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Help! My house is falling down!

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expatinscotland · 10/08/2010 20:05

Anyone who's dipshit enough to buy a £250,000, 18th century house without bothering to do a structural survey before purchase deserves a swift kick in the jacksie, not help from a show.

What a pair of dumbasses.

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expatinscotland · 10/08/2010 20:53

He hired someone.

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expatinscotland · 10/08/2010 20:56

These people must be up to their eyes in debt.

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TheCrackFox · 10/08/2010 20:56

Looks good now.

The Beanster is a legend.

glastocat · 10/08/2010 20:58

What a pair of fuckwits though. They didn't deserve to be bailed out. Nice place now though!

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expatinscotland · 10/08/2010 21:03

they really didn't deserve bailed out.

pair of twonks.

hope the next couple isn't so stoopid.

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Salteena · 10/08/2010 22:09

I was watching most of this with hands tearing out my hair in disbelief. Yes to all the above - how could they not know about at least some of this stuff? Did they not even go round the house before they bought it?

Equally horrifyingly, though, SB said at the start that it was listed. So I'll put my 'been there, done that' hat on and ask where was the local conservation officer while they were merrily pointing the outside with what looked like bog-standard modern mortar? It sure as hell didn't look like lime mortar to me, in which case they'd have exactly the same problems all over again. And did they check before knocking a window in the roof and presumably ripping out all sorts of original detail? Jeez. There's a reason old houses are listed, ffs.......and that's to stop them being destroyed by clueless dingbats.....

LIZS · 11/08/2010 11:19

Missed the beginning but they bought a house too small, with 3 (or perhaps then 2 kids +1 to be) intending to do a loft conversion with bathroom on just £5k and expecting no other work. The cellar must have been damp already, woodworm rampant , floor sinking .... Hadn't realised it was listed too. They ripped out some of the original roof for the velux.

Funnily we nearly bought something very similar a few years back, a Victorian bakery.

glastocat · 11/08/2010 12:05

Also deathwatch beetle, the pointing all eaten by Masonry Bees and a flooding well in the basement!

Fluffy1977 · 13/08/2010 13:55

My house is on this series & YES we had a full survey done which revealed that nothing was wrong with our home but there was..You seem to all forget this it TV they cut & edit to make it "dramatic" whether the show will show anything about the fact that we had a survey or not we don't know..but to be honest who cares we've got a beautiful home now. There are people on here that will judge people who appear in these programmes but I'd bet my bottom dollar if you could all get thousands of pounds worth of stuff free & free expert advice to make your homes beautiful you all would. We did 90% of the work on our home but some works have to be done by professionals. I'd do it again in a flash even if we are going to be shown to be a pair of "brain doners"(I liked that a expression lot):)

Blondeshavemorefun · 14/08/2010 12:58

let us know when your house is on fluffy, and then you can tell us howmuch what you said/did was edited

bran · 14/08/2010 13:02

Oh yes. I like to see your house too Fluffy and then have the full story from the horse's mouth.

Did you manage to claim anything from your surveyor if he/she managed to miss important things?

54321nick · 14/08/2010 20:55

Blimey.... I can't believe the amount of comments from people who know bugger all about this programme and are taking everything so serious......by the way, I'm the lazy sod, bugger etc.. from the first show!!! We did 120+ hrs filming for this 1 hr programme, explaining all about the survey we DID have, involvment and filming with conservation officers/planning consent,woodworm etc..I had just had a double hernia op 4 weeks before filming which again expalined why I did not fancy lumping stuff about and up & down ladders. Unfortunately that does'nt make pretty T.V so hit the cutting floor. Situations and dialogue can be engineered, Programme is heavily edited down to portray you however they want!!!!(good or bad). Some of you need to get a life and not watch too much T.V.,it aint always real!!!. If we had all that work done for 5K, with or without hernia's, I would have been flipping cartwheels!! Don't wanna upset any of you TV addicts, but the 'Queen Vic' is'nt a real pub either!

Fluffy1977 · 15/08/2010 17:43

Our house is on on Tuesday. We're in the Sunday Mirror magazine today. I agree Nick we did soooooo many hours of filming & only a fraction of the real work gets shown. They are going to make us look like complete novices & Ms Beeny to be the fairy godmother of property development because that is just TV & i'm ok with that but to be honest as long as the house is done & our children are all happy I don't care how it makes us look..the only thing that really has peed me off is that i've lost 2 stone since filming & wish they'd filmed it after the weight loss!! lol :o Our programme is on on Tuesday night I hope you enjoy it if not switch it off easy really no need for us all to get our knickers in a knot about it :)

Blondeshavemorefun · 15/08/2010 22:20

blondes will be watching fluffy

and then you can tell us how edited it was

but as you said,who cares what the programme makes you look like if you get your house sorted

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expatinscotland · 15/08/2010 22:24

Well, nick, if you don't want peoples' opinions: a) don't sell your soul to the devil Channel 4 in exchange for free work b) stay off the net afterwards.

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Blondeshavemorefun · 16/08/2010 08:50

Programe is obv filmed over a few months as sb is little pregnant then very pregnant and on the floor looking at beams and then had given birth ( and btw looked fab)

still not sure why anyone would buy a 3 bedroom
house when needed 4 bedrooms and only have £5k to do the loft/anything

saying that if the loft bedroom/en suite only cost £5k then looks fab :)

nothing in the world would make me
buy a house with a flood well in it

and yes all progs like this get edited as makes good tv

mousymouse · 16/08/2010 09:01

nick & fluffy
good to hear that you now have a great house that workd for you!

Fluffy1977 · 17/08/2010 17:50

thank you mousymouse :)

Blondeshavemorefun · 17/08/2010 19:50

Yr 60mins of fame is nearly here fluffy

I'm out at ts3 but have sky+ it so will watch tonight/tomorrow

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expatinscotland · 17/08/2010 20:05

OMG, Fluffy! Sorry, but I don't feel sorry for the other couple as much as you two.

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HumphreyCobbler · 17/08/2010 20:11

Full structural surveys are often a waste of money. They don't spot stuff but you have to sign a disclaimer.

We once had a full timber/damp survey that didn't spot the dry rot.

We just take a builder we trust round for a look now. I must say we don't have unrealistic expectations of life in old buildings though.

TheCrackFox · 17/08/2010 20:27

Aw, I feel sorry for this couple. They have been bloody unlucky.

spilttheteaagain · 17/08/2010 20:29

You've got a good man there Fluffy!

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expatinscotland · 17/08/2010 20:48

Yikes!

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expatinscotland · 17/08/2010 20:56

Incredible. What a transformation! Well done, Mrfluffy!

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