teuchter
je suis teuchter
You really think they've never heard of cupboards?
Grand Designs
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they have roombas
dlx1
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Very much her project look like he was on for the ride. Not sell his camper very quik she to sell her car.
I like the old Grand Designs were the owners to the work get their hands dirty not sit back and pay someone.
One favourite couples were one in water pump building there had a mini cut down as a desk.
They did alot of work scrape ceiling.
I like the old Grand Designs were the owners to the work get their hands dirty not sit back and pay someone.
One favourite couples were one in water pump building there had a mini cut down as a desk.
They did alot of work scrape ceiling.
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
How do you knowBut they never have any cupboards
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
How do you know
Because they show you all round the house on the TV show, and they do a 3D computer mock up of the whole layout...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Yeah, when they just say, 'oh well we had to throw another half million at the budget so we're gonna have to tighten our belts for the next few weeks' that does make me a bit mad. And usually what they're building ain't that great anyway, constraints are good for creativity IMO.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
When they're constantly fucking their builders around and making them change stuff halfway through, that annoys me too. Chances are those long-suffering souls doing all the graft will never get the chance to build themselves a custom made luxury gaff, they just have to move on to the next bunch of idiot amateurs or bone-idle house flippers.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
They don't show you all of the house; they show you the most interesting bits, and the 3d mockups are simplified.
Here's a floor plan of the "open plan" SE london one. It's not all open plan; just the main living areas.
There's what looks like a giant storage area for bikes etc. Off that is what I'm guessing is probably a large utility room (the hoover's probably in here). There's what I'm guessing is a generous larder storage area accessed from the kitchen, hidden round the corner. There's a whole wall of the bedroom (about 7 or 8 metres long) that's storage cupboards. Something off the corridor between kitchen and bedroom that looks like more cupboards. Loads of storage space everywhere. And that's only the ground floor.
Whether or not a house is "open plan" has little to do with how much storage space there is. In fact, the more "open plan" the design is, usualy the more thought has been given to storage because if you want big open clean spaces you need somewhere to hide all the clutter that would be in there in a more "conventional" house.
1%er
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If you liked that little place made from shipping containers, take a look at this place from the new series of the Australian version of Grand designs.
This is a 3 stories high container house made from 31 shipping containers
Container house Australian grand designs
There's a rolling GD thread in the Books, Films, TV and Radio forum.
BandWagon
Life's a bitch and then you die...
I searched 'Grand Designs' before posting that, and the newest thread was a year ago.
braindancer
not for long
Hmmmm - I thought that the dragon skin zinc wrapping was horrendous....
An impressive notion though to build that kind of floating house - but I'm never as inspired by the ones where they have piles of money and can just keep stumping up the cash when things don't go to plan. The places on the tight budgets are the ones that make you think - woah, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that I could do something like that some day!
You had to admire the bloke's never-ending optimism though - even when the island was completely submerged with surging torrents of Thames.
Would be indeed be interesting to go back if flooding like that were to happen again to see how it had coped... you can't help but think that a surging Thames is somewhat different to the controlled test that they did early in the build.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
ai, was impressed by the engineering but not the house last night
and why didn't they get civil engineers with decent kit who know what they're doing in in the first place?
that poor site manager bloke, fair play for building the ferry but that picker was never going to hold that first load of the lorry!
and why didn't they get civil engineers with decent kit who know what they're doing in in the first place?
that poor site manager bloke, fair play for building the ferry but that picker was never going to hold that first load of the lorry!
braindancer
not for long
I bet that farmer who was letting his field out couldn't believe his luck! £750 per week for month after month.... Ker-ching! 
You could be right about the price at the end - at the beginning they stated that the budget would be £1.2m and they claimed at the end that this what they would end up spending or thereabouts. With everything that went wrong that seems pretty dubious....
You could be right about the price at the end - at the beginning they stated that the budget would be £1.2m and they claimed at the end that this what they would end up spending or thereabouts. With everything that went wrong that seems pretty dubious....
Looby
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Didn't they save a shitload when they brought in the new contractor though?
It was an interesting one and the house was ok but I wouldn't want to be in it when it started floating up. What if there was a freak swell which pushed the house over the dolphins and it set off down the Thames?
I have no idea if this is even possible but I wouldn't take the chance.
It was an interesting one and the house was ok but I wouldn't want to be in it when it started floating up. What if there was a freak swell which pushed the house over the dolphins and it set off down the Thames?
I have no idea if this is even possible but I wouldn't take the chance.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I'd be more worried that one of the sliders would get stuck and then everything would get jammed, the water would rise, the house would stay stuck and then the basement would be flooded.Didn't they save a shitload when they brought in the new contractor though?
It was an interesting one and the house was ok but I wouldn't want to be in it when it started floating up. What if there was a freak swell which pushed the house over the dolphins and it set off down the Thames?
I have no idea if this is even possible but I wouldn't take the chance.
Also, I was wondering if they have to think about the weight of the construction on top of the concrete tank; and make sure it isn't unevenly loaded because that could make it tip over a bit and increase the chances of the sliders getting stuck. But maybe the weight of the bit on top is negligible compared to the massive concrete bit.
Looby
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Oh god, yeah! I hadn't thought about it getting stuck.
As the actual house was a wooden prefab, I'm assuming the overall weight wouldn't have increased enough to make a huge difference.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Omg
Omg That's so hilarious you creased me up!Didn't they save a shitload when they brought in the new contractor though?
It was an interesting one and the house was ok but I wouldn't want to be in it when it started floating up. What if there was a freak swell which pushed the house over the dolphins and it set off down the Thames?
I have no idea if this is even possible but I wouldn't take the chance.
Looby
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