Grand Designs.

[minestrone]

I noticed he had a scar on his top lip, I thought that must have came from a slap.

Did MF punch him?

[Basil Fawlty]

By the way, was that THE Vince Hill who lives next door?

I think it might well be :

Vince Hill, Biography, Pictures and Discography

[Doggy Styles]

ohh he's in IT Nigel Offley- our paths may have crossed in the past

I must be losing touch. From their home page, what is the "European IT channel"?

[Doggy Styles]

I think it might well be :

Vince Hill, Biography, Pictures and Discography

"Vince is happily married to Anne and they have a son Athol who has also enjoyed success as a musician. Vince enjoys cooking, painting, gardening and boating and he and Annie love nothing better than sailing down the river Thames in their boat 'The Mem Sahib' or entertaining in their beautiful home on the "celebrity mile" of the Thames."

Yep, it was him. The wife in the interview was called Ann.

[moggy]

It certainly did look good when it was finished. 8 months from derelict to finished was pretty amazing too.

[gingerjedi]

I bet they have a kettle and some cups hidden away in a cupboard up in the 'tank room'.

[Doggy Styles]

It was great, wasn't it.

But I'm sure I'd get fed up with needing stairs or the lift to go from one room to another.

[BrilloPad]

It was great, wasn't it.

But I'm sure I'd get fed up with needing stairs or the lift to go from one room to another.

They should remove the lift and force a fat person to live there.

[FiveTimes]

Well, last night's ep was odd.

They managed to build the damn thing in 7 months.

I was quite impressed.

Kev's new shed programme is on on Sunday, by the by.

and under budget

[vetran]

did you see that BBC built for £100K?

he was doing it fairly conventionally with 4 bedrooms, they kept saying rip the walls down, it needs bigger windows - its in Leeds sandwiched in the shared garages area FFS. He needs 4 bedrooms and decent views to sell it. Not a 3 bedroom with aircraft hanger master bedroom and lots of views of people's back gardens.

BBC Two - The House That £100k Built, Martin

'its very expensive to finish the interior walls, leave the skirting board off it will save a fortune'
????

They then show a house 'cheaply finished' with 38mm ply. Its most economic wall was a huge wired security glass that must have cost a few hundred.


Maybe they would have been better to tell him to avoid cladding it in stone (£6k) and expensive treated wood (£8k) and rendered it (£1k) instead.


I did however like the slate exterior cladding, a nice luxury.