Jamaica, in total private, online at anytime”.
Reliable and Secure
We have given our clients a reliable and secure way to be in charge of the home they have made in Jamaica while away from the country. From your Garden being kept in order, complete rewiring of your Villa, Painting, and Plumbing to Video of the interior.The last year we have gone heavily into construction to help our clients achieve a greater freedom from start to finish of the dream Villa they had always wanted in Jamaica.
Swimming Pool
Our latest project is an Above Ground Swimming Pool created by JA Projects with all the work carried out by our team of builders. At each stage pictures were taken and uploaded to the database, giving assurance to the owners of our work and progress.
The Pool is near completion and is a true Above Ground Pool that blends in with the already mature garden giving the property a feeling of always ‘being there’.
From the offset JA Projects have designed the Pool with the clients in mind, drawings are also made at all times showing the construction workers what is wanted to the Pool so at no time is the client left in the dark about the project.
Project Manager
Acting also as Project Manager JA Projects is able to help the client see the construction all the way to the end and allowing the client’s input for the overall construction of the work being carried out.We are looking forward to a New and Happy Year in the world of construction in Jamaica and will do our very best to keep you updated with the construction trends that are occurring in Jamaica.
From the team of JA Projects we wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
Val Barclay
JA Projects – Keeping an eye on your Construction in Jamaica.Nov15I am Back after 7 months
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Seven months ago, almost to the day, I last updated my JA Projects Blog and felt at the time I had to make my views heard regarding the change’s in Jamaica. Now seven months down the line I am still frustrated about the changes here in Jamaica. I have since had several clients and emails from you guys requesting me to give a more detail idea regarding the costing of labour in Jamaica.
Costing in Jamaica is a very serious thing, or should I say ‘ting’, and only after spending time in Jamaica can you see the difference on the working of an estimate in the construction industry in Jamaica. For you the foreigner about to build your dream Villa it could be costly or a lot cheaper than you think.
The different ways to do costing. Lets look at an example and lets see if it makes sense to you the property owner from the USA for an instance.
LETS BUILD A WALL
You are building a wall 12 feet high by 36 feet long.
Foundation Stage
The digging of foundation, approximately 18ins x 18ins deep (cost per foot), 3 rows of Steel lying at base of foundation and the vertical Steel every other block (cost per foot) and all this is cemented into place with a solid mix of concrete which is also cost per foot.Cost at this stage: Around JA$32,400
First Stage
A total of 372 blocks are used and the cost to lay each block is JA$40.Cost at this stage: JA$14,880
Second Stage
Then you have the columns, needed to lock the blocks together, a total of 5 columns were used. These have to be Boxed and Cast at JA$560 per foot.So 60 feet of columns at JA$560 per foot equal Cost at this stage: JA$33,600
Third Stage
Now it’s time to add the finishing touch which comes in many forms but lets go for the costing of the quickest and cheapest way, one coat of sand and cement which is measured in yards.45 yards of Wall (one side only) at JA$300 per yard equal Cost at this stage: JA$13,500
The above work would normally take 3 men, one mixes the cement, one puts it onto the wall and the other creates the finish work.
The cost for Labour only: JA$94,380
Keep in mind the above cost is for labour only. The guy that creates the finish work gets a whopping 77% of the cost! Also if you add the cost of a contractor your cost will go up even further and that’s just the costing for a block wall with a finish on one side.
JA Projects method of building
JA Projects tends to go for the other way of costing to give the client a fairer pricing, employ your men and pay them based on there experience, persons we can trust and will do a honest day work.Below is the steel work for a swimming pool we built for one of our clients, the cost here would be huge if the estimate was based on the costing of steel work alone, we saved the client over 1 million Jamaican dollars by using our method of costing.
Check with your Contractor if he pay’s his men for contract work or if they are employed, this would be the way to go to save you, the property owner, a lot of money.For JA Projects Website GO HERE
Val Barclay
JA Projects – Keeping an eye on your Construction in Jamaica.- val@japrojects.com
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"Thank you, what a great way to save time and money, it works for me! Having already constructed the outside of our Villa/Hotel we wanted to fill it with Jamaican furniture.
We posted the style and discuss the arrangement, all through JA Projects, the database did the rest, knowing our discussion and pictures were private. It's a great way to do business!
