Guaranteed Rent | To the rescue: Sarah Beeny's home renovation advice
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You could save yourself some money by bypassing the estate agent, says Beeny, who set up the property website two years ago and recently added the Tepilo directory. The 40-year-old presenter of Channel 4s Property Ladder, Streets Ahead, Britains Best Homes and Restoration Nightmare dismisses any suggestion we are too busy. TV property star Sarah Beeny talks to Genevieve Fox about home renovations, the recession and why location isn’t everything. Sarah Beeny is charging down Balham’s Bedford Hill like a runaway bulldozer. Head down, phone locked to her ear, she’s deep in breathless conversation. “No, that’s not it,” I catch her saying. “What the average man on the street actually wants…” Ah, the nation’s property oracle is about to pronounce. I feel my fortunes about to change. Then she sees me, winds up her call, and dashes my hopes of a sneak preview into her crystal ball. But throwing fairy dust on the future is the property pin-up’s preoccupation at the moment: a second series of Help! My House is Falling Down is currently running on Channel 4. Help! is the grown-up’s answer to Bob the Builder. Each episode features a home on the brink of disaster-movie decay. Think deadly damp spores, rotting roofs, flood damage, beetle infestations and even a house that might have been built over a mine shaft. All seems lost, then enters Sarah the Saviour with her big blue eyes and mean ways with chisels and chainsaws to put home sweet home back on the horizon. At one stage, her father moved the family into a caravan while he was building their house, which was “an amazing adventure”. It’s one we can all share, she says, as long as we are realistic about the amount of work involved, and the expertise required. “We underestimate the professional skills of builders and engineers,” she says. “We don’t hold craftsmen in high esteem.” We might do, if we could find the good ones in the first place. What’s the secret? “It’s flipping difficult. I shouldn’t say it, but I’ve have had some amazing builders and some utterly disastrous ones. Even I’m not immune to absolutely useless monkeys.” So, this property powerball is human after all. What makes her a winner? “It’s not that I’ve got some amazing sixth sense,” she says. “I’ve got experience – I’ve been in a lot of houses.”.. - Source
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You could save yourself some money by bypassing the estate agent, says Beeny, who set up the property website two years ago and recently added the Tepilo directory. The 40-year-old presenter of Channel 4s Property Ladder, Streets Ahead, Britains Best Homes and Restoration Nightmare dismisses any suggestion we are too busy. TV property star Sarah Beeny talks to Genevieve Fox about home renovations, the recession and why location isn’t everything. Sarah Beeny is charging down Balham’s Bedford Hill like a runaway bulldozer. Head down, phone locked to her ear, she’s deep in breathless conversation. “No, that’s not it,” I catch her saying. “What the average man on the street actually wants…” Ah, the nation’s property oracle is about to pronounce. I feel my fortunes about to change. Then she sees me, winds up her call, and dashes my hopes of a sneak preview into her crystal ball. But throwing fairy dust on the future is the property pin-up’s preoccupation at the moment: a second series of Help! My House is Falling Down is currently running on Channel 4. Help! is the grown-up’s answer to Bob the Builder. Each episode features a home on the brink of disaster-movie decay. Think deadly damp spores, rotting roofs, flood damage, beetle infestations and even a house that might have been built over a mine shaft. All seems lost, then enters Sarah the Saviour with her big blue eyes and mean ways with chisels and chainsaws to put home sweet home back on the horizon. At one stage, her father moved the family into a caravan while he was building their house, which was “an amazing adventure”. It’s one we can all share, she says, as long as we are realistic about the amount of work involved, and the expertise required. “We underestimate the professional skills of builders and engineers,” she says. “We don’t hold craftsmen in high esteem.” We might do, if we could find the good ones in the first place. What’s the secret? “It’s flipping difficult. I shouldn’t say it, but I’ve have had some amazing builders and some utterly disastrous ones. Even I’m not immune to absolutely useless monkeys.” So, this property powerball is human after all. What makes her a winner? “It’s not that I’ve got some amazing sixth sense,” she says. “I’ve got experience – I’ve been in a lot of houses.”.. - Source
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