Guy Phoenix?

[Doofus]

If you want to build a house, surely you need planning permission, and surely that needs the client's sign-off?

So Guy saying "I do what I fking want and the customer can fking fk off" is presumably bks.

So does he only build for footballers who have no idea what they want, as long as it's expensive?

He strikes me as a , but then again, I'd never choose him as a contractor.

[thegreenhell]

Guy certainly likes to swear. Have they left that in because if they tried to bleep it there'd be nothing left?

Doofus said:

If you want to build a house, surely you need planning permission, and surely that needs the client's sign-off?

Not to mention actual plans that you follow, not make it up as you go along.

[simon_harris]

I know people that have houses done by him. He is more of a than he appears.

[raceboy]

He does seem like a colossal dick, but I’m liking him, recognised the client but can’t place where from.

[Doofus]

I've concluded that his whole schtick is artifice and bullst

I'm sure he builds what he builds, but I'm not convinced he constructs it in the same way I construct my muesli.

I thought the Amanda and Alan Sicilian show was ste. This is fking ste. fk. fking fk.

[simon_harris]

My grandson builds better with his wooden blocks, once he is done and gone so is any hope of getting any of the problems rectified

[Doofus]

The whole thing is pretence and flammery. I'm oot.

[jules_s]

Doofus said:

The whole thing is pretence and flammery. I'm oot.

I started a thread in the homes section - it felt better there at the time

Now I see it's purely for TV

I'm a bit lost for words tbh. I can just picture construction professionals all over scratching their heads and chins at the same time

[Doofus]

jules_s said:

I started a thread in the homes section - it felt better there at the time

Now I see it's purely for TV

I'm a bit lost for words tbh. I can just picture construction professionals all over scratching their heads and chins at the same time

I looked for another thread, but couldn't find it. Sorry.

[jules_s]

Doofus said:

I looked for another thread, but couldn't find it. Sorry.

lol no worries - it's a bit like the WWE thread - should that be sports or entertainment?

I'll watch it though - I quite like the idea of him 'designing' and 'building' a 'super-home' = when in all actuality he just chucks a 4m bed in with a Jacuzzi and a chandelier.

Fair play to him if he's made some ££££££ out of it

[anonymous-user]

It’s patient zero for every crap housing trend of the last 10 years.

[simon_harris]

the guy has a litany of bad deals and unhappy customers littered in his wake, more dodgy deals than you can shake a stick at and having personally seen the quality of his work buried behind "flash" looking tiling it is the definition of style over substance.

[Skyedriver]

simon_harris said:

the guy has a litany of bad deals and unhappy customers littered in his wake, more dodgy deals than you can shake a stick at and having personally seen the quality of his work buried behind "flash" looking tiling it is the definition of style over substance.

Should do a programme with Katie Price then...

[Baldchap]

I live in a GP house. It was done by/for the previous owner and we bought it about 12 months after completion, primarily for what and where the house is, rather than the GP elements. I will say it is, on the whole very, very nice and mostly decent enough construction. It was a conversion of an existing property, however.

Having last night watched episode one, and being a Grubby Man myself (I renovate houses), what we saw Vs the reality is interesting.

When he said he had the best tiler in the world I laughed out loud. I can tile better than whoever dotted and dabbed our floor tiles (means splodges, rather than an even base of adhesive, so the tiles move and can crack), and I'm not a tiler.

Looks lovely, very high quality fittings, sound insulation and the like is very good, but in a few places the quality of workmanship is not what I would be happy with had I commissioned the work.

Thankfully I'm in the position that I can sort it myself.

Never met the guy (or Guy), but my neighbour who did said he came across as an absolute , demanding various things in terms of access and so on.

Allegedly he has some involvement with illegality in Nottingham as well, but I don't know anything about that, just odd I heard that rumour. Apparently his mother is a piece of work as well.

[simon_harris]

Baldchap said:

I live in a GP house. It was done by/for the previous owner and we bought it about 12 months after completion, primarily for what and where the house is, rather than the GP elements. I will say it is, on the whole very, very nice and mostly decent enough construction. It was a conversion of an existing property, however.

Having last night watched episode one, and being a Grubby Man myself (I renovate houses), what we saw Vs the reality is interesting.

When he said he had the best tiler in the world I laughed out loud. I can tile better than whoever dotted and dabbed our floor tiles (means splodges, rather than an even base of adhesive, so the tiles move and can crack), and I'm not a tiler.

Looks lovely, very high quality fittings, sound insulation and the like is very good, but in a few places the quality of workmanship is not what I would be happy with had I commissioned the work.

Thankfully I'm in the position that I can sort it myself.

Never met the guy (or Guy), but my neighbour who did said he came across as an absolute , demanding various things in terms of access and so on.

Allegedly he has some involvement with illegality in Nottingham as well, but I don't know anything about that, just odd I heard that rumour. Apparently his mother is a piece of work as well.

Guy did the house my friend lives in and as soon as you peel back the layers it is an utter shambles of atrocious workmanship and cutting corners, it has literally cost him 10's of thousands to put right. I know people that have had work done by Guy and been involved in his social circle none have a good word to say about him or his dealings.

[Baldchap]

I think we were lucky with the standard of build of ours prior to GP rocking up. Fortunately his work here was largely cosmetic from looking on Zoopla at how it was before.