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DIY SOS - Season 34 Episode 100 -
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(special) Gladiators Special
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00:00Marches on we are for it
00:03Oh my gosh, I love it so much stunning look at this rough
00:11Taking on extraordinary bills look at it's over the house
00:16Hello for even more extraordinary people here. We go. I
00:22Didn't think I'd ever get upstairs again
00:25Send all the builders down along with our secret weapon. It's like an army. It's a lot of people. No, there's no common
00:33The great British public. I'm excited. I didn't know I had this many friends
00:40Are we up for it
00:44This time I don't want it swinging into the steel work
00:49We're taking on one of our most challenging community builds
00:53Why would you do that? I got emotionally involved if I'm truly honest the job is so huge
01:00Even the gladiators are pitching you. I'm just glad I could put the muscles to use
01:05Where's the sewer gone? That's what we're trying to plan. We shouldn't be doing this today
01:10It looks like a war zone a moment now. What point do you say? I'm sorry?
01:13I failed work. We just can't deliver what I said we could because it was just too much in the end
01:23I'm off to beat the team at cherry tree community center in East riding in Yorkshire during COVID they needed to change their youth club
01:36Into a food pantry and since then they haven't been able to change it back
01:41It means they have nowhere for their young people to go anymore. So they've asked us to come up have a look see if we can help out
01:47We're down to one camping chair
02:00We are helping and supporting their children and young people from the age of nine never mind you can soon get back in
02:07It's always so so busy here and fun and never ever dull
02:12We have a range of activities that we can put on for them rounders dodgeball good one this team football
02:27Yeah, good kids and they just need a place to come and we've got four against these two. All right. I like that
02:35At the moment our sessions they're not structured
02:38You can't really be structured when you don't have a place to be
02:49We don't know a youth club in the park currently
02:53We have our work is a burr we set that up in the winter. It's quite dreadful to be honest raining snowing
03:02Hi, do you want some pizza go see Josh there then
03:08This area is in the bottom 15% a deprivation in the country
03:18Everybody's struggling when you do fall into poverty children do suffer we speak to many kids who have not eaten anything for days
03:28We know the need is there we know they don't all have hot food to eat that night
03:33There are young people who don't have trusted adults to go to
03:42I run the sessions now, but I was one of the young people myself
03:45I used to be a young carer at home
03:48It was quite difficult carrying the sort of responsibilities of the family
03:53So coming to cherry tree sort of gave me an escape from that. I've been where they are
04:04For the past five years Joe and Fiona have been doing all they can to find a new base for the youth club
04:10I'm begging for places. I'm just asking for one room for these kids, but nobody listen
04:24If we can't find somewhere for the youth club to have a home I
04:29Do dread where the young people will turn to because there is nowhere else for them
04:35I'm heading to meet Joe who manages all the charity services a
04:44Little food shop. Hello. Hello. Hi, Nick in the building where the youth club used to be
04:50So it's a food pantry a food pantry. Yes, but we thought the pantry would only be here for six months in lockdown
04:58But we are feeding
05:001548 members
05:02Wow, you can't just close that down. No, there must be somewhere else that you could have the youth club
05:07We're homeless. We're on on the park. It's been really difficult in the winter months. I've gone through six gazebos
05:13I've got that many gazebo in the winter. Yeah, it's awful. It's awful. Have you got anything at all?
05:18Yes, so we've got these shipping containers
05:20We've had donated to us and we've had planning permission so we can put our containers on the park
05:25So they're gonna allow you to build something you've just got to get some there's something built. Yes
05:30I think I better have a look at them
05:33So it's this big one here. Well these ones here. Yeah, they look like they've been around forever. Look at them
05:42Doors battered I
05:45Mean they look reasonably watertight, but I don't know how much life they've got left in them
05:49All the way along the seams. They're all heavily eaten with rust
05:56I don't think they're worth the time the money to repair
06:01And I wouldn't be able to guarantee that they'd last any length of time if we did they're just not good enough. I'm afraid
06:10These are all I've got. This is the only hope I've had. I suppose it's just home truth today, isn't it?
06:16I
06:18Can I still come along and meet the kids? Yeah
06:24The charity have planning permission to build a club in this park
06:28Hello, hi nice nice to meet you
06:31But they don't have the funds to achieve their dream
06:34Listen I'd get into it if I was you because these chips are gonna be freezing in no time at all
06:38Hello, can I ask you a question? Is that all right? So why do you come along and join in?
06:43It's fun. And what are the people like that run it?
06:46They're always there if you need them. I'm like they're always there to help you and stuff
06:50What sort of things can you talk to them about?
06:52Anything like literally anything. Why do you come and join in?
06:54Because it's fun. I'm over here
06:57And what do you think about the idea of building a permanent structure it'd be good because then we won't be as cold
07:06It'll get us off the streets too many people on the streets. What's the best thing the games the beats of the friends?
07:11What's the best thing? I like pizzas
07:14Yeah, I like pieces too to be honest
07:16But are there lots of things around here for you to go and do and join in with I'm not so much
07:20All right, so this is quite important is it? Yeah, it's very important
07:29How many kids do you get along to this up to 150 so what are they coming here for they're coming to play football
07:35They're coming for a slice of pizza a little bit of everything some of it's a check-in
07:39I need to catch up with you different dilemmas. We're here for all of that the the need is huge and endless and
07:47Going forward sitting in a gazebo is not the right place. No, it's freezing here. My feet are frozen
07:53Yeah, well, it's hard work. Actually. It's hard work being out here when you're cold and you need the toilet
08:00To have a place would be incredible
08:05Never fails to amaze me how many people you meet as you go around the country all
08:09Voluntarily doing amazing things in communities like this very often without the support they need
08:13There's no buildings. There's no sewerage. There's no electric. There's no water
08:19There's nothing at all literally nothing, but it's needed mental health
08:24Support and one of the worries about school kids that haven't eaten
08:31Shouldn't have to be in a gazebo should it
08:33Okay, so um the reason I came here was to find out what you had and it turned out you've got anything at all and the piece of land here is
08:49It is going to be really difficult to work with but
08:52It is very clear that there is an absolute need here
08:55So under those circumstances and because I've been watching the kids playing football and joining in and watching them shiver under a gazebo
09:03The only decision we can make is that we will come and do it
09:06I
09:08Don't know how we're gonna do it
09:22I don't know what to say. I haven't done anything yet
09:29I think it's amazing. All right. Well, I've made a promise now, so I'll see you in a few weeks time
09:36It's amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you
09:41Wow
09:42It's like just grabbed me by the heart and it took me straight back to my youth and thinking how important it would have been
09:48For me to have had that opportunity to have a youth club and what it would have done for the kids on my estate
09:52I'm just gonna break it to the team now that I've said yes, but we're gonna do this one
09:59Really I should have said no, but how do you how do you how do you say no?
10:09There is quite a big hole so shall we get some hammer fencing up. Yeah, let's put some up
10:15Three months of planning and preparation have passed since I was last in East riding. Yeah, go here. Yeah on the angle
10:22We've also used the time to lay concrete foundations
10:28Morning
10:29So Chloe how you doing? Hello so excited ready to meet the people that are gonna do this. Yeah. Yes
10:36Building an entire youth center from scratch in eight days will take a monumental effort
10:46But local tradespeople and volunteers have arrived ready to help
10:52So many people
10:55It's amazing you can't believe it
11:03I can't believe how many people are giving up their time
11:06I've been running this youth group out of my car for years for me
11:11It's a game-changer a youth center can make such a difference. So thank you so much
11:18so I used to come to the youth club when I was younger and
11:22now I work for the youth club and I
11:27Don't know where I'd be if I didn't ever come to the youth club
11:32It opened up so many more opportunities for me and I just want to be able to do that for all the other young people
11:38and
11:40And this is one of many which you can make that difference too. So thank you all so much
11:45Thank you
11:53I grew up in a place like this the kind of places that people say oh don't bother building anything nice there
11:58It will just get destroyed
12:00You have to build stuff in tough places. You have to make a difference. You have to change
12:04You have to change
12:17I didn't expect it could get me
12:21You will make this happen you will change the futures of young people around here with what we're about to do
12:27Are we up for it?
12:30Yeah!
12:31Let's get outside!
12:37We need to get that crane as soon as possible
12:39We do
12:45So we've got the crane here to lift the steel in
12:47It's fast isn't it?
12:51This is what I love. There's a lot of beeping
12:54So we have a steel frame right?
12:56Yeah, so the steel frame goes in
12:58Yeah
12:59Then we've got block work
13:00Yeah
13:01Then we can drop a timber roof on top of that
13:03My concern is if we don't reach that point today
13:06Yeah
13:07Even on day one we could be in trouble
13:17So basically I have volunteered us to do a complete ground up in a field
13:23Brand new build
13:24On a site that's got no services at all
13:26Oh here we go
13:27We haven't got any electric, haven't got any water
13:29And we haven't got any like anywhere for the sewage to go
13:33Why? Why would you do that?
13:35I got emotionally involved if I'm truly honest
13:37And felt we couldn't walk away from it
13:39So it starts with two sea containers
13:42And they will sit either end of a steel frame
13:45And then timber frame infill
13:47And then we're going to put basically a glazed section in between
13:50The charity's shipping containers weren't fit for purpose
13:53But they were part of the planning permission
13:56So we've had to get two new ones that will form the ends of a steel frame building
14:01With floor to ceiling glass windows
14:03We're filling this with lovely fun things like stages
14:06Yeah, we really want to give them a space where they can dream
14:10Where they can have fun
14:11We've got a cinema screen
14:12But food poverty is a massive problem in this neighbourhood
14:16And that's one of the main things that this charity deals with
14:19They don't want any child to leave this place hungry
14:22With that in mind, one of the containers will house a kitchen
14:26To help feed any children who've been missing meals
14:29There will also be a breakout room ideal for private conversations
14:33The main hub will be an open-plan multi-purpose space with a central stage
14:40While the second container will have a storeroom and toilets
14:45Everything in this building needs to have a double function
14:48This stage you can fold it up
14:49Because they need to do sports in there and crafts
14:51You know, this needs to work for everything
14:53Cupboards that are sort of make-up stations
14:55It sounds like that requires quite a bit of bespoke joinery
14:58To make sure that then everything is set out exactly as they need
15:01But also what I really like is an amazing outdoor kitchen
15:04Yes
15:05Also an outdoor gym
15:06Yeah, anything that gets kids outside and being active has got to be a good thing, right?
15:10Exercising in the fresh air, can't get better than that
15:12And then the rest of the space we need to do something really fabulous with
15:15What I'm thinking is edible plants
15:18Food growing is so important for kids, education
15:20And we're then able to feed them from the garden
15:23Yeah, absolutely
15:24I think it'd be brilliant
15:26So let's concentrate on the young people
15:28Go on
15:29Let's go for this
15:30Yes
15:31That was so good
15:32Off you go then, son
15:34Now I'm on holiday
15:36Come on
15:37Let's go
15:41Until this is art
15:42I feel like a sort of expectant father pacing around the waiting room
15:51All of a sudden somebody's ordered a wheelbarrow army
15:53Actually the front of the wheelbarrow army
15:54There's some people I wanted to say hello to
15:57Bolstering our ranks are three gladiators
15:59Tom and Listers, AKA Hammer and Cyclone
16:03Nice to see we got you to work straight away
16:05Good of you to come along
16:06And Fury, real name Jodie, who's leading the charge
16:10I'm from up and off
16:11I'm from Dewsbury
16:12Right
16:13So it feels very familiar
16:15Like when I was growing up
16:16I sort of came to a park like this
16:18I think young kids need that
16:19And it's made a big impact on my life
16:21So I just think that's really cool that we've been able to do something like that
16:25It's just nice to help
16:26Also Tom is your gladiator name is Hammer
16:29It seems appropriate
16:30Yeah
16:31Hammering nails in
16:32Any walls that need knocking down
16:33Well I tell you what
16:34I am also going to lean on your fame a little bit
16:36Because we've been trying to get hold of some more fitness equipment
16:38Could we use you guys to maybe put some shout outs on social media and things
16:42To see if we can get people to go
16:43Yeah we'll come forward and we'll donate some stuff
16:45And we'll use you that way as well
16:46Is that alright?
16:47Yeah absolutely
16:48Thank you
16:49Thank you very much
16:50Nice to see you
16:51Doing all this for the youth club is incredible
16:54This is the centre of this community
16:56I can see how something like this would have a huge impact
17:00I think for kids to have that opportunity and just bring them together
17:03Get out of the house, meet new people, in the gym
17:06It's just going to be unreal for them
17:08We are here with DIY SOS
17:10Helping them build the most amazing youth club
17:13The only thing is that we don't have the gym equipment
17:16We need your help
17:17Support, connections you have
17:19We need you
17:20Back to work you pair
17:21Come on
17:22Our steel frame is on track to be up by day's end
17:27We're going to have to just conveyor belt through a whole bunch of walls
17:31But the timber structure we need to fit inside it tomorrow
17:34Squeeze in there a little bit
17:36Has hit a snag
17:37So when's the timber frame arriving?
17:39Well that's the issue
17:40Is that while we thought that a company was going to be able to be prefabbing
17:44All the timber framing we need for this build
17:46Instead we weren't able to find that
17:48And we have to build a factory on site
17:50And the issue is that all that has to get done in about a day and a half
17:54Don't go that way, do go that way
17:56Rader and his carpentry team need to build 18 timber frames on site
18:01You want ten and a longer length?
18:02We have to do short ones
18:03Okay
18:04Perfect
18:05A job that would take much longer in a factory
18:08There's a lot going on
18:10There's no way you should be able to do this in that time
18:12But we've got so we've got a lot of people here
18:15But everything needs to fall into place otherwise it will fail
18:17Starting with no building brings a whole load of issues
18:24Even the most basic utilities have to be installed
18:29This was a field, a play park
18:31Where's the electric? Where's the water? How's it getting here?
18:35So we've got power guys sorting that
18:37And the water is behind you in a duct
18:39Wait what about sewage though?
18:41You see that house there?
18:42And we're putting the sewage into their garden
18:44That's where the nearest sewer pipe is to tap into
18:46Yeah, so we've basically got
18:48We've run that past the homeowner
18:50You're going to have to probably just go over and just a little tap on the door
18:53Okay, we haven't run it past it yet
18:55Can you just pop over and say hello?
18:57What if she says no?
18:58I don't know to be honest with you
18:59But that's the only place we can tap into
19:01All right, I'll go and have a word
19:03All right, cheers Nick
19:05I think I've just been done
19:09Well I guess this is the one
19:14Hello
19:19Hello
19:20Hello
19:21Hello
19:22I'm Nick
19:23Hello, I'm Angie
19:24Hello Angie, how are you?
19:25I'm fine, thank you
19:26Erm, I've got a bit of a request
19:28With the thing that we're building
19:29You know what we're building over there
19:30The trouble is the only place we can tap into the sewage works
19:33Is in your back garden
19:34Okay
19:35Can I have a look and I can show you
19:36Yeah, of course you can
19:37You don't have to say yes or no straight away
19:39So we'd have to take up some of your pathway
19:42Which means we'd have to move your shed
19:45And then take a bit of the fence out
19:47I promise you that we will make it good
19:50We'll make the grass good
19:51We'll make the pathway good
19:53Are you sure on this?
19:55This is the only way we can do it
20:00Okay
20:01Yeah
20:02I'll go with it because it's something for the kids
20:04And that is what the kids need something to do
20:06So I'll out with you
20:07Really?
20:08I will, yes
20:09Yes, I will
20:10Really?
20:11Yes, yes I will
20:12Oh, can I have a hug?
20:13Yes
20:14Oh, that's amazing
20:15Do you know what?
20:16The fact that she said
20:17The youngsters need somewhere around here
20:20Just gives you an idea
20:21Of how people understand what's going on
20:23So, massive result
20:25While our excavation team search for a sewage pint
20:28See if we're any joy here then
20:31A giant donation has arrived
20:33I've been told that the sea containers
20:36Yes
20:37Are nearby
20:44Look at that, look at the size of those things
20:45Only just baited it under the telephone wires
20:50What we need is we need that shipping container
20:53Tight up against those stills
20:55The main building framework is up
20:57Now we need to crane our two shipping containers into place at either end
21:07The key point is the wind that we don't get a sudden gust
21:10We've got to make sure we're very, very gentle
21:12And we don't knock any of the block work off
21:14Any of the stills or anything
21:15Anything really
21:16That's it
21:17Right
21:18Let's go and have a look at it
21:19Each container weighs 2.7 tonnes
21:21Have your wits about you everyone
21:23Any collision could cause permanent damage to the container wall
21:26Or make the steel frame structurally unsound
21:29Oh crap, Barrett
21:30This is, this is why I hate men
21:31It's just that there's no margin for error
21:33And it just makes me so stressed
21:35I can't even watch it
21:36The wind's getting up
21:41You can see it with the trees moving
21:43I've got to be very, very careful here
21:48Oh, watch the bang
21:52Oh, Jesus Christ
21:57I can't bear it
22:00Whoa, whoa, whoa, a nittle
22:02Tell him to come down, down
22:04Yeah, but hang on
22:05I don't want it swinging into the steel work
22:07Whoa, argh
22:09Down
22:13Right, put you down so we can get her arms on it
22:15Just get, get your edge on it
22:16Right, we got it
22:17Stop it there, stop it there
22:18Steady, steady, nice and steady now
22:19Just have everyone got control of it
22:20Stop the train
22:21Right, just have everyone watch the block work and everything else
22:26Oh, down here
22:27It's water and steel
22:28Yep
22:29Is it stuck on?
22:30No, he's got it down
22:31He's clear now
22:32He's clear now
22:33He's clear, you're good
22:34That was hairy
22:36Yeah, I told you
22:38To me, to me
22:39Whoa, whoa, whoa
22:40You've gone the other way
22:41Back to me, to me
22:42Back to me
22:43There
22:44There, there
22:45There, there, there
22:46Drop it down
22:47Drop it down
22:48Let's back on
22:49Good, good, good, good
22:50That's one in
22:51Now we've got to do it all over again on the second one
22:56And it's half past eight
22:58I mean everyone's been putting such a shift today
23:01I can't tell you what a joy it is to work with these people
23:04Like the enthusiasm and the dedication is incredible
23:07I love it
23:08I love, love, love it
23:09It doesn't matter how long the day is, I love it
23:11Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho!
23:13To the millimetre
23:14Go ahead guys
23:17Can I have a poached egg on toast please, my darling
23:32What?
23:33One poached egg?
23:34I'll have eight eggs in an omelette, please.
23:38Not twelve?
23:40Ten. It's compromised in the middle. Ten eggs for me.
23:48With the main building, steel structure finished,
23:51the concrete and breeze-blocked floor can start going in.
23:54Four blocks!
24:00What I like about this system is,
24:02once you've got everything set up, it flies in, doesn't it?
24:05I mean, we'll literally be walking across this
24:07and be finished in half an hour.
24:14That'll go down. Lovely.
24:16Perfect.
24:17You walk around that side. Watch your fingers!
24:19After a Herculean effort hand-crafting all the wooden frames
24:22for the interior walls, Radha's team are nearly there.
24:26How many have we done?
24:27This is number 17, so we've got one last one to do.
24:31And these guys are working like a machine.
24:36Oh!
24:37Let in me pencil.
24:38No, let in me pencil.
24:43It's amazing that we're already at this place.
24:46It's pretty mad.
24:47The timing is so, so, so tight.
24:49So, today we're up for it.
24:53Keep bringing the beams!
24:55Keep bringing the beams!
24:56I've taken five minutes out from the build to go and have a chat with Chloe.
25:02She went to the youth club as a child and now is a youth club worker.
25:06So, I'm not sure there's anyone better to tell us how important it is.
25:10Hello, you.
25:11Hello.
25:12Can I come and have a chat?
25:13Yeah.
25:14Is that right?
25:15Yeah.
25:16I'll squidge around here and...
25:19There we go.
25:20So, do you think if you actually had a building that you could make a big difference?
25:24I feel like it's really important to give them a safe space.
25:27If they want to just be a child at the youth club, they can do that.
25:31I'm trying to get to a point where they can confide in you.
25:34If they have no-one else to confide in, who do they go to?
25:37So, tell me about you when you came to the youth club.
25:41I had quite a tough childhood.
25:43It was always tiptoe around the house, don't speak, stay out the way.
25:48It was sort of like a...
25:58Take your time, I'm sorry.
26:01In stepping into the youth club world, there was somebody who could look after me.
26:08Is that the motivation? You don't want anyone to feel like you did?
26:11Yeah.
26:13Here you are, you've got a job, you're going to college, you're doing really well.
26:17Will your 12-, 13-year-old self recognise you now?
26:20No.
26:21I feel like I'm...
26:23Who I am now is the big sister I always wanted when I was little.
26:27You should be very proud of that.
26:28Yeah.
26:29And what we're going to do is give you an environment in which you can carry on doing that amazing work
26:32and be a big sister of a lot of other people too.
26:36Yeah, hopefully.
26:38Now the floor's down and perfectly level.
26:45Welcome to Cherry Tree Youth Club.
26:48It looks amazing.
26:50Gabby can outline her grand plans.
26:52So, we've got two openings over here.
26:55So we've got an accessible loo and then we've got in there, we've got a store.
26:59We've got a beautiful open plan kitchen here and we've got a little breakout space.
27:03Okay.
27:04It's going to be great.
27:05So, let's have a look at the building here.
27:06So we've got a new shaped kitchen, we've got a lovely ovens and stuff tucked away here.
27:11Why don't you overfly the worktop so we can have like a tucking breakfast bar on?
27:15I'm doing that already.
27:19Oh, yeah?
27:20It's not my first rodeo, sweetheart.
27:22So that still leaves us with a massive space out here.
27:25This is where we've got the big glass, so it's a lovely view of the park.
27:28I think of this room as like a Swiss Army knife design.
27:31I want everything to do two things.
27:33So they can play sports in here, they can do crafts.
27:36This is going to be the hub of everything.
27:38So they can have a party in here by clearing away all the tables?
27:40Disco, we've got a disco board going up, we've got an amazing lighting system.
27:44Oh, oh, and I forgot, we've got a cinema screen.
27:47This is going to blow them away when it's done, isn't it?
27:48Yeah.
27:49All we're going to do is get it done.
27:54That's right.
27:55With a prefab roof in place.
27:57That bag on my light!
27:59Billionaire Sparkies can crack on with putting in 1,000 metres of cabling.
28:03We've actually wired the two containers.
28:05The containers are near enough done now, yeah.
28:07So we've just got this main area and then everything else is up in the ceiling.
28:11There's a lot to do though, isn't there?
28:13There's a lot to do.
28:14All our builds are hard, but this is especially hard because it's brand new.
28:19It's from the ground up.
28:21This, for us, is a big challenge.
28:26We're trying to connect the youth club toilets to the nearest main sewer.
28:31Here we go, that's nice.
28:32Dig a hole through there, lovely.
28:33We've dug up a neighbour's garden.
28:36Oh, that doesn't look good.
28:37Where we were expecting to find a sewer pipe.
28:44That manhole's not where it should be.
28:49It's not there.
28:50Where's the pipe?
28:51Where's the sewer gone?
28:52Where's the sewer gone?
28:53That's what we're trying to find at the minute.
28:55Where's all the sewage going from the house here if there's not a pipe out the back?
29:00It's running right along the house and then into that sewer.
29:03And dipping in next door?
29:05Two houses are going into one.
29:06So if we want to do this, we dig a big hole in their garden so that we can change their drain.
29:12So it all connects up.
29:14Well, I didn't see that coming.
29:16That's made that a lot more interesting all of a sudden, hasn't it?
29:19We can't hand over a youth club with no working toilets.
29:22On a scale of one to ten of not good for the job, that's about a nine and a half.
29:27So we're now going to need a digger and about eight men on that.
29:30It's a massive, massive issue.
29:44Pass me a spade.
29:46Do something different.
29:50All good?
29:51Yeah.
29:53Slowly, the building is beginning to emerge.
29:59Eighteen timber wall frames built by Radha's team are being fitted.
30:02Get it down.
30:04Get that.
30:06Ready for Chris and his team to get plastering.
30:10It's all going to be boarded and skimmed.
30:12That's where my mind's going now.
30:13Yeah.
30:14So we've got quite a challenge in that.
30:15It's like every time you get over one challenge in this, you think, great, we're like...
30:19And then here comes the next challenge, like riding up to slap you in the face like a wet fish.
30:23Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.
30:25Push.
30:27It's like wrestling a snake.
30:29It's the moment of truth for our youth club toilets.
30:32We found the main sewer by digging up another kind neighbour's garden.
30:35But the club is 80 metres away.
30:38Pull a bit more through.
30:40And then pull it back up.
30:42If we can't lay in this huge stretch of pipe to connect them up, it's back to the drawing board.
30:48All hands on deck.
30:50Yeah.
30:52Thankfully, Jamie, a.k.a. Giant from the Gladiators, has also come to help.
30:57Push it. Keep pushing.
30:58Push!
31:03Push!
31:05All right, further back on the pullback.
31:08Three, two, one, back.
31:10One big push.
31:12All at the same time, two.
31:15That's right, that's fine, that's fine.
31:17Yay!
31:19We're done.
31:20All right, well done, everyone.
31:22Very good, very good, very good.
31:23Well done.
31:24This, uh, putting the sewage connection has been probably the most troublesome thing on the whole build.
31:29So actually to have it connected up now, it's a bit of a godsend, really.
31:32Yeah.
31:33Funny, like, you do all the engineering you like, in the end it comes down to brute force sometimes.
31:36Yeah.
31:37Well, I'm just glad I could put the muscles to use.
31:39Yeah.
31:41I'm gonna come over this mountain of rubble.
31:43We've mapped out this flower border.
31:44Now we need to see where the kitchen is.
31:46I know this seems absolutely mad, but I just need to be able to see this,
31:50because at the moment it's just looking like an absolute building site.
31:53With the sewage setbacks calling in so many resources,
31:57Ash hasn't been able to start planting or setting up the outdoor kitchen and edible garden.
32:02We are way behind already.
32:04On a normal domestic build, I would have a footprint of a garden already there.
32:09It looks like a war zone, right?
32:11If you've got plastered, we need to ask you to leave, we've got to start plastering in the next ten minutes.
32:22Yeah.
32:24We're almost halfway through the schedule and the scale of the job is still overwhelming.
32:29The trouble is if you look at any one area in this build, it will worry you.
32:36Are there enough plasterers to do the plastering so that the kitchen can go in?
32:39Will the kitchen go in fast enough that the second fix can go in?
32:42Will the sewerage work, will the electric work?
32:47If you think about it all, it will just drive you mad.
32:50After pulling a late one, the first stage of the electrics and plastering has been completed.
33:12Woohoo! Kitchen day.
33:17Gabby can finally set about working on the inside of the club.
33:21Oh, now we can get cracking.
33:22Right, the kitchen's at this end.
33:25Ah! So excited, thank you.
33:30OK, so enormous oven, lovely sink there and an absolutely huge, humongous fridge.
33:35This space is almost the most important space in this building,
33:40because what we want is no kid to leave here hungry.
33:52We've got the gym kit! Come on!
33:55The gladiators' call out for our garden activity area has come up trumps.
34:00So we've got a variety of stuff, we've got pedal bars.
34:03On bicycle.
34:04I mean, that's fabulous, isn't it?
34:05Yep, absolutely.
34:06Anything that gets the kids moving and...
34:08And it's like a way for them to decompress, distract themselves from things that might be going in their lives.
34:12OK, we're not going to be putting them in for a while.
34:14But in the meantime...
34:15Yes!
34:16Well done!
34:17To make sure the centre is the best it can be for the community, Gabby wants to learn more about the local kids.
34:33So how many of your mates would you be bringing with you to Cherry Tree?
34:37She's gone to meet 14-year-old Billy, who lives on a nearby estate.
34:42So what's it like living round here?
34:43It's a very little town and everyone kind of knows everything, everyone knows everyone.
34:48And how's it been for you guys?
34:49Because I know your age group have been through some really tough times recently, haven't you?
34:53Yeah, like, it's been, I think in the past five years we've lost three of our friends.
34:58And when you get them phone calls, finding out that people you know have died, like, so quickly.
35:05It is, it's awful.
35:07Then the Cherry Tree Community Centre have really, you know, helped us with that.
35:11They got the organised councils and things like that, just so we could speak to people because...
35:15Donny, I'm so sorry, that's, that's massive to cope with that.
35:21And do you feel, so when all this was going on, you guys had lost your youth centre, you know, there's nowhere for your age group to actually be together, is there?
35:30No, there's not anywhere now.
35:31And, and tell me about what a safe space would feel like for you and your friends?
35:35You know, just some way you can go where, you know, you're not going to get, be getting into trouble.
35:39And some way you can go, you know, when you need something and there's people there you can speak to.
35:42Because, you know, it'd get us off the streets and things like that.
35:45It's just trying to keep everyone out of trouble, as much as you can.
35:49Speaking to Billy really brought it home to me.
35:52This centre's got to provide a safe space for people who don't feel they have one.
35:56But I also want them to just feel full of fun, adventure, you know, new dreams, new horizons.
36:03I want it to be really special for them.
36:09Fitting everything the kids need into this space needs careful thinking.
36:13Well done, my love.
36:14And another mission for our wood wizard.
36:18Can I just hit you with my list of things?
36:19Yeah, yeah, yeah, just, just like back to back it for me.
36:22Right, so I want a backdrop to the stage, I want an arch, but I want kind of a couple of layers.
36:27So I've just done a sketch here.
36:28We've also got storage for loads of kind of beauty, makeup.
36:32What, okay, so like a vanity unit kind of style.
36:35And also in the two loos, I'd love you to make some shelving for the walls,
36:41that we're going to fill with all the toiletries they might need.
36:44It's that principle of nobody needs to be embarrassed by asking for stuff.
36:47You just go in there and there's everything you need.
36:49It's making me feel a bit sick to even actually verbalise this list.
36:52It's definitely a little scary, but the joinery team is fantastic.
37:03So we've marked out the corner of the gym area.
37:06We've got the pizza oven to go here.
37:08Ash still has to wait before he can landscape and plant,
37:11but he can make a start on the outdoor kitchen.
37:14We can get this done.
37:16This is going to add so much benefit to the local community.
37:19The kids are going to love this area.
37:37We're two thirds of the way through our build schedule.
37:40Right, my loves, let's get this sorted.
37:43And Gabby has to press on with painting.
37:47Whoa!
37:48Whoa!
37:49You sure about this one, Gabby?
37:50It is quite leery in a good way.
37:52So this is our main colour.
37:54So the whole feel will be really like pops of interest.
37:58I want them to come in here and think, you know, there's that and there's this,
38:01but it's not...
38:02Not in your face.
38:03Thanks, John.
38:04The next couple of days, we'll see if we've got it right with the paints.
38:10But it's always nerve-wracking.
38:15Mind your back, Sosie.
38:16Oh, sorry, darling.
38:17Sorry.
38:18Whoop, whoop, whoop!
38:19So we've managed to find a beautiful, collapsible stage.
38:24Which way did it collapse?
38:25Down.
38:26So in and out.
38:28This is going to be the real focus of this whole room,
38:31where they can expand their horizons a bit.
38:34And when they walk in, I want to just be like, ka-pa!
38:36We've got karaoke here.
38:38What's your go-to karaoke, Bill?
38:40I'll call it the Gat song.
38:41I feel it in my fingers.
38:44I feel it in my toes.
38:47Cos love is all around us.
38:50And the feeling for all.
38:53CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
39:05Yes, that's what I like to see.
39:07Let's go.
39:08Right, gang, we're going to load up these turfs here and get them down.
39:13We've got a lot to get in.
39:17A huge amount of turf.
39:19Yes.
39:20950 square metres of turf.
39:21It's going to be...
39:22It's going to be tight.
39:23I mean, this is...
39:24This turf's going to take a few hours, definitely, to get that down.
39:30Right.
39:31First piece of turf.
39:32Going down.
39:34With an area almost the size of five tennis courts to cover,
39:37Ash calls in the cavalry.
39:40Hello.
39:41Hello.
39:42Have you laid turf before?
39:43That's it, huh?
39:44Is it something you've done?
39:45I'm so glad you're here.
39:46This is good.
39:47This is good.
39:48This is what we need.
39:49We're going to be on deck because I'm actually pretty nervous
39:51that we're not going to finish this in time.
39:52The toughest thing for Ash, it hasn't been able to get at what
39:55for any other landscaper would be three months of work
39:59and we get in two days.
40:00I'm not altogether sure that's possible.
40:02What?
40:03On the face.
40:04I can't see where I'm going.
40:05Looks good, doesn't it?
40:06I like it there.
40:07C-T-Y-H.
40:08Cherry Tree Youth Hub.
40:09What?
40:10Well, I'm just a bit tense that this is on the back of the building, not the front.
40:25Well, this is the side.
40:26It's on the plans.
40:27This is the side.
40:28But...
40:29Give me the plans.
40:30Don't get shouty.
40:31It's just possible that I made a mistake.
40:34We need it where it's the entrance and this isn't the entrance.
40:35This is the emergency exit.
40:36We can fit it over there.
40:37Have you got enough letters to do it twice?
40:38Have we got enough letters to do it twice?
40:39Not here or made yet.
40:40How long would it take to make them?
40:41What time can I start in the morning?
40:42Seven o'clock, okay?
40:43Seven o'clock's perfect.
40:44If you can get four letters and we can put them on the front tomorrow morning, we'll go for that.
40:46That would be amazing.
40:47Deal.
40:48And we'll keep that up.
40:49Love it.
40:50Okay.
40:51All right.
40:52I'll best get on.
40:54Lovely lettering, by the way.
40:55Good.
40:56A whole day later than planned, flooring is going down inside.
40:57And is this totally bomb-proof?
40:58Bulletproof, bulletproof, kid-proof.
40:59But nothing else could be worked on until that's finished.
41:02Right, come on.
41:03Let's go for that.
41:04Let's go for that.
41:05We can get four letters.
41:06If we can put them on the front tomorrow morning, we'll go for that.
41:07That would be amazing.
41:08We'll go for that.
41:09Deal.
41:10And we'll keep that up, love it.
41:11Okay.
41:12All right, our basket on.
41:14Lovely lettering, by the way.
41:15Good.
41:16A whole day later than planned, flooring is going down inside.
41:17And is this totally bomb-proof?
41:18Bulletproof.
41:19Bulletproof.
41:20Bulletproof.
41:21Kid-proof.
41:22Nothing else can be worked on until that's finished.
41:26Right, come on, let's get on, come on then.
41:28Putting huge pressure on the final day of the build.
41:32I might buy a lottery ticket because the chances of it happening are about the same.
41:36So, if my luck's in, my luck's in.
41:39That's so much fencing to do.
41:52We've got 70 metres of this to put in.
41:54With just 24 hours to hand over, we're still miles off.
41:58My mind is, like, absolutely fried right now.
42:02I mean, I'm feeling quite unhinged, a lot of stuff to do.
42:07We just seem to be going slow by our standards, going fast by any other build standards.
42:15I don't know how we're going to do this, but we have to.
42:17At what point do you say, I'm sorry I failed, we just can't deliver what I said we could,
42:21because it was just too much in the end?
42:23At least there's some good news.
42:26Letters for the front of the building have been delivered.
42:30It looks amazing. Thank you, darling.
42:33So, these panes are pretty special, though, aren't they?
42:37They're very heavy. Yeah.
42:39Yeah, about 160k each, they are.
42:41Are they? Yeah.
42:42Think this one's going to fit?
42:43If they don't fit, it's quite nerve-wracking.
42:45Er, like...
42:46Should I go for it?
42:47Yeah, go on, go and lift it in, let's see.
42:48We don't have time to have another pane made.
42:52These are made to order, so if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit.
43:03We good? Yeah.
43:04Yeah.
43:05Yeah.
43:06That's it, we're in.
43:09Isn't that beautiful?
43:10Excellent.
43:11You can see why, when Gabby designed this, she wanted all the glass front on this side.
43:15They've got plants.
43:22Yay!
43:23So, let's get these out.
43:25Ash's plants have arrived, but he and his local volunteers have just one day to create the entire garden.
43:32We'll work all the way up to here, alright? Sound good?
43:36I think it's the best way to do it, it's probably start at the back.
43:41Finally getting some plants in, which is great.
43:43And these are all edible plants.
43:45We've got fruit trees, fruit bushes.
43:49Could even put it on there.
43:50I'll grab it.
43:52I'm hoping for the rest of the community that they'll come and be able to enjoy this space.
43:56We love it, we know they'll love it.
43:57Yes.
43:58It's making me happy.
44:01Inside, some of the key elements are finally coming together.
44:05It's amazing, it's a beautiful kitchen.
44:06It looks nice, it looks soft.
44:08The breakout room is looking very lovely in there.
44:10Yeah.
44:11We're doing really well over here, colour is so important.
44:14We've got giant highlighter pens around all the things of interest.
44:17This is fun, this is exciting.
44:19This is your sort of setting day.
44:21We should just be polishing things.
44:23What's stressing us out here is we shouldn't be doing this today.
44:27We've got so much to do, we've got to be finished tonight.
44:30At the moment I just feel like crying and shouting at the same time, because I know it's like...
44:34Is there anything I can do or make happen that will help things happen?
44:37Yeah, stop interfering us and let us get on.
44:41Unbelievable.
44:46You pick it up, I'll make it up.
44:47Every part of the build needs one last big push.
44:51And we'll get one right in the end there.
45:00Ryder and his team are about to find out if the bespoke cabinets they've built for Gabby are the right fit.
45:06It's intimidating, I'm not going to lie, this is crucial for this space.
45:17It's always the finer details that really pull the build together.
45:21So this is hair and beauty mode.
45:23Yeah, in there, yeah.
45:25Ta-da!
45:26So it'll light up and we've got a great mirror here.
45:29Yeah.
45:30And then all our beauty products and skincare products here.
45:33They're going to love it.
45:34Kids should love it, yeah.
45:36The entire gym still needs to be set up and tested.
45:42Thinking spacing-wise, the bar's in that corner, would you say?
45:45You want to go here?
45:46Yeah.
45:47We've got to get it done.
45:48It's just going to be a tight squeeze.
45:51It's a fun way to exercise and with your mates outside and anyone can use it.
45:55Maybe the arm and leg's in this corner because it's a smaller one.
46:01Love that, yeah.
46:02And then last one.
46:03Last one?
46:04Yeah.
46:06Last piece.
46:07I'm thinking everyone needs to get involved and have a sesh on this.
46:14You ready to test them out?
46:15Billy is.
46:16Billy's the fittest out of all of us.
46:18So, I'm guessing...
46:21Oh, no, I don't know.
46:22Like, one foot on here?
46:23Oh, sorry.
46:26Oh!
46:27Oh, God.
46:28It keeps moving.
46:30Where am I going?
46:31Am I there yet?
46:32Children are going to love it, isn't they?
46:34Yeah, they are.
46:38All right?
46:39Yeah.
46:42Let's make it up to the top and see how it's fitted.
46:45I'm so proud of everyone.
46:46This building has got such a personality now and I love that.
46:55Hello, lady.
46:56Hello.
46:57Hello.
46:58Hello.
46:59How you doing?
47:00A mixture of excitement.
47:01Nervous.
47:02What could you have done in a week?
47:03With no building.
47:04Right.
47:05You're going to see your new home.
47:06Ready?
47:07Okay.
47:08Let's go.
47:09Ooh.
47:10When I first arrived in Beverley, there was nothing here.
47:12All the youth club had was a gazebo on a windswept field.
47:13The staff were doing all they could to provide support for kids in one of the poorest neighbourhoods
47:14in the country.
47:15But with no place to call home, they were on the verge of having to stop for good.
47:18But with no place to call home, they were on the verge of having to stop for good.
47:30But in just a moment, I found it in a couple of days.
47:33How about that?
47:34You didn't have any questions at the top of the family?
47:35Now the house's got your oxygen.
47:40I was going to be your room, but I went to open the door for you.
47:45But in just over a week, we've done the seemingly impossible and built a brand new youth centre
47:53from scratch.
47:55The main hub is a relaxing, warm and safe space and can be used for anything from arts
48:00and crafts to discos and parties.
48:03And a new state-of-the-art kitchen means the centre's no longer relying on takeaways.
48:09And healthy meals can be rustled up any time of day.
48:15The toilets are fully accessible and stocked with essentials.
48:20And there's a calming breakout room to help when children are at their lowest.
48:29Outside we've created a kitchen garden complete with pizza oven so the kids can grow and cook
48:35their own food and an outdoor gym to help them stay fit and well.
48:41Despite the countless challenges we've faced along the way, I hope we've created a space
48:45where local young people can flourish and Jo, Fiona and Chloe can continue doing their amazing
48:52work into the future.
48:54Oh my god.
48:57I cannot believe it.
48:59They're just so big.
49:03This is what I always wanted.
49:04What we knew was one.
49:09I know the kids have it.
49:19What's that?
49:20It's an outdoor gym.
49:22My god.
49:25It's a fruit and veg garden.
49:27Really?
49:28Black currants on the right.
49:29There's rhubarb, there's gooseberries.
49:30They're making crumbles, yeah.
49:32That's fantastic.
49:33Ready to see some more?
49:35Here you go.
49:40Oh my god.
49:44I just, I can't believe it.
49:48Oh my god.
49:49You all right, Fiona?
49:51The kid?
49:52Oh my god.
49:53He's just amazing.
49:55You can fold the stage away and you have just a big open space to be able to do dance
50:02classes, your yoga class.
50:03You don't have to have the stage out.
50:04And the colours are really calming.
50:05Can't breathe.
50:06Can't believe it.
50:07I can't.
50:08Yeah.
50:09Can't breathe.
50:10Can't breathe.
50:11Can't believe it.
50:12I can't.
50:13Oh my gosh.
50:14Commercial quality oven so that you can actually produce loads of food.
50:29Huge fridge.
50:33That is cute.
50:35Oh my gosh.
50:38That is beautiful.
50:39Commercial quality oven, so that you can actually produce loads of food.
50:42Huge fridge.
50:43you could run a breakfast club here
50:45for the kids that aren't getting food before they go to school.
50:47Yeah, and it's school holidays, it's weekends, it's evenings.
50:51This is just going to be such a lifeline for them.
50:55How did this happen?
50:58I'm just going to have a minute.
51:00Sweetheart, of course you can have a minute.
51:02Absolutely you can have a minute.
51:04It's amazing.
51:06I feel it's just beyond anything that we could have imagined.
51:10Whilst you've got an amazing area here to play in,
51:12I'm also aware about sometimes just being overwhelmed by everything
51:16and needing a space to go and be quiet or be separate,
51:19so we created this breakout room.
51:23Oh!
51:25It's gorgeous!
51:27I think sometimes, you know, if someone comes and they're not having a good time,
51:31it'll be a good place to sit and have the conversations.
51:35Yeah.
51:38Ready?
51:39Out this way, please.
51:40The other big thing was the toilets.
51:45What?
51:47Wow!
51:49That is bloody beautiful, isn't it?
51:51The hygiene means such a lot.
51:54Some girls haven't been going to school.
51:56Because they can't afford...
51:57Yeah, the basics.
51:59Yeah.
52:00Yeah.
52:00So, did we miss anything?
52:06It's beyond, isn't it?
52:08Yeah.
52:08So much hope.
52:09It's unbelievable.
52:11You...
52:12listened.
52:13The first few years of my life were in an estate like this.
52:34Yeah.
52:36And the trouble is, it's represented so badly, whenever it's featured, about what's bad about
52:42places like this.
52:45But we've just spent a week working with people to show what's good about places like this.
52:49It's massive what you do, so we had to give you the tools to do it.
53:01And more than that, we had to give you something beautiful.
53:03Yeah.
53:04So that when people walk in here, they know that people do care.
53:06It's like such an important message.
53:09Yeah.
53:11Right.
53:11We need to let the kids see it.
53:15Look at those little smiling faces.
53:17Wait till they see what's in there.
53:19Are you ready for this?
53:22It's a push.
53:24Oh, don't make it.
53:25Oh, my God.
53:28Oh, my God.
53:28This is my favourite area.
53:30Look at this.
53:32It's just amazing.
53:41We should do some makeup lessons.
53:42I have a good punch.
53:43I have a bright.
53:47No.
53:47It's even.
53:49I definitely should respect it.
53:51There's a full-on light print to them.
53:52What do you reckon?
54:04What do you think?
54:05I love it.
54:06Do you?
54:07Yeah.
54:07Marks out of ten?
54:09Two billion.
54:10Billion.
54:10Billion.
54:11Look, we'd like to go into the gym area.
54:13There's a gym?
54:14Oh, my God.
54:17I'm going straight to them.
54:18Using your muffles.
54:23Oh, what?
54:26Never been able to make pizza before.
54:29And now we can.
54:35Of course, none of this could have been achieved.
54:39Without our amazing team of trade suppliers and volunteers.
54:44And our gladiators.
54:50There they are.
55:19You've got the people that actually took part in building this thing for you.
55:22You've built a future for us and a legacy.
55:26Yeah, you're going to change lives.
55:28This is unbelievable.
55:29Every child deserves a chance, and I can just see that you're all here to try and make that difference.
55:34Thank you so much.
55:36I just want to say thank you on behalf of all the young people.
55:42This was all I ever wanted when I was younger.
55:46And now that we've got it for all the young people that we work with, now we can help them.
55:55From having probably the crappest youth club set up, we, I think, have got the best in the country.
56:03Bloody hell, you have knocked it out of the park.
56:06That is insane!
56:09Thank you so much.
56:11It's beautiful.
56:12Absolutely stunning.
56:14Thank you so much.
56:15Thank you so much.
56:16Thank you so much.
56:17Thank you so much.
56:18Thank you so much.
56:19It's like Spider Woman over here.
56:24So this is good for your arms.
56:26You can get really strong.
56:27We both went to youth club, so how much it's impacted us, thinking of how much it's going
56:33to impact other people, so their situation is just insane.
56:36And it's so amazing to be a part of that.
56:40I sat there that night watching the kids eating pizza and chips under a gazebo in the rain.
56:44I thought, this reminds me of where I grew up.
56:47Those places are often overlooked.
56:49People who live there think people don't care.
56:52So we had to build here.
56:53I couldn't walk away from it.
56:55It's too personal.
56:57There are kids here that could do amazing things if someone believes in them.
57:03So this lot came along and built a safe space.
57:06And that's the very least children should have, isn't it?
57:09Something to eat and a safe space to be.
57:12So come on.
57:14So come on.
57:15Get it on.
57:17I don't know what you're waiting for.
57:20Your time is coming.
57:21Don't be late.
57:23Hey, hey.
57:24So come on.
57:25If you or someone you know needs help from the DIY SOS team,
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58:04Your love that matters to me.
58:08So come on.
58:09Get it on.
58:10I don't know what you're waiting for.
58:13Come on, I don't for me.
58:16I'll.
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