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04 Sep 19
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Another 'successful' businessman making a right t1t of himself.
10 mins in and 3 months behind and 100k over budget.
10 mins in and 3 months behind and 100k over budget.
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7 months late finishing and 170k over budget, it was impressive though.
The wife totally gets off on this offal, so the only way I've been able to watch it is to play Grand Designs Bingo;
Kevin ('Head in the....') McCloud mentioning 'space' when he means 'house'
The pretentious client
Their nagging partner (double points if same-sex)
The over-budget admission (double point if this is before the first ad break)
The orgy of self-congratulation at the end (if you've made it through to then without putting your size 9's through the telly) no matter what risible old toot they've turned their 'space' into and no matter how far over-budget they've gone.
Kevin ('Head in the....') McCloud mentioning 'space' when he means 'house'
The pretentious client
Their nagging partner (double points if same-sex)
The over-budget admission (double point if this is before the first ad break)
The orgy of self-congratulation at the end (if you've made it through to then without putting your size 9's through the telly) no matter what risible old toot they've turned their 'space' into and no matter how far over-budget they've gone.
From terrible experience, and knowledge, I can safely say that for every build that is successful (even if a tad over budget),
there is at least one other that is a disaster!
When I was building mine, an architect at the brewery where I worked, had enough problems that he had to sell.
A director at a design and build company, where I previously worked, was building his by "favours returned", from contractors
that he was using, for major contracts that he was involved in!
He lost his directorship, and upset so many people, that he was fortunate not to get a "concrete boot"!
Mine was the disaster of all disasters!
I didn't use the local builders, recommended by the architect, as they couldn't start for 3 months.
It ended up taking 18 months with every problem imaginable...
An over dig of the site hit a seam of coal...you can't build on coal, so it had to be further dug, for another three feet,
(could have been even worse)!
A boundary dispute that was ridiculous, but still cost me, to prove the man was a nutcase!
The most workers ever, were there to lay the oversite concrete, but it didn't arrive, as the builder was on the stop list!
The worst winter in living memory, since 1947 with drifts of three feet.....
A transport strike....
The builder finally went t!ts up, and took down the scaffolding, which had to be replaced, to build the gables and the roof...
It's a long read, but there is a great deal more, which I will spare you, if indeed you got this far!
This btw was 1979, and ended up £12k over budget, because of all the above...
there is at least one other that is a disaster!
When I was building mine, an architect at the brewery where I worked, had enough problems that he had to sell.
A director at a design and build company, where I previously worked, was building his by "favours returned", from contractors
that he was using, for major contracts that he was involved in!
He lost his directorship, and upset so many people, that he was fortunate not to get a "concrete boot"!
Mine was the disaster of all disasters!
I didn't use the local builders, recommended by the architect, as they couldn't start for 3 months.
It ended up taking 18 months with every problem imaginable...
An over dig of the site hit a seam of coal...you can't build on coal, so it had to be further dug, for another three feet,
(could have been even worse)!
A boundary dispute that was ridiculous, but still cost me, to prove the man was a nutcase!
The most workers ever, were there to lay the oversite concrete, but it didn't arrive, as the builder was on the stop list!
The worst winter in living memory, since 1947 with drifts of three feet.....
A transport strike....
The builder finally went t!ts up, and took down the scaffolding, which had to be replaced, to build the gables and the roof...
It's a long read, but there is a great deal more, which I will spare you, if indeed you got this far!
This btw was 1979, and ended up £12k over budget, because of all the above...
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