Our first grand design went £1m over budget (...but now we¿re doing it all again) | Mail Online
Viewers of TV’s Grand Designs may remember an episode featuring Tiffany Wood and husband Jonny who had ambitions to build a top-of-the-range German pre-fabricated home in Bath but spent most of the show staring into an increasingly soggy hole in the ground.
Presenter Kevin McCloud described the drilling and piling as the most expensive groundworks he had ever featured in the programme – and that was just the £300,000 estimate, before things went wrong.
First, the construction team found an underground stream, then the neighbour’s wall fell down bringing 80 tons of soil with it.
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