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The Big Build - Plymouth

DIY SOS Series 30

In Plymouth, Nick Knowles, his DIY SOS team and hundreds of Devon volunteers help the Morfey family.

In Plymouth, the team help the Morfey family: Chris and Tara, 24-year-old Ben, 25-year-old Josh, twins Jess and Yazz (15) and their little brother Vinny (9). Both Ben and Josh suffer from cerebral palsy, and after struggling in a multi-level home in Plymouth - and without enough funds to make it disabled friendly - the family have sold up and bought a cheap, old iron forge that, when renovated, will provide single-storey living in the Plymouth countryside.

The family have been living in an on-site caravan while Chris has worked tirelessly to build a bedroom extension for all the family. But disaster struck last year when daughter Yazz was diagnosed with leukemia and needed life-saving treatment miles away in Bristol 鈥� supported by mum Tara. A year later, their home remains half-built. They have no heating, hot water, kitchen or living space, and dad Chris can鈥檛 get back to work to pay for the build to be completed without Tara at home to care for the family. If they can鈥檛 build a clean, dry and warm house, not only will severely disabled Ben remain in residential care away from his beloved brother Josh but Tara and Yazz won鈥檛 be able to return home to finish Yazz's treatment with the family by her side.

They are all struggling mentally, emotionally and physically, and now son Vinny has developed a heart murmur from the stress of being separated from his mum and living on a building site.

To put this family back together and give their disabled boys as much independence as possible, as well as provide a suitable space where Yazz can recover from cancer, the team will need to do something quite different from any build they have done so far: they will need to convert a forge built back in the 1700s into an open-plan kitchen, living zone and medical storage area, while retaining the charm and heritage of this unusual building.

58 minutes

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Thu 21 Nov 2019 08:00
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  • 00:01

    Allman Brown

    Ancient Light

  • 00:02

    Shane Filan

    One of These Days

  • 00:03

    Jon Hopkins

    Afterlife

  • 00:04

    George Ezra

    Song 6

  • 00:06

    Jon Hopkins

    Apparition

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    Rudimental

    I Will For Love (feat. Will Heard)

  • 00:09

    Rudimental

    Right Here

  • 00:10

    Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

  • 00:11

    Rita Ora

    I Will Never Let You Down

  • 00:15

    Sigala

    Lullaby

  • 00:17

    Paloma Faith

    Stone Cold Sober

  • 00:18

    Soak

    Blood

  • 00:20

    SOAK

    24 Windowed House

  • 00:23

    The Smiths

    Oscillate Wildly

  • 00:24

    Blur

    Coffee & TV

  • 00:26

    George Ezra

    Pretty Shining People

  • 00:27

    Billy Bragg

    There Is Power in a Union

  • 00:28

    Florence + The Machine

    Third Eye

  • 00:30

    James Arthur

    Remember Who I Was

  • 00:18

    SOAK

    Blud

  • 00:31

    Peters & Lee

    Rainbow

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    Pixie Lott

    Boys & Girls

  • 00:32

    The Smiths

    How Soon Is Now?

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    The Clash

    Mustapha Dance

  • 00:44

    Daughter

    Witches

  • 00:46

    Take That

    Greatest Day

  • 00:48

    Sigma & Rita Ora

    Coming Home (Acoustic Version)

  • 00:48

    Ed Sheeran

    Perfect

  • 00:48

    狈鈥怲谤补苍肠别

    Set You Free-Set Me Free

  • 00:49

    Tom Odell

    Another Love

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    Tom Odell

    Sirens

  • 00:51

    Rae Morris

    Someone Out There

  • 00:52

    Picture This

    You & I

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    Florence + The Machine

    How Big, How Blue

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    Florence + The Machine

    Never Let Me Go

  • 00:57

    Nick Knowles

    Where Do The Children Play?

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Presenter Nick Knowles
Executive Producer Paolo Proto
Series Producer Hamish Summers

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