Grand Designs - New Series

[marksx]

Bonkers. I love it. Apart from the zinc/glass cladding idea.

[pork911]

Alternatively, don't build there???

[61GT]

Tonight's episode - A floating house on an island on the river Thames, the build starting in March '13

What could possibly go wrong!

[SydneyBridge]

£750 a week to rent part of a field, farmer must have been smiling. ..

[pork911]

'That got them off'

[ajprice]

September 2013 already!

If this gets finished, it will be great. But getting it done in 12 months seems to be pushing it.

[Sway]

Fair play to them.

Yes, mental for a whole host of reasons, but once done Kat long as they're not bankrupt!) they'll have a house they love in a stunning location worth a blooming fortune.

[Deerfoot]

SydneyBridge said:

£750 a week to rent part of a field, farmer must have been smiling. ..

Indeed. Four months in, the farmer has £12,000 in his pocket and they haven't managed to get across to get a spade in the ground yet.

[BoRED S2upid]

Could they not have built a timber framed floating house that doesn't require digging out hundreds of tonnes?

[anonymous-user]

Oops!

[ajprice]

sunk dump truck! And another £60k...

[anonymous-user]

£60k extra every few weeks will take it's toll!!

New contractor - yay!!!!

[greygoose]

BoRED S2upid said:

Could they not have built a timber framed floating house that doesn't require digging out hundreds of tonnes?

No basement then so where does the man hide out?

[anonymous-user]

BoRED S2upid said:

Could they not have built a timber framed floating house that doesn't require digging out hundreds of tonnes?

My guess is it would not have been acceptable to the planners

[ajprice]

Flooded for 2 months... nightmare!

[Catz]

What a crazy house plot!

[dom9]

What an interesting build!

Looking forward to seeing how this one ends!

[anonymous-user]

Catz said:

What a crazy house plot!

It's crazy, but if it gets built I think it's going to be magnificent.

[ajprice]

dom9 said:

What an interesting build!

Looking forward to seeing how this one ends!

Underwater and broke?

[WinstonWolf]

Half way in and all we've got is a flooded hole. Time is definitely a factor...