Adam and Tassy take on an abandoned water tower - a concrete column stretching over 20 metres into the Northamptonshire sky - and turn it into a fun family home. Their radical design includes a concrete interior with curved walls, slides, secret rooms, a fireman's pole and - up in the tank itself - a swimming pool and a sky garden. The plan is to sell their terraced house and get a mortgage to raise £400,000 and do most of the conversion work themselves - even though they have two young children already and a third on the way. It's wildly ambitious and gets off to a slow start when a steel reinforced floor takes forever to excavate, and they have to build a sound wall to reduce the hum from a nearby electricity substation. As concrete pours, their walls start to leak and it looks like their water tower doesn't want to be lived in without a concrete-soaked battle of biblical proportions
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Show Name....... Grand Designs
Rating.......... 7.7 [*******---]
Premiered....... 1999-04-28
Type............ Documentary
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Plot............ Kevin McCloud follows intrepid individuals trying to design and build their dream home.
Cast............ Kevin McCloud ... Kevin McCloud
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Network......... Channel 4
Country......... United Kingdom
Language........ English
Runtime......... 60 mins
Status.......... Running
Air Date........ Wednesday 21:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/3251/grand-designs
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Episode Name.... Northamptonshire 2024
Season.......... 25x05
Plot............ Adam and Tassy take on an abandoned water tower - a concrete column stretching over 20 metres into the Northamptonshire sky - and turn it into a fun family home. Their radical design includes a concrete interior with curved walls, slides, secret rooms, a fireman's pole and - up in the tank itself - a swimming pool and a sky garden. The plan is to sell their terraced house and get a mortgage to raise 400,000 and do most of the conversion work themselves - even though they have two young children already and a third on the way. It's wildly ambitious and gets off to a slow start when a steel reinforced floor takes forever to excavate, and they have to build a sound wall to reduce the hum from a nearby electricity substation. As concrete pours, their walls start to leak and it looks like their water tower doesn't want to be lived in without a concrete-soaked battle of biblical proportions
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2024-10-23 Wednesday, 15:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/3027216/grand-designs-25x05-northamptonshire-2024
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Episode Name.... Newhaven Revisit
Season.......... 25x06
Plot............ Kevin McCloud celebrates the 25th anniversary of the show by making a special revisit to the show's first ever project in the East Sussex coastal town of Newhaven. In 1999, paragliding school owners Tim and Jules wanted to build a new family home on the cliffs in just three months due to Jules's pregnancy. The last time Kevin visited, newborn Tiger had come along but the house was barely finished. Now, a quarter of a century later, he returns to see how life has been for the first Grand Designs family
Runtime......... 60 mins
Air Date........ 2024-10-30 Wednesday, 16:00
URL............. https://www.tvmaze.com/episodes/3030497/grand-designs-25x06-newhaven-revisit
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