Grand Designs

[stanwan]

Beati Dogu said:

The guy who made the table was a genius for persuading him to buy it with the rotten off cut still attached. Real Emperor's new clothes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgysRim_zT4

I thought it was retained burl- the stuff they go for for burr veneers? Have to admit that I loved the table and woodwork.

[irocfan]

thought that the wife was trying to look like Nana Miskouri [sp] at first then morphing into Sue Pollard. Listening to her talk I was gobsmacked she's a lawyer as (IMO) she sounded like some simpering school-girl. The house wasn't me TBH... like the table, hated the lack of privacy, the cheese grater look would <ahem> grate, no garden worth speaking of and on a main road. If they get permission to build on the opposite bank then they're totally fked. On time and on budget though - can't knock that!!

[FourWheelDrift]

I couldn't find a better photo unfortunately.

With all that rusty steel maybe he's a Fallout Fan, they just need to rename Lewes and it'll be fine.

[droopsnoot]

I wish Vauxhall had used some of that steel that rusts, then the rust prevents any more rust from forming. Would have saved me years. Might be a bit too thick though.

[LordHaveMurci]

irocfan]thought that the wife was trying to look like Nana Miskouri [sp said:

at first then morphing into Sue Pollard.

Or Janet Street-Porter

[The Don of Croy]

Well Kevin liked it. Liked it a lot. Very very taken with it. Will he leave wife and kids and marry it?

Did anyone mention flooding?

I've said it before, but whoever chooses acres of glass and has kids doesn't do their own cleaning. End of.

[Bonefish Blues]

The Don of Croy said:

I've said it before, but whoever chooses acres of glass and has kids doesn't do their own cleaning. End of.

We didn't then we did

[LordHaveMurci]

The Don of Croy said:

Well Kevin liked it. Liked it a lot. Very very taken with it. Will he leave wife and kids and marry it?

Did anyone mention flooding?

I've said it before, but whoever chooses acres of glass and has kids doesn't do their own cleaning. End of.

Flooding was mentioned early on, the river had flooded further along but not near them.

[AnotherClarkey]

For fks sake can somebody tell Kevin that Lewes is in EAST Sussex, not west. In fact it is the county town of East Sussex.

[ajprice]

Here comes the floating house update

[Sway]

Remembering that I wasn't impressed with this one last season, I bloody love it now.

What a stunning home for a couple. Can only imagine unhooking a nice single scull from a rack on the outside wall, and going for a morning row every day before breakfast.

[ajprice]

Nice job on that. The back doorstep being anywhere between ground level and 10 feet in the air must be a but weird though

[outnumbered]

I still can't help thinking they're going to end up with a basement full of water at some point... I quite like the house, but at a cost of £1.2M, they could have had something pretty special in a more conventional location. Wouldn't have been my choice anyway.

[irocfan]

sadly I really liked their electric blinds must find our where they got them from

[Jonesy23]

Maybe it's just me but I'd have put trim tanks in the base of the house with pumps, a controller & some battery backup rather than mess about shifting concrete blocks any time I wanted to move the sofa. Windy days might put a bit of a lean on the thing too, not ideal if the river is rising at the same time & it got stuck on the dolphins so I'd want everything to just sort itself out.

Door access must surely be sorted with a gangway of some description, have the door just move relative to a step wouldn't work?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

They didn't say anything about how the water pipes/electrickery/gas etc were connected.

[Sway]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

They didn't say anything about how the water pipes/electrickery/gas etc were connected.

May have been chopped from this episode, but when originally shown they showed how they were on a catenary tower type affair, with sufficient slack to accommodate the full range of motion.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Sway said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

They didn't say anything about how the water pipes/electrickery/gas etc were connected.

May have been chopped from this episode, but when originally shown they showed how they were on a catenary tower type affair, with sufficient slack to accommodate the full range of motion.

If the poo channel got disconnected they might not find out for years...until eventually the house was sitting on top of a five foot poo mountain!

[anonymous-user]

Sway said:

Remembering that I wasn't impressed with this one last season, I bloody love it now.

What a stunning home for a couple. Can only imagine unhooking a nice single scull from a rack on the outside wall, and going for a morning row every day before breakfast.

Same for me. I was never sure about the zinc panel design before, but now think it looks stunning.

I also think the simplicity of design - the outline shape of the house - helps to carry the materials and results in a very cohesive appearance.

[FredClogs]

I like the house and the technology but couldn't help but wonder just how it would feel in a big flood were you to be surrounded by distraught and bankrupted neighbours to be sitting smug on your floating house. I suspect I wouldn't like that feeling.