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Last Night's Grand Designs.

I sopped watching this prog years ago. I found it more, I have the money and I can get someone to build it for me over the top and nothing to do with self-build. This
is called project management. The main role of project mamagement is to manage costs and finish on time!

It is incredible with professionals on the contract that nobody estimated the contract value prior to build.

It must be difficult for people who cannot afford a home to see a guy waste dosh so unnecessarily.

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The whole project was a disaster from the start. Press ran exposes in 2015. Now his investors stand to lose nearly everything.
 
Gross over simplification - see the post below yours for an example. There is a fair share of what you say but also some genuinely inspiring projects.

Another one - taken well over 10 years; cost £100k.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/design-news/grand-designs-kevin-mccloud-wowed-by-extraordinary-hobbitstyle-dome-house-on-a-herefordshire-a115186.html?amp
OK, I am willing to take your criticism on the chin, however, what percentage of the projects are in any way real world, less than 10%? Do I have to wade through the other 90% & permanently raise my blood pressure? Even the affordable projects require a certain lifestyle & income freedom which is not typical.

All the above is meant in a reasonably light hearted manner.
 
OK, I am willing to take your criticism on the chin, however, what percentage of the projects are in any way real world, less than 10%?
More than 10...less than 30...the rest divided between aspirational and schadenfreude.
I'm still in shock from the HAB farrago...seeing McLoud in a different light.
 
It's only TV entertainment. As far as property porn goes it's better than most. OK, most of it is "well, we set a budget of £600k but it's turned out to be more" but there you are. If it's not this it's DIY SOS or Ugly House or whatever crap, we all l like watching this stuff but few of us ever do more than pick up a paintbrush.
 
but few of us ever do more than pick up a paintbrush.

Ahem, I’ll have you know I used a silicone gun today to seal a shower tray and a leaky conservatory.

I have a previously perfect England rugby hoody now covered in rubbery white smears to prove it too.
 
I don’t watch it.
It has no interest for me whatsoever.
I have however spent the afternoon steaming off a wall of lining paper.
 
I watche it nad was at first irritated by his hubris. The architect was onto a goof thing spending by soomeone else's money 'only best will do for my vison etc' and also pocketed £300k in fees in process.

I ended up feeling very sorry for him. Sure Easy come easy go money. He appears to have made a lot quickly from the trance scene andnsale of label to the MoS. Not that much he could really afford to leave that dream it transpires. But losing his family is never deserved.

I wonder with his Ibiza background if he could have called it Gak House.
 
I watch it from time to time. I sympathise with many of the projects. We had our own issues at the last house when we started out with a £30,000 budget to extend the house a bit. Ended up nearly 2 years and £100,000 later. Project creep - it is a thing. And we still had to do some landscaping and garage building on top, which we did 2 years later.

Not wasted - it all came back and more when we sold the place.
 
There was a music connection - he's an ex industry exec behind the Euphoria releases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria_(compilations)?wprov=sfla1
Salesman of the year one year...there were gold discs etc. Avalon Sunset...which seemed a bit incongruous.
Slightly off-topic but in a past life I used to review Euphoria events at various clubs for a clubbing website... Just worked out it was 17 years ago, give or take!

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I didn't see this episode but in general I'm kind of in two camps, having over 30 yrs experience in building and construction, I'm very interested in self-builds, DIY, interior and exterior design and architecture in general, particularly interested in techniques and materials however the presenter talks a lot of wordy bs and typical of his type has zero hands on experience, as always in construction, the best man(or woman) is the one who knows the job from the ground up, these twats that sit in meetings only to decide when to have a meeting about another meeting are timewasters and have about as much value in practice as a fist full of boiled snow!
 
Surely the architect should have been liable for the overspend and subsequent problems? I also noticed the client had a big misunderstanding on the value of houses in the area, which they kept comparing to London prices. I think that misunderstanding may have caused a miscalculation on how much they could reasonably spend on the build. The truth is they are only a handful of homes in the area, and only very large ones sell for a million plus. But the market is tiny, so not many homes and not many buyers. While in london thousand and thousand of "normal " homes sell for millions and there are vast numbers of potential buyers. Its a totally different market and the risks are far less. All of this effects the banks willingness to lend money.
 
Surely the architect should have been liable for the overspend and subsequent problems?
Only if he was also the project manager, and even then only if it was in the contract. The architect does the design, he's not necessarily the cost manager. It's like holding the logistics manager responsible for a short delivery when the real problem is that the bloody factory hasn't actually made the stuff!
 
I am just not that arsed about houses, I live in quite a nice one but it is far from flash, just suits my needs.
 
I watched it earlier and thought it was an ambitious project that could have became the dream home they were after... but it may still become his dream home. But you know what they say about a man and his dream home:

 


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