This is a list of episodes of the BBC One show DIY SOS And DIY SOS The Big Build. The first episode aired on BBC One on 7 October 1999 and it has run for 242 episodes over 32 series.
Series overview Series Episodes Start date End date 1 6 7 October 1999 18 November 1999 2 7 7 March 2000 25 April 2000 3 9 18 October 2000 13 December 2000 4 8 12 June 2001 31 July 2001 5 8 31 January 2002 21 March 2002 6 9 20 June 2002 29 August 2002 7 8 9 January 2003 6 March 2003 8 8 10 July 2003 28 August 2003 9 8 15 January 2004 10 March 2004 10 6 19 May 2004 19 August 2004 11 8 16 March 2005 11 May 2005 12 8 28 July 2005 26 September 2005 13 10 1 May 2006 17 July 2006 14 8 8 November 2006 2 March 2007 15 8 13 July 2007 19 November 2007 16 7 27 June 2008 15 August 2008 17 8 22 August 2008 10 October 2008 18 6 9 April 2009 14 May 2009 19 7 28 April 2010 16 June 2010 20 2 15 April 2010 1 July 2010 21 4 26 August 2010 26 January 2011 22 6 13 April 2011 16 August 2011 23 10 10 January 2012 15 October 2013 24 6 22 October 2013 30 May 2014 25 6 12 May 2014 21 October 2014 26 9 18 December 2014 17 December 2015 27 10 17 February 2016 29 March 2017 28 6 8 June 2017 15 November 2017 29 6 4 January 2018 17 January 2019 30 7 3 April 2019 11 December 2019 31 6 19 November 2020 17 May 2022 32 5 10 May 2022 14 June 2022 34 5 3 October 2025 13 November 2025
Series 1 No.TitleBroadcast 1.1(Banbury) 7 October 1999Rescue a daughter's bedroom 1.2 (Devon) 14 October 1999Rescue a kitchen 1.3 (Durham) 21 October 1999Convert a shell into a playroom 1.4 (Market Drayton) 4 November 1999Fit a front door into a hole too small for it 1.5 (Wakefield) 11 November 1999Complete an unfinished kitchen 1.6 (York) 18 November 1999Rescue a piano teacher's room in her farmhouse, ruined by her husband's efforts
Series 2 No.TitleBroadcast 2.1 (Plymouth) 7 March 2000Rescue a kitchen 2.2 (Heme Bay) 14 March 2000Rescue an entire house 2.3 (Devon) 21 March 2000Rebuild a fire and flood damaged kitchen 2.4 (Walsall)28 March 2000Finish a hallway renovation begun ten years previously 2.5 (Bolton)4 April 2000Rescue a living and dining room 2.6 (Runcorn)18 April 2000Finishing touches to the walls of a house 2.7 (Yorkshire) 25 April 2000Rescue the attempted conversion of recreation room into a community hall, in a fire station
Series 3 No.TitleBroadcast 3.1 18 October 2000Complete a bathroom project, which had to stop due to the home owner's illness with breast cancer.
Filmed as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month 3.2 (Abergavenny) 25 October 2000Finish the conversion of a rat infested bathroom into a bedroom. 3.3 1 November 2000Rescue a kitchen 3.4 8 November 2000Repair a canal barge 3.5 (Edinburgh) 15 November 2000Rescue an apartment 3.6 22 November 2000Build a bathroom 3.7 29 November 2000(generic listing) 3.8 13 December 2000Rescue a kitchen 3.9 20 December 2000A behind-the-scenes look at the show
Series 4 No.TitleBroadcast 4.1 (Cardiff) 12 June 2001Rescue a kitchen. 4.2 (Llandudno) 19 June 2001Rescue a bathroom and create a living room 4.3 26 June 2001Fix a staircase and rescue a bathroom. 4.4 (Pontefract) 3 July 2001Rescue a living room 4.5 (Surrey) 10 July 2001Convert a garage into a playroom 4.6 (Nottingham) 17 July 2001Create an Oriental themed living room, breakfast room and garden for Claire 4.7 (Wirral) 24 July 2001Rescue Barbara's bedroom loft conversion 4.8 (Snowdonia) 31 July 2001Rescue Sarah and Rhys's farmhouse, which had been reduced to a shell, leaving the couple and their children living in a caravan.
Series 5 No.TitleBroadcast 5.1 Manchester 31 January 2002Renovate a kitchen. 5.2 7 February 2002Renovate a conservatory and dining-room. 5.3 (Weston-super-Mare) 14 February 2002Rescue a project experiencing building regulations difficulties 5.4 21 February 2002Lowri: Rescue an attempted playroom build. Nick: Renovate a school's classroom in a converted toilet block. 5.5 (South Yorkshire) 28 February 2002Rescue a kitchen. 5.6 7 March 2002Lowri: Rescue a kitchen Nick: Convert a post office storeroom into a dust-free play area. 5.7 (Stockton-on-Tees) 14 March 2002Assist a couple being driven apart by a project. 5.8 (Suffolk) 21 March 2002Rescue a family's project
Series 6 No.TitleBroadcast 6.1 ChristChurch 20 June 2002Rescue a kitchen conversion. 6.2 (Preston) 27 June 2002Complete a bathroom. 6.3 Birmingham 4 July 2002Rescue a bedroom project waylaid by an accident. 6.4 (Manchester) 11 July 2002Rescue a converted shop with subsidence. 6.5 Wrexham 18 July 2002Rescue a kitchen. 6.6 Birkenhead 25 July 2002Rescue a sitting room in time for a wedding. 6.7 15 August 2002A look back over the last three years of shows. 6.8 22 August 2002Rescue a sitting room in time for a wedding. 6.9 (Slough) 29 August 2002Complete an unusual house.
Series 7 No.TitleBroadcast 7.1 Bristol 9 January 2003Rescue a house modernisation 7.2 (Lewes) 16 January 2003Complete an extension halted after a death. 7.3 Aldershot 23 January 2003Rescue ten-year-old Dan's "House of Horrors" 7.4 Walsall 30 January 2003Lowri: Rescue a bedroom. Nick: Work on an unusual kitchen. 7.5 Blackpool 6 February 2003Assist foster parents whose with special needs children. 7.6 Retford 13 February 2003Finish the conversion of a coal shed into Jason's bedroom 7.7 (Halifax) 20 February 2003Finish Brian's bathroom. 7.8 (Bradford) 6 March 2003Assist Susan and Wayne, whose relationship is under strain.
Series 8 No.TitleBroadcast 8.1 (Suffolk) 10 July 2003Finish a cottage 8.2 (Bristol) 17 July 2003Complete Carolyn and Adrian's house 8.3 24 July 2003Complete Cherie and Jon's master bedroom project, stalled after Jon injured his shoulder 8.4 Bath 31 July 2003Rescue Jo and Julian's bathroom, begun by Julian two years previously. 8.5 (Addlestone Surrey) 7 August 2003Knowles: rescue a decorating job Lowri: Rescue a room 8.6 Nottingham 14 August 2003Two bathroom projects, Lowri for Mary, Knowles for Janet (Nottingham) 8.7 Brixton 21 August 2003Rescue Vera and Doug's house, tinkered with by Doug for 17 years 8.8 Derby 28 August 2003Rescue a woman's house from her Greek partner's DIY efforts
Series 9 No.TitleBroadcast 9.1 (Cardiff) 15 January 2004Rescue a lounge. 9.2 (Stratford-upon-Avon) 22 January 2004Finish a loft bedroom conversion. 9.3 (Cheltenham) 29 January 2004Build a kitchen from scratch. 9.4 (Pembrokeshire) 5 February 2004Complete a renovation begun 25 years previously 9.5 Caernarfon 12 February 2004Complete Thomas and Rachel's conversion of a disused shop into a house, begun by Thomas 9.6 Woking 19 February 2004Complete the upgrading of Daniel's former railway cottage 9.7 (Cheltenham) 26 February 2004Build Debbie's handmade kitchen from scratch 9.8 (Derby) 10 March 2004Restore a Victorian terraced house, latterly used as bedsits
Series 10 No.TitleBroadcast 10.1 (Stockport) 15 July 2004Assist decorating tutor Ian renovate his new home 10.2 West Midlands 22 July 2004Revamp the bedroom of 14-year-old Andrew, son of widowed Maggie 10.3 (Sussex) 29 July 2004Renovate the kitchen of recent divorcee Chris, who is hampered by a back injury 10.4 (Farnborough Hampshire) 5 August 2004Create a bedroom for widow Susie, who has been sharing her 14-year-old daughter's bedroom for a decade. 10.5 (Bristol) 12 August 2004Complete David and Sara's self-build home, a project hampered by planning issues, builder walkouts and money troubles. 10.6 Cardiff 19 August 2004Finish the improvements to Scott and Gemma's house, made necessary after Gemma suffered a brain tumour, the project having been started by Scott himself.
Series 11 No.TitleBroadcast 11.1 (Glasgow) 16 March 2005Finish Margaret's loft conversion 11.2 (Torquay) 23 March 2005Complete Lesley and Mark's open plan living area 11.3 (Fleetwood) 6 April 2005Complete a bedroom loft conversion for the son of an oil rig worker 11.4 Preston 13 April 2005Rescue Angela and Steve's living room, left with a sagging ceiling and collapsed chimney breast by builder Steve's own efforts 11.5 (Wales) 20 April 2005Rescue Laurence's self-build project, begun 20 years ago but recently struck by fire. 11.6 Cumbernauld 27 April 2005Finish a lounge in a couple's new home. 11.7 (Manchester) 4 May 2005Complete the conversion of Keith and Torsten's three storey house from bedsits back into one single home. 11.8 (Leeds) 11 May 2005Finish French expat Odile's kitchen
Series 12 No.TitleBroadcast 12.1 (Cheltenham) 28 July 2005Renovate the clubhouse of a community centre's football team 12.2 (Pembrokeshire) 4 August 2005Build a separate play area for Merrilee and Chris's two-year-old daughter Mia, made necessary due to the lack of space caused by the equipment required to treat her cystic fibrosis. 12.3 Newbury 11 August 2005Complete Elsie and Duncan's kitchen extension. kitchen extensions 12.4 (Northfleet Kent) 18 August 2005Finish the modernisation of Kate and Craig's 1930's lounge diner, work on their new house having stalled due to money issues 12.5 Hartlepool 25 August 2005Complete the bathroom in Daniel and Eve's large house, undergoing conversion back from subdivision into flats 12.6 Rushden 12 September 2005Build a dining room for single mother Sarah 12.7 (Tisbury) 19 September 2005Fit a kitchen 12.8 (Bath) 26 September 2005Create an education centre at Bath City Farm from a shell of a building, assisted by volunteers from the Royal Navy
Series 13 No.TitleBroadcast 13.1 Rushden 1 May 2006 13.2 Eastbourne 8 May 2006 13.3 Bolsover 15 May 2006Assisting a couple to convert a difficult loft space into a room for their young son. 13.4 Cleethorpes 22 May 2006Complete the renovation of a kitchen in Vanessa's Victorian house. 13.5 Gloucester 29 May 2006Assist the mother of 16-year-old Amy and 12-year-old Nick's efforts at DIY. 13.6 Yarm 5 June 2006Finish the bathroom of Shahzad and Waheeda's house. 13.7 Norfolk 28 June 2006Assist a conversion of a garage into a room for Carl and Michelle's six-year-old son. 13.8 Warrington 3 July 2006Assist a young family. 13.9 South Wales 10 July 2006Create a county-style lounge in Angie and Paul's farmhouse. 13.10 Ipswich 17 July 2006Assist in the expansion of Jason and Toni's three bedroom house.
Series 14 No.TitleBroadcast 14.1 Fishguard 20 April 2007Renovate the bedroom and en-suite bathroom for Maria and Barrie; they had been making slow progress on their house ever since the birth of their quadruplets, four and a half years previously. 14.2 Swindon 22 November 2006 14.3 Crawley 29 November 2006Assist in the renovation of a kitchen diner for brothers Daniel and Adam. 14.4 Navenby 6 December 2006Create a multi-functional room with an eco-friendly heating system for John and Maaike in their house located inside a former telephone exchange; they had begun renovations themselves, but work had stopped after Maaike was diagnosed with osteonecrosis in 2003. 14.5 Essex 13 December 2006Assist in the renovation of a lounge diner for paramedic Tina. 14.6 Manchester 26 February 2007Remedy a kitchen extension for Kevin, whose efforts to perform it himself had failed. 14.7 Pembroke Dock 8 January 2007Extend the bathroom in Adrian and Rachel's house; having bought a run down property to renovate themselves, their family grew faster than expected. 14.8 Clevedon 2 March 2007Complete an extension to create a media lounge for Stuart and his three boys; having begun the project himself, work stopped at the shell stage, after the death of his wife Hilary.
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