Grand designs.
These stone masons(alledgedly)have propped up a very heavy wall thats part of its structure will standard trestles and two wooden scaffold planks sandwhiched together.
Jesus anyone else with a bit of sense would use a steel RSJ.
Oh dear its just collapsed. pmsl
Audacious renovation though
Over an hour and an half of Grand Shed this time around. How creepy is that going to be?
I can't believe with all that stone work, its cost as little as they say. Got to admire the pair of lunatics though.
Repeated tomorrow (Thursday) at 10pm on one of the Freeview channels, I hope (I went to bed with a migraine and missed it).
Owain
Tomorrow's Time Time special on Pugin (C4 9pm) looks good too, followed by the repeat of "Grand Shed" :-)
Owain
I got the feeling that the "Oh what a shame the earliest part of the structure fell down, oh dear!" was not neccesarily that heartfelt. The wall was pretty much a stack of rubble with no interesting features other than it's age. I reckon the concrete block replacement and reapplication for consent was likely cheaper than trying to stabilise that, note they said consent came through in a week. Perhaps EH had already decided they wouldn't be too upset if fell down, if you get my drift.
H"visionset" wrote
I agree on both points.
H"H" wrote
Seconded Everywhere the camera pointed showed major structural defects. Looking at the single glazes leaded windows (event though they were small) I didn't envy them the heating bills!
Phil
We watched the program with interest (and occasional outbursts of 'He's an architect - he should have known better!')
They didn't seem to mention the heat-pump c/h system in the 'finished' bit - which was a shame.
I only spotted one 'Victorian-style' radiator - so don't know how they were heating the place - underfloor heating downstairs (maybe ??).
Heck of a project though !
Adrian
He seemed quite a mild-mannered and self-effacing man to have the bottle to carry out such a huge project. It did need serious bottle. Top marks to him (them).
Always nice to see the conservationists on a collision course with the greens.
It was a good show, although how they did it for the money, I have no idea. I thought it was going to cost at least a million to do.
Ground source heatpumps drop rapidly in efficiency as the output temperature rises.
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I suspect there's a lot that didn't get finished (like probably all the seconds floor) and maybe the heat-pump didn't get fitted. I'm sure thats the sort of greeny thing that would have got airtime if it had been done. To heat a pile that size it would have been expensive item.
The granite bath was a bit silly though, how longs the water going to stay hot in there huh?
not to mention wasteful of water and uncomfortable, due to the non-contoured shape.
There is financial support for restoration.
It was a frightening challenge, that appeared to have been done well. Past examples had corners cut - eg, softwood cladding springs to mind on one build in order to save build cost, risking far higher maintenance.
Personally I'd have done it one socket & circuit at a time if only to drive the Part P crowd up the wall. With a large moat, pit and...
... hey, I think I realise why he bought a castle afterall...
Not just that, how on earth can you lie in it? As a sarcophagus perfect, though! As everybody has sad, though, a very impressive project. I didn't believe they would see it through, especially when they started getting cold feet at the beginning.
I contemplated doing something similar - though cast in high-tech concrete, ground back to reveal the aggregate with a diamond grinder, then polished, and sealed. A solution is to connect it up to the UFH loop, so it's never cold.
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