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Loved it. Proper people doing something really special and challenging.
shame about the fire regs meaning they had to enclose the stairwells.
Quality of work was brilliant and great deal with the bartering..
"yeah"
Just watching it on C4+1, looks interesting and nice to have real people rather than 'design' and lots of money. Makes you want it to work for them.
Loved it. What a bloke, a true craftsman. His lady was quite something, too.
Those staircases though! Gutted. Rest of it was lovely, what a view.
Agree with the general opinion on mannered 'design'. He made a halfway decent job of the upper floor but the 'problem' with the staircase trashed the lower floors (the programme was polite enough to skirt over that). 'Design' can be understanding the regs and avoiding problems like that. Considering how much money the project cost (even when he put in most of the labour himself and on mates rates) a couple of grand for professional advice sorting out those problems before he started wouldn't have been noticed (It would have cost him a lot less than the ground works he had to do).
It's a shame that when the finished job is all signed off that the partitions closing off the stairs can't be removed....
You could tell from the beginning that he was going to do a quality job of the building work. That cantilevered balcony was massive, great bit of engineering. Would love to have seen the view from the master bedroom though.
Oh, and back to the stairs, I'd have also put in a wire-cage lift right the way up one corner of the building; saved on all the stairclimbing from kitchen past bedroom to living room plus a great in-character throwback to the heritage of the building 8)
s non of the boards were either jointed or skimmed, that, as psling says, they will probably disappear when signed off.