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Jasmine Harman's Renovation in the Sun - Season 1 Episode 6
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00:00The tiles have just arrived, and they don't look the right colour to me.
00:09Just cutting the snail bottom off, I'm afraid.
00:12Being in a vegan house, you can't be chopping off the animals' heads, can you?
00:19It's looking great in here now, isn't it?
00:21Finally.
00:22Finally!
00:24Can I go in?
00:30I love it. I want to swap bedrooms with her.
00:38He was here with us from the start, but I think we need a bit more help.
00:44We're going to take away that bar and add a door which will go straight through into the gym.
00:49Okay, my own gym.
00:54This is that much concrete.
00:59We're essentially breaking into a bank.
01:01Right.
01:02Do you think I look protected enough?
01:04I think you look protected enough.
01:07Those will always be there as part of my house.
01:11Can I go first?
01:24Since moving into their forever home on the cost of Del Sol some five months ago.
01:27Hi!
01:29Hi!
01:31Jasmine Harmon and her husband John
01:33have completed phase one of their renovation.
01:36It is so fantastic to have a few rooms finally finished
01:43and not just finished, but nicely finished, beautifully finished.
01:48I'm so happy with the way Joy and Albion's bedrooms have turned out
02:01and also the family bathroom is looking stunning.
02:09After a series of mishaps and delays,
02:11it's taken a lot longer than originally planned.
02:14With two more phases to go and about three months to do it,
02:17sooner or later this project is going to have to shift up a gear or three
02:21if they're going to have any chance of hitting their summer deadline.
02:25I would love to be able to invite family and friends over
02:30in the summer to see the house all finished.
02:33You know, there might be a few rooms that I have to keep the doors closed.
02:39Finishing the three rooms we have, great,
02:42but that is a tiny percentage of the bigger picture of this house.
02:46We've still got a big garden to sort out,
02:52driveway to sort out,
02:54basement to sort out,
02:56garage to sort out,
02:58kitchen to sort out,
03:00stairs to the back, garden to sort out, roof terraces to sort out,
03:02utility room to sort out,
03:04bathroom to sort out.
03:06Still quite a lot to sort out.
03:10But one step at a time.
03:12Phase two is going to focus on the driveway, pool area and basement.
03:16Once that's complete, the family can live down there,
03:18while the main bedroom, kitchen and living room on the ground floor
03:22are tackled in phase three.
03:24Project one of phase two for John represents a key milestone in this family's new life in Spain.
03:34The pool has always been a tiny bit of a mystery.
03:37We had always guessed that it wasn't really working because it's never had any water in it,
03:42even when we came round to view the house.
03:45My assumptions are people don't tend to sit with pools empty for years and years unless they're broken.
03:52So my guess, my deduction is, the pool doesn't hold water.
03:57There's two scenarios to this pool and getting it working.
04:01One is a fairly quick, easy fix of filling in holes in the grouting.
04:06If that doesn't work, scenario two is digging down seven feet,
04:11finding a pipe, repairing the pipe, fixing the pipe.
04:16I don't want it to be scenario two.
04:19I am praying for my wallet, for our time, and for the kids.
04:24But it's scenario one, and then in three days' time we have water in the pool,
04:28and the water level stays where it should.
04:31Come on.
04:33Échale ahí, Tim.
04:34¿Esta?
04:35¿Dónde está mojado?
04:36Sí, sí, sí.
04:38Oh.
04:40¿Aquí no?
04:41Sí, de una.
04:43¿Bien o no?
04:44Eso sí.
04:45Le explico.
04:46Tú lo haces, tú lo haces, mira.
04:48Bien, bien, bien.
04:50Oh, God.
04:51I'm leaving alive.
04:57Oh, my God, it sets so quickly.
04:59We've had quite a few different opinions on our pool and what we can do to get it fixed.
05:11It could cost probably €20,000 or more if we end up having to dig out the whole pool to find the leak.
05:20So, it's a bit scary.
05:23I mean, I'm just keeping everything crossed.
05:26Let's hope filling in all those gaps with new grout does the job.
05:31So, John's still got a bit of a limp and the thrombosis slowed things down, his leg is now healing well and he's back on track, ticking off the recovery milestones.
05:42So, the good news is the doctor's given me the sign off so that I can drive again, which is great.
05:48It's been about eight weeks since I last drove.
05:51Whoo!
05:53I feel like driving is three-quarters of the way there.
05:57The last quarter is just polishing off my walking and stability and I'll be back to normal.
06:03Are you going to pick up the kids?
06:05Yeah, I'm going.
06:06Go, because otherwise you're going to be late.
06:08Good luck making decisions.
06:09Run.
06:10Joke.
06:11Hop.
06:12Adios.
06:13Adios.
06:14Adios.
06:15You sort of forget how much freedom you get from driving.
06:30And at the moment, driving is actually physically easier than walking.
06:39First drive home after Denny's dodgy leg.
06:46I guess for Jazz, also, it's a little bit of freedom for her.
06:50She can have five minutes headspace on her own.
06:53I don't know what to do with myself.
06:54I'm alone in the house.
06:56It's really weird.
06:58You know, to have him not being here, he's become just like a part of the furniture over the last couple of months.
07:05And so him not being here, it kind of feels a bit disorientating, but nice.
07:11I can have a cup of tea in peace for a minute.
07:16Keen to turn up the heat on this renovation, Jasmine's called in some support.
07:22I think we need an architect to just help us with a few tricky areas.
07:31John met Tamsin working on a property show and she was the architect behind all the stuff that you see on screen.
07:41And they've worked together for a long, long time.
07:43So we figured, well, let's see if she can work her magic for us.
07:48Tamsin has already arranged to get all the measurements and has had time to work up some ideas.
07:56With a basement key to this phase, they're heading straight down there.
08:00So on your plans, does this essentially stay as it is, the staircase?
08:06Yes.
08:07OK.
08:08I don't think there's too much we could do.
08:09You could put some glass in the door at the top to allow a bit more light in.
08:13Yeah, that's a good idea.
08:14But I think it's better for sound to contain everyone down here.
08:18And especially if it's a party room as well.
08:21Exactly, yeah.
08:22Tamsin's plan for the large main space in the basement is exactly that.
08:28An entertaining stroke party room with a cinema snug at one end.
08:33I have a question about the cinema space and whether you actually see it as a separate room
08:38or if it's just a snug area within here.
08:41I kind of feel like it's more like just somewhere cosy to sit like a snug with a big screen.
08:49And I think it could be for us if we have a movie night, you know, with the kids
08:54or if they've got friends over and they're playing computer games or something like that, they can be out of our way.
09:00Yes.
09:01Or as they get older, they can get, you know, we can...
09:03Yeah.
09:04Even more reason to have the door at the top of the stairs.
09:06Yeah.
09:07You can catch.
09:08I've never had a room the size of the basement that we've got here.
09:12It's huge.
09:14It's absolutely huge.
09:16Mine and John's first flat that we bought together was way smaller than that entire basement.
09:25Yeah, it's a great space.
09:31The other half of the basement, which is currently a garage, storeroom and toilet, Tamsin plans to split up into a guest bedroom, shower room and gym.
09:42And we're going to take away that bar and add a door, which will go straight through into the bathroom.
09:47And then you could have some doors out from either the gym or the guest bedroom because we're dropping the ground levels outside.
09:54Okay.
09:55I have my own gym.
09:59I have to use it.
10:00I know.
10:01That's the pressure now.
10:03So this is where we've got the Wow Island, is it?
10:07I suggest having a big entertaining bar down here.
10:11Down here.
10:12That's your food prep for barbecues.
10:14That's your kind of cocktail prep.
10:16That's the, you know, servery.
10:17Oh, John would love that.
10:18Once upon a time, before I met him, he used to be a barman when he was at uni.
10:24So he used to do all the flaring.
10:25It's like, oh, he's in his element.
10:27He'll be absolutely in his element.
10:28It also means that you can have bar seating.
10:31So it's a bit more social to be able to sit up at something.
10:34Yeah.
10:35Okay.
10:36I like that.
10:37And what's the other option for that?
10:38So the other option is more similar to where it is now.
10:42Putting a sort of bar, double stack the bar there.
10:45So almost like a little kitchenette there.
10:47So you'd have a sink.
10:49Yeah.
10:50You could have a dress fridge underneath.
10:52Yeah.
10:53Tamsin's ideas for the basement were quite different.
10:57Took me a little while to come round to them.
10:59But actually, I quite like, I'm definitely coming round to the idea of having a big island down there.
11:05It will be the part of the house that everyone remembers and everyone talks about.
11:12The outside stairs up to the first floor balcony are another key consideration in this phase.
11:17So the concern is that if we put the stairs in that corner, we lose a bit of light, we can widen the other window to gain what we've lost from the staircase.
11:28That's a good idea.
11:29So you could have open tread risers, which would allow the light in.
11:32My personal point of view on this is I don't particularly ever like looking through a staircase.
11:38Yeah.
11:39So I would block it in and possibly have an outdoor store under the staircase.
11:42Right.
11:43And then just make the window bigger.
11:44And then you have a couple of steps up to the garden through that door and then widen the other window.
11:50Okay.
11:51I suppose I can live with that.
11:53It's really hard.
11:55I mean, even though looking at it on the plans, I'm still finding it quite hard to visualise it and thinking, oh, will it be enough?
12:02But I think you just have to trust the process, don't you?
12:05Yeah.
12:09Oh, so that's the rope you put there.
12:11Yeah.
12:12Earlier.
12:13So we're going to use this to demonstrate the angle of the stairs and how it works in this location.
12:18But actually, that's not too bad because that is not taking up as much of the doorway below as I thought.
12:29That would be really good.
12:30Is there a particular gradient?
12:32Because that angle looks, I mean, it looks fine to me, but...
12:35Well, the gentler the slope, the easier the stairs are and the more likely you are to use them.
12:40Yeah.
12:41And there are regulations of how steep they could be.
12:43Okay.
12:44But this looks okay to you.
12:45This is okay.
12:46The other decision that you'll have is just what the stairs are made of and whether they're solid or not.
12:51I definitely always maintained that we had to have stairs coming down to here and I actually think that's a much better option.
12:58This is the best place for the stairs without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion.
13:03So thank you.
13:04Yeah.
13:05It's nice to have come out here with something you hadn't thought about before.
13:09Overall, I think Tamsyn's really listened to us.
13:17Her plans are fantastic.
13:19She's given us options.
13:21She's talked us through the pros and cons.
13:23And I think we're in a really good place now to make decisions.
13:30We're hanging out in the pool after school.
13:45Let's hope after our repairs, kids, in a week or two, this has water in.
13:51And you'll be floating on it eating ice cream.
13:54With a little help, John's re-grouted the pool, hoping that quick fix, costing a few hundred pounds in materials and man-hours,
14:02will save the time and expense of digging up the piping underneath the pool.
14:08Look how happy and excited you look.
14:10Don't try to look too excited, Albie.
14:12Jo, what are we going to do this morning?
14:14Start filling up the pool to see if the leak's still there.
14:19The only side problem is currently the only tap that Daddy can connect the hose to is at the opposite end of the house.
14:28On the roof.
14:29The roof.
14:30The roof terrace.
14:31So who's going to go down to the pool and receive the hose and who's going to be on the roof and setting the hose down?
14:36We'll go down.
14:37Me and Joy will go down.
14:39Pass it down.
14:40Come on, Albie, let's get the hose ready.
14:50No, don't tend it down yet, babe.
14:52So Joy and I are waiting down here.
14:55The boys are up on the roof.
14:57They're going to send us the hose down.
14:59We're going to put a little bit of water in it and see if it holds.
15:02Are you ready?
15:03We're ready.
15:06Do you want to come and catch the hose as it comes down?
15:12Why is it attached to a piece of string?
15:15Safety.
15:16All you have to do is untie the string.
15:18I can't reach it.
15:21The string needs to come much longer.
15:24No.
15:25Can I turn it on?
15:27No.
15:31Are you ready now?
15:32We are filling up the pool.
15:38The hose is coming from the rooftop.
15:39We're just going to put a little bit of water in there.
15:42I mean, at the moment, it's looking pretty murky and it's hard to tell whether it's going to hold water now that we've done a sort of small repair job to some of the obvious cracks that were there.
15:57But once we've filled it up a little bit, we'll mark it on the wall and see how quickly it goes down.
16:13So, test and away, time to move on to a bit of a restoration project.
16:25We feel like it's important to keep some of the original elements of the house.
16:30And so, there was far too much metal work already in the house to rip it all off and replace it.
16:34So, finding Chris and repairing the metal work was important for us.
16:43And also, the metal work that was there is actually pretty good.
16:46So, really, some of it needs repairing and then there needs to be a bit made to fit on the end to sort of complete the wall.
16:54With the gates, window covers and the odd bit of fence, there's a few days of work for Chris there.
17:08But that will have to wait as a change of weather puts a hold on any outside work.
17:13Obviously, living in the Costa del Sol, we have so much sunshine for most of the year.
17:19Not today, unfortunately.
17:22Because we really, really want to try and be as green and as sustainable and as environmentally friendly as possible.
17:31I found someone that does solar panels.
17:35And I thought, that would be amazing if we could get solar panels and power the house off of that and save money.
17:42Then it kind of seems like a no-brainer.
17:45Hi, Karin.
17:46Hi.
17:47Come on in.
17:49Welcome to our building site.
17:51Nice to meet you.
17:52Nice to meet you.
17:54It sounds like it's raining even more.
17:56Hang on.
17:58It's absolutely pouring now, Karin.
18:00I don't know if you want to go out there.
18:02Have a little look at the neighbours.
18:05Ah, yeah.
18:06I see.
18:07Yeah.
18:08That roof terrace, we want to keep it usable.
18:10So, we have got a little bit of roof space above here.
18:15Yeah.
18:16So, yeah.
18:17You can put solar panels here.
18:18And I think you probably can fit around three solar panels here.
18:21But you probably need a lot more.
18:23At least around eight panels.
18:25Oh, really?
18:26So, we need to find more space.
18:29Space.
18:30But you could also here, if you still want to have this space usable, it's quite common.
18:35Also, you put a pergola and you can put solar on top of that.
18:37You can still use the terrace and you don't have to put the pergola on the whole terrace.
18:41The whole terrace.
18:42How long does it normally take until the panels can pay for themselves, in terms of your energy saving?
18:47It's like the payback time here is usually between three to five years.
18:51Really?
18:52So, it's quite good payoff.
18:53That's not bad, is it?
18:54No, it's really good.
18:55Can you give me an idea of costs or does it vary?
18:58It varies.
18:59It depends how many panels and the labour cost, what kind of work we have to do to install the panels at your house.
19:07So, would you be able to drop me an email or something with a quote?
19:10Yeah, so what I will do, I will summarise this and see different options and see where we actually will fit the panels.
19:15And then I will summarise it and send a proposal to you.
19:18Oh, thank you very much.
19:19So, you will have it shortly.
19:20That's brilliant.
19:21Okay.
19:22Let's head back down.
19:24The idea of being able to have green energy, to power the whole house with solar energy.
19:33The thing is, because we have such a limited amount of roof space, it's not an easy process.
19:39You don't just say, yeah, bring the people around, they can install it straight away and we can get going.
19:45There's a whole process.
19:47So, we'd need to design the roof terrace, put in a pergola, finish that project first,
19:53before we can then do the solar panels.
19:55So, I do want to do it, but it's not going to be a quick thing.
20:08Jasmine and John have a few projects bubbling away and some seeds in the ground, but not much is really happening on site at the moment.
20:15It feels like it might be time for a bit of a shake-up.
20:18We have got so much work left to do and it's just impossible.
20:25You know, no one could do this amount of work on their own in the timeframe that we've got,
20:31because we want to try and get everything finished by the summer.
20:34So, Carlos has got some other jobs as well that he's committed to.
20:40So, we've come to a point where we're going to have to part ways.
20:45Really sad, because Carlos has become part of the family, really.
20:58I love Carlos. Genuinely, there's a little bit of my heart that he's a decent guy.
21:06But I don't think we'll get to the summer with our deadline with just Carlos and marching alone.
21:18Thank you very much.
21:19Thank you, Lieutenant.
21:20Thank you very much.
21:22Thank you very much.
21:23Thank you, Pastor.
21:24Thank you all, you've been making a break.
21:28It's a pleasure to meet you.
21:30Don't cry.
21:31Bye, family.
21:34Bye, family.
21:42Why are you crying?
21:44I'm just crying at everything.
21:47Carlos has just been, like, part of the family, hasn't he,
21:51since we moved in, since before we moved in.
21:54So I'm just sad to see him go.
21:57There'll be a big Carlos-shaped hole in our lives,
22:01but it won't be forever.
22:03We'll definitely see him again.
22:09He'll always be part of this house
22:12because he was here with us from the start.
22:15But I think that we need a bit more help.
22:21We need to drive this forward
22:24and get it done as quickly as possible.
22:42It's been two and a half days since we've put some water in the pool
22:51at the weekend with the kids.
22:54And definitely not leaking water as quickly as it was before.
22:59So I'm hoping that the water level that has gone down,
23:04which is only a few millimetres, is just natural evaporation.
23:10Time to give it a clean and get it ready to fill it right up.
23:14Jazz is taking one for the team.
23:17We don't have a net.
23:19I don't know why we don't have a net.
23:21Why don't we put on it?
23:22And so because that vent isn't on,
23:24which you're also going to put on slightly,
23:26before we head into the test water,
23:27Jazz is having a little dip.
23:29Obviously I can't go up with my dodgy leg.
23:32I do need to get a net.
23:39Bet you wish you were only cleaning the bathtub now.
23:41Look, you've just started there and you've got all that to go.
23:43Look.
23:47The final stages of the pool cleaning slash trying to repair.
23:53Taking a bit longer than we thought, eh?
23:59With the pool project going swimmingly
24:01and having already said goodbye to Carlos,
24:03the builder Jasmine and John had been working with
24:05pretty much since they got the keys,
24:07the new guy is now on board and on site.
24:10Jazz had sort of put the word out.
24:12She's spoken to a few of her former house hunters in this area
24:15and loads of people recommended this guy called Dominic.
24:21Hello!
24:22How are you?
24:23I'm good, you?
24:26You ready to make some noise?
24:29Absolutely, come on in.
24:30OK, thanks.
24:35I'm Dominic.
24:36I'm a project manager here on the Costa del Sol.
24:39I've lived in Spain 17 years.
24:43I've spent a lot of that time working in Gibraltar.
24:46And now I work within this area.
24:49It's going to be a lovely property.
24:52Plenty of work to be done inside and out.
24:56Yeah, finished by the summer?
24:57I think so.
24:58It doesn't worry me.
24:59It doesn't worry me.
25:00As long as everything lines up.
25:03I think Dominic should stand a good chance of being able to get us
25:07to completing everything by the summer because he's got more resources,
25:12you know, he's got more people available and it's a bigger company.
25:17So, fingers crossed, we'll be able to get there.
25:24While Dominic and his team get phase two underway,
25:28welder Chris is back and making great headway with the front gates.
25:33And with all the protective gear and flashing lights,
25:36Jasmine's keen to get involved.
25:37Chris even has vegan rather than the usual leather gloves for her.
25:41Right. I'm ready, Chris.
25:43Yeah.
25:44Do you think I look protected enough?
25:46I think you look protected enough.
25:47I think boiler suits are back in fashion, aren't they?
25:49Yeah, yeah.
25:50So, what we're going to do is we need to weld on these tree foils
25:55using the arc rod like this and bringing this like this.
25:59Do you use any other material or it just melts the metal of the two pieces?
26:02So, this rod is going to go smaller and smaller and smaller.
26:08It'll take a couple of goes, I think.
26:09Practice.
26:10Yeah.
26:11How long have you been doing it?
26:13I've been a welder now for eight years.
26:15I used to make wheelchairs.
26:18Oh, really?
26:19Yeah.
26:20I could have done with one of those just recently.
26:21My husband broke his leg.
26:23Shall we get some welding done then so you can get out of all the gear?
26:25Yeah, let's do it.
26:26Important is don't look at this without your helmet on.
26:29Don't look at it?
26:30It's basically when you're melting the metal, it's like all of the bad stuff from the sun.
26:34You're UVA and you're UVB.
26:36Right.
26:39Yeah, so it gets over your head.
26:41Yeah, I've got a big head.
26:42That's all right.
26:43And then we tighten it up.
26:45Jazz loves getting hands on.
26:46She's very happy to get hands on.
26:48I think she would do more of the renovation if she could.
26:51So, you're going to go start here.
26:52Yeah.
26:53You want to have it kind of angled a bit more that way.
26:57And you want to kind of go like this motion.
26:59I'm going to put you about here and then I'll kind of flick my mask down because otherwise I can't see.
27:03Okay.
27:09Oh yeah, it's quite tricky isn't it?
27:11Yeah, that was all good.
27:13That's good for the first time.
27:15If I change it around then we can do another one, eh?
27:17Yeah, that's good.
27:18Yeah, that's good.
27:19That's good, that's good, that's good.
27:20Yep, you can stop this.
27:21Nice.
27:22Woo!
27:23That's really good.
27:24That's well improved.
27:25Once it's finished, let's just tap it off.
27:28So I'll come back through with the grinder, make them all a bit stronger.
27:33Ah, you'll have to tell me which ones they are.
27:35I'll put your ones at that end and at that end.
27:36And then you know that they're your ones.
27:37Those are my ones.
27:38I'll tell everyone when they come to visit.
27:39I well did those.
27:40Yeah.
27:41Thank you so much.
27:42No worries.
27:43I'll catch up with you in a bit.
27:44See ya.
27:45That was actually amazing.
27:46Hopefully, those two that I did will always be there as part of my house.
27:52With phase two of the renovation now in full swing, Jasmine and the family are taking a
28:20well-earned break.
28:22Hopping aboard a popular local form of transport to discover the native wildlife that's right
28:28on their doorstep.
28:31Today we're going out on a boat trip from Estepona.
28:35Really excited about it.
28:37Oh yeah, let's get on this boat.
28:40We just decided to take a family day and go out on our own sort of mini version of a holiday.
28:47Oh look, there's a paddle board on the back of that boat, Albie.
28:50Oh, should we have brought swimming things?
28:53We've just sent Albie in his dolphin bait.
28:56Hola, buenos dias. Hola, gracias.
29:00It feels like it's been a long time coming but it's amazing to finally be out and about
29:06and go and do family things again with a leg that is 90% working again.
29:10Oh, how nice is this?
29:13Albie's going to have a sleep.
29:17I think there's a seat.
29:19Looks like it.
29:20Oh, no?
29:21Albie, you're like the captain.
29:23I'm not the best on boats.
29:26I get quite bad seasickness.
29:29In fact, I get all kinds of motion sickness, which is terrible for someone who travels as much as I do.
29:34I did my 10m swimming badge when I was about six or seven years old.
29:42So I think I'll be alright if I do end up in the water.
29:46I actually love swimming, especially in the sea.
29:49So who knows, if we see some dolphins, I might just jump in as well.
29:53Although I forgot to bring my swimming costume.
29:55Oh, well, I probably won't.
29:57What's that smell?
29:59It's the smell of the sea.
30:01It smells like Aston.
30:04It smells like Aston.
30:07Albie and Mummy.
30:09Albie and Mummy.
30:10Albie, ready?
30:11Come on, keep your eyes peeled for dolphins, Albie.
30:26Yay!
30:27So what you have to do, Joy, is keep an eye out on the horizon for any dolphin-like movement.
30:34Can you do your dolphin noise?
30:37My dolphin noise?
30:39Oh, yeah.
30:40Donnie's really good at a dolphin impression, isn't he?
30:41My dolphins?
30:42You want me to try and call the dolphins?
30:43Yeah.
30:44Go on.
30:45Communicate with them.
30:46Tell them we're here.
30:47Ready?
30:51I mean, he's not going to call any dolphins.
30:53I don't think they're going to hear you.
30:56Good, all right?
30:57I can't hear you.
31:00Let me hear you.
31:02Now, having lived by the sea for a while, I recognise its amazing restorative power.
31:11Oh, there's a little sailing moment.
31:13It is amazing and I do feel that being by the sea helps me in so many ways, helps me
31:25to relax, helps me to rejuvenate and definitely feels like my mental health benefits from
31:33being by the sea.
31:35I feel like I'm so small on this planet and all my problems are so small that it makes
31:44them seem easy to overcome.
31:48Oh!
31:50Fuck yourself there!
31:53Oh my God!
31:56Oh!
31:58Oh, life with you is always so much fun!
32:02Just squeezing my leg.
32:05It's nice though, isn't it, being able to just do stuff like this any time.
32:11Amazing.
32:13Incredibly privileged.
32:15I was thinking that last night.
32:17How lucky we are.
32:19Amongst all the stress of the house.
32:23It is nice to have a little break from it.
32:26Even though all the time that we're out here my thoughts are still keep jumping back to
32:35what's going on back home.
32:38It was potentially a great time for the family to escape the house.
32:46As Dominic and one of his team Liam are getting stuck straight in.
32:50And like builders generally do, kicking off with a bit of demolition.
32:53The bar in the corner is the only fixed structure in the main basement room.
33:00Once it's gone, they'll have one big open space to work with.
33:15Come on dolphins, keep your eyes out for them peeking up.
33:21Click, click, click, click, click, click.
33:28Help me here, help me, there's the light.
33:36Look, there, there, there, there.
33:38Wow.
33:39There, right, they're all floating around here, watch.
33:41Yeah, around there, look.
33:42There, over there, look.
33:43There, there, there, there.
33:44You have a little fluff of its tail.
33:46That, that one just keeps coming up over and over again.
33:50Oh my God, I saw its face.
33:53Wild dolphins.
33:55For me, growing up in central London, it, it, it was never part of my, you know, my realms of possibility of life.
34:04But, now it is.
34:07It's here, this side.
34:09Be careful.
34:10Slowly, slowly, slowly.
34:11Be careful.
34:14Wow.
34:16Oh, wow.
34:17Oh, that's so cute.
34:19Oh, look there, I just saw one over there.
34:24The question is, how many did we see?
34:26How many different dolphins do you think there were?
34:29I think there was like four or three.
34:32Today's trip out on the boat was amazing.
34:36It was so calm, it was so tranquil, it was beautiful scenery.
34:41And, we even had the amazing treat of being able to see dolphins in the wild, which, I mean, it was beautiful.
34:51I even cried.
34:52I cry at everything.
34:54That was amazing.
34:55What a great opportunity to spend the morning with the kids and with the family.
34:59I mean, this is partly the reason we moved to Spain.
35:02And, er, when you do things like a boat trip, we can't escape.
35:05The kids can't escape.
35:06They have to spend the morning with us.
35:08And it was good.
35:09Everybody help me, say dolphins.
35:11Dolphins!
35:28On another sun-drenched Costa del Sol day, Jasmine and John's new builder, Dominic, has already removed the old bar that stood in the basement.
35:36And is now looking at architect Tamsin's plan of adding a door to provide easy access to the bathroom.
35:43Hello.
35:44Hello.
35:45How's it going?
35:46I know you want a door here, but this was once under the ground, or the subterranean part of the house.
35:53So, this is that much concrete.
36:00With reinforcing.
36:01Coms.
36:02Right.
36:03So, we're essentially breaking into a bank.
36:07It was there.
36:08We're going to need to break into a bank, to be honest.
36:10That's over a foot.
36:11That's about a foot.
36:12Yeah.
36:13It's about a foot of concrete.
36:14So, no.
36:15Reinforced concrete.
36:16So, no bricks.
36:17No bricks.
36:18Nothing.
36:19About three days, I guess, to cut through this.
36:22Are you kidding?
36:23We'll have to hire a bigger machine to take this down, because if you had something like
36:30this, or normal, it would burn out.
36:33We're talking a lot of horrible, nasty noise.
36:37Why is nothing ever straightforward?
36:39Is it just stuff?
36:40And this is only the start of...
36:42Well, yes.
36:43It's a renovation.
36:45You know, if it was new, things have to work like they're meant to work, but in a renovation,
36:51things turn up.
36:52When you look at it on the architect's plans, coming from the swimming pool, let's say the
36:58kids are in there, one of them needs to go to the loo.
37:01They come round here, and in a perfect world, they go straight through that door and into the
37:06bathroom, which is there.
37:08Or they come...
37:10All the way down to that door, which doesn't seem that much further, but then you've got
37:14to come all the way back.
37:15So it's not just that distance, is it?
37:17It's that distance, plus that distance.
37:18And the whole one will be wet.
37:19And everywhere will be wet.
37:20And every time we go in the pool, I'll be mopping this floor.
37:23So I don't know.
37:24I mean, that does throw a bit of a spanner in the works, doesn't it?
37:27All right.
37:28All right.
37:29Thanks, Dominic.
37:30We'll have to have a chat about it.
37:31I was going to say crack on, but don't go on.
37:33Don't crack on.
37:34All right.
37:35It seems like everything we try to do, you know, all these grand plans that we've got, something
37:43unexpected gets thrown up and we then have to rethink because of costs, because of time,
37:50because of disruption, all the other implications, and weigh everything up as in what's going
37:55to give us the best value and benefit to the work and the money we've got to put into
38:02it.
38:03It's tricky.
38:04Very tricky.
38:05With that one still up in the air, Jasmine shifts focus to another project that's been
38:14waiting for a fix.
38:15After meeting with Karin, she sent us a quote.
38:19The quote came back at around 7,000 euros for the solar panels.
38:24And obviously, we've only got a very small amount of actual roof space here where we could
38:29put the solar panels.
38:32She said we could fit three up there, but that wouldn't be enough.
38:35So we'd need to find space for another probably five or so more panels.
38:40And the suggestion was to put a pergola.
38:43And it would run from about halfway along here all the way over to around about the chimney.
38:48So it would take up quite a lot of space up here.
38:51And also building a pergola is not cheap.
38:54And I don't know if we can really come up with that right now.
38:58Karin's going to come back again and have another look to see if there's somewhere else around
39:03that we could put the extra panels.
39:05So then we'll be able to make a decision.
39:08I think if we could just go for the three panels and get as much electricity off of the
39:14solar panels as we can to contribute to the rest of the house, then it would be a no-brainer.
39:19We'd do it straight away.
39:24While a decision on the solar panels might be a few days away, down in the basement rooms,
39:29it's time to crack on.
39:31The thing with having a really huge space is knowing how to arrange it to get the most out of it.
39:41So it's really important that you are clear in what you want each area to do and how you plan to use the space.
39:48Because otherwise, you know, things could just get a bit lost down there.
39:53And it seems three days to create easy access to the bathroom from the pool is not an option.
39:59I think for the amount of time, disruption, noise, dust, to just gain like a couple of metres, I don't think it's worth it.
40:11And as much as I think, you know, it was a great idea on Tamsin's design, in the end it just wasn't practical.
40:18I think like a cupboard here.
40:26Basically when I power in this cupboard.
40:30In the garage, tech mad John is keen to focus on power sockets.
40:35Apparently that's a symbol for a two-gang power socket, so the electrician knows where to put them.
40:44But it does look a bit like I've sprayed two boobs on the wall.
40:48Maybe I'll have to do a different side.
40:50They are so heavy!
41:00Oh, Gordon Bennett!
41:03Jasmine's more focused on the big picture, and with two options for the kitchen area, a decision needs to be made.
41:10I love Tamsin's suggestion of having a huge, long kitchen island, which would be great for entertaining.
41:20The other option that Tamsin gave was a little kitchen in the corner, which would be quite functional and it wouldn't take up as much room.
41:29John thinks that it would be better to have a small kitchenette in the corner, because it's nearer to the back door, it's just going to be more functional.
41:38So, we're going for his option, because the basement is his domain.
41:45So we're thinking sink there.
41:48Yeah, because of all the drainage and things on the side of that wall.
41:51And then, so you'll have a metre or so here.
41:55Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:57It's like your...
41:58Yeah, so if you're there, the kids can always come behind and pass a drink out of the window.
42:03Yeah, so there, basically.
42:11It's quite dinky now, I look at it.
42:13That's what they all say.
42:14From the start of one project to hopefully the end of another.
42:28It's been a lot of fun and games trying to get this pool filled.
42:33So we're now just filling up the last bit and it's crunch time really, because the good news is, after testing it with just a little bit of water, it seems like the repair that we've done on the pool means it's now holding water, which is great news.
42:52And I think that's probably saved us in the region of 15,000 to 20,000 euros, because that's probably what it would have cost if we had to dig up the entire pool.
43:07So honestly, John and I were so happy, so excited when we realised it was holding water and hopefully we can get it ready for swimming in soon.
43:19It's a momentous day, the pool is full and hopefully will remain full.
43:28Oh, Albie's going to be the first person into the pool, admittedly only ankle deep.
43:34How is it Albs?
43:37Is it refreshing?
43:41You're the first person in, how does it feel?
43:45You'll forever be the first person to get in the pool.
43:50It's quite chilly, but when you get a nice sunny day, it is very inviting to go in the pool.
43:57I quite like cold water swimming anyway, so I think it will be fine.
44:02Famous last words.
44:15Because it's ex-demo, it's 50% off.
44:18It's one of the biggest decisions that we need to make.
44:22Having an interior designer to help with not only the design, but also the sourcing of the products is invaluable.
44:31Oh, what about that matter? That would look fantastic.
44:34Am I making this look so dim?
44:36That's it, that's it.
44:37And then...
44:38Oh!
44:40There have been a few delays with tiling this floor.
44:43I feel like a house renovation requires a lot of wine.
44:48I tell you, there is never a dull moment here.
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