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-Can I have a little rummage around in your rubbish?

-Yeah.

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How do you make money for nothing?

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I love that.

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The answer could be hiding in the 30 million tonnes of

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household waste we throw out every year.

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It's so heavy, they don't make them like this any more. Look at that.

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That's why entrepreneur Sarah Moore wants to get her hands on things

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before they hit the skip.

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I'm a passionate maker, buyer and user of old stuff

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and I've turned that passion into a moneymaking business.

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I make new stuff out of old stuff and I sell it for a profit.

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And with some of the country's elite designers and makers...

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Say something nice about it.

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My juices are flowing in this one. They are going to be wow!

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She can transform her finds into desirable...

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Isn't that stunning?

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Valuable...

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Oh, wow!

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And, hopefully, saleable items.

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That is bonkers.

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If Sarah is successful then she can hand the profits back to the very

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people who had no idea there was cash to be made from their trash.

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We've got £350.

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No!

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Welcome to Walsall recycling centre.

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A nonstop hive of activity.

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With the nation becoming more and more aware of the benefits of

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regenerating unwanted possessions,

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one woman is on a mission to turn your trash into hard cash.

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I love turning a profit where others see trash.

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Making old stuff that's drab into desirable and fab

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is just so satisfying.

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But before you make a beeline for your local tip, take note.

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Sarah's been given special permission to seek out two items

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that can be rejuvenated and sold on for a profit.

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And Brian, with his broken up sofa, has caught her eye.

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-Nice sofa.

-It was a nice sofa.

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What's happened to it?

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We broke it up because it's not very good now

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-so we just got rid of it.

-Have you got the bits, or not?

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Little bits in there, but they're broken.

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-Come on, let's see, I like the back of it.

-We've jumped on it.

-Have you?

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-Yes.

-You boys have all the fun, don't you?

-I know.

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Let's have a look.

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All the rest of it's broken.

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-Have you got the arm bits?

-Have you got the other bits?

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-It's in there somewhere.

-Are those its legs?

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-Those are the legs.

-I'm loving it more by the minute.

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So that goes on there.

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Come on Sarah,

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you must be well used to the game of furniture jigsaw by now.

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Oh, yeah, that bit goes there.

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-Great.

-All the cushions are in the back of me car.

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Brilliant, so you...

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That's 1970 that sofa.

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Check out the expert eye. I'm impressed.

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-It's written all over it. It's got a date on it.

-Oh, right.

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Expert, you see.

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That's cheating.

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Now I've got all those bits that you've smashed up do you think I can take them away,

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put them back together and see if I can make it back into a lovely sofa again?

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I don't know, because part of it's broken.

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-You could try.

-I shall definitely be able to get that fixed.

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Fine.

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The question is, what will become of Brian's old sofa?

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I don't know to be honest, I don't know. It would be good to find out.

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I know what you're thinking, she's bonkers.

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Correct.

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But this is going to be brilliant.

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I know it's in pieces but it is going to look fantastic

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when it's finished. Trust me.

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Watch.

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Oh, we will Sarah, we will.

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But who's Sarah picked to help her transform this item?

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Say hello to Josh and Oli, designer makers,

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business partners and best pals.

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These lads use natural and recycled materials to create bespoke,

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handcrafted and high-end furnishings.

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We've been friends for years, I don't know how long, but ages now.

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We teamed up and it's quite a nice combination of skills that we have.

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I think we've got a lot of ideas between us,

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a lot of fresh thinking and it just works together

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quite nicely as a team.

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The fact that we haven't fallen out completely and we've been working

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together this long kind of shows it's working.

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Yeah.

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Here's two young lads full of positivity and optimism.

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Hopefully Sarah and this old sofa won't put an end to all that.

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It's all me, me, me with Sarah, but for good reason.

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It's now time to find a project for herself.

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I would say if it's made out of chipboard I can't do much with it.

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And it doesn't take long for Barry to present Sarah

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with a toy from the good old days.

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What's in your bag then, throwing anything good out?

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Well, an old railway station.

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That does look cool.

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-Can I have a look at it?

-Yes, you can.

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So this was yours, was it?

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Funnily enough, I was working in a toy shop.

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-Right.

-In the late '50s.

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-Right.

-And all through these years I've kept them,

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my children have played with them.

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-Yeah.

-The grandchildren have played with them.

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It was a well-loved toy.

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But for the past few years it's been gathering dust in Barry's attic.

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So, age wise it looks kind of Art Deco, or...

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It is old, very.

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So it's the Trix Manyways station set made in England, number 22.

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Beautiful cast aluminium, it's lovely.

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So I definitely don't think that this can go into the metal.

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No, I would like to do some research on it and find out if it's

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collectable, if it's the kind of thing that people are still buying.

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It's lovely, look at that bit.

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That must be the middle of the roof somewhere I think, mustn't it?

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-Yes.

-It's got such lovely styling, somebody'll want to buy this.

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Someone will have all the other bits. I love it.

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For Barry, the idea of Sarah breathing new life into a toy

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so close to his heart is one which he's clearly happy about.

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My whole family's played with them.

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They've enjoyed them. We've fixed them up together.

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It's so nice.

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How cool is this?

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I really don't know what I've found here,

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it looks like the kind of thing that might have been made

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in mass production in the '30s, but I love the styling on it.

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I am loving the aluminium and that it has such great colour on it.

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I'll have to have a really good think about this because this could

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go in all sorts of different directions.

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Quite cool though, isn't it?

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Very cool, Sarah.

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It's been a good day at the tip and Sarah has two very different items.

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Josh and Oli will be dealing with the broken up sofa

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and Sarah will get creative with the toy railway station set.

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Transforming today's eclectic selection of items is going to be

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just the challenge we love,

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but there is going to have to be some radical transformation

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if we're going to really bring the money home.

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This is Chichester in West Sussex.

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A vibrant town with a thriving music, film and arts scene.

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While it may be forward thinking,

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it's hard not to be impressed by the town's illustrious history.

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Its medieval architecture is striking.

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This dynamic link between the past and present inspires designers

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Josh and Oli to create contemporary bespoke furniture

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with traditional materials.

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And if that happens to involve a blowtorch,

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they're a couple of happy chappies.

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I wonder what they'll make of the '70s sofa Sarah's

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wheeling their way.

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We love what Sarah does because we are into restoring old items

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and keeping things going. So always interested to see what she's going to bring us.

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We are kind of on the same page in that respect, aren't we?

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-Yeah.

-We're looking forward to seeing what she's going to bring us today.

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Hello? Hiya.

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Hello.

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Come and see my flat pack.

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OK. Wow.

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It's not supposed to be a flat pack.

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-Cool.

-Yeah.

-What is it?

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-Sofa.

-1970s, beautiful styling, lovely lines.

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-Shall we get it in?

-Yeah.

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I think it's fair to say first impressions were underwhelming.

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It might be easier to get rid of the cushions because I think whatever we

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do they are not going to be part of the plan, are they?

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It has been smashed up.

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-Yeah.

-I thought that it has got '70s style

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oozing out of every broken pore.

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I think, yeah, '70s are back in but for me, like,

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the kind of lacquered mahogany look

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isn't really that fresh at the moment.

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So maybe we do something with the frame, like,

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we love to scorch things so why not try that?

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-Just go at it with a blowtorch.

-Burn baby, burn.

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Yeah, let's just burn this thing and forget about it.

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But no, if we scorch this entire frame,

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so what you see here will be a really nice matte black

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with a lot of texture going on.

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And then the idea is to put some really contrasting,

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maybe maple or sycamore slats on it.

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And just turn it into like a really clean, crisp,

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stylish '70s looking seat.

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How much is it going to cost to turn this into cool, crisp, high-end luxury living?

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-Lots!

-Lots?

-Yeah.

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Well, it's going to be a fiddly one, isn't it?

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There's a lot of things that we've seen already that could cause us trouble.

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-I'm reckoning about 700.

-Yeah, I think so.

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How does that sound?

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You're going to burn it and charge me 700 quid?

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-Pretty much, yeah.

-Well, if you think you can pull it off,

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-if I can come back here...

-It will look good in the end, yeah.

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..and make profit.

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-Best of luck.

-Thank you.

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I'm getting a scorched sofa and a 700 quid bill.

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Let's hope that's the right decision.

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We're quite excited about this one actually.

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There's a lot of work to be done.

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I think it could look really cool in the end.

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Yeah, after we've put our touch on it, I think it will be a nice,

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sleek looking seat.

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Done a bit of scorching, put a bit of fresh wood on there.

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Bish bash bosh, done.

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Josh and Oli have a whopping £700 to spend on this sofa.

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Let's hope that budget won't go up in smoke.

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Sarah's now travelled home after dropping off the sofa.

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Come on.

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Once Bramble's been for walkies, Sarah can get started on her item.

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She picked out the Art Deco style train station set.

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It's definitely cool.

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That deco styling is so strong in these pieces.

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Altogether now, finally.

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It's got bags of style.

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Sarah had hoped she could sell the well-loved station set as is

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to a collector but it's too scuffed and scratched.

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So she's had a bright idea.

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Sarah's going to make five desk lights.

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She's already had Perspex, which will make up the light housing,

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made to order and she'll combine them with pieces from the train set

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and her LEDs to make lovely little lamps.

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So these are the bits back from the fabricators and these are the

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windows, roof and side sections.

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I'm hoping they all fit together with our train set to make

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a lovely little desk light.

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But it's not looking very impressive at the moment.

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Each Perspex light box is made up of eight separate pieces,

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which Sarah will have the oh so fiddly job of gluing together.

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There is one set's worth there.

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I have got some two-pack glue...

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..with quite a long working time

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so I don't have to hurry too much with it.

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You just mix these equal quantities together,

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give it a stir

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and then it makes this really strong bond when it's all mixed up.

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Let's hope the measurement Sarah supplied to the Perspex cutter

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were right. If not, disaster.

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That's a great fit.

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I never doubted her for a second.

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That's beginning to look quite cool, isn't it?

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Here comes the hard bit though.

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I'm not quite sure how to do this.

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She's now got to glue the roof and side sections together.

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Those fix together.

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And then that goes on there.

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I get the feeling this is all a little bit more complicated

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than Sarah imagined.

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This requires precision, dexterity, patience.

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I don't have any of those, it's a nightmare.

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This is so fiddly.

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Next time I go to make something can you remind me to go the simplest

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route, doesn't have to be surprising.

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Just make a few pounds, that's all I'm after.

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Come on now, Sarah, stay positive.

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This is easy, this is a walk in the park, this is a great thing to do.

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That's more like it.

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Uh-oh.

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Sarah has spent £70 on the Perspex and LEDs.

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Let's hope it's money well spent

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and she actually manages to finish all five lights.

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Not far away, Josh and Oli are getting started on the sofa.

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All right, shall we start with getting these old straps off, then?

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Yeah, OK.

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The lads made their reputation creating bespoke furniture.

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Transforming the likes of this is a brave new world for them.

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I've never done anything like this before.

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Once we've worked out how the slats are going to go across

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and probably once we've worked out what we are going to do

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with the legs,

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I think they're really the two most difficult parts.

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The rest of it should be all right.

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So, aside from the seat part and the legs part,

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everything else is fine.

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Hmm... That's comforting.

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The sofa frame was constructed using the traditional mortise and tenon

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method, a technique which has been used for thousands of years.

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But the mortise holes and tenon tongues are badly damaged.

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It's all feeling a little bit rickety,

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so we've just got to try and work out the best way of getting it back

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to a state where you can sit on it again.

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The only option is to repair the joints.

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I was a bit cheeky about these boys earlier,

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but their expertise is beyond reproach.

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The traditional craftsmanship they use to mend the joints

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is second to none.

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It's nice when you get to the end of it and it's kind of looking fresh

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again and you've just got a nice match

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and a nice filling there. So then we can put the tenon back in

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and glue it just as it was.

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Should be as strong as it was brand-new, then.

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When the repaired tenon is slotted back into the mended mortise,

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it's a perfect fit.

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The lads use strap clamps to hold the sofa in position

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while the glue dries.

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I don't think we're going to make a sofa any more.

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It's just a big, old sort of bass guitar now, so...

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Scrap that idea.

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Right then, lads. Let's get a groove on.

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Nice!

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Let's slow it down.

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And back up for the big finish.

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Yeah, man!

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But it's back to business and there's some blowtorching to be done.

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A charred finish is a difficult technique to master,

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but, if they get it right, it will give the sofa a striking look.

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It just gives a nice, like, texture to the wood.

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It also preserves the wood as well.

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It's like a natural way of doing that.

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It just brings it back to a nice, even, matte black finish.

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The lads are taking safety precautions against fumes

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released from the old wood stain.

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Although Josh could do with pulling up his trousers.

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Fingers crossed this gives the sofa the sleek and stylish look they're

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after. If they get this wrong, it could warp the wood.

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Elsewhere in the Sussex countryside,

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Sarah's putting the finishing touches to her desk lamps.

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Well, that's five lights completed.

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They're quite crisp and clean for me.

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This toy train station set provided Sarah with a bright idea...

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Which she has brought stunningly to life.

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The addition of the toy figures pinched from her daughter's toy box

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lend the platforms scale and prospective and add to the fun.

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The LED lights are battery-powered and remote controlled

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so there's no electrical wiring.

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I can see these being snapped up by a train enthusiast

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who is still a kid at heart.

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Well, they're a little bit play-worn and definitely quirky,

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but I think somebody will give these a good home.

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Three generations of Barry's family had played with the toy train set,

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so he was happy Sarah saved it.

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The whole family's played with them.

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They've enjoyed them, we've fixed them up together.

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It's so nice.

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Then it was Sarah's turn to have a play.

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Makeover's complete,

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all five desk lights were snapped up by Mark from Keswick Collectables,

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an antique shop in the Lake District.

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Oh, wow!

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And now Sarah's on her way to Barry's home

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to show him what became of the toy he was about to sling in the skip.

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-Hi, Barry.

-Hello.

-How are you doing?

-Nice to meet you.

-Very nice to see you.

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-So, is this the house where the train set was in the attic?

-Yes.

-Lovely.

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Well, it was a lovely piece, but it had been played with by quite a few children.

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So was that your children or grandchildren?

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Yes, grandchildren... All of them, they've all played with it at some time.

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Well, it was my job to take it on

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and it was a lovely thing and I made it into... Are you ready?

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-Yes.

-It has been turned into desk lights.

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-Smashing, yeah.

-Put it together on a little block

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and turned it into five individual desk lights.

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Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

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-Really?

-Yes.

-Because it is such a worry.

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You take somebody's stuff and do something to it.

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So you approve, then?

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Yes. Now it's not scrapped or buried, it's of use at last.

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They were lovely to work on and somebody has bought them,

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a collectables shop, so I've got a little bit of money

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to give back to you for your old train set.

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So I've got £50 for you.

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So, what might you do with £50?

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Well, could I please give it to Children In Need?

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That... If you'd like to do that, that would be lovely.

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-Please.

-Yes.

-Very nice. So that's a lot of people it's done good,

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Plus it's...

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The station itself, the old station is put to good use.

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-I'm happy.

-Really?

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Yes. Well, that's really generous of you.

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There are five little lights that will go off into five new houses.

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Your station is going on another journey.

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-Brilliant.

-It was really good to see you again.

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-Thank you ever so much.

-Thank you.

-Bye-bye.

-Bye-bye.

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Well, that was really lovely to see Barry's reaction to his old train set

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because he and his family had obviously had so much fun using it

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and I really enjoyed making it into something else

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and I think he was really enthusiastic

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about the fact it was going on another journey.

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Sarah paid 70 pounds for materials.

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They sold for 120,

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making a profit of £50, which is now on its way to charity.

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I'm really looking forward to seeing how Josh and Oli

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have got on with the '70s sofa.

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And I'm not the only one.

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No, not them.

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Her.

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I left the boys with a massive challenge,

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a completely smashed up sofa,

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and I can't wait to see what they've done with it.

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It was beat up and broken down, but with Josh and Oli's help,

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Sarah hoped it could be brought back to life.

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Wow! It's been born again like a phoenix from the flames.

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The scorched wood has been sanded down

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to create a smooth matt-black finish.

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This contrasts beautifully with the light American maple timber

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used for the seat.

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Craftsmanship on display here is second to none.

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It's unique, bold and super stylish.

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-Hello?

-Oh, hello.

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Oh, lads!

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We're just having a little coffee break.

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-Hey!

-Hello.

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Wow!

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How cool is that?

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Let's see it without the rug on it.

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Oh!

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Work of art. Did you scorch it?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah, we scorched the frame.

-It's genius.

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I don't know what to say.

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It was so badly broken and beaten up beforehand.

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It's beautiful.

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-Is it comfortable?

-Yeah.

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Try it out.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's lovely. Isn't it?

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Oh, the finish you've got on this...

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-Nice and smooth, isn't it?

-Yeah, great contrast.

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It's... It's fantastic.

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I mean, the actual frame itself is really nice

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and there's loads of curves and it's really well put together.

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So I think once we actually had it reassembled and fixed up...

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Yeah, it's a really nice shape, isn't it?

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And then just sorting out the two colours,

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I think just works really well.

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But this looks sleek and designer

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and the contrast between the dark and the pale is just brilliant.

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It's such a lovely piece.

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Cool.

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Sarah is overjoyed.

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The boys have done a bang-up job and it's bang on their £700 budget.

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Are we calling it a sofa? Bench? What are you calling it?

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-What have you been referring to it as?

-Indoor bench.

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I kind of see it in a nice kind of conservatory, or something.

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It's not your sofa, but it's like a...

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It's a place where you might sit and read a book or something.

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I think we're getting all of the 1970s essence that was, you know,

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part of its charm, but with a bang up-to-date makeover.

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It's a very stylish thing now.

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-Real credit to you.

-Thank you very much.

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I'm impressed.

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And, more importantly, so is the boss.

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I was a bit worried about it when

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it turned up, but I think

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we've managed to get something quite nice out of it.

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Seeing it now,

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it's like a brand-new sofa, isn't it?

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Indoor bench, Josh.

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It's an indoor bench.

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Sarah spotted the sofa just as Brian was about to chuck it in the skip.

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All the rest of it's broken.

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He was flummoxed as to what Sarah would do with it.

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I don't know, to be honest. I don't know.

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It would be good to find out.

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Don't worry, Brian, you're about to.

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Sarah has made her way to Brian's house,

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where, hopefully, he'll be as impressed as we are.

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-Oh, hello!

-Hi, Brian.

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Hi, there. How are you doing?

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I'm fine, thank you.

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Now, I said that I'd be back in touch

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if there was something I could do with your sofa.

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Now, you had had a good time smashing it up, hadn't you?

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I did, yes.

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I'd got to get it loaded on the trailer, so, yeah, it was smashed up.

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Yeah, it made quite a few people laugh

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that we had taken something that had been through that process.

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So, did you think we'd rebuild it?

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What did you think we were going to do with it?

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Not with the way it had been smashed up. No, I didn't.

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Well, I've got some pictures to show you

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and brace yourself because, I took it to some lovely young lads

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and they set fire to it.

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-Oh, right!

-OK?

-Yes!

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But it ended up like this.

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-Oh, wow!

-So, this is the bit they burned.

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They scorched the frame to make it black

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and it's got a beautiful texture to it and a lovely finish.

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-It's lovely.

-Do you think it's all right?

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-I do, yes.

-Have you ever seen anything like that before?

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No, not really, no, but it's good. I like it. Yeah.

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-It's really nice, yes.

-I'm pleased you like it.

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Well, it's still for sale.

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It's out there now and I'm sure we're going to get a great buyer for it.

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So, as soon as I have money, I'll give you a call

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and send it over to you.

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-Great.

-I really liked seeing what the boys had done to it.

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-Yeah.

-To see it in the flesh, it's a lovely thing,

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so I really appreciate you letting us have it.

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Great, that's lovely Thank you very much.

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-Thank you ever so much. Nice to catch up with you. Bye-bye.

-And you. Bye now.

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Josh and Oli charged £700 for the makeover,

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but, at present, the seat remains unsold.

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So, for now, that remains a loss.

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But I've no doubt Brian will be seeing a little profit

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in his pocket sometime soon.

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Sarah saved two unwanted items from the skip

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and now rather than being chucked in the landfill,

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they've been given a new lease of life.

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Well, making money for nothing is definitely satisfying,

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but saving stuff and seeing it transformed, well,

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I think that might be even better.

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