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The Selfbuilder is the essential magazine for self-builders, renovators and home improvers brought to you by the multi-award winning team behind Grand Designs Live and Grand Designs Magazine. Request your FREE copy now.

GRAND Designs Magazine

Grand Designs Magazine is the perfect complement to its namesake Channel 4 TV show. The show’s host, Kevin McCloud, takes you to some of his favorite buildings, and every issue features innovative, sustainable (and occasionally wacky) architecture from around the world. We spot the latest trends in design and identify the hottest designers to look out for, plus there are tons of practical ideas and advice for the home. Whether you’re embarking on your very own grand design or simply doing up the living room, you’ll be inspired.

GRAND Designs Live

Grand Designs Live is the UK’s no. 1 consumer show for anyone who has an interest in design, build, interiors , shopping, home wares, gardens, kitchens & bathrooms, and innovation. With yearly exhibitions taking place in London and Birmingham, you can source ideas and inspiration from every house we have ever featured on the TV show; view the widest range of kitchens and bathrooms in the UK, enjoy the chance to try your hand at self-build techniques, and indulge in more opportunities to source products than ever before.

GRAND Designs CD-ROM Archive

Search for everything you need at a touch of a button, a fantastic search facility. Each magazine replicated to view on your own computer.

 

GRAND Designs TV series on DVD 1, 2, 3 and 4

DVD Series 1

Features all eight episodes from the television series which shows people building their own properties from scratch or carrying out grand makeovers.

 

DVD Series 2

More episodes from the fascinating design and build series, detailing innovative projects from around the UK.

 

DVD Series 3

In third series, Kevin McCloud follows six couples in pursuit of their dream home. Whether it’s creating a post-modern cube from scratch in Cambridgeshire or building a house underground in the Cumbrian earth, Kevin is on hand to pore over the plans and lend support.

 

DVD Series 4

In this fourth series, Kevin McCloud tells the stories of seven new ambitious design projects and the people who build them. Amongst the blue-prints he meets a couple who set up their own architectural practice to realise their goal and meets a music manager who wants to build a Modernist Bauhaus inspired with white cube in the middle of a sleepy English seaside town.

 

GRAND Designs TV House Special

40 Amazing projects from the hit TV show. The price includes postage and packaging. A special edition bringing you the very best of TV houses seen on screen. It's inspiring photography creates a very beautiful and collectable publication.

 
 
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Pros & Cons

PROS

  • Once they are up and running, it’s heat for free.
  • Well, sort of. You have to pay the electricity to run the pumps, which can be quite high, depending on how much heat is needed.
  • Once installed, they are very low maintenance.

CONS

  • Prepare to spend at least £10,000 for an air- source system, more for ground or water.
  • A ground-source system requires digging up a lot of the garden or sinking a borehole.
  • Heat pumps are at their most efficient in well-insulated new homes.

Pros & Cons

PROS

  • Once they are up and running, it’s heat for free.
  • Well, sort of. You have to pay the electricity to run the pumps, which can be quite high, depending on how much heat is needed.
  • Once installed, they are very low maintenance.

CONS

  • Prepare to spend at least £10,000 for an air- source system, more for ground or water.
  • A ground-source system requires digging up a lot of the garden or sinking a borehole.
  • Heat pumps are at their most efficient in well-insulated new homes.