This week's Grand Designs...

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SizeZero replied

22 February 2008, 23:22
They could have had a few BokLoks for that money....
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derekthedalek replied

22 February 2008, 23:04
Originally posted by zeitghost

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.
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BrowneIssue replied

22 February 2008, 22:52
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.
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rootsnall replied

22 February 2008, 12:52
Originally posted by malvolio View Post

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.
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malvolio replied

22 February 2008, 12:08
Originally posted by rootsnall View Post

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.
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rootsnall replied

22 February 2008, 12:04
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.
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51st State replied

22 February 2008, 11:15
Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post

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???
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lilelvis2000 replied

22 February 2008, 10:53
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.
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KathyWoolfe replied

22 February 2008, 10:26
Originally posted by zeitghost

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???
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zeitghost started a topic This week's Grand Designs...

22 February 2008, 10:21
This week's Grand Designs...

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...
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