0:00:15 > 0:00:18A few years ago I was lucky enough to be able to buy 70 acres of land
0:00:18 > 0:00:19just over there.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23With that land came a farmhouse.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26A semi-derelict wreck,
0:00:26 > 0:00:28which we completely restored.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Now we've moved on to two other buildings;
0:00:32 > 0:00:34A 200-year-old water mill
0:00:34 > 0:00:37and, next to it, what used to be the miller's cottage.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43It's time for Pembrokeshire Farm Phase Two.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58I'm sitting in the car park outside the council offices,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03waiting to hear the news of the planning application.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05The planning committee is meeting.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08George is with them. He's making his presentation.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10And I'm sitting in the car waiting
0:01:10 > 0:01:15cos I've been advised that it's not a good idea for me to turn up,
0:01:15 > 0:01:19sit in the public arena and sort of glower down the judges.
0:01:20 > 0:01:23We're applying for planning permission
0:01:23 > 0:01:25to convert the old water mill into a dwelling.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29I've given the job of designing it to my son George,
0:01:29 > 0:01:31who is training to be an architect.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36There is a lot riding on this, really.
0:01:37 > 0:01:43It would be quite disruptive to have to start over again.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50Rebuilding the mill has been a frustratingly stop-start business.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54Before we got planning permission, we replaced the old roof
0:01:54 > 0:01:55like for like.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59It was a pure maintenance job, because it had become dangerous.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02With new slates which were then covered with a limestone render
0:02:02 > 0:02:05in the traditional Pembrokeshire style.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09Meanwhile George presented a carefully thought-through design
0:02:09 > 0:02:10for its re-use,
0:02:10 > 0:02:15including an extension which he'd like to clad in bronze.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19The planners and conservation officers liked the ideas,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21but there were a couple of objections.
0:02:21 > 0:02:23Perhaps the bronze seemed a bit much.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26We're going to have to go to the planning committee.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29I get three minutes to sell the scheme.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33This meant that it had to go to consideration at higher level.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36George went to hear the verdict.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39We've had a bit of a disaster.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42It was something else causing problems now.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44When we replaced the roof the building had gained
0:02:44 > 0:02:46a few inches in height.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48This needed to be resolved first.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52We've asked them to put the application on hold for a few days
0:02:52 > 0:02:55and do a detailed measurement survey of the building
0:02:55 > 0:02:57to get to the bottom of the issue.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Eventually it was accepted that the mill only increased in height
0:03:03 > 0:03:06because we had to install larger structural beams
0:03:06 > 0:03:09to meet modern building regulations.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Now, at last, we can move on to consider the design.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18This brings us back to the car park and George having to re-submit ideas.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21What was the verdict?
0:03:28 > 0:03:29- Good news! - Good news?
0:03:29 > 0:03:34Good news. They approved it. In fact, they unanimously approved it.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37They thought the principle of the modern design was good.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39They liked the lightweight approach.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42They thought the roof wasn't a problem
0:03:43 > 0:03:47and they thought the bronze cladding was very good and interesting.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49- Yeah, all very good. - Congratulations!
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Well done! Well done! - What a relief!
0:03:59 > 0:04:02Finally, it's all go at the mill.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06The first job is to dig up a nasty cement floor
0:04:06 > 0:04:08to make room for underfloor heating.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11No radiators allowed.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16With 20 tonnes of rubble to shift,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19they have an ancient Egyptian system going.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Brian is a slave-driver!
0:04:22 > 0:04:24We have to work to his pace!
0:04:28 > 0:04:32As a working mill, it would have had an upper floor to store grain on.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36George has recreated this with his design for a crog loft.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43The rest he's keen to keep as an open space.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49If you're looking at a family home, there's a real advantage
0:04:49 > 0:04:55in subdividing your rooms and giving people their own space.
0:04:56 > 0:05:01In this context, there's less of a need to break things up in that way.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05It loses a little bit of privacy
0:05:05 > 0:05:09but having the spectacular space was the more important thing.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14When families stay here, the crog loft will be a sleeping area for kids
0:05:15 > 0:05:18but the adults will sleep in the bronze-clad extension,
0:05:18 > 0:05:20which we're building from scratch.
0:05:20 > 0:05:24Local stone is at a premium. Nothing is wasted.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I'm just picking these stones out.
0:05:28 > 0:05:33They're all to be re-used when we build our extension.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36I'm just picking out the good stuff.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41And anything not used in the extension is recycled.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45We needed a path to come across the bridge there
0:05:45 > 0:05:48to where the reed bed is, through the trees there.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Colin, the landscape gardener, came through and cut it all back.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56So we've got a good path here but it's boggy underfoot.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00So we're taking cement and concrete that's come out of the mill
0:06:00 > 0:06:03and we're laying that down as a bed.
0:06:03 > 0:06:08Then we're putting scalpings over the top to give us a solid surface
0:06:08 > 0:06:12for people to walk down and enjoy this fantastic view.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22There are existing public footpaths which cross the farm
0:06:22 > 0:06:24and which we've helped to open up.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28We're also creating a new nature trail.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31A footpath along the stream, which will be planted and managed
0:06:31 > 0:06:34to encourage native species.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37Colin Parkinson is in charge of this project.
0:06:41 > 0:06:48The pathway coming through here will be a nice stone wall pathway,
0:06:48 > 0:06:52following the array of stones that I've left,
0:06:52 > 0:06:58so I can pick and choose the ones required to rebuild the riverbank.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Ah, yes!
0:07:08 > 0:07:13Superb, you know? It just sat there like it wanted to.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Some rocks just belong.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19Hopefully I'll find enough flat stones
0:07:19 > 0:07:26that will be able to withstand a large slab of rock on top,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29which is what we call a clapper bridge.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Once we're across the river it's open land from there, I guess.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41You can't set foot in these fields and hills
0:07:41 > 0:07:47without disturbing magical stories of giants, fairies, monsters and heroes.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50Even the name of the farm has it's origins
0:07:50 > 0:07:53in the Welsh book of legends, The Mabinogion.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57So if Trehilyn means the place of Heilyn,
0:07:57 > 0:08:01does that mean someone called Heilyn actually lived here?
0:08:02 > 0:08:04I'm hoping Eifion Jenkins has the answer.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07What is the likelihood of this character
0:08:07 > 0:08:09having some form of existence?
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I think it's very likely he existed.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16I think these stories are about real people,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19real members of the aristocracy of the time.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21The heroes and the chiefs and so on.
0:08:21 > 0:08:25He would have been one of the seven survivors
0:08:25 > 0:08:29of a great battle in Ireland, who came back to Wales.
0:08:29 > 0:08:36And 'the place' of Heilyn? Does that mean we're in Heilyn's place?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38There's three possible answers to that.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41One is it may have been named after Heilyn,
0:08:41 > 0:08:45in the same way as Victoria Avenue and Victoria Place are named after
0:08:45 > 0:08:48a Queen who never set foot in them.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Maybe a parent named their son after Heilyn the hero,
0:08:51 > 0:08:55to celebrate his deeds and adventures,
0:08:55 > 0:09:00and it was that Heilyn who established this place.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Another possibility is that it was the actual Heilyn of the Mabinogi.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07Pembrokeshire played a very important part in that story
0:09:07 > 0:09:12and a lot of the events happened only a few miles from here.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16So it's perfectly possible that he may have come back here to settle
0:09:16 > 0:09:19and established this place himself. Who knows?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22Well, that is the one I like.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27Say you put your steel plate there?
0:09:27 > 0:09:31Back at the mill there's a more practical issue to address.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33How do we put in a second floor
0:09:33 > 0:09:35without cutting off all the light to the ground floor?
0:09:35 > 0:09:39George wants his traditional crog loft and I like the idea,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42but we still can't agree which end of the room it should go,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45or how high it should be.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49Here comes normal man.
0:09:51 > 0:09:52Normal height man, OK?
0:09:53 > 0:09:58Where above me now... Where does your ceiling start?
0:09:58 > 0:10:02You're slightly shorter than the height of an average man.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06But your ceiling starts kind of up here.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10Which isn't an enormous distance.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12You are a ridiculously gangly young man.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15I'm not! I'm a little under six foot in height!
0:10:15 > 0:10:17- Average height! - Where does...?
0:10:17 > 0:10:26Your floor level in here is going to be at about 2.4 meters. Around here.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29What's going into the gap between the ceiling and the floor?
0:10:29 > 0:10:34There's sufficient space in that crog loft to fit everything we want.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Quite comfortably. With that height.
0:10:40 > 0:10:41Far too low!
0:10:42 > 0:10:44- Higher? - It's a little bit higher.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47They'll go, "I can't believe it!"
0:10:47 > 0:10:49There's still plenty of room above me!
0:10:49 > 0:10:53I'm not going to bang my head, or even a giant head.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57It's lower than most mezzanine platforms in most mill buildings!
0:10:57 > 0:10:59It's uncomfortable because it's too high!
0:10:59 > 0:11:02It makes you feel like you're in a schoolroom.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04If that light had reflector board...
0:11:04 > 0:11:10Once it's constructed they'll realise that I was right all along!
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Oh, dear. Well, we shall see.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Meanwhile, there's one restoration project
0:11:18 > 0:11:20that's rather less contentious.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23That's the old showman's wagon Dave Yarwood,
0:11:23 > 0:11:25the master carpenter, is restoring.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28It's a gorgeous thing.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Originally built in the 1920s
0:11:30 > 0:11:33and patched up several times over the years.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Dave's job is to match the new build to the original.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46If I do my job properly the wagon should come back
0:11:46 > 0:11:48and look like it did when it was first made.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51And you shouldn't be able to see what I've had to repair.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Feel good factor. As long as it comes out good!
0:11:56 > 0:11:58All the bad timbers that were rotten
0:11:58 > 0:12:01have been removed, leaving what could be left.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04From now on it's basically putting the wagon together again.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08It's time-consuming, certainly. It's taking a while.
0:12:10 > 0:12:15I'm hoping the wagon will feature in another fantasy I'm entertaining.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18A Glastonbury in Pembrokeshire.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Griffstock.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23I want to raise some more money for a local project called Point.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Last year I helped out with a charity show
0:12:26 > 0:12:29and it contributed to their new drop-in centre.
0:12:29 > 0:12:33It's purely a drop-in centre where young people can feel free.
0:12:33 > 0:12:38They've got their own space. They can be with their friends.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Computers are here where they can do their coursework or homework.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47Today is the official opening of their own nicely-restored building.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52APPLAUSE
0:12:52 > 0:12:54Thank you. I want to say...
0:12:54 > 0:12:58All I want to say is that Ken has said everything that needs saying,
0:12:58 > 0:12:59so I don't need to say more.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03- I've had an idea... - Yeah?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06To hold a little pop festival at Trehilyn.
0:13:06 > 0:13:07Oh, now then!
0:13:07 > 0:13:11We could have a little festival then the profits could go to the Point.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14Oh! That would be brilliant!
0:13:14 > 0:13:17And I wonder whether some of the young people who work here,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20will be interested in helping and organising it?
0:13:20 > 0:13:21That's wonderful!
0:13:21 > 0:13:23You would ask some of your connections
0:13:23 > 0:13:25- in the pop world... - Uh, yes.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Because I'm really quite well connected with... The Wurzels...
0:13:29 > 0:13:32No, actually I don't know The Wurzels at all.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35But I know people who know people.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39We'll have a look into it and see whether it's a feasible thing to do.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44I'd like to hold my little festival in August.
0:13:44 > 0:13:45In the school holidays.
0:13:45 > 0:13:51I'd like to have the mill, cottage and the wagon finished by then.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54It will give us something I think we all need.
0:13:54 > 0:13:55A deadline.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00This is the first time I've been back to the farm for a few months.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02I can't wait to see how it looks.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Work on the mill has been stopping and starting.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08Things have been progressing quietly on the other part of the story,
0:14:08 > 0:14:10across the lane, at the cottage.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Here it's really starting to look finished.
0:14:14 > 0:14:19Blisteringly white. The whole thing looks like one of those things
0:14:19 > 0:14:22my mother used to put on her Christmas cake.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34All looking very nice. Beautiful floor.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40I think the staircase has been very well boxed-in and achieved.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44Nice little cupboard, here.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48This is all excellent.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56I notice that George has had these painted grey.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00I'm guessing that this isn't an undercoat.
0:15:00 > 0:15:07And I'm also stating that that's a typical would-be architect
0:15:07 > 0:15:12banal solution to painting wood. Painting it grey.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15It's just an architect's cop-out, really.
0:15:15 > 0:15:19It actually makes the place dull and these days we've moved on from that.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24It's a way of saying, "I'd rather do it in black and white than colour."
0:15:25 > 0:15:29It's another subtly different shade of grey.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Welcome to Grey Cottage.
0:15:37 > 0:15:43Feeling grey? Come and stay here and be grey with us!
0:15:45 > 0:15:48We've got a little bit of a problem cos I think the double bed...
0:15:50 > 0:15:52Da-y-ooo!
0:15:52 > 0:15:53OK.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58Ah. I've walked in the wet paint and ruined the paint.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59LAUGHTER
0:16:01 > 0:16:04It's amazing how difficult it is to tell where it's wet
0:16:04 > 0:16:05and where it's dry!
0:16:06 > 0:16:07It's only a pair of socks.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11Yes. And somebody's paint job.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14But we've never had any real problems with the cottage.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17George's plan followed the original footprint.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20The trouble is, now that everything's in situ,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22I can't help feeling that something is not quite right.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25It's a question of trying to make sure it's not...
0:16:25 > 0:16:30Whoever is staying in there needed an en suite bathroom.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Because they're going to have to walk out
0:16:33 > 0:16:36and go into that uncomfortable route through everybody else
0:16:36 > 0:16:39having their dinner, if they go to bed early.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Well, I would've put the kitchen there.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45And put the bedroom in there?
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Put the downstairs bedroom through where the kitchen is.
0:16:49 > 0:16:50Why didn't we do that, then?
0:16:51 > 0:16:54You'll have to ask the architect about that!
0:16:54 > 0:17:00Ye-es. No, that would... But...
0:17:02 > 0:17:07- It's still do-able! - Ye-es! Wait a minute...
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Well, was it the architect? Or was it his client?
0:17:13 > 0:17:17We built the extension so we could put in a modern kitchen and bathroom,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19But, in fact, it would give more privacy
0:17:19 > 0:17:22to have a bedroom next to that bathroom.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Yes, of course!
0:17:24 > 0:17:28This would be plenty big enough for a bedroom.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31So, while the architect's back is turned,
0:17:31 > 0:17:35the two old nuisances have started changing everything around.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38Can you see these little shapes under here?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Oh, yeah.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- And you hardly notice them at first. - No, just those little details.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47We need a dresser for the kitchen.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52- How much is... Let's see... - It's over three meters.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56It's bigger than the bedrooms upstairs!
0:17:56 > 0:17:59So in meters it's 1.75.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03That would fit quite nicely in our kitchen.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06This is quite a nice size bedroom, isn't it?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09And then you've got direct access from here,
0:18:09 > 0:18:11through here, into your little bathroom.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14You don't have to go through a living room.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19And then you would come through here, to the kitchen. Yeah?
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Is it outrageously more expensive? - It is a bit more expensive.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25I'll have to see if I can be persuasive.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29I'm over-ruling, possibly, what George has thought of now.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32I'll have to go through this with him very carefully.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36Over at the mill the team is getting ready to place the crog loft,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38the raised sleeping platform,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40into position.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48The main supporting beam is made of Douglas Fir.
0:18:49 > 0:18:54A dense, soft wood traditionally used in cottages and barns.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03This clever bracket is inserted inside the beam.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05It allows the weight of the platform
0:19:05 > 0:19:08to be evenly distributed throughout the wall.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16The new bronze-cladded extension has been designed
0:19:16 > 0:19:21to sit on a timber platform, above the remains of the old wheelhouse.
0:19:21 > 0:19:27Thus retaining the original ruins of the floor, intact, beneath.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34Want to get the beam out the door and back onto that standing.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Then the rope can be tied around it.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40That'll take a lot of weight off your shoulder, hopefully.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Fitting the crog loft involves considerable trial and error,
0:19:54 > 0:19:58because, like a lot of old buildings, nothing is straight or level.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03It needs to go about an inch.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Because nothing is actually square in the mill,
0:20:07 > 0:20:09nor any of the other buildings we're working on,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12we have to make it look right to the eye.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15Rather than just by the measurements or just by the level.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17So that's the aim.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20We've got about three inches to try and lose
0:20:20 > 0:20:24without it being jarring, visually.
0:20:24 > 0:20:25It's time to confront George
0:20:25 > 0:20:28with the proposed change of rooms in the cottage.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32I don't know what you've seen.
0:20:32 > 0:20:37I haven't seen it since before most of this was in, really.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40I'm not sure how this is going to go down.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46- The staircase is very good. - I've talked with Gill and...
0:20:46 > 0:20:47The shelves are yet to go on here.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52- Here's a thought... - But are you happy with that?
0:20:52 > 0:20:53Yeah, it's fine.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Now, we... Gill and I have had a long talk about this...
0:20:57 > 0:21:01And we've decided to do something quite radical.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Mmmm... Which would be?
0:21:06 > 0:21:12Which is... To put the bedroom in there...
0:21:13 > 0:21:16And the kitchen in there.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Well. Quite apart from the fact
0:21:19 > 0:21:24that that's a fairly impractical situation now
0:21:24 > 0:21:27cos everything is actually plumbed in in the kitchen.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Yes, but it's... You see...
0:21:30 > 0:21:34The plumbing for the kitchen runs very close to the outside...
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Let me explain before we go... It wasn't my idea!
0:21:39 > 0:21:43It was Gill who's been here and she said, "Why isn't this your bedroom?"
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Have you got enough space for all of these kitchen units in that room?
0:21:47 > 0:21:48Yes.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50- You've checked? - Yes.
0:21:51 > 0:21:52Oh, OK.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57We have to do a bit of jiggery-pokery to do it,
0:21:57 > 0:22:00but that will work on our side eventually.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Well, if you want.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05I'll acquiesce that one. I don't particularly dislike that idea.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Otherwise, how do you feel about what you've seen?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16I think it's all turning out alright.
0:22:16 > 0:22:21It's nice to see the first building I've designed coming together.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24It's nearly finished!
0:22:24 > 0:22:28- It looks lovely from the outside. - Are you coming round to the white?
0:22:28 > 0:22:31No, I like the white! It's quite nice.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35It's very prominent in the landscape, a completely white building.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Time to check the showman's wagon.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Dave has been building new wooden sections
0:23:00 > 0:23:03and painstakingly matching them with the original.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06This is great!
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Dave, this is all the new stuff, is it?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Yeah. This is it.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14First time you've seen it, isn't it?
0:23:14 > 0:23:16It's the first time I've seen the whole thing
0:23:16 > 0:23:18with the metal cladding off.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21It really looks the part, there.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24This is very skilful, here. Very skilful.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29'Cause we've got the old wood on top, and a marvellous piece of new wood
0:23:29 > 0:23:30just worked in there.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33That's lovely. Brilliantly done.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- How're we going to get in? - Through the door?
0:23:41 > 0:23:46The ambience of this place is actually 19... It's this finish.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- 40s? Something like that. - 40s or 50s.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52So what we need to do is go on the internet and look up...
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Rather than trying to clean those up...
0:23:55 > 0:23:58They're chrome and they've all gone...
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Is look for very similar fittings to these sort of ones.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04It seems a pity to even think about putting this in the open air.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07We could turn this into an attraction!
0:24:07 > 0:24:08"Come and see!"
0:24:08 > 0:24:10You should have your sign on it saying,
0:24:10 > 0:24:13"Griff Rhys Jones' Amazing Circus!"
0:24:13 > 0:24:14Exactly, yeah!
0:24:14 > 0:24:15HUMS TUNE
0:24:36 > 0:24:38Oh, hello!
0:24:38 > 0:24:41Hello. It's Paul and Victoria to see Kevin and Ellen, please.
0:24:41 > 0:24:46I've given the job of organising the festival, in aid of the Point,
0:24:46 > 0:24:47to my assistant Paul.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53It was originally going to be a huge rock festival I called Pembrock,
0:24:53 > 0:24:55which I thought was a good pun,
0:24:55 > 0:24:57but that sort of fell apart.
0:25:00 > 0:25:01So bring us up to speed.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05The background of it, how this could come about
0:25:05 > 0:25:07and most importantly, how we can help you.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11We've got a London playwright who's writing a bit of theatre for us.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15We'll get some actors to come and do that for us.
0:25:15 > 0:25:20And we'll get some local music and lots of food, drink and merriment.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Ideally, that's what we would do.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25What we'd like to do is go away, look at the proposal,
0:25:25 > 0:25:27and give to yourself what we could bring.
0:25:27 > 0:25:31This is a big venture. We do respect that, totally.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33And we'd love to get involved
0:25:33 > 0:25:35in some way, shape or form to help out.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38- I think it'll work out great! - Thanks for your time.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- We'll be in touch. - Pleasure's ours. Look forward to it.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44- Thank you all! - And now I can do it!
0:25:46 > 0:25:50At the moment the creeping sensation is there's a lot of things to do.
0:25:50 > 0:25:51And not a lot of time.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55I hope we can pull it off.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Another day, another problem.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I can't help noticing there's something going on with the lime.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03What's happening on the roof?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05It's not looking very pretty.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07No. Is it sort of coming off?
0:26:07 > 0:26:09It has been cracking.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12And even though we had a tin roof over there,
0:26:12 > 0:26:18the rain was being driven horizontally under the tin.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Then once the tin came off, it didn't stop raining.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26So you think that's a damp issue?
0:26:26 > 0:26:32It's because the lime hasn't had an opportunity to carbonate,
0:26:32 > 0:26:34because it hasn't been dry enough.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Over at the mill, it's the same sorry story.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41...to this sort of development happening here?
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Because what we've got here is even worse, is it?
0:26:46 > 0:26:48Yes. This is the same situation.
0:26:48 > 0:26:49But worse.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54Because this is a more north-easterly facing roof.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59So it didn't dry at all. And it's just coming off.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Does that mean the whole roof has to come off?
0:27:01 > 0:27:04No, not at all. Because putting the lime on is a contrivance
0:27:04 > 0:27:07to mimic the old grouted roof.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11So there's slate under there and it's completely watertight.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15So it's only taking off the top coat of lime and re-doing that.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17So we're just talking about something we've put on
0:27:17 > 0:27:20to authenticate it's elderly appearance?
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- It's that element that is failing? - Exactly.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25All we wanted to do is do the right thing.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27And once again by doing the right thing,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30we're right in the poo-poo, aren't we?
0:27:31 > 0:27:36We don't have any insurance to cover ourselves against this sort of thing?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40I don't know whether the site insurance would cover this.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42I really don't.
0:27:42 > 0:27:43Do you know what, Gill?
0:27:44 > 0:27:46I hate these roofs.
0:27:48 > 0:27:49Next week:
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Will we remain open to the elements?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55I think the windows will turn up beginning of July.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58- This is cutting it seriously fine. - Yeah.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03And facing up to problems with lime.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06We built a perfectly good slate roof,
0:28:06 > 0:28:10and now slapped three layers of lime which is refusing to take.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14So we now have to take the whole lot off and put it all back on again.
0:28:16 > 0:28:20And the environment is at the forefront of our thoughts again.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23It's pouring down!
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