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To Build or Not to Build

Series 2

Episode 1

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

New series following some of the 20,000 British people who self-build their own home each year.

All our self builders are aiming to build a dream home that's perfectly suited to their way of life and their wallets but each build is a rollercoaster ride packed full of trials and tribulations.

On today's programme, will Barry and Gill Deeks be toasting their self-build success or be drowning their sorrows as they build a Georgian-style home on an old beer garden in Barnet? Plus the young mum in Cambridgeshire who juggled building her country cottage with raising a family. Plus presenter Simon O'Brien hits the roof at building college to learn how to tile. Show less

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