The team renovates Sascha's home to provide her with a dedicated dialysis room, meaning she will no longer have to endure intensive dialysis at hospital.
Kidney failure has meant that midwife Sascha has to endure intensive dialysis at hospital just to stay alive. This intense dialysis for hours on end, five days a week, places her body under immense stress with the constant threat of life-risking blood clots. If this continues, Sascha, a mother to four children, has a life expectancy of just a few years.
However, Sascha could do self-dialysis daily from her home, and the increase in frequency and the decrease in intensity would mean her life expectancy and lifestyle would improve dramatically. So that is where DIY SOS and the generous volunteers and trades of Billy's home turf, Welwyn Garden City, step up to help one of their own.
In an emotionally charged episode, Sascha's family home is completely renovated and extended to include a dedicated home-dialysis room for Sascha, which offers her a lifeline and extra years with her loving family.
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Designer, Gabrielle Blackman gets stressed out
Duration: 00:33
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There's no place like home for Billy
Duration: 01:30
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DIY SOS is in Welwyn Garden City to help Sasha
Duration: 01:54
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:00
Snow Patrol
Give Me Strength
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00:01
Woodkid
Run Boy Run
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00:02
Tom Baxter
Miracle
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00:03
Jon Hopkins
Abandon Window
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00:03
Coldplay
O
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00:05
Kasabian
British Legion
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00:05
Kasabian
British Legion
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00:06
Patrick James
Redemption Days
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00:07
Josh Osho
Redemption Days
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00:09
Take That
Hold Up A Light
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00:09
The Prodigy
Stand Up
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00:10
Babyshambles
You Talk
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00:11
Rebecca Ferguson
Glitter Gold
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00:13
Ellie Goulding
Home
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00:13
The Wanted
All Time Low
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00:14
Rae Morris
Skin
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00:16
Rae Morris
From Above
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00:16
Portishead
Roads
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00:19
Gary Barlow
Let Me Go
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00:20
Orbital
Halcyon
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00:21
Florence + The Machine
How Big, How Blue
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00:21
Rebecca Ferguson
Bones
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00:22
Rebecca Ferguson
Bones
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00:24
The Tony Hatch Orchestra
Downtown
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00:28
The Streets
Don't Mug Yourself
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00:28
Turin Brakes
Slack
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00:29
Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:31
The Wanted
Glad You Came
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00:35
London Grammar
Metal & Dust
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00:36
London Grammar
Metal & Dust
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00:28
The Streets
Don't Mug Yourself
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00:26
Turin Brakes
Underdog
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00:39
Noah and the Whale
L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
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00:39
Snow Patrol
This Isn't Everything You Are
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00:40
Snow Patrol
This Isn't Everything You Are
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00:42
Woodkid
Run Boy Run
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00:43
London Grammar
Hey Now
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00:47
Olly Murs
Hand On Heart
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00:49
Rae Morris
This Time
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00:48
Olly Murs
Dear Darlin'
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00:48
Eliza Doolittle
Walking On Water
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00:50
Gabrielle Aplin
Salvation
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00:51
Gabrielle Aplin
Salvation
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00:52
Coldplay
Adventure Of A Lifetime
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00:53
Eliza and the Bear
Cruel
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00:54
Embrace
Gravity
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00:56
Leona Lewis
Fireflies
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Nick Knowles |
Participant | Mark Millar |
Participant | Billy Byrne |
Participant | Chris Frediani |
Participant | Julian Perryman |
Participant | Gabrielle Blackman |
Director | Steve Peet |
Executive Producer | Robi Dutta |
Series Producer | Hamish Summers |
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