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DIY SOS
Midwife Lindsey married ex-Royal Engineer Shaun in 2019. Lindsey had two children from a previous marriage and then had two boys with Shaun. In the summer of 2021, they began to extend their house, with a local builder working with them to put in the foundations, walls and roof, and to get the extension up to first fix. The plan was for Shaun to finish the build himself.
Jordan Hutchison is an inspirational teenager. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, but this has not stopped him defying expectations and raising huge sums of money for charity. He currently lives with his parents, Jackie and Colin, and his siblings at his grandmother's house. He sleeps on an air bed, while the parents share rooms with the younger children. The family home is a shell after a series of building issues meant the family ran out of money with no way of finishing the work.
Nick Knowles and the team travel to Southmead in Bristol, where a charity-owned adventure playground known as the Ranch has fallen into disrepair and is now rendered unfit for purpose. However, that is about to change as local volunteers and tradespeople help to reinvigorate the site, creating a recording studio and forest school to sit alongside the playground and keep the kids happy for years to come.
The team head to Northumberland to help a loving family with three generations in need of care for complex health conditions. Their house needs to be completely redesigned.
The team help a charity in Stoke to create a community centre and garden. The build turns into a battle against the elements, with three of the worst storms to hit Britain in recent years.
Nick Knowles and the team are in the Gloucestershire village of Chorlton Kings, where former car mechanic Peter needs help building an extension to the family house for his wife Sarah and daughter Suzanne, who both have a long-term genetic disorder that affects muscle function. Peter also looks after his elder brother Steve. Peter started the work to adapt to everyone's growing needs but the pressure of looking after the family and completing the work has proved too much, and now his own health has taken a turn for the worse.
