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My take on the build was, it was a fab design for the very limited site they had. My issue was that once they had the larger plot they didn’t revisit the design to lose the money/problem pit, sorry basement. You only go down if you have either no space, or a massive contingency fund and/or are making a point. But yes he was heavily let down by contractors.
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Was it this thread folks were chatting recent Hackney grand designs? @Tenderloin ? I know it wasn’t you who was knocking the guy but after watching feel the criticism was pretty unfounded, he was building at a time where costs were an impossible guessing game and he had two companies agree on cost and work for the basement and they both failed him, hardly things within his control. I think it came in at 100k over at a total of around 900k which is pretty decent too.