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00:00أمس التعليم الآن
00:02الآن
00:03235
00:03240
00:04مرحل الأن
00:05يوم تحديد مرادة
00:09ماهاتي بدا
00:10من عمليز
00:11من موجودة
00:11إلى الداخل
00:12إلى نفس المنشيين
00:15مرحل المكتبين
00:17في هذه الثالة
00:17أمور مرحل الأن
00:22ترمموا بيتين
00:23على مرحل إليس
00:26سنة
00:26ترجمة نانسي قريبا
00:56تدامين
00:57سوف يمكن أن نتعرف في الأن المنزل
01:01سوف يمكن أن نتعرف فيه
01:06ويجتعرف في التجارة من سلسلات أخرى
01:08من تقلق سلسلات أكثر المتجمز
01:09تحفظ جددًا بجمز
01:12سلسلات عزيزة
01:13أكبر أن تحفظ جدًا
01:15أو أن أدرسل سلسلات أمامك
01:22مقرحة محلقة فيديو سنة
01:24اما في مجرد دائرة
01:30هذه المجرد من فرصة المنشيح
01:34تنظر بيكار من السلال
01:37مجرد في نورة ويلة
01:39مع قلبة المشاركين
01:41وحيانا في جزء على المنشيح
01:44شخص محلقا
01:45مجرد كل ما قبل
01:47لنهت ويحفت الثالي
01:49بس نقطة هنا
01:52و سوف يونهون ينظر على أي تكتابي تهييرا
01:58تريد أن تبدأ الأول
02:01لك فرح فتح جميعا نظر في المدرسة لدمن المدرسة
02:08أنا أجرى إلى المدرسة في لجمع الأيان بخلصة مالتين بخلصة في المحافظة
02:13مع الكبير من الأمامات يمكن أن تسجيل 4 أو 5 محافظة
02:17إنه نظر الشيء من ديشفير هذا المكان
02:21تسجع في مجرد مجرد في حضر المنزل
02:26إنه قيدل لسعوني بمتابعة 2 موضوع
02:28و ومعها من أيضاً مجموعة للغاية
02:31آخر أن يشترك لديل شركة لديل
02:33ومتابعة لديل شديدة لديل شبابة حيث
02:35ومتابعة لديل شديد فيها
02:39معاقل في الطبق
02:39إنه ممتازم
02:42بالدنيل، لسعوني بشكل شيء
02:45شفر وليس فقط يتمس بشكل بشكل بشكل
02:47المترجم للقناة
03:17وقد قمت هنا في وقت لجمع الوحلة
03:19وأجدت جميعه هذه المنوذجة لدني
03:21كانت تدريباً ليس جزيلاً
03:23إلا ألاسه لنحن لاحظ، لم يكن حتي شذرة لذلك
03:26وبدأ، ما أحسن
03:28ومشاركت لاحظة
03:30فى الأمر موجود في مصبف
03:32وقد قلت المعتقدت في هذا المنظمة
03:34واحدة أجلها ونحن نظر
03:37العديد من الواعداء الفois، اغلالها
03:40الورجانية تص BYEDاتاست من المنزل الصدرية uczreckов
03:44مكتبخات حول التغير أو linباز هو اريد عدم الصدف الصندف
03:47uh Sci回復 ميزشود سن içinde مطلences
03:50أھی النسبة في فوضاء عفileri، حيوان fate
03:54مكتفة عني توامر ي revis وقف tenho
04:00which Danny and Danielle knew when it went to auction.
04:03In rounded terms with auction fees, it was about £2.25 million.
04:07This was certainly less than we would have gone to had we been forced.
04:10So we came off punching the air triumphantly.
04:13It's a lot of money.
04:14Now we know quite how much work it's required.
04:17Perhaps we overpaid.
04:18Some would say we certainly overpaid.
04:20But in that moment, we were super happy.
04:24Yeah.
04:25But the dream soon turns into a nightmare.
04:28Not only would they lose the 50s wing,
04:30after extensive testing,
04:32the original part of the house was found to be structurally unsound,
04:36with the easiest option being to knock it down and start again.
04:41We went from the kind of supreme high of the auction having won it
04:46through a dance that probably took the best part of a year
04:51of death by a thousand cuts
04:53of losing the dream of the renovation and realising it.
04:56It's going to be more complicated and dramatically more expensive.
05:01We lost the 50s wing because that had Mundic.
05:04The original 1906 part of the house
05:08had been damaged too much by the poor concrete
05:11and the moving foundations.
05:13But the part we're sat in now, the turret,
05:15was actually built, I think, in 1990.
05:17and we have found that this one part of the house
05:21is built on proper foundations.
05:24This is our little saviour, isn't it?
05:25Being able to save the turret.
05:27Now two years since they bought the house,
05:30Danny and Danielle are feeling the pressure to get on with it.
05:33There's the emotional yearning because it's been so long
05:36and now it's starting to feel real and tangible.
05:40There are financial pressures.
05:42We have to build this to make it mortgageable,
05:45to take us out of some of the other financial arrangements
05:47we've had to lay on to keep the builders on site.
05:50So far, it's been anything but plain sailing,
05:53stacking up more and more costly problems
05:56that are endemic to the Cornish coast.
05:59But they're determined to save what they can
06:01and make this into a future-proofed family home.
06:05We seem to be standing in the most amazing spot
06:09in terms of the view.
06:10That is sensational.
06:12So you knew some of the problems with it
06:14and that it was more than a lick of paint everywhere.
06:18Yeah.
06:18We knew there was a huge amount of work for it.
06:20There's no two ways about it.
06:21The house had been made out of a really traditional Cornish material
06:25called cob, which is stone, mud, a bit of clay,
06:28some lime, yeah, all of this stuff.
06:30And actually it was hiding really well
06:32some quite serious structural issues
06:34because clay moves that kind of constant movement.
06:38And it reached a place where the contractors
06:40who we've got on site were like,
06:42actually, we can't work under this, it's too dangerous.
06:46So we had to let go.
06:48But it took a long time because, one, financially,
06:51we didn't know where we'd be able to fund anything more major
06:54like a rebuild.
06:55But when we started doing the site investigation,
06:57and looking into the ground,
06:59they did the first pits and found we're on clay.
07:02So we went down to five metres
07:04and the results came back, it's clay.
07:07And then eventually we went down to nearly 20 metres
07:12and they found no stable ground, nothing.
07:15So hang on, if you were going 20 metres down
07:16and still hitting clay, did you go further still?
07:19No, that's where the bedrock is.
07:20So there was a consensus from everybody,
07:22the only way you can have stable foundations
07:25in this location is by piling down to the bedrock.
07:28You drill massive great big holes down to solid rock
07:33right down in the ground, near the earth's core, near Australia.
07:37Something like that.
07:37And then you put poor concrete with steel in all the way up.
07:40That's the one.
07:41Yeah.
07:42We are spending every last thing that we have,
07:46so we are throwing the kitchen sink at this now.
07:49Well, it's grisly at the moment,
07:51but it's only up from here, isn't it?
07:53This is going to be beautiful.
07:54Yeah.
07:54One day.
07:56The property sits 20 metres away from the cliff edge,
07:59which has presented more problems.
08:02We knew from the beginning
08:03we were going to have to rebuild the seawall.
08:05That was one of the things that wasn't a surprise
08:07in terms of the catalogue of budget-sapping necessities.
08:11But you had to build it quicker than you were perhaps expecting.
08:15We did.
08:15We had such a big storm that it was shaken so much,
08:19it peeled away and the face of the slope collapsed down
08:22and the whole thing needed stabilising.
08:25But to do that, we had to build the wall
08:28to make it safe to stabilise.
08:30But still, that would have been a massive undertaking
08:32and cost a fortune, presumably,
08:35that you weren't expecting to spend initially.
08:37Rounded numbers, about £100,000.
08:39And so was there anything else that you weren't expecting?
08:42Yes, we did have a bat issue.
08:45Bats are a protected species because they eat bugs
08:48that would otherwise have to be killed with pesticides.
08:51If found, building work must stop
08:53until you can provide alternative accommodation for them.
08:56We've had to build a 50 cubic metre extension to the building.
09:00It's huge.
09:01So, huge delay and more costs.
09:04A lot more costs, yeah.
09:04And how much has your bat cave cost, Bill?
09:06We think it cost us about £40,000.
09:10There were £6.
09:12So, let's have a look at inside the bit of house
09:15that's still standing.
09:16Yes.
09:16Come on, then.
09:21This is an amazing room.
09:23And how are you dealing with the windows?
09:25These were put in the 90s.
09:27They are cheap pine and they've lasted like cheap pines.
09:31They've gone.
09:32So, what we're replacing them with
09:34is the same windows we're using in the main house.
09:36We found a lovely company to build us some hardwood sash windows
09:40and they'll be doing these ones here as well.
09:42Even a hardwood is a brave material to use for windows,
09:47especially next to the sea.
09:48It's scaring me.
09:49Yeah.
09:49Have you got all the windows coming?
09:51No, we haven't ordered them yet.
09:52We're literally trying to get the order in right now.
09:54Days away.
09:55It's the right time for a conversation.
09:56It's such an exciting project.
09:58I can't wait to see how you get along with it.
10:01Danny and Danielle had a substantial renovation budget
10:04of about a million.
10:06But with so many unforeseen expenses already,
10:08realistically, it's likely to cost them twice that
10:11to rebuild the house to its full glory.
10:13But having spent so much already,
10:16they have no choice but to carry on.
10:18To buy a derelict home on a crumbling cliff face
10:21for millions of pounds was certainly risky.
10:25But let's hope that fortune favours the bold.
10:35Coming up, a couple with big ideas but no clear plan.
10:40We need a bit of realism, to be honest.
10:42We could have got ourselves into all end of trouble.
10:49Whether you've got 100,000 or 2 million to spend,
10:52buying at auction comes with its risks.
10:55So it pays to do your research to avoid getting stung.
11:00In Cornwall, Danny and Danielle took a huge risk,
11:04which has so far taken more time and cost more money
11:08than they'd ever imagined when they bought at auction.
11:11They're still waiting on the crucial materials
11:13to rebuild their dream home.
11:16We have sadly had quite a significant delay,
11:18probably about two months,
11:19on getting the main steel structure delivered.
11:22It's been really upsetting, actually,
11:24to have to pause everything, hasn't it?
11:27We can't do anything until we've got this in place.
11:30Yeah.
11:30Meanwhile, they're working on the one remaining part of the house,
11:34stripping plasterboards so they can re-insulate
11:36the walls and ceiling of the turret.
11:38This is really old insulation,
11:41and if you look over here, it's not actually consistent.
11:44We've got massive gaps where there's nothing at all.
11:48So if we take it off,
11:49we can insulate it properly like the rest of the house.
11:53Let's do it.
11:53When insulating, you need to be careful not to leave gaps
11:57where the windows meet the walls or between the roof rafters.
12:00These weak spots are known as a cold bridge.
12:04Oh, broke.
12:08That was cool.
12:11I think we'll use the hammer for the rest.
12:13I think the hammer's the way.
12:16But taking off the plasterboard now could create more problems,
12:20as behind the fibreglass insulation,
12:22the plywood is in worse condition than they'd expected.
12:26Is that water damage on this thing?
12:27That is water damage,
12:29and I think that's what we've got to be a little bit cautious about,
12:32is not leaving this more exposed than it already is.
12:38Unfortunately, we're going to have to pause again,
12:40which means another delay, but we're used to this now.
12:44It's really frustrating,
12:46because actually we've been waiting so long to make this habitable.
12:50My kids are getting older.
12:52The whole point is having all this space
12:54so we can make this beautiful family home.
12:56the worry is
12:58that actually they're going to be too old to live here
13:01by the time it's finished,
13:02so we've got to get on and get it done.
13:09My next stop is Clangothlan, North Wales,
13:13an area of outstanding natural beauty,
13:15where a three-bed detached home on the outskirts of town
13:18might go for £200,000 to £300,000.
13:23Nearby is this three-storey detached cottage,
13:26built on a hill,
13:27the lower floor is partially underground.
13:30It was originally a Victorian cobbler's shop,
13:33with the top two floors added 100 years later.
13:36Now it belongs to agricultural teacher
13:39and mayor of Clangothlan, Alid,
13:41who is renovating with his fiancée, Sarah,
13:44who works in the spa industry.
13:46So we met on Tinder.
13:48Yeah, and three years later we're here now,
13:50trying to finish building a house before we get married.
13:53Me and Alid don't yet live together,
13:55so I really need this house to be done
13:58so I can see if I can survive him in a confined space
14:01before I tie myself to him legally for the rest of my life.
14:07I previously did a house renovation
14:11and ultimately had to sell that.
14:14So I've actually moved back home with my parents,
14:16which is a little bit embarrassing,
14:18but hopefully once we get this sorted,
14:21I can move in straight away.
14:24For me, there is such a time crunch
14:27on getting this renovation done
14:29because my house that I was living in
14:32was damaged by water.
14:33So the insurance have put me into alternative accommodation,
14:37but the alternative accommodation
14:39I only have for the next four months.
14:41So for so many multiple reasons,
14:43I need this house done ASAP.
14:46Please.
14:47No pressure.
14:49So I bought this house at an auction two years ago
14:52and it was an awful state,
14:54but I felt that was probably my golden ticket
14:57into getting a cheap house.
14:59I virtually spent every penny I had,
15:02so I had £105,000,
15:05just bought the property for £101,
15:06and the £4,000 just went on fees and solicitors.
15:11So it's been a very much start from the ground up again.
15:15The property isn't mortgageable
15:18because basically the state it was in,
15:20everything had to be ripped out and start from scratch.
15:23So it's been financed basically through my wages
15:27coming in and going straight out again.
15:30I knew that there was a lot of work in it,
15:32but probably didn't realise there was as much work involved
15:36as we currently go doing now.
15:43I wasn't involved in the buying of this house,
15:45but I kind of wish I was
15:46because I wouldn't have brought this house
15:48if I'm perfectly honest with you.
15:49And I think with any auction property,
15:51you've kind of got to see beyond what's in front of you,
15:55but initially it was kind of just,
15:57wow, what have I done?
16:00With all of the budget for the renovation
16:02coming out of their monthly paychecks,
16:04I want to make sure Sarah and Alid
16:07are making the most of their hard work.
16:10What are your plans for the house at the moment?
16:12Talk me through it.
16:13We're still struggling with the layout a little bit.
16:15What's your current plans for the layout?
16:17So upstairs is two bedrooms,
16:19one with an en suite
16:20and one with just a toilet and a sink.
16:22Downstairs, we're thinking like a third bedroom,
16:25come snug.
16:27Do you mean the middle floor?
16:28The middle floor, yeah.
16:29The other room meant to be like a dining room
16:31and then downstairs a master bathroom,
16:34kitchen and another kind of living snug area.
16:37It's a really complicated layout, isn't it?
16:40Yeah.
16:40Because that's why it went to auction,
16:42that's why it was cheap,
16:43is because it's three storeys,
16:46one of them is underground at this,
16:49because it's on a hill,
16:49and then you've got a third floor,
16:51which because it's quite wee,
16:53the access takes up quite a lot of space
16:56because you've got to get stairs going up three storeys.
16:58It's bizarre,
16:59because if you look at it,
17:00it looks like a big house,
17:02but none of the rooms are especially big.
17:04Yeah.
17:05None of them have a very obvious purpose
17:07of what they should or shouldn't be,
17:09and that's something that has stalled our progress in some rooms.
17:12Well, let's have a look inside.
17:13Certainly.
17:13Absolutely.
17:17So up here are the two bedrooms, yeah?
17:19Yes, yeah.
17:22This is set to be the guest bedroom.
17:25We've got behind you is where the toilet's going to be
17:27in a little sink.
17:29If any of your guests want a shower or a bath,
17:30they'd go two storeys down.
17:33So if I was you,
17:35I would get a shower in there
17:37and make it a whole full wet room.
17:39Yeah.
17:40It just means you need to line the whole thing with tiling.
17:43And if I was you,
17:44I would take the chimney breast out
17:46and put a lintel in and take that out
17:49because it will buy you a lot of extra space.
17:52Yeah.
17:53And you need the extra space.
17:55But of course that does have an effect
17:57on the floor below,
17:59doesn't it?
17:59Because that wouldn't be able to use
18:01the chimney breast below.
18:03So next door is a bedroom
18:05with a proper en suite bathroom.
18:06Yes.
18:07That's the master bedroom, yeah.
18:08But it's how to make the most of the space
18:10because once you have got a double bed in,
18:12I'm worried you will be kind of
18:13shuffling to get anywhere.
18:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:15So I've had a bit of a head scratch on that one.
18:17Well, let's go down to the floor below
18:19and have a chat about that.
18:20OK.
18:20OK.
18:24So what's the plan on this floor then?
18:27We had the idea that it might have been a dining room.
18:31However, when we started to think more and more about it,
18:34if we're going to plan on having the kitchen downstairs,
18:37it might not be very flexible of carrying all the dinner upstairs
18:42to serve up here.
18:43so we're still a bit unsure what the layout's going to be.
18:47When I have Christmas with my family, there's like 23 of us
18:50and I really want to host, I have a huge family
18:52so I would love an area for that to be in availability.
18:55Whether this is the room for it, I don't know
18:57but it is probably the largest room in the house.
18:59I think the fact that you have a big family
19:02and you'd like to host 23 people
19:04is colouring your judgement
19:06when it comes to the best layout for this house.
19:08The trouble is, you've got a floor below
19:10and you think, oh, I've got a floor below
19:11so what do I do with it?
19:12Oh, maybe I should put a bathroom down there
19:14and not put a bathroom upstairs or something.
19:15I don't know what I should do.
19:16But I actually think, go back to the obvious
19:19which is that this floor is a kitchen diner
19:23and a sitting room
19:23and I would have this as the sitting room
19:26partly because it's got a lovely big open fireplace
19:29and partly because it doesn't have a window
19:32with that amazing view
19:33and that's a better room to be snug in.
19:36Yeah, okay.
19:37And I would put the kitchen into the room next door
19:41which would be bigger if you took the chimney breast out
19:44and then downstairs, I'd have more bedrooms.
19:48Okay.
19:50Sarah and Alid are planning to put their kitchen
19:52and guest bathroom in the basement
19:54but having the living spaces on the middle floor
19:58with access to the garden
20:00would be a more natural layout
20:01and adding a shower to the guest bathroom upstairs
20:04would be more logical.
20:06Then the basement project can be additional bedrooms
20:10when they have more time and money.
20:12We've got all these lovely, flaming ideas
20:15and I'm pouring water on our back
20:16like a really miserable old...
20:18No, we need a bit of realism to be honest.
20:20We could have got ourselves into all end of trouble
20:23with work and financially as well.
20:25In reality, you don't have a lot of money to do this
20:27and you want to spend it wisely.
20:29The biggest thing for me is getting quickly.
20:31Getting speed.
20:32You want to be in quickly.
20:33In that case, you definitely want to
20:35do this different arrangement.
20:37These top two floors could be done with Christmas
20:39which is the dream.
20:40Yeah.
20:44Sarah and Alid have definitely got their work cut out here
20:46but I think they've sort of cracked on
20:49with doing work without really sitting down
20:52and making an overall plan
20:55because it is quite complicated, the layout of this house
20:57and the truth is you can't fit a big house
21:00into a small one
21:01and that's currently what they're trying to do.
21:05She basically took everything that we planned
21:07and just tore up and said
21:09actually no
21:09which isn't a bad thing
21:11and we're definitely not upset about it
21:12we're glad that someone
21:13kind of showed us the error of our ways
21:15before we put too much time and money into it
21:18but I do feel a little bit like
21:20back to the drawing board perhaps
21:22so yeah
21:23There were some big kind of suggestions
21:25and I'm just kind of looking and going
21:26I've just plastered that
21:28and knock it all down again
21:37From starter flats to stately homes
21:40both buyers and sellers are attracted
21:42to the speed of the sales at auction
21:45Robinson and Hall auctions have been going
21:48for over 130 years
21:49Today their auction in Milton Keynes
21:52is set to be their biggest yet
21:54with starting prices ranging from £10,000
21:58to over a million
21:59Lee Jackson is in charge
22:02of listing the properties for the auction
22:04Covering nine counties today
22:06so we should see a good mix
22:07of in-room bidding
22:09as well as online bidding
22:10and we are expecting this to be
22:13fingers crossed
22:14our biggest auction for turn
22:16This is freehold vacant amenity land
22:19about half an acre
22:21just £10,000
22:22start me then at £10,000
22:23start it
22:24The auction house charges the seller
22:26a small percentage of the final sale
22:28so it's in their interest to get the best price
22:31One of their techniques is to order the lots
22:34to generate maximum bus in the room
22:36Sold at £160,000
22:38What a fantastic start
22:39Guided at £10,000
22:41Sold at £160,000
22:44Fantastic result
22:44You always want to start with a bang
22:47and we've done that
22:48Let's hope we keep them on end
22:49One of today's highly anticipated properties
22:53is lot 23
22:55a two-bed house in Sandy, Wokingham
22:57Lot 23 is on for £150,000
23:00is the guide price
23:01but we are expecting that to be
23:03very popular in the bidding
23:04someone would have to spend quite a bit of money
23:06on that to be refurbished
23:09The seller is retired aircraft manufacturer Colin
23:13selling on behalf of his late brother John
23:15One of the estate agents said
23:17oh it's a bit of a mess
23:19if you don't want to empty it
23:21you can actually go to auction
23:23and just sell it as seen
23:25and we thought oh that's a good option
23:27because at 75
23:29we don't want to be good up and down stairs
23:31moving furniture
23:33The auctioneers said
23:35if I was you
23:36I'd start putting it in at £150,000
23:39because then you'll get lots of people interested
23:42They estimated it between £200 and £220
23:46so we thought you know
23:48if it reaches that auction
23:49we'll be well happy
23:53The lower guide price is often advised by the auction house
23:57particularly if the property needs a lot of work
23:59this will attract buyers who see the development potential
24:03And lot number 23
24:05freehold vacant
24:06semi-detached house
24:08two-bed house with garage
24:09and gardens
24:11We've got a lot of activity on this one
24:13And lot number 23
24:13We're hoping for a good sale
24:15I think there could be quite a few people in the room for this
24:17Well this is John's house
24:18just coming up for auction
24:20Close to the railway station
24:22One here for improvement again
24:24Hopefully it'll go well
24:26This guy did £150,000
24:27He'll start me then
24:29This one
24:29£150,000
24:30£150,000
24:31£155,000
24:32£160,000
24:33£165,000
24:34£170,000
24:35£175,000
24:35£180,000
24:36£185,000
24:37Oh it's gone up very quick
24:39£195,000 at the back
24:41£205,000
24:42Thank you
24:42£210,000
24:43We're going for £230,000 now
24:44New hand here on the right hand side
24:46£230,000
24:46£235,000
24:47That's brilliant
24:48£230,000
24:49I'm amazed
24:50£235,000
24:51£240,000
24:52He nods £245,000
24:53At £246,000
24:55For the first time
24:56Second time at £246,000
24:59Third and final time
24:59Are we done?
25:01Sold for £246,000
25:03That's a brilliant
25:04Brilliant prize
25:07Local estate agents
25:09Think that once modernised
25:10The house could be worth up to £300,000
25:15Today we sold
25:1676% of the lots that we offered
25:19And we raised over £6 million
25:21For our sellers
25:26Coming up
25:26An impulsive purchase
25:28That's left a couple
25:29Drowning in red tape
25:31It's a long way up and out
25:32To get back out of it
25:33If you need to get out
25:35Hence why I need some doors in it
25:46In Cornwall
25:47Danny and Danielle
25:48Were forced to knock down
25:50Two thirds of their house
25:52Finally
25:53After a string of unexpected costs
25:55And delays
25:55Something is coming up
25:57Rather than coming down
25:59The steels
26:00Which will form the structure
26:02Of the new building
26:03It's such a relief
26:05To finally have everything on site
26:08It's been such a long journey
26:10From the design point
26:11The manufacturing
26:13Getting the materials
26:14Into the county
26:15It's here
26:17It's actually happening
26:18I actually feel like
26:20I could cry with happiness
26:23OK
26:24I think this is the first one
26:25Steel about to be lifted
26:26Into place
26:33Apparently they're going to start building
26:35From one side of the building
26:36All the way to the top
26:38And then complete it
26:39And bring it across to this side
26:40Because it is genuinely like
26:43A giant Meccano set
26:44Everything has to be done
26:45In the correct order
26:46Connecting the right joints
26:48At the right time
26:57That's the plan
26:58They're working off
26:59And every single one
27:01Of these steels
27:02Has a tiny code
27:03Scribed into it
27:04And they literally
27:06Are going to build it
27:06Like a Lego set
27:07The bit they're starting
27:09On now
27:10Is this bit over here
27:12How exciting is that?
27:17Over three floors
27:18The design replicates
27:20Many of the original features
27:21Like the curved bay windows
27:23With modern upgrades
27:25Including a new double garage
27:26A space for a lift
27:28And a spectacular
27:29South facing balcony
27:30On the first floor
27:33Two years
27:34Four months
27:35From buying the place
27:36And our hearts
27:37Are just fluttering
27:38Because now it's go go go
27:39The rebuild starts now
27:44The steels are
27:45Made locally
27:46It's about half an hour's
27:47Drive from here
27:48We've visited their factory
27:49To see the sparks
27:50Flying everywhere
27:51The design time
27:52Took forever
27:53Once that was done
27:55They made them
27:55In about four weeks
27:57Cost about £60,000
27:58All in
27:59It's a lot of steel
28:00And if it holds
28:02The building up
28:02That's money well spent
28:04These guys are going to get
28:05The whole steel frame up
28:06This week
28:07Four days they reckon
28:09It's crazy
28:17End of the first day
28:19It's gone really well
28:20Look
28:20We've got
28:21I think
28:22That must be
28:23Nearly a quarter
28:24Of the building up
28:25The only thing is
28:26There are so many
28:27Moving parts here
28:28So many big components
28:30So many different contractors
28:31We've just got to hope
28:33Nothing goes wrong
28:35Because if one thing happens
28:36The whole thing
28:38Gets pushed back
28:40Can't have that again
28:44Property auctions
28:46Are a way of sometimes
28:47Finding interesting buildings
28:48That wouldn't normally
28:50Be on the open market
28:51You can pick up a bargain
28:53But you can also
28:54Get your fingers badly burnt
28:57Buildings like
28:58Former churches
28:59Military bunkers
29:00Or even decommissioned water towers
29:02There were hundreds
29:04Up and down the country
29:05Until the late 1990s
29:07Many have been sold off
29:09And some converted
29:10Into quirky homes
29:11Or bed and breakfast
29:13This one sits on the
29:15Leicestershire Warwickshire border
29:16And was bought at auction
29:17Five months ago
29:18By husband and wife
29:20Matt and Lauren
29:21Who own a rum distillery
29:24Having outgrown their current site
29:26They were looking for a bigger location
29:29Which didn't cost a fortune
29:30When Matt found a local water tower
29:33Up for auction
29:34He jumped in at the guide price of 35,000
29:38As soon as it went live
29:39And won
29:40Going once, going twice
29:42And yeah
29:43It was ours for the guide price
29:45So this is it
29:46So this is our
29:48This is our water tower
29:49Or what is a water tower
29:50At the minute
29:51And will hopefully be
29:52A distillery in the future
29:55The only way in it
29:56At the minute
29:56Is to get in via
29:57The three lots of ladders
29:59On the outside
30:00Then the same amount of ladders
30:01Back down
30:02To get into the bottom of it
30:04On the inside
30:07You coming up?
30:10Not a chance
30:12No
30:13My feet are staying firmly
30:15On the ground
30:16Down here
30:17Thank you
30:20So the plans up here
30:21In the first instance
30:22Are just to kind of
30:23Make it safe
30:24And whatnot
30:25But long term
30:26It would be great
30:26To have like a terrace
30:27On the top here
30:28So you can come up here
30:29You know
30:30Sip a rum
30:30And just kind of
30:32Look off into the countryside
30:34To make their distillery dream
30:35A reality
30:36They need the permission
30:38Of the local planning authority
30:39Who rejected their initial
30:41Application
30:41Known as a pre-app
30:43To do any kind of development
30:45On the site
30:47I'm keen to know
30:48How much of the planning
30:49Permission history
30:50Matt and Lauren
30:51Knew before diving in
30:52How much have you spent
30:54On consultants so far?
30:55Probably about 5k
30:56On fees
30:57At the minute
30:58Yeah
30:59Just to get to the pre-app stage
31:00The truth is
31:01This is going to take
31:02A really
31:02Really long time
31:04Yeah
31:05And cost an awful lot of money
31:07To get planning
31:08If you get planning
31:09Correct
31:09Yes
31:10When you bought it
31:11Did you think about
31:12The possibility
31:12That you might not
31:13Be able to get planning?
31:14We did
31:15Yeah
31:15I mean it's always a risk
31:16Isn't it
31:16You know
31:16Saying that
31:17The guy that bought it
31:17Before us
31:18Bought it for 160k
31:19From Orange Communications
31:21Or Vodafone
31:21I can't remember which
31:22And got refused
31:23For residential
31:24So he'd already taken
31:25A big sort of slap
31:26On the wrists
31:27For his chances on it
31:28So he bought it for 160k
31:30Spent all the money
31:31Trying to get
31:32Residential permission
31:33Yeah
31:34Failed
31:34And sold it for 35k
31:36Correct
31:36Alarm bells
31:37Alarm bells
31:38Alarm bells
31:38Because if somebody
31:40Is prepared to walk away
31:41Having lost 125k
31:43Having spent
31:44Tens of thousands of pounds
31:46Trying to get permission
31:47And failed
31:48Then
31:49It's a tiny bit toxic
31:52The whole project
31:52But
31:53You weren't in
31:54With your eyes open
31:55We did
31:55Yeah we did
31:56That's why we got it
31:57You know
31:57We got it
31:57Because it had got
31:58A history of problems
31:58We get the planning through
31:59Then we've bought ourselves
32:00The new distillery building
32:01For you know
32:02A song that
32:03Will be the home
32:04For the business
32:05For the foreseeable future
32:06And if not
32:07You've got a really nice
32:08Viewing platform
32:08Exactly
32:09Yeah
32:09Yeah
32:10Yeah
32:11This water tower
32:12Sold for 35k
32:13In auction
32:14For a very good reason
32:15And that is because
32:16It came with a
32:17Really big question mark
32:19Over its planning status
32:20But even though
32:22They knew it might be
32:22Problematic
32:23I think it's been
32:24More problematic
32:24Than they would have hoped
32:26So fingers crossed
32:27Things start going their way
32:30In North Wales
32:31Allid and Sarah
32:32Bought their house
32:33For £100,000
32:34But its condition
32:36Might be worse
32:37Than they'd first thought
32:38As is often the case
32:39With auction properties
32:42So obviously this is the ports
32:44To the house
33:13It's not in the best of house
33:16August
33:16August the 21st 1970
33:18Not a recognised building product really
33:21They prefer like actual cement and bricks I think
33:25So you can see it's actually coming away from the house
33:28And it is getting progressively worse
33:29So unfortunately it needs to come down
33:35First thing we're going to take off
33:36Is the ridge tiles
33:37Then we'll take the slates off
33:39The gutters
33:40And work our way down
33:40The barge boards
33:41And things like that
33:42So that's the plan anyway
33:44So I'm quite excited
33:45To let out some pent up aggression
33:47On this porch
33:59To be honest
34:00Okay
34:01It looks better already I think
34:04Yeah it's going to let an awful lot of light in there
34:06Because it was a bit like a little tunnel before
34:07Wasn't it so
34:08Oh my god that is so bad
34:10Have you seen how bad that
34:11What did you even call that
34:12That looks terrible
34:13Yeah I knew that was there
34:15Because I'd seen it
34:16But I didn't realise quite how bad this one was
34:18Yeah so
34:20It's probably good that it's come down
34:21So we can properly see what's going on
34:23So another job to add to the list then
34:25Yep another job
34:26That is so bad though
34:28Like that needs fixing ASAP
34:30It's going to cost
34:31I don't know
34:32£1,000
34:33£1,500
34:33To get it fixed
34:34So
34:35Yeah
34:36It's money we haven't really got
34:37And time we haven't got
34:38But
34:39We're going to have to sort of find money and time somewhere
34:43Right
34:43I'll push here
34:44You push there
34:45I'll push here
34:45You ready?
34:46Oh Christ
34:48It's a lot
34:51Oh okay well
34:53That worked quite well
34:54Thanks
34:58Why is it going?
35:01We have just realised
35:03That now we can't get back in the house
35:05Um so
35:07And we've left the car keys inside
35:08So we were planning to do the cleaning permission another day
35:11But it looks like we've elongated our work day by
35:14Several hours
35:15Yeah several hours
35:16So um
35:16Not a lot of foresight went into that one
35:18Oh crikey
35:20Oh crikey
35:24Whoa
35:25That's what I was worried about
35:26Porch down
35:27Alid and Sarah have sent me an update
35:30We have taken it down the porch
35:32So now the porch
35:34So now the porch is down
35:34It's even more apparent that there's movement on the front of the house
35:38So you can see there's signs of movement here
35:41There's a crack there
35:42This area here has been rebuilt and repointed
35:46In the past
35:47So I would say this needs monitoring
35:50But over a 12 month period
35:53So you've got the dry and the wet part of the year
35:56Before doing anything
35:57To make sure that whatever you do
35:59Is a permanent solution
36:00Here is the room with no name at the moment
36:04The snug slash living room
36:06So the room next door is just as it was the last time you left
36:10And plans are remaining the same
36:11To make it into a dining room we still think
36:14I still don't think they've resolved the layout at all with this building
36:18The basement on this house is a much bigger job than they think it is
36:22And I think it's going to involve some underpinning of that front wall
36:26So if I was them I'd stick a temporary kitchen
36:29Into one of the first floor rooms
36:31So they can move in
36:33Coming up
36:34Can Alid and Sarah get back on track and finally move in?
36:38So we've been here working like through Christmas
36:41Freezing our little tootsies off
36:54In North Wales Alid and Sarah have had some reassuring news
36:58So there was an initial thought that it might have been subsidence
37:02And there was the worry we may have to underpin the house
37:06But we've had a structural engineer come here and a stonemason
37:08And thankfully it's not that
37:10Because that costs thousands of pounds
37:12For a couple of square feet each time
37:14So we're going to jack the archway up
37:17And we're going to use slate inserts
37:19To pack the archway out and repoint it afterwards
37:22But there's no getting around the fact that the basement is a big job
37:26And having decided to stick to the plan of putting the kitchen down there
37:29Alid and Sarah are working on a temporary solution upstairs
37:35Eventually this is going to be a guest bedroom
37:37But because the top two rooms are the only rooms that are kind of livable
37:41In a small amount of time
37:43This is going to be everything but the bedroom
37:44Eating, dining room, probably like an office, lounge
37:50So we've been here working like through Christmas
37:53Freezing our little tootsies off
37:54We haven't managed to get the boiler fitted yet
37:58It's super cold
37:59It's been interesting working
38:02In such a cold environment
38:06But you've got to do what you've got to do
38:08So after you pick these tiles
38:10I wanted something a bit different
38:11A bit more modern
38:12A bit more contemporary
38:13Something textured
38:15So I'm really, really happy with these
38:17It costs about $360 for all of these tiles
38:20And you might be able to see
38:21They are really big tiles
38:23So it didn't take too long to get them up really
38:28Well done gorgeous
38:29We're getting there
38:38We're getting there
38:38In Cornwall
38:39Since knocking down most of their property
38:42Danny and Danielle are thinking through every detail
38:45To ensure they future-proof their new home
38:48Something really exciting has just arrived on site
38:52After talking to Sarah
38:54We had to do a little bit of head-scratching about our windows
38:57Sarah's advice was coastal location
39:00Windows will get shredded by the situation
39:03If you don't have highly durable windows
39:06And our end choices reflected that advice
39:08And we're really, really happy
39:09These come from a Norwegian company
39:13And they're designed to be placed into coastal areas
39:16That are really exposed
39:17Here we go
39:19So on the outside
39:21They are powder-coated aluminium
39:23Which is the thing I think
39:25That gives it the 60-year guarantee
39:27But on the inside
39:29I don't know if I lift this up here
39:33The inside it's still traditionally shaped and carved wood
39:37So, best of both worlds
39:40Every single piece of glazing is triple glazed
39:42It's one of the silver linings of having to rebuild so much of the house
39:45It's going to be incredibly eco and well insulated
39:47And having triple glazing was an important part of that equation
39:56When mayor of Clan Glocklen, Alid, bought his three-storey cottage on a hill for £100,000 at auction
40:03He had no idea how much work was in store
40:07But for him and fiancé Sarah
40:10Time was of the essence
40:12I really need this house to be done
40:14So I can see if I can survive him in a confined space
40:18Before I tie myself to him legally for the rest of my life
40:21Despite scarce funds and some unforeseen difficulties
40:25I didn't realise quite how bad this one was
40:27Yeah, so
40:29They've created the bedroom they've been dreaming of for so long
40:36We absolutely love it
40:37I feel like it wasn't that long ago
40:39I can literally remember the yellow stained walls
40:41So this is the biggest transformation
40:45With cosy carpets, brass detailing
40:47And a fireplace in keeping with their chosen farmhouse style
40:52It's those little steps like you're taking every single day
40:55And eventually it gets to something like this
40:56So it feels really, really good
41:01My favourite aspect of this room is the en-suite
41:05Sarah's biggest concern when we first got the house
41:07Was the complete lack of storage space
41:09We've had to try and innovate as much as we can
41:11So when I was building the en-suite
41:14I decided to fit a sliding door
41:15Which saved that floor space
41:17Also, I built a cupboard up above it
41:19So any things like any big bulky items like suitcases
41:24Put up there
41:25I've got a set of doors to go in the front
41:27So we can close all that away
41:28I love the shower as well and the tiles
41:31Their vision to have a big kitchen in the basement
41:33Is a costly and time-consuming project
41:36So they've concentrated their resources on the top floor
41:39In order to move in as soon as possible
41:42And have done everything from plastering
41:44To putting in new floors themselves
41:47So this is a guest bedroom
41:49Or the second bedroom
41:51And we're kind of utilising this at the moment
41:53As kind of a living area
41:54So we've got some cooking facilities
41:56And somewhere we can just kind of chill out
41:58And hovel around the fire and try and keep warm
42:02So we're so excited to have this room
42:04Because after almost four years being together
42:06We can now finally actually live together
42:08And yes, okay, the house isn't done
42:10But having these top two rooms done
42:12Somewhere we can sleep
42:13Somewhere we can have a recreational area
42:15It means finally we can be under one roof
42:17Which is just, feels amazing really
42:20They may still have a way to go
42:22But their small budget is stretching far
42:25So, so far the project has cost me
42:27Around about £10,000
42:29A large portion of that
42:31Is actually with the first fix of the electrics
42:33On the top two floors
42:35Which is around £4,500
42:37A lot of the other work
42:39We've been doing ourselves
42:40Well, mainly you
42:41I don't want to take too much credit
42:42I'll be honest
42:42Which has saved us an awful lot of money
42:45So the external work to the house
42:47Is booked in for spring, summer time
42:50Just to, due to the nature of the lime
42:51Using the building
42:52It doesn't like the cold weather
42:53Especially what we're having at the moment
42:55So it's booked in for the future
42:56And it will be getting fixed
42:58So this time next year
43:00Hopefully the house is done
43:01After years of being promised it would be
43:03And then we're going to be officially married
43:05Mr and Mrs
43:06And hopefully, I'm hoping
43:08One of the living rooms
43:09Might be turned into a nursery
43:11Or something like that
43:17In the village of Flushing, Cornwall
43:19Danny and Danielle
43:21Bought this crumbling mansion
43:23They'd love for years
43:24For £2.25 million
43:26At auction
43:28And there's always been this one house
43:31But they suffered setback after setback
43:34Spiralling costs
43:35And the heartbreaking realisation
43:37That most of the house
43:39Would need to be demolished and rebuilt
43:41We are spending every last thing
43:44That we have
43:45After disappointment, delays
43:47And much determination
43:48They finally have the shell
43:50Of their brand new house
43:55It feels amazing
43:56To have some walls up now
43:58Because only a few months ago
43:59There was nothing here
44:01And now the spaces are starting to take shape
44:05Do you realise that actually
44:07This opening here
44:09Is actually going to be the size of the doors
44:11And the windows
44:12The whole opening
44:13And they're going to be that enormous
44:15That's huge
44:16The new house has kept the size
44:18Dimensions and ceiling height
44:20Of the original
44:20With many of the same features
44:22Like the curved bay window
44:25And look at that view
44:28It's been a journey
44:29Of incredible ups and downs
44:31But I wouldn't rewind and change it
44:33Because the end game
44:34Is made all worth it
44:36Yeah
44:36And the water side of the house
44:39Is getting an upgrade
44:40We're stood on probably
44:42The best addition
44:43We could have put on this house
44:44Yeah
44:45Which is the balcony
44:46We wanted to be able
44:48To make the most of the view
44:49The turret is being properly insulated
44:52Ready for their weatherproof
44:54Triple glazed windows
44:55So the turret was
44:57An attractive and original feature
44:59When we first saw the house
45:00We fell in love with
45:00And we're very delighted
45:01This part of the building
45:02Lives on in its original glory
45:05This house being
45:06In a property auction
45:07Has been a godsend
45:08Because if it hadn't
45:10Have gone to auction
45:10We wouldn't have been able
45:12To buy this
45:12On the open market
45:14And if it hadn't been derelict
45:15I think it would have been
45:16Out of our price reach anyway
45:19So we had euphoria
45:20Winning it at auction
45:22We've had two and a half years
45:24Since of rollercoaster
45:26We've tried to enjoy the experience
45:28And be positive throughout
45:29Reality is
45:30There's been a lot of pressure
45:30A lot of stress
45:32Financial concern
45:34We've just gone through
45:35The million pound mark
45:37Of total spend
45:38Everything from rebuilding seawalls
45:40To this cliff we're standing on
45:41To everything that we've done so far
45:43The children are so excited
45:47They can't wait to get here
45:48It's going to be wonderful
45:49They're as excited about it
45:51As we are
45:51It's taken a lot of work
45:53But it's ours
45:55And it's going to be perfect
46:05Next time
46:07Two couples who spent more
46:09Than they planned at auction
46:10Take on all the work themselves
46:12A million pound purchase
46:15Hides a shocking surprise
46:17The wall could collapse
46:19And a family desperate to move in
46:22Heather's invited all the family around
46:23For Christmas Day
46:24So yeah
46:26We need to be in
46:27We need to be in
46:28We need to be in
46:57We need to be in
46:57We need to be in
46:58We need to be in
46:58We need to be in
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