There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

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"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

Oh, I missed that!

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HI

On 22 Mar 2007 08:11:59 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

Oh, I missed that!

Interesting program......

Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....

Shame the man wasn't going to admit the amount of the overspend -
original budget was £200k - must have spent at least £100k extra,
don't you think ??

Amazing views - but not convinced that the nice glass multi-folding
doors would keep the rain & wind out for long.....

At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !

Adrian

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

Was that the chap doing that RGB "any colour you please - that's £4000
please" bit in that pointless dome walk-round thing. I wonder.

:¬)

In article ,
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting
consultant. Coincidence?

Oh, I missed that!

That's not actually an answer, Andrew. ;-)

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In article ,
Adrian wrote:
Interesting program......

Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....

They were taking the p**s by not even attempting to making the building
weather proof during the works. You simply can't rely on there being no
heavy rain in England for several months - even on the south coast. It's
one thing taking the risk where only your own property is involved, but
entirely another when it effects others.

Shame the man wasn't going to admit the amount of the overspend -
original budget was £200k - must have spent at least £100k extra,
don't you think ??

With all the additions including 20,000 just to light the dome? At least.
;-)

Amazing views - but not convinced that the nice glass multi-folding
doors would keep the rain & wind out for long.....

At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !

I would have liked some better views of what it looked like from the
outside - but that would have needed a cherry picker for the camera.

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In article ,
Pete @ www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting
consultant. Coincidence?

Was that the chap doing that RGB "any colour you please - that's £4000
please" bit in that pointless dome walk-round thing. I wonder.

:¬)

Yes - they gave his name on a caption. Of course I may have read it
wrongly - I was eating at the time.

I loved the idea of the LED lighting, though. Any colour you want. And the
dome was an existing feature - not built by 'them'.

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"Adrian" wrote in message
...

At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !


It was pretty **** though.
Couldn't agree more re the architecture.
Pokey corridors and an overall chaotic cluttered mess.
SWMBO would've been wearing quite alot of that view if it were me.

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:42:36 +0000, Adrian
wrote:

HI

On 22 Mar 2007 08:11:59 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:
There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

Oh, I missed that!

Interesting program......

Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....

Shame the man wasn't going to admit the amount of the overspend -
original budget was £200k - must have spent at least £100k extra,
don't you think ??


Too embarrased to say so I suspect he went £200k over budget.


Amazing views - but not convinced that the nice glass multi-folding
doors would keep the rain & wind out for long.....

At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !

Adrian

On 22 Mar, 08:11, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
In article ,
"Dave Plowman (News)" writes:

There was an Andrew Gabriel who appeared briefly as a lighting consultant.
Coincidence?

Oh, I missed that!

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Repeated tonight on More4.

On Mar 22, 9:47 am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:
In article ,
Adrian wrote:

Interesting program......
Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....

They were taking the p**s by not even attempting to making the building
weather proof during the works. You simply can't rely on there being no
heavy rain in England for several months - even on the south coast. It's
one thing taking the risk where only your own property is involved, but
entirely another when it effects others.

Shame the man wasn't going to admit the amount of the overspend -
original budget was £200k - must have spent at least £100k extra,
don't you think ??

With all the additions including 20,000 just to light the dome? At least.
;-)

Amazing views - but not convinced that the nice glass multi-folding
doors would keep the rain & wind out for long.....
At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !

I would have liked some better views of what it looked like from the
outside - but that would have needed a cherry picker for the camera.

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The Windows local live photo appears to pre-date the rebuild, maybe
they'll update the photos soon ( or I've got the wrong building):-

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=7696839

On Mar 22, 2:12 pm, wrote:
On Mar 22, 9:47 am, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:





In article ,
Adrian wrote:

Interesting program......
Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....

They were taking the p**s by not even attempting to making the building
weather proof during the works. You simply can't rely on there being no
heavy rain in England for several months - even on the south coast. It's
one thing taking the risk where only your own property is involved, but
entirely another when it effects others.

Shame the man wasn't going to admit the amount of the overspend -
original budget was £200k - must have spent at least £100k extra,
don't you think ??

With all the additions including 20,000 just to light the dome? At least.
;-)

Amazing views - but not convinced that the nice glass multi-folding
doors would keep the rain & wind out for long.....
At least it wasn't a houseboat covered in tin sheeting !

I would have liked some better views of what it looked like from the
outside - but that would have needed a cherry picker for the camera.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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The Windows local live photo appears to pre-date the rebuild, maybe
they'll update the photos soon ( or I've got the wrong building):-

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...e=o&lvl=2&...- Hide quoted text -

Well, it's certainly not "live" so if it's a recent build you probably
have got the right building. Some areas at least 2 years out of date,
just like Google Earth.

MBQ

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:42:36 +0000, Adrian
wrote:


Couldn't help thinking that the couple who had the 'extension' built
must be very 'thick-skinned' to be able to continue living there -
having p*ssed off all the people living underneath.....


But weren't the old folk downstairs playing to the camera and Kevin's
leading questions? They obviously had some inconvenience but the works
(noise etc) weren't going on 24 hours a day.

"Peter Johnson" wrote


But weren't the old folk downstairs playing to the camera and Kevin's
leading questions? They obviously had some inconvenience but the works
(noise etc) weren't going on 24 hours a day.

No mention was made to the other residents that, in the process of the
re-furb, water tank support beams had been replaced at no cost to them
(which beams had reached a dangerous state of corrosion by anyone's
standards).

Phil

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I loved the idea of the LED lighting, though. Any colour you want. And the
dome was an existing feature - not built by 'them'.

I know the dome was an existing feature, but to have the huge expense of
a glass spiral stair case and that steel fabrication walk way from which
you couldn't see anything either of the room or outside. Just seemed
pointless. It was too small an area to do anything with.

Should have just been left as a dome with the variable colour lights.
IMHO.

Pete
http://www.commercial-gym-equipment.co.uk

Mogga wrote:

Too embarrased to say so I suspect he went £200k over budget.

That's what he deserves for letting a woman run the show!

In article ,
TheScullster wrote:
But weren't the old folk downstairs playing to the camera and Kevin's
leading questions? They obviously had some inconvenience but the works
(noise etc) weren't going on 24 hours a day.

No mention was made to the other residents that, in the process of the
re-furb, water tank support beams had been replaced at no cost to them
(which beams had reached a dangerous state of corrosion by anyone's
standards).

They weren't absolutely clear about that. Normally on a block that size
there'd be ways of paying for this sort of repair.

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writes
I loved the idea of the LED lighting, though. Any colour you want. And
the dome was an existing feature - not built by 'them'.

Well at the risk of spamming the newsgroup, I do sell a little kit that
will achieve a good range of RGB colour changing effects at a pretty low
price. It does require technical savvy though, since you have to
assemble it yourself and then wire up your own custom LED arrays.

I've never seen a cheaper unit do what mine does though. (I haven't
seen many expensive ones that do it either!)

It's on my website if there are any LED geeks interested.

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On 22/03/2007 09:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

That's not actually an answer, Andrew. ;-)

It was an Andrew, but not Gabriel, it was Chapel or Chapman or something ...

In article ,
Andy Burns wrote:
That's not actually an answer, Andrew. ;-)

It was an Andrew, but not Gabriel, it was Chapel or Chapman or something

Ah. Must get a bigger telly for the kitchen. ;-)

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On 22 Mar 2007 08:08:32 -0700, a particular chimpanzee,
" randomly hit the
keyboard and produced:

Well, it's certainly not "live" so if it's a recent build you probably
have got the right building. Some areas at least 2 years out of date,
just like Google Earth.

Some areas are even more out of date than that. My house in
Manchester, built in 1999/2000, hasn't even had the footings dug. It's
the same as Google.

Also, Manchester City's ground, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games
doesn't look too impressive:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=7662327

There might be those, of course, who claim that it's Manchester that's
years behind the times...
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