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« on: February 19, 2008, 12:17:33 PM » |
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According to my Grauniad tv for the week guide, Grand Designs features a couple erecting an "eco friendly German kit house"............  ps, does anyone else think that a "Meeja Watch" thread may not come amiss?  |
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Eleanor
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 01:38:23 PM » |
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Good idea Martin  It will be interesting to hear all the opinions expressed after watching. I am sure they will be wide and varied! |
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2008, 02:38:41 PM » |
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Must watch that. My last house was a German 'Hansa' house. Lovely exposed timber beams and wood panels, wood fibre insulated breathable walls etc., external window shutters, a sauna (the originaly owner was single) but no stove or fireplace. The exterior was orignally (before I bought it) clad in lovely larch, painted a hedious yellow. This was eventually covered with an acrylic render.
Lovely house but was very hard to sell....some of the neighbours not to kindly refered to it as the 'flat pack house'.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2008, 09:10:32 PM » |
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hells bells - a few minutes into the programme, I'm hiding behind the sofa! An eco house on top of a ruddy eco-disastrous quantity of bally concrete - and obscene amounts of money..........just about sums up the myth of "eco towns".........  I may yet throw things at the tv!  |
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SteveH
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 09:12:50 PM » |
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I voted with my feet... another million pound build... how about somthing real....  |
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martin
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2008, 10:13:04 PM » |
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great opportunity missed! They devoted about 3 minutes to the interesting bit - the German kit house "factory" which seemed to be "getting it right" in many ways...... Such an eco disaster overall.................for the cost of that, 30 or more of the genuinely eco-friendly "woodman's houses" could have been erected (as shown in a previous series)  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 10:16:02 PM » |
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First ad break....I'm off for a cuppa....and I'm not coming back.
Throwing huge amounts of cash around...bah!
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 10:26:49 PM » |
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I thought it was the yanks who didn't get irony.........having committed the most appalling ecological vandalism to a beautiful site, spent well over 300k on concrete foundations, and then perched an "eco house" on top, which he allowed his dreadful spouse to ruin with her tasteless pink and lavender whimsies (a Lavender Rayburn)......- the arch vulgarian rhapsodises about his solar hot water panel fired bath...................... |
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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2008, 10:53:32 PM » |
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What my gran would have described as more money than sense! Talking about Yanks, I was reading this earlier today: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14536 |
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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2008, 11:32:52 PM » |
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I wonder what Kevin makes of his new series... He waxed lyrical about his favorit house (the same one Martin & I love), but all the builds in this season seem to fall into the relms of, to paraphrase, loads of money & no sense, ethics, reason or taste... hope he's saving a nice entertaining build for the end... like the barge conversion... I've met quite a few Americans in America, as aposed to the ones that travel, usualy in loud suits & with even louder wives, & they on the whole were sain rational & caring people who had concern & compasion for there fellow man... they hate what the markiting & media people do just as much as I do. So i'm at a loss to see why it's so lost over there... Could be a case of "The people get is what the people wont" i supose... Like here then... What next "Mc Navitron" with Ivan in a nice vibrent new suit.... Hmmmm hope not... |
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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2008, 11:42:43 PM » |
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300k+ before a single brick was laid (or rather a wooden panel) They must be mad !!!
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2008, 09:17:59 AM » |
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300k+ before a single brick was laid (or rather a wooden panel) They must be mad !!!
Plus the land cost so that was £600K. I'm all for those who can afford it spending their money on houses, but this example was shallow, and poorly done Architecturally, and environmentally. Here's a rich man's house that I feel warm about, and envious, it's all down to the personallity of the individual. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/new_homes/article3203467.ece |
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2008, 10:06:42 AM » |
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Very impressive build. Not everyone can joke about bringing their neighbours house slliding down the hill and then achieve it - well almost.
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2008, 10:20:41 AM » |
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I wonder how much the bath stone cladding cost am I being cynical or did the pot finally run out?
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2008, 01:13:16 PM » |
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Shares in Blue Circle must have gone through the roof (or the floor depending on how you look at it!). I always feel sorry for the poor neighbours who have to suffer months of disruption and then, while these people are relaxing in their eco baths, have to look at these monstrosities. Oh dear, don't look at my reedbed posting as I seem a bit hypocritical (but that mess only took 3 days to make and clear up). And all the raw materials were dug up from within the site  Seems a bit like soap operas - the plots (no pun intended honest!) have to get ever more sensational to keep us watching and talking (seems to have worked). They will have to do better than this to top the bargeman episode though Build a New Life in the Country is much better .... Was that the Wily Ones pink pinny that Kevin was wearing Ouch! Sorry Antman  |
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