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- It's framing day boys. He said you need the guns.

- Keep 'em for the grunt.

(Laughing)

- Missed!

(Honking)

- Alright, spracklin. Waitin' on ya.

- This is a tangly of a job today.

- You said the right word, tangly.

- Yeah. - Like a bag of fish hooks.

(Laughing) Might need some help, Ricky.

- We don't want to hit anything.

- This just gets better and better.

Gee whiz. (Laughing)

- You ready to go see? (Gasping)

- Oh my...

(Upbeat folk music)

- I'm Randy spracklin. Third generation builder,

proud newfoundlander!

My team and I are building on one giant cliff

in the Atlantic ocean.

They don't call it the rock for nothing!

We fight the elements year-round to get the job done.

It might be tough for some, but not for us.

Because when this is your view, it's worth it.

(Paul): What do we got this morning?

- This morning we got a lot on the go. Many jobs.

We take it all on, you know, from old, new. Whatever it is.

So today, we're going to petty harbour,

we're trying to fill in inside the foundation.

We're building like, a chimbley chase on rennie's mill road.

Geez and the list goes on.

Sun is shining though, I got my shorts on! Mint.

Good day.

(Upbeat music)

Vehicles. Worst investment you can ever have.

(Laughing) The rust fleet!

With a lot of jobs and a lot of people moving,

you need a lot of vehicles. My fleet is getting a little

bit big. Means a lot of maintenance.

Uh-oh. I got a break light gone too.

Oh look, more maintenance.

You know, when you got something broken or if you got a spot

that you need to be fixed so, I went and got a sheet

of metal, welded it on... done.

But hey,

you don't get a job by having a truck looking pretty.

(Laughing)

Best kind. Later! Don't flip 'er on the turns!

- I won't.

- As my crew heads out across the avalon,

I'm staying behind in brigus to meet some new clients,

the buttons!

Their home is a showstopper on the harbour.

And we're getting ready to build a piece on the side

which needs to fit perfectly.

So, I'm here to meet Wayne and Linda to go over

to finer details before we bring in and start digging.

What a beautiful spring day. - I know.

- Gorgeous! - So, we're gonna...

Put a new add-on. For your main bedroom, main bath.

- Yeah. - On the main floor.

- On the main floor! No stairs.

- Yeah.

(Randy): The house has been her for about 20 years.

Inside, it's in great shape,

but they wanted to do a bit of updating.

So we're turning the front entrance

into a great sitting area for Linda to enjoy

a cup of tea and take in the views of the harbour.

In the living room, the fireplace

is being converted to propane,

and we're creating a feature wall

with new stone and floating shelves.

The whole main floor will get a fresh coat of paint.

But the biggest transformation is the new addition.

This is gonna be their new bedroom

with loads of windows to enjoy the view.

The new bathroom will have a large soaker tub

and a custom shower.

This is a perfect retreat they want on the main floor

and making it look like it's always been there,

that's what we wanted to do.

This is gonna be the big Reno.

- Yes. - We're gonna have a big

en suite and a big closet.

- Well, yeah. Big, big. Yeah. - Big, big!

(Laughing)

It looks amazing from the outside,

so definitely highlight the way they got

that little bump up, the peak.

Make the outside kind of blend in

and make it not look like an add-on. That's the key.

- That's the key, yeah. - Especially this one.

It's kind of unique to the area.

The boats, that's the first thing they're gonna see coming

into the harbour. So, we gotta make sure we make it unique

and blend well with the house you already have.

- Yeah. Perfect.

- Timeline for us is like two or three months,

you know, might be a little bit longer,

might be a little bit faster, depending on how fast

we can get materials.

The budget for this place is going to be

like a $140,000.

Beautiful spring, so we'll get the foundation in,

then we can start actually building up.

Then you got a new bedroom.

(Chuckling) - Sounds great!

- So, I'll go get the excavator and get started

before we get winter. - Great.

- Don't want to be building in the winter. Too cold!

(Upbeat music)

Today, we're here at the buttons

getting ready to dig for that new addition.

So I got pat, the excavating guy,

coming along, getting ready to go digging.

Hopefully we don't hit nothing. Fingers crossed.

This is the Mark-out for the new addition.

Right here is going to be a bedroom.

We're actually going to put a washroom in this corner.

Then we're gonna break right in through here

next that window, 'cause that's going,

to move out the new washroom. Done!

We do need a foundation, something solid to build

this house on. So that's why we got to dig four feet.

Plus, to keep it below the frost.

The only thing is there's a septic tank there somewhere.

So yeah, it's a little bit nerve-wracking.

We don't want to hit anything!

- So, what is the plan? - I got it all marked out,

18 by 20.

The only thing is we got a septic here.

The septic tank is supposed to be back there.

We're not going to hit it, but the field runs out.

- And what are you going to do with that?

When Randy calls me, I don't always pick up

because this is the sort of thing he asks me to do.

But, at the end of the day he does pay me so uh,

that's a great motivator in life.

So, am I right in saying there's multiple lines here?

- There's definitely multiple but I don't know how far out.

- Yeah. So, I mean, every foot of pipe we tear up,

we've got to put back. - Oh yeah.

- And I guess that tree has gotta stay.

So we gotta work around that.

It always gets good with you, Randy, doesn't it?

(Laughing)

- If it was easy, everybody would want to do it.

- Randy is challenging me today, but it's a nice sunny day.

So, you got to look at it on a Monday

with a smile on your face

and hope it goes well from there.

There's nobody actively living here every day, is there?

There is?

This just gets better and better.

Gee whiz. (Laughing)

I'll go get equipment moving.

(Upbeat music)

The history is when Randy was a little boy,

I was doing work for his grandfather,

his dad, and his uncle.

And then Randy comes along

and he makes the company even bigger

and he keeps me even busier.

- Stuff is movin'!

- My other connection is... One of Randy's

key employees happens to be my nephew.

Randy says, "pat, have you got anybody down there

that works for you that wants more money?"

And I said, "Randy, I told you.

You can't raid my people!"

But anyway, I told them about Paul.

I think they got together, and Randy and Paul

have been working pretty well,

it seems to me, since then.

(Upbeat music)

- Not good!

So, there it goes.

(Upbeat music)

(Folk music)

(Randy): Foundation at the button's, out in brigus.

It's a really (bleep) Situation now.

We hit that septic tank.

It's actually where we're gonna do the add-on.

Unfortunately, we can't build a wall over the septic tank.

So, that tank gotta be lifted up,

moved outside the foundation, and hooked up again.

Lot of work! One day job turned two days.

It's the Monday blues!

(Upbeat music)

(Randy): Turned out looking like it was gonna be bad.

You know, we hit a little bit of a problem.

Pat's gone to get a new tank.

So, by the end of the day,

hole dug out, new tank in,

win-win! Foundation tomorrow.

So bad turned into good.

(Upbeat music)

With me tied up in brigus, Paul's down in petty harbour.

- Petty harbour's a nice little fishing village.

You got a lot of scenery and you can see

the little fishing boats as they go in and out

throughout the day.

(Randy): We're saving a biscuit box house

that's over 100 years old.

Some think we should have torn it down and started over.

But that's not what we do. We love a challenge,

and this is definitely a challenge!

(Paul): Al's outside. He's doing the last little bit

of prep work because we got the mini-mini here,

and I just picked up our heavy-duty plate compacter.

(Randy): We're building an addition for a new mudroom,

living room, laundry and a washroom.

The original main floor

will have an open-concept kitchen and dining room

with a large island that'll have a beer tap

for Liam, the brew-master homeowner!

Can't wait for this one to be finished!

- There you go! Opened up.

- With the steel beams in place

we're ready for a special feature for this open

concept design.

We got to pour a concrete floor,

which is going to be finished. There's nothing going

over top of it. No hardwood, no finishing.

This concrete floor is going to be the finish.

In order to do that,

we gotta fill inside the foundation with rock

starting with the bigger stones on the bottom,

then topping it off with some gravel.

But before the concrete is poured,

we're adding in-floor heat which is a perfect way

to warm up the house and your feet!

We'll be adding 30 tons of rock and stone,

and it has to be fully compressed using

a plate compacter.

(Motor starting)

We gotta tamp it down. Every time that you put

stone down. We gotta tamp it,

make sure it's good and solid.

Especially when you're pouring concrete on top of it.

This is gonna take a few days to finish,

but it'll be worth it in the end.

Duane, the engineer, is here to sign off

on the process, and ensure the foundation

is rock solid and ready for concrete.

- I'm looking at, say, at least two lifts

to get up to the rough grade to get to our stone level.

(Duane): Right on. My only real concern there

is if there's bedrock. If this stuff is poking up

into our floor slab area or into the granulars

underneath the slab, then that's gonna be an issue.

You might need to get a buster in to chop that down.

- Hammer it down. - Or, yeah.

- Haven't hit bedrock yet!

That one there just turned out to be a Boulder.

Well, not really a Boulder but for this size machine maybe.

It's just me and the mini,

and just trying to get things done

to keep ahead of the game.

My uncle owns an excavation company.

So, when I was little and used to go up to my nan's house

on a Sunday, my uncle's house was right next door,

so I'd always have to run next door and see

what uncle pat was at. I'd spend a full afternoon

in there, in my glee,

because I got to operate the backhoe all day.

And he's probably thinking to himself,

"man, that's good cheap labour." (Laughing)

(Randy): Back in St. John's at the Robbins'

century-year-old home,

we battled through many setbacks.

- I don't think there's very much holding that up.

- Man, oh man, oh man.

This was our biggest hurdle, trying to get this floor fixed.

But look at it. It looks like a brand-new kitchen.

We're over the foundation hump now.

The owners' daughter Katie starts music school

in a few weeks, and that's when they're all moving back in.

It's been a huge job.

We fixed up both washrooms upstairs,

and downstairs,

we're flipping two major rooms.

The old kitchen was torn out to make room

for Katie's new music room and lounge area,

with plenty of space for a grand piano.

The old living room is now their big,

new, open-concept kitchen and dining area.

We added a lot of new plumbing and electrical

for the kitchen, because there's all new appliances,

lighting, large island for plenty of prep

and hanging out.

And we're putting a sink in the ole chimbley.

It's gonna be a catty looking kitchen.

Let's bring on the insulation.

(Upbeat music)

The insulation we're using is a spray foam.

It doesn't take long to do, which is a good thing.

Because Paul's ready to prep the new kitchen

for some major installs.

- We got a lot of patching to do. We want to try

and get this wrapped up today, because plaster

is coming on Monday.

(Randy): I love the feelin' when we can finally

move forward on a job.

And it's a Friday, even better.

Look. Awesome day. Sun is shining.

Good day for a feed! We're in St. John's.

Let's go round up the b'ys! It'll be on me today!

Hey! Time for a feed, my treat.

Time for a feed!

- Now, what way did he go?

(Upbeat music)

- We always go to the jobs where we can get the feed.

So just down the road here now, massive burger!

What a deadly feed!

- Uh, the jalapeno honey fried chicken

sandwich with fries.

Perfect timing to be in town. Day like this,

sunny, good feed outdoors.

- What do you got?

This is why we pick the locations

where we work. Deadly feeds

means good job.

Because if the job goes bad, food don't!

Friday feeds are the best, but getting the job

back on track is even better.

(Upbeat music)

(Folk music)

(Randy): Up in brigus the addition

on the button's house is well underway.

We're building a new main-floor bedroom and bathroom

that'll have loads of light and views of the bay.

We dug down below the frost lin for the foundation

and our concrete footings are in.

Next up, prep for the foundation walls.

(Beeping)

- You got a battery, pat?

So, today I'm here at Dr. Button's.

We're giving my uncle and his crew a hand there

to get the icf put together.

Get it all set up so that it's ready for pour.

You say 43 and three quarters, Jim?

- Yes, sir.

- Icf forms are insulated concrete forms.

The foam acts as your form to hold cement in.

And it also doubles as your future insulation.

We're getting the basement poured and we're insulating

all at one time!

Grab a big yaffle of form spreaders,

and we'll use that for tying her together!

- Okay.

- Working with my uncle's like a blast from the past!

(Laughing)

- Paul worked for me for many years,

right out of...

Well, even before you had graduated from high school,

I guess? - Forget that.

You had me back in middle school at it.

(Laughing)

- Look at all the money you made!

He's a hard worker and he's a great guy,

so I'm very proud.

(Folk music)

(Paul): I started off right at the bottom from stripping

and cleaning the panels, to working up

until I built my own career around carpentry,

and taught me a lot of well-rounded skills,

and you know, some of them I use today,

and uh, some of them I kind of try to forget

because I don't want to go back there! Haha!

(Upbeat music)

- Okay, I have to cut it short, Paul,

and go get the rest of the material.

- Yeah. Next thing, we'll be waiting on you.

(Laughing) - Absolutely.

- Be just like back in the old times

when you'd drop me off and be like,

"I'll be back in an hour." Six hours later, he rolls in.

(Laughing)

(Upbeat music)

(Randy): In St. John's, the Robbins' century-old home,

it's time to get a handle on the main floor design details.

What do you think? - Wow. This looks great.

- Yeah. So nice.

- Last week, me, Sam and Sasha

wrapped up the bathroom finishes.

- This really came together really nice.

- Isn't it fun? - Fun space, hey?

(Randy): So now, we're excited, but feeling the pressure

to get the main floor looking just as good.

It took a lot to get here. We ran into so many issues.

- Yeah. - But we still got a long

way to go.

- Super excited about this project. This house

is a huge transformation.

There's a lot going on. - Yeah, I can't wait

to see ros' face in the end. - Yeah.

- I love this kitchen, though.

The fact that they're using the whole space

is amazing to me. In newfoundland,

where do we spend all of our time?

- In the kitchen.

- The owner ros loves colour.

Lots of colour. - So, we're gonna do it.

She likes blue. We're not afraid of blue.

- So, let's just do the kitchen blue.

Let's do all the cabinetry blue. So, we'll break it up

with a green island, but we'll also bring in

some of that creamy, buttery yellow

that will really complement those colours really nicely.

- Oh, okay.

- When you mix colours, it's all about

how you play them off of each other.

So, by mixing blue and green, it's totally fine.

It just has to be the right blue with the right green.

And then we incorporate that green again,

and we incorporate that blue again.

So, when you actually see our decor pieces,

you'll see that colour come back through.

- So, what we're gonna do here is we're actually gonna

put in some bench seating. It's gonna be a great space

for the whole family to come together.

It's gonna be a great feel.

- Sounds like a whole lotta work.

- I know! - Just adding it

to your list, Randy! - Yeah, I know.

Let's see what door number three got to offer me.

Let's drag ourselves over there.

- Well, this is not as much work.

This is actually gonna be Katie's classroom.

She's a beautiful musician, she loves to play piano.

So, she's going to play piano here,

and we're gonna do a nice little seating area over here

for ros and the family to watch.

So, we're actually gonna keep the stone wall.

The clients had it here originally.

It's something they love and they want to incorporate,

but it's a little cool. But you don't have to rip out

your stone. You can change it by your furniture,

you can change it by your paint. So, just by adding

in some softer tones and some softer pieces,

that'll really change the feel of the space.

- What a cool space it's gonna be!

- So, this one's pretty good. - Yeah!

- I'm gonna go brief everyone. Get at it!

(Sam): Okay! Let's go!

(Thunder booming)

(Rain pattering)

(Randy): With only a couple of weeks away

before the family moves back in...

- Look at that. I never noticed. (Knocking)

- That's right in the middle of that shelf.

There's still a lot of construction to be done

and design details to deal with

it's raining cats and dogs. Like, it's pouring.

And the beauty thing is, if you got an inside job,

you jump over there when it's a rainy day.

That's the breaks of being a contractor,

especially here in newfoundland

wait five minutes, we can go outside again.

(Upbeat music)

So, we gotta put subfloor down.

It'll give extra strength, but also will make the floor

nice and flat.

It's an old house, so nothing's really level.

Nothing is flat.

But we're going to make it flat by putting

another subfloor. We can make that happen

before we put down the finished floor.

You're screwin' it every four inches,

just because you don't want a squeak. So yeah,

there's a whole lotta screws.

Think about it. That's like a thousand screws.

(Randy): Jason's at a little bit tangly of a job today.

He's puttin' down floor, but it's just not

your normal strips.

It's like 32 inches by 32 inches.

Big squares.

It's gonna look amazing.

- You said the right word, tangly.

Like a bag of fish hooks!

(Laughing)

I might need some help, Ricky.

(Randy): You feeling good about it?

(Jason): Yup. - Right on.

Makes me feel good about it. - There ya go.

I'm glad somebody got faith in me.

(Laughing)

- Next, once we get the flooring all down,

we're gonna get the trim finished up,

the painters'll come in, bring on the kitchen cabinets,

and then we're getting close to bringin' in the homeowners.

(Upbeat music)

In brigus, the weather is perfect, so me and my crew

are starting the week by moving ahead

on the button's house addition.

It's framing day, boys!

Framing day.

We're gonna get this floor framed up.

By the end of the day today, it'll be all done.

- It should be fun now, he got his tools back on.

Today, his primary tool is not his cell phone.

It's gonna be an adjustment for him, that's for sure.

(Laughing)

- Oh, hello?

Gotta go.

With the floor joists installed and sheeted over,

onto the next step.

- Done. Pick 'er up.

- Wall's going up. Nine-foot walls,

windows being framed out, interior walls will go up.

- It'll be a different look on her today.

- It'll actually look like an addition.

When we're framing and everbody's together,

it's so many things you can be doing.

One could be nailing up a wall. One could be sheeting.

One could be marking out the wood.

- Plus, you need a full team here to have

all the strength to lift the big ones.

- He said he needs the guns!

- Make the window... - The window's 32.

But it's not just our muscles needed to frame up the addition

it's our brain power too.

The addition is 18 by 22.

Actually 26, 'cause of the 4-foot bump.

- Good catch! (Laughing)

How many walls? One, two, three, four, five...

- Nine walls! - 10, 11.

- Eleven! (Laughing)

Our lumber order? - Go on! It's 80 feet of wall,

80 studs. - Sheets of plywood is 4 by 8,

and the windows are 31 by 63 high.

The three windows here, window on the side,

window on the side. Oh, it was nine windows.

- Oh no, we took one off! - Hang on now.

It was ten. - Yeah.

- And now it's nine. - Yeah.

- Might be 11 by tomorrow. (Laughing)

- Here we go. (Grunting)

How many nails?! - Oh, listen.

Average start-out package. 50 pounds, 3.5 galvanized.

50 pounds, 2.5 galvanized.

Two boxes three and a quarter,

34 degree gun nails. - He should know,

'cause he ordered it, so... (Laughing)

How many goes on the ground that's buckled over and wasted?

- Or whaddya at? Counting ones that falls out

of Josh's apron? - Yeah!

- That's like his little breadcrumbs so he can

find his way back! (Laughing)

- How many pillows do you put on the couch?

- As many as you're told! (Laughing)

- One, two, three, go! (Grunting)

(Upbeat folk music)

(Paul): We just got the last big wall up.

I'd say another five little walls to do.

They're smaller. A couple of hands can tip them up

no trouble so, I'll let spracklin mosey on now.

Take care of his other appointments, and...

We'll get this finished out.

- See, he's saying I only had to be around

for the important stuff. Then I can go!

- Keep him for the grunt. (Laughing)

- Donezo!

(Clattering)

Missed!

(Upbeat music)

- So, we're at Dr. Button's there today,

and we're doing the prep work for the trusses.

- When you got a free second, just pop in

just to confirm, so I don't mess anything up.

8:30 and I'm already calling out to Paul.

So, this next truss that you got has got to come in

and tie into the old roof?

- With some custom work.

- Are you helping with that custom work?

- I dunno! (Laughing)

- Thank you, Paul!

- Got Nikki and Josh inside.

They're cutting up the clapboard

and removing some shingles.

Me and al are getting everything sorted

and in order.

And that'll have everything ready for when

the boom truck shows up tomorrow to plop it up

and move fairly quickly.

It's a lot easier for us to sheet this on the ground

and lift it up as a complete unit

than it is to try and scaffold up and hang off

and put it together in place.

We got a small window of good weather.

Rain is in the forecast, so we gotta get at 'er.

- One, two, three, four, five courses gotta go, Josh.

Oh!

My husband and kids are there.

They're out COD-jigging today. The joys of working in brigus!

My kids are on summer holidays now from school

and my husband's home from work, so he definitely

tries to make the best of time with them, keep 'em busy

and enjoying summer. Here they comes.

So, being out on the water is definitely something myself,

my husband and kids, we love to do.

Especially when you've got a beautiful day, low winds.

You gotta take advantage of the newfoundland culture

and get your jigging in.

- Hi! - Hi, mommy!

(Nikki): What are you doing? Jigging?

- Yeah!

(Boy): I won the challenge!

- You caught the biggest fish and won the challenge!

He's my child. Always a challenge.

- Think he might have been better figured than me.

- Oh, my god!

You didn't pull that up yourself, did you, boy?

- Yeah, I did. - Awesome! Deadly!

Way to go, bud.

Very rarely do you go out and not get your fish

out in brigus. It's a big spot for fish.

A lot of boats actually come towards brigus

to do their fishing. So, any day

you're on the water in brigus, it's usually a big success.

Any day you're getting ready to frame a roof

and you get to see you kids? Even bigger success.

Wave next time you goes by.

- Okay. - Love you.

- Love you too. - Bye, love you.

- He's alright, he's got his life jacket on.

- Awesome, have fun. - Talk to you later.

- Love you. - Love you too.

- I'll kiss you later. - Bye! See ya.

(Upbeat music)

(Randy): It's a new day, and we're heading

around the bay to petty harbour to prep the inside of the house

for the concrete floor, which means machinery,

my favourite part of the job.

Today we're here. Me and Paul is trying to get this

all filled in, ready for the concrete.

So, the game plan is kind of like the big stone.

Paul will be inside with the mini.

I'll be in the skidster. I'll pick up the small dirt,

dump it in through the window. He'll spread it out.

Think she'll fit?

- Don't you like living dangerous?

So, I measured the skidster earlier this morning

and I know that it's a fathom.

A fathom is the distance between a grown man's arms.

Tip to tip of the fingers, so when you go like that.

It's approximately 6 feet, so pretty much, you know,

it's less than what my arm span is,

so if my arm span will fit through,

I knew that it'd fit.

It's a newfoundland way of measuring,

or maybe it's a fishing way of measuring.

I'm not quite sure. I always heard dad talk about it

growing up where dad fished and grandfather,

and everything else.

Ah, a little tight, but that'll be best kind.

(Upbeat music)

Come in until you touch the foundation!

Easy!

- First time going in that hole.

Want to make sure. What's over there, b'ys?

How big is that? Oh geez, I had lots of room.

So, we're filling up with stone because this concrete floor

is gonna be the finishing. But we're also putting

in-floor heat in, so we want to make sure

that it's a good pad. All that heat, we don't want

any cracks, so it gotta be good and solid.

Which is why we're using the big stone.

(Upbeat music)

Paul's probably happy to have a second set of hands today.

Even though he's on the small one.

I gets to play on the big one today.

- Randy's outside. He's just rough bucketing

the material in. So, you know,

it's not as precise as inside,

trying to get everything on grade, and everything level,

and everything smooth.

- Oh! (Phone ringing)

Someone's calling!

(Horn honking) - Come on, spracklin!

We're not waiting on ya!

No need losing your voice over shouting at Randy all day

when he's on the phone. Just give a little toot-toot

on the horn, and uh, he just jumps right back

into action.

- Geez.

(Honking) - Come on.

Time to get back at it. - I got a horn too.

(Honking) Mine's a lot louder, though.

(Honking)

(Laughing)

(Upbeat music)

We're pretty much on track today.

We get the stone in here.

We pull away the equipment onto another job,

wait for the heating guys to come in.

Oh geez, you ran her out of fuel!

That's disastrous.

- No, the fuel light wasn't on!

She's not cranking or nothing.

I just don't know if it's a sensor

for low fuelling or not.

- We wore out the rental.

She won't make nothing, will she?

- Well, she wasn't cranking.

So, I just shut the mini off there, and she won't restart

so, I'm just going over the obvious there now.

Just making sure it's not a sensor or something stupid.

- Argh. It ain't gonna work.

Mini is dead in the water.

You know, it's a rental, so we really can't

pick at it too much. If it was ours,

we'd kind of probably scrap it right here.

Right now. But it's not ours to do that so,

call the shop!

We can take turns.

That's a lot of digging.

Someone's gonna love a shovel and a rake.

(Upbeat music)

(Randy): In St. John's at the Robbins' house,

things are taking shape.

Looking pretty good. Dance floor all ready

in the speakeasy. Jason did a nice job

laying it all out through, so, looking mint.

Now we just gotta cover it before the painters come.

Ros, the homeowner, loves colour,

so we're painting the original trim

and custom bead board in the kitchen

a vintage blue.

And the grand staircase is getting a lick of paint

to complement the new blue walls.

With the painting done,

we're truly in the home stretch now.

The custom kitchen is going in.

It'll have a ton of storage, including a bar cabinet.

It's the same blue colour that ros loves.

But the big feature is the new copper sink

going into the old chimbley.

It's an idea that I thought would look super cool.

And hey, it fits!

And looks mint.

(Upbeat music)

I'm gonna take the floating shelves

and put them in the back of my truck.

- We needs all the muscle we can get. This is old.

And old means expensive. - Yeah.

All packed up and ready to go. Another long day.

Getting close on this one.

We're at the final, final touches.

We gotta get roslyn and the whole family back in.

They've been gone for months now,

so I got the whole team on deck

we gotta finish all the built-ins,

finish all the trim. Hopefully they'll like it,

because with what we started with

and what it is now, been a long way coming.

It's taken almost four months and a budget of $240,000

to update this old newfoundland home

for the Robbins' family.

And we're almost done.

In the new music room, Katie's grand piano

already looks right at home.

Perfect!

But there's more heavy lifting to do.

- Ready? - Ready.

- The original radiator's been painted,

and the colour works perfectly

with the new look of the house.

We built this all in the shop.

Paul is gonna finish all the assembly of it.

(Paul): A little bit of cutting in there now to get that in.

- And then ready to put a cushion there.

Dining room table. Bring on the feed.

Mint.

You know what? We're getting really close,

but I'm still concerned. We got a big stove

that we gotta try to fit in through that small little door.

The cabinets gotta be done, the countertops gotta be done.

The heater's gotta be installed.

And all of that, we still gotta have

the finishing touches. We gotta fluff them pillows!

- This was a huge, huge project for us to do.

It's a very special home in St. John's.

- We wanna try and keep as much character

as we can in this home.

It brings you back to those old country kitchens,

but with a little bit of a modern twist to it.

- People are always nervous that you can't just add

different pieces together. It's completely fine to mix.

It's all about the way you do it. So in here,

we have the copper on the sink,

and then we have the brass on the faucets,

and the combination is actually beautiful together.

It gives you the warmth, it gives you a charm.

Everything in this house is gonna have so many

little details. I feel like ros is just gonna walk around

for a good hour.

- It's gonna be like screams and tears and excitement!

- We're hoping for tears. - Yeah.

They're gonna be just blown away.

- Feeling anxious. It's all done.

So, fingers crossed, they're gonna love it.

(Roslyn gasping) - Oh my...

(Upbeat music)

- Feeling anxious. Can't wait for roslyn

and the whole family to come in.

When you come to an end, it's always a good feeling.

Especially what we started with,

finding that foundation issue,

so to be able to have it all done,

bring the homeowners in, feels good.

This is gonna be the first time they're gonna see it.

The whole summer they were gone. So, finger's crossed

they're gonna love it.

You ready to go see?

- Oh... (Gasping)

(Both): Oh my gosh! (Laughing)

(Roslyn): Oh, my god! - Go in and have a look.

- Oh, my god, it's like...

It's gorgeous.

You know, we've been gone away and haven't

seen the development of it all, so to come back now

and see the finished product, it's...

- It's mind-blowing. - Yeah, thanks.

I'm at a loss for words. (Laughing)

Paul's speechless. He hasn't even said a word.

(Laughing) - Do you like your birds?

(Katie): The birds!

- The birds. (Laughing)

- That was a nice gift - a gift?

- Yeah, Paul's daughter brought them.

- Oh, Paul, ally brought them in!

- Oh, they're neat. - Something like this here.

Has sort of like a beautiful dove energy,

kind of ties in the colours that you're doing here.

And I got one for each side. - Oh, okay!

- So, ally did that, did she? - Yeah.

- That makes sense. - They're gorgeous.

- I always told her years ago,

staircases originally in old houses

always had something on them.

- So many things. - So many things.

- We didn't change a whole lot, like, the footprint stays.

- The footprint stays. - No. But it still makes

it look so much different.

This is just the foyer and it's so nice.

- I know. - So which room

would you like to see next? - I don't know!

- We closed up door number one.

Still got door number two open.

- I know which one I want to see!

- Go in your piano room, girl. - Okay!

Oh!

- Oh, my god, it's gorgeous!

- I love it. I love it so much!

The biggest surprise honestly for me

is the music room. Just because it's kind of like

my own little space that I get now.

I just, I can't explain it into words

how much I appreciate it.

I'm never leaving this room.

- It is beautiful.

- Remember, this was the old kitchen.

Stove was right where you are, took it down and exposed

that chimbley. - For an old chimbley

that we couldn't see, now we got an exposed

brick chimbley. (Roslyn): Yeah, it's beautiful.

It was a concern that the piano was going to be almost too much

for this room, but I think it's beautiful.

- No, it's perfect.

- Sounds good here. - It does.

It sounds so good. - It sounds solid.

- Yep.

- So, you ready to see some more space?

- Yes, we'd love to. - Which one?

- How about the kitchen? - I vote the kitchen.

- Uh... upstairs!

There you go. Good answer! (Laughing)

Door number four. Let's go upstairs have a look.

Roslyn, do the honours.

- Do the honours? Okay!

Oh, my god!

(Gasping)

(Katie): This isn't the same room.

- Oh, my god. This is gorgeous!

Oh, this is beautiful.

And look at the floor. - I know!

- Oh, I love the floor.

- So, I know you liked the old fish washroom.

- Yeah. - So, we kind of updated it

with capelin. - I love the capelin!

- Before we go back down to door number two,

we still got one more door to look at.

Door number five.

(Gasping) - Oh!

- Wow.

Wow. Wow, wow, wow.

Oh, I love the wooden top.

Look at the mirror. - I know!

- Oh, look over here. - Oh!

I love the tile.

- Can you believe that's your vanity that we kept,

we painted, put a new top on it? - That is the same vanity!

- That is crazy!

- So, we still got one more door.

- I know, the kitchen! - Number two.

- Yes, we do. - We did move a kitchen.

- We did move a kitchen. We did have the excavator

in there. - That's right.

- Roslyn, you ready? - I don't know.

- Come on, turn around. Have a look.

(Gasping) - Oh, my...

Good god. - Go in! Go in!

- Oh my... oh, my god.

I don't know where to look. - This is not our house!

- Holy smokes.

Yeah. - Ah!

- Look at my stove!

- It's so nice! Everything.

Look at that sink. - Oh, my god,

look at the countertop and the sink.

- Old chimbley, saved. - That's crazy.

- Oh, wow.

The biggest surprise for me was walking into the kitchen

and seeing the nice copper, and the stone, and the wood.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

Yeah, I don't know who else

would have ever been able to do that for us.

It's unbelievable. The work is beautiful.

- Holy smoke. - Big old...

What do you think? - It's something else.

- The floorboards that we saved out of this kitchen...

- Yeah? - We made the prep table.

- Wow. This is gorgeous. This is a beautiful table.

- Everything in this kitchen is custom,

from the cabinets to all the trim work,

to the table, to the prep table.

- Question, do we have a fridge?

- Oh, my god, that's what we forgot.

(Laughing)

- What?! - And it's full!

Definitely feels good looking back on it.

You know, where we started, bringing in the excavator,

ripping everything up, it was a head scratcher.

We didn't know which way to turn.

Here was a house that was sinking,

but you never even tell that we actually ripped up the floor,

put a new foundation underneath it.

It all looks like the house was the original house

a hundred years ago, other than with some

new stuff added.

- Wow. It's unbelievable, Randy.

It's really unbelievable. - Yeah.

- I'm glad you love the kitchen.

Let's bring everybody in,

break out the glasses, and have a toast.

- And have a toast! - Let's go get everybody.

- Okay!

(Upbeat music)

(Indistinct chattering)

- Yes, looks like you finally got the kitchen party going!

- Well you finally finished it. (Laughing)

- Geez, if it wasn't for me,

it probably wouldn't have happened.

It's a great feeling now that it's all done,

because I don't know if it would rank as the most

challenging job I've done, but it's definitely up there.

Anyway, they're gonna throw us one hell of a party

and we're here to celebrate with them!

(Excited shouting)

- How are you? - Oh, I'm good.

What do you think? - I love it!

- Do you love it? - I love it. Love it.

- That's awesome.

The kitchen was definitely the best.

See the transformation? That just goes to prove,

we build catty stuff!

Come on, b'ys, we don't bite!

Come on in, b'y.

Come on in.

- You know, starting off with this project

and it seemed like there was no end,

we spent a lot of late nights

trying to get this project on time and on budget.

But it don't scare us away. That's what the team love.

We'll be on another project, tearing up someone else's floor.

You know what? We came a long way

from having an excavator in this floor.

I know you left as soon as we brought the excavator in.

Gone the whole summer, didn't want to see it. But hey,

the floor is solid now, so let's try it out.

Here's to Robbins' roost!

(All cheering)

(All): Cheers!

(Bell dinging)

(Meowing)

(Randy): Next week on rock solid builds...

- View is amazing!

This is what brigus is all about.

- I got the torch. - That's not a torch!

- Lookin good! - It's come a long way, Randy.

- I got one little... More surprise.

- Randy, you want my job? (Laughing)

- Woo! It's gonna be a hard day.

Ready, set, go!

- Winner, winner, chicken feed dinner.

Welcome back to your home.

(Taryn): Oh my gosh!

It's just, it's a different house.

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