George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces on Channel 4

[Woodchips2]

Anybody watch George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces on Channel 4 from 8-9pm last night? This was the third in a series of seven programmes about creating small living spaces with quite a bit of woodwork that could be of use to those building sheds, workshops, garden buildings etc.

George is building a garden studio and the construction is a modular panel of plywood on studwork. It is being made of an easily manageable size that you could construct in a garage with a stepped joint that you could screw or bolt together to make it dismountable at a later stage if you wanted to move it elsewhere. Could help Steve Maskery’s back :lol:

Last night also featured a motorcycling racer who converted a double-decker coach into a travelling hotel so that all his friends and family could follow him. This included laminated plywood sleeping pods built in a factory. Another chap had built a mobile caravan for his daughter to live in which may have been aimed at getting around planning consents. A couple had built a gypsy caravan with lots of hand made joinery out of pine because they had to save money.

You can catch up at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/geor ... spaces/4od

Shall definitely be watching the rest of the series.

Regards Keith

 

[Fergal]

I watched this episode (and the last two series). It's always a been good program for sparking ideas and I've filed away a few for future use. I quite fancy trying the plywood module approach for my next shed.

I thought he did a fantastic job on the coach. I particularly liked the zebrano (I think) plywood sleeping pods, although I would have had fewer of them and a bit more living space. The finished product looked very slick and wouldn't look out of place in the paddock with all the works team buses.

Fergal

 

[dickm]

Similar sort of thing on BBC2 on early evenig Wednesday, where someone was having a custom built "mobile home" to go on a plot in the New Forest. Didn't see all of the programme, but the end result didn't look in the least "mobile". Does make you wonder about planning law..............

 

[Stanleymonkey]

Watching it now - the workshop / playhouse in the garden looks pretty impressive. Thanks for the tip

 

[Woodchips2]

Just watched the first programme in this series on catchup TV http://www.channel4.com/programmes/geor ... od#3711279 where a young couple build an amazing underground play house. Some good tips if you fancy sinking your workshop partway into the ground showing how to provide simple tanking and drainage.

I find most TV programmes a quick way to send me to sleep but this series I find fascinating.

Regards Keith

 

[Myfordman]

I'm sure in the part of the programme describing his garden building, he said he was using polycarbonate sheet at a fiver a sheet and stuff shown was multi wall. No way is that generally available for a fiver!

Anyone else spot this or did I dream that?

 

[Woodchips2]

I'm sure in the part of the programme describing his garden building, he said he was using polycarbonate sheet at a fiver a sheet and stuff shown was multi wall. No way is that generally available for a fiver!

Anyone else spot this or did I dream that?

I also thought he said a fiver a sheet but thought it was just my hearing :roll:

Regards Keith

 

[rafezetter]

Just watched the first programme in this series on catchup TV http://www.channel4.com/programmes/geor ... od#3711279 where a young couple build an amazing underground play house. Some good tips if you fancy sinking your workshop partway into the ground showing how to provide simple tanking and drainage.

I find most TV programmes a quick way to send me to sleep but this series I find fascinating.

Regards Keith

I've watched both series too and that hobbit hole really made me want one, the decker bus was also very good but again a bit too much sleeping space - but then that's all he needed it for I guess. - another great one was an old underground WC in london I think that made a great place and the entrance was quirky too

 

[rafezetter]

I'm sure in the part of the programme describing his garden building, he said he was using polycarbonate sheet at a fiver a sheet and stuff shown was multi wall. No way is that generally available for a fiver!

Anyone else spot this or did I dream that?

I saw it too and I sell the stuff - no way that size sheet was a fiver, it's barely less than that wholesale. - plus I'd use triplewall to m,ake the room usable in the winter months - 10mm twinwall just won't cut it with our winters and be economical on heating.