RUNNING OUT OF TIME! DIY renovation project

We've got 24 hours to get this room ready for Christmas. Can we pull it off? We still need to finish painting the windows, wash the dog, do some last minute food shopping and pick up a few bits for the house renovation. And at the last minute our Bulgarian neighbour turned up to help. The room still looks like a building site and we've got one more day before Christmas. We're going to do as much as we can within 24 hours and then tidy up to be ready for Christmas. It's fine. I'm putting mine to bed. We'll get some more in at some point. That is it guys. So we've done our own little mini-reef. I've had to wash Zorro because Zorro decided to go outside and it splashed on me. Yep, smells clean. Going to dry you off. Make sure you dry. Good boy. Say bye-bye. Bye-bye. So he's a clean dog now. You can kiss the dog. Or maybe not kiss the dog. He looks happy though. Yeah, I think initially he's a bit scared but whilst they're all... You OK? He's OK. Dobre. Got the pet scrub so he's nice and warm. Da. Good boy. Finishing this off. I've got these big stones here and a lot of you have been saying in the comments the plastic will retain the water and it will not drain because it's not porous. I've already made holes. The plastic is old. It has got a lot of holes in it. Small holes. I've doubled it over and the rocks itself make holes in the plastic naturally. I'm not too concerned about that. Thank you for your advice. I've made a note of that and I will obviously amend it where I think it needs mending based on your advice. It's the first time I'm doing this so I appreciate all your comments and your support on doing this. I'm just putting in some bits of wood. Let me show you. These bits of wood here and putting them in just to retain the wall of the dirt. I'm going to fill between here with some dirt just to hold it up. And I've done the same on that side as well. I've got good plans and big plans for this which will lead out to where the car is. This is just for winter. Instead of that, I'll live with mud. I'll live with that for the next few months. It's not nice to walk in and bring mud into the house every day. This is a solution I can come up with. The reason why I've used big stones because normally I wouldn't. I'd use sand and smaller stones. This is going to be almost like a water runaway. The water will stay and run below the stones and then I'm going to put dirt on the top and the water will eventually lead out down there. Again, it's in a slight gradient so the water will run down and will filter out to the garden. It's better than sitting here and becoming a mud bath. That's why I've used these big stones. When I'm finished, I'm going to reuse these stones somewhere else in the garden which you'll see at some point. I'm going to use them now. Hello. That's Zorro. I've just realised they've thrown some dirt there for me. Oh, I didn't see that. My Bulgarian friend over there with a tractor just going over there. He's just put some there. Appreciate that. Just come around the corner with a little red tractor. Our neighbour is right there. Now I've got this, I can tidy up the garage area. Thank you, my great Bulgarian neighbours. Appreciate that so much. That's one thing I need is a tractor. We're expecting that to be there straight away. I came out and did not even see that massive pile. It's like rocks and stones. Anyway, brilliant. Eva's going to put that down on the floor. I've done a good job. It's good to have good neighbours in Bulgaria and Eva's one of them. Looking good. Get rid of the grass. I don't want that. Get rid of these weeds. The grass is growing. Don't want that. Thank you. Thank you much. Morning. Thank you. Appreciate. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Take care. Thank you, bye. Eva's kindly helped us out today to help with the driveway. It's better than before. I believe Elaine's inside the house doing some painting, I believe, or something, inside the lounge. What do you think of the lounge? Do you think you like it? Do you like the colours? I wasn't too sure of that Reddy, pinky, peachy, orangy, terracotty, I don't know what kind of colour it is. I wasn't too sure about that but now it looks really nice. I like it. It doesn't show on the camera as well as it does in the flesh. I know I put some lighting on it but it looks really great and Elaine's done a good job. Now she's painting the windows and the window sills. Another colour. I've got this fine hardcore. It's very fine so it'll look nice. Not big stuff. I'm going to fill all this with the hardcore so it's nice and black. Obviously you'll see some of the stones underneath but it'll be hard. I'm going to try and create a pattern. What I wanted to do is I've got a load of paving stones paving stones I'm going to place paving stones there. I could either do I might just do one down the middle or I can do two. Which one should I go for? I'm going to do two. One either side. Gap one inside. I can do that. What do you think? One. So as you walk in it'll be like step one there. No, I don't think one looks good. I think two. I think we'll do two because if I'm pushing a wheelbarrow or something in it's going to be better for stability rather than dodging. So if I put one there and one there like that what do you think? So one there a gap one there one there and one there again. What do you think guys? Good? Good idea? Right, let's do it. Let's do two. I'm just going to get these seated in and then I'm going to come back to you. We've never stopped today. Alright. Let me get on with it. I've got as level as I can tampering it down or compacting it the best I can. This stone's a bit wobbly so I'll lift it up shove a bit of dirt in there and put it back. There you go. So if you've got a mallet a very heavy mallet like this one you can use this. They have got tools but this is just something to keep it firmly in place. Move any stones out of the way. I'm probably going to move this stone here. Put some smaller stones. Lucky enough with the dirt I just got a minute ago there's a lot of them in there to firm the ground. Then later I can just cover it up a bit more. For now I'm just trying to get them in position. Set the other ones in similar positions. So right now I've done it at I'll show you 10 centimetres apart 13 centimetres apart from each other. Approximately. I'm not going to be too fussy on that one. So you can get an idea of what it's going to look like. It's going to look quite decent I think. I've just got to do the other stones. Coming really well. Yeah, it's alright actually. Yeah. It may never be too close. Maybe not in the winter. By the time I do one and the other I've got back to that one and it's coming really well though. Yeah. There we go. We know that it's a very long process to do this. What we're doing repainting the windows. But we can change it to double glazing but the problem is that you lose the character off the house. So we really want to maintain the old Bulgarian style. We're just going to try and keep it as natural as possible while still maintaining the warmth. It's actually drying very quickly which is good. That's what I've done. Ignore all the bits of plastic. It's not finished yet but what do you think guys? What do you think? Good. Remember, I did all that. That needs to be levelled out. What do you think? A bit closer. Nice paving stones to walk on. Up to the gate. Right, let me go and get Elaine. Ignore all this mess. This is going to be tied up. We've got ashes from the petrol car. Wood chippings everywhere from when I'm cutting wood. This is where obviously I cut a lot of wood so I've got to clean that up. Elaine? Yeah? Really got to put some WD-40 on that door. On that door? Have we had complaints? Yeah. We have. Oh gosh, alright. Alright. Right, so what have you been up to out here? Right. What do you think? Oh wow. Wow, that is brilliant. Look at that. Look at what it was compared to what it is now. Yeah, I know. That is amazing. I mean, before that was mud. Yeah. Then it became a lot of stones. Yeah. And now you've got that. Wow. Yeah. All in one day. Or two. Well, three or four days. Well, yeah. I mean yesterday was the day I decided that's what I'm going to do and I did it. We've walked down it. Let's see. Wait, wait, wait. I want to see. Go on in, that's it. There you go. Oh look, she's walking catwalk now, look. I know. She's done a good job. High five. That's one job done. Right, that's one done. Three million to go. Hello. Taxi. Hello. Do you remember him? Yeah, da, da, da. He's my friend. Da, da, da. Thank you. Everyone's getting prepared for Christmas. We are going to go into the normal butchers that we go into and grab some meat because, yeah, everyone's been, not everyone closes on the 25th today. No, it's supposed to be on Christmas Day but it's holiday, it's busy. Really? Yeah. Wow. Wow, proper busy. Thank you. Oh, wow. And then it's very busy today. I've never seen so many people in this butchers. How are you? Good. England, England, they call them trotters. Trotters. Pig feet trotters. Good. Thank you. Bye. That is it, guys. We bought our meat for Christmas. So we're done. If you ever want to come and have a nice cake, she is the person to come to. So guys, if you're ever in Ljaskovec, this is the place. Windows, maybe, if anyone doesn't know. We didn't finish everything in time for Christmas. There are still things left undone and that can feel heavy, especially when you've got kids. But when we look back on where this room started, the change is massive. We're still going. For today, this is enough. Thank you all so much for watching and we'll see you in the new year.