DIY SOS - Specials
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: January 2, 2009
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team take a trip down memory lane, recalling some of their best renovations, stories, and the funniest moments over the last 10 years. Did DIY SOS truly change people's lives for the better? Join Nick and the team in between jobs on this unique journey through the DIY SOS archives.
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: January 7, 2009
What do Nick and the DIY SOS team do in their week off? Join them in between jobs and find out as they show more of their favourite stories from the past ten years. Including the highs, the lows and the funnies.
3 - Floods Special
Air Date: December 27, 2007
Nick Knowles and the team face their biggest challenge yet in this DIY SOS Flood special. Since the June floods, there are still many families still trying to renovate their houses back to liveable condition. The team head to Toll Bar, near Doncaster, and take on a foster family's house which found itself deep in water. Plus, they renovate the local club to provide a much-needed space for the people of Toll Bar.
4 - The Big Build
Air Date: December 10, 2009
Nick Knowles and the team attempt to re-house a family who have spent years in a caravan.
5 - The Big Build - Chessington
Air Date: April 15, 2010
The team transforms the life of a family who have spent years living in a building site.
6 - The Big Build - Haydock
Air Date: July 1, 2010
Nick Knowles recruits extra help to renovate a whole house, making it a home.
7 - The Big Build - Brynmawr
Air Date: August 26, 2010
The team transforms an ex-council house in the Welsh Valleys into a family home.
8 - The Big Build - Littlehamption
Air Date: December 30, 2010
Nick Knowles and the team help Mike, whose house was ruined by rogue builders.
9 - The Big Build - Nottingham
Air Date: January 6, 2011
The team work to transform an extension into a cosy, family-friendly space.
10 - The Big Build - Chippenham
Air Date: January 26, 2011
Nick Knowles and the team build an extension to help bring a brain-injured son home.
11 - The Big Build - Aberystwyth
Air Date: April 13, 2011
Nick Knowles and the team enlist the help of the local community in Aberystwyth to renovate a home for a builder with a brain tumour. Michael Saunders built an extension onto his house when his son- in-law's MS meant he had to start using a wheelchair. When Michael discovered he had cancer, he was unable to finish his own home and he and his partner were left living in a cold and draughty shell of a house. Battling against terrible weather conditions, Nick and the team head to West Wales to rally friends, family and local trades to help turn Michael's house from a building site into a comfortable home.
12 - The Big Build - Durham
Air Date: April 20, 2011
Nick Knowles and the team enlist the help of the local community in Durham to reconfigure a home and reunite a family torn apart by illness. Sixteen-year-old Kieron Purvis collapsed with an undiagnosed heart condition in December 2009. Following a heart transplant and a double amputation, the Purvis family found themselves living apart because their home was not equipped for Kieron's special needs. Nick and the SOS team issue a call to arms and rally friends, family and local trades to get the Purvis' home fit for them to live under the same roof after a year apart. (Stereo, Widescreen)
13 - The Big Build - Stoke
Air Date: April 27, 2011
Nick Knowles and the team are joined by guest designer Charlie Luxton. They join forces to enlist the help of the local community in Stoke and renovate a home for a family battling terminal illness. Dad Haydn Spice was diagnosed with abdominal cancer shortly after buying a derelict house at auction in 2004. Haydn's ill health meant that he couldn't work on the house, and his family have been left living in a building site. He and his wife and three daughters are all sleeping in one bedroom and trying to make the best of the time Haydn has left. Nick and the team head to the Midlands to rally friends, family and local trades to help turn the Spice family's derelict house into a comfortable home.
14 - The Big Build - Cirencester
Air Date: August 2, 2011
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team enlist local tradespeople, members of the community and guest designer Charlie Luxton in Cirencester to transform an incomplete extension and run-down house into a clean, warm and healthy home for a family on the brink of despair.
15 - The Big Build - Dartford
Air Date: August 9, 2011
The team transforms a post-war house in Dartford into a warm and safe home for the future.
16 - The Big Build - Ottery St Mary
Air Date: August 16, 2011
The team convert a bungalow into a four-bedroom home for a family at their wits' end.
17 - The Big Build - Children in Need Special - Liverpool
Air Date: November 10, 2011
The team travels to Liverpool to completely refurbish Norris Green Youth Centre. The money Children in Need already give to this centre helps it provide activities for young people with few other options. But the building is falling down around them, and without the youth centre the youngsters will have nowhere else to go outside school.
18 - The Big Build - Chesterfield
Air Date: January 10, 2012
Derbyshire is the destination for Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team as they travel to Chesterfield to help Lisa and Richard Watson and their young family.
19 - The Big Build - Conwy
Air Date: January 18, 2012
Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team travel to a beautiful village in the Welsh countryside to help a widower and his eight-year-old daughter.
20 - The Big Build Children in Need Special
Air Date: November 16, 2021
DIY SOS and BBC Children in Need embark on a truly challenging build for the Blackburn homeless charity Nightsafe. Young homeless people are often overlooked, vulnerable and very much in need of help.
21 - Children in Need Special 2022
Air Date: November 16, 2022
The DIY SOS team joins forces with Radio 2 for a Children in Need mega build in Leeds.
22 - Strictly Special
Air Date: August 30, 2023
DIY SOS and Strictly partner up to bring some sparkle to an inclusive performing arts charity in Wallsend, transforming a derelict sports club into a creative home for their young people.
23 - Children in Need Special 2023
Air Date: November 16, 2023
In their tenth build for BBC Children in Need, DIY SOS partner up with Radio 2 to create a bespoke counselling centre for bereaved children in Derbyshire.
24 - EastEnders Special
Air Date: December 18, 2023
In a heart-warming episode for Christmas, DIY SOS partner with the stars of EastEnders to bring volunteers together to support a mental health community project in Harlow, Essex.
25 - Children in Need Special 2025
Air Date: November 13, 2025
DIY SOS and Children in Need join forces to transform The Joshua Tree, a children’s cancer support charity, in an emotional and ambitious special build.