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00:05¡SuscrÃbete al canal!
00:30The island's getting quiet, you can feel it.
00:32The tourists are gone.
00:34The boathouse is closed for the season.
00:35We're not going to be open until next spring.
00:41Good luck on your next adventure.
00:42Thank you.
00:43Group hug.
00:46Chef Louis and Pila are going.
00:48It's sad because become friends with these people.
00:50They become part of your lives.
00:51And then all of a sudden, they're gone.
00:54Wait, are you taking our food?
00:56Yeah.
00:57They're my rice crispies.
01:00Bye, guys.
01:01This is very sad.
01:02I don't know where I'm going to get my food from either.
01:05You're going to have to cook though.
01:05I'm cold, I'm hungry, I'm broken.
01:08And we don't have a kitchen either.
01:15The seasons have changed since Banjo and Roe first set sail for Ulva House.
01:23With passion and purpose, Banjo has revitalized the reception rooms and designed a romantic honeymoon suite.
01:36While Roe has toiled with rewiring, re-plumbing and banishing leaks from the long-neglected roof.
01:44Together, they are bringing their vision of a unique boutique hotel to life.
01:58They've ploughed through over two-thirds of their £150,000 budget.
02:05Now all eyes turn to the kitchen, the quiet engine which will power every guest's stay and threatens to devour
02:13the remaining funds.
02:16Demo time.
02:17Delicate demo time?
02:18No.
02:19Full throttle attack.
02:21Not full throttle attack.
02:22There's something...
02:23We need eye muffs, sledgehammer, crowbar.
02:26Eye protection.
02:27Get me everything.
02:28Pig outside.
02:29Let's be careful.
02:30Let's just slowly remove everything.
02:32I'll get some stuff together.
02:34God, he's exhausting.
02:38Dad's grumpy.
02:41That is not suitable.
02:46You beauty.
02:48Nice.
02:49Get the right tool for the job is what I would say.
02:53You're like a bull in a china shop.
02:58That's a good pig truck.
03:05It's a beautiful old map of all that.
03:09Okay, so it's fantastic.
03:10So you can see, like, the woodland walk.
03:15There are two types of woodland, a native woodland and a hazel woodland.
03:23I don't know when or who made it.
03:25Someone went to a lot of work at some point to do that.
03:34What are you doing?
03:37What are you...
03:39What are you...
03:40You didn't turn the water off?
03:42No.
03:43Fuck.
03:46Got it.
03:48I don't know what you're doing, but you're stressing me out.
03:50How are you going to run a hotel with me if this stresses you?
03:53I'm not.
03:54I'm going to run a hotel.
03:54You're going to have to be somewhere else.
03:57What an adrenaline rush.
04:02All right, this is what we're working with.
04:04What on earth are you thinking of this?
04:05So, the copper off the flat roof.
04:08Yeah.
04:09Use them to make a gorgeous backsplash for the kitchen.
04:12Okay.
04:13Feature wall.
04:14Okay, so no cabinetry on it?
04:15No cabinetry.
04:16Okay, okay.
04:17But have a grand island.
04:19So this is the island?
04:20Everything is going to be on the island.
04:23Okay.
04:23That's going to really work hard for us.
04:26I'm going to design a 1950s icebox.
04:29That's going to conceal the fridge.
04:30That'll go there.
04:32Then pantry.
04:34Gorgeous.
04:34All your dry goods.
04:37Wood store.
04:38Gorgeous wood store.
04:39No, but no.
04:41Plate store.
04:42Okay.
04:42Ceramic store.
04:44All right.
04:44Knock the door off.
04:46Put a new window on.
04:48Then you've got this.
04:50Wow.
04:50Look at those curves.
04:52Suddenly, like, we've got some organic kind of shape in here.
04:56It's really nice, for some reason, seeing the shape.
04:58I don't know why, but I find that very pleasing.
05:02We're opening it all up.
05:04It's going to be one big, beautiful space.
05:10The centrepiece of the hotel's kitchen will be a grand island, which Banjo will design from reclaimed materials.
05:18Copper sheeting, salvaged from the roof, will form wall panelling.
05:22And Banjo is planning a retro-style cabinet to house the fridge and freezer.
05:30Mmm.
05:32Chef's kiss.
05:34I like it.
05:37It just feels a lot.
05:41Also demanding attention are the windows.
05:44With shattered glass and rotten frames, they are nowhere near guest-ready.
05:50Should we rip all this off?
05:52At the moment, it's probably keeping water out.
05:54Well, where there's rain, there's water.
05:57And when there's water, there's rock.
05:59OK, I think leave these where they are.
06:02Replacing the windows will be the final step in making Oliver House wind and water tight.
06:07But Banjo and Ro need not worry about autumn.
06:11As all locals know, it's winter that shows no mercy.
06:18Obviously, Oliver, it's a tough place to be in the winter.
06:21It's incredibly cold and very, very wet.
06:24Every angle you can think of, the rain comes with the wind and finds a way in if it can.
06:29They need to really be aware of getting it completely wind and water tight.
06:34Getting their windows sorted, or it will be a very long, miserable winter for them in that house.
06:41Banjo and Ro have paid £15,000 for replacement heritage sash and case windows, their biggest single outlay.
06:49We need to get those windows done and replaced by the end of November.
06:53If we don't, we're going to get hit with a massive insurance premium, £14,000.
06:58Their building insurance renews in December.
07:01Banjo and Ro must fortify the house against the elements by then.
07:06These windows are critical.
07:07They should be here two weeks before the deadline.
07:11They will be here two weeks before the deadline.
07:14It's not like it.
07:17We'll just get the best-looking sheets.
07:23Their first task in redesigning the kitchen is ransacking the copper removed from the roof.
07:29So that's one, two, three, four, five.
07:32For the feature wall splashback.
07:35They're in pretty rough condition.
07:37Some are covered in tar.
07:38Some have been beaten by hail and just won't be able to be used.
07:42But others are fabulous.
07:45They've got that gorgeous brown copper colour.
07:47Kind of in two minds.
07:48I love the copper and then I love the verdigris.
07:51Show me the verdigris side.
07:52No, that is the verdigris.
07:54The green is the verdigris.
07:56Oh, OK.
07:59Formed by wild Hebridean weather, this verdigris has developed over decades as the copper reacted with nature's forces.
08:08So that, as a backdrop, would be really lovely.
08:11The copper.
08:12Yeah.
08:13Would be lovely too.
08:14Like, in a kind of beautiful, rich, warmer colour.
08:19Salvaging these panels is going to look really lovely, whether they're the copper colour or the verdigris.
08:25I can honour the past and then find an interesting new way to use them for the future.
08:31Banjo has sent the time-worn and weather-beaten copper across the water to a master of metalwork on Mull.
08:43Tom can turn this copper into a wow piece.
08:46He knows how to spin gold from nothing.
08:52Howdy.
08:54How's it going?
08:55Yeah, pretty good.
08:56The verdigris is this naturally occurring process, but you can add a little bit of chemical or some magic potions
09:03to expedite that process.
09:06Tom really understands that.
09:08This is your options.
09:09So you've got just bare copper, just polished.
09:12Mm-hmm.
09:12Then you've got one coat of sprayed verdigris, then two coats of sprayed verdigris, but the first one's kind of
09:18white to make it more even.
09:20And then you've got two layers of sprayed verdigris.
09:22What do you think, Ray?
09:25I've got no idea.
09:27I think I fancy this one.
09:29That's like a nice degree of verdigris.
09:31But it's amazing.
09:32You can kind of dial it up and down.
09:34It's just sprayed magic juice.
09:36What do you mean magic juice, Tom?
09:38Because I know you could do pee and that would work.
09:42It's not your pee, is it?
09:44It could be pee.
09:45I bought off eBay.
09:45So who knows what's in it?
09:47It could be somebody's pee.
09:49It could be somebody's pee.
09:49I don't know what's in it.
09:50That's a good business for somebody.
09:52Well, whatever's going to get you a patina down.
09:55Petina.
09:57Okay, so which one are you going with?
09:58I think I like this one.
10:00Yeah, this has definitely come up the best, I think.
10:07Banjo has travelled to Perthshire
10:09to begin work on the kitchen island.
10:15To build the bespoke piece, he has chosen Bob,
10:18a master craftsman with a sprawling workshop and salvage yard.
10:24Bob, if I can find it and dream it, he can make it.
10:35Oh, you beauty.
10:41Hey, now we're talking.
10:44So these could be perfect for the legs,
10:48for a bit of the island.
10:50This is the thing that's going to give it a bit of soul,
10:53some lovely old found stuff.
10:55And this place is just like a treasure trove.
11:01I want it to feel like a bit of an heirloom,
11:04kind of like it's always existed.
11:07I'm looking for something to clad the inside of the island,
11:11something to add a bit of texture and depth.
11:13I know it when I see it.
11:16Oh, yes.
11:19That will work nicely.
11:25So I think those legs were work that I found in the yard.
11:29Yeah, I know exactly where we got those from.
11:31We got those out of a linen factory in Kirkcaldy.
11:37Yes.
11:38I love it.
11:40My fridge.
11:42Hidden in plain sight,
11:44kind of inspired by like a 1950s icebox,
11:48those beautiful old timber ones.
11:50Oh, high-tech drawing.
11:51I'm actually self-taught as a designer.
11:53Can you tell?
11:54Yeah.
11:54So we're making a grand island,
11:57a hidden fridge,
11:59all in a couple of weeks,
12:00because winter is coming, Bob,
12:02and Rurie's stopping running the boats as well.
12:05So we kind of have that, like, hard deadline to get that done.
12:09Otherwise, it'll just be left out in the cold.
12:16When winter hits,
12:19Rurie will restrict ferry crossings to islanders only,
12:22and even those will be at his discretion.
12:26The waters are very deceptive around Ulva.
12:29Even the narrow sound between Ulva and Mull can be treacherous.
12:34It looks easy doing what I do,
12:37but unfortunately there's all sorts of danger in any sort of water.
12:42I've seen people being overly confident in making mistakes,
12:46and I've saved people who have done that.
12:48Even closer to home,
12:50my uncle actually drowned in these waters.
12:55He was an experienced sailor.
12:58He'd lived in Ulva for 40 years.
13:00It just shows you you can do something a thousand times,
13:03and you can still make a mistake.
13:05You can't beat Mother Nature.
13:06You just have to respect it.
13:12Back at Ulva House,
13:17it's all hands on deck in the kitchen.
13:21Rowe says I never let him express his creativity
13:24when it comes to interior design,
13:26so I've let him pick the kitchen tiles.
13:29Rowe has opted for a white and peach marble.
13:33They look beautiful.
13:35Oh, they're stunning.
13:37Thank you.
13:38Not exactly practical.
13:40Wait until Grandpa and my little pigs mess up those beautiful tiles.
13:44No pigs on my tiles.
13:45Not a chance.
13:47Hello.
13:48Hello.
13:49Hello.
13:52So I'm just keying back all the woodwork in here
13:55so we can get a decent primer on it,
13:58get all the lumps and bumps off
14:00and years of kind of, you know, gunk.
14:04Tom has cast his alchemy with the magic spray
14:08and is making delivery of his first batch of panels.
14:14That's great.
14:15From the roof to the wall.
14:17Beautiful.
14:19Absolutely beautiful.
14:20Well done, Tom.
14:26We have to have our house wind and water tight,
14:29otherwise we're hit with a £14,000 insurance bill
14:34and we're going to miss that deadline.
14:37Banjo is on the phone to the window maker,
14:40desperate to confirm delivery
14:41before Ruri closes the ferry
14:44and the December deadline strikes.
14:47We're just getting kind of hit from every which angle.
14:50If you can't do it next week,
14:52you'll be heroes if you can get them on time.
14:57That would be amazing.
15:01If they're not here, we're cooked.
15:03That's our deadline to be wind and water tight.
15:06Go on.
15:07If they don't get that in,
15:09that's us stung with the £14,000 insurance bill.
15:12Yeah, I know.
15:16This could be disastrous for us.
15:18You know, we're stretched to our limit emotionally.
15:20Physically, financially.
15:23Moving to the island has brought us so much joy,
15:27but it's also pushed us to our limit.
15:30Autumn leaves under frozen soul
15:41Hungry hand
15:43Turning soft and old
15:48My hero cries
15:51As we stood out there in the cold
15:56Like these autumn leaves
15:59I don't have nothing to hold
16:03Have we made the right decisions?
16:05I don't second-guess myself when we're out here.
16:08It feels like, oh, this is where we want to be.
16:11But people have worked way harder
16:17And done way more
16:18In tougher conditions
16:20Yeah
16:20Like, maybe we're just not tough enough.
16:23You know, it's just
16:24Everything just feels a bit harder
16:25And maybe we're just a bit naive.
16:27These autumn leaves
16:31Oh, these autumn leaves
16:34Oh, these autumn leaves
16:37Oh, these autumn leaves
16:39Are yours today
16:40We promised that we could deliver this hotel
16:43And it was hopefully going to regenerate the island
16:46And that's put a lot of pressure on us.
16:50I really need to know
16:52We're going in the right direction.
16:54I'm kind of starting to doubt myself
16:56As a designer
16:57So I've invited Nicola, her husband Robert
17:00They used to own a boutique hotel on Mull
17:03They're blunt.
17:04They won't sugarcoat it.
17:05They'll tell us what we've done.
17:09She saw the place beforehand
17:11So I'm hoping they really like it
17:13Um
17:19Hello
17:19Hello
17:20How's it going?
17:22Good, thank you
17:25Come in, welcome
17:26Wow, quite a difference
17:28Quite a difference
17:30First impressions count in hoteling, don't they?
17:33I remember when we were talking at the start
17:34About how it was going to work
17:36Making sure it was warm
17:37And welcoming
17:38And it's absolutely beautiful
17:39Very nice indeed
17:40Yes
17:43This is the library
17:45Well
17:46The library of booze
17:48Well, the library with booze
17:49Yes
17:50It doesn't matter if you're a resort in the Maldives
17:53A chalet in the Alps
17:54Or an island off an island off the west coast of Scotland
17:57You've got to make people want to come here
17:59And this is the kind of thing that a lot of people will want to do
18:02Oh, I'm excited talking to you
18:04Yeah, I know
18:05It's refreshing
18:06All right, come in
18:08Okay
18:09This is the orangery
18:14Another belter of a room
18:16So you reckon we're almost ready to open?
18:18Not quite, I'm afraid
18:20The house will need a lot of compliance
18:24Health and safety
18:25Alcohol licence
18:27Yeah
18:28If you don't have an alcohol licence
18:29Then you've got very little chance of survival
18:30Fire regulations
18:32Electrical certification
18:33Pat testing
18:34Making sure you comply with all the complexities of your insurance is going to be key
18:38You'll be lucky if you're up and running this time next year
18:43There's a lot to do
18:44A successful business will only start to turn a profit after three years
18:48If you think you're going to be sipping champagne in the south of France this time next year
18:52Then you've got another thing coming
18:54Maybe three or four years' time
18:55And upstairs, is there a bedroom above us?
18:58Yes, the honeymoon suite
18:59You're going to need to make sure that the noise down here is not too much
19:03Or the noise up there is not too much
19:07You're still smiling
19:08Yeah, we're still smiling, we're still smiling
19:10We're still smiling
19:10That's good, that's good
19:12I feel confident we've made the right decision
19:15This can be a viable business
19:16Yeah
19:17Good advice from a good source
19:18It's good
19:19But more to do
19:32Banjo and Roe are reinvigorated
19:35Their doubt drifting away
19:37As the kitchen units arrive to swell their renewed hope
19:42Got it?
19:44I know my own strength
19:50There's a lot, I just don't understand how this all fit
19:53Well, it's a big room
19:54It shows you how much design input you've had into this, eh?
19:57Yeah, yeah, zero
20:00Once again, Rue to the Rescue is an absolute star
20:03He's come in, saved the day
20:04Three trips over
20:06Bravo
20:13You're beauty
20:14Beautiful
20:16While the kitchen emerges from imagination into reality, Tom fits the copper panels
20:24Wow
20:26Now, that'll slide in there
20:29Yeah
20:30And it'll go together
20:32Like a glove
20:33With some bolts
20:34Look at these legs
20:35These are the ones we found in your salvage yard
20:38That's a work of art
20:40Right
20:43Ta-da
20:45Wow
20:46This is reclaimed teakwork tops from a school science lab
20:51You know, there's a few grooves
20:53There's a little bit of graffiti writing in the one at the other end
20:56It's alive
20:57We're going to make our mark on it
21:00The kitchen isn't the only delivery Banjo and Roe are celebrating
21:08Oh, it looks so good
21:12Oh, makes it easy, makes it easy
21:14This is single-handedly like our biggest purchase for the house
21:18And we've got to carry the windows over on every spot
21:25The windows are a very expensive thing
21:28To bring this way
21:31Some sort of lonely fields and horses joke
21:34Don't
21:41It's absolute chaos
21:42I don't care
21:43They're coming over
21:44We're getting them up
21:45We're going to be wind and watertight
21:50And avoid that insurance premium
21:52Oh, most importantly
21:53Yes
21:54This is just in time
21:56You have saved our bacon this winter
21:58Especially with the being of the dead
22:03This has given the house its second wind
22:06Yeah
22:06I don't think this would have made another winter
22:09And it's a step forward to preserving a piece of history
22:12Oh, watch me palmet
22:14Like a glove
22:15You're a magician, I love it
22:23The kitchen is such an important space
22:27It's where I cook, it's where I eat, it's where I relax
22:29And we haven't had one for so long
22:34I'm just looking forward to making new memories in there
22:37Having people over
22:39Entertaining, cooking
22:40Oh, I can't wait to have a kitchen
22:46You're something out of a dream
22:50Messing with my head
22:53And I've been looking for you
22:57Are you hiding?
23:00Cause I like the way you're calling to me
23:03You spell upon me
23:07You're something out of a dream
23:13This is stunning
23:16It's unreal, it's unreal
23:17I can't believe we did it
23:19And our Grand Island
23:20Yeah, that is a stunning
23:23Stunning piece of work
23:24It's a showstopper
23:26Very proud of it
23:28It's beautiful
23:31That fridge
23:33I love the fridge
23:34I think the fridge is great
23:38Having your own walk-in pantry
23:41Yeah, that's wild
23:42That's good
23:46Is it too fancy for us?
23:49Maybe, but it'll be good for the hotel
23:51It's exactly what it should be
23:53Yes
23:54And these new windows are so great
23:56Oh gosh, yeah
23:57So warm and cosy
23:59It's lovely
24:02I'll treasure this
24:03Oh, I can start cooking
24:07I'm gonna start cooking
24:08Okay, good
24:09Well, that's perfect
24:10Cause Riri and Rebecca
24:10Are coming over for a feed later
24:12Yes
24:12I'm gonna do my thing
24:18Oh, howdy
24:20Good evening
24:21Evening
24:22Charity, it has arrived
24:23It has arrived
24:25Every single thing in that kitchen
24:27Was touched by Riri
24:28Plates, pots, pans
24:29Even the kitchen sink
24:31He's brought it all over
24:32Oh, yeah
24:32So it's only right
24:33That we sit down
24:34And celebrate with Riri and Rebecca
24:36This does not look like the same place
24:39Welcome
24:39Where's the kitchen going?
24:41This is there
24:42It's amazing
24:43Oh, wow
24:43It's lovely
24:44What?
24:45That's nicely headed
24:46That's for sure
24:47It's beautiful
24:48Genius
24:49Genius
24:50She said it
24:51So
24:53We've got a loin of venison
24:55From Olver
24:59If you think back to six months ago
25:01Like six months to now
25:02Yeah, like we've come so far
25:06When I look back
25:07Walking through those doors
25:08I was just naive
25:10About the amount of work
25:11For me to be done
25:13There is so much to do
25:14Yeah, but there's so much to learn
25:16Yeah, but we don't have much time to do it
25:18But I think actually
25:19Probably being a bit naive about it
25:22Is what was needed
25:24To see it at this point
25:26Is actually unbelievable
25:27I'm really proud of how far we've come
25:30Rogue, switch the generator on
25:35Wow
25:36It is so beautiful
25:38I can't believe it
25:41What did you think?
25:42Do you think we'd ever get to this point?
25:43I thought you could do it
25:44Because I can see
25:46How stubborn
25:47Particularly Vanjoo is
25:48That's a good thing
25:49You've got a vision
25:51And you're going to push forward
25:53Faded grandeur
25:54That's the vibe
25:55That's lovely
25:56Rainace
25:57Yeah
25:57What you've done
25:58Must give you encouragement
26:00For the rest of it
26:00You know, you can see where it's going now
26:02There's lights
26:03Ah
26:05The rest is part of
26:06Impossible
26:06Because for a while there
26:07It felt impossible
26:08Oh, that's going to explode
26:12Oh, God
26:13Oh, God
26:15I'm just trying to think
26:16What the weirdest thing
26:17I've taken over
26:18Us
26:20Other than yourselves
26:24Probably the pigs
26:25It was very nice
26:26But it went very well
26:27As well
26:28Surprisingly well
26:29Surprisingly well
26:35Even when it was like really hard
26:37And I was really struggling
26:38I just knew
26:39There's some kind
26:40Yeah, it feels like home
26:42Oh, wow
26:45Oh, this is going to be good
26:47You don't have to be polite
26:50It's actually delicious
26:52Actually, it was very tender
26:54Is it?
26:55I'm really surprised
27:00Enough with the pats on the back
27:02We actually have lots of work to do
27:04Can't we just stop
27:05And enjoy this moment?
27:07No, I think we can relax
27:08When we have all the bedrooms
27:09Booked with paying guests
27:11We need to finish the bedrooms
27:12We've got the bathrooms to do as well
27:14Duck pond
27:15I want to finish the turret
27:17The staff quarters
27:18The dining room
27:19I've got my donkey pavilion as well
27:21I've got to paint the outside of the house
27:23Landscaping
27:24I'm going to build a glass house
27:26Knocking through the wall
27:27On the boat house
27:28I want to do that driveway as well
27:59I want to do that driveway as well
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