BBC Accidental Renovators - the auction house in Dunoon

[Square Feet]

This is quite good fun. I'm sure you will have heard the story as it was all over the news - a young lad accidentally bid on the wrong lot at auction and ended up paying £40k for a ruined mansion in Dunoon instead of a two bed flat in Glasgow.  I'd have knocked it down without a second thought, so fair play to them for wanting to rescue a formerly grand old building. 

 

For all their naivety the couple tacked some elements of the build which I would have thought belonged in the specialist builder sphere, like raising the roof, completely reslating and replacing stone lintels. A testament to what you can achieve if you are young, energetic and completely clueless about what you have let yourself in for. I thought initially it was all going to be a grand 'content creation' ruse but I didn't end up feeling like that was what happened - they used social media as an incidental lever but didn't massively play up to it.  Their instagram is What Have We Dunoon if you want to check that out. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c4sm/episodes/guide

Edited October 6, 2023 by Square Feet

[ProDave]

"Sorry this episode is not available"

 

Shame we did not hear about this when it was on live, it does not seem to be available on catchup.

[LSB]

which episode, online i have access to 4 episodes in series 1.

 

[LSB]

Just now, LSB said:

which episode, online i have access to 4 episodes in series 1.

 

just realised it's all about the same couple

 

and then, I can't access after all at the next step

 

[Square Feet]

Hm. I just watched it through the app last week. 

Sorry about that - they seem to have taken it off awfully quickly.

[Gone West]

Yeah, Wendy watched it on iPlayer and said it was good.

[Big Jimbo]

I saw some of it. It was good. If I remember she was from the States. did a great job where others would have just given up.

[Square Feet]