No school skiing trips? You poor mite! Wheres the humanity? I ask you?! 😉
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It was painful at the time, all my mates going, me stuck at home.
Perhaps they could plant more wildflowers to offset the impact of such a large house being occupied by only two people.
I thought it was fairly dull, another box, clad in wood. You also have to wonder how long some of it, such as that flat roof will last.
I'm confused by the shower block and lockers thing for a small build. What next? A smoothie van supplying free nettle and mushroom (locally picked of course) smoothies, a massage cabin and a psychiatrist on site?
House looked good. Reasonable budget.
@Leku, to be honest one of the main takeaways I got from the programme was that this code is nonsense. Far too easily manipulated (like the planting flowers) and also the no-waste thing - how easy to fudge that is it.
Perhaps they could plant more wildflowers to offset the impact of such a large house being occupied by only two people.
TBF it was hardly ostentatious was it? Two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a music room, a family room and a kitchen.
But has been touched on - it is absurd that they had to build a bike store to get Code 6 - irespective of whether or not they had bikes or intended to ride them - they had to waste resource just to tick a box.
I've been working on a Code 6 house in south wales. The bike store is getting installed even though the owner is paraplegic!
At least it'll be a handy place for him to store his spare wheelchair(s).
In all honesty it's good to set such a high standard. As ever the programme was edited to focus a bit too much on the few points for flowers, and not on all the points for energy performance and impact on the local environment, which are actually the bulk of the points.
The fact that they had missed some points for the site set-up at the start was unforgivable, the inspection regime is very rigid. Hard as they are to achieve, you have to over-budget on the points, assuming that you'll miss some along the way.
I wasn't overly impressed with the outcome, but it was tidy enough. Clever in the use of space and tall floor to ceiling heights made it look bigger than it was. I do have some reservations about the thermal effectiveness of that big concrete wall, but would be interested to see some energy figures once it's been occupied for a while.
I don't see how planting more flowers is 'manipulating' it when they give points for it...
Tonight's episode is brought to you by the words 'ker' and 'ching' 8)
Tonight's episode is also littered with fish and water puns 🙄
So what happens when all the silt is deposited in their basement thing? Will the house be stuck high?
Smelly?
