Property Ladder - kitchen supplier

[mackem]

The butch one made a point of broadcasting how easy it was to plaster ceilings but this was not shown. So who did plaster the ceilings?

[Neil Jones]

installation.

If you went along to a kitchen shop with a Channel 4 film crew and start talking about them appearing as a supplier on the programme's web site, I wonder what sort of discount you could expect?

[StealthUK]

I was surprised they even got it finished because twice they showed them peeling off wallpaper an inch at a time with their fingers!

Sarah Beeny is not always right with her suggestions. She used to advise selling up as fast as possible and moving onto the next property in the first series. At that time property prices were shooting up and you could quite easily end up selling and by the time you found another suitable property the price could have risen substantially negating any profit you'd have made.

Also in the first series she advised a young couple, doing up a £40k odd home in Norfolk, to buy a restored £800 fireplace out of a very small budget (I think even the kitchen was only around £600). Not one person viewing the home or any estate agent made any comment about it afterwards. It was a total waste of money.

[R Taylor]

made me laugh out loud that did. incredible.

'course, it's a good job they were lesbitarians, any woman worth her salt wouldn't have risked her nails peeling wallpaper :-)

I have a deep suspicion that respective mummys and daddys played a very large but behind scenes role in the completion of that project.

RT

[Mike Mitchell]

Perfect *frustrated* viewer, perhaps!

MM

[TonyK]

installation.

Have a look at MFIs prices today, just orderd enough units to do an "L"

2.6x2.6m inc. sink,taps, hob, cooker, extractor and dishwasher (all stainless). Plus a 2 breakfast bar with stainless legs, plus a utility with a 1.6m top with a 1000 base underneat and a space for the dishwasher. Includes a drawline unit and two 1000 wall cabinets. Plinths, cornice and faced panels for end cabinets. Total price £1198.00, plus its not a crappy kitchen, doors aren't solid wood but fully wrapped etc so should last a few years of tenants.

Feeling quite chuffed actually!

[Mike Mitchell]

So who would have taken up that offer of £50K from the solicitor? I would have been sorely tempted. Making £15,000 profit, give or take, in a matter of days is seriously easy money.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

Were they lesbitarians? I would never have known.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

Mine would have said it, but I'm not married.

MM

[R Taylor]

I'd have snatched the offer so fast he'd have had to count his fingers after ;-)

RT

[Mike Mitchell]

Justin and Colin seemed to hit problem after problem with their £1m house programme. Even now, I'm still not sure just how much actual profit they made purely from the refurbishment, i.e. not because the TV was helping them. I wonder how long it would take an ordinary bloke to acquire a one-million-pound house from a standing start and without any help whatsoever?

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

True, in purely financial terms, maybe. But stocking shelves at Tesco must be soul destroying, whereas at least when you're working on doing up a property you're on the go on YOUR terms, pulling down, building up, getting materials, finding out how to do things, making mistakes, working outside in the fresh air, being your own boss, and so on.

But again, a bus driver's job must be pretty boring, driving the same routes day after day, year in, year out. It must be very stressful, too, in today's horrendous traffic.

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

I thought the same when they said they'd paid £35K for that property in Lincs. I'm currently looking for properties in Lincs and you've got to pay around £135K for a detached 2-bed bungalow. Even a terraced property seems to be a lot more than £35K! Mind you, that property was in a bit of a state, wasn't it?

MM

[Mike Mitchell]

Forget the film crew, just take along a couple of mates with a posh looking camera 'to test angles' and you might be signing on the dotted line before you know it! But I suppose that when the programme did not materialise, they would sue someone's arse off!

MM

[Lobster]

But that's the whole point, innit? If everyone on the prog said 'Yeah, Sarah, wow, great idea we'll do that' to everything she came up with it wouldn't be "good" TV, would it? Much better to have lots of conflict, and stupid prats making saft statements and digging ginormous holes for themselves.

I often wonder how many filmed projects never actually get shown because they run smoothly, to budget and time, and the protagonists actually heed Beeny's advice...

David

[IMM]

The same format for Grand Designs, although last nights went smoothly. Yet near end Kevin McCloud said it was running over budget, and the architect had told him that was because they ordered more extras not because of delays or mismanagement. The only suspense McCloud put in was that he thought the interior would be naff and it wasn't, it was brilliant. I wouldn't like to pay to heat that place. Little insulation anywhere.

[IMM]

What was the delivery time? What make of appliances?

[Dave Jones]

That's was what the ground pump was for wasn't it, a one off payment of

10,000 euro's for life not bad!

[IMM]

One off payment? They cost to run. They estimate 6 years payback. Then the cost of the electricity to run it must be colossal after too. Very little insulation in that place, and those Atlantic winds blowing in. UFH only on the ground floor. To run a heat pumps is about the same cost as natural gas.

[Dave Jones]

As I recall they didn't work their way up the property ladder, they just jumped to 7 different steps regardless of wether they made a profit or not, bit of a con really.