Help! My House is Falling Down (2010)
Help! My House is Falling Down is a Channel 4 show hosted by Sarah Beeny. She and her team of experts travel around Britain looking for homes that need urgent repair. The show dispenses advice on what constitutes a minor or major repair, and follows the work done. The show first aired on 10 August 2010, and saw Sarah Beeny visit six residences around Britain. In episode one, a couple were desperate to save their 250 year old cottage in Northampton from woodworm, erosion, flooding and brick-eating bees. The second episode involved Sarah rescuing an Essex home from sludge, sewage, rats and black mould. Sarah headed to Hull for the third episode in which troublesome tree roots caused massive cracking to internal walls of a beautiful Victorian property. In episode four, a young couple from Brighton battled with disintegrating walls and chronic damp. Fareham played host to episode five, and Sarah attempted to rescue a house that was sinking into the ground. Add to that a failing roof, shifting floors and sewage problems, and this 16 room Georgian house proves to be a very large challenge. In the final episode of the season, Sarah helps a couple in Staines who returned from their honeymoon to find burst pipes and extreme flooding.
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Episode 1 - Northampton
Release Date: 2010-08-10Sarah attempts to help Nick and Becky who purchased their 250-year-old cottage in the Northampton village of Earl's Barton three years ago. Since buying the property they have discovered woodworm in the rafters. Their stone walls are also being eroded by the weather and being destroyed by a swarm of brick-eating bees.
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Episode 2 - Essex
Release Date: 2010-08-17Sarah travels to Essex to try and help a couple there who bought what they believed to be the perfect house in which to raise their four children.
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Episode 3 - Hull
Release Date: 2010-08-31Sarah attempts to help a couple who bought a five bedroom Victorian property in Hull's Garden Village unaware that roots of surrounding trees could put their new property in danger of collapsing.
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Episode 4 - Brighton
Release Date: 2010-09-07Sarah travels to Brighton where she offers advise to Tony and Kerensa to help deal with the walls of their two-bedroom period property.
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Episode 5 - Fareham
Release Date: 2010-09-21Sarah meets Terry and Mandy who have spent years looking for a property big enough for their four children. A few months ago they bought a Georgian town house in Fareham with 16 rooms, only to discover a catalogue of horrors after they moved in. Sarah attempts to help them turn the house's fortunes around.
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Episode 6 - Staines
Release Date: 2010-09-28Vicky and James live in Staines and are desperate to start a family but the four-bedroom property they've just bought is in such a bad state that it's not fit to bring up a family in. Sarah and her team attempt to help them turn the property's fortunes around.