Episode 15 Money for Nothing

How do you make money for nothing?

The answer could be hiding in the 20 million tonnes of household waste

we throw out every year.

Before you throw that away,

-is there any chance I could have a quick chat to you about it?

-Sure.

That is why entrepreneur Sarah Moore wants to get her hands

on things before they hit the skip.

I am a passionate buyer, user and renovator of second-hand stuff

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

I turn old into new and I sell it for a profit.

Sarah is ready to sift through as many boots

and bin bags as she needs to...

That is the most fabulous thing I have seen here. This is so exciting.

..in her search for tip treasure.

I love rifling through the rubbish.

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

-Hello, hello!

-What have you got today?

I want to do what is right for this piece of rubbish.

..she can transform her finds into desirable...

Look at that!

..beautiful...

Speechless.

..valuable...

You are joking.

..and hopefully saleable items.

You always talk my kind of money, Jay, I love doing deals with you.

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

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

Wow!

Sarah has travelled to the Bredbury Recycling Centre in Stockport

where they can have over 200 cars through the gates every day.

Can you hear them? Can you hear them all calling out to me?

They are saying, "Sarah, save me! Don't put me in the skip,

"make me into something beautiful."

And that is just what I want to do and in the process,

I am hoping to make lots of money too.

Sarah talked very nicely to the kind people who run the dump

and has secured special permission to ambush people today.

Look, there is a nice big car coming in.

Maybe they have got lots of things in their boot.

Sarah is on the lookout for three items

she can breathe new life into and sell for a profit.

-No need for one of those in your life, then?

-No.

No breaking and entering?

-Well, I've got other tools for that!

-Excellent.

Stop bothering the nice cat burglar, Sarah, and get on with your search.

Well, it's not long before Sarah has her eye on Chris's leather sofa,

but only if it is the genuine article.

Is it...? This is a rude question - is it leather-leather?

-Erm, yeah, I think so.

-Really? Have you had it long?

It is about ten years of age, that.

Probably 12 now, about 12 years of age.

I used to have two Dalmatians so part of it is marked.

OK, that doesn't matter.

We have got a new one so this one has just literally been dumped

-in the cabin, really.

-Yeah.

If I can get this leather off here...

You can make handbags, maybe bodices.

The fact that it is worn actually adds to its appeal.

Hopefully we will give it another life.

I don't really know what that will be yet but it is lovely material.

Particularly this bit, probably the most worn bit. It is so soft.

Yes, more bums have been on that one.

I beg your pardon?

More bums.

What a cheek!

But will Sarah be able to salvage enough leather

that is not too bum-battered?

Considering that, you know,

the settee is about ten or 12 years of age

and it has been well worn by several people's bottoms and several dogs,

so, yeah, I think she will struggle to do anything with it, really.

I could not be more pleased with this footstool and chair.

It is covered in the most fantastic leather and metres of it.

I have got a marvellous maker lined up who is going to transform this

into something that you just won't believe and at the end

of the day, I think I'm going to make some money out of it as well.

Having comfortably bagged her first item,

Sarah now has to turn sat-on into saleable,

and she has just the person in mind to do it.

Chinelo Bally has been turning heads

since reaching the final of The Great British Sewing Bee.

Huge congratulations.

Her hand-cut couture pieces have caught

the attention of the fashion world.

And now she has a long list of celebrity clients.

I've always loved fashion.

I think it comes from my background, actually, because my mum is

very, very stylish, the women in my family are very stylish.

I have always been surrounded by very unique items of clothing.

One of the things that encouraged me

the most to start making for other people was because

when I wore my garments, people always stopped me, saying,

"Oh, I really like this. Where did you get it from?"

and they found out I had made it myself.

Very early on, I would get people saying,

"Oh, can you make one for me?"

I really do look for the beauty in anything.

Chinelo may look for the beauty in everything, but she may

struggle to find it in the load of old leather Sarah is dropping off.

So, it's one item down, two to go,

and while Sarah was busy with Chris's sofa, she has missed an absolute gem.

It's really annoying that that is in there and that's...

You know, it's nice old wood.

Just to be clear, once something hits the tip, it is out of bounds.

-Can I just go in and get it?

-No, Sarah, you can't.

But if you're quick enough,

you might be interested in what Derek has in his boot.

Hi, there. I'm really sorry to bother you while I know you're busy

but I'm just wondering what you're dropping off.

Just a bit of steel and aluminium and so on.

-Was it a greenhouse or something?

-Yes, it was my greenhouse.

We are looking for things that we may be able to make into other

stuff and these look really interesting.

-Would it be OK to have a better look at them outside?

-Yeah, of course.

-No problems with you taking that.

-Brilliant, thank you.

I know they are rusty and beaten-up and stuff but they are just the kind

of thing that we might be able to marry them up with something.

-Take them.

-Really? That's fab.

-Where would you like me to put them?

Just over here in front of the scrap metal would be lovely, thank you.

Sarah has acquired some angle iron, which is

kind of like a giant Meccano set for grown-ups.

Brilliant, thank you so much for all your time. Thank you, bye-bye.

But can she reassemble it into something that can turn a profit?

What does Derek think she will do?

I'm assuming she is going to make a shelving unit of some sort

to use in a garage or shed. It's all in one piece.

As long as she is handy with a paintbrush...

Anything like this that is modular, so it comes apart and you can

screw it together, it's really easy to work with even if you're just

an amateur, so although it is in a bit of a state at the moment,

I think it has got real potential

if we were to give it a really good clean down.

If you keep polishing it up enough,

it's the kind of thing you can put in your house.

Not in MY house!

And it's not going to be much good on its own.

Do you think you can find some old wood or something?

Oh, you already have.

It's probably all here.

It is a junk jigsaw.

There we go, back to being pretty much a whole door now.

What do you reckon? Your next dining room table, sir?

Well, I don't fancy eating MY dinner off it.

And if she plans to stick it together with the angle iron

and make something out of it, she's going to need some help.

Rupert Blanchard is one of the most imaginative

bespoke furniture makers,

searching the country for undervalued materials

to rework into contemporary designs.

I work mostly with reclaimed, salvaged and abandoned materials.

Basically other people's waste, I find some kind of beauty in it

and spend a lot of time, give rubbish a lot of attention,

to try and bring it back into use.

I like giving things a second, a third, a fourth chance.

Rupert has been making furniture for over ten years

and in that time has developed a thing for drawers.

Oh, look at that drawer! Look at that.

What a beautiful drawer.

Rupert is no stranger to unused materials,

but that door might be past saving.

With two items found for Sarah's marvellous makers...

-Would it be all right just to have a quick rifle through?

-Of course.

..the hunt is on for something that will be

Sarah's own moneymaking mission.

They are really cute.

There are 200 cars an hour coming through here.

I have got to be able to find something.

And Peter and Michael's trailer of trash may contain just what

she has been looking for.

What brings it here today?

Well, your in-laws are moving out, aren't they?

This is our rubbish, we're just throwing in everything.

-Where has it been? In the shed or the garage or...?

-Just in the shed.

I don't know what that is, that's quite cool. Oh, Rizlas.

So you're not tempted to drink the very special anniversary ale

-from 1984?

-No.

-No? I can see that might have limited appeal.

-I'm more of a Fosters man.

-Really?

Great. So far, fags and booze.

Get a move on, Sarah!

Oh, look.

Is it just me or does that...?

There's something cool about that, isn't there?

It's just you, Sarah.

Maybe... I wonder if you could use those in lighting or something?

Just the fact that there are so many different colours in there.

I feel really bad about putting those into the tip.

I'm not quite sure why but they have got a certain appeal.

Yes, to golfers.

Wait, what's this?

Peter has got another bit of treasure for you, Sarah.

But how could it possibly beat those golf tees?

Do you know what it is?

-I haven't got a clue.

-I think that it is...

See how it has got an angle like that on it?

It's a writing slope. So when people wrote letters,

it went like that so that it was like a mini desk.

And so there you have got the bit where your pen went.

Oh, look, isn't that clever, where it opens up?

Down here you have got the key that goes with it.

Would it be something we might be able to have a look at?

-Yeah, no problem.

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Brilliant, thank you ever so much.

-Thank you.

Now, that's more like it.

I'm sure you can make a few bob selling it as it is.

Everybody used to have things like this

because everybody wrote letters, and we just don't do it any more.

Here there is a very faint line. This would have been beautiful gold

inlay onto the velvet, so that would have been pretty.

So that is a joyful little piece of history there.

This type of writing slope, or lap desk,

first appeared in the 18th century

and became a stylish accessory for the travelling gentleman.

Today, the market for these is buoyant

and Sarah could well raise some surprise cash for Michael and Peter.

I love this box. It is really sweet

and it is the oldest thing that we have found today.

It has got some lovely details on it

and I am hoping that it is going to be really quite valuable,

and that means that all of the money we get from selling it can go

to that great guy who dropped it off earlier.

So that has got to be a good thing, hasn't it?

And with that, today's list is complete.

Chinelo will lavish love on Chris's leather,

Rupert will tackle Derek's rusty frame and that dissected door

and Sarah...

Oh, no, she's not taking the golf tees as well, is she?

Oh, well, double the potential profit, I suppose.

I have cherry-picked my way through loads of rubbish here today

and I have picked three potential things

that I think will make heaps of money.

Canning Town, East London.

Amongst its old industrial past

and its current regeneration lies the home of high fashion.

Well, you wouldn't think it from the outside.

Designer Chinelo Bally will have Sarah at her door any minute

with the beaten-down chair.

I have a feeling she is not going to be happy

when she sees what it is made out of.

I love beautiful fabric.

Anything that is beautiful, anything that is glamourous-looking, I love.

If I was going to say anything's out of my comfort zone,

it would probably be leather,

because you wouldn't usually think of leather and think, "Elegant."

Oh, dear. Good luck, Chinelo!

-Hello, Chinelo?

-What have you got for me?

OK, these are the cushions off a chair and I have got

-a footstool that goes with it.

-Oh, wow.

I'm going to need to sit down here.

So, I'm hoping that between this

and this we have actually got heaps of this fabric.

-There is loads of it, definitely.

-I actually wondered if it was nicer...

I actually really like the inside but I think as well

we can use both because look, that looks lovely against each other.

Wow, that's really cool.

-I had a few ideas.

-OK.

-But...

-I want to hear your ideas this time because I have no idea.

When I was looking at this, I kept on thinking about maybe

-having some sort of cape or some sort of loosely-fitted garment.

-Yes.

How about a blazer-cape, you know?

Those blazers that have the capes attached to them.

So they don't have a sleeve -

it will be the cape instead of the sleeve.

Come on, Sarah. You know, those blazer-capes that you see

everyone wearing all over the place(!)

How does it style, the blazer-cape?

It is basically a blazer like yours, but it would have a cape.

Fascinating!

A blazer-cape...

How much money does it cost to produce a blazer-cape?

Stop saying blazer-cape!

-Could be looking at about £250-£300.

-OK.

-Do you think that would mean we would make a profit?

-Definitely.

I think so, because this is real leather and it is a handmade jacket.

You should be looking at about £400 for it.

OK, well, I think that sounds great.

I think it leaves me a bit of room to surprise

the guys who dropped it off. Shall I leave it with you?

-Yes, I'm going to kick you out now so I can get on with work.

-OK.

-Don't work too hard.

-OK, bye.

-Bye!

And so, blazer-cape.

This is sort of out of my comfort zone but I think it will be good.

I think it will be a challenge - a good challenge, however.

Armchair footstool becomes blazer-cape.

It's not a obvious choice of garment

but only Chinelo would think of something like that.

Secretly, I hope it fits me.

So do I.

So, it will be £300 to produce the garment and all Sarah has to do

is find a superhero looking for formal wear and she's sorted.

Sunny Margate on the south-east coast.

Once a Mecca for British holiday-makers, now it's a place

where vintage is an advantage and reclamation is the order of the day.

One man leading the way is our Rupert...

..and Carlos the cat.

Sarah is about to set him the challenge of making something

out of the angle iron and the old barn door.

-Rupert, hi.

-Hey, Sarah.

-How are you?

-Back again?

-I have got a few things. OK, don't look.

Can you bustle off somewhere and I'll bring it in

and then you can see it?

Because I don't want you to get put off.

Sarah thinks if she can make it look presentable then Rupert might

just see its potential.

It's all coming together. It's going to be fine.

Sarah has brought some weird things to me before so this time,

who knows what could be?

Looks good, doesn't it? Really inspiring.

Doesn't look like a load of old junk.

I'm not exactly sure who Sarah is trying to convince

but either way, Rupert is getting concerned.

Sarah, are you all right?

Yeah, it's coming together. I hope it's going to be worth it.

I can't quite imagine what you are doing yet.

There is a lot of crashing and banging coming from out there.

Make it look better.

Rupert?

It's like all my birthdays and Christmases come at once(!)

There was something about it.

-It has been hacked into, it's been cut up...

-OK.

..but I just love the fact...

-The wear on it, you can't make it look like that.

-What is it?

-A toilet door, a barn door?

-Barn door, I'm thinking.

-And then this - angle iron?

-Yeah. Brilliant, isn't it?

I love angle iron, I love it. It is so flexible, first of all,

and it's something that you don't really see now in a home.

Everyone used to make their, you know, bench in their shed,

their shelving in the garage out of this stuff.

So, the angle iron is a hit, but the old barn door has some issues.

Quite a lot of, uh...

A lot of dry rot there, so it can be complicated to work with.

I don't know if you have noticed, but actually,

-it has been cut in half.

-Oh, OK.

So it is not quite as intact.

Yeah, that is why I was piecing it together, so it wasn't...

-That's a surprise. It's a jigsaw puzzle.

-Yeah.

I did have some thoughts that maybe this was kind of cut up into parquet

to make an amazing tabletop and these were framing it in some way.

-A table I see as the easy option for me.

-Yeah.

A sideboard would be a more challenging option for me

cos there's only two materials here,

so to stretch them far enough to actually make a piece of furniture

that you will sit in front of and stare at every day,

it would be quite a challenge.

Rupert is never one to shy away from a challenge.

But how much is it going to cost?

I have got a couple of days' work on this.

I would like to really go to town on this piece.

So, we are looking at 400 or so quid?

I think that's about right.

I have left Rupert in there piecing together that jigsaw and trying

to make a sideboard out of the door and that old angle iron.

I think he has got his work cut out but he is so enthusiastic about it.

I think there is potential for real profit from this piece.

To make a sideboard out of all that rubbish will cost you around £400

so Sarah will be aiming high in the sale of this one.

With the worn leather

and the deconstructed door being dealt with by the designers,

it's time for Sarah to generate some cash of her own.

And back at her barn,

she is hoping the antique writing slope will do just that.

I was really pleased to save this the other day.

I love the fact that we found something that was really old

and it is a charming piece.

It has got sweet little things like its own key still with it,

so to think it was going to be thrown away,

I'm really pleased that I rescued it.

It's not in great condition and that makes me

worry about how much it is actually going to be worth.

There are big chips off the veneer all round here

and I think it has had some restoration on it.

In here, in the hinges, you can see how they have been nailed

back in rather than screwed and they are not the original ones.

This isn't going to be worth a fortune,

but I don't think it should get thrown away

and I know that because of the details on the front of it,

the fact it has got the key and the lock,

a lovely shield on the front and the escutcheon here,

people might even buy it just to be able to re-use those

to restore something else.

I think the best thing I can do with it is to polish it up

and make it look prettier

and then take some lovely pictures of it so that you can see all

the details so that it has lots of appeal to lots of different people.

When polishing up old veneer like this,

it is best to avoid harsh chemicals.

A thorough rub with a dry cloth will do the job.

This is my very naughty puppy. Come here!

It never does what it is told, do you?

And the mere mention of a rub has brought Bramble in.

I think it is looking better.

I am not an expert on wood,

I am just wondering if that is a mahogany veneer,

or maybe walnut.

Oh, wow, that looks really good on there.

Sarah is planning to sell the piece online to the highest bidder.

I am going to take photographs from every angle of it

and the detail and the damage it has got

so that whoever buys it has got the whole picture.

Well, maybe, looking at the state of it, less is more?

SHE WHISTLES

Come here!

A quick look online to compare prices and things are looking promising.

This one is similar and it is £44.50 but I'd say that's got

a slightly Art Deco-y, sort of '40s-y, maybe, feel to it,

so I think that one is newer than our one.

Victorian writing slope.

Right, there it is. It's listed.

Let's hope it makes £30. Maybe, on a good day, £40. Fingers crossed.

All we can do now is wait and see if it makes any money.

Let the bidding begin.

Sarah has not spent a penny on the writing slope,

so any money made from it is truly profit.

Back in east London, it is blazer-cape time,

and you know, I'm coming round to the idea.

It's a blazer and it's a cape.

Come on, I want one!

So, Chinelo, where do we begin? MUSIC ON SOUNDTRACK

I decided to dump the blazer-cape idea this morning.

RECORD SCRATCHES TO A HALT No! Why?

Because I just woke up

and I thought, "How is this going to work?"

So I'm going to make a dress out of this,

so more of a shift style dress.

And also, I really wanted to put my own signature on this.

So the jacket thing is not really something I do.

Dresses, they're more my thing.

Oh, OK. I'll have to find my own blazer-cape, then.

But what is your idea for the dress?

OK, so, my initial idea...

..is to have this part here at the bottom

and then this would have made up, you know, the top half of the dress.

So, the dress is mainly in the leather

and this would be on the sleeve and that would be a neckline.

There.

Chinelo is planning on using wax print fabric for the sleeves,

a typical material for clothing in Africa.

And although this material is dark, they are more commonly vibrant,

colourful cotton prints which historically were used

as a non-verbal communication that could indicate status

or wealth among African women.

I'm just trying to straighten out all the edges

and just making my dress a little bit shorter than I want it to be.

With the chair and stool completely stripped,

Chinelo has all the materials she has to work with.

So, now it is just a matter of sewing it all together.

Because I want to use some of the original themes from the sofa,

I am going to keep some of those in place

and I'm using a contrasting thread that matches with the fabric

that I have decided to use for the sleeves.

I'm going to use that to create some seam details.

Chinelo is sewing the panels together using robust and hard-wearing thread.

Perfect for heavy leather stitching.

SEWING MACHINE SPUTTERS

Can you see that?

But there is a problem.

I don't know why it's doing that.

I need to work out why it's doing that.

The leather panels keep slipping away from each other.

It's moving, so I'm not sure whether it's too worn or if

there's some kind of waxing on it

that's making it slide along each other.

See? It jumps down as you try to sew it.

Even though I start with the needle inside of it,

so it shouldn't do that at all,

it still jumps.

This could potentially be it for the sofa dress.

If it's not going to sew, what am I going to do with it?

The more worn sections seem impossible to sew together,

and considering most of it is well-worn, Chinelo might not have

enough material to make a wallet, never mind a dress.

Because it's not like it's not sewing it,

it sews it in bits and then it just gathers it up at the bottom.

And it was doing the same thing on that machine, so I moved over here.

What are we going to do now?

I'm not sure we'll be able to do this one.

Is this the end of the road for Chinelo's dress?

Let's give her a chance to think.

Meanwhile, over in sunny Margate, let's hope that Rupert is

having more luck with the angle iron and the old barn door.

I know that I am going to make a sideboard out of all these pieces,

only I don't want this to be a sort of typical shabby chic piece,

I want this to be really quite polished.

It is just going to be a bit of a labour of love

to make it a high-quality finish.

Rupert is planning on leaving the chip paint effect on the wood

as a feature, which doesn't sound like a quality finish to me.

But what do I know?

I don't know what I'm making.

I've got to strip it down and prepare the materials.

The nuts and bolts holding it together have fused shut with rust...

I'm just going to cut these off.

..but Rupert can cut them off with his cut-off tool -

that is what it's actually called.

Just use a hammer because these will still be quite hot.

Once the door is taken apart...

A few more screws.

..you can get an idea of how much usable wood he has to work with.

But it's all looking a bit crumbly.

And it's not looking good.

This is a good representation of the door

overall in that it is just crumbling.

It's got a lot of normal rot and a lot of dry rot.

Ideally, any carpenter making a cabinet

doesn't start with rotten wood.

Now on this table is everything that's really usable.

I've got it down from what was a pile of rubbish

to an organised pile of rubbish.

I suppose that's some progress.

There is still a good 60% of this door that we can re-use.

With just enough wood to construct a sideboard,

Rupert gets to work sawing the usable pieces into planks

to match his very intricate blueprint on the floor.

Next comes the angle iron which will form the structure of the cabinet.

Angle iron became very popular amongst do-it-yourselfers.

With its easy-to-assemble design, it was possible for almost anyone

to build anything from shelving units to greenhouses.

The more we put together,

the closer I am getting to working out what this needs to become.

Rupert is on a roll...

..and looks to have this finished in no time.

But wait a minute...

That's one short and two wide, that's one short...

HE GASPS

Where are the other pieces of wood? I've miscalculated it.

Uh-oh. With such little door to work with, that doesn't sound good.

Oh, this is nuts!

This is the problem with having a warehouse full of rubbish,

that I often lose a piece of wood that I'd just cut.

Good luck finding it in there, Rupert.

Maybe Sarah will be happy with half a sideboard.

Back in Sussex, Sarah's online auction of the writing slope

-is nearing an end.

-Exciting!

She was hoping for around £40, and, with a few seconds to go...

..it's sold!

Well, the writing slope has sold but it hasn't made great money.

It's made 15 quid, which is better than nothing,

because it was literally about to go into a skip.

So, if that has only made £15,

I want to make a bit more money than that to get back to Pete.

I think I'm going to have to take up the golf tee challenge.

Oh, no, I'd forgotten about them!

What should we do with them, then?

Don't ask me!

Art installation?

Looking at all the golf tees floating around in there,

maybe I could make a golf tee loo seat

so you sit down on it and it's...

It's a bit naff.

I'm certainly getting a whiff of something!

But I think I've got it now. It's going to be a tribal-style necklace.

Cool, hey?

Anything you say.

If I wrap this really cool red wire around and then...

It might make the golf tees look a little bit more attractive,

a bit more tribal.

Well, I suppose it's not bad for a last-ditch attempt to make money.

I'm going to make a few of them

and hope that I make some money that way.

But finding a buyer of tribal jewellery might be tough.

Back at the dump,

Sarah was rustling through Peter and Michael's box of old bits.

So, this is our rubbish - we're just throwing in everything.

Oh, look.

First came the golf tees...

There's something cool about that, isn't there?

..and then an antique writing slope.

Isn't that clever, where it opens up?

The writing slope underperformed online...

It hasn't made great money. It's made 15 quid.

..so, Sarah got to work on the tees and eventually...

..produced some multicoloured tribal-esque necklaces.

Sarah showcased them at her barn sale

and was optimistic the country living crowd would get behind them.

I'm putting them at a tenner each.

I've got some more to come out later and I think they look really cool.

But despite being a big talking point of the day, they remained unsold.

Sarah contacted Peter, whom the two items had been taken from,

to arrange to hand over the £15 from the sale of the writing desk.

But alas, without success.

Peter has been very busy

so I haven't managed to catch up with him.

But I have got £15 here that I am going to send off to him

and I hope he's going to have a drink on us.

So, it's been a disappointing turnout for the boys.

But still, 15 quid for what was rubbish is still better than

a kick in the...golf balls.

Back in south-east London, when we last saw Chinelo,

her head was in her hands and the leather was in a heap on the floor.

Her sewing machine had met its match and now Sarah is on her way to see...

something, I hope.

So, this is the kind of transformation that really

stretches my imagination.

I had dropped off a chair and a footstool

and I'm coming to pick up a dress.

Well, you're in luck.

With the help of a specialist leather sewing foot -

don't ask -

Chinelo has taken the bum-battered sofa

and transformed it into an amazing bodice.

I'm still a bit disappointed about the blazer-cape, though.

Chinelo used a wax-print fabric to create the skirt and sleeves...

..and a beaded detail lines the plunging neckline.

Wow, I hope Sarah doesn't want to try it on!

-Hello.

-Hello.

Ah, that must be it!

-How are you?

-I'm fine, how are you?

-Really well.

-What were you expecting?

I wasn't expecting beading, or detail like this.

And I was thinking suede because of the back of it.

Yeah, I was going to, but all of the back pieces were so different

and there was nothing uniform, so I thought...

I don't think that's a problem - it looks amazing.

I love the way that you have got the darts in here.

Yeah, I thought less carry on with the whole leather feel of things.

You know, because usually it's so many panels put together

and they just do all the outside stitching decoratively,

so I've done that as well.

It's got your signature sassiness about it, hasn't it?

Because this is quite revealing, isn't it?

Would you like to try it on?

No, I can't try it on. What, seriously?

-If you would like to.

-Go on, then, I'd be happy to give it a go.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Look away!

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Sarah, there are kids watching.

I think I'll keep this on, yeah?

Thank goodness!

Are you stuck, Sarah? Help her out, Chinelo!

It actually does look nice on you.

Someone please stop her!

-There you go.

-Brilliant. That is amazing.

Thank you so much. I'll keep in touch and tell you how it goes.

All right, thank you.

Let us know how she goes.

I thought it was so cool that Sarah tried the dress on but I think

what she really needs is some high heels and a night out.

Yeah.

Back at the dump, Sarah saw potential in Chris's faded leather.

If I can get this leather off here...

It's beautiful, it's really soft.

More bums have been on that one.

The bum-bashing didn't bother Sarah, but Chris was sceptical.

Considering that, you know, this settee is about ten, 12 years

of age, I think she'll struggle to do anything with it, really.

Luckily, Chris was proved wrong.

With the expert eye of Chinelo,

it was transformed into something spectacular.

Sarah has been working her socks off to find a buyer

but with this bespoke piece made to measure no-one in particular,

Sarah has been unsuccessful in finding someone it will fit.

Sarah travelled back to Stockport to tell Chris the bad news.

But you never know, it might fit him.

-Hello, hi.

-How are you doing?

-Nice to see you again.

-Hello.

-Your sofa has been to the most fabulous dress designer.

-OK.

She is called Chinelo Bally and she is a freestyle cutter of fabrics

and this is what has become of your chair and your...

Wow.

-Very, very different.

-Isn't it different?

-Extremely different.

I do recognise the leather, but that would be it.

So, our brief to her was do what you like.

We had a few different ideas about maybe

she would make it into a cape a blazer or something like that

but in the end, she has made a really striking dress from it.

So, what do you think?

-Well...

-It's not your size, is it?

Erm, it is definitely not my cup of tea, as in wearing-wise,

but I can see that it looks good quality.

It is really different, so, yeah, it is definitely not a settee any more.

At this stage, what I would really like to be saying was

I have made your chair into a dress and I've sold your dress

and bring you some money, but I haven't had time to sell it yet.

So what I would like to do, if it's all right,

is hang on to your dress and try and sell it for you

at a profit and then be in touch with some money at a later date.

OK.

Chinelo's work cost £250 to create the dress,

but as yet, it has unfortunately failed to sell,

which means Chris will have to wait a little bit longer

before he receives any profit.

Well, it was great to be able to show Chris the dress that

Chinelo actually made

but I wish I had been able to turn up with some money for nothing.

Hopefully, I will be in touch soon

and have something to share with him.

I didn't know what she was going to make but a dress would have been

definitely the last on the list, let's just say.

So, yeah, definitely wasn't the case that

I was thinking she's going to make a dress out of it at all.

So, with the majority of items remaining unsold so far,

Sarah will have high hopes for today's final find,

Rupert's sideboard, which he is putting finishing touches to now.

That is, if he has found that extra wood.

So, what do you get if you drop off a load of old metal

and a broken door?

I'm hoping for one of Rupert's signature sideboards

and something that looks fantastic.

Before, it was a rotten and rusty pile of wood and metal.

Now, it's a super sideboard oozing with charm.

Maintaining the flaked paint effect,

it is bang on trend...amongst folk who like that kind of thing.

The body is made up of one cupboard for storage

and shelves for feature ornaments or electronic equipment.

He even kept the door's original handle.

It won't fit in everyone's house but you have to admit it,

it is a astounding achievement from Rupert. Good show, young man!

Sarah is going to love it.

-Hi, Rupert!

-Hey, Sarah. Welcome back.

Lovely to see you. Is that it?

That is it.

Wow. What have you been up to?

Here it is. It was definitely a fun one.

It has been quite a bit of work to turn a pile of rotten painted wood

and a bit of old scrap metal into something usable,

into a new sideboard cabinet for your home.

I did say I was going to retain some of the paintwork.

I have retained nearly all of the paintwork, I'm afraid.

That was my favourite bit.

I absolutely loved all of that distress and that kind of thing.

I think it's charming. It's not too big, it's...

It's beautiful. I absolutely love it.

I tried not to make it too specific to one room.

Hopefully it is a multiuse sort of piece of furniture.

-Can I look inside that cupboard?

-Yeah, please do.

Oh, it's green! Fantastic.

So, I couldn't tell - did you like it or not, Sarah?

I think it's a hit.

And coming in on budget at £400 means there is

room for a bit of money to be made.

I'm just so pleased you like it.

-I'll go and get the van, then.

-Yeah, thank you.

I have to get over £500 for this little beauty.

Back at the dump, Sarah ambushed Derek for his angle iron.

-Yeah, it was my greenhouse.

-Fantastic.

Derek had confidence in Sarah's abilities...

It's all in one piece. As long as she is handy with a paintbrush...

..but it was missing something to tie it all together.

And then she found it two minutes later.

Your next dining room table, sir?

She wasn't far off.

Thanks to Rupert, it was transformed into a bespoke sideboard.

Sarah has invited one of the country's leading retro

furniture dealers to see if he's interested.

And, it turned out, he's a big fan of Rupert's.

I love this and I love his work.

With a fish on the hook, Sarah tried to reel him in with some big figures.

Probably in order to see profit, I need to sell this for £550.

It's tight. That figure was a bit too big but with a bit of negotiation...

I would really like to have it.

..they came to an agreement.

Sarah is back in Stockport to show Derek what was made

of his old greenhouse and hand over the cash.

-Hi, there, how are you doing?

-Not bad. Yourself?

-Yeah, very well.

-Good to see you.

-Yes, and you.

Any ideas what we might have done with your frames?

I can't think of anything except the same it was before,

a shelving unit of some sort or maybe an art display unit.

Yeah, well, actually, they were turned into a sideboard

-and I've got some pictures to show you.

-OK.

-Hopefully you can see where your frames are.

-Oh, wow.

They got rid of all the rust and everything is well,

-it looks brilliant.

-Do you think?

-Yeah, it looks really good, wow!

I never thought it would amount to anything.

-You approve of what we did with it?

-Yeah, it looks really good.

Did you manage to find a good home for it?

Yeah, a good home and actually managed to sell it at a profit.

-Oh, wow.

-So I'm here tonight to give you £100 profit

from your frames to spend on whatever you like.

Thanks very much. Perfect. I wasn't expecting that.

Any ideas what you might do with £100?

Well, I wasn't expecting any money on the back of it

so I'll donate it to charity.

We have a local animal shelter charity around the corner

that's always in need of something, so...

That sounds like a great idea, and somebody has gone on to have

a lovely piece of furniture made out of the materials you

dropped off, so I think it sounds like it was all good.

-Get some good use out of it.

-Yeah, lovely.

Well, really lovely to catch up with you and an absolute pleasure.

Yeah, lovely use of the money, that's great.

-Brilliant, thanks very much.

-Take care, thank you very much.

-Cheers.

So, Rupert charged £400 to transform the pile of old metal

and pieces of door into a sideboard

but the sale of £500 made a profit for Derek over £100.

I wasn't expecting anything in the slightest -

half of what she made if anything at all.

But, no, it has come out looking really good.

I love the fact that Derek has chosen an animal charity to

give the money to. We've got a little fan down here.

I'm going to go home and tell Bramble that there is £100

going to a really good cause.

Sarah salvaged three unwanted items from the Bredbury Recycling Centre.

Chris's old leather sofa turned into a beautiful bodice dress,

Derek's ancient angle iron transformed into a super sideboard

and the writing slope and golf tees have been given a new lease of life.

Two out of three items sold for a profit

and a lot of fun had along the way.

Next time, we could be making something from an item YOU no longer love.

See you at the tip.

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