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Muncher said:
Bit odd that she wasn’t around for the final filming?
I can’t see how that system is viable, they’ve spent £200k building a 2 bedroom timber frame house, with 7,000 man hours free labour, plus I suspect a lot of free time from their architects. The plywood could have easily been ruined in poor weather.
No idea why they didn’t either spray the cladding panels, or char them. I did like the balustrade and stair detail however.
Agreed - no idea how they managed to spend so much money given that the 'plywood box' design was supposed to be cheap/quick to put up and they essentially had free labour to do that part (or very cheap labour at least), there were only 2 bedrooms (one of which was a downstairs office/spare room) and they didn't seem to spend much on interior finishing unless they paid through the nose for the 'rough and industrial' look.I can’t see how that system is viable, they’ve spent £200k building a 2 bedroom timber frame house, with 7,000 man hours free labour, plus I suspect a lot of free time from their architects. The plywood could have easily been ruined in poor weather.
No idea why they didn’t either spray the cladding panels, or char them. I did like the balustrade and stair detail however.
It did look very nice from the outside though and I liked the planted roof(s). More about form over function though overall, I thought.
The other one featured next door was really impressive - really good architecture (despite being a DIY design), 3 decent bedrooms, quality construction and finish (soundproofing a great idea), lovely upstairs lounge with great views and a useful apartment in the attic (not finished at time of filming but no need to do it quickly as the rest of the house was pretty much done and functional). And they managed to eliminate their mortgage by moving there - bloody fantastic. A 600k house for 300k and no mortgage to pay! Kevin seemed well impressed.
Lucas Ayde said:
The other one featured next door was really impressive - really good architecture (despite being a DIY design), 3 decent bedrooms, quality construction and finish (soundproofing a great idea), lovely upstairs lounge with great views and a useful apartment in the attic (not finished at time of filming but no need to do it quickly as the rest of the house was pretty much done and functional). And they managed to eliminate their mortgage by moving there - bloody fantastic. A 600k house for 300k and no mortgage to pay! Kevin seemed well impressed.
I thought that was a great house, designed around their needs with the primary consideration of it actually being a house to live in, for a reasonable cost.No chance they would have made it onto grand designs on an ordinary series!
Laurel Green said:
droopsnoot said:
Muncher said:
Bit odd that she wasn’t around for the final filming?
She's in work, he said at the start of the wrap-up.'Sorry I'm at work that day'.
IIRC she had a pretty mundane job too, but I forget what it was.
Bonefish Blues said:
227bhp said:
Laurel Green said:
droopsnoot said:
Muncher said:
Bit odd that she wasn’t around for the final filming?
She's in work, he said at the start of the wrap-up.'Sorry I'm at work that day'.
IIRC she had a pretty mundane job too, but I forget what it was.
shady lee said:
DoctorX said:
Still can’t understand how that small packing crate and that nice family house ended up costing the same...
My thoughts exactly after watching it!OK, you've convinced me, maybe she was under the garden. It's just a bit strange, it wouldn't be the first time even in this series that a partner had been off the scene by the time the build was finished. Anyway, not important.
One thing that keeps coming up is the great view out of the back of these houses, there was a lovely distant farm building shown in the latest episode. But as I think they said there's about a thousand of these self-builds going up at this location, and from memory these featured ones don't seem to be across one edge, I wonder how many of them will keep those views?
One thing that keeps coming up is the great view out of the back of these houses, there was a lovely distant farm building shown in the latest episode. But as I think they said there's about a thousand of these self-builds going up at this location, and from memory these featured ones don't seem to be across one edge, I wonder how many of them will keep those views?
Slightly more than you might think as it's a circular development - but that does mean that for every view of open countryside there's others with a view of the sewage works, distribution sheds etc.
https://www.gravenhill.co.uk/map/
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Graven+Hill+Pl...
https://www.gravenhill.co.uk/map/
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Graven+Hill+Pl...
kev1974 said:
The black cladding was horrible, because of the way he had made it into individual square units it looked like he had used spray painted pallets up the side of the house. Would have looked much better if he had kept the wood in long vertical straights without all the cuts.
Funnily enough while I was watching them painting those sections, I thought they'd have saved money by just using some pallets.Bonefish Blues said:
Slightly more than you might think as it's a circular development - but that does mean that for every view of open countryside there's others with a view of the sewage works, distribution sheds etc.
https://www.gravenhill.co.uk/map/
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Graven+Hill+Pl...
There also appears to be a lot of non-self builds being done by the developer. The programme gives the impression that the whole place is self-built when actually only a small proportion are.https://www.gravenhill.co.uk/map/
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Graven+Hill+Pl...
Mark Benson said:
There also appears to be a lot of non-self builds being done by the developer. The programme gives the impression that the whole place is self-built when actually only a small proportion are.
There are, but they are custom built within certain specs, so they will look less identikit, albeit developers are doing similar things these days too.Gassing Station | TV, Film, Video Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff