Location location location/and or other U.K. property programmes...secrets

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Sorry if there’s already a thread been reading the CDWM thread with interest...but would to know any secrets about locationx3
I would love to have a budget big enough to go on it one day but they all seem to have 500k at the age of 21 these days 🤔
Any secrets kirsty and Phil seem lovely I hope they are as nice in RL

Friends of mine where on escape to the country. They had the houses lined up and then in the mean time offers had been put in on them all. So they had to film the whole thing knowing this and pretty much fake the whole thing. Really put their acting skills to play.

Im a big fan of homes under the hammer. Rescently found out they have a team of directors they rotate and they pick the music for their episodes. But I was gutted they didnt have a team espesially for this. What a job that would be!

Also best moment ever on huth was the other week when they played "my lovely horse" from father ted 😂😂😂

Were your friends actually looking for a house, Notquiteagandt?
I don't think I'd have gone along with the acting, it sounds totally crap to have to do that.

Does anyone remember that program that Kirsty hosted about property chains,,
All the people in the chain were moving into each others houses on the same day.
There were some right CF's

@Nondescriptname yes they literally told them like an hour before they where due to start filming and had already drove cross country and spent night in a hotel.

They desided to go along with it to get a feel of the villages etc. I believe they got paid too and got told if they needed any advice etc this offer was still there.

Plus they where still curious in the mystery house. Which was still on market.

As it happens midweek they got talking to someone from same village who was waiting for estate agent to come value to put their house on market. They ended up buying that house.

So not an entirly wasted trip.

I can only wonder what the house owners got out of it as they knew there where already offers accepted and on table.

Before mumsnet, there was the channel 4 property chat board. Happy days!

The wing roof man was a legend. 'it's a fur lined, ocean going, copper bottomed balls up'. He had tshirts made if I remember.

Woodsman house always excited me because a random Danish student turned up and laboured for free all summer. He was hot af.

The best one was the two spoilt sisters on Property Ladder. The lead spoilt sister turned a pleasant, large house into some kind of Buddha themed, multi coloured chandeliered bad trip, and spent two grand on hand made mirrored tiles for the downstairs toilet. Beeny was a picture.

Does anyone remember the young couple in Leith, Edinburgh who tiled their own roof after googling it, and moved a lamp post in the street? Their house had no inner walls. At all. Hope they like the sound of a good spin cycle.

The A Place in the Sun thing is ridiculous. At least on LLL 6/10 times they buy or try and buy a property. On A Place in the Sun they never buy anything. I think I've seen about 3 episodes where they put an offer in.
Talk about looking for a free holiday.

The best one was the two spoilt sisters on Property Ladder. The lead spoilt sister turned a pleasant, large house into some kind of Buddha themed, multi coloured chandeliered bad trip, and spent two grand on hand made mirrored tiles for the downstairs toilet. Beeny was a picture.

I remember them Morris! I remember the house itself being a beautiful art deco building. And I remember the downstairs loo tiles.. she had no concept of how to make most of the house value.

Omg Morris I remember that she was a trust fund brat and Sarah Brent was

Morris was the sisters house in the posh part of Poole, with the garage only usable by a Smart car?

Sweetpea I really enjoyed that chain programme with La Allsopp. Better than the absurd 'Love It or List It', where the participants spend all their spare money doing weeks of gruesome building work and at the end say......'well yes, it's really nice but the house is still too small so we're going to move anyway.' And then they've got no money left, presumably?

(Also, who in this country uses the expression 'I'm going to list my house'? It's a Canadian format and a Canadian expression)

I've always been a bit ever since K & P went to Gateacre in Liverpool and stubbornly kept calling it 'Gate-acre' (when the stress should be on the 'gat', as in 'Gattaca').

And they thought Long Eaton was in Nottinghamshire. It's not far from the border but it is Derbyshire!

I live in the US so get all the UK shows like this about a year behind.

Currently, I'm being annoyed by the modern version of House Doctor. The presenter is annoying, and makes it all about her, the work they do on the houses is shoddy, rushed, and ridiculously 'quirky' to the point of being unlivable, but the worst thing is how blind the people are.

Almost all of the houses just need a really good tidy up and clean, and then they'd be fantastic period homes that would be great to live in. But the show does a go-faster strip down the living-room wall, removes the carpet, and ta-da - suddenly people are falling over themselves to buy it.

Are people really that blinkered?

GD is still my all-time fave property show though. The owners are nearly always deluded, a lot of what they do is horrendous, it's often a near disaster and the windows/glass walls invariably cause problems.

I remember the one where they spent £750k building a house near Criccieth, that would fall into the sea within 60 years due to natural coastal erosion. While it was being built there was a horrendous storm that caused 30 years worth of erosion in one day and they had to basically rebuild the coast to get a few years back.

Their attitude was 'oh it's ok we won't be alive in 60 years time'.

The glass on Grand Designs is never bogstandard window glass either, it's always some kind of newly invented, triple glazed, heat-creating, self-cleaning glass that also makes the tea, and it has to get delivered from Zurich or somewhere, on a wide loader lorry that can't get up the shitey unpaved track to the site, and in the attempt it always destroys the neighbour's wall.

And when this happens about 6 fit Germanic blokes jump out and stand around looking baffled at the inefficiency of the build so far. Kevin invariably has a chat with them in their own language.

captain - I remember that one! I thought they were just being ridiculous, with some over-zealous belief in the powers of sedum.

Doe anyone watch Sarah Beeney's Mortgage Free show? Some of the people have good ideas for how to live without a mortgage/rent, but other people I think are just delaying problems. Yes, a 5,000 home-built shed with delightful views gives you a roof over your head for now, but in 10 years it will be worth nothing, you still won't have saved enough for a decent deposit, and house prices will have escalated out of control. They'd be better off with a mortgage, as at least their investment in the property would stay in line with house prices. There also seem to be an amazing number of people who have parents with enough land that they can build their tiny home on FREE land. Makes life so much easier if you start out with a a valuable asset like that.

Sweetpea That's on All4 still - the totally bonkers woman trying to decorate before she'd actually bought the house still cracks me up A school friend of mine was on it - said it was originally filmed with a totally different presenter so they had to re-edit a lot of scenes, so there's a lot of scenes of aimless driving around or standing in front of random hedges while they talk to camera about stuff they'd spoken to the sacked presenter about.

I love LLL. I spend a lot of time shouting advice at the TV screen but the house-hunters rarely listen.

I always get so annoyed when some idiot tight arse is looking for a two bedroom garden flat in, like, Kensington, for £20. I like when Kirsty gives them a reality check but then (at least in the old ones), they would pull out an absolute god-sent bargain from somewhere and give the cheeky fuckers exactly what they are looking for!

We've been house-hunting for nearly a year and I have quite often during viewings wondered to myself WWKAPS? [What would Kirsty and Phil say].

Used to LOVE Sarah Beeny's shows too. She was perpetually in various states of pregnancy which must have made editing the show a nightmare. Whatever happened to her? I wish she'd come back with a new show.

Tillytrotter the programme you were on about is "Honey I bought the house". For those unaware, a couple are looking to buy a house, one of the couple goes and finds one with no input from the other, the other gets to look at 3 possible ones their partner has picked and if they agree to buy the one that has been offered on they get £15,000.

Trouble is, the one looking for the house is ALWAYS the one that has no idea, no concept of what their partner wants, precious little financial acumen and they often pick houses that are nothing like what the other half wants, i.e. move in ready- no, let's get a project!

I was watching it the other night, the girl was so upset about one of the houses she cried, and that was before she knew her chap had put an offer in and been accepted on it. Fell asleep before the end of the programme so I missed seeing if the lure of £15,000 was enough to dry her tears!

I'm an architect and DH rarely lets me watch property and home improvement shows on the telly as I shout at the screen too much.

I know George Clarke in real life though and am definitely not allowed to watch him on the TV because I am not his biggest fan. Massively disappointing individual would be putting it mildly. I think he embodies the worst of our profession and I hate that as I think we have enough of an image problem as it is.

Kevin McCloud is a lovely man though and really interesting to sit and have a chat with, however he was quite a disappointing public speaker at the industry dinner I went to. He only really came to life when he sat down at the table and had a drink with us otherwise he was a bit wooden. GD is all about the TV so projects that work out perfectly and don't have any drama don't really cut it even if they are quite interesting so I think they must pick accordingly.

I was invited to be the architect for an episode of a home makeover show but I couldn't fit with their filming schedule so my 5mins of fame were missed for a job that actually wanted to pay me properly.

To be fair to GD
I use a lot of glass that ends up coming from Europe and thanks to energy efficiency regulations these days most of it is pretty clever fancy stuff. I've been doing a kitchen extension and the doors are coming from Germany - they do make similar ones here but the german ones work & look so much better for about the same price.
I think our delivery guys are going to be local though as we can't get a big delivery truck to the rural site so it gets transferred to a smaller truck from the British company we ordered through.

wonky I expect nothing less than a month-long tsunami just before your glass is delivered. The delivery truck will get stuck in your muddy drive and everyone will stand around scratching their heads and looking gormless.

That is the only way it can possibly play out, no?

That is the only way it can possibly play out, no?

I love love love GD and LLL. Used to love SB's PL but the 'well you did a shit job and went over budget, but the market is crazy rising so you still made a profit' was a bit annoying (ah, the mid 2000 property gold rush).

Hate George Clark and his amazing spaces that HE RUINS BY BEING THERE