Grand Designs C4 21:00

I'm not recording it until Sunday, can't think what tonights showing would have clashed with though ...

'Look at me!' throughout.

GD used to be interesting. Now it's just people with an off-the-scale money/taste ratio, creating a total f*ck-up.

-- Halmyre

And you actually watched last week's one?

Hope I haven't spoiled it for you ;-)

Agreed on the lack of clashing progs, it's not on my regular viewing list but it was slim pickins tonight and I was cooking.

Plenty of other bloopers and neighbour conflicts on the build and sadly it was that that they concentrated on rather than the design and innovation.

Agreed with others that it is not the programme that it was.

GD used to be interesting. Now it's just people with an off-the-scale money/taste ratio, creating a total f*ck-up.

Right next to a railway line and overlooked by most of the locals, brilliant.

Still clashed on C4+1 or can't you get C4+1?

Standard Inner London house. ;-)

That back lawn screamed "Astroturf" to me.

The Resident's Association resident Old Trout was right to be suspicious - what a bloody eyesore it turned out to be.

We've got stone cathedrals in Christchurch NZ that have fallen down after about 6000 earthquakes. Maybe some fake stone tiles on steel framing would be a good idea. Does anyone make those?

What would the Internet be without users spouting uninformed rubbish?

-- Halmyre

Don't bother with BBC's "To Build or Not to Build" either ...

Tell me, I even tried 15 minutes of "The Fades" ...

Summary ...28DL with cannibals and wooden-top actors

My recording rules are set to prefer HD, so no +1

Yes, they've become quite popular over here for cladding some parts of office blocks/malls/hotels but it is mainly terracotta tiles that they hang off them. When I fidt saw them going up I did wonder how well they were fixed and how well they would fare in an impact situation (earthquake unlikely here). A previous GD prog had bath stone cladding that appeared to be about 40mm thick fixed on a frame. The cladding was slotted on its top and bottom edges and slid in from the side onto a frame of rails.

Here the walls were concrete poured into insulating foam formers that looked like PIR rather than usual polystyrene. As the foam was the external surface there wasn't much to hang stuff on so the lightweight

Indeed - which is why I replied to you. Last week's prog simply didn't match your description of the series. Quite the reverse - someone lovingly restoring an old derelict building and converting it into a dwelling.

But I'm sure you're happy in your Barratt's box. Several series of how to build one would make compelling viewing for some, I'm sure.

I've admitted to talking rubbish so unkind remarks about Barratt boxes are uncalled for. Actually, our house is about 160 years old and sometimes I wish I did live in a Barratt box...

There's been several programmes about cowboy builders so presumably that covers it.

-- Halmyre

Very nice, shame about the boxing-in of the stairs, but that ought to have been predicted. I think it looked better with just the one lean-to on it, rather than both of them.

Also, the new one hadn't been stone clad by the time the prog finished - I'd guess it will be when funds permit. But it did look better without - more as all the others. As to the staircase, yes. Dunno if there could have been a better solution.