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.

00:14Just cutting the snail bottom off, I'm afraid.

00:17Being in a vegan house, you can't be chopping off the animals' heads, can you?

00:24It's looking great in here now, isn't it?

00:26Finally.

00:27Finally!

00:29Can I go in?

00:35I love it. I want to swap bedrooms with her.

00:43He was here with us from the start, but I think we need a bit more help.

00:49We're going to take away that bar and add a door, which will go straight through into the gym.

00:54Okay, my own gym.

00:56This is that much concrete. We're essentially breaking into a bank.

01:06Right. Do you think I look protected enough?

01:08I think you look protected enough.

01:10Those will always be there as part of my house.

01:16I think that's quite a bit of a big deal.

01:26Since moving into their forever home on the Costa del Sol some five months ago.

01:32ago, Jasmine Harmon and her husband John have completed phase one of their

01:39renovation. It is so fantastic to have a few rooms finally finished and not just

01:50finished but nicely finished beautifully finished

02:02I'm so happy with the way Joy and Albion's bedrooms have turned out and also the

02:08family bathroom is looking stunning

02:14after a series of mishaps and delays it's taken a lot longer than originally

02:18planned with two more phases to go and about three months to do it sooner or

02:24later this project is going to have to shift up a gear or three if they're

02:28going to have any chance of hitting their summer deadline. I would love to be

02:32able to invite family and friends over in the summer to see the house all

02:38finished then you know there might be a few rooms that I have to keep the doors

02:42closed. Finishing the three rooms we have great but that is a tiny percentage of

02:50the bigger picture of this house. We've still got a big garden to sort out, driveway to

02:59sort out, basement to sort out, garage to sort out, kitchen to sort out, stairs to the

03:06back, garden to sort out, roof terraces to sort out, utility rooms to sort out, bathrooms to sort out.

03:10But one step at a time phase two is going to focus on the driveway, pool area and

03:21basement. Once that's complete the family can live down there while the main

03:25bedroom, kitchen and living room on the ground floor are tackled in phase three.

03:29Project one of phase two for John represents a key milestone in this

03:38family's new life in Spain. The pool has always been a tiny bit of a mystery. We

03:43had always guessed that it wasn't really working because it's never had any water

03:47in it even when we came around to view the house. My assumptions are people don't

03:53tend to sit with pools empty for years and years unless they're broken. So my

03:58guess, my deduction is the pool doesn't hold water.

04:02There's two scenarios to this pool and getting it working. One is a fairly quick

04:08easy fix of filling in holes in the grouting. If that doesn't work, scenario two

04:14is digging down seven feet, finding a pipe, repairing the pipe, fixing the pipe. I don't

04:22want it to be scenario two. I am praying for my wallet, for our time and for the kids

04:29but it's scenario one and that in three days time we have water in the pool and the water

04:35level stays where it should. Come on.

04:38Oh my god, it's set so quickly.

04:45Oh my god, it's set so quickly.

04:53We've had quite a few different opinions on our pool and what we can do to get it fixed. It

05:16could cost probably €20,000 or more if we end up having to dig out the whole pool to find the leak. So it's a bit scary. I mean I'm just keeping everything crossed.

05:32Let's hope filling in all those gaps with new grout does the job. While 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

05:36milestones. So the good news is the doctor's given me the sign off so that I can drive again, which is great. It's been about eight weeks since I last drove. I feel like driving is three quarters of the way there. The last quarter is just polishing off my walking and

06:06stability and stability and I'll be back to normal. Are you going to pick up the kids? Yeah, I'm going. Go because otherwise you're going to be late. Good luck making decisions. Run. Joke. Hop. Adios. Adios.

06:32You sort of forget how much freedom you get from driving. And at the moment driving is actually physically easier than walking.

06:44First drive home after Danny's dodgy leg.

06:47I guess for Jazz also it's a little bit of freedom for her. She can have five minutes headspace on her own.

06:58I don't know what to do with myself. I'm alone in the house. It's really weird. You know, to have him not being here, he's become just like a part of the furniture over the last couple of months.

07:10And so him not being here, it's kind of feels a bit disorientating, but nice. I can have a cup of tea in peace for a minute.

07:22Keen to turn up the heat on this renovation. Jasmine's called in some support.

07:27I think we need an architect to just help us with a few tricky areas.

07:36John met Tamsin working on a property show and she was the architect behind all the stuff that you see on screen.

07:46And they've worked together for a long, long time. So we figured, well, let's see if she can work her magic for us.

07:55Tamsin has already arranged to get all the measurements and has had time to work up some ideas.

08:01With a basement key to this phase, they're heading straight down there.

08:05So on your plans, does this essentially stay as it is, the staircase?

08:12Yes. OK. I don't think there's too much we could do.

08:15You could put some glass in the door at the top to allow a bit more light in.

08:19Yeah, that's a good idea. But I think it's better for sound to contain everyone down here.

08:24And especially if it's a party room as well. Exactly, yeah.

08:29Tamsin's plan for the large main space in the basement is exactly that.

08:34An entertaining stroke party room with a cinema snug at one end.

08:38I have a question about the cinema space and whether you actually see it as a separate room

08:43or if it's just a snug area within here.

08:46I kind of feel like it's more like just somewhere cosy to sit like a snug with a big screen.

08:54And I think it could be for us if we have a movie night, you know, with the kids

08:59or if they've got friends over and they're playing computer games or something like that,

09:04they can be out of our way. Or as they get older, they can get, you know, we can...

09:09Even more reason to have the door at the top of the stairs.

09:11Yeah, you can catch. Yeah.

09:13I've never had a room the size of the basement that we've got here. It's huge. It's absolutely huge.

09:21Mine and John's first flat that we bought together was way smaller than that entire basement.

09:31Yeah, it's a great space.

09:36The other half of the basement, which is currently a garage, storeroom and toilet,

09:41Tamsin plans to split up into a guest bedroom, shower room and gym.

09:47We're going to take away that bar and add a door which will go straight through into the bathroom

09:52and then you could have some doors out from either the gym or the guest bedroom

09:57because we're dropping the ground levels outside.

10:00OK. I have my own gym.

10:04I have to use it. I know. That's the pressure now.

10:09So this is where we've got the Wow Island, is it?

10:13I suggest having a big entertaining bar down here.

10:16Down here.

10:17That's your food prep for barbecues. That's your kind of cocktail prep.

10:21That's the, you know... Oh, John would love that.

10:24Once upon a time, before I met him, he used to be a barman when he was at uni.

10:29So he used to do all the flaring. It's like, oh, he'll be in his element.

10:32He'll be absolutely in his element.

10:34It also means that you can have bar seating.

10:36So it's a bit more social to be able to sit up at something.

10:40Yeah, OK. I like that. And what's the other option for that?

10:43So the other option is more similar to where it is now,

10:47putting a sort of bar, double stack the bar there.

10:50So almost like a little kitchenette there, so you'd have a sink.

10:54Yeah.

10:55You could have a drinks fridge underneath.

10:57It's more contained. Yeah.

10:58Tamsin's ideas for the basement were quite different.

11:02It took me a little while to come round to them,

11:04but actually I quite like...

11:07I'm definitely coming round to the idea of having a big island down there.

11:11It will be the part of the house that everyone remembers

11:14and everyone talks about.

11:18The outside stairs up to the first floor balcony

11:20are another key consideration in this phase.

11:23So the concern is that if we put the stairs in that corner,

11:26we lose a bit of light, we can widen the other window

11:31to gain what we've lost from the staircase.

11:33That's a good idea.

11:34So you could have open tread risers which would allow the light in.

11:37My personal point of view on this is I don't particularly ever like looking

11:41through a staircase.

11:43Yeah.

11:44So I would block it in and possibly have an outdoor store under the staircase.

11:47Right.

11:48And then just make the window bigger.

11:50And then you have a couple of steps up to the garden through that door

11:53and then widen the other window.

11:56Okay.

11:57I suppose I can live with that.

12:00It's really hard.

12:01To visualise.

12:02Yeah, yeah.

12:03As I planned, I'm still finding it quite hard to visualise it

12:06and thinking, oh, will it be enough?

12:08But I think you just have to trust the process, don't you?

12:11Yeah.

12:14Ah, so that's the rope you put there.

12:16Yeah.

12:17Earlier.

12:18So we're going to use this to demonstrate the angle of the stairs

12:21and how it works in this location.

12:24But actually, that's not too bad.

12:26Because that is not taking up as much of the doorway below as I thought.

12:35That would be really good.

12:36Is there a particular gradient?

12:38Because that angle looks...

12:39I mean, it looks fine to me, but...

12:41Well, the gentler the slope, the easier the stairs are

12:45and the more likely you are to use them.

12:46Yeah.

12:47And there are regulations of how steep they could be.

12:49Okay.

12:50But this looks okay to you.

12:51This is okay.

12:52The other decision that you'll have is just what the stairs are made of

12:55and whether they're solid or not.

12:57I definitely always maintained that we had to have stairs coming down to here

13:01and I actually think that's a much better option.

13:04This is the best place for the stairs without a shadow of a doubt,

13:08in my opinion.

13:09So thank you.

13:10Yeah.

13:11It's nice to have come out here with something you haven't thought about before.

13:15Overall, I think Tamsyn's really listened to us.

13:22Her plans are fantastic.

13:24She's given us options.

13:26She's talked us through the pros and cons.

13:28And I think we're in a really good place now to make decisions.

13:32We're hanging out in the pool after school.

13:49Let's hope after our repairs, kids, in a week or two this has water in.

13:55And you'll be floating on it eating ice cream.

13:59With a little help, John's re-grouted the pool, hoping that quick fix,

14:04costing a few hundred pounds in materials and man-hours,

14:07will save the time and expense of digging up the piping underneath the pool.

14:12Look how happy and excited you look!

14:15Don't try to look too excited, Albie.

14:17Joy, what are we going to do this morning?

14:19Um, start filling up the pool to see if the leak's still there.

14:24The only side problem is currently the only tap that Daddy can connect a hose to

14:31is at the opposite end of the house.

14:33On the roof.

14:34On the roof terrace.

14:35So who's going to go down to the pool and receive the hose,

14:38and who's going to be on the roof and setting the hose down?

14:40We'll go down.

14:41Me and Joy will go down.

14:43Pass it down.

14:44Come on, Albie, let's get the hose ready.

14:46No, don't tend it down yet, babe.

14:57So Joy and I are waiting down here.

15:00The boys are up on the roof.

15:02They're going to send us the hose down.

15:04We're going to put a little bit of water in it and see if it holds.

15:07Are you ready?

15:09We're ready.

15:10Do you want to come and catch the hose as it comes down?

15:14Why is it attached to a piece of string?

15:20Safety.

15:21All you have to do is untie the string.

15:23I can't reach it.

15:25The string needs to come much longer.

15:28Can I turn it on?

15:32No.

15:33Are you ready now?

15:37We are filling up the pool.

15:56The hose is coming from the rooftop.

15:58We're just going to put a little bit of water in there.

16:00I 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.

16:17But once we've filled it up a little bit, we'll mark it on the wall and see how quickly it goes down.

16:25So, test and away.

16:27Time to move on to a bit of a restoration project.

16:30We feel like it's important to keep some of the original elements of the house.

16:35And so, there was far too much metalwork already in the house to rip it all off and replace it.

16:40So, finding Chris and repairing the metalwork was important for us.

16:49And also, the metalwork that was there is actually pretty good.

16:52So, 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.

17:01With 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.

17:19Obviously, living in the Costa del Sol, we have so much sunshine for most of the year.

17:25Not today, unfortunately.

17:28Because we really, really want to try and be as green and as sustainable and as environmentally friendly as possible.

17:36I found someone that does solar panels and I thought that would be amazing.

17:42If we could get solar panels and power the house off of that and save money, then it kind of seems like a no-brainer.

17:49Hi, Karin.

17:51Hi.

17:52Come on in.

17:54Welcome to our building site.

17:56Nice to meet you.

17:57Nice to meet you.

17:58It sounds like it's raining even more.

18:01Hang on.

18:03It's absolutely pouring now.

18:05Karin, I don't know if you want to go out there.

18:07Have a little look at the neighbors.

18:10Ah, yeah, I see.

18:12Yeah.

18:13That roof terrace, we want to keep it usable.

18:15So we have got a little bit of roof space above here.

18:20Yeah.

18:21So yeah, you can put solar panels here.

18:23And I think you probably can fit around three solar panels here, but you probably need a lot more.

18:29At least around eight panels.

18:31Oh, really?

18:32So we need to find more space.

18:34Space.

18:35But you could also here, if you still want to have this space usable, it's quite common.

18:40Also you put a pergola and you can put solar on top of that.

18:43You can still use the terrace and you don't have to put pergola on the whole terrace.

18:47The whole terrace.

18:48How long does it normally take until the panels can pay for themselves in terms of your energy saving?

18:53It's like the payback time here is usually between three to five years.

18:57Really?

18:58So it's quite good payoff.

18:59That's not bad, is it?

19:00No, it's really good.

19:01Can you give me an idea of costs or does it vary?

19:03It varies.

19:04It depends on how many panels and the labor costs, what kind of work we have to do to install the panels at your house.

19:12So would you be able to drop me an email or something with quotes?

19:15Yeah, so what I will do, I will summarize this and see different options and see where we actually will fit the panels.

19:20And then I will summarize it and send a proposal to you.

19:23Oh, thank you very much.

19:24So you will have it shortly.

19:25That's brilliant.

19:26Let's head back down.

19:28I absolutely love the idea of being able to have green energy to power the whole house with solar energy.

19:35The thing is, because we have such a limited amount of roof space, it's not an easy process.

19:44You don't just say, yeah, bring the people around.

19:47They can install it straight away and we can get going.

19:50There's a whole process.

19:52So we'd need to design the roof terrace, put in a pergola, finish that project first before we can then do the solar panels.

20:00So I do want to do it, but it's not going to be a quick thing.

20:05Jasmine 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.

20:20It feels like it might be time for a bit of a shake up.

20:23We have got so much work left to do and it's just impossible.

20:30You know, no one could do this amount of work on their own in the timeframe that we've got,

20:36because we want to try and get everything finished by the summer.

20:39So Carlos has got some other jobs as well that he's committed to.

20:45So we've come to a point where we're going to have to part ways.

20:50Really sad because Carlos has become part of the family, really.

21:04I love Carlos. Genuinely, there's a little bit of my heart that he's a decent guy.

21:12Astral? Ciao, Astral.

21:15Astral.

21:16But I don't think we'll get to the summer with our deadline with just Carlos and Martin alone.

21:22Muchas gracias.

21:24Gracias, amigo.

21:25Muchas gracias.

21:26Muchas gracias.

21:27Besitos, bendiciones, que les vayan muy bien.

21:30Un placer conocernos, que les conocimos muy bien.

21:34Oh, no, no, no, no.

21:36Bye.

21:37Ciao, familia.

21:38Gracias.

21:39Gracias.

21:40Gracias.

21:47Why are you crying?

21:50I'm just crying at everything.

21:52Carlos has just been, like, part of the family, hasn't he, since we moved in,

21:57since before we moved in.

22:00So I'm just sad to see him go.

22:03There'll be a big Carlos-shaped hole in our lives,

22:06but it won't be forever.

22:08We'll definitely see him again.

22:15He'll always be part of this house because he was here with us from the start.

22:21But I think that we need a bit more help.

22:27We need to drive this forward and get it done as quickly as possible.

22:32It's been two and a half days since we put some water in the pool at the weekend with the kids.

22:45And it's definitely not leaking water as quickly as it was before.

23:02So I'm hoping that the water level that has gone down, which is only a few millimeters, is just natural evaporation.

23:15Time to give it a clean and get it ready to fill it right up.

23:19Jazz is taking one for the team.

23:23We don't have a net.

23:24I don't know why we don't have a net.

23:26Why don't we want a net?

23:27And so because that vent isn't on, which we're also going to put on slightly,

23:31before we head into the test water, Jazz is having a little dip.

23:34Obviously I can't go up with my dodgy leg.

23:37Do you need to get a net?

23:44Bet you wish you were only cleaning the bathtub now.

23:47Look, you've just started there and you've got all that to go, look.

23:53The final stages of the pool cleaning slash trying to repair.

23:59Taking a bit longer than we thought, eh?

24:04With the pool project going swimmingly and having already said goodbye to Carlos,

24:08the builder Jasmine and John had been working with pretty much since they got the keys,

24:12the new guy is now on board and on site.

24:15Jazz had sort of put the word out.

24:17She's spoken to a few of her former house hunters in this area

24:20and loads of people recommended this guy called Dominic.

24:26Hello.

24:27How are you?

24:28I'm good, you?

24:31You ready to make some noise?

24:34Absolutely.

24:35Come on in.

24:36OK, thanks.

24:41I'm Dominic.

24:42I'm a project manager here on the Costa del Sol.

24:46I've lived in Spain 17 years.

24:49I've spent a lot of that time working in Gibraltar.

24:51And now I work within this area.

24:54It's going to be a lovely property.

24:56Er, plenty of work to be done inside and out.

25:01Yeah, finished by the summer? I think so.

25:03It doesn't worry me.

25:05As long as everything lines up.

25:07I think Dominic should stand a good chance of being able to get us to completing everything by the summer because he's got more resources, you know, he's got more people available and it's a bigger company.

25:22So, fingers crossed, we'll be able to get there.

25:29While Dominic and his team get phase two underway.

25:33Well, the Chris is back and making great headway with the front gates.

25:37And with all the protective gear and flashing lights, Jasmine's keen to get involved.

25:42Chris even has vegan rather than the usual leather gloves for her.

25:46Right.

25:47I'm ready, Chris.

25:48Yeah.

25:49Do you think I look protected enough?

25:51I think you look protected enough.

25:52I think boiler suits are back in fashion, aren't they?

25:54Yeah, yeah.

25:55So, what we're going to do is we need to weld on these tree foils using the arc rod like this and bringing this like this.

26:03Do you use any other material or it just melts the metal of the two pieces?

26:08So, this rod is going to go smaller and smaller and smaller.

26:13It will take a couple of goes, I think.

26:15Practice.

26:16Yeah.

26:17How long have you been doing it?

26:18I've been a welder now for eight years.

26:20I used to make wheelchairs.

26:22Oh, really?

26:23Yeah.

26:24I could have done with one of those just recently.

26:26My husband broke his leg.

26:28Shall we get some welding done then so you can get out of all the gear?

26:30Yeah, let's do it.

26:31What's important is don't look at this without your helmet on.

26:34Don't look at it?

26:35It's basically when you're melting the metal, it's like all of the bad stuff from the sun.

26:39Your UVA and your UVB.

26:41Right.

26:42Here, so it gets over your head.

26:46Yeah, I've got a big head.

26:48That's all right.

26:49And then we tighten it up.

26:50Jazz loves getting hands on.

26:51She's very happy to get hands on.

26:53I think she would do more of the renovation if she could.

26:56So you're going to go start here.

26:57Yeah.

26:58You want to have it kind of angled a bit more that way.

27:02And you want to kind of go like this motion.

27:04I'm going to put you about here and then I'll kind of flick my mask down because otherwise

27:07I can't see.

27:08Okay.

27:09It's quite tricky isn't it?

27:10Yeah, that was all good.

27:11That's good for the first time.

27:12We'll change it around and we can do another one, eh?

27:16Yep, and that comes all in.

27:17Keep putting it in.

27:18Yeah, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it.

27:28Yeah, you can stop there.

27:31Nice.

27:32Wheeee!

27:33That's really good.

27:34I'm well impressed.

27:35Once you've finished, it's just just going to make a little bit of a little bit of a

27:42Once it's finished, just tap it off.

27:47So I'll come back through with the grinder, make them all a bit stronger.

27:51Ah, you'll have to tell me which ones they are.

27:54I'll put your ones at that end and at that end.

27:57And then you know that they're your ones.

27:59Those are my ones, I'll tell everyone when they come to visit.

28:01I welded those. Thank you so much.

28:03No worries, I'm going to crack on.

28:04I'll catch up with you in a bit.

28:05See ya.

28:07That was actually amazing.

28:09Hopefully those two that I did will always be there as part of my house.

28:19With phase two of the renovation now in full swing, Jasmine and the family are taking a well-earned break.

28:27Hopping aboard a popular local form of transport to discover the native wildlife that's right on their doorstep.

28:34Today we're going out on a boat trip from Estepona.

28:40Really excited about it.

28:42Oh yeah, let's get on this boat.

28:44We just decided to take a family day and go out on our own sort of mini version of a holiday.

28:52Oh look, there's a paddle board on the back of that boat, Albie.

28:55Aww, should we be across swimming things?

28:59We'll just send Albie in his dolphin bait.

29:03Hola, buenos dias. Hola, gracias.

29:07It feels like it's been a long time coming but it's amazing to finally be out and about and go and do family things again with a leg that is 90% working in.

29:16Oh, how nice is this?

29:20Albie's going to have a sleep.

29:23I think there's a seat.

29:25Looks like it. Oh!

29:27No?

29:28Albie, you're like the captain.

29:30I'm not the best on boats. I get quite bad seasickness.

29:34In fact, I get all kinds of motion sickness which is terrible for someone who travels as much as I do.

29:41I did my 10m swimming badge when I was about 6 or 7 years old.

29:49So I think I'll be alright if I do end up in the water.

29:52I actually love swimming, especially in the sea.

29:55So who knows, if we see some dolphins I might just jump in as well.

29:59Although I forgot to bring my swimming costume.

30:01Oh well, I probably won't.

30:02What's that smell?

30:05It's the smell of the sea.

30:07It smells like astro.

30:09It smells like astro.

30:12Albie and Mummy.

30:14Albie and Mummy, Albie ready?

30:28Come on, keep your eyes peeled for dolphins, Albie.

30:31Yay!

30:33So what you have to do, Joy, is keep an eye out on the horizon for any dolphin-like movement.

30:40Can you do your dolphin noise?

30:43My dolphin noise?

30:44Oh yeah, darling's really good at a dolphin impression, isn't he?

30:46My dolphin, so you want me to try and call the dolphins?

30:49Yeah, go on, communicate with them, tell them we're here.

30:51Ready?

30:52I mean, he's not going to call any dolphins.

30:53I don't think they're going to eat.

30:54I don't think they're going to eat.

30:55I mean, he's not going to call any dolphins.

30:57I don't think they're going to eat.

30:58I don't think they're going to eat.

30:59I don't think they're going to eat.

31:00I don't think they're going to eat.

31:08Now, having lived by the sea for a while, I recognise its amazing restorative power.

31:16Oh, there's a little sailing boat.

31:19Oh yeah.

31:21It is amazing and I do feel that being by the sea helps me in so many ways.

31:29Helps me to relax, helps me to rejuvenate and definitely feels like my mental health benefits from being by the sea.

31:39I feel like I'm so small on this planet and all my problems are so small that it makes them seem easy to overcome.

31:57Fuck yourself there.

31:59Oh my God.

32:04Oh, life with you is always so much fun.

32:07Squeezing my leg.

32:11It's nice though, isn't it, being able to just do stuff like this any time.

32:17Amazing.

32:19Incredibly privileged.

32:21I was thinking that last night.

32:23How lucky we are.

32:26Amongst all the stress of the house.

32:29It is nice to have a little break from it.

32:31Even though all the time that we're out here, my thoughts are still keep jumping back to what's going on back home.

32:41It was potentially a great time for the family to escape the house.

32:51As Dominic and one of his team, Liam, are getting stuck straight in.

32:55And like builders generally do, kicking off with a bit of demolition.

32:58The bar in the corner is the only fixed structure in the main basement room.

33:06Once it's gone, they'll have one big open space to work with.

33:12Come on dolphins, keep your eyes out for them peeking up.

33:23Click, click, click, click, click, click.

33:29Now we're here, help me, there's the light.

33:32Look there, there, there, there.

33:43Wow.

33:45There right, they're all floating around here, watch.

33:47There, over there, look.

33:49There, there, there, there.

33:51There's a little flap of its tail.

33:53That one just keeps coming up over and over again.

33:56Oh my God, I saw its face.

33:58While dolphins, for me growing up in central London,

34:03it was never part of my realms of possibility of life,

34:09but now it is.

34:12It's here, this side.

34:14Be careful.

34:16Slowly, slowly, slowly.

34:18Be careful.

34:20Wow.

34:22Oh, they're so cute.

34:25Oh look there, I just saw one over there.

34:26I saw one over there.

34:30The question is, how many did we see?

34:32How many different dolphins do you think there were?

34:35I think there was like four or three.

34:38Today's trip out on the boat was amazing.

34:42It was so calm, it was so tranquil, it was beautiful scenery,

34:47and we even had the amazing treat of being able to see dolphins in the wild,

34:52which, I mean, it was beautiful.

34:55I even cried.

34:57I cry at everything.

34:59That was amazing.

35:01What a great opportunity to spend the morning with the kids and with the family.

35:05I mean, this is partly the reason we moved to Spain,

35:08and when you do things like a boat trip, we can't escape.

35:11The kids can't escape.

35:13They have to spend the morning with us, and it was good.

35:14Everybody help me, say dolphins.

35:17Dolphins!

35:33On another sun-drenched Costa del Sol day,

35:36Jasmine and John's new builder, Dominic, has already removed the old bar that stood in the basement,

35:42and is now looking at architect Tamsin's plan of adding a door to provide easy access to the bathroom.

35:48Hello.

35:50How's it going?

35:52I know you want a door here, but this was once under the ground,

35:57all the subterranean part of the house.

35:58So this is that much concrete with reinforcing.

36:07Combs, right.

36:09So we're essentially breaking into a bank.

36:12So it was there, it was there, it was there.

36:14We're going to need to break into a bank, to be honest.

36:16That's over a foot, that's about a foot.

36:18Yeah, it's about a foot of concrete.

36:20Reinforced concrete.

36:22So no bricks.

36:24No bricks.

36:25About three days, I guess, to cut through this.

36:28Are you kidding?

36:30We'll have to hire a bigger machine to take this down,

36:34because if you had something like this, or normal, it would burn out.

36:38We're talking a lot of horrible, nasty noise.

36:43Why is nothing ever straightforward?

36:45Is it just stuff?

36:47And this is only the start of it?

36:49Well, yes.

36:50It's a renovation.

36:51You know, if it was new, things have to work like they're meant to work.

36:55But in a renovation, things turn up.

36:58When you look at it on the architect's plans,

37:01coming from the swimming pool,

37:03let's say the kids are in there, one of them needs to go to the loo.

37:07They come round here, and in a perfect world,

37:10they go straight through that door and into the bathroom, which is there.

37:13Or they come...

37:16..all the way down to that door,

37:18which doesn't seem that much further,

37:19but then you've got to come all the way back.

37:21So it's not just that distance, is it?

37:22It's that distance, plus that distance.

37:23And the whole wall will be wet.

37:25And everywhere will be wet.

37:26And every time they go in the pool, I'll be mopping this floor.

37:29So I don't know.

37:30I mean, that does throw a bit of a spanner in the works, doesn't it?

37:33Right.

37:34All right, thanks, Dominic.

37:35We'll have to have a chat about it.

37:36I was going to say crack on, but don't go.

37:38Don't crack on.

37:39All right.

37:40It seems like everything we try to do,

37:45you know, all these grand plans that we've got,

37:48something unexpected gets thrown up,

37:51and we then have to rethink, because of costs, because of time,

37:56because of disruption and all the other implications,

37:59and weigh everything up as in what's going to give us the best value

38:04and benefit to the work and the money we've got to put into it.

38:08It's tricky.

38:10Very tricky.

38:13With that one still up in the air,

38:16Jasmine shifts focus to another project that's been waiting for a fix.

38:21After meeting with Karin, she sent us a quote.

38:25The quote came back at around 7,000 euros for the solar panels.

38:28And obviously we've only got a very small amount of actual roof space here where we could put the solar panels.

38:36She said we could fit three up there, but that wouldn't be enough.

38:41So we'd need to find space for another probably five or so more panels.

38:44And the suggestion was to put a pergola and it would run from about halfway along here all the way over to around about the chimney.

38:54So it would take up quite a lot of space up here.

38:56And also building a pergola is not cheap and I don't know if we can really come up with that right now.

39:04Karin's going to come back again and have another look to see if there's somewhere else around that we could put the extra panels.

39:10So then we'll be able to make a decision.

39:13I think if we could just go for the three panels and get as much electricity off of the solar panels as we can to contribute to the rest of the house,

39:23then it would be a no brainer. We'd do it straight away.

39:29While a decision on the solar panels might be a few days away, down in the basement rooms, it's time to crack on.

39:36The thing with having a really huge space is knowing how to arrange it to get the most out of it.

39:46So it's really important that you are clear in what you want each area to do and how you plan to use the space.

39:54Because otherwise, you know, things could just get a bit lost down there.

39:59And it seems three days to create easy access to the bathroom from the pool is not an option.

40:04I 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.

40:17And as much as I think, you know, it was a great idea on Tamsin's design, in the end, it just wasn't practical.

40:23It looks like a cupboard here. Basically, you want to have power in this cupboard.

40:35In the garage, tech-mad John is keen to focus on power sockets.

40:44I think that's a symbol for a two-gang power socket, so the electrician knows where to put them.

40:49But it does look a bit like I've sprayed two boobs on the wall.

40:53Maybe I'll have to do a different side.

41:03They are so heavy!

41:06Oh, Gordon Bennett!

41:09Jasmine's more focused on the big picture, and with two options for the kitchen area, a decision needs to be made.

41:15I love Tamsin's suggestion of having a huge, long kitchen island, which would be great for entertaining.

41:25The 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.

41:34John thinks that it will 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.

41:44So, we're going for his option because the basement is his domain.

41:51So, we're thinking sink there.

41:54Yeah, because of all the drainage and things on the side of that wall.

41:57And then, so you'll have a metre or so here.

42:01Yeah.

42:02So, if you're there, the kids can always come behind and pass a drink out of the window.

42:09Yeah, so there, basically.

42:16It's quite dinky now, I look at it.

42:19That's what they all say.

42:20From the start of one project to hopefully the end of another.

42:32It's been a lot of fun and games trying to get this pool filled.

42:38So, 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.

42:57And 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.

43:12So, 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.

43:24It's a momentous day, the pool is full and hopefully will remain full.

43:34Oh, Albie's going to be the first person into the pool, admittedly only ankle deep.

43:41How is it Albs?

43:42How is it Albs?

43:46Is it refreshing?

43:49You're the first person in, how does it feel?

43:52You'll forever be the first person to get in the pool.

43:56It's quite chilly, but when you get a nice sunny day, it is very inviting to go in the pool.

44:03I quite like cold water swimming anyway, so I think it will be fine.

44:08Famous last words.

44:12Because it's xDemo, it's 50% off.