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tbc

Original Poster:

3,017 posts

174 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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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]

Pistom

4,916 posts

158 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Thank you. I'm glad it's not just me then.

stain

1,051 posts

209 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Don't know if anyone noticed last week when she made a point of saying how amazing the bifold doors looked. In the end credits, such and such window company got a special mention. Obviously supplied for free in return for some extra PR.

skinny

5,269 posts

234 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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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.

tbc

Original Poster:

3,017 posts

174 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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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.

p1doc

3,111 posts

183 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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there have been quite a few grand designs not finished by end of series-more realistic i reckon
martin

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

151 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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p1doc said:
there have been quite a few grand designs not finished by end of series-more realistic i reckon
martin
More realistic?

Every time I watch grand designs it seems to take them twice as long and cost twice as much as expected. Sounds perfectly realistic to me!

greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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It doesn't help that Kevin's arrival results in a pregnancy for the family involved.

PaulG40

2,381 posts

224 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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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.

Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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OP, it isn't just you.

Yes, your three bed semi now has a massive extension but your garden has about 8ft left.

That 700k house on the other hand has land, as well as the size yours is now......

elster

17,517 posts

209 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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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...


jesusbuiltmycar

4,535 posts

253 months

Friday 22nd August 2014
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What I hate is the way that at the end of the program they show the original house with all of the colour washed out before showing the finished extension / room etc with the picture brightened.