MSE user lisawaters (Mike) on BBC DIY SOS - The Big Build Littlehampton

fermi

Original threads with the backstory are here:

Please advise - it's all gone SO wrong

Getting money back from cowboy builders (current live discussion)

Also, here is the main MSE news article from back in May.

---> How the power of internet forums can ease debt worries


BBC DIY SOS
The Big Build: Littlehampton

Next on: Thu, 30 Dec 2010, 20:00 on BBC One

Synopsis

Mike spent his life savings on home improvements so his sons could come and visit, but was left in the lurch by rogue builders who destroyed his house, leaving him depressed and desperate, reliant on internet forums for contact with the outside world. Mike's ancient flint house was riddled with damp, causing his 16-year-old son to suffer a terrible asthma attack that left him in hospital.

With the help of local trades, family, friends and Mike's online community, Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team spend nine days turning Mike's wreck of a home into a house fit for the future.

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fermi

Original threads with the backstory are here:

Please advise - it's all gone SO wrong

Getting money back from cowboy builders (current live discussion)

Also, here is the main MSE news article from back in May.

---> How the power of internet forums can ease debt worries

MSE_Martin

Just watched with tears in my eyes

Well done forumites you are an inspiration.

And mike - hoorah.

lisawaters

If anyone wishes say nice things to Nick Knowles and the production team about the Littlehampton programme, please e-mail catherine.worrall@bbc.co.uk

If you want to copy me in onthecoastnow@live.co.uk, I'd like to keep it with the other souvenirs.