grand designs 2013 - will there be polish builders this time?

[MousyMouse]

starts tomorrow.
sooo excited!

how many pregnant ladies?
major building desasters?
blown budgets?

[wetaugust]

They've got my goat too

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

It must be boring I keep mning.

[TaraKnowles]

I think this and the neighbouring houses were on homes under the hammer.

[Allfurcoatandnoknickers]

Hope they get bloody kids queuing up in the summer for ice creams, that'll teach them.

[wetaugust]

Where in London is it?

[NorthAnneEyhtMeyerAbbey]

I don't like this couple and I'm glad they appear to have been massively ripped off paying a fortune for what is basically a conservatory on the back of the house.

I don't get the appeal of the timber-clad boxes they all seem to build, either. A few years and the wood looks awful. At least today it is mainly bricks.

[wetaugust]

Dulux Jasmine

Obviously not a MN-er into Farrow & Ball

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

She's finding it rather stressful and upsetting the builders now I think. It's as though they've made a list of fashionable things and ploughing through the list.

[NorthAnneEyhtMeyerAbbey]

I prefer the ones where they have original ideas.

The builders don't like them at all. I can see why.

[TaraKnowles]

It's Brockwell.

[Flossiechops]

I love how most of these self builders are always way over budget yet can still pull out thousands and thousands of pounds to finish the project - how does this happen?! And £60k for glass

[wetaugust]

Yep Kitten - had the same thought. She's playing Ideal Homes bingo (with a nod to the 'green' community thrown in)

[Flossiechops]

I was thinking that too wetaugust

[Allfurcoatandnoknickers]

Maybe C4 should commission Grand Designs the Repossessed.

[NorthAnneEyhtMeyerAbbey]

That wood will look grey and warped in a couple of years.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

It was already warped in a couple of places.

[Echocave]

It's got to be pigeon. Of course it has.

Looks like the park's smart new cafe.

Even Kev's struggling to say interesting things about this one!

[difficultpickle]

How do they get out to the garden? Those glass panels are huge.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

No curtains or blinds again? How do they sleep in the summer?

[NorthAnneEyhtMeyerAbbey]

How do they clean the skylights? Surely they get covered with leaves, bird shit and stuff people chuck on them from the park?

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

And what if pigeons poo on that expensive glass?

[TheFabulousIdiot]

They MUST be loaded.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Xpost!

No curtains for the bathroom looking out to the street?

[NorthAnneEyhtMeyerAbbey]

Was that a series of photos of someone stripping???

[Echocave]

A rage-inducing episode.
Go, pigeons, and lighten your loads!!!