To think Kirstie's Fill Your House for Free is stopping people doing just that?

[ashlee1992]

I love a freebie as much as the next person, but Kirstie is ruining it for me!

Now finding anything worth having for free is near impossible since the rest of the country is looking for it too, and thanks to her 'valuations' people are wanting money for things which would previously have been given away free, thus stopping people who really appreciate/need it from being able to have it! Surely she's being less of a help and more of a hindrance?

Ohh, and it's not free if you have to put more money into it than how much a brand new one would cost anyway!

Thanks Kirstie, but no thanks!

I quite liked the coasters and the chairs, but I could never execute to the standard they managed.

Lottie yes, they recovered it in grey velvet (dralon really ) and replaced the buttons with multi-coloured ones.

I don't think that under the bath style storage made from palletts looked like it would stand up to kids pulling enthusiastically at it either. It warped as they opened it.

And it would get all mildewy with damp bath toys in it too.

Morloth

The bath panel will fail in a couple of months.

Water dripping onto it over the top of the bath will warp the wood, rot it, and that paint will do nothing to stop it.

Toys and bottles will be lost under the bath because there is no back between the front of the shelves and the bath - all it's going to take is the kids putting stuff back in a rush or throwing them into place. Even my 12yo DD pointed this out as well as the shelves rotting from the wet bottles being put back in place.

The rope will rot and smell in a couple of months as it wasn't treated. Ditto wood.

The plumber would have cost a fortune to take out the shower, waste drain, pipes and move them from not just the front of the bath and the shower unit but into the wall on the side of the bath- so theres the cost of a plasterer and or/tiler in that too - not to mention the floor or plumbing in the bidet - which cost £40 to replace.

Not to mention the new floor, tiles, paint, mirror, vanity unit under the sink (which they kept quiet about and appeared from no where).

That revolting pink and blue bedroom with horrid bright pine skirting boards looked like a bedroom in a student house. All that grim grey paint will flake off in two weeks.

Mind you, then it will be "shabby chic" or some such rot.

It def should be re-named "Fill your house with grotty tat for free plus we expect you to cry at the end. Don't worry though, you will. In fact, you will sob with despair".

Bit long maybe?

A bit long yes, but more accurate.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who hated what she did with that house.

Reminds me a bit of Changing Rooms back in the 90s (?). They used to bodge a load of crap too.

Also, did I mishear the woman saying that to get rid of that bath in a skip would have cost around £500, so Kirsty had done her a favour taking it off her for nothing?

Since when did a skip cost £500? And why didn't the bathroom people have a van they could have got rid of it in. Did it cost Kirsty £500 to get rid of that old bath that was replaced? Doesn't exactly stack up.

Flick the glass on the engine coffee table was £50 they didnt say how much the engine was from the scrap yard (DH reckoned about £30), the van to move it, the hoist to get it out of the van, the shot blasting to clean it and the powder coating paint job were. We reckoned you couldnt get away with less than about £300 for the coffee table by the time you had finished.

And the bit about ringing around builders to ask if they have anything they are giving away. Hmm can just imagine how pleased all the building firms round here would be with that, think the answer would be two words with the second one being "off".

Or the washing machine innards one that would cut your legs to pieces if you got too near it.

Our washing machine broke a couple of days ago. Lovely new one arrived today, and the old one has been taken away. I did spend around three minutes contemplating taking the drum out to make one of those lit-up-table-thingys, before I landed gently back down onto planet Earth and thought better of it.

Made me laugh when the woman "valued" their new furniture - no chance of getting that amount of money for it! Hideous, especially the guest bedroom!!

It made me laff that she valued it at less than they estimated it would cost to buy it all new. Maybe not such a great bargain then?

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amywhite29 - not good to sneak in free advertising here.

ProfYaffle I agree a certain lack of attention seems to have been given to the skill element

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