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Nick Knowles and team head to Halifax to help a family whose eight-year-old son Josh is paralysed and can only access two rooms in the house. The family home needs a major overhaul and as usual the DIY SOS Team helped by an army of local trades men and women have just nine days to pull it off.
Paul Making's wife died shortly after she gave birth to their sixth child. He has been valiantly holding the family together while they grieve but is up against it- he lives in a two bedroom house he had started to extend and has been forced to sleep on the sofa.
Nick Knowles, the DIY SOS team and over 100 local builders taken on their biggest home build ever to help this family rebuild their lives. If that wasn't enough, they have to battle against a blizzard to get the job done in nine days.
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Rebecca and Steve's life was turned upside down when they conceived triplets. Two years on, the gruelling pace of everyday life, coupled with a small, damp and dilapidated house, is causing Rebecca to become depressed. The house is unsafe and unsuitable for this young family; Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team galvanise the local trades and community to step in and give them a home fit for this family in just nine days.
Eight-year-old Dakota was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and has a life expectancy of just 15 years. She desperately needs changes to her home to give her increased mobility which, in turn, will increase her life expectancy. Nick and the DIY SOS team and an army of local trades brave sub-zero temperatures to rebuild her home in just nine days.
Michelle and Rod's six-year-old daughter Maddie has a rare brain disease which has left her struggling to walk and talk. The Malones have spent the last two years adapting their home so that it works for Maddie's condition but unforeseen problems with the build have left them living in just a couple of rooms in a house that is unsafe. Nick and the boys are joined by flamboyant designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and an army of local trades who come together to finish off the house.
