Property Ladder hurrah!

At last!!

Someone gets a "spanking" for ignoring well meant advice. ;-)

Mark S.

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Mark S.
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I'm watching it at the moment and the more I see, the more I want them to fail. They just don't seem to have any clue at all.

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James Hart

Another fix of SB ;-)

Colin M

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Colin M

The woman featured seemed to be trying to out front her. ;-)

Mark S.

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Mark S.

Apart from the extremely un-realistic budget of £5K, i feel sorry for thier friends.

He (the idiot IMO) stated at the end of the program, with a smug grin, that considering the amount of effort he had put in, then the profit wasn't bad.

Considering his best friend was doing the vast majority of the work, then the best friend should have told him to *uck off and put in a proper invoice!

I know they get these people in because it makes good television but it would be nice if someone took some advice!

What about a celebrity property ladder and SB being the guest as well as the presenter. Give her a run down house with limited budget and sit back and watch.

May make people listen to her in the future.

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Rich

I thought that idea of having the downstairs bathroom was pure inspiration, allowing a separate bathroom and still having a dining area and a larger kitchen. Until she said it, I couldn't think of a solution to the house's odd layout. It's such a shame the couple were too thick to listen to her.

Christian.

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Christian McArdle

Yes, begrudgingly. They also added a skylight to the bathroom at the same time.

92,000 IIRC. That gave them a profit of just 500 based on the 75,000 valuation before they decided to renovate. Of course, they disputed that it would have sold for 75 at the time and so they estimated their development profit as a higher proportion of the total profit (they bought for 50,000 I think.) Their total budget tripled from their original 5,000 to 15,000.

Colin

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Colin Blackburn

Me too. I would have no qualms about helping in a decorating party, or redoing the garden party, of friends who were doing up their own *home* but I would not help if the reason was pure speculation, not unless I was paid!

Colin

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Colin Blackburn

I did not see the second half of the programme

Did they replace the roof?

How much did it sell for?

YorkieDave

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David Kent

Two points about "Property Ladder":

1) Is anyone else getting stick from their partner as they yell "idiot" (or worse) at the telly when some naiive, greedy and diy-thick plonker comes out with some drivel about cost/timescales/what-the-buyer-will-like ?

2) I wonder what the buyers of these properties experience as they watch the program some weeks or months later... do they feel "done" or what? Is the fact that the property has been on the telly a plus or a minus for future resale?

I guess overall it irks me that I have the skills but not the courage to delve into this work area... well, maybe someday.

Mungo ;-)

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Mungo Henning

No. Both me and my partner yell "idiot" (or "you stupid thick b*stard who's going to lose lots of money and all their friends") in unison.

Christian.

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Christian McArdle

You're not alone. I have developed a reputation amongst SWMBO's family as a complete and utter pessimist and cynic and nit-picked.....

a) because I shout at the screen and generally give up on a film every time computer screen output is accompanied by chirping noises from said computer;

b) because I do not believe ANY estimates of cost or effort or timescales given on home make-over programs (they get all their labour for free and therefore conveniently forget to factor it into their estimates)

c) because I point out the myriad planning and building regs restrictions/expense/delays for a lot of what is shown on the screen

d) because of all the nasties that I see them doing with plumbing and electrics.

Well, I might be most upset, but then I'm not the kind of person to buy a newly done-up house! At least I'd have evidence if they'd done anything really naughty....

:-)

Richard

-- Richard Sampson

email me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

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RichardS

Is anyone (other than me) watching the £1 million property experiment on the Beeb? Every weeek you get two arrogent blokes ignoring well meant advice. They are going to have to get their comeuppance soon!

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Mike Hibbert

Hear hear. I had a friend once, who got wankers cramp in a kneee, decided he couldn't use a clutch, and biought an auotomatic Maxi, which promptly dumped all its gearbox oil on teh pavement.

In a panic he appealed to me to help, and after a fairly hard weekends work, involving sebveral trips to motor factors and scrapyards I managed to replace part of teh gearbox casing, the nut on teh mainshaft, its bearing and the lock washer that had never been fotted at teh factory...

He sold it for 350 more than he bought it for. I got a free spaghetti bolognese and a glass of wine.

Later on he stiffed me for over several million. Arguably. But thats another story.

She's a complete cow. Arrogant little tart. Another Anne Robinson clone.

Not only do we now have 'its frightfully clever to be stupid' (celebrity XXXXX) we now have its frightfully clever to pretend to be clever and put people down.

I preferred teh old BBC, format where it was frightfully clever to be clever, and not put people down at all.

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The Natural Philosopher

Not at all, since we did all of those things, but when looking back, the cost-to-sell, when taken away from the current value is about equal to money spent, and most importantly, we have a house that simply could not have been got any other way.

The key thing is to listen to advice, but not take all of it. Bits of advice I got from my builder that worked were 'make the rooms as big as possible' Bits that didn't were 'you don't need a big flue on an open fire' and you can't use underfloor heating as your sole heating on teh ground floor'. And of course 'it doesn't get much more expensive just because its bigger'

total cost about twice his estimate, ene sacking him halfway thtough, and its still not finished :-)

Never mind, get another chunk of finishing done this Xmas.

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The Natural Philosopher

I looked at that roof, and thought 'bugger me, thats a doddle, any pro roofing company would have that stripped in one day, felted and battened in tow, and finished professionally in three, cost about 3 grand'.

They took two weeks and it was 2 1/2 grand. Total plonkers

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The Natural Philosopher

No No No No, NatPhil! Noohhh! She has wonderful knockers. Robinson is simply [as above], with no redeeming features whatsoever.

Absolutely with you on that one, old chap.

John

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John

Sadly the two blokes are fellow Scots. In the week before last they said on camera that they had worked "so hard" ... keyrist! picking a kitchen in a fancy kitchen store!

So how about a new telly program - Sarah and one of the Scots lads (Colin and ????) to actually do some "first level" diy in a pair of houses. This is just to see if Sarah can actually do what she says, and to show one of the boys what real work actually consists of.

In their defence, I wonder if the pair of lads slipped into "daytime tv" mode. I'm starting to refer to all such daytime "home" shows as "superlative tv" - all full of "wonderful", "brilliant", "gorgeous" and other inappropriate adjectives.

Mungo

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Mungo Henning

I wasn't happy with him just cutting a hole for the skylight. No props, no trimmer joists. Nothing. Cut two rafters just like that.

Making a corridor is less so, although the holes in the wall could be structural.

Christian.

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Christian McArdle

Oh aye, one more point: on these programs you see the developer changing their mind on the spur of the moment. Just like "I think I'll put a skylight there" or "I'll just create a corridor there".

Now if I tried that here in Scotland I'd probably be lynched by Building Control at the local council. So my presumption is that the regulations are different down in England.

Someone wanna confirm/deny this with regard to spur-of-the-moment changes to plans?

TIA

Mungo

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Mungo Henning

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