polish builders galore? grand designs 2014

[mausmaus]

starts tomorrow.
bingo cards at the ready

• rain and more rain
  
• outragerous plans
  
• pregnant woman
  
• stretched budgets
  

forgotten anything?

[WetAugust]

Not if you can't actually occupy the end product because your builders didn't have a shower block

Barking

[chickensaresafehere]

If she says again that she's a 'single parent' I'll turn it off!
£380,000 house,oh woe is me

[mausmaus]

I like the end result.
down to earth and practical.

but the showerblock thing

[WetAugust]

I think I'd prefer to freeze in the old manor house. But I quite liked the new one. it needs a large pond in front of it

[FrontForward]

I liked it. Compared to last weeks it's a wonderful result.

[mausmaus]

another sensible one (the idea at least).
have seen floating estates in the netherlands though.

[Igneococcus]

It's not going well at the moment, is it?

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Shame it's opposite the apprentice. GD will have to wait.

[mausmaus]

even though the cringe factor is sometimes similar :o

[Igneococcus]

I never thought I would see Kevin do a dolphin impression.

[DustBunnyFarmer]

DH and I get the concept Ok, but I want to know how you get in & out of it if the house suddenly rises 1.5m - ladder down to the front step or patio - and DH is dying to know how they get the services (gas, electric, drainage/sewers especially) in & out for the same reason.

We reckon it's going to cost over £2m when all is said & done...

[DustBunnyFarmer]

It looks a bit like an upmarket garden centre to me.

[Igneococcus]

I don't think you could get in our out if it floods as it flooded earlier.

[DustBunnyFarmer]

We just had a brainwave - inflatable dinghy lashed by the back door on a long rope.

Were all the bathrooms upstairs? If so, we think the sewerage might be done with macerator loos + pumps.

[DustBunnyFarmer]

Also, the water-filled gap is very hazardous for builders and people/pets that stray onto site - please install those safety grids asap!

[DustBunnyFarmer]

Hellooooooo? Anyone there....

[WetAugust]

AstroTurf. Yuk. Made the place look like an overgrown garden shed.

The trailer for next week's episode just harks back to how good Grand Designs used to be. Kevin is returning to the old house in France that the couple totally restored from a shell. That was an interesting programme. This weeks was not!

[Igneococcus]

I actually wondered halfway through if this would be the first GD project to be abandoned, at least the first since I'm watching. Has there ever been one where they just gave up?
Inflatable dinghy sounds like a great way of drowning in the river Dustbunnyfarmer no way would I want to be on that stretch of water when it is as high and fast as it was shown in some of the footage.
I was thinking about one of those movable walkways that attach to a plane, can't remember what they are called now. You could have it sitting pulled back next to your door and then extend it and move it into position to get to a dry bit of land, if there is any.

[DustBunnyFarmer]

Ah yes, good point about the current & the dinghy. Perhaps one of those slides used to evacuate people from aeroplanes plus a set if waders for when you get off at the bottom.

I thought Kevin was most unsatisfactory this week. He didn't ask any questions about the practicalities of the house rising and falling. The segue to the estate in the Netherlands showed those houses are normally built where there's only limited rise & fall.

[Igneococcus]

I could imagine them getting stuck there for days if the water gets too high. I love the idea of an emergency slide though
Yes, agree, nothing about how it all works technically, how the sewage drains away and stuff like that. I bet it's one of the projects he'll revisit in a few years.

[WetAugust]

And imagine how unpleasant it will be when the flood subsides and you're stuck in your large shed with stinking sewage sludge stuck to your AstroTurf. Yuk!

[WetAugust]

David Davis on Daily Politics saying that Cams idea would take at least 2 years and we'd have to say that we would leave if we don't get agreement.

[WetAugust]

And David said we would need Angela Merkels agreement

Somehow the idea of Dave going hand in cap to The Germans to please with them to let us have control over our own borders makes me wonder. - Did we actually win the last war?

[Igneococcus]

"Somehow the idea of Dave going hand in cap to The Germans to please with them to let us have control over our own borders makes me wonder. - Did we actually win the last war?"
As a German I can confirm you did indeed win the last war.
I somehow think you didn't mean that to go onto this thread

[KatieKaye]

The views from the house were nice, but I really didn't like all that zinc. It just looked like a shed. And while it might be nice to have the double height living room, having your bedroom open to the living room/kitchen is such a bad idea in terms of privacy/quiet/cooking smells etc.
I wonder if they've finished it?
Can't believe it will be under £1.2 million by the time they get the kitchen, bathrooms etc in.