DIY SOS - sometimes it brings me close to tears.

[Pickman's model]

Did wonder about the workmanship myself. One prog (watching whilst off poorly!) saw them doing someones garden and it was shocking - one thing that stuck out was the paving, very minimal sand laid with the slabs placed on top. I imagine they lasted about a month before becoming displaced. Im sure theres a follow up prog you could make, or start a you tube channel - showing the work 6 months on.

Yeh, sos diy.

 

[purenarcotic]

It makes me quite cross tbh - I saw one in the run up to Remembrance Sunday where they finished a house for a guy who had his leg blown up in Afghanistan who was living in a totally unsuitable council home. They gave him a house on a street they’d been to before (army street I think?) which was run by a housing association giving housing and support to ex forces injured / with PTSD. Lovely though it is than people want to give up their time to make someone’s life better, it makes me cross that this poor guy had been in unsuitable accommodation for months - why is the state not providing appropriate housing for all who need it? Is this what we’ve come to - councils can no longer provide adequate homes so we have to rely on TV shows to do it for us? There was another one where some kid had been stuck in hospital unable to come home for years because his parents home wasn’t suitable for his equipment - utterly shameful.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I have to agree with you, purenarcotic, that is something that bugs me too.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Like Secret Millionaire. Fucking annoying.

I'm mildly astonished that the BBC don't pay the whole cost of sorting someone's garden or house out. I just assumed they did!

 

[Casual Observer]

Remember "Challenge Anneka"?

Twenty five years ago the challenge was to refurbish a school used by Mencap and for two or three days they got local tradespeople to volunteer their services and cadged free materials, etc. Very much the precursor to a raft of similar programs like Ground Force, DIY SOS, etc.

Anyway, I happened to visit that Mencap centre not long afterwards and I was appalled at the atrocious quality of the workmanship. Obviously Mencap would have been in no position to complain given the circumstances, but anyone else would have started legal proceedings...

Makes me wonder if the workmanship on these free makeovers is still just as bad.

A friend of mine's wife worked for the BBC when Ground Force was on. She made some polite enquiries about getting their own garden on the programme and was told they would have to pay something like £5,000. All this Titmarsh and the gang hiding in the shed as the lady of the house returns after a few days at her mother's then acting all surprised... load of old bollocks.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Have you seen how much the charity gets?less than £2k usually!

And then the charity CEO takes their cut...

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Does anyone else watch it?

I watch it from time-to-time, and just watched last night's one, because I know a mate had not only been involved, but took 3 of his team in, paying them, costing him over £3k.

Someone I know apparently knows the same person as it came up on my fb feed this week.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I'm mildly astonished that the BBC don't pay the whole cost of sorting someone's garden or house out. I just assumed they did!

If the BBC had to pay for all the work on DIY SOS, it wouldn't happen, it would be far too expense to make.

 

[kabbes]

If the BBC had to pay for all the work on DIY SOS, it wouldn't happen, it would be far too expense to make.

They have to pay for all the work in building a set for a drama. And all the actors and crew and expensive studio time.

 

[moomoo]

I know it's very very wrong but I really really fancy Nick Knowles

It could be worse. I fancy Piers Morgan.

 

[cupid_stunt]

It could be worse. I fancy Piers Morgan.

*exspells moomoo from the school*

 

[Mr Smin]

Admittedly I've only seen it a few times but when they want to kit out the house with flooring etc it seems to me that they send the woman in to basically try to get it for free, which must impact on the shops.

That'll be a set up. They can't use the film without a sign off from the business involved so if you weren't interested you can tell them to leave and refuse to let them use the film. I would imagine a junior producer visits several local firms ahead of the main show anyway. The business has to judge if they want to be generous, or if the cost of goods is likely outweighed by the publicity bringing in new customers.

 

[wiskey]

Yes.

They recently did one near us and there was so much publicity.

 

[existentialist]

*exspells moomoo from the school*

Harsh. She should have a chance at rehabilitation

 

[cupid_stunt]

Who can not love what they are currently showing over 2 weeks, for the community living around Grenfell Tower, this week a new Boxing Club, and next week a new Community Centre.

The Dale Youth boxing club, had just relocated to a new gym that was housed on the second floor of Grenfell Tower, a few weeks before the fire, and after it, ended-up operating out of a cold car park, now they have a brand new state of the art gym, their best ever, thanks to SOS DIY.

It was a massive job, 9 months in planning, and 9 weeks to build it, rather than the usual 9 days.

The BBC team got the big construction companies to donate all the materials & supply most of the workforce to make this happen, without them it may ever have happened, or at least not for many, many years.

Absolutely bloody amazing.

 

[ricbake]

Sweet

Boxing their way out of Grenfell grief

 

[dylanredefined]

Harsh. She should have a chance at rehabilitation

You are a better person than me.

 

[Santino]

Has Nick Knowles found Camelot yet?

 

[Saul Goodman]

Like Secret Millionaire. Fucking annoying.

I'm mildly astonished that the BBC don't pay the whole cost of sorting someone's garden or house out. I just assumed they did!

to both statements.
Sponging, leeching bastards, grabbing every penny they can from whoever they can.

If the BBC had to pay for all the work on DIY SOS, it wouldn't happen, it would be far too expense to make.

Give over!

 

[Saul Goodman]

Did wonder about the workmanship myself. One prog (watching whilst off poorly!) saw them doing someones garden and it was shocking - one thing that stuck out was the paving, very minimal sand laid with the slabs placed on top. I imagine they lasted about a month before becoming displaced. Im sure theres a follow up prog you could make, or start a you tube channel - showing the work 6 months on.

Someone should do a follow-up TV series, like tattoo fixers but for fucked up DIY SOS bodges.

 

[TopCat]

I know it's very very wrong but I really really fancy Nick Knowles

I still have the hots for Edwina Curry and her daughter so don't feel so bad.

 

[Pickman's model]

I still have the hots for Edwina Curry and her daughter so don't feel so bad.

 

[TopCat]

Do a Gloop with Edwina and that egg.

 

[TopCat]

Sorry for derail!

 

[lazythursday]

I still have the hots for Edwina Curry and her daughter so don't feel so bad.

I know someone who has been out with Edwina Curry's daughter. But I'd rather know someone who could tell me all about Nick Knowles without his overalls on, despite the shame of it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I still have the hots for Edwina Curry and her daughter so don't feel so bad.

You wrong'un.

I was once involved in a TV programme called 'Currie's Night', it was a ITV West regional show, this episode was filmed in a Bristol nightclub, discussing drug law reform, and she wouldn't stop touching me.

 

[TopCat]

You wrong'un.

I was once involved in a TV programme called 'Currie's Night', it was a ITV West regional show, this episode was filmed in a Bristol nightclub, discussing drug law reform, and she wouldn't stop touching me.

I am proper fucking jealous.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I am proper fucking jealous.

Get help!

 

[blairsh]

Channel 4 once rang our work, asking for some free stuff, several hundred quidsworth (some Gok Wan programme) as they didn't have much of a budget. I took the call and said although i don't have final say they'd probably get told where to go. They then spoke to my boss, who told them where to go

 

[cupid_stunt]

I still have the hots for Edwina Curry and her daughter so don't feel so bad.

Eat your heart out...

I assume it's real, it's from her official website.