DIY SOS (1999)
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Episodes 87
West Brom
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Season 19, Episode 8
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Hexagon House, Brecon
Rescue Laurence's self-build project, begun 20 years ago but recently struck by fire.
Read MoreCumbernauld
Finish a lounge in a couple's new home.
Read MoreManchester
Complete the conversion of Keith and Torsten's three storey house from bedsits back into one single home.
Read MoreEastbourne
Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are on a mission in Eastbourne to help rescue Kim Dack, a teacher and single mother-of-three.
Read MoreCleethorpes
Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Vanessa Ronson, as the kitchen in her Victorian house in Cleethorpes currently resembles a building site.
Read MoreGloucester
Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit Gloucester to help rescue 16-year-old Amy and 12-year-old Nick from their mum's hapless attempts at DIY.
Read MoreEast Harling
Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team visit Norfolk to help Carl and Michelle Moorhouse convert a garage into an ideal room for their six-year-old son.
Read MoreWarrington
Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit a young family in Warrington and help them with their home improvement problems.
Read MoreSouth Wales
Home improvement problems remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Angie and Paul Bowles create a county-style lounge down on their farm in South Wales.
Read MorePembroke Dock
The team are in Pembroke Dock to help supersize a tiny family bathroom
Read MoreManchester
The team is in Manchester to help remedy the DIY disaster created by Kevin Vaughton after he tried to enlarge his kitchen.
Read MoreSouthampton
Nick Knowles and the team save a family from their bare brick lounge.
Read MoreNottingham
Nick Knowles and his team help the Erasmus family from Nottingham complete their kitchen.
Read MoreRossendale
Nick Knowles and the team help a couple in Rossendale, Lancashire.
Read MoreChelmsford
Nick Knowles and his team help the Erasmus family from Nottingham complete their kitchen.
Read MoreChelmsford
Do-it-yourself challenges. Nick Knowles and the team are in Chelmsford to give Karen and her family the kitchen of their dreams.
Read MoreNottingham
Complete a bathroom extension for Mark and Vicky, made necessary by their eight-year-old son's brain tumour which has confined him to a wheelchair; they had begun the work themselves, but a flood caused by a burst water pipe set the project back.
Read MoreFloods Special
Nick Knowles and the team face their biggest challenge yet in this DIY SOS Flood special. Since the June floods, there are still many families still trying to renovate their houses back to liveable condition. The team head to Toll Bar, near Doncaster, and take on a foster family's house which found itself deep in water. Plus, they renovate the local club to provide a much-needed space for the people of Toll Bar.
Read MoreStoke-on-Trent
Finish an open-plan kitchen-diner for the Harris family, made necessary by their youngest daughter's medical condition which means she cannot be left unattended; the family had begun the project themselves, but work had not progressed beyond knowing down the dividing wall.
Read MoreWillenhall
Complete the conversion of a garage into a kitchen for Paul and Pauline, made necessary by their growing family, now numbering six children including a daughter with Down's syndrome and twins with learning difficulties; they had begun the project themselves, but ran out of money.
Read MoreLymington
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Sheffield
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Wigan
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Gosport
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Kent
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Episode 1
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team take a trip down memory lane, recalling some of their best renovations, stories, and the funniest moments over the last 10 years. Did DIY SOS truly change people's lives for the better? Join Nick and the team in between jobs on this unique journey through the DIY SOS archives.
Read MoreBridgwater
The team is in Bridgwater to help the Robinson family.
Read MoreBowled Over in Oxford
The team are in Oxford to help complete a bungalow extension for the Barker family.
Read MoreLounging in Bradford
Nick Knowles and the team are in Bradford to renovate a lounge for Emma and her son Thomas.
Read MoreElping out in Essex
Nick Knowles and the team are called to the rescue of the Curry family in Halstead.
Read MoreThe Big Build
Nick Knowles and the team attempt to re-house a family who have spent years in a caravan.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Chessington
The team transforms the life of a family who have spent years living in a building site.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Chessington
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A Little Luxury in Leamington
Nick Knowles and the team head to Leamington Spa to help out single parent Kate. Left in a building site by builders her unfinished extension means she's bringing up three children with no heating, no hot water and lots of brick dust.
Read MoreA Home for Howards
This time they help the Howard family from Kent, who live in a Victorian cottage which has been in the family for generations and has barely changed since it was built. The family's attempt at transforming their kitchen and sitting room have ended in disaster, and the team are drafted in to sort out the mess and create two stunning new rooms for a deserving family.
Read MoreGrandad's Timewarp
The team find themselves in Kingston-Upon-Thames with grandparents Ray and Linda. The couple have spent the last nine years bringing up their grandchildren after their mother sadly passed away. Twins Nathan and Chelsea, who are now both 14, have grown out of their toy room.
Read MoreWorktop Woes in Watford
Nick Knowles and the team are in Watford to renovate a kitchen and dining area for a family that needs it to be medically clean. Lucy and husband Mario bought a rundown house that they hoped to renovate into their dream home, but everything changed when their daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The renovation is now on hold, but the need for a clean living space is greater than ever.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Haydock
Nick Knowles recruits extra help to renovate a whole house, making it a home.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Haydock
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Three Rooms for Three Daughters
The team visit Edmonton, North London, to help the Parenti family. They undertook extension and renovation work on their house four years ago, but a falling out with the builder forced dad Stephen to step in and do it himself, with semi-disastrous consequences.
Read MoreLiz's Bedroom Bedlam
The team visit Liz and Neil Capper, who live in a beautiful little cottage in Norfolk. It was always Neil who did the DIY and the tough jobs around the house but following several back operations he has been reduced to walking with crutches and can no longer do those difficult tasks.
Read MoreCompilation
Compilation programme built around a day in the life of Nick Knowles. We revisit two of the great shows from the last series and see how the families are doing today. There is also the usual high quality funnies, Billy explores his talents with the English language, we learn how Julia became one of the lads and we get to go behind the scenes and witness what happens when the cameras aren't rolling.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Brynmawr
The team transforms an ex-council house in the Welsh Valleys into a family home.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Littlehamption
Nick Knowles and the team help Mike, whose house was ruined by rogue builders.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Mike's Home
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Littlehampton
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The Big Build - Nottingham
The team work to transform an extension into a cosy, family-friendly space.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Nottingham
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Nottingham
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Chippenham
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The Big Build - Chippenham
Nick Knowles and the team build an extension to help bring a brain-injured son home.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Chippenham
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The Big Build - Aberystwyth
Nick Knowles and the team enlist the help of the local community in Aberystwyth to renovate a home for a builder with a brain tumour. Michael Saunders built an extension onto his house when his son- in-law's MS meant he had to start using a wheelchair. When Michael discovered he had cancer, he was unable to finish his own home and he and his partner were left living in a cold and draughty shell of a house. Battling against terrible weather conditions, Nick and the team head to West Wales to rally friends, family and local trades to help turn Michael's house from a building site into a comfortable home.
Read MoreAberystwyth
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The Big Build - Durham
Nick Knowles and the team enlist the help of the local community in Durham to reconfigure a home and reunite a family torn apart by illness. Sixteen-year-old Kieron Purvis collapsed with an undiagnosed heart condition in December 2009. Following a heart transplant and a double amputation, the Purvis family found themselves living apart because their home was not equipped for Kieron's special needs. Nick and the SOS team issue a call to arms and rally friends, family and local trades to get the Purvis' home fit for them to live under the same roof after a year apart.
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Read MoreDurham
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The Big Build - Stoke
Nick Knowles and the team are joined by guest designer Charlie Luxton. They join forces to enlist the help of the local community in Stoke and renovate a home for a family battling terminal illness. Dad Haydn Spice was diagnosed with abdominal cancer shortly after buying a derelict house at auction in 2004. Haydn's ill health meant that he couldn't work on the house, and his family have been left living in a building site. He and his wife and three daughters are all sleeping in one bedroom and trying to make the best of the time Haydn has left. Nick and the team head to the Midlands to rally friends, family and local trades to help turn the Spice family's derelict house into a comfortable home.
Read MoreStoke-on-Trent
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The Big Build - Cirencester
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team enlist local tradespeople, members of the community and guest designer Charlie Luxton in Cirencester to transform an incomplete extension and run-down house into a clean, warm and healthy home for a family on the brink of despair.
Read MoreCirencester
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The Big Build - Dartford
The team transforms a post-war house in Dartford into a warm and safe home for the future.
Read MoreDartford
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The Big Build - Ottery St Mary
The team convert a bungalow into a four-bedroom home for a family at their wits' end.
Read MoreOttery St Mary
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The Big Build - Children in Need Special - Liverpool
The team travels to Liverpool to completely refurbish Norris Green Youth Centre. The money Children in Need already give to this centre helps it provide activities for young people with few other options. But the building is falling down around them, and without the youth centre the youngsters will have nowhere else to go outside school.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Chesterfield
Derbyshire is the destination for Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team as they travel to Chesterfield to help Lisa and Richard Watson and their young family.
Read MoreChesterfield
The team travel to Chesterfield to help Lisa and Richard Watson and their young family.
Read MoreThe Big Build - Conwy
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team travel to a beautiful village in the Welsh countryside to help a widower and his eight-year-old daughter.
Read MoreDudley - West Midlands
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team come to the aid of a family in Dudley.
Read MoreHuntingdon
The team go to Huntingdon to transform a house into a home for Julie's supersized family.
Read MoreThe Big Build Children in Need Special
DIY SOS and BBC Children in Need embark on a truly challenging build for the Blackburn homeless charity Nightsafe. Young homeless people are often overlooked, vulnerable and very much in need of help.
Read MoreChildren in Need Special 2022
The DIY SOS team joins forces with Radio 2 for a Children in Need mega build in Leeds.
Read MoreStrictly Special
DIY SOS and Strictly partner up to bring some sparkle to an inclusive performing arts charity in Wallsend, transforming a derelict sports club into a creative home for their young people.
Read MoreChildren in Need Special 2023
In their tenth build for BBC Children in Need, DIY SOS partner up with Radio 2 to create a bespoke counselling centre for bereaved children in Derbyshire.
Read MoreEastEnders Special
In a heart-warming episode for Christmas, DIY SOS partner with the stars of EastEnders to bring volunteers together to support a mental health community project in Harlow, Essex.
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