Hi, we're your new neighbours, it seems half your garden has fallen in this huge pit we've just dug for our house, sorry we're not insured for that, can you clain on your insurance? Thanks!
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Grand designs 20-FEB-2007
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In message , Andy Burns writes
Did I miss something ?
(at least I copied it)
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Oh and we'll be blocking your frontal view when the house is finished.
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You still stuck in the past?
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I have to say even though I dislike modern houses and prefab boxes in particular I quite liked that one, but not the end price
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The house is superinsulated.
They laugh about another house built using the same system having a gas bill of £3.08 for a winter quarter.
There is what appeared to be a colour-matched Aga.
What happens to all the heat emitted by the Aga? Does the whole house become as hot as an oven?
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Yeah, I did notice that, I wish I could say it was a typo, rather than a thinko.
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What sort of kit was it? SIP panels? The house looks good from the web site. I like it.
How much did it cost? IKEA make kits now. I like them - apart from the instructions.
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Timber SIP panels, one of which appeared to include a front door and window ! The insulation was wood shavings produced during the building of the house - very neat. The basement was prefab concrete panels, which appeared to contain a cavity cross-tied with lots of metal wires. The final cost which they would not admit was probably way over 1 million. Simon.
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If they're anything like the Huf house in the previous series, they come glazed, "doored" and with much of the internal fixtures and fittings in place.
This is the way houses *should* be built.
We reckoned closer to 1.5 mill. And once again, they were let down by the British contractors.
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High cost probably because of groundworks on the sloping site. On a flat site SIP panels are very economical.
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Most of it would have been groundworks, architects (2 of them !) and some of the very expensive fittings inside. I would be interested to know the price for the prefabricated house itself. Simon.
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Since the other insurance company did pay it would seem the landslip was caused by the exceptional rain rather than their works.
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That was my reasoning as well. Fortunate, though!
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I imagine the way was smoothed by the Ch4 producer, otherwise they'd still be waiting for the court case to start.
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If that were the case I'd have expected a mention of the actual insurance company. 100,000 quid buys a fair amount of advertising.
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Could have done with some gabions or similar in there.
cheers, Pete.
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Or a case of "If you don't agree to settle we'll tell all the viewers about your lousy service" ?
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Talkback Thames are *very* wary about taking on big names for no good reason. They got hammered after mentioning Portacabin on 'The Bill' in a derogatory way. At the end of the day it serves no purpose - except in the correct type of consumer prog.
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I was just guessing, but I cannot see why it went so smoothly. In my experience of insurance companies, there's no way they would have simply rolled over and paid up in those circumstances.