The Big Build - Haydock

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Episode 2 of 2, DIY SOS, Series 20

Duration: 1 hour

Nick Knowles and the team recruit extra help from the local community to renovate a whole house and transform the life of a family who've spent years living in a building site.

The team visits a single mum and her three children in Haydock, near Liverpool. With their sitting room resembling a shell, Lorraine and her children have nowhere to hang out together. Every evening, the children disappear to their bedrooms leaving Lorraine to study for her social work degree in the cold and draughty lounge. The family move out thinking that the team are coming to makeover the sitting room. Unbeknownst to them, more than forty local trades people, friends and family all pitch in to transform the ugliest house in the street into a home fit for a hard working, deserving family.

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Thu 24 Mar 2011 20:00 BBC One

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  • Photo: Lounge before

    Photo: Lounge before

    The sitting room was unusable, meaning the family couldn’t spend time together at home.

  • Photo: Lounge after

    Photo: Lounge after

    The knock-through kitchen/living room is decorated in an African theme using many of Lorraine's African artefacts.

  • Photo: Exterior before

    Photo: Exterior before

    Lorraine, Kyle, Paige and Owen's house was the ugliest in the street.

  • Photo: Exterior after

    Photo: Exterior after

    The ugliest house in the street is now the most beautiful.

  • Image: Floor plan

    Image: Floor plan

    The plan for the renovation done in the Haydock house.

Credits

Series Producer
Hannah Corneck
Presenter
Nick Knowles
Executive Producer
Simon Knight

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