The Restoration Man - C4

[ajprice]

[ajprice]

Heads up. This might be a repeat though and not a revisited. It's got the old 'superhero' credits instead of the 'wistfully drawing things on a white wall' credits.

[FourWheelDrift]

Originally filmed in 2011 I think.

[Laurel Green]

It's certainly a big project and, looking rather nice too.

[ajprice]

Nice job on that

[Laurel Green]

On time and on budget too - what's more, 'tis making me thirsty.

[FourWheelDrift]

I enjoyed tonight's episode with a bottle of Cuban Bachata beer

[FlossyThePig]

FourWheelDrift said:

I enjoyed tonight's episode with a bottle of Cuban Bachata beer

Shame on you, what's wrong with real British bitter?

[Laurel Green]

A new series starting tonight at 8 o'clock.

George Clarke meets Russell Edwards and Nadia Smith, who are trying to build a family home out of a derelict 18th-century farmhouse in the Shropshire countryside.

Repeated tomorrow on 4seven before anyone asks.

[Baron Greenback]

Laurel Green said:

A new series starting tonight at 8 o'clock.

George Clarke meets Russell Edwards and Nadia Smith, who are trying to build a family home out of a derelict 18th-century farmhouse in the Shropshire countryside.

Repeated tomorrow on 4seven before anyone asks.

Ta!

[ajprice]

Heads up

[campionissimo]

I'd hit it. And a real surprise seeing that timber frame round the back.

[Laurel Green]

campionissimo said:

I'd hit it. And a real surprise seeing that timber frame round the back.

Yep! I did wonder why it was listed until seeing the back of the building. Pain and lots of the folding stuff, me thinks.

[ajprice]

So it's a brick house with a timber frame back wall spliced in, weird.

[Laurel Green]

ajprice said:

So it's a brick house with a timber frame back wall spliced in, weird.

It's certainly looking that way. Though I would have thought looking at the roofing timbers would have given a better idea of the age of it.

Strange to think that the Oak timber was a cheap way of building in days gone by - I expect bricks were more costly in 'them days'.

[MiniMan64]

A question almost worthy of a seperate thread but is listed building status getting counterproductive?

How many old listed building fall down because it's too expensive/difficult to restore?

[FourWheelDrift]

I see Kevin McCloud has visited while George has been away

[Laurel Green]

MiniMan64 said:

A question almost worthy of a seperate thread but is listed building status getting counterproductive?

How many old listed building fall down because it's too expensive/difficult to restore?

No experience at such but, would imagine it to be so. The only saving grace(perhaps)would be the huge price-hikes these buildings can now command.

FourWheelDrift said:

I see Kevin McCloud has visited while George has been away

I was thinking that on hearing of the pregnancy.

ETA: Over to BBC2 now.

[Laurel Green]

Heads up.

[ajprice]

Did they know it was listed when they bought it? The rulings on the cupboard and the wall seem like a surprise to them after they bought the place.