On 29/08/2019 07:22, soup wrote:
On 29/08/2019 05:48, alan_m wrote:

Turn up with two men and a lorry to pick up something given away for
free and weighing a couple of hundred weight which then is put into
the hands of a professional interior designer and his mates to
transform the rubbish into crap.

Get something for free in Essex and transport it to Glasgow! [1] Again
passing through the hands of designers who seem to have been down to
the local shed to obtain £30 worth of wood/ply.

It would probably been cheaper for the program makers to have visited
a local furnishing store and purchased everything new.


Something similar happens with a programme called "wheeler dealers"
where they buy a car for X and sell it for y (after repairing it/'doing
it up').Â* Profit is y-x.

Â*What they tend not to allow for is that they have master mechanics
(who know what they are doing, an entire research team finding where to
get the parts that the mechanic just happens to know are needed) on hand
and a fully equipped work shop. Say £450 an hour for a week or so, soon
eats any profit they have 'made'.

To be fair to WD, they did explain that the older programmes (and even
large parts of some of the later ones) were based on the idea that a
competent home mechanic could do most of what Edd does at home (in some
cases with workarounds where specialist equipment wasn't available) and
so they didn't count Edd's time in the costs.

SteveW