Grand Designs - New Series

[ajprice]

You've really got to like wood to do that.

[menousername]

Laurel Green said:

My comment was for when the crane lifted one of the first pieces and it came crashing down thanks to a bolt breaking.

Aaaah....thought he had fallen off the roof

[mathmos]

Looks like a sauna inside

[anonymous-user]

I like the outside and the form of the inside but all that internal wood is way too much for me.

[Patch1875]

I like it but woodn't want to live in it. Seems a quirky place you'd rent for a weekend.

[ajprice]

Patch1875 said:

I like it but woodn't want to live in it.

I see what you did there

[Laurel Green]

Patch1875 said:

I like it but woodn't want to live in it. Seems a quirky place you'd rent for a weekend.

ICWYDT.

I could live with the build but not the decor.

[Salterns]

The stairs looked very child friendly.

[campionissimo]

Really liked the end result, not sure how BC would sign off those staircases though.

And the McCloud virility strikes again - she was decidedly pregnant by the end.......

[teapea]

really do not like this weeks house, too much wood, and christ knows how they got away with them stairs, and that looks to be the most uncomfortable sofa in the world!

It just looked like they forgot to finish it

[Beati Dogu]

I thought it was really nice on the inside. Certainly has that ski lodge feel to it.

[Escort3500]

Clumsy, top heavy and really dreadful inside. That boarding in the bedroom was particularly bad

Looked like what it was: a cheap build.

[CMYKguru]

Too much wood.

The outside was quite nice but the inside was just too much.

I can't stand plywood and chipboard and it just looked completely unfinished.

If they had kept the roof and had a few white walls it would have looked less harsh and more homely.

In the end it just looked like they'd run out of money and want to Ikea to furnish it.

[dom9]

I liked it in a 'cheap' and modern sort of way!

The guy seemed like a bit of an action man, so the build probably gave him the thrill to keep him happy for a while.

Waaaaaaaaaaay too much wood for me but hats off for doing something different!

Made me think about these wood panels if/ when I ever do a self-build (or ask my old dad to design something)

Edited by dom9 on Thursday 11th September 10:06

[p1doc]

outside looked good,inside -way too much wood and very weird downstairs cork/chipboard bare concrete rough my ar*e it is just not finished as run over budget
considering they have kids very unfriendly stairs/front door bare concrete-hope the blood does not stain the wood as accident bound to happen
martin

[BoRED S2upid]

End result looked like a lick of paint and some plastering downstairs would have finished it off and it would be a nice house but leaving it like that would take some getting used to.

As for the stairs i've seen plenty of stairs like that so it can't be an issue for BC. There didn't seem to be many stairs, maybe it's not an issue if it's not a big staircase?

[Chaffs]

I really enjoyed this - I'm with most on here in that there were some of the design cues that I really liked, others not so much, but what I really liked was the fact that this was a different technology, not the standard block, steel, SIP approach that all the others have and there's usually only one or two like this each series. Did make me think that if you could direct the grain then perhaps they could do like the F1 teams with their carbon fibre and orientate the strands to particular load points, etc ... I need to get out more.

[BoRED S2upid]

Was there a significant reduction in insulation with the use of wood or did we not see that bit? It did seem a very good way of building.

[Laurel Green]

They didn't show it but did say that the build was externally insulated before the cladding.

[anonymous-user]

The structure was insulated with what looked like 200 - 250mm of mineral wool on the walls - didn't see the roof.

The walls were CLT, breather membrane, then larsen trusses fixed to the outside with mineral fibre insulation between. Those where lined with OSB, another layer of breather membrane and then the cladding battens and cladding.

I liked the upstairs, but I am not a fan of bare OSB on the downstairs walls. Still they can always plasterboard and paint them at a later date, so not a big issue really.

I also liked what I think might have been a very clever hidden gutter on the roof. No info about it, but a lot of the shots of the roof showed holes in the corrugated roofing near the eaves. I can only conclude that these led to a hidden gutter underneath as there were no visible external gutters. I love the idea, I just hope they got the detailing right and it stays water tight and fee of leaves/other debris.