Property Ladder. More4. Fri, 7pm (over now)

PasturesNew

Just go to http://www.radiotimes.com
Register
Then go to the TV listings. When you spot property !!!!!!, click on "add this programme" and the bottom one "every time it is on any of my channels".

You also get to add/remove channels to your list.

Then you just need to click on "my programmes" and you've got every programme you'd ever be interested in on all channels.

I don't like the decorating ones, like "60 minute makeover", so I never select those. Just the "buy it, tart it up, flog it" ones and "great idea, build it while the viewer watches" ones.

Only another hour and it's Property Ladder (probably 'again for the 4th time')

A quick overview I have:
SATURDAY

1am More4 Property Ladder
3.25pm More4 Property Ladder
4.30pm More4 Property Ladder Revisited
5.15pm Five Life Build a New Life in the Country
5.30pm Channel 4 Location, Location, Location
5.35pm More4 Property Ladder Revisited
6.15pm Five Life Build a New Life in the Country
6.30pm Channel 4+1 Location, Location, Location
6.45pm More4 Property Ladder
7.10pm Channel 4 Grand Designs
7.50pm More4 Property Ladder
8.10pm Channel 4+1 Grand Designs

Doozergirl

Thanks for that!

So I can leave the house between 2am and 3pm? Better get to the 24 hour Tesco! :rotfl:

Is that Grand Desgins from this week? I missed it (watching the apprentice which is rubbish so far)

I think we need a property !!!!!! thread for all prop-tarts!

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I need your list of programs!

Gave you Saturday's above.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm so bored of having seen the same old programs 6 or 7 times which is why I'm glad we have five.

I don't mind. I have it all on in the background so often miss a lot.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I want to watch House Doctor now. I miss 'selling houses'. That program is brilliant.

Never heard of Selling Houses. I did see one recently (no idea what name that was), only seemed to be a couple - they found a house for sale and arranged an Open Day. Although I did see it crash and burn in one programme where they got 0 viewers.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I want to know what happened to the style progrms. Did they all get replaced by property !!!!!!? I used to love Home Front (where you paid a third of the budget for one room and your garden doing - people would put £10k towards it!) I'd love to be on that program.

I worked with Debra Veal's twin sister a few years back. She presented a few of those programmes.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Most people's budgets make sense to me. Sometimes I'm really shocked at how much they are! 'nuff respect to the people that do it DIY.

I lived in rip off town where all the builder types were cowboys and were rubbish, and prices were ridiculously high as everybody was either out surfing instead of working, only working for the big hotels, or walking off the job to go to Portugal or Australia as they were fed up with the area being bad for work.

Doozergirl wrote: »

People have style by buying all the stuff off one page of the Next Directory so it co-ordinates :rotfl:

Ah. Never seen a posh catalogue. That'd make sense. Good thinking Batgirl!

Doozergirl wrote: »

Do you sleep on your sofa or are you here all night too?

Sleep is an odd concept. I have very very disturbed sleep patterns. I tend to stay up until about 5am, then nod off intermittently until about 9am. Yes, I sleep on the sofa. It's a sofa bed, but no point moving the PC/furniture, pulling it all out, making the bed, just to go to sleep. I'm dinky so just sleep on it as it is.

It's not like there's ever anybody but me here

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

So I can leave the house between 2am and 3pm? Better get to the 24 hour Tesco! :rotfl:

I wouldn't risk it. You might get held up. All sorts of things can happen out there you know!

And what if you got back and your TV had been nicked??

Not worth the risk. Order online. Stay in.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Is that Grand Desgins from this week? I missed it (watching the apprentice which is rubbish so far)

No idea. That would require extra effort to look up which episode any of them ever were.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I think we need a property !!!!!! thread for all prop-tarts!

I've been thinking of starting a website just for that.
I'd like to discuss them all, link to the pics ... and try to track down every final selling price.

Maybe I should stay up tonight and start that.

PasturesNew

To be honest, I only really watch it not because I think "I could do that" because I couldn't.

I watch it for their stupid mistakes, naivety and general gormlessness.... I am waiting for the crash and burn victims to start making t1ts of themselves on national TV.

I do listen carefully to what the presenters are saying, see what they're pointing out. You can pick up the very odd small thing of interest that you might be able to use when looking at property in the future... but mainly it's the complete numptiness of a lot of them.

There's only been about 3-4 people I've actually liked/wanted to do well. Loved the old bloke in the wheelchair in Grand Designs, son-in-law/daughter were building him a bunglaow in the garden that would enable him to be independent. They were lovely people.

And the bloke who did the water tower in the woods. He was a lovely, lovely man. Complete nutter, but lovely.

And I liked the man who was building it all for his family and had had a heart attack recently.

Glad they all went well.

m00m00

Grand Designs is a class above the likes of Property Ladder, as there's definitely a 'vision thing' going on often in that show.

Property ladder is generally muppets who've made money purely on the back of rampant HPI and would have made a higher % profit by just painting the walls magnolia and flipping it in a month,

Doozergirl

You can vote for your favourite Grand Design

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/grand-designs/Grand-Designs-Awards/2008/Vote/index.html

I adored the old couple with the Huf Haus and the man with the tiny little bit of land in Peckham. And the water works with the Mini for a table.

Wha happened to the man who didn't finish his house because he kept breaking his limbs? Jolly looking man. His family were living in a caravan.

PasturesNew

I saw Homes under the Hammer this morning.

Couple had wanted to buy something, tart it up, pimp it out... clueless.

She went to the auction alone, bought it. He'd "trusted her". £67k.
Non standard construction (NSC). Area with a reputation too.

She had NO Idea... and told the presenter they'd read up about NSC and didn't think it'd be a problem.

So they got some quotes in to do the internal work (e.g. new kitchen/bathroom) and they couldn't afford any of the most basic of the work.

Estate agents popped round and said "same price, but the market's tougher now".

So, with no budget and hanging onto a lemon, they put it back on the market ... and buggah me if they didn't flog it for £80k???!!

Some people .... have the luck of the Irish.

Anyway, that was the end of the programme, but then you wonder: did it go through? Did it really? At what price?

That's the trouble with entertainment. No complete set of facts.

Doozergirl

m00m00 wrote: »

Grand Designs is a class above the likes of Property Ladder, as there's definitely a 'vision thing' going on often in that show.

Property ladder is generally muppets who've made money purely on the back of rampant HPI and would have made a higher % profit by just painting the walls magnolia and flipping it in a month,

It's true that the best Property ladders are the ones where people fail spectacularly

Did you see the man who came on here and told us off for laughing at him and his house? Is it still on the market?

m00m00

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's true that the best Property ladders are the ones where people fail spectacularly

Did you see the man who came on here and told us off for laughing at him and his house? Is it still on the market?

was that the 'chiswick' one ?

he popped up on quite a few forums