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DIY SOS: The Big Build on Sheppey to be shown on BBC One soon

The BBC has confirmed the date for when DIY SOS: The Big Build, featuring a Sheppey family, will be on TV.

The show will be aired on Thursday, June 8 at 8.55pm on BBC One.

For the project, a brand new home was built from scratch in just nine days for husbands Garry and Kyle Ratcliffe.

The Ratcliffe family with DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles
The Ratcliffe family with DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles

The property, in Elmley Road, Brambledown, now caters specifically for their family thanks to the BBC programme.

The couple have four adopted children, three with very complex and life-limiting medical conditions.

Their eldest son Haydn, 12, has cerebral palsy, is blind in one eye, is tube fed and uses a powered wheelchair full-time.

His younger brother Curtis also has severe cerebral palsy, as well as scoliosis, hip dysplasia, epilepsy and sleep apnoea.

The five-year-old is also blind, tube fed and uses a wheelchair full-time.

DIY SOS: The Big Build featuring Sheppey will be aired next month
DIY SOS: The Big Build featuring Sheppey will be aired next month

Their nine-year-old sister Isobella has high-level Down syndrome, causing behavioural, learning and communication difficulties.

The youngest sibling, Phoebe, is four and physically healthy, but she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and night terrors, having been neglected and taken into care as a baby.

The Ratcliffes lived in a three-bedroom bungalow, with one bathroom, which had become completely unsuitable.

DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles
DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles

The DIY SOS team looked to extend the house, but after realising this would not be possible, they completely demolished it at the beginning of September. The team then returned to the Island in October to rebuild it.

The Ratcliffes' new family home has five bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Speaking after the 'big reveal', Garry said the family was overwhelmed by people’s generosity and the finished house was better than their wildest dreams.

He added: “To everyone who has been working on the project, words cannot describe our appreciation.

“You have all made our children’s lives so much easier and just perfect."

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