04x04 - Military Swagger Stick

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Welcome to The Repair Shop,

where much-loved but broken
treasures...

This is amazing.
It's absolutely brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.
It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

So nice that we can be part of that

kind of history to just keep things
going.

..and a dream team
of some of the country's

most skilled crafts people...

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm
really liking the end result.

Sounds like teamwork.

..bring their talents to bear on
beloved pieces of family history...

Look at that.
I'm liking what I see.

It's working. You beauty.

..utilizing expertise passed down
the generations.

I'm going to teach you how to do it
the old-fashioned way. All right.

Transforming priceless pieces
of family history...

Oh, my goodness, me.

..The Repair Shop team will
resurrect the items...

Oh, gosh! ..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.
..and the stories behind them.

Oh, look at that.
Oh, thank you so much.

I can't see it
because of the tears in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to do,
but incredibly worthwhile.

CHEERING

Oh!

Imagine trying to get
that from the bench.

In The Repair Shop today,

tense times for Kirsten...

Cup. Don't trip.
..as the future of a fragile

ceramic dish lies in the hands
of Jay and Steve...

Very gently. Yes, please.

Seriously don't hit...
You keep hitting it.

I know, I'm just being
very gentle, all right?

..while Will downsizes
his DIY skills.

This is the quickest I've ever
stripped wallpaper in a house.

Tell you that for sure.

But first, from a miniature house
to a miniature musical marvel.

What have we got?

Today's first visitor
is Marion Stanley

from New Haven in East Sussex.

She's brought along
a vintage instrument.

David, don't mind joining me?

And fixing it will be the job

of organ builder and restorer
David Burville.

Hello there.

So what have we got here then?
A portable harmonium. OK.

I believe it's about 100 years old

and it's been in my family
for about that time.

My father who was very, very musical
had six brothers and one sister,

they all lived in Stepney,
the East End of London.

And this is the 1920s.

And at Christmas they used to carry
this portable harmonium

and sing and play in the streets

and have a bit of a knees up.

And everybody in the family
had their own song to sing.

They would come on and do a turn.
Right.

And the last time I remember -
it was my Uncle Bob

playing Silent Night very badly.

Huge derision from the rest
of the family.

So how does it work then?

Cos I've never seen one
of these before.

Does it lift up? Can you hold it?

This whole thing lifts up
and you can see where the damage is.

Oh, yeah, I can see what's
going on there.

That is broken, isn't it?
Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know how this works
with getting the bellows up.

Perhaps you could tell me.

Well, these are foot pedals

and they are actually
also the bellows.

So you pump them in this fashion.
Yes.

And effectively what happens
is the air that they produce

is channelled up the legs,
the legs are actually hollow,

and then it's put into the main body
of the...of the machine.

And then obviously you play
onto the keyboard. Keyboard.

But they were built like this
so that they could be portable

and they were used mainly
by missionaries.

Really? And this appears to be
a French-built instrument.

They were made in the 1800s
onwards sort of thing. Oh, right.

How does it stay up?

Well, I've discovered recently
the secret to this piece of wood.

OK. All right. You can push these
in between there... I'm with ya.

JAY CHUCKLES

And, hopefully, keep your
fingers crossed, it'll stay up.

Yes. That is well smart,
I do like that.

Now this is the tricky bit.

I had fun doing that on my own,
I can tell you.

Oh, mind your hand. That's it.

Yeah. We'll have it singing again.

Oh, good. Thank you for bringing
this in. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Lovely to meet you.

Take care. Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.
Bye.

Now that is nice. I think you've
got your work cut out on this one.

I think so, yeah, yeah.
Keep me busy.

All right, cool.

Well, let's get this here bench
then. Great. All right?

Well, it would be lovely to be able
to play it

and it really does mean
such a lot to me to get it restored,

because my dad, it was such
an important instrument to him.

It would be just really great to
have it repaired and working again.

Well, the first thing we do is
separate the lower section

from the upper section.

And remove the bellows and the legs.

Not that they need a lot of
stripping,

they're already falling to pieces.

The leather is very badly damaged.

But the wooden parts seem
to be in reasonable condition.

We need to remake some little parts.

Because of the age
of the instrument,

the screws are rusted in solid.

So I use my trusty soldering iron

and I just give it a few seconds
of heat.

Effectively, what happens
is you're actually expanding

the screw, that cracks the rust

and then that allows you to just
gently turn the screw out.

I suppose the enjoyable bit
is you are literally,

most of these cases, the first
person to have seen it

since it left the factory
100 years ago.

Sometimes you find pencil marks,

sometimes the manufacturers
sign their name inside it.

Sometimes if you're very lucky,
you find a date.

I've found the occasional
rude comment in some of them.

So you never know.

You never know quite
what you're going to find.

Oh. There we go.

Outside, more visitors.

Richard Barnard
and his daughter Karen

have brought a fragile family
heirloom

that's been shamefully hidden away
for 25 years.

Hello, how we doing? Hello there.
I'm Jay. I'm Karen.

All right, Karen? I'm Richard.
Hi, Richard.

So what have we got in here?
It's a sweet dish.

It's about 120, 130 years old. OK.

What is it made of? It's porcelain.
Porcelain, all right.

Kirsten, if you don't mind
joining me?

Hi, I'm Kirsten. Hi, I'm Karen.
Hello, nice to meet you.

What have we got? Could we
get it out? Yes, we can.

It's a bit of a jigsaw puzzle,
but OK.

OK, great.

Oh, there's more?
There's lots of bits.

OK. So what's the history?
It belonged to my great grandmother.

She had quite a collection
of porcelain.

And this piece passed down
in our family.

It was really the only thing
that was beautiful, I think.

Everything was very utilitarian in
the '50s when I was growing up.

Yeah. So everyone admired it.

It sort of wasn't the thing
you would expect coming

into our house to see, sort of
a bit of a centrepiece.

Always came out at Christmas with
sweets and nuts and things in it.

I think it's the only
heirloom in your family, isn't it?

Yeah, it's the only thing left.

So it is very important to me.

All was well until on the 25th June,
1993. What happened then?

Well, I was being super helpful
and opened the curtain

where it was on the windowsill
and knocked it off.

And, well, it wasn't
a very good time in our house.

So you were young, you were a little
child? Yeah, yeah, I was 13.

Oh, right, goodness.

So what was your reaction,
were you cross?

I couldn't speak. I was so upset.

I didn't really realise
how much it meant to me.

It has just been there for always
and then to see it

in lots of little pieces
was just awful.

Poor Karen was in tears.

And then my wife just gathered
it all up, wrapped it in this

and stuck it away and we tried to
forget about it, so...

So how did you feel
when you broke this then?

You know, I was devastated.

And, you know, I've carried
that guilt all this time.

It would be interesting to see
actually what you have got,

because it's looking to me
like there are possibly quite

a few pieces missing.

I know we haven't been through
this bag yet.

But it's a lovely piece.

Oh, it's sweet. Look at the...
Cherubs.

Yeah. Lovely wings, unusual wings.

That wing was broken many,
many years ago,

so that didn't actually happen
in the fall, so we haven't got that.

OK, right, that's interesting.

So have you tried to get
this repaired before?

No, I didn't think it was
repairable.

So we just kept the bits
for sentimental reasons, really.

It was the only thing of
my mother's when she died.

And it would be something
wonderful to pass down.

I mean, it's obviously
going to be a challenge.

You know, with all these pieces...
JAY CHUCKLES

So what we'll try and do is get
some of that guilt gone for you.

But there is a lot of work
in this, isn't there?

There's a lot of work,
but it's good quality porcelain

and hopefully it should restore
very well.

So thank you for bringing it in.
Pleasure. Yeah, good luck.

OK, thank you. Thank you.
Cheers. Bye-bye.

We're feeling very hopeful now
that we're going to be able

to see a complete sweet dish.

It's been 25 years since
we've seen it in its full glory.

The sweet dish means
an awful lot to Dad.

I think it's the only thing
that he really has got as a memory.

Yeah, it'll be a great gift
for him to have it back again.

I feel for Karen now, innit?
Hey? That's some guilt. Yeah.

25 years.
I'm slightly concerned, actually.

You know, I don't know
what I've got.

I'm going to have to have a look
in this bag and I'm hoping

that you know, these sort of
missing areas,

I'm just hoping that they're going
to be in there.

Cos if not, it's going to be a
huge amount of work.

But I'm sure you can handle it.

I'm not going to carry this over.
Even though it's broken already.

Oh, you're going to give me those
bits? The more broken bits?

Yeah. All right. They can't get any
worse, can they? They can't.

So at this stage is where I actually
start to realise,

you know, how much work is going
to be involved in this piece.

I normally try and sort of offer up

all the pieces that I've got
and work out

if there are any sort of
major areas missing.

The basket sits on top.

And then you've got that sort of rod
that goes through

and actually holds it in place.

I know that Richard mentioned
that there were things like this -

a cherub's wing missing

and that was actually
missing beforehand.

So I am going to have to make
that up from scratch.

So that's going to be a little bit
of a challenge.

It can be quite difficult
to get these apart,

because they tend to sort
of rust into place.

So I'm going to have to have
a closer look at that.

But actually, I'm really looking
forward to the challenge

of getting all these bits
back together again.

Over at his work bench,

David's removed the upper part
of the harmonium

to gain access to the sound board.

Here you can see all the reeds.

So the air actually passes through

and between these brass tongues

and over time, you tend to get
a build-up of dust and muck.

So what we'll need to do
is to remove these.

And then we're going to put
those into an ultrasonic bath

which will clean all
of the verdigris and muck.

The ultrasonic bath produces
high frequency sound waves

which agitate the cleaning fluid,

delicately removing years of dirt
and embedded grime

from the metal reeds.

So we've turned the machine on,

that will run for about 12 minutes

and they will be perfectly clean.

Here we've got the lower section
of the harmonium.

These are the remains
of the bellows.

These wooden ribs, as they're known,

are in quite good condition,

so we can salvage these
and we can make patterns

to remake the leather parts.

What I'm going to start doing now

is glue the ribs onto the pedals.

It's interesting we call these ribs,

because they do effectively work
like your ribs in your body.

And, of course,
the bellows are like lungs,

they're sucking air in
and then they're breathing it out

into the instrument
to then produce the sound.

This is going to literally
breathe life into the instrument

and hopefully carry on
for many years.

But it's not just the inner workings
of the organ that need an overhaul.

The case also requires attention.

So this is the back
of Marion's harmonium.

And this has a reasonably
large piece of veneer on it.

What we're going to do
is re-use this

as patches for the rest
of the machine,

where we've got little areas
which are damaged but salvageable.

So I've got a damp rag here
and steamless iron.

We just introduce...a bit of heat
that will cause

the glue underneath to just release.

It's quite an interesting smell.

Obviously you've got
the old Scotch glue.

You've also got the smell
of the wood, the walnut wood,

which is quite a distinctive smell

and then obviously you've got years
of grime, dirt,

all sorts of wonderful things

that have been deposited
on the surface

due to its wonderful history.

You can see the glue gradually
peeling away

and just giving up as you take it.

And there we go.

David then re-veneers the back
of the case and prepares

to blend in his modern mending.

We're just using a blunt
instrument hammer,

there's quite a lot of shapes
on this,

so we're just literally
just going to bash it.

So it's...

Then we want a few
sort of scratches.

KEYS RATTLE

It looks violent,
but it's great fun.

The reeds, they're looking
a lot more healthy.

TOOTING

That's the first noise
that's made for a few years,

so that's quite promising.

Hopefully, all the parts

when they come together
will work harmoniously.

Next to seek the services
of The Repair Shop,

Debbie White from Bingley
in West Yorkshire.

How you doing? You all right?
Thank you.

OK. Let me take that. OK. All right.
In we go.

She's brought along a cherished
memory from her childhood.

It's a doll's house then, isn't it?
Yeah. OK.

Will, if you don't mind, sir?
And then that sits on top.

Look at this. Perfect.
Hi, I'm Will. I'm Debbie.

Nice to meet you. And look at Lucia,
she loves a doll house.

How long have you had this?

I had it made for me when I was six
by my grandad. Right.

It's 42 years old.

So what relationship did
you have with your grandfather?

I saw my grandfather every day.

He collected me from school.

We would go on walks.

Everything I love about nature,
everything I love about history

is all from my grandfather.

And we used to walk past a house
that was similar.

Never seen a black and white house.

I was only six years old,
but he used to tell me

that one day I would own a black
and white house.

And that Christmas,
this is what Santa Claus brought me.

Oh, wow.

Sadly he passed away
two days after Christmas.

The same Christmas that he made
this? Yes, yes.

Oh, what a gift to give to you.
Absolutely.

And I think that's why
I've never parted with it.

My grandfather was my best friend,
the best friend.

So it must have meant quite a lot
to you, this house,

for him to actually... Absolutely.

..I mean, he's put in a lot of work
to make this. That's just it.

And I think I knew at six years old

that it would mean something to me

and here I am 42 years later

still in possession
of the doll's house.

Do you know where the house is?
The real house? Yes.

In Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
near Sandal Castle.

And how do you get into it?

Well...unfortunately the roof
now comes off,

but what you would do,
you'd slide the back across.

Wow. Yeah.
So what would you like us to do?

Because, from what I can see,
is it playable?

Because it doesn't seem that strong.

Whatever you think you need
to do to make it stronger.

Keep it black and white.

But if you could give me
a bright red door.

And then the roof? Whatever you see.
Paint it, tile it.

All right, no problem.
Just make it look like a roof again.

OK. We're going to have fun playing
with this.

Jay cannot wait to get on that...

I'm allowed to paint something red
which is quite cool.

It's very rare I get to do
something like that in here.

Can I also ask just one favour?

Cos the side papers
are sort of faded,

I was thinking of painting
like a wisteria.

We could paint something on it,

but rather than putting something
on the original material,

it would keep that, which I think
we should, so it doesn't damage...

Then maybe try and get something
that's not fixed. Yeah, sure.

Just make it so it's ready for the
next generation. Right.

Handing across to you guys.
I trust you.

Thank you. I trust you, I do.

We're going to rise to
the challenge, aren't we? Yeah.

And we're going to do you proud.

But first and foremost
is grandfather... Yes, yes.

So thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you. Lovely to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Lovely to meet you
too. Good luck.

I'm excited, it's a good feeling.

I'm just hoping that it brings back
all that magic that I got

on Christmas Day when I was six
years old.

So strip it out completely.

I can get my interior groove
on there. Yeah. Yeah, I'm happy.

You take the heavy bit. There you
go. You take the light bit.

Yeah. And I got the light bit.

Lovely. All right.
See ya in a bit. See ya.

The first thing Will needs to do

is carry out a full structural
survey.

As you can see, the structure
is sort of really loose,

wobbling all over the place.

But in order to get to those loose
joints and everything else,

I need to start taking off all of
this wallpaper and the carpet,

which will give me better access

to sort of getting some
new glue in there.

That's a lot easier
than I thought it was going to be.

I love this wood effect
this side of the stairs.

You can still see that there's quite
a lot of thought

that's gone into making this.

This is the quickest I've ever
stripped wallpaper in a house,

I'll tell you that for sure.

Across the workshop, Kirsten is
trying to navigate her way

through the ceramic puzzle
of the shattered sweet dish.

It's quite a big job and I'm really
sort of fortunate that Richard's

brought in so many pieces.

Initially it sort of looked like -
oh, goodness, you know,

it's just a sort of bag of crumbs,

but actually it's quite remarkable
how many pieces

they've obviously managed
to sweep up and save.

And that is actually going to make
my job quite a lot easier.

The adhesive that I'm going to use
to bond this porcelain

is a two-part epoxy resin.

I'm actually going to add
a little bit of titanium white

to it and that is really just

to help the cracks disappear
a little bit.

Unfortunately with things like this,

if the first piece is just very,
very slightly out of alignment,

it kind of, with every piece you
add on, it gets a little bit worse

and actually you just have to strip

the whole lot back
and start again, so...

That's looking quite good.

It's now time to reunite
the two halves of the dish.

You're using your eyes to see
actually if you've got a good join,

but actually you also sort
of feel it in your hands.

You can sort of feel when it sort
of fits together.

So I'm really pleased with the way
that's looking now.

And breathe.

The main section may be whole again,

but there's a myriad of smaller
fragments to repair.

I'm just going to move this round.

And I have got a lot of sort of
sheared off sections of glaze here.

Fortunately, I have actually got
the pieces,

so I am actually going to be able
to put these back.

But it is going to be a little bit
fiddly.

With these lines on it
and there's the gilding as well,

I can actually see that that is
the right piece and it slots

in there literally like a jigsaw
puzzle.

And you can just feel
the bits locking together.

And it's a really satisfying
feeling.

I'm actually really quite happy
with that.

With the top bowl of the dish
looking sweet again,

Kristen can turn her attention
to the stand.

Jay? Hello.
Could you give me a hand?

You've fixed that, haven't you?
Yeah. I'm glad you noticed.

So, um, what we've got is this stand

and it's like a brass rod
that goes right the way through. OK.

But there's quite a lot of damage
on here around the edge.

And so I would like to get
this brass rod out.

Steve will probably be the man
to do that.

So get Steve to cut it off and
then... Yeah.

..if I asked him nicely,
he'd probably make one up for you.

He might do. Yeah, yeah,
he's good like that.

How about we pop that up? OK.

Cool. Don't trip. I've got it.
Thanks, Jay, great.

All right, see you. Thank you.

How are you, Steve? Yeah, good.

Got a clear bench, hey? Yeah.

This is Karen and Richard's sweet
bowl. Yeah.

Basically, the bowl sits
on there like that.

This brass kind of cap sits
right in the centre of the bowl.

Yeah. But it won't come off.

I want you to hold that like that.

Right. All right?
Really quite tight.

And very gently... Yes, please.

Seriously, don't...

I'm just being very gentle.

There we go. Cool.

It's really rusty, isn't it?
Oh, yeah.

I'm just going to repair that,
just weld that back on.

We clean it up, yeah? Yeah.

And then a nut, so then we can
just still attach it at the bottom.

While Steve restores
the central post,

Kirsten is beginning work
on recreating

the lost pieces of porcelain.

Probably the most
sort of difficult thing

that I've got to do is actually to
model the cherub's wing.

So I've got my epoxy putty

which is going to be
absolutely ideal

for making up the cherub's wing
there.

I've almost done as much as I can
on this wing at the moment.

Once that's gone hard, I can
then start to add in the detail.

Right. Ah. Got it done.

So that should be strong enough.
Oh, fantastic.

Put another thread on there.

Hey, look at that.

OK.

Yeah, that's plenty. Excellent.
Plenty of length there.

Thank you very much.
That's all right.

With the sweet dish taking shape,
on the other side of the workshop

David is putting the finishing
touches

to the century-old harmonium.

This is the very final stages

of what's been quite a long project.

It's been very, very interesting

and you really connect with not only
the instrument,

but you get a glimpse
into the history of the family

and also the joy
that this would have brought.

And...I can't wait
to hear the first notes on it.

When the harmonium arrived,
it was completely dilapidated

and hadn't sounded a note
for almost 60 years.

But in David's hands,
it's been expertly restored.

Now, owner Marion, is back
to collect it.

Well, the harmonium means such a lot
as far as my family history

is concerned, it just brings back
wonderful memories of my dad,

cos he was a brilliant musician.

And I'd love it to be in the state
where it can be played.

Hello. Hello. You all right? Yes.

SHE LAUGHS

How are you?
Nice to see you again.

And you, and you.

How you feeling?

Excited, a little bit nervous.
All right. Shall we let her see it?

I think so, I think so. Here we go.

Oh, absolutely brilliant.

Oh, the case.

Oh, that was just falling to bits,
wasn't it? Yeah, it was.

What a transformation.

And, oh, look at the pedals
in there, cos that was all

musty and dirty and horrible,
wasn't it?

Oh, absolutely grand.

Oh, yeah. Oh, lovely.

We've kept as much of the original
feel of it as possible.

You can see little... Cigarette...
Cigarette marks. ..butt marks.

You can imagine them all
with a f*g, can't you?

Yeah. Yeah.
I thought that was great.

It's beautiful.
You want to get it standing up?

We'll stand it up, yeah.
This is the all important stick.

That's the all important stick, yes.

Lift it up like that.

It goes in there.

That's brilliant, it really is.
Thank you so much.

So the next thing to do... Yes.
..is probably hear it.

Oh, please. Please, yes.
I would love to hear it.

Love to hear it, yes.
Just come down.

Got it? Down onto the...

So do you remember
what it sounds like?

Oh. I'm just trying to think.

I think the last time I heard it,

I was probably about 14, so it's a
long while ago, I can assure you.

I'm not a very proficient player,
I have to admit.

So we'll give you
just a little demonstration first.

Yes. So you have to use
the bellows first

before you can get any sound out?

Yes, you've got to continuously
pedal.

DAVID PLAYS CHORDS

Go on, Dave, give us a tune.

We'll do the first couple of bars.

DAVID PLAYS TUNE

HE STOPS PLAYING
No, that's good though.

That's all right. It's great.
DAVID LAUGHS

Yeah, wonderful.

You made up, are you?
I am, yes. I really am, yeah.

Would you like to have a go? Oh.

Oh, now I've got to get these
going first, haven't I?

Yeah. So... Oh, they're quite easy.
That's it.

Yeah. Oh, easy.
A FEW NOTES PLAY

NOTES FALTER
Oh.

SHE PLAYS NOTES

Yeah!
THEY LAUGH

Well done. It's wonderful.

Lovely memories. He's done us proud.
Yeah, he has. You really have.

Thank you very much.
You're very welcome.

You're very welcome.
Pleasure, absolute pleasure.

Well, I'm just full of admiration.

That harmonium just looks nothing
like it did before

and I'm really, really going to be
excited to get it home and actually

being able to play it.

The harmonium may be playing sweet
music again,

but the doll's house is rather flat.

Everything's nice and smooth.

Will is still working on the walls
and floors.

Like all jigsaw puzzles, once it's

done there'll be a nice sense
of pride.

Doll's houses date back to the 16th
century and were originally

exclusive handmade replicas
of wealthy family homes, built

as a record of the time,
rather than a plaything.

So that's one done.

Only about 50 more enamels to go.

While Will's focus is on the home,
Lucia has turned her attention

to the garden, creating
the wisteria Debbie requested.

I actually thought it would be very
nice to have a three dimensional

wisteria tree on the outside
of the house.

And I've got hundreds
of little leaves,

I'm making the little branches.

It's very time consuming.

And I have to get really focused
on it.

So I have to pick up these tiny,
tiny leaves

and stick them on to each branch.

But it's actually quite
meditational.

It's something new for me.
It's great.

Everything seems to be fitting
into place.

Everything seems a lot more secure
than it was when it first came in.

How we doing, Will? Hey.
Oh, you've fixed it.

This is pretty solid now.

Yeah. OK. Nice one, Will, you've
done a brilliant job.

Over to you. You got it?
Yeah. Definitely, yeah. Thank you.

Instead of managing The Repair Shop,
I'm actually on the tools now,

which is quite nice.

Grandad done
a really brilliant job.

And now we're just going to bring it
back to life.

Now, Debbie, when she was young,

she painted it with
red nail varnish.

So I'm going to rub this all down

and then give it a fresh coat
of paint.

Ceramics expert Kirsten
is also wielding a paintbrush,

albeit a rather more delicate one.

Nearing the end
of her reconstruction

of a 130-year-old sweet dish.

So this has been quite a challenge,
this piece, actually.

But I have to say that I am quite
happy with the way

that it's actually come together.

I don't mean to blow my own trumpet,
but it was in so many pieces

and when I saw it my heart
sort of sank.

But I'm hoping that Richard,
when he sees this back together

with the bow placed on the top,
will be delighted.

The sweet dish had been passed down

four generations
of Richard's family,

before it took a tumble
at the hands of his then

13-year-old daughter Karen.

After 25 years of being guiltily
hidden away,

they're hoping that wrong
has finally been put right.

The sweet dish - it's the only
item that's been left

in my mum's estate, really.

She didn't have much when she died.
It got broken.

And then we had nothing.

That's why we're very hopeful
that it can be repaired.

Hello. Hi.

How are you? Good.
Lovely to see you, Karen.

And you. Lovely to see you.
Hi. Nice to see you.

So, I won't keep you waiting.

You ready? Yeah. Yes, we're ready.

Oh, my word. Oh, my goodness!

I don't know what to say.

You would never even know,
would you? No.

You can touch it. I don't want to.

I'm never going to touch it ever.

Look at that. Oh, my goodness.

I can't believe it. It's beautiful.

Thank you, Kirsten. That's really,
really lovely.

I don't know what to say. Aw!

THEY LAUGH HAPPILY

Aw. You're going to make me cry now.

Thank you, thank you so much.
You are so welcome.

I never ever thought I was going to
see that in one piece again.

I really didn't.

So it's very special, thank you.

It's got a little bit more
history to it now, hasn't it?

Yeah. Yes. Thank you so much.
It's an absolute pleasure.

Thank you. Thank you.

We brought it here in so many
pieces,

I couldn't imagine
how you would repair it.

But she's done an absolutely
fantastic job on it.

So I feel absolutely ecstatic
that it's back in one piece again.

I'm over the moon that
I've managed to pay my debts

and it's always been a little bit
of a story to tell,

but I think now the story's
got a happy ending.

It's been a welcome return
to the floor for Jay

who's been getting his hands dirty
decorating

the 40-year-old doll's house.

So I didn't have a doll's house
when I was growing up,

but my daughter's -
it's a bit like this one.

What she used to love doing is
she'd call me -

"Daddy, come along,
I've got a cup of tea for you."

And then she'd have it all laid out.

The teapot and all the other
bits and bobs

and we'll be having a kind
of picnic.

She used to make a proper
good cup of tea that didn't exist.

Like a doll's house, it allows you
just to pretend and drift away.

When Debbie brought in the doll's
house made

by her beloved grandfather,

it was in dire need of a complete
makeover -

From the missing roof tiles
to the tired decor.

But at the hands of Will,
Jay and Lucia,

it's been transformed
into a show home.

I'm really looking forward to seeing
it, it feels like Christmas Day.

I just can't wait. Cos I know it's
there and I know where it is.

I just need to see it
and get my hands on it.

Hello. Hi. How are you?
I'm good, I'm good. Are you?

I'm very good, actually. Excellent.
Nice to see you again.

This looks good.
So how are you feeling?

I'm excited, I'm nervous.

The butterflies are just...they're
all over. I need to see it.

I need to see it. You need to stand
a little bit closer.

Are you ready? Yes. OK.

SHE GASPS

Oh, my God.

Oh, my... Oh.

Grandad, my doll's house.

Oh, it's got a window.

And I've got a red door.
That's amazing.

I'm not going to cry. Not going to
cry. Not going to cry?

No. What we're going to do
is just let some light in

in the back so you can see
through the windows.

Does it bring back any memories?
Oh, gosh, I feel like I'm six again.

That's my Christmas Day, 1978.

Oh, that's just amazing. Yeah? Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you so much.
You're more than welcome.

It's been kind of a team effort.

Everybody's worked on this.

And I don't know if you've noticed,
at the side...

SHE GASPS

You've got a little bit
of greenery there...

Yay! ..from my dear friend Lucia,
who spent hours on doing this.

Thank you.

You've put the love into it
like my grandad did

when he made it for me
all those years ago.

So I'm just...I'm beyond words.
That's amazing.

Well done. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for bringing it.

Thank you so much. All right? Yeah.
No problem.

I am absolutely amazed
by my doll's house.

It's just something
that's so precious to me.

I'm just blown away
by the craftsmanship,

the work that's gone into it.

My grandad was a true Yorkshireman

and he never was one to express
a lot of emotion,

but his favourite saying

when something was beyond
his expectation was -

"That's grand, my lass."

So that's what my grandad
would be saying today -

"That's grand."

Join us next time as the team
transform more dilapidated pieces...

This is where we find out
where all the trouble is.

..into heirlooms to be proud of...

I love him! I thought you might.

..in The Repair Shop.