Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team will be helping out a family in Longframling, Northumberland, to adapt their home for 16-year-old Bobbie Owen, who … Others turn up on spec. By entering your details, you are agreeing to Radio Times Nick Knowles and the team issue a call to arms and recruit friends, family and local trades to help transform the homes of families across Britain. The DIY SOS team's ambitious build is a large side and rear extension to provide Scott with his own bespoke bedroom, wet room, access to an adapted kitchen and, most importantly an amazing, state-of-the-art gym studio set in the garden to help him achieve his dream of going to Tokyo 2020. In 2010 it morphed into The Big Build, recruiting friends and local trades to help those seriously in need, with ever more complex builds involving extensions and loft conversions. “I just wanted to help, so I was here for 12 hours making tea.” Electrician Steve Pollard, 62, is Ryan’s uncle. Film "Over 100 businesses in total, including 250 workers, gave their time to the project for free in a bid to provide the family with the perfect forever home.Businesses included Saltash electrical firm Wave Electrical who completed filming with the team from the hit show for the project, having previously worked on the show for a Torquay build for a blind mother who was sole carer to her disabled son.Company director Dave Webber and two others were brought in to help as the lead electrical contractor for the project.Mr Webber said: “We’ve always seen the show and we’re a growing business so we expressed our interest in helping.“We saw it on Facebook and went from there – the BBC try to select local tradesmen to help.“They told us there was over 10,000 companies trying to help. Our best wishes for a productive day. The series was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2010, before transitioning into its current Big Build format, also presented by Knowles. “So to be part of this is fantastic.”Yet even on the biggest day – the “reveal” – the juggernaut is rolling on. "A spokesman for the show, which includes a team of skilled electricians, plumbers, carpenters, designers and builders, previously said: “We offer lots of fun on site, lovely hot meals, the experience of a lifetime and the chance to turn a family’s life around”.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. "You don't really get to speak to people on reveal day because its a lot to take in and so overwhelming, so it was great to be able to say thank you to everyone who gave up their time to help. "It's unbelievable. If that wasn't enough, they have to battle against a blizzard to get the job done in nine days. The 47-year-old went from being … They do. “The BBC powers that be called us in once to query what we were offering the companies who volunteer, because no one does anything for free,” says Knowles. We find out exactly what’s needed by the family, get the occupational therapist to liaise with our designers, and check if it can be done in nine days. Nick's team helps give people the homes they need across the UK. The DIY SOS team drafted in an army of local tradesmen – from builders to plasterers, tilers to decorators – to transform the bungalow and the lives of Dakota’s family – but the details of what they achieved have been kept under wraps until now. Far more offer their services than can be used, even though BBC editorial policy dictates that no business can gain from participation, not even by posting a video on their company website. It means so much. “But you know what? News It would be nice if we could get them back together, and that's why the community's turned out. The episode is believed to have included the fitting of a new kitchen into the couple's semi-detached home.Following the transition to the Big Build format, according to Stuart Heritage of On 7 July 2003 the BBC announced a sister show to DIY SOS, to be called Rescue a garden in Enfield with a hole where a patio was planned The BBC series, hosted by former I'm A Celebrity campmate Nick Knowles, is due …