ProDave Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Channel 4 Wednesday 9PM Started this week, I missed the first one I will have to watch it on catch up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 I prefer the Australian & New Zealand versions. Much more interesting projects going on down under IMO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike2016 Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Watched the first episode on catch up. Enjoyed the first season. Thanks for the heads up. Lovely design, just would find all those stairs and vertical ascents difficult in my 80's/90's!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbish Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 Did anyone else fall for the new series called Bland Designs 😆 https://www.instagram.com/p/CbzJ4COIFVD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= I thought the concept of stripping away the architectural nonsense and showing the real nuts and bolts of self building would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysimon Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 i thought it was nice with all the different designs beside each other, OH thought it looked terrible and a mish-mash. it was quite interesting that mcleod said he was always looking for different designs but thought it too much, so should always be careful what you wish for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted April 27, 2022 Author Share Posted April 27, 2022 I have just watched tonights episode. £300K for the plot and over £500K build costs for a retired couple, or rather a trying to retire couple. Over time and over budget leaving them with no savings and still working when they expected to be retired. This just emphasises what I worked out 20 years ago. WHY when you retire and no longer need to work, would anybody want to remain living in one of the most expensive parts of the country? You coul build your dream house comfortable for half that in a cheaper place and have the proper retirement you dreamed of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 11 minutes ago, ProDave said: You coul build your dream house comfortable for half that in a cheaper place and have the proper retirement you dreamed of. @prodave that’s what you did yes? I retired and built (with the help of a main contractor for the shell) our house, I certainly did not spend that much on the build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 I think there is a very big difference between the finances of market customers. People building or buying above £500k usually have access to cash or credit, not the same for people at the lower end of the market i.e. sub £200k. Personally if someone wants to spend a million quid on something that could be done for 400 thousand quid, that is there lookout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone West Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 He was an architect and couldn't deliver his own house on budget, God help any of his clients. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Graven Hill is now just like shooting fish in a barrel. Almost mafia run now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell griffiths Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 For anybody who hasn’t been to graven hill, go and have a look. lordy Lordy, what a cluster(expletive deleted) of miss matched design and people’s ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Valley Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Gone West said: He was an architect and couldn't deliver his own house on budget, God help any of his clients. Not sure he could have foreseen the pandemic leading to massive price increases......he had a beard but I don't think he was a wizard 😉 For an architects house I thought it was rather bland from the outside. Edited April 28, 2022 by Happy Valley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 15 minutes ago, Happy Valley said: leading to massive price increases. £9k for rendering that wall 😱, my brother has been quoted £6k for renewing his decking (I guess I will end up doing it 😎, but I don’t mind, his missus is an awesome cook! ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 4 minutes ago, joe90 said: my brother has been quoted £6k for renewing his decking Got saw, will travel. The painting I did, at my Mother's, in two afternoons, was quoted at £800. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieKLP Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I did some graven hill designs, and I wouldn’t be so crude as to slander anyone on this show but holy lord, they were hard work. I don’t think I can watch this show because it’s still pretty painful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 On 28/04/2022 at 15:01, SteamyTea said: Got saw, will travel. You measure, I'll cut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said: I'll cut You aspire to get fingers like @ToughButterCup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 1 minute ago, SteamyTea said: You aspire to get fingers like @ToughButterCup. You do like life on the edge....... Still got all 10 here, but I am very sure that's down to luck with what I've got up to over the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 3 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said: You do like life on the edge....... Still got all 10 here, but I am very sure that's down to luck with what I've got up to over the years Luckily mine a webbed, no one knows the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickfromwales Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Just now, SteamyTea said: Luckily mine a webbed, no one knows the difference. You must have lots of gold medals for swimming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said: You must have lots of gold medals for swimming? Can hold my breath for 2 minutes 35 seconds, while holding a full conversation in BSL. What makes me so popular with the ladies. Stimulate mind and body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recoveringbuilder Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Grand designs tonight in Glasgow with @Joanna Susskind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted May 4, 2022 Author Share Posted May 4, 2022 16 minutes ago, recoveringbuilder said: Grand designs tonight in Glasgow with @Joanna Susskind In a rough area by all accounts, literally in the shadow of a tower block. Right at the start the local low life set fire to their static caravan and so far nobody else has started on the other 5 plots in the self build development. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roys Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 The couple did well, they put a lot of effort into it rather than paying lots of people and they did a quality job in my opinion. Like it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joanna Susskind Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 On 04/05/2022 at 23:33, ProDave said: In a rough area by all accounts, literally in the shadow of a tower block. Right at the start the local low life set fire to their static caravan and so far nobody else has started on the other 5 plots in the self build development. The programme of course make drama of everything! We have lots of friends in the tower blocks - it’s a great area near lots of new flats and beautiful houses along the river. The caravan was sadly burned…but we had abandoned it and the site for months as my husbands father passed away. We didn’t have site security at that point and kids must have thought it was abandoned as it was pushed to the back… Still horrific! 3 other houses are now well underway! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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