Can’t get over how people consider they can’t afford roofers or plasterers! These are the deal breakers for selling successfully. Feel sorry for whoever buys the sisters house. Trying to live with those small bedrooms an unobvious nightmare! Only when you live in them would you go crazy.
The mistake so many people make on this show is that they're aiming for "if we do this, someone will want to buy the house", when Sarah's advice is based on "if you do that, more people will want to buy the house." the more interested bidders you can get on a house, the higher the price can go.
i find the comment "as a woman I've had to work physically hard" somewhat offensive. I mean she's not living in the 19th century - there are women all over the world who work physically hard everyday. Beeny herself has done some hard physical work even when she was pregnant. Wonder what she really thought of that remark.
I was renovating in the south of France which is somewhat expensive, we were doing everything ourselves, so kitchen was 3500 e plus appliances, which was not the cheapest one but not expensive either, and 1000 on bathroom with toilet, sink and toilet and glass wall for bathtub not to splash all over. So it is doable if u do things yourself. Kitchen came all assembled, so it was just placing and hanging
My husband and i renovated 2 houses ( we live in both, one in Finland one in the south of France) and i also renovated my mother’s apartment. We did everything ourselves - parquet, tiles, terraces. Only windows had professionally installed. I thought i could do plastering myself after watching on youtube and tv how to do it, as it occurred watching it does not make u be able to do it. So plastering was left to professionals. I was watching them do it - looks simple. I know it is not because i tried it. And when we were working with my husband we BOTH were doing, not like he is doing and she is standing. We used a team work
I had a bathroom that was reduced in size decades ago to make room for the furnace on the ground floor instead of the crawl space. The tub was great, I could actually float in it, but the sink was at a right angle to the toilet, so if you wanted to watch yourself brush your teeth in the mirror, you'd have to stand atop the toilet and bend way over or stand in the tub because there was no way to stand in the sink. I wanted a corner sink, if i could find one in my budget, which I couldn't. A friend owed me a bathroom remodel, but before it ever happened, I had a small house fire and they gutted the entire house down to the studs to get rid of the smoke smell, even though the actual fire was confined to the kitchen. So we moved walls around a bit, relocated the furnace where previously there had been a linen cupboard and now I have what is a dream bathroom, given my budget and space. Watching these reminds me of the whole fiasco of the renovations, complete with 6 month hiatus because the city decided halfway through the budget that they wanted to tear down the house and it wasn't possible to build from ground up on half the budget - and that wouldn't take into account demolition. It took 2.5 years before the house was done.
Cramming the extra bedrooms in, so tiny they are unusable, was nuts. Of course, they wouldn't listen to Sarah. Two double bedrooms are fine for a house that size.
Spending all that money to add useless 3rd bedrooms so tiny there are no closets and you can't fit even a dresser in them instead of having bigger bathrooms seems crazy to me.
Many 1930s semis, like mine, are wider than theirs begins as, with a bay window at the front (upstairs and down) and a smaller window beside the upstairs bay (to a box room) underneath this smaller window is the front door into a hallway. I don't know why they don't extend the house all the way to the front, which could accommodate a study, utility, garage, and workshop towards the back of the garage.
Which is more breathtaking: Paula's hubris or her frightening taste in wallpaper? I'll admit that I shed no tears for her when Beanie told us what eventually happened. SPOILER ALERT: Blondie implied that they went wildly budget principally because of repairs they couldn't have been expected to anticipate. Nonsense - People who don't pay for AND READ structural reports aren't informed enough to anticipate anything. "I still do believe we've opened up the market by making it a three bed" - Paula on Beanie's final visit, which was followed by no sale at all for six months, and then of one house only at a whopping $40,000 less than the defiantly overpriced figure initially asked.
Why would you not listen to someone who does property development as a living? Both couples could have learnt so much on this job, helping them in the future...
If they had listened, they might have ended up doing the work without planning permission, building control or listed building consent - just like Sarah did on Rise Hall a few years after this show went out ;o)
@nova00boss perhaps in England. But in Greece I just see them trying to explore ideas they are interested in that rarely makes best use of the property. Some of the best layouts I've seen have been owner inspired with a civil engineer to deal with the structural side.
Please avoid a hypnotherapist who doesn't understand skill and muscle memory.......what a disgrace . Let me hypnotize you into driving a car anyone......? Also an insult to some one who DOES have a skilled trade.
Finally! One of them said “Thank you!” to Sarah! She helped them- she really did. And to their credit, they realized it.
Can’t get over how people consider they can’t afford roofers or plasterers! These are the deal breakers for selling successfully.
Feel sorry for whoever buys the sisters house. Trying to live with those small bedrooms an unobvious nightmare! Only when you live in them would you go crazy.
Sisters were so much in denial...it was hard to watch them being adamant of things they don't know.
Sarah is so tactful and diplomatic. I'd be all, "Are you frickin' nuts?"
The mistake so many people make on this show is that they're aiming for "if we do this, someone will want to buy the house", when Sarah's advice is based on "if you do that, more people will want to buy the house." the more interested bidders you can get on a house, the higher the price can go.
i find the comment "as a woman I've had to work physically hard" somewhat offensive. I mean she's not living in the 19th century - there are women all over the world who work physically hard everyday. Beeny herself has done some hard physical work even when she was pregnant. Wonder what she really thought of that remark.
Women worked physically hard in the 19th Century as well :)
£10,000 budgeted for 2 kitchens and 4 bathrooms. In Australia that would get you one toilet 😂
Same here (Canada) I'm shocked at the low prices of kitchens/bathrooms on this show.
Hahahaha exactly
@@Lot-4656 😂 Some of them would have a £10,000 budget to renovate a whole house?
I was renovating in the south of France which is somewhat expensive, we were doing everything ourselves, so kitchen was 3500 e plus appliances, which was not the cheapest one but not expensive either, and 1000 on bathroom with toilet, sink and toilet and glass wall for bathtub not to splash all over. So it is doable if u do things yourself. Kitchen came all assembled, so it was just placing and hanging
@@bambinaforever1402 The south of France, how lovely
Hypnotised into plastering 😂😂
My husband and i renovated 2 houses ( we live in both, one in Finland one in the south of France) and i also renovated my mother’s apartment. We did everything ourselves - parquet, tiles, terraces. Only windows had professionally installed. I thought i could do plastering myself after watching on youtube and tv how to do it, as it occurred watching it does not make u be able to do it. So plastering was left to professionals. I was watching them do it - looks simple. I know it is not because i tried it. And when we were working with my husband we BOTH were doing, not like he is doing and she is standing. We used a team work
I had a bathroom that was reduced in size decades ago to make room for the furnace on the ground floor instead of the crawl space. The tub was great, I could actually float in it, but the sink was at a right angle to the toilet, so if you wanted to watch yourself brush your teeth in the mirror, you'd have to stand atop the toilet and bend way over or stand in the tub because there was no way to stand in the sink. I wanted a corner sink, if i could find one in my budget, which I couldn't. A friend owed me a bathroom remodel, but before it ever happened, I had a small house fire and they gutted the entire house down to the studs to get rid of the smoke smell, even though the actual fire was confined to the kitchen. So we moved walls around a bit, relocated the furnace where previously there had been a linen cupboard and now I have what is a dream bathroom, given my budget and space. Watching these reminds me of the whole fiasco of the renovations, complete with 6 month hiatus because the city decided halfway through the budget that they wanted to tear down the house and it wasn't possible to build from ground up on half the budget - and that wouldn't take into account demolition. It took 2.5 years before the house was done.
I agree with those ladies about the double doors, not needed. Also- the hypnosis of Chris was pretty lols
Cramming the extra bedrooms in, so tiny they are unusable, was nuts. Of course, they wouldn't listen to Sarah. Two double bedrooms are fine for a house that size.
Hats off to Sarah for finding these renovations nice when she lives where she does !
'Feature walls' and 'downlights' should be struck off anyones list ! These home should be neutral and add colour in furnishings not walls.
Got to admit those two big properties look fabulous.
Spending all that money to add useless 3rd bedrooms so tiny there are no closets and you can't fit even a dresser in them instead of having bigger bathrooms seems crazy to me.
No doors did make the main floor look bigger, Sara was wrong 😱
You've got to be kidding! Learning a new trade by hypnosis??!!!
Thanks for posting. Do you have plans to post all the Property Ladder eps plus other shows the Beeny has done ?
Would the sisters live in a shoe box? as for the other couple I was impressed.
few episodes you see amateurs knocking walls downs without supporting ceiling or main walls! dangerous!!
Many 1930s semis, like mine, are wider than theirs begins as, with a bay window at the front (upstairs and down) and a smaller window beside the upstairs bay (to a box room) underneath this smaller window is the front door into a hallway.
I don't know why they don't extend the house all the way to the front, which could accommodate a study, utility, garage, and workshop towards the back of the garage.
Which is more breathtaking: Paula's hubris or her frightening taste in wallpaper? I'll admit that I shed no tears for her when Beanie told us what eventually happened. SPOILER ALERT:
Blondie implied that they went wildly budget principally because of repairs they couldn't have been expected to anticipate. Nonsense - People who don't pay for AND READ structural reports aren't informed enough to anticipate anything.
"I still do believe we've opened up the market by making it a three bed" - Paula on Beanie's final visit, which was followed by no sale at all for six months, and then of one house only at a whopping $40,000 less than the defiantly overpriced figure initially asked.
learn from pros not your ego most do ego
Why are the Brits so committed to baths? Showers are so space effective
Why couldn’t the bath in the second scenario, go on the left and the toilet on the right so the basin is in line with the toilet?
The cost is going up and costing more than it would have done.
I noticed chris didn’t use any soakers running parallel with the wall and red plain tiles. They’ll have issues later on.
Someone could use the tiny room for an office...
Why would you not listen to someone who does property development as a living?
Both couples could have learnt so much on this job, helping them in the future...
If they had listened, they might have ended up doing the work without planning permission, building control or listed building consent - just like Sarah did on Rise Hall a few years after this show went out ;o)
@@eljay5009 How many more times are you going to repeat the same comment?
I am wondering: do people in Britain have clothes? I have no idea where do you put your clothes in these tiny bedrooms?
Dressers, drawers under the bed?
An Architect is your best friend.
Only if you're shit at layouts yourself.
@nova00boss perhaps in England. But in Greece I just see them trying to explore ideas they are interested in that rarely makes best use of the property. Some of the best layouts I've seen have been owner inspired with a civil engineer to deal with the structural side.
Rude tradesman... Seems like he is doing you a favour for giving him the job. There are plenty better tradesmen out there less rude.
WHY must the British pave their front gardens? Barbaric.
Please avoid a hypnotherapist who doesn't understand skill and muscle memory.......what a disgrace . Let me hypnotize you into driving a car anyone......? Also an insult to some one who DOES have a skilled trade.
As I have said before on the comments sections ?,
It makes me wonder how some of these get the money ?.