On Oct 19, 11:24*am, "tim....." wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in media.com...



Tim Downie wrote:
"sm_jamieson" wrote in message
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Anyone see bobski the builder last night on ch4 ?
The pebble dashing was shocking from the British builder, but I was
wondering what was supposed to be wrong with the floor in the Polish
build - they said he used the wrong type of insulation ? Any guesses
?

I think it was the pipe insulation that was used in the concrete floor
(causing it to crack).

I thought the polish builder was given an unduly hard time given that
the customers knew that they had been given a very competative quote.
Okay, he made some mistakes but he got on with the job and the
finished product looked a hell of a lot better than the british one. His
biggest mistake was underpricing the job.

All too true, well under quoted even using Polish labour. *The young
couple expected a champagne job at a lemonade price.

British bloke was shocking.

Mind you, that's TV for you. *Never mind the facts, as long as the ratings
are good.

Do you think that

a) they followed a couple of dozen builders and just used the ones with the
best contrast

no chance


b) they got lucky

c) they set it up like this

maybe, it wouldnt be hard to do.

I don't really know which it is, but unless it was (c) they can't have been
sure of its ratings potential when they started filming around 12 months ago

tim

I would have thought the ratings come down to the title and the idea
behind it more than the actual content. After all, the content really
contained nothing other than the predictable, but we're talking about
it anyway.


NT