Just watched this week's one. What is it with people and eco-bollox houses that look like jail blocks ? How could anyone live in a depressing concrete blockhouse like the piece of nonsense that this week's dumbo greenies built ? I should think that the kids were embarrassed to bring any mates back to the dreadful dog-kennel bedrooms that they had. The room that my daughter had in halls at university was bigger than those - and that's saying something.
And what was that bloody 40 foot monstrosity at the side of the place in aid of ? Anyone who thought that thing was going to provide the whole house with electricity forever, deserved to be relieved of forty grand by the charlatans who built it. Might the clue as to how good it was going to be, have been in the "001" serial number ...?
With the best will in the world, given a sustained cold spell like we had last winter, I can't see that place being heat self-sufficient from south facing windows alone. I couldn't believe that in the end, they spent 340 grand building that dreadful house, especially considering that the guy just about totally bollocks'd himself doing a lot of the work on his own. And whilst on that point, what the f*!k was that kitchen about ? How anyone could have produced that crappy black concrete block of a work surface, and been proud of it, was beyond me. The excellent McLeod summed that up nicely when he said "Well, smooth in the way that a tarmac road is smooth ..."
I have to say that I had total admiration for the controlled way that he presented this week's prog. You could see the hysterical laughter lurking just below the surface, and his choices of tongue-in-cheek comments were just magical !
Arfa