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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00:00Snow Patrol
Give Me Strength
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00:01Woodkid
Run Boy Run
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00:02Tom Baxter
Miracle
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00:03Jon Hopkins
Abandon Window
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00:03Coldplay
O
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00:05Kasabian
British Legion
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00:05Kasabian
British Legion
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00:06Patrick James
Redemption Days
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00:07Josh Osho
Redemption Days
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00:09Take That
Hold Up A Light
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00:09The Prodigy
Stand Up
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00:10Babyshambles
You Talk
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00:11Rebecca Ferguson
Glitter Gold
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00:13Ellie Goulding
Home
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00:13The Wanted
All Time Low
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00:14Rae Morris
Skin
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00:16Rae Morris
From Above
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00:16Portishead
Roads
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00:19Gary Barlow
Let Me Go
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00:20Orbital
Halcyon
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00:21Florence + the Machine
How Big, How Blue
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00:21Rebecca Ferguson
Bones
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00:22Rebecca Ferguson
Bones
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00:24The Tony Hatch Orchestra
Downtown
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00:28The Streets
Don't Mug Yourself
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00:28Turin Brakes
Slack
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00:29Elbow
Weather To Fly
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00:31The Wanted
Glad You Came
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00:35London Grammar
Metal & Dust
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00:36London Grammar
Metal & Dust
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00:28The Streets
Don't Mug Yourself
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00:26Turin Brakes
Underdog
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00:39Noah and the Whale
L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
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00:39Snow Patrol
This Isn't Everything You Are
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00:40Snow Patrol
This Isn't Everything You Are
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00:42Woodkid
Run Boy Run
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00:43London Grammar
Hey Now
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00:47Olly Murs
Hand On Heart
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00:49Rae Morris
This Time
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00:48Olly Murs
Dear Darlin'
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00:48Eliza
Walking On Water
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00:50Gabrielle Aplin
Salvation
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00:51Gabrielle Aplin
Salvation
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00:52Coldplay
Adventure Of A Lifetime
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00:53Eliza and the Bear
Cruel
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00:54Embrace
Gravity
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00:56Leona Lewis
Fireflies
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| 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 |
