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[Varche]

No doubt forum members have a love hate relationship with the programme.

I bet quite a few forum members identify with some of the skill areas and crucially have the patience to work there. More importantly there will be people with their own specialisms like watchmaker repairs.


My mantra has always been “ If two hands made it, I can fix it or make one”. Doesn't always work . We have a shed full of kit like spraying machine for staining furniture ( to save paying the company) that saved money on someone else doing a job for us.

Anyone else like the programme?

[STEMO]

I love it. I find it really relaxing to watch, and the women (one that restores ceramics, one that works with leather and one that restores paintings) are really skilled. The only fly in the ointment is the person of colour  who seems to be in charge but does eff all.
A true reflection of life, I suppose.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Yes, it s a very good programme

I particularly like seeing Steve the watch maker at work. So clever!

[Varche]

I love it. I find it really relaxing to watch, and the women (one that restores ceramics, one that works with leather and one that restores paintings) are really skilled. The only fly in the ointment is the person of colour  who seems to be in charge but does eff all.
A true reflection of life, I suppose.

Might be his repair shop and the rest are hanger ons?!

[redelitev6]

I love it. I find it really relaxing to watch, and the women (one that restores ceramics, one that works with leather and one that restores paintings) are really skilled. The only fly in the ointment is the person of colour  who seems to be in charge but does eff all.
A true reflection of life, I suppose.

I think the person of colour is there as a "balance" 

[STEMO]

He does that recycling programme in the afternoon as well. He gets old tables and chairs and just paints the legs different colours.

[Lizzie Zoom]

He does that recycling programme in the afternoon as well. He gets old tables and chairs and just paints the legs different colours.

Ah yes, Money For Nothing, another programme I enjoy.

In fairness he is a master upholsterer, and on his own does produce some great stuff 

[Varche]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

[STEMO]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

I agree. You'd have to be a particular type of tosser to part with hundreds of pounds for an upcycled garden gate.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

Oh yes, it can never be classed as a "green, protecting the environment" programme! I would also not buy most of what is produced!  But I love noting how much some (fools) pay for a lot of it.  That is what I enjoy

[ronnyd]

Just all the "trendy" types with more money than sense that buy that tarted up rubbish.

[STEMO]

Money for nothing has just come on the telly. Sarah has 'rescued' two wicker chairs and they are bound for Jay to up-cycle. I wonder what he'll do with them? 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Money for nothing has just come on the telly. Sarah has 'rescued' two wicker chairs and they are bound for Jay to up-cycle. I wonder what he'll do with them? 

Don't worry, Jay will charge £500 for re-covering them and Sarah will sell, to some money bloated fool, those for £750, thus giving the original owner a £250 "profit", forgetting all the transport and TV production costs!

I find that so entertaining!

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Love the prog, however me and Miss DBG enjoy screaming at Jay of an evening. He gets to stand there at the end, with someone welling up at their treasured family heirloom, getting hugs and chants of "ohhh, thank you, you're sooo talented" when he's done sweet fanny adams, aside from strutting around like a bald Mike Brewer. Sometimes he walks between tables, carrying an item, often as much as three or four paces. 

Our favourite bit (look out next time you watch it) is his handmade, stunning, clearly custom-made leather apron... which he wears too-high, thus leaving an excess amount of the 'neck' flapping about like a kid wearing his dad's leather belt. And its immaculate. Not a mark, nick, stain, or scuff on it.  In two or three years of the show it's blatantly still new and stiff leather, so it's clearly never worn for more than a few minutes at a time. Sigh...

Like the watchmaker who looks like if Daniel Craig had brother 

[TheBoy]

I really try to like the programme, as I like that sort of thing. But for reasons I cant explain, I find it really, really annoying, and it grates.

[Bigron]

Apparently, the "workshop" exists, but is only populated for filming. The public cannot just turn up, but they have to apply and be granted an appointment if successful. The experts only come together for the filming; but I bet you guessed that anyway!
All costs are met by the production company.
I have a treasured heirloom in my garage in its component parts which I want the team to restore to full working order for me - my 1952 Sunbeam S8 motorcycle! Do I stand a chance?

Ron.

[Varche]

Love the prog, however me and Miss DBG enjoy screaming at Jay of an evening. He gets to stand there at the end, with someone welling up at their treasured family heirloom, getting hugs and chants of "ohhh, thank you, you're sooo talented" when he's done sweet fanny adams, aside from strutting around like a bald Mike Brewer. Sometimes he walks between tables, carrying an item, often as much as three or four paces. 

Our favourite bit (look out next time you watch it) is his handmade, stunning, clearly custom-made leather apron... which he wears too-high, thus leaving an excess amount of the 'neck' flapping about like a kid wearing his dad's leather belt. And its immaculate. Not a mark, nick, stain, or scuff on it.  In two or three years of the show it's blatantly still new and stiff leather, so it's clearly never worn for more than a few minutes at a time. Sigh...

Like the watchmaker who looks like if Daniel Craig had brother 

Apparently he is an expert upholsterer. You sometimes see his work on the naff money for nothing.

I cannot see what is wrong with him presenting. The old people like him. Bit like the woman who presents Antiques Roadshow. She isn't an expert.

[STEMO]

There must have been some 'feedback', he's becoming less prominent front of house.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I havn't seen it, but it sounds like daytime TV like Homes Under The Hammer, Cash In The Attic etc     

[Bigron]

They restore some interesting vintage technical items amongst all the girly dross like old, knackered teddies and the like!
However, I do agree that the useless prenter with the silly flat cap needs to be on TB's cull list - he does even less than Fatty Brewer!

Ron.

[STEMO]

Tonight's episode was particularly good, with the complete restoration of a grandmother clock. The reaction of the owner was a sight to behold and it struck me that perhaps people who burgle houses should be made to watch this programme. It just might give them an inkling of the hurt they can cause by stealing folks' treasured possessions. Things of little value to anyone else, but which hold a link to the past for an older person, bringing memories of their childhood.
I have a couple of things that I would be heartbroken to lose.

[dave the builder]

Indeed
TVs and furniture and wives are easy to replace
but a decent claw hammer ,that you've had 30 years is another story
 

[Bigron]

Good programme, yes, but the radio restorer was the same idiot who blew the workshop power trips by not making basic safety checks on ancient wiring on a previous item!
Today, in order to provide an HT supply of 90 volts from a no longer available battery, soldered 10 PP3s (9 Volts each) in series. Nothing wrong with that, until the owner wants to repace them. It would have been better to have used the standard press-stud connectors on the PP3s.

Ron.

[STEMO]

Good programme, yes, but the radio restorer was the same idiot who blew the workshop power trips by not making basic safety checks on ancient wiring on a previous item!
Today, in order to provide an HT supply of 90 volts from a no longer available battery, soldered 10 PP3s (9 Volts each) in series. Nothing wrong with that, until the owner wants to repace them. It would have been better to have used the standard press-stud connectors on the PP3s.

Ron.

Saw that, Ron, and wondered if he could have used rechargables and fitted a transformer (not visible from outside the case) and a small jack at the back.

[Bigron]

Yep, that would work and be better still.

Ron.

[Varche]

I havn't seen it, but it sounds like daytime TV like Homes Under The Hammer, Cash In The Attic etc     

You arent quite at that point in your life yet. After Repair shop you drift into Midsommer murders, Death in Paradise and Pointless. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I havn't seen it, but it sounds like daytime TV like Homes Under The Hammer, Cash In The Attic etc     

You arent quite at that point in your life yet. After Repair shop you drift into Midsommer murders, Death in Paradise and Pointless.

OMG!  Bring back The Jeremy Kyle Show!! 

[Lizzie Zoom]

I havn't seen it, but it sounds like daytime TV like Homes Under The Hammer, Cash In The Attic etc     

You arent quite at that point in your life yet. After Repair shop you drift into Midsummer murders, in Paradise and Pointless.

Ah, last night I watched a brand new episode of that.  As good as ever, with one victim suffering death by chocolate, and another frozen to death like a fish finger! Great and perfectly conforming to all the other poetic murders seen over the decades, like death in a wine vat, death under cheese, and death in concrete......lovely

Never disappoints and makes for the easy crime drama tv watching we need at our age!

[Varche]

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday and all is well.

[New POD]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

I agree. You'd have to be a particular type of tosser to part with hundreds of pounds for an upcycled garden gate.

There's a Place Next to Birkdale station, that does Up cycling.
I quite like a bit of that, but my wife dragged me in, to look at a dinning table and chairs.

I starred and starred and then said.

"Remember my Nan's dinning table that she gave us, and you didn't like? That we couldn't sell, and we gave to my sister who has it 20 years later ?  Well that's Identical "

Wife : "Oh....yes.....It would appear to be...do you think your sister would give it back?"

oh how we laughed.

[ronnyd]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

I agree. You'd have to be a particular type of tosser to part with hundreds of pounds for an upcycled garden gate.

There's a Place Next to Birkdale station, that does Up cycling.
I quite like a bit of that, but my wife dragged me in, to look at a dinning table and chairs.

I starred and starred and then said.

"Remember my Nan's dinning table that she gave us, and you didn't like? That we couldn't sell, and we gave to my sister who has it 20 years later ?  Well that's Identical "

Wife : "Oh....yes.....It would appear to be...do you think your sister would give it back?"

oh how we laughed.

Suppose they want an "arm and leg" for it too.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Ah money for nothing.

Rescue stuff from a skip. Incur petrol costs, hours of sanding down, spray painting, more costs selling, more petrol, manhours excluded and then with a flourish , back to the original person dumping to present a “ profit” of £30 which is actually a loss of £300 .

Oh forgot to mention that the five legged table painted like a cow that no sane person would buy was sold to a “friend”.

Rubbish programme . Tat.

I agree. You'd have to be a particular type of tosser to part with hundreds of pounds for an upcycled garden gate.

There's a Place Next to Birkdale station, that does Up cycling.
I quite like a bit of that, but my wife dragged me in, to look at a dinning table and chairs.

I starred and starred and then said.

"Remember my Nan's dinning table that she gave us, and you didn't like? That we couldn't sell, and we gave to my sister who has it 20 years later ?  Well that's Identical "

Wife : "Oh....yes.....It would appear to be...do you think your sister would give it back?"

oh how we laughed.

Suppose they want an "arm and leg" for it too.

Like in that aforementioned show, Money for Nothing?  Sometimes that is all the "craftsman" is given, and he/she produces a £500 gem out of it!!