Victorian School's Bold Restoration - The Restoration Man - S03 EP4 - Home Renovation

Britain thousands of historic buildings have been neglected thereon as struggling to restore them because of planning restrictions design problems or lack of money luckily some romantics do take on the challenge of converting and the storing these forgotten gems but it isn't for the faint-hearted it's up here and it's falling apart I think it can push you to the limit actually you can hear the sound of piggy banks smashing in the distance because we're raiding every penny we've got to finish this there are often churches mills and barns but also factories warehouses and industrial buildings that are often abandoned because they're so difficult for residential conversion these buildings have as much rich history and tell as many fascinating stories of animal past is any stately hall or medieval castle these are palaces of Industry and so it is such a privilege to live in one as an architect I relished the challenge that these unusual buildings give us when we're trying to create a place called Hall this time a couple of professional builders tried to forge themselves a new future in a ruined Victorian school anybody with any sense wouldn't buy it but when the money feels to materialize the true cost of what they've taken on its home we have to find a way of caring is done as if we don't so we lose everything [Music] I'm in Carmarthen show West Wales in the small village of Penn kada on a hill above the Main Street stands the orphanage school which has been abandoned since 1989 and is now completely derelict until in 2010 builders ian and jane holl edwards paid one hundred and seventy thousand pounds for this sprawling one acre site all of our friends our family without exception absolutely crazy mad crazy mad their plan is to turn it into a new home and a new business as a centre for teaching green and environmentally friendly building technologies as their existent building company had run into trouble when the recession hit a couple years ago now we were doing quite well before that and overnight we lost about 95% of all contracts laid off seventeen boys we made a decision that the way forward with the green technologies and an eco-friendly way for now Ian and Jane are living in a caravan on sites from where they've already started work on their restoration projects what I love about this building is the size of it the features the barge boards and all that the arches and just absolutely love the building itself you know why it was built bill hundred fifty years ago to sort of educate the locals and hopefully you know we can bring it back to life and do pretty much the same Ian and Jane were hoping to fund the restoration from a rural development grants but when that fell through Eden decided he would do most of the work himself and has raised the money they need bit by bit through of the building projects it's a risky move to go into a restoration without a budget in place this is a couple who are gonna need help every step of the way so it's an old school building what bits or which parts so I'm trying to get my head around it already because it seems to be a whole collection of stuff and we believe this will start with Ian corner yeah that's the old end masters out so that doesn't belong to us yeah an it was originally just this one piece and then as the population of pink a degree yeah they added another bid on so then this bit was added on yeah and then in an 1860s there was the prefab borromean right this is a technical block should go round have a look on a browser this complex of buildings that you've got here the whole school footprint has a total area of 5,500 square feet spread over five buildings it's arranged in an l-shape plan at one end is the Headmaster's house which doesn't belong to them but attached to it is the original Victorian Assembly Hall with two classrooms and a small 1960s extension the old technical block completes the site there's this put stain or is this coming down no I stay in this was the last part built on the school yeah I think it was originally built as an office and whereabouts as your house gonna be where you actually live this is the senior here who's gonna be the bedroom over the first floor yeah yeah and this has all been rebuilt from scratch down to the ground so that's new build that's my brand-new Frannie oh that's amazing everything that came out went back in the the barge boards were the original bars balls take them down and rub back and restored so far they've spent about 40,000 pounds of their hard-earned money which they've spent sparingly as it's all they have with this building near to collapse they've had to remove large sections of the structure before rebuilding they've salvaged as many materials as they can restoration can sometimes be a painful process I mean you stand here looking at this now you think oh my god and we still got this the come down yet so that's a lot lean through up to the meter yeah that [ __ ] gotta come down so you taking this down it was leaning and crack and I like straight flat things further new Street flat I mean I got Olivia the rest of my life and I want it right but I want it to look like it was originally built in 1878 pankaja school would have made quite an impression on the poor agricultural community that it was meant to serve many of whom lived in much humbler dwellings often with bare earth floors at the time gothic architecture was the approved style for school building which was considered grand enough to inspire pride in learning architects developed distinctive features such as tall ceilings to encourage healthy circulation of hair and large high windows to stop children from being distracted by what was going on outside when it opens pink-hatted school have places for 220 children and all lessons would have been taught in English despite the fact that everyone spoke Welsh at home in the old assembly hall you can still see traces of the fine building it once was even amongst the scene of total devastation you got a working means oh my god crikey look at that the dry rot was amazing in this floor but you've had to take the roof off for everything you take the walls down here as well thank God that one's coming down well you can see why crikey I'd come away from the roof as well it had come right out I'm just worried about how much you've got to do with the amount of money you've got because it's big there's a lot to do yeah and it's really to keep the cost down you've got to do a lot of work yourself and if we do get into more financial difficulty we can hand off we do have a boat we can sell it's been a challenge to keep older my bought so you only get one bought I think you must have cherish it yes I've seen obviously bad buildings well good buildings in a bad state but this is pretty part but when we bought this mind I said a lot of people it takes somebody like me will ask to buy something like this anybody with any sense wouldn't buy it so you've got to be hot otherwise you wouldn't bother but only the mad succeed [Music] every penny is gonna count on this restoration and one of the ways that Ian and Jane have saved money is by doing the drawings themselves instead of hiring an architect so basically there's kind of three sections to the building really teaching living an exhibition yes their main entrance leads into a small Lobby straight ahead as the classroom where students will learn about sustainable building practices and will see examples of the latest green technology there will also be a canteen and an office back through the lobby and you enter what was the old assembly hall which will be an exhibition space and a reception room a glass staircase leads up to their private living area consisting of an urban plan kitchen living room with a balcony and two bedrooms with a shared bathroom as well as displaying green technologies the entire building will be fitted out with many different energy saving solutions ranging from rainwater collection to air source heat systems so yours is a really efficient two-bedroom pad yes with the really nice living dining kitchen area and all the rest of this building is given over to the business more in the education I think the layout that you've got it's absolutely fine you want a very functional practical pragmatic piece of design and I think you've got it but it seems to work really well at this stage where you're out wouldn't generally mmm it's good look what Ian and Jen are trying to do here is absolutely fantastic reusing an old school building to create a center to learn about the retrofitting of all structures dragging them into the 21st century but when you look at the condition of the building just how bad it is you need to budget these can - just haven't got one I've got no idea how they're gonna do winter has come to West Wales where builders ian and jane holl edwards have embarked on a mammoth restoration project trying to turn a derelict victorian school into their new home and a center for teaching green building technologies they have no budget to speak of but luckily perfectionist ian is a highly skilled builder and happy to do most of the work himself helped by apprentices and trained builders who work for his building firm the weather has slowed things down a lot so they're temporary caravan could be their horn for some time to come it's been two months since I was last here and I'm keen to find out what progress they've made morning all systems go cold wet miserable miserable and the bills kind of slowed right down but it's almost stopped really we were doing work as well outside yeah so we had work to get on with yeah the Lud's busy yeah but not really crafted a little and then it's been so frustrating because you know you come on and you look at this sort of Caravan window and it's nothing got done you know and then they say God and I don't want to get going I want to do it they fed up living in the caravan and you know but then we made a decision ending me January February [ __ ] it off the guys are off of the project and the tricky thing with that you want to crack on put the lads on it you don't want to lose income and you pull on them off other projects that brings in the revenue and you've got to pay their wages at the same time but I don't tell him the real challenge with this restoration is that only once they started work did they discover that all but one of the exterior walls was unstable and would need to be rebuilt from scratch this looks really good I mean when you think you're up to I said were you around here somewhere just bit lower I think we had another sills on this is for other sills a beautiful night look at that yeah he Sam Smith that's a fantastic bit of sleep that's no Welsh this is all really noise and the bricks were what we took out we used a little yeah and so you stopped all this for the drainage yeah yeah that's to see where it's going on here and then that what he's digging now that's another rainwater harvesting plate there so you're collecting all the water off all the roof profiles every drop every single drop 13,000 litre tank crikey all you need now is a roof to actually collect the water on the aim is to turn the school into an energy-efficient carbon neutral building where water and heating bells are a thing of the past so they won't just be teaching grain they'll be living green - today the insulation is arriving for the upstairs bedrooms that's the stuff I want to see more red despite their near non-existent budget they've gone for the highest spec that's great I mean this is like this is like the NASA of insulation this stuff this was invented by NASA this is ingenious thin insulation that layer has a super insulator what's fantastic is that it reduces the construction thickness of the roof gives you a great sense of space gives you more Headroom that roof construction is only going to come out about that line which is yes this is gonna be my um it's a like a French window yeah with a Juliet balcony very small yeah yeah lovely summer's morning if it was testing you know sort of French doors all sort of neck flapping in the wind I didn't realize he was such a romantic I'm sure they did you do Ian and Jane are committed to the highest standards of restoration but the scaling condition of the old building is overwhelming if you look at this wall finish this is a really hard cement mix it's not a soft plaster and to show you how bad the building is but that's how wet and damp and soaking this is yeah that's just full of or just crumbling away like cottage cheese Ian may be doing most of the physical work but Jane is in charge of the money and it's her almost impossible task to balance the books on their building business and keep the project moving forward on most jobs normal jobs you have a budget it set yourself a time scale you know you'd have that money in the bank whether it's miage money or money that you've saved up and your plan according to that budget you haven't actually got no well I original when we bought the project we were coming for a grant which fell through we were going in for sent large extension on a mortgage which fell through it worked out we were having roughly about three hundred thousand with the loan and the grant which has gone from three hundred thousand so nothing so it's scary but this is my home just I can't live in it yet it's irrelevant this is my home and we will get day as in and Jane braced themselves for the challenges that a really well spring will bring I've been finding out more about the history of this building before the school was built in 1878 opportunities for education and pankaja were restricted to Sunday school or a small room attached to the local chapel with space for only 60 children this lack of provision was mirrored all over the country but in 1870 a new law was passed the elementary education act entitled every child between the ages of five and ten to go to school and mark the start of state education as we know it the next ten years so 4,000 schools being built all over Britain and Penn kada was one of them I've come to dead Street School in hartfordshire which has been preserved to look as it did in Victorian times what a spacer and I'm joined by Jane Humphreys professor of history at Oxford University so Jim the act was quite a dramatic thing for for Wales and the rest of England as well the act really creates a lot of school places by the end of the 19th century the school boards had added some three million extra places for children in in British schools that's quite incredible it is it's amazing it cost a penny a week to attend a school like Penn kada but for the poorest families it was free despite this many of the parents particularly those who worked on the land were reluctant to send their children to school I managed to dig out some of the kind of original log from the headmaster of pen cutter and I think it just proves how difficult it was for him just to get the numbers that he might have expected to have had Friday July the 19th this week more than usual many pupils were in the habit of leaving school during recreation time at 11:00 for the sake of attending to home judy's well this is the solace oh I'm sure they are used in agricultural labor at this point so potato picking peat picking working in the fields girls were often kept at home to deal where's needs of the family so every time mom had a new baby the oldest daughter would be kept off school to be mother's helper says we we might as well close school during the haul of July and August and that's what we've inherited that's why we have those long summer holidays for our schools today we inherited that from a previous time when children did go off and help with the harvest for the children of pan cada going to school would been a very alien and not altogether welcomed experience well this is a gallery classroom this allows the teacher to be able to see what's going on there at the back of the fall yeah there's no hiding in this space as their dead Street school keeps a large collection of Victorian memorabilia items that those first school children in pen cada would have been very familiar with sand boards were used to help learn letters and practice handwriting that's very good otherwise very good very good joined up writing while pool friends were like many abacuses it helps children learn arithmetic particularly decimals so a Victorian version of the of the Casio calculator on my desk what is in your pocket yes learning was important but the schools also demanded discipline and good behavior well this shows you how the Victorians were very fond of giving out metals as well as this kind of nice incentive I'm afraid these schools also had sticks as well as carrots and here's the cane Josh I'll tell you what I bet that was a pretty painful Oh even love hurts and believe me it was wielded quite often and quite energetically in pain kada have there was another dimension to this because many of the children would be Welsh speakers at home who were taught in English and the Welsh was very much discouraged in fact discouraged backed up by a kind of violent regime so the children had a little board that was called the Welsh not said Welsh not and it was hung around the necks of any child who was hurt to be speaking Welsh and passed around the class according to who spoke Welsh during the course of the day and the last child to be wearing the Welsh knot I'm afraid was caned before they went home so yes it was a public humiliation [Music] back in pan cada at last the sun is shining to take advantage of the good weather ian has mustered all his manpower on site where the finally getting round to demolish in the laning wall at the old Assembly Hall meanwhile up on the new first floor ian has given one of his four apprentices a lesson in roof construction it's been three months since I was last at the school and for the first time I can see real signs of progress morning man how are you you all right yeah I've been to a cold are you bit under the weather today yes other changes and the Sun comes out I'm gonna get ill yeah let's crack it on though okay you've got the roof on this section all the fantastic slate all the brick detailing you know even the good room that you've got on there it's really neat very crisp you did a great job now notice them the for sale sign up on this house that's the main one on the front that you're connected to would save you a lot of hassle have a wouldn't well we offered him seven grand and he accepted it and we were going through and then we had a mortgage the mortgage guy come up looked at it and he said I'm not even in a value it he said because it's structurally unsound its own mortgage able see if you can get the finance on her but some warmer at the roll border for cash because she wanted it it's very machine but hey he'll amend abuser this is magic really good at the front things are coming along nicely well this bombs gone off when we go through to the old assembly hall I'm reminded how much work they've got ahead of them and how ambitious this restoration really is how the hell are you doing the bells undo another belt and lug off site to keep the money coming in and getting your business venture going are you doing that I mean there's not enough hours a day surely no then you just go ahead you get up and carry on done I went the doctor the other day and he said all calm down you know just do sort of six days instead of seven don't make yourself only I mean seriously you don't kill yourself we get a man George luckily for Ian not all of the building is in such a desperate State far local I've done quite a lot of work the interactive classroom underneath the two bedrooms is looking more habitable and what's going on the floor in here what's convinced finally finish display pods in you all the different types of underfloor he didn't the pods interactive whiteboard up there then along there then computer desk we feel like years somewhere to learn in and all school perhaps could see money or the lack of it has been a constant worry on this project when they started they couldn't get financial backing because of the recession so far they've been able to screw by doing the building work but agreeing technology center needs lots of green ecological kit and that's expensive the latest estimate is an eye-watering 130,000 pounds and with no other options available to them they've had to apply for another grant from the Welsh Assembly which will require a matching long I'll be brutally honest with you I don't think what you're doing is fantastic you know the standard the builders brilliant the idea for the business the Train and the ecological slider but it's a view a really pushing upon you know we're trying for this one grant now but who knows we've been let down so many times before do you ever think that you wish you'd never taken us on in the first place oh god yes yes but if we walk away from this now you look a bankrupt I know everybody money you know it's half built project not money that we've put in this we need me a half bag we actually do love the building we love the build we love the area we love everything about it is just a pressure doing a restoration of this scale and quality with no budget to fall back on takes superhuman levels of energy and commitments Ian and Janes refusal to compromise on the standard of their vision is great for the bills but I'm worried that the project may never finish they've put everything into this project I just hope to god that it pays off in West Wales Ian and James restoration of a ruined Victorian school is now into its second year so far they've spent 60,000 pounds every penny of which they've had to go out and earn through other building work they do have one resource available to them Ian's cherished balls which could be worth up to 60,000 pounds if they sell it they would allow them to buy much-needed building materials but right now they can't quite bring themselves to part with the board they can't afford to run claim is gone money's gone everything's gone it's just that they're rotting away it's been two months since I was last in pen kada morning rubbish again you brought it with you it's always my fault always my fault good to see all right that's absolutely brilliant the brewer looks amazing upon that gable end that elevation and you get the riffs Tonica want how are you feeling about it all know the last thing really anything's going on right yeah yeah just money we did pick up some work since you will your last time we just covered on the bills we just have the first payment now just run to be in the account we no no - yeah yeah first time for it's great that they've got some money in the bank at last psychologically there must be a real boost to start rebuilding that last exterior wall but this piecemeal earn as you go a long approach won't cover the expense of Eagle items they need like the heating systems and the rainwater tank for those they've applied for a national economic grant from the Welsh Assembly about the grant I telephoned them yesterday and they just given the same speech to everybody and over the end of September long time you're kind of treading water the other minute hon you would think the plan I don't doubt the ambition is whether we can eat or not this it's its own to that fine weather we can eat to me all the bills get paid that's priority and the wages get paid but whether we can eat this matter I mean that's a huge huge they might be cash poor but they're not lacking in passion for this huge restoration project all the skills needed to get it done Ian's a single-handedly restoring all 19 of the large Victorian windows he's using the or technical block as a makeshift workshop see you know some of it is totally rotten I mean that ain't gonna go back on so we have to renew love it each window needs to be taken apart and assessed for damage come to Daddy the areas of rotten timber will be removed and carefully replaced with new some of them may know someone that you know I'm lucky to get have one piece out of them the other ones and they you know managed to save the entire window you all the dump [Music] over a hundred years of accumulated pains needs to be stripped back to reveal the original timber [Music] once complete is each restored window will be fitted with new panes of high spec glass and new ironmongery if you were going to do this from you from scratch this would be 40 grand that your priest was just said to go in the window and that was without the glass what and I bought that timber over there for I think there's about three and a half grand that's a bargain yesterday's a bargain the quality of work and attention to detail on this restoration is extraordinary but because of the financial pressure in a chain or feeling low I've got a plan that I hope will give them just the pickup they need the school may have been closed for the past two decades but there are still plenty of people in the village who can remember when I was at the heart of the community I've organized a reunion which will bring together teachers and pupils from the past 70 years to share their memories of life in pancadão it's also a perfect opportunity for Ian and James to meet them and explain their plans for this next chapter in the school's history thus the make the office bit and then the cream roof on there most people have brought along cast photos or memorabilia from their school days like oh no we got it no that's my dad yep this is 1936 thank you families me yeah and then this is my son no so three generations generations that's incredible I mean that shows how much of a Titan the Community Awards live community a wonderful community to be in Eric Evans teacher my first job in teaching at the school unless the screen building yeah school is a fantastic place you know that's all I got is good memories of it is always everything is positive you know the kids would absolutely superb and the birds I get from today you know 40 years on is unbelievable I even managed to meet some of the last people to pass through the school gates I think this last legs and what do you think about the restoration everyone seems to have a great affection for the building [Music] [Applause] and the overwhelming feeling is that they're delighted it's being saved and more importantly but it's gonna have a new role in educating and providing work for local people for years to come does it kind of bring it home to how important the building is for the community I've never seen it until today today you said well you you're doing something for other people you're not just building renovate in the school you you sort of rebuilding something for the community something that people have memories of and restore it because without a sort of failed oh yeah they're gonna be able to come back look at the game yeah I might other put a little bit more effort in [Laughter] back on site and Ian the bricklayer into apprentices have been working on the building uninterrupted for the past few weeks which has allowed them to finish off the brickwork to the front and continue on the roof all right across Pollock's but the best news is that ian has got to the bottom of his health issues well I won't very well philia sings couldnt really know what it was so when the doctor's complaining about dizziness so he's done a lot of tests took an order blood and it turned that was high cholesterol so uh put me on statins and I cut pull on the fact and then start to get a lot better then so it wasn't good did he I didn't you know wasn't any blood on my body and my huge brain as part of the educational purpose of the center Ian's use and many techniques to demonstrate a variety of green construction methods in the mix of ours on the small extension instead of insulating from the inside the panels have been fixed externally and today a specialist plasterer is applying a silicon render [Music] three layers reinforced with mesh will form a tough waterproof exterior that doesn't be painting when it's finished if you're gonna insulate the inside of somebody's house it's very invasive whereas turn up with so many cells to do this no disruption to their life and it's a nice finish when it's done this is a scene and I've insulate before you generate the cost of running this is gonna be zero we've got to do it to show people which is why we're trying a new year [Music] a month later I'm back on site and there's only one question of my minds have they heard anything from the Welsh economic growth fund about the grant they so desperately need to save this project hello Matt how's things what's happened with the grant application and it changes daily we were told we had a chance and then they wanted us to have less money let's grab money but employ a lot of extra people we'd put down at we would create five find new jobs yeah which is for apprentices that we train up and the full-time job yeah then that change then that we are to create eight named jobs new jobs plus 3,000 you have half the money so how much did you apply for how much was your device for sixty seven and a half but because you had to the match funding and the bank would only lend you the money if you got the grant if you get less grant you guess leant back less bank when you don't use so none of it really stacks up why don't you sell the box we always just floated me out you gonna sell the ball because you didn't wander originally no it was my last Bastian so the house went the bike ever moved for over the year the cars knackered so how much would he get for the board doing a little luck and if we go for a quick sale we should get over sixty sixty-five I come to terms that you know I knew more than 365 days um it's been a couple of days on it and then he sat there doing nothing and he's gonna stunner [Music] selling their balls for anything approaching 60,000 pounds would make a huge difference to the pace of this bills but they still need that grant of 67,000 pounds to be able to afford all the green technologies to launch their new business while they're waiting to hear they're continuing to focus on keeping money coming in through their building company and doing what they can on site in the meantime I'm keen to finish off restoring the Victorian sash windows within having salvaged two good Timbers from the old window frames it's now time for the precision work of crafting the new pieces that will replace what was wrong [Applause] the frame is held together with mortise and tenon joints an ancient system that works with many materials used by everyone from the Egyptians to the masons of Stonehenge that's what we can do where they're all dead wind on a two new bits of timber beautifully restored window in general really doing their best and trying so hard to remain positive and when you look at the quality of the craftsmanship that they're actually doing here it's really impressive but if they don't get that grant they're gonna be spending a long long time in the caravan and their entire business model could collapse [Music] in West Wales it's an important day for Ian and Jane after nearly three years of living in a caravan they're finally waving it goodbye and relocating it to the local holiday huge momentous occasion this chapter is now closing another one is opening it's been a year since I first came to Penn cadiz school and for Ian and Jane it's been a financial and emotional rollercoaster trying to convert the school into both the home and an ecological building center when I was here last the whole future of this restoration was hanging in the balance while they weighed the hair if they've been awarded the government grounds I'd say there are a lot of people working on site today which could be a good sign so any news about the grant we have the grant you've got it we do that's brilliant news yes I was really worried before the last time I was here you were pulling your hair out a bit yeah I mean this this means you can finish it isn't you can get on and get it done it means you can bio technologies it's all about the end the day is about opening the eCos entrance about having the technologies and and being carbon neutral to really turn the corner it's great and we just got out so I've got a plan of action together now which is what we are in the middle of doing and the other thing that gives me great hope the caravans gone yeah it's the way sleeping now you know attached you've bought that house on the front yes you're kidding me no their escape from the caravan has come thanks to their daughter and son-in-law who have lent them the money to buy the Headmaster's house which thankfully means they now not only own the entire site but they can live more comfortably while completing the bills they tried to buy the house a few months ago for 70,000 pounds but thought they'd been beaten to it by a cash buyer I thought that opportunity was long gone they're only pulled out because it just wasn't progressing so they rang us up and said would you buy it for 15 in birdie house yeah after months of disappointments and real hardship Ian and Janna at last getting the look that they deserve and even though they're still a long way to go it feels like the future of the school is finally secure when they first started this restoration the building was in such a terrible state that most people wouldn't have gone near it but slowly brick by brick Ian and Jane are bringing about an almost miraculous transformation some areas which were completely demolished have had to be completely rebuilt but through sheer force and determination and CAD a school is rising from the rubble I mean the work that's gone in it's all not brick detailing and all the stone and the brick arches it's magic and you've got that wall up look at that it's always flat yeah that's good I know years kind of you wanted to be further on but it takes as long as it takes you know with all the press you have been and none of the money I'm amazed that you've even reached this stage to be honest with you well if you think about it ironic means everything we're looking at today we did no spare time that's true yeah yeah cuz we worked and then when we've had five minutes then time you this has been it's gonna be amazing when it's done [Music] in the paths that are finished the original character of the old school is once again visible in all its gothic Victorian glory inside the rooms that will be used for the training center are still taking shape but with the grant matching Bank long and the money they'll hopefully get from selling their boss they'll now have enough to finish them to the same high standard as the rest of the belt upstairs in their private living space what will be their kitchen living room is in a similar unfinished state but their bathroom is plumbed in and their bedroom is almost complete that's great it's not without the refurbish windows that is actually amazing if you brought someone in who hadn't actually seen the work that you'd put in and we're still in the old ones I think they would think they were new windows I mean honestly this is like a lesson and recycling and restoring an old building yeah I'm telling you the standard of the craftsmanship everywhere it's top spec stuff but it's all restored as well yes if you carry on the line you are or the quality of craftsmanship and the passion really and dedication behind if you carry on to that level of being amazing project when it's finished they see you Ian and Jane have been the force behind this restoration and they've been helped along the way by a team of apprentices who have all benefited from IANS knowledge and expertise and now that the grand has come through their future employment is looking secured to he's played passionate about teaching people he's you know he wants to teach him the right way and he's got a knock too as well he's he's a good teacher about notice who well done even just to get it to this stage is incredible yes what you've been through to get at this point there's mind-boggling Cheers well done guys to Penkala school and I've got a little present for you you'll blink at a school book in the catechol loving restored by Jamie it's not kicking in was pretty tough oh that was horrible tiny hours trying to do anything there where's everybody reunion day when I'm quite good with my brilliant so almost Hank are two people together you know your best apprentice you've ever had after all that no you are the two restoration superheroes to us is against the world II have some sorts for you very much congratulations [Music] this has been one of the most stressful restoration projects ever through a staggering amount of financial pressure Ian and Jane have never given up and in some ways I can't even believe that managed to get to this stage but now that the grants in place it gives them a chance of realizing their dream home and their equal business while at the same time training the next generation of building apprentices that will be the lasting legacy of this restoration [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 47min 16sec (2836 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 13 2020