Double Your House...
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For Half the Money.
Watched a whole episode with the ageing Beeny last night and the whole programme format is flawed.
House worth £250k in average area, they go to a big mansion worth £850k.Then they spend £150k on an extension and renovation and now she says the house is worth £700k.
The reason the big mansion is worth £850k is because it is in the back arse of nowhere and not in some middle England suburb surrounded like a gypsy camp.
One highlight has to be when Beeny said " You would never notice were the old house ends and the new one starts", - look at the colour difference of the cladding sugar tits
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I did notice at the end it's made by her production company amply named 'Knockers Productions'[url]
Watched a whole episode with the ageing Beeny last night and the whole programme format is flawed.
House worth £250k in average area, they go to a big mansion worth £850k.Then they spend £150k on an extension and renovation and now she says the house is worth £700k.
The reason the big mansion is worth £850k is because it is in the back arse of nowhere and not in some middle England suburb surrounded like a gypsy camp.
One highlight has to be when Beeny said " You would never notice were the old house ends and the new one starts", - look at the colour difference of the cladding sugar tits
|http://thumbsnap.com/9185ay4X[/url]
I did notice at the end it's made by her production company amply named 'Knockers Productions'[url]
the girl who was on last night is an ex-colleague of mine.
She said if you were doing it yourself, you wouldn't be able to. It's only because of being on TV that you get deals on materials and labour, and the builders try their best to stick to schedules and budgets. Out in the real world there is no incentive for any of this good will.
She said if you were doing it yourself, you wouldn't be able to. It's only because of being on TV that you get deals on materials and labour, and the builders try their best to stick to schedules and budgets. Out in the real world there is no incentive for any of this good will.
If it's like Grand Designs then they cover somewhere between 10%-20% of the build cost.
They obviously have a quantity surveyor and project manager working for the show to get good deals and timescales in return for promotion on the Channel 4 website.
Look at all the Grand Designs builds, most of them have the suppliers below the episode info.
Add that to the fact it was sponsored by B&Q for a good few years.
Then Channel 4 send a team of interior designers in the prep the place before Beeny turns up with the camera crew.
Actually surprises me on Grand Designs when they don't finish the build.
They obviously have a quantity surveyor and project manager working for the show to get good deals and timescales in return for promotion on the Channel 4 website.
Look at all the Grand Designs builds, most of them have the suppliers below the episode info.
Add that to the fact it was sponsored by B&Q for a good few years.
Then Channel 4 send a team of interior designers in the prep the place before Beeny turns up with the camera crew.
Actually surprises me on Grand Designs when they don't finish the build.
My brother in law was one of the builders (well, one of the labourers). They didn't get told about being on tv, they just turned up and there were all these tv people there with Beeny visiting the site occasionally. He had to sign all these waivers to allow the programme to show his face etc.
I do love these programmes.
They basically find the most incompetent people on the planet who have got a bit of money and decide they want to create their own home using these marvellous technologies, without looking into how things go together.
I'm an electrician not a QS and I could price up a build better than they can.
I do love the Beeny logic though. On one hand you have a marvellous house that is worth twice the price of yours that is your dream home. You can then build an extension and get nothing like the dream house...
They basically find the most incompetent people on the planet who have got a bit of money and decide they want to create their own home using these marvellous technologies, without looking into how things go together.
I'm an electrician not a QS and I could price up a build better than they can.
I do love the Beeny logic though. On one hand you have a marvellous house that is worth twice the price of yours that is your dream home. You can then build an extension and get nothing like the dream house...
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