Grand Designs - New Series
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I can deal with the poly walls but the rest wasn't great. Kitchen (a bargain apparently!) and black polished wall were nice but I hate sterling board internally and the rest was a bit of a mess, especially the dog proof courtyard and unfinished porch/patio area. How on earth it cost 1mil I have no idea although the up-cycled dodgy bathroom suite probably cost an arm and a leg.
I only caught the last 20 minutes of this, was the original plan for the tesco value Paula Yates and her fella to make a shed full of crap for a daft amount of money? If so they succeeded
Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
BoRED S2upid said:
Massive overspend! Double their original budget but worry not as in London it will be worth many many millions. In Yorkshire you could keep cows in it.
Only in That London ...http://www.standard.co.uk/news/buy-a-broom-cupboar...
I got the impression that they thought having an extension built constituted 'building experience', and that they chose cheap materials first, before justifying them. Having maximised bang-per-buck on the materials, they hadn't a clue on detailing and their builder took the time and the money to resolve every junction in the building. They were lucky they had a builder with sufficient patience to sort it all out (though of course they paid for the privilege).
In the end I felt the exterior actually worked quite well - it's a funky city building and plays the part. Inside the spaces were well proportioned (if a little ramshackle) but there was just no continuity between the rooms. Even things like the bathroom suite could have worked if they had any relationship to the decor in the other rooms. Instead it was just a jumble of ideas.
So, for me it was surprisingly un-disastrous, but not as good as it could have been.
In the end I felt the exterior actually worked quite well - it's a funky city building and plays the part. Inside the spaces were well proportioned (if a little ramshackle) but there was just no continuity between the rooms. Even things like the bathroom suite could have worked if they had any relationship to the decor in the other rooms. Instead it was just a jumble of ideas.
So, for me it was surprisingly un-disastrous, but not as good as it could have been.
p1doc said:
weird project-could just understand in country but in london??!!
did they not drop their architect near start-lucky escape for him lol,felt sorry for the builders and the cost!!!
did not like it at all
martin
Although my architect produced drawings for many of the more tricky details on my self-build, we still had to call him up to explain how he envisaged some details in other areas.did they not drop their architect near start-lucky escape for him lol,felt sorry for the builders and the cost!!!
did not like it at all
martin
That was their mistake - casting him adrift before the build had started. They obviously thought it was a money saver, most of the time I believe it has the opposite result.
I still can't work out how it got its u-values for building regs. Is the back wall *massively* insulated to compensate for the plastic walling?
The biggest issue I had with it was the way it delivered the concept of the courtyard. In Japanese or Korean housing, where so-called "courtyard homes" are commonplace, the courtyard is very small and genuinely enclosed. This creates a tremendous sense of intimacy in these homes and is one of the reasons why I love them.
But this thing wasn't a courtyard home - certainly not in the way it was pitched at the outset.
The biggest issue I had with it was the way it delivered the concept of the courtyard. In Japanese or Korean housing, where so-called "courtyard homes" are commonplace, the courtyard is very small and genuinely enclosed. This creates a tremendous sense of intimacy in these homes and is one of the reasons why I love them.
But this thing wasn't a courtyard home - certainly not in the way it was pitched at the outset.
dxg said:
I still can't work out how it got its u-values for building regs. Is the back wall *massively* insulated to compensate for the plastic walling?
The biggest issue I had with it was the way it delivered the concept of the courtyard. In Japanese or Korean housing, where so-called "courtyard homes" are commonplace, the courtyard is very small and genuinely enclosed. This creates a tremendous sense of intimacy in these homes and is one of the reasons why I love them.
But this thing wasn't a courtyard home - certainly not in the way it was pitched at the outset.
Agree - more of a 'U' shaped home. The so-called courtyard was completely overlooked by neighbouring houses iirc.The biggest issue I had with it was the way it delivered the concept of the courtyard. In Japanese or Korean housing, where so-called "courtyard homes" are commonplace, the courtyard is very small and genuinely enclosed. This creates a tremendous sense of intimacy in these homes and is one of the reasons why I love them.
But this thing wasn't a courtyard home - certainly not in the way it was pitched at the outset.
brockovrs said:
I only caught the last 20 minutes of this, was the original plan for the tesco value Paula Yates and her fella to make a shed full of crap for a daft amount of money? If so they succeeded
Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
Your mixing your property programs up, the dodgy slabs were with Beeney in the previous program. The one with the dude who spunked a load of cash on a drive, turfed lawn and a new office in the back garden before he finished the kitchen off...Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
Megaflow said:
brockovrs said:
I only caught the last 20 minutes of this, was the original plan for the tesco value Paula Yates and her fella to make a shed full of crap for a daft amount of money? If so they succeeded
Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
Your mixing your property programs up, the dodgy slabs were with Beeney in the previous program. The one with the dude who spunked a load of cash on a drive, turfed lawn and a new office in the back garden before he finished the kitchen off...Also, when Kevin walked over the concrete patio (which looks like the stuff you'd grow grass through on a carpark) at the end, I'm sure I saw a few of the slabs move an awful lot - so they weren't even fitted properly!
Can't see this one weathering very well a few years down the line.
No guttering I could see on the roof and wonder how that polycarbonate is going to react to UV?
Totally unfinished courtyard to - some birch trees shipped in just before the cameras arrived to soften the look and some slabs plonked on the ground outside the porch for Kevin to stand on.
No guttering I could see on the roof and wonder how that polycarbonate is going to react to UV?
Totally unfinished courtyard to - some birch trees shipped in just before the cameras arrived to soften the look and some slabs plonked on the ground outside the porch for Kevin to stand on.
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