The Big Build - Rotherham DIY SOS

To think of Terry on his own, you know, when we leave him,

he's probably thinking, "Does anybody care about me?"

It's absolutely heartbreaking.

Serious illness is hard enough.

But when it tears a family apart,

just when they need each other most,

it's devastating.

Sometimes I just wish I had my life back, really.

It's all gone now.

When Terry Guest had a catastrophic brain injury at only 36,

his family never imagined it would mean

he'd be stuck in an old people's care home.

We've had enough of this place now, mate, haven't we?

-Eh?

-Yeah, I don't want to miss any more of my life.

His sister, Tracey, and her partner, Jamie, fear for his future.

If things were left,

he'd go backwards, and then I'd lose my brother forever, wouldn't I?

We've gone a year without him.

We need him home now.

To get this brother and sister back together

is going to take a horde of incredible trades...

Just crack on, get it done for Terry.

..and a monumental effort.

Flippin' heck!

..as we build more than just a home.

Welcome home!

You've just fetched - I wouldn't say a broken family, but...

Fetched it back together.

We have all the usual suspects here.

We have just nine days to do the job.

-By the way, where's Billy?

-He's popped in the pub.

Has he? I better get him.

Excuse me? Has anybody seen Billy?

-ALL:

-No.

-Are you lot builders? ALL:

-What do you think?

-Fancy helping out on a job? ALL:

-Yes.

This is DIY SOS: The Big Build!

THEY CHEER

Tracey Guest and her partner, Jamie,

have lived in South Yorkshire their whole lives.

I can't imagine myself living anywhere else.

I wouldn't move, just for the fact that all us family's around here,

and people we've grown up with. Isn't it?

Yeah. It's only a small village, so

everybody knows each other's business.

When owt happens and that, they're there for you, you know?

It must be a Yorkshire thing.

Yorkshire, yeah.

Together six years, Jamie has become one of the family,

and he's best friends with Tracey's brother, Terry.

He calls me a brother from another mother.

THEY LAUGH

Terry is five years older than me.

He'd do anything for us.

He'd pick us up from anywhere.

You know, just always there.

Just a good big brother.

But one night, a year ago,

they got some news that would change their family forever.

Usually when that phone call happens in the early hours of the morning,

you know that summat's not right.

Me dad phoned me and said, "We need to get to Hull quick,

"Terry's in intensive care."

So we went straight down.

And he were on all the life-support.

They'd had to put him in a coma because he wouldn't stop fitting.

Just seeing him like that, it were awful.

I've never seen anything like that.

After a CT scan, doctors revealed that the 36-year-old dad of two

had suffered both a life-threatening brain aneurysm and a severe stroke.

They'd realised that he'd had a full head bleed.

They turned around to us and said that if he did...

IF he did wake up,

he could be seriously brain dead, he'd never walk again,

might not be able to talk.

The worst scenario was that the machine would have to be turned off.

I think that were the first time in my life I'd seen me dad cry.

Men don't cry in our family in front of you.

I know things will never be the same again.

But at least I'm still alive, I guess.

Terry amazed doctors by surviving such catastrophic brain injuries.

On three. Three.

But he's been left with severe disabilities.

The left side of his body is partially paralysed.

He's blind in one eye.

And he's relearning how to do the simplest tasks.

A year on, he's finding it tough to adjust.

I had an active lifestyle.

I were driving, I were seeing friends.

I were going to work.

Then everything just came crashing down to nothing.

Terry needs disabled facilities,

which he didn't have at his rented home,

so now he's living

in the only suitable residential care available nearby.

Terry's in a dementia care home.

It's quite disheartening when you say it like that.

But, I mean, there was nowhere else for him around here.

Yeah, sound, sound.

Best mate Jamie's been spending as much time with Terry as possible.

We've had enough of this place now, mate, haven't we?

Eh? Even though it's nice and that.

-It is nice, yeah.

-It gets a bit boring after a bit, doesn't it?

I have no-one to socialise with, really.

Only if you want a game of bingo!

-Eh?

-Or talk about the weather.

Yeah! Yeah.

Nice cup of tea. OK?

And they are grateful to everyone here.

They're amazing staff at that care home.

But he's only 36 years old.

It's just not a place for him.

Terry has two daughters from a previous relationship.

They used to spend weekends with him.

But because he's living here, that stopped.

Yeah, it's been awful, yeah.

I used to have regular contact.

And not to see them, it's...

It's not good at all.

I feel sad because I can't see him.

When I see him, I feel happy.

But when I go home, I cry for him.

It is nice here, though.

It's not home. I'd like to go home.

I think I've had enough now of hospitals

and care homes.

We're wanting Terry to come and live with us.

Jamie's a really good friend of his.

He were always here before, anyway.

It's just the most ideal place for him.

No-one can look after you like your own family can.

This is no small commitment from Tracey and Jamie.

They have two children, and Terry needs constant care.

He needs help getting dressed.

He needs help showering.

Simple things.

There's no way that he could get through a day on his own.

But no matter how much they want him to, Terry can't move in with them.

Their modest cottage simply doesn't have the space or facilities.

Come on, then, buddy.

So, to keep him progressing,

Jamie's been bringing him home as much as he can,

so he's with his family.

However, it's not been easy.

There's no downstairs toilet.

So I have to use a commode.

Tracey tells the kids to get out of the way

and go to the bottom of the stairs, which is not ideal, really.

Accountant Tracey has been working from home to keep an eye on Terry.

But the lack of space is a constant problem.

I work in the corner of my dining room.

It isn't always ideal.

Tracey, can I have a cup of tea, please?

Yeah, just two minutes.

Terry's hopes for the future are modest.

It's independence, that's the main thing.

Looking after myself. I just want to live a normal life again.

It's been a year now.

It's...

I need Terry to be home with me.

He needs looking after.

And I know I can look after him, and I know I can get him better.

I just want him home.

This family needs our help.

The place you're in, nice people, they're looking after you.

But not really, kind of... You shouldn't be in somewhere like that,

-should you?

-A dementia care home.

I don't mind it.

It's a nice warm bed and nice meals, but I shouldn't really be in there.

You're a young man, aren't you, that's the thing?

-Yeah.

-So we've got to get the family back together here, yeah?

-Yeah. Yeah.

-All right.

What do you need?

Just somewhere for him to have for his own peace and quiet.

You know, a bed to sleep in, a toilet to use.

Cos then the rest of the time,

-he can spend his family time with us in here.

-All right.

So, if we sort out something for you to live here so you can be at home,

I'll make a deal with you that we'll do that

if you work really hard on your physio

during the coming ten days.

-No problem, yeah.

-Right.

-Fair deal?

-Yeah. Yeah.

-Shake on it?

-Yeah.

-Yes?

-No problem.

Right, we're going to need some help with this.

To be honest, we're absolutely amazed

at how many people want to help us.

And I just...

It's just surreal. Thank you so much.

All right. Well, probably the most important thing now

-is getting out of the rain.

-Yeah!

Thank you. Bye-bye.

I hope it's not going to be raining like this all week.

The turnout's pretty good though.

Keep coming in, everybody. Keep coming in.

Do you know what? I reckon this week,

this is the warmest it's ever going to be.

Hang on a second, it's getting... It's really steamy in here.

Where's Billy?

Where is he?

What are you doing out there?

We aren't started yet, Bill.

THEY LAUGH

It's like pantomime, isn't it?

It's like somebody off in the wings somewhere.

-Anybody? ALL:

-Oh, yes, it is!

By the way, he's available for panto this year.

Please! Please!

Right, let's go. Come on, then.

Come on.

As you can tell, this isn't the roomiest house.

So to get Terry home, we're going to have to be creative.

We're going to start by making a lot of mess.

But that happens every time.

The most exciting thing we're building is going to be outside,

but I have to tell you,

the Yorkshire climate is not helping out.

This is the kind of weather where if you're on a job, you go,

"Do you know what? The weather's too bad, we better go home.

"We'll come back tomorrow." We can't do that.

So no matter how bad it gets, and it's getting pretty bad,

we have to keep going.

I hope it goes away soon.

-Is the weather like this normally?

-Yeah.

-You're in Yorkshire!

-Yorkshire's like this all the time, is it?

-Yeah.

Here's the bombshell, we're building a timber-framed building,

a whole one for Terry at the bottom of the garden.

Already, we've only been here an hour,

already this is turning into a quagmire,

I think is the correct word to be using here.

What's going on in the garden, then?

Once we get the soil dug out and get some hardcore in,

get a bit of hardcore underfoot, then you're all right, then.

-Is it?

-Basically it's just a paved area at the top,

a path down the side,

a paved area in the bottom and then this middle section

is staying turf and planting.

-Is it?

-Yes.

Lovely. And I noticed that you're not driving the machine?

Yeah, it's his own machine so I couldn't really come in and say,

"Right it's your machine, I'm driving it!" Could I?

I can ask him if you want, mate?

Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen, mate.

I tried, I had a word.

That wasn't very nice, was it?

-Very mild-mannered man.

-Yeah.

-But when it comes to touching his tool...

-Yeah.

..no chance.

NICK LAUGHS

Enough of boys and their toys,

how are we going to make this house work for Terry?

I'm in the office at the moment, which is the hub of all information

in the job, and, obviously, we like to file everything

really neat and tidy.

If you want to know anything, just come over

and have a look at the drawings because it's all there.

Yeah, leave this to me. What's this one?

The same thing with no measurements.

Important that we have one with no measurements, I think.

Exactly, you can just make it up.

I didn't do that on purpose.

Yeah, looks like we need a designer.

In charge of making this mud pit practical and homely for Terry,

in only nine days, is Oliver Heath.

The beauty of his design is eclipsed only by the beauty of his beard,

which is rented for the week and has to send back when he's finished.

And he's decided what Terry needs for an independent life

is a separate pad at the end of the garden.

It's the first time we've ever done this.

It's mucky behind us but this is taking shape, isn't it?

It's good, isn't it?

It's amazing how it just pops out of the ground so quickly

and in weather like this,

doing a prefabricated system is kind of essential.

And although it looks quite small and humble,

we've got some really great things

being packed into it,

and the whole theme for this space is recuperation.

Because you are a great believer

that the outside actually brings great health benefits,

and even pictures of the outside can do that.

It's more than the outside,

it's about fostering that stronger connection

-with nature and natural system.

-Lovely. I think you're right.

This is literally going to get him back on his feet

and recuperate him back to his normal self.

Brilliant. You notice I'm not arguing with you?

I know, I'm a bit like...

Because my wife's told me off.

She says, "You're not nice enough to Oliver,

"you've got to be nicer to him."

-Because he's always right?

-I don't think she went that far.

Look at that. The final piece is going in as we talked

and I think you're going to finally see the shape of this building...

..and it fits like a...

-Like...

-You spoke too early. Wait for it. Wait for it!

-It fits like a glove!

-That's amazing, isn't it?

-Brilliant.

-And this little house is going to help Terry get better.

So how are we doing it?

Well, because the main house is small,

we're going to build an entirely new

ground-floor house in the garden,

giving Terry independence whilst keeping him close to the family.

There will be a galley kitchen and a sitting room to relax in,

a bedroom with plenty of storage,

and the all-important wet room so he can get his dignity back.

Now Tracey usually works from home at a cramped desk,

so we're building a small office

where she can also keep an eye on Terry.

And we're going to open out

the ground floor of the main house

so there's space for Terry to join in

with the whole family and family life.

We're not touching the upstairs because it's perfectly nice

so it's out of bounds to all our trades.

ALL our trades.

Yes, Billy, that means you.

Have we done enough protection on the stairwell

to stop all the dust and rubbish going through?

I've put a sheet up there, taped up,

but now I'm worried about the carpets

because he is talking about going up there because...

Look. There he goes.

There's someone going up there already.

Look, someone who is not supposed to be going up there.

What we've done...

..so we don't damage the wallpaper,

we've cut a nice bit out

so when we've chased and then plastered it,

we can stick it back in.

Of course, it's not going to work.

-Billy!

-The thought was there.

Seriously, Billy, we said!

Luckily, there's a lot of good people here

wanting to make this house right for Terry.

People who are here are here because they want to be here,

not because they need to be.

And they care. This will make a big difference to his quality of life.

Family means everything, it's be all and end all, at the end of the day.

It's what you live for.

For the lad to come this morning and walk out of that house,

we're doing it for the right reason, aren't we?

Yeah, yeah.

-Smashing, thank you very much.

-Thank you, mate.

-Good luck.

-See you.

Living next door and being a stroke nurse,

Norma is only too aware of how tough it's been for the whole family.

When you're young, you should be out there having fun, shouldn't you?

Or playing with children at that age,

you don't expect to be suffering a stroke

that a lot of people presume

happens to your granny and grandad.

-It's a hard thing to deal with.

-So what do you think Terry needs?

I think Terry needs normality.

When a stroke happens, part of your brain dies, it doesn't regenerate,

it doesn't come back,

you have to retrain the brain, so the more he does for himself,

the better things come back.

It's just retraining.

So getting him home in a family environment is, do you think, maybe,

-his best chance of recovery?

-Definitely.

He can get some normality back,

and that will put him a long way into his recovery.

And to help the family be together,

Oliver's planning to knock down virtually every downstairs wall

in the main house. That will provide an open-plan space

that is accessible for Terry,

but it will also take a lot of work, but he doesn't care,

he's a designer. They don't care!

I've got an opening of five metres across here to take bi-fold doors,

and then we've got a support across where that wall's going to come out

so that we can support upstairs in the house,

and then we've got to run steels through the middle of the house here

to support that side of the house as well.

The thing is, we do have to work really fast in here

cos this has all got to be ready for the steel guy

who's coming in tomorrow morning at eight o'clock.

So we've got to knock nine bells out of it.

So with this kind of deadline,

the last thing we need is anyone creating more work.

Oh!

Bill?

Can I borrow you for a second?

-Rumour has it...

-Rumour?

..that you're doing stuff upstairs.

-Yeah.

-What are you doing?

What are you doing upstairs, because we weren't touching upstairs?

Well, we've got to because of the circumstances of the ring main,

we need to rewire it because what happened was...

Are you making holes up there?

Will do, yeah. Going to chase the walls and everything,

no problem, eh, Chris?

So we're not going to make a lot of mess up there, are we?

No, unfortunately...

..the boys have been... No, we're not.

Does anyone believe him, at all?

Do you believe him?

Luckily, we've got a pretty good motivated bunch of trades here,

they'll make it all right.

One, two, three, four, lift.

And look what this brilliant bunch of people have done already.

An enormous room of acrow props,

that's basically holding the house up now.

There was a hole here originally for a window,

it's now become a massive door.

We've taken all the plasterboard off, we've taken the ceilings off,

the whole place is being held up now,

because we're going to put in a lot of steel tomorrow.

Come down here,

because we've built a hole which we're going to fill with concrete,

build a pier off, and that will hold the steels up,

which is fairly important.

Over here, we've knocked through to another hole in the wall,

but, this is my favourite bit out here, look at this.

We've actually built an entire building

at the end of the garden in a day,

what a cracking day.

Eh? Eh? Really!

Cor, a misty old start this morning, isn't it?

Good morning.

A hive of activity

because we've got a lot of steels going in this morning.

It's acrow city at the moment,

the whole house is pinned up on these bad boys.

-How busy is it?

-Busy morning.

That's what I thought.

Other than making sure the house doesn't fall down,

the big mission today is getting a roof on the thing

at the bottom of the garden we're calling an annexe.

Hurry up! It's freezing!

What're you talking about? He's in shorts.

Butch Yorkshireman versus soft Irishman.

Meanwhile Chris is investigating the aftermath of a Billy attack.

After our conversation yesterday

that there was nothing to be done upstairs,

as you can see our little electrician friend...

has been all over upstairs.

This is his. "I'll chase them out nice and tidy, Princess."

I'd hate to see him do a messy job.

So he's done here, he's done in here,

he's done in here.

Oh, look! He's been in here.

He said, "What I'll do,

"I'll cut the wallpaper nice and tidy so we can push it back."

Now, what do you do with that?

So we are now replastering and decorating the upstairs.

-Thanks, Bill(!)

-Yeah, he's nice like that, our Bill.

-Hiya.

-Hiya.

One of the most humbling things about doing this job

is the way people come together

to work for someone they haven't met.

But we've told them the story,

and they're now all determined to get Terry home to his family.

The care here is good...

..but it's not family.

Hello. How are you?

-All right?

-All right, thank you.

-Nice to see you.

-Nice to see you, Nick.

So talk about this place for a minute,

because the staff are very nice, aren't they?

-Lovely.

-Really lovely, doing the best for you,

but not really an appropriate place for someone who's 36.

Not at my age, no, no.

Not a dementia care home, really.

A big change for you to get out of here

and actually be able to spend time with your family.

Nice for your girls to be able to come visit, won't it?

That'll be nice, yeah.

I managed to see them all the time

but since this has happened I've hardly seen them, you see.

-Do you find that tough?

-Oh, yeah, that's tough.

Not seeing kids, that's the toughest.

So kind of important for you that...

they can come visit and maybe stay over as well?

Stay over, yeah, definitely.

-Tell us about Jamie, then, cos he was a mate?

-Oh, yeah.

I'm not sure how many mates, though,

would do what Jamie's done.

Oh, no.

He's a good lad.

Do you tell him?

I don't want to make him cry.

You don't want to make him cry!

-Is he a bit emotional, is he?

-He can be, yeah.

Whilst plainly it's been very unlucky that you've had the stroke,

I think there's a lot of people around the country

who'll be thinking

that you're very lucky to have someone like them there.

Definitely. It's the type of family we are, you see.

We look after each other.

What do you think of when you look forward?

What do you envisage in the future?

Do you think you'll ever get back to where you were?

-Yeah, I should think so.

-You do?

That's what I need to do.

Get back to where I was.

Who knows how far you can go?

Once you've got the surroundings you need, who knows how far you can go?

I reckon that's all I need, really, my life back.

Or a part of it back.

Yeah, I can understand that.

And there's an awful lot of people

trying very hard to make that happen.

We're going to need that manpower because it's about to get heavy.

Just got a delivery coming up the street now,

I've got five steels arriving, four of them absolutely lovely,

we can handle them, we can lift them,

we can do what we need to do with them.

But the fifth one weighs half a tonne.

I'm slightly concerned about how we're going to get it in.

Blimey, look at the size of that!

Looks heavy, doesn't it?

Very long, heavy piece of steel that needs to go into the house,

and it needs to go through all the props,

and out onto the benches at the back and to be supported,

and then it's got to be lifted up into place.

-It's going to be a fiddly one.

-Have we nicked that off the Tyne Bridge?

Flippin' heck!

That's ridiculous.

Has somebody slightly over engineered this, did they?

So we're going to go up the side of the house,

through the neighbour's garden,

and then we're going to turn it,

and come back round the back of the house.

So after three.

One, two, three, lift.

Keep going.

Back in, round to the left a bit if we can

without trapping anybody in the corner.

And keep moving, just nice and gently.

Nice and slow, please.

-Nice and gently.

-People going around posts here, nice and slow.

And forward. Bring your end round at the front of the beam, please.

Right, on you come.

One, two, three...

MUSIC: Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II

That's how you put an enormous steel into the back of a house

with, like, 35 people.

I think we made a bit of a song and dance about that, didn't we?

-You've got 24 metres...

-Christopher, can I borrow you a second?

I understand that you've discovered

a new way of keeping your back in order?

-HE COUGHS:

-Pilates.

THEY LAUGH

Was that Pilates?

-Yes.

-You went to a Pilates class?

I did, last Thursday.

Were there many blokes there off the site?

None. For three-quarters of an hour I was sweating,

out of breath, with some elderly ladies who I commended, giving it...

..laid down on the floor,

stretching bits that I never knew could stretch.

-Nice.

-You take the mick as much as you want,

but some of you two, larger people,

should think about it because it's all about,

you've got a bad back because of your inner core.

Yeah, but I'm not naturally stretchy.

No, but that's the point.

You're no different to a 21-stone rugby player

that can run 100 metres in 11 seconds.

Watch my lips...they exercise.

You never have.

Once you start, it will get easier.

-That's it.

-You sound like you've joined a cult.

No, no, no. It's just Thursday nights between eight and nine.

THEY LAUGH

So look after yourself, or we'll send the boys round.

You know, we've got a great mix of people here.

-I'm from Essex.

-You've been here before, haven't you?

We have. We were in Haydock.

And you came back to do another one?

And it's my wedding anniversary today, as well.

-Is it?

-Yes.

-Happy anniversary.

So you've been working with us a couple of days,

and I had no idea you were related to the family?

Yeah, good, isn't it?

-So you are...?

-Jamie's brother.

-Jamie's brother?

-Yeah.

-He's a hell of a lad, your brother, isn't he?

-Yeah.

-Has he always been like that?

-Yeah.

Always. Like I say, both of them, they'll help anybody.

-Anybody.

-And that's nice, isn't it?

It's the way the world should work.

We're only a couple of days in, and there's no shortage of help.

The site is particularly busy today.

If I show you, a doorway being bricked in here by our friends.

Look inside, you can see how busy it is.

There's a pier being built in there,

there's plenty of work going on all over the place.

Down the side, where they're prepping the bricks

to go into this bit here.

Past the guys that are still clearing out the garden,

round past Tony from Swansea,

who you've known from other programmes before.

Nice to see you again, old fruit.

There you go, bricklayers working on the back

prepping bricks up for the back

which is going to go into the top of that lintel.

Come across. Be careful, it's very slippery.

Roofing still going on up there.

But it's what's going on inside the house

that's going to make the biggest difference to Terry.

So we have the makings of a little house here?

-Yeah.

-I mean, it's compact and bijou.

-Yes, that's the expression.

And I think if we really focus and think about the design carefully,

this could be an amazing little house.

Well, I hope you've already focused

and thought about the design carefully

cos now it's too late otherwise, isn't it?

-Well.

-So what have we got and where? Where am I standing at the moment?

At the moment, you're standing in the lounge area.

This is the kind of circulation space.

So we've basically got a little lounge there

with a very small two-seater sofa and a chair for Terry.

Which opens into...

Well, it opens into a dining table here

-so he can sit and eat with his daughters.

-Right.

Then we've got a galley kitchen here.

We've got the bedroom over there,

and in between that, there's a dividing wall.

Now to make this feel really as big and open as possible,

we've got a sliding pocket door in there.

So when the door is open you can see the bed and the bedroom,

but you've got this really nice long view right across,

and when he's here on his own,

the space will feel open and kind of cool.

You know, like a studio apartment.

Which leaves you a compact little space over there

which is going to be...?

A little wet-room bathroom.

Have you got enough room there for a wet-room bathroom?

It's small. It's small.

But because Terry isn't actually in a wheelchair most of the time,

we don't need that accessibility.

Yes, of course, the hope is he's going to be

in a wheelchair less and less.

Yeah, so he can use that bathroom.

The point of this house

is that it's going to increase his self-confidence.

Sounds great, but I'm drifting away.

That happens when I listen to Oliver sometimes,

and I'm thinking about what's going on inside the house.

As much as I promised my wife I'll be nice to Oliver,

I have got some bad news for him.

I've got a slight extra thing for you to think about,

because our little Welwyn Garden City...

..electrician, to use a broad term,

has been gnawing away at the upstairs inside.

You know we weren't touching the inside?

Upstairs? Yeah, that was the plan.

Nice easy project, ground floor...

Yeah, I need you to redesign the bedrooms.

What's he done? Has he gone and ruined something?

There's a lot of holes, so we're going to have to tidy up,

and then whilst we're tidying up...

So you've probably released some budget for that, have you?

We have no budget at all, so good luck.

-Have you made the show longer so we've got a bit more time(?)

-No, we have no extra time either.

-No money, no time?

-Yeah. So you might want to get on the phone to a few suppliers

and see what you can rustle up. Smashing. Thanks, Oliver.

Thank you very much for that, Nick, that's generous of you(!)

Right... Better call in some favours.

Right... Going to need wallpaper.

Look, it's just a bit of extra graft - but making every space work

WILL ease the burden for the family, especially Tracey.

She's been the driving force to get her big brother home.

What's the hardest thing about seeing Terry the way he is?

He's never going to have a full recovery, we know that.

With what's happened, it were that severe. Half of his brain shut down,

that's how they explained it, he's working on half a brain.

But he's... Things that he's done -

I mean, he's learned to walk up steps,

and I know for a fact that there's so much more to come.

You know, that's why I've said WE can get him better.

-As a family...

-But not if he's sat in a home somewhere.

-No.

When we get him home, he can learn his independence again.

He can learn how to make a cup of tea and things. It's all possible.

And he's got the determination to do it, and we've got the patience and the care to help him,

so I do believe he will be independent one day.

-It's a lot to take on.

-It is.

Life would be a lot easier not to have somebody with a disability

come into the house - I mean, you've got to work from home,

you've got work to do, you've got kids to look after...

and now you're actually taking on the rehabilitation

of Terry as well - and looking after him obviously.

Yeah, but

I just... I couldn't be able to live my life

thinking that I'd just... just left him. You know.

I wouldn't be able to live with myself

if I'd just done nothing to help him get better.

It just... It breaks my heart.

Yeah.

So what does it mean to you as a family then, that, erm...

..all these guys and girls have turned up and like,

within a few days you're going to have Terry home?

Absolutely amazing.

I keep thinking, how am I going to be able to thank everybody enough?

Because words aren't enough for what they've done. That worries me.

He's 36 years old.

-Yeah.

-They just want to give him a chance to get better.

I think probably the best thanks they can have

is if you tell them how life will change for him,

what the possibilities are for you as a family.

-Cos there's a great deal of pride in the work they're doing...

-Mm-hm.

..cos they believe it's the right thing to do.

Well, that's exactly what WE'RE doing with Terry, that's why he's coming to live with us.

Cos it feels like the right thing to do.

I think you're an amazing family.

If you want to actually find out how families should stick together,

-you're a pretty good example of it.

-Yeah.

That's my brother.

They aren't going to have to fight alone for Terry now.

There's a whole family of trades in their corner.

A week today, they're moving back into that.

We'd better get a shape on, then, hadn't we?

Oh, we will. Yeah, yeah, tomorrow.

Insulating, boarding and skimming tomorrow.

Yeah. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

Just give us two minutes, mate. Just doing me core.

Nice! And Chris isn't the only thing taking shape...

Oh, yes. They don't get much bigger, do they?

While Marcel Marceau practises his art downstairs,

upstairs, they're fixing his mess.

Yeah...

The office for Tracey's coming along nicely, with some particularly beautiful cedar cladding.

Now, that...is lovely. That's like being in a wild forest.

-Weird.

-Yeah. That's just weird.

Try working with him every day.

Jules may not have his hands on a digger,

but he can finally get to grips with the groundworks.

We've got our first bit of structure in the garden,

we've got a timber wall for the lawn.

So, we're having a jolly good tidy-up,

clear all the detritus from the garden...

Nice word!

Level with a bit of hard-core out.

This all has to be hard-paved...

which fills me with joy.

Look at his little face! He loves a little bit of hard-core, does Jules.

He's even ordered a little bit for the front driveway.

But maths...was never his strong point.

JULES LAUGHS

Oh, God...

Erm... I've got a funny feeling that there's a slight miscalculation

with the amount of stone that has been ordered for the front driveway. Erm...

..we've got 27 tonne.

I might give the neighbour a knock, see if she wants HER driveway done as well.

Actually...maybe the rest of the street, or most of Rotherham!

-OTHERS LAUGH

-Oh!

There's another one up there, as well.

Looks...an awful lot, doesn't it?

Yes, it does look an awful lot.

So don't stand there yipping -

get it unloaded and shovelled about the place.

MUSIC: Bills by LunchMoney Lewis

I hope Jules has got a plan,

cos it IS a lot of hard-core.

Shall I bring the other one up?

Stop that, you're going to go right through.

I know!

He rubs his head a lot when he gets stressed.

They're coming like buses today, aren't they? One after another.

Not really having a good day, really.

-Are you not(?)

-Bit stressed.

If I HAD hair, I'd be pulling it out.

It's all hands to the pump, we've got every trade all mucking in.

We got all these boys, they're painters and decorators, have been doing upstairs,

and now they've come to shift all this hard-core

so we can keep the job motivated.

It's lovely, it's bouncy, bouncy, bouncy...

and now it's someone's birthday cos we've got a couple of strippagrams down here...

Er, I think you'll find they're actual...

Are you strippagrams?

Yeah, they're actual police. Go on, arrest him. Please arrest him!

Fantastic, that's the way! Get everyone involved. Nice one, Officer.

In Terry's house, the plaster's going on.

And downstairs in the main house

those enormous doors have been fitted with glass,

and can do a ziggy...zaggy thing.

And upstairs, the amazing decorators

have already transformed the bedrooms.

Great choice.

Big borders for...

But then the motivation comes from the client.

Well, you've got to think about Terry, haven't you?

The life he's had, and the life he IS going to have,

is going be a lot better,

So... Yeah.

Yeah, just crack on, get it done for Terry.

It's just helping somebody out, you've always got to help somebody out.

There's always something... If YOU'RE not in need, somebody else is.

30 year ago, I had cancer.

Nobody helped me. So, I mean...

That's the whole thing, really, isn't it?

If we just help each other, things have got to get better.

Get it out! Get it out with t'lads.

-And that's why I'm here...

-Good man.

-To help.

This house will give Terry the tools he needs to be independent.

But his continued recovery

will depend on him pushing himself both physically and mentally.

And his best mate Jamie has been central to that so far.

Come on, then, mate...

Four months ago, and worried about Terry's progress,

Tracey and Jamie pooled their savings,

and Jamie gave up work to make sure his best mate

could spend time with the people that love him most.

Used to pick him up in the morning, shower him,

shave him if he needed one, and then I'd fetch him home.

Come on then, soldier.

'And that was every day.

'You could see daily,'

as things were progressing.

You know, he were walking further, he were chatty...

Yeah. Amazing, amazing.

For him to come out of work to care for our Terry, it's...

Not many people would do that, would they?

And what he's done for us is just unbelievable.

I didn't expect me being a carer, I work on t'buildings, and...

You know. You couldn't plan it out, but...

it's family at t'end of t'day

and you'd do anything for family.

But, when their savings ran out, Jamie had to go back to work.

And Terry's physical progress started to slip backwards.

He just laid in bed through t'day and that...

obviously a bit worried about

the circulation in his legs and stuff.

So I've arranged to meet Terry and Jamie at Hillsborough Park in Sheffield,

to put them in touch with some very special people I know

who want to help kick-start Terry's recovery.

Steve, you run a disability...

Disability cycling, yeah.

Yeah, so basically people come down with all various disabilities

to ride the bikes.

So they come on a regular basis, they come every week.

-Nice.

-Smashing.

-Fancy a go on this?

What do you reckon?

-Think you'll have a go?

-Yeah, I'd love to.

We'll strap this on...

-Yes, thank you, yeah.

-No worries.

So you used to cycle a lot?

I used to do...

ten mile a day at one time.

-Oh, OK.

-To work and back.

-Right, yeah.

-A few year ago.

-Right, yeah.

So, where are we here, Sheffield?

Rotherham's about eight miles, so, erm...we'll see you there!

NICK LAUGHS

Keep your legs straight, yeah?

Good man. Good man.

Right, off you go. See you in a bit.

That's it...

OK. How's that feeling, all right?

-That's lovely, yeah.

-Yeah?

Where's McDonald's drive-through(?)

Since his stroke,

Terry can barely move his left leg, so this is huge progress.

Hello there!

-A couple of times a week doing this, it's going to do the world of good for that leg, isn't it?

-Oh, yeah.

Cos the right one's the strong one, isn't it?

-Yeah, right side. It's left-side weakness.

-Yeah.

This is actually a big moment for Jamie -

it's the first time he's seen Terry be so active.

I can't believe it. Can't believe it.

Can't believe how much that leg is working.

-Yeah!

-To be honest with you. It's unbelievable.

You've actually been on his physio all the way through, haven't you?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And everybody says he's come on massively because of you and the work you've put in.

-Yeah.

-And of course, difficult,

cos you've had to go back to work and earn some money now.

That's... Do you know something? I mean, obviously, er...

if I didn't have to do that, I would be still looking after him. I would.

Do you know, I can see that in the joy that you've got looking at him and watching him go round.

It's great. It's great to just see him, you know,

out and about, fresh air, and, you know...

-Oh... Are you all right?

-Yeah.

-I've got you.

-Felt like I were coming off then.

-Sorry!

-It's all right.

We're off to a drive-through!

It's a hell of a thing to do, you know -

to give up your job to help out your sister's brother.

I knew there were potential in Terry. You know.

Er... And I could see it in his face, him wanting to move further.

You know. And I just... That's what I did

and that's what... That's what I had to do.

I think you're an amazing bloke, an amazing friend,

and I'm really glad we're sorting out this place at the bottom of the garden

so that he can actually join in normal family life.

Aw, brilliant, yeah, and we want to thank you all.

Like I say, I don't think words...

..can describe it.

-Look what you did, he's up and about and he's now cycling.

-Mm-hm.

Hey-hey-hey! I've got you.

Time to get back to site.

Cos we've only got a couple of days left

and the main focus is getting that annexe sorted for Terry.

And it's all hi-tech.

This here is all our underfloor heating that's going in.

Cos we haven't a lot of wall space in here,

we can actually have underfloor heating, we're not taking wall space up with radiators,

so we can put bits of kitchen in,

make the place very workable...

But we've still, in here,

we've got the kitchen to fit, we've got the boiler to fit,

we've got the second fix electrics to do,

we've got the shower room to lay, we've got the shower room to tile,

we've got to decorate it all.

Only got a couple of bits and pieces to do - it's all right, we've got three days left.

Two... Three...

Two or three days left? That's mad. Isn't it?

We'll do it. Be fine.

Yeah, of course we'll do it!

Well, we have no choice, cos we haven't got any time left.

Well, he might have lost THAT battle,

but remember the huge pile of gravel? It's almost all gone.

After all that stress,

like too much quantity on the chippings...

Look. ALMOST to the wheelbarrow.

Where's it gone?

Where's it gone? What have they done with it?

Think they've done a bit of the old Great Escape!

How cool...am I?

That's where it's all gone.

There you are, look - there's two kitchens in there.

Wow...

Lovely! Let's get the kitchen fitted.

Yeah, we're on the home straight,

the kitchen in the main house is flying in...

..Terry's home is being filled with the tools for recuperation...

It's, er, quite a busy area at the moment.

But it is starting to look like... well, like a house, really.

Yeah, and we've just got to make it look pretty now.

I did say pretty!

Now, I've made a promise to be nice to Oliver.

But I think I've reached my limit with the kitchen wallpaper.

It looks like a target site on a submarine,

for launching tactical nuclear weapons at the coastline!

It depends how you look at it.

I always saw it more

as kind of...geotechnical kind of landscape engineering.

But honestly, what do you think of the design itself? Do you quite like it?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-I like it.

It's sort of unconventional, isn't it? But it's got sort of quite a pleasing geometric, er...

element, and obviously the landscape as well.

-It's quite modern. Trending.

-They're big words(!)

"Geotechnical landscape engineering"?! What?!

Jules - for heaven's sake, please bring some sense to this build!

Why was he walking like that?

-Stadium turf, that, you know. Comes from a stadium.

-Does it?!

When the football players have finished playing with it,

they, er, roll it up and send it out to other places.

You can see where all their studs have been, look.

-Oh, yeah.

-Where their studs have been when they've been playing football.

There's a worm!

A dead worm.

Look, there's the other two halves of that worm there,

-there's one half there...

-No, that's a different one.

You're not going to be able to put it back together.

Well, let's have a try.

-You never know.

-What are you going to do, stick it together with a Band-Aid(?)

You can plainly see that worm's fatter than that one.

Imagine if they grafted half of me onto you.

-Oh, my goodness.

-Imagine that!

-What a thought.

-Would you have the bottom...?

-Saying that, we've got similar leg length anyway.

Believe it or not.

-It's just our top bodies are different.

-Yeah. I've got a long body.

-And I haven't!

-We've got the same... same size inside leg.

He's five foot and I'm six foot.

So, if you DID cut us in half and put us together...

You'd get one normal-size person.

All right, so if I went like that, you hold on to me...

Like that...

THEY LAUGH

That ain't going to work!

I'm not very happy with that!

I can never unsee that!

Can we please just get the build finished?

DISCO MUSIC PLAYS

It's quite handbaggy and 1970s, this music, isn't it?

We're working into the night, but it looks like we're going to do it.

Well, of course we're going to do it!

Nine days ago, Terry was trapped in an elderly care home...

He's only 36 years old.

-It's just not a place for him.

-All right, buddy?

..separated from a family who desperately wanted to take care of him...

We've gone a year without him.

We need him home now.

..unable to spend time with his children.

I feel sad, cos I can't see him.

We've had enough of this place now, mate, haven't we?

I just want to live a normal life again.

If things were left,

he'd go backwards and then I'd lose my brother for ever, won't I?

But a community of trade stepped in

to show the family they weren't alone.

Yeah, just crack on, get it done for Terry.

They worked their socks off...

One, two, three.

..and turned this building site

into a home where the family can be together.

For the first time ever, we've built an entire home at the end

of a garden. It will help Terry get his independence back.

The kitchen-diner means he can get back to preparing his own meals and

he can finally sit down for dinner with his daughters.

His bedroom is bathed in relaxing tones and fabrics.

It has an adjustable bed, to make his life a bit easier,

but is a world away from hospitals and care homes.

We've built him a wet room,

so he can get his dignity back and his independence.

This house means he can relax in peace and quiet and still be just a

few steps away from the rest of his family.

We've landscaped the garden to make it accessible for Terry and given it

a courtyard feel, inviting time outside in the fresh air.

Tracey used to work from a cramped desk in the corner of her living room.

Now, she has a bright, separate office in the garden,

clad in that beautiful cedar, giving her the quiet she needs,

with the comfort of being on hand for Terry.

The ground-floor of the house has been opened up to make

a huge family space. I love this area!

It's fully accessible to everybody, including Terry.

Those five-metre-wide doors flood the room with light and the family

have an expansive view up to Terry's house.

Beautiful, isn't it?

Upstairs, the bedrooms have been switched around, thanks to Billy.

And we've added sofa beds, so, most importantly,

Terry's daughters can stay over whenever they like.

And we've given Tracey and Jamie a well-deserved bit of luxury too.

After a year of anguish,

this house is finally a place where the family can become whole again.

You want to be together as a family and your house was making that very

difficult. So we have made a few changes to your house,

which is what you're standing in now.

When you're ready...

open your eyes.

Oh, wow!

-Chuffing hell!

-It is totally different!

Absolutely amaze... Is this our house?

-Flipping heck!

-We wanted to make it one big open space

that you could all enjoy.

He's going to love this! He's going to absolutely love this!

Oh!

Obviously, the important thing was to actually get the apartment

at the bottom of the garden, for Terry.

If you want to turn around, you'll see how it works with the rest of the house.

-Oh, my!

-Oh, my God!

We wanted to create a space where you could see where he was and he

could look out his windows and see you.

Oh, gosh!

Aw!

SHE SNIFFS

-This is not happening!

-Aw!

Shall we go and have a look?

-Wow!

-Oh, wow!

Oh, never!

Absolutely amazing, guys!

Oh, gosh!

Oh, he's not going to believe this, is he?

-This is more than a home for him, isn't it?

-Yeah.

This is like penthouse stuff!

HE LAUGHS

Oh, guys!

Oh!

-SHE LAUGHS

-Wow! This is absolutely...

He's going to be over the moon.

-Yeah.

-Automated bed, obviously, so that you can sit up, move,

-all the rest of it.

-Oh, you're joking?

-Cos he has difficulty

-sitting up, doesn't he?

-Yeah.

-So, this will help him get up - again more independence.

So, probably the more exciting one would be if you actually

pull the door behind you. That slides to your left.

And walk in.

-Oh!

-Oh, wow! Wow!

SHE LAUGHS

Absolutely... Oh, look at that!

That is absolutely amazing, guys!

He'd been using a commode...

-Yeah, at the bottom of the stairs.

-..in the house, you know.

This is his home now.

It's been a long old route for you guys, hasn't it?

Yeah, it has.

But do you know? It's just ended, hasn't it?

Yeah. It's been a struggle, hasn't it?

Not any more.

-Your big brother is coming home.

-I know!

-Shall we go and get him?

-Please, yeah.

-Yeah.

-Can we go get him?

Yeah!

Tell you what, you have a seat here

and I'll go and get him and bring him in.

-He's going to love this, isn't he?

-God!

Fish tank!

I'll keep the door open. Thank you.

-All right?

-In you go.

Now then!

-Hey?

-Look at the fish tank.

-Welcome home!

-Aw, thanks, Tracey.

-Aw!

Thank you. It's been a while, hasn't it?

Oh!

You can have a look around. This is your own place.

-Oh, wow!

-You're back home.

-It's modern, isn't it?

It's lovely.

-Yeah?

-Thank you.

Look at this! Fish tank!

-Eh?

-You'll be able to...

-Absolutely amazing, isn't it?

-Look at this!

-Oh, wow!

This is amazing, isn't it?

-And look, look!

-Proper mattress!

-Not a plastic one.

-Not a plastic one any more!

I'll be able to sleep without getting stuck to it!

-Yeah, true!

-Hang on a sec, I've got something else to show you,

before you go any further. OK, you have a look in here.

Oh, wow!

-Go on.

-It's an en-suite.

-Go and have a look.

-Your own toilet, mate.

What do you think of your new bathroom, mate?

-Oh, thank you very much. It's smashing.

-Do you like it?

-Definitely.

-You've got your independence back.

-Oh, wow, yeah.

-And your dignity.

That's smashing, yeah, thank you.

-Too much to take in, pal?

-Oh, it's brilliant, isn't it?

Thank you.

We haven't finished yet.

We've made extra space in the house.

-Oh, smashing!

-So the girls can come and stay in the house.

The girls can come and stay, yeah.

And up here, they can even come and have breakfast with you up here.

-Yeah.

-They can have breakfast with you in the morning.

-Oh, brilliant, yeah.

-You can carry on with your life now.

I can't thank you enough, honestly!

This is time to move forward now, mate.

-Oh, definitely, yeah.

-Yeah?

-Thank you.

-I know, last Christmas,

you were having half of your skull put back on.

That's Tracey's new office.

No more back of room and us annoying her.

Want to go and have a look?

Oh, wow!

SHE LAUGHS

It's got heating in behind here, on electrics.

Do you know something? I just feel like...

What you've done for us, it's just so much to take in, you know?

Unbelievable! Terry's coming home!

-Yeah.

-That's all we ever wanted.

This is all wheelchair accessible.

-Oh, wow!

-Have you seen this?

-I can't believe this.

-It doesn't even look like our house, does it?

-Look at this, mate!

-Oh, aye!

Oh, we're ready for the kids.

-What do you think?

-GIRLS: Whoa!

Look at Terry's place! Look at your dad's place!

-Unbelievable, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Girls, the apartment up the top there,

you're going to be able to go up there and do cooking and things with

your dad, which is kind of cool, cos there's a little kitchen up there.

Do you do baking? What sort of things do you bake?

Buns and cakes and biscuits.

-You'll have to show me how to do it.

-OK.

You've just fetched a... I wouldn't say a broken family...

but fetched it back together.

And made life easier, definitely.

-Whoa!

-Oh, whoa!

And that's our room. This one.

-What do you think, kids?

-I like it.

-Do you love it?

-Yeah.

This bedroom is really nice and good.

-Do you like it?

-Yeah.

Do you want to come all the time now?

-Yeah, I do.

-Yes, a family reunited.

There's just one thing left to do.

THEY APPLAUD

Thank you.

TRACEY LAUGHS

A few weeks ago, we thought we were on our own and we had to leave Terry

every night on his own to come home, and it used to break our heart

and you came in our hour of need and I really cannot tell you how

grateful I am for what you've done for us.

And you've not only given Terry some independence back,

you've given him a home, you've given him a chance at a life again,

and I hope that you all remember this special day,

because we will remember this for the rest of our lives,

and you'll always be in our hearts for ever.

You really are truly amazing people, every one of you.

Thank you very much for giving me my life back.

Thank you.

THEY APPLAUD

-We've done it. I'm proud now.

-Yeah.

I hope you enjoy your annexe.

I will do. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Brilliant. Family's a powerful force, you know.

It's the medical profession that has to start dealing with Terry's brain

haemorrhage and then his stroke, of course, but eventually,

it comes down to family.

But of course, they couldn't get him home,

they couldn't get him into the house.

And that's where, well, the greater family, the local community,

came together to give them the environment they needed.

Family on a bigger scale.

It's a powerful force.