Room To Improve

JONJO THE MISER

Have not seen a thread on this.
Since it is in the top 3 most watched shows, i think it deserves a thread of its own.
Anyone watching tonight's show?

superchip

looks like a far better series this time around,glad to see they got the idea behind a budget

JONJO THE MISER

Oh dear looks like Dermot's plans are in trouble again.

Birdsong

Love this show, I think the addition of the Quantity Surveyor was badly needed this season. Though saying that tonights show is going way off budget - the client keep adding to it. There are some good characters !

JONJO THE MISER

Birdsong wrote: »

Though saying that tonights show is going way off budget

Ive yet to see a show where they have not went away over budget.

JONJO THE MISER

:eek:8,000 Eur for a wood floor.

Birdsong

the client is a bit of a pain tonight - extension not big enough now

JONJO THE MISER

Hope they can afford there mortgage now and not go looking for mortgage forgiveness.

JONJO THE MISER

In fairness it looks nice.

superchip

it turned out great... but for €250,000,you could build a mansion for that much

you do know that architects get paid on a % of the budget (usually 10-15%) - no wonder Dermo has no probs pushing the boat out or even better if the client does...

pooch90

Do they clients actually pay Dermot on these jobs or does RTE?

pooch90

pooch90 wrote: »

Do they clients actually pay Dermot on these jobs or does RTE?

I doubt that they (clients) are not paying something. otherwise he would be losing out €10k per €100k budget and can't see RTE paying him that per episode... don't know what the deal is tbh, maybe the clients get a discount for effectively making the TV content.

hondasam

My favourite show and Dermot is great, I love the fact they show his mistakes.
The only thing is all the houses are looking the same. Lots of glass boxes really.

hondasam

superchip wrote: »

it turned out great... but for €250,000,you could build a mansion for that much

Until you start pricing everything and then it will add up pretty soon.

JONJO THE MISER

There is certainly going to be a big fight tonight.

JONJO THE MISER

They have brought themselves a mud hut says Dermot.

xsiborg

jesus! they'd surely want to gut that structure and rebuild from the ground up, and for €160k?

phew, at this stage we should nearly take bets on how much dermot is gonna WANT TO go over budget!


EDIT: ah for goodness sake, Dermot cant even read a measuring tape!

JONJO THE MISER

Dermot thinks he knows it all as usual, builder says Dermot doesnt have a clue.

JONJO THE MISER

Im going with over budget by 60k, any other takers?

meercat

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Im going with over budget by 60k, any other takers?

more
80k

JONJO THE MISER

The builder was right after all, take that Dermot.

JONJO THE MISER

Cant be land grabing these days says ya man, tell Pat Kenny that:p

meercat

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Im going with over budget by 60k, any other takers?

still think that?

meercat

dermot

" i assumed"

JONJO THE MISER

meercat wrote: »

still think that?

Mmmm.............Yeah.

xsiborg

"contingency fund"? lol, sounds more like they done a whiparound of the production staff!

i'd say €150k over budget... and that was just before i overheard there about the drainage issues! oh boy, how much is an arm and a leg?

JONJO THE MISER

Everything he picks is double his budget:D

JONJO THE MISER

Are these guys gay?

xsiborg

ah now, thats cheating, a "second budget", come on!

xsiborg

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Are these guys gay?

that answers that question, lol, i hadnt even noticed til my wife just asked me there "are they brothers or what?", i just thought they were business partners after buying that property as an investment...

xsiborg

that wall will block out the neighbours light! how did they not see that?

meercat

dermot is a bit arrogant
showing respect now
would you employ him?

JONJO THE MISER

meercat wrote: »

would you employ him?

I would not hire any architect.

meercat

Birdsong wrote: »

Love this show, I think the addition of the Quantity Surveyor was badly needed this season. Though saying that tonights show is going way off budget - the client keep adding to it. There are some good characters !

think we can keep this quote for all the episodes

xsiborg

not, a, hope!

honestly, if an architect cant even follow the "measure twice, cut once" rule, it just reminds me of when i was doing mechanical drawing back in secondary school and we used do "plan, elevation, end view", and if anything was even a millimeter out, our mech. drawing teacher would bust a kidney! lol

meercat

addition
hes willing to pay????

JONJO THE MISER

These guys are crazy, they want a moving wall now

The Princess Bride

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Im going with over budget by 60k, any other takers?

Doesn't matter whether it's 2k or 60k-if that's your budget,he should listen instead of getting carried away.......
as.he.does.every.week:mad:


He's still living in the middle of the noughties, imo

xsiborg

meercat wrote: »

addition
hes willing to pay????

"second" "budget" remember? :rolleyes:

JONJO THE MISER

We will just leave it like that:D

JONJO THE MISER

42K Over Budget.

meercat

looks good though
202,500 euro

meercat

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

42K Over Budget.

well done you

The Princess Bride

"the most important thing is.....the client is happy"

(....and I've a bulging wallet,yahooooo:D)

tommytee

xsiborg wrote: »

that answers that question, lol, i hadnt even noticed til my wife just asked me there "are they brothers or what?", i just thought they were business partners after buying that property as an investment...

ha I just pictured that scene in American Beauty when the two lads coming knocking on the door of the retired GI Joe bearing gifts.

These shows are so annoying when they pretend that there is a crisis, you may recall a series that Dermuid Galvin did and he was revamping the kids hospital in city centre (name eludes me at the mo) and there was a massive panic that they couldnt find a specialist aquarist that could build the tanks, - the whold project rested on finding sucha person, bad editing guys as the opening meeting showed Kealan from Seahorse aquariums at the very first meeting, and in fact every thing was well under control....... anyways theres soem useless info for ya

meercat

right lads
channel 4
grand designs
real architect

Dunlaffin

Dermot Bannon is a clown, He turns up without drawings then draws sketches on napkins. That's not talent. I've worked for architects that are the real deal, real geniuses with vision and they would not dare to insult a client with that level of inpetitiude. In architecture your drawings are your currency not your artsy fartsy BS. Bannon is Ronan Keating pretending to be Elton John. One trick pony with a talent for getting paid.

If I had to say what I admire in the guy it would be his sheer gall.

superchip

its a fair point..every extension has a flat roof and a few glass walls.

1966

OMG - its back on again ...................... got my hopes up and then realised its a repeat with that biddy from Cork.....................no way!!

hondasam

She was nice at the end.