This week's Grand Designs...

[zeitghost]

How to turn £350k into a fecking big hole in the ground...

How to turn £350 more k into a German constructed and erected house...

And guess what?

The Brit side of it was nearly total incompetence.

House in Bath needs Bath stone cladding... guess which bit was missing by the end of the programme...

Just like normal then...

[KathyWoolfe]

Why are the Saxons in this country not as efficient as their counterparts in the Fatherland?

That's racist - what's wrong with the Anglos???

[lilelvis2000]

I was most impressed with the house, particularily the insulation and the construction - or rather piecing together - of it. Had to laugh about the stone cladding - but it makes sense that what was left to the Brits failed miserably.

It has given me something to dream about. But I will leave off the stone.

[51st State]

I was most impressed with the house, particularily the insulation and the construction - or rather piecing together - of it. Had to laugh about the stone cladding - but it makes sense that what was left to the Brits failed miserably.

It has given me something to dream about. But I will leave off the stone.

What - and just have cardboard walls???

[rootsnall]

What I don't understand is why they didn't just buy an existing house on a much better plot than the one they ended up with and flatten the thing. On a budget of the 700K they could of found something better than that.

[malvolio]

What I don't understand is why they didn't just buy an existing house on a much better plot than the one they ended up with and flatten the thing. On a budget of the 700K they could of found something better than that.

This is Bath, a World Heritage site with te world's most paranoid planning committee (unless you're building the Bath Spa or are called Dyson, that is). These guys have Grade 2 listed a defunct (and singularly ugly) pair of gasometers. Knocking things down is rarely an option.

[rootsnall]

This is Bath, a World Heritage site with te world's most paranoid planning committee (unless you're building the Bath Spa or are called Dyson, that is). These guys have Grade 2 listed a defunct (and singularly ugly) pair of gasometers. Knocking things down is rarely an option.

They were a mile+ from the City Centre, I'm sure there must be some ropey 1950/60s brick built bungalows probably on big plots that you could replace with a stone building.

[BrowneIssue]

I just felt sorry for the poor sods in the house uphill from them.

18 months of construction. 60 concrete piles put in. And then their garden gets flushed into the hole on the construction site.

[derekthedalek]

Why are the Saxons in this country not as efficient as their counterparts in the Fatherland?

Because their builder counterparts in the Fatherland had more practice after the war.

[SizeZero]

They could have had a few BokLoks for that money....