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- Getting concrete down here matis a big ordeal.er.

We're gonna need a boat.

SS Nikki.

- Dead honest? I'm a nervous wreck.

- Uh-oh! - Boys, I still can't hold!

- The weather is comin'.

We're in a race against time.

(thunder booming) Holy (bleep)!

Another delay, another day gone.

We're just a few days from Tim and Valerie

moving back in.

(Nikki): What a difference! Huge difference!

- Oh, Randy, it's absolutely beautiful.

(upbeat folk music)

(Randy): I'm Randy Spracklin,

third generation builder,

proud Newfoundlander.

My team and I are building on a giant cliff

in the Atlantic Ocean.

They don't call it a rock for nothing!

We fight the elements year-roud

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.

(upbeat music)

- The weather's warmed up now,

and everyone is getting outside.

Plus, they all want their projects done.

I'm heading to a new job,

it's the Neils' house, right on the bay.

This is an iconic house in Newfoundland.

It's a saltbox house, and the most photographed

in Brigus.

And we got a little project we gotta do.

Actually, we got two.

So this is project number one.

As you can see, the concrete is kinda decaying.

This concrete is about 40 years old,

and next to the salt water, and the salt air,

it's kind of doing its number on the concrete.

So, the homeowner wants to make it look nice and pretty

and a little bit more,

you know, structurally sound,

so we'll end up pouring a new face

right over this old concrete.

It'll look like brand new.

This ain't the toughest part.

This is project one.

Number two is down by the water,

and that's gonna be the real tricky one.

The new project is trying to fix this dock.

We had a big storm this winter.

This was the biggest storm I ever seen in my lifetime.

The wind was gusting 160.

There was a lot of damage.

It shut us down for about a week.

And the waves came in, and actually

took this piece of concrete,

and put it out in the ocean.

So, if you look down,

the existing piece is down there.

So now we gotta try to fix it.

Getting concrete down here is a big ordeal.

We got no steps, there's no ramps,

there's no nothin', just a wall of concrete

and a house.

That's gonna be the tricky obstacle.

And this crack is pretty low.

Looks like we're gonna need a boat for this job,

and it's gonna be tangly,

because the tides goes in and out.

Hard working on that one.

We're putting Nikki in the boat. She's the rookie.

Plus, you know, she's out fishing all the time.

She got her sea legs.

(upbeat folk music)

I gotta figure out a lot on this one

before we get started.

Plus, we have a lot of other jobs on the go.

Down in the bay, we got the 150-year-old Gushue home.

The two-story lighthouse inspired addition

is all done. The deck is on,

and we only got two weeks to get Tim and Valerie

back in their house.

Across town, me and my dad

are building my mom's new house,

and that massive storm shut us down.

Now that spring is here,

we're trying to get back on track.

And up on the hill looking over Brigus,

the Mitchells' residence is coming along.

The two additions are built,

and the doors and windows are installed.

Inside, the walls are down,

creating a big open layout.

Next on the list is that change that Dave sprung on me

when I last saw him.

- So, the fireplace itself will be changed too,

the actual unit.

- Okay, so that's a change. See?

- Listen. You're a contractor. You love changes.

- I just love changes. What? (laughing)

This is one of these projects

that keeps growing.

So, Paul and Harv are here to help

with the latest change.

Yeah, so we're gonna take down

the rock on the fireplace.

It's gonna be a hell of a job because that's like

two-inch-thick stone.

Now that the dividing walls have come down

to create the open-concept space,

Dave wants everything to blend together,

so that old fireplace has to g.

Let's see if we can beat this up.

- See if we get it down.

(upbeat music)

- Holy (bleep)!

Whoever put it on, put it on pretty good.

- Yeah.

- It's on there pretty solid,

but it seems like the pry bar is doing the job,

so we'll get a bigger crowbar there now,

and start putting something in behind it

and pry it off that way.

- I've been in this industry 20 years.

Randy's a good guy, but, eh, he's particular.

He likes stuff done right,

which I like, 'cause I like stuff done right too.

Paul is easy to work with.

There's nothing he doesn't know.

He knows his (bleep).

There's no other way to put it.

(Randy): Easy!

That fireplace was supposed to stay. It's a wood burning,

but the last time I talked to Dave,

he said, "We're changing it."

It might be propane, it might be wood.

Who knows?

We'll have to wait and see.

(upbeat music)

Down the hill on the harbour,

we're almost finished the 150-year-old Gushues' hous.

It's been in Tim's family for generations.

Beautiful character on the house.

Look at the old handrails and stuff that they got.

- Oh yes. We used to slide down that as youngsters.

(Randy): There's a lot of memories and history

in this house for Tim.

We wanna save as much as we can, inside and out.

We built a new addition that was inspired

by Newfoundland lighthouses.

On the main floor, there's a sitting area for Val

and anyone that wants to drop in.

Upstairs, there's a new study overlooking the harbour.

Or as Tim would call it, the captain's quarters.

To preserve history,

we're keeping the old floorboards and staircase.

You can't buy that anymore.

We're here trying to prep the Gushues' stairs.

So, we gotta haul all these tiny little staples out

so we can put a stripper on.

(upbeat music)

At some point, there was carpet on this staircase,

and it left a real mess for me and Nikki to clean.

Nikki's lovin' it.

- I don't know about loving it.

They're tedious.

Like, that's how tiny they are trying to get out.

Excruciating.

Being the rookie, we are the ones who gotta do

the job nobody wants to do.

You're the one who's got to do the runnin' around

because they've already got their seniority

and their experience.

Being so new and naive and not knowing,

coming in and having a good team to support you

and we has a good time.

If we didn't have a good team,

I probably still wouldn't be here.

- We'll keep going.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Now that we have all the staples out,

we can start stripping the layers, and layers,

and layers of paint.

- The process is pretty slow.

There's a lot of coats of paint.

The house is 150 years old,

so you knows now every year at Christmas,

they're painting the colour to brighten it up.

- Man oh man. How many layers of paint is on that?

Way more layers of paint here.

- Mother...

- This paint remover only does like 30 layers of paint,

so I guess we're at the 30 limit.

There's still some paint left there.

Definitely gonna need to reapply down here, Nikki.

- Oh, for sure.

(Randy): It's good to keep these old stairs

and the memories,

but this is misery.

Fifty layers of paint. So horrible.

So horrible.

Fifty layers of paint.

(Randy): Down the hill on the harbour,

at the 150-year-old Gushue home,

a lot of paint removal, a lot of mess.

This is a lot longer of a process than I thought.

He wants bare wood,

so we're gonna have to probably give that another coat

or a little buff with the sandpaper.

We'll try a couple of different things

see which way works the best.

(upbeat folk music)

A little inland, my dad and I

are finally moving forward on my mom's new house.

Since we're building it ourselves,

we're doing it for $200,000

if there's no more delays.

We got the foundation in,

and then we got hit by a major storm of the centur.

It buried the site for months.

We got a big mess!

But not anymore!

Now that spring is here,

I called in Paul, Al, and Nikki

to get us back on track.

(Randy): They hate delays as much as I do,

and plus it's for my mom,

and she's like family to them too.

Today's goal is to get the floor on and the walls up

so it starts looking like a house.

Even though it's spring, weather is still a big factor.

(thunder rumbling)

We're gonna be trying to stick all these walls

we got framed up.

The weather's gonna be coming,

so we're in a race against time.

(upbeat music)

My mom's new house is a two-bedroom

single storey, with a cabin-in-the-woods feel.

You walk through the front door with a large open-concept

kitchen and dining with an island in the middle.

In the living room, there's a bump out

for a fireplace.

One, two, three!

We got the full crew here today,

just because the winter been so harsh,

and we had so many delays.

We're kinda behind the 8-ball.

(Paul): Come back to me an inch.

- Framing is fun. Framing's when you get

to see everything come together.

(Paul): Back! (Nikki): And framing is fun

'cause we work very well together as a team.

- Perfect.

- One, two, three!

(Randy): This afternoon, we're supposed to have

a lot of rain and a lot of win,

and we won't be able to do any work.

It's a good idea to have braces,

and we'll have a lot more braces.

We don't want this to blow down.

(Randy): Now that the walls are up, it's great.

It's gonna feel even better

when I can actually get my mom inside the house,

and she can start living normal again.

(Nikki): Pull.

(thunder booming)

(Randy): The rain has started!

It wasn't supposed to be until after lunch,

but not even close.

The only one that likes this today is a duck.

(quacking)

We were hoping to get most of the day out of it

so we could have all the walls framed up.

It's another delay, another day gone.

We're off to another job site, though.

Can't stop for today.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Across town up on the hill,

me and Nikki's at the Mitchell residence.

And we're nice and dry.

We're here to get the fireplace finished.

(Nikki): Is this going in here tight?

- Yeah.

We gotta install some shiplap on the fireplace.

The Mitchell project is a huge renovation.

We added two additions,

one for a new mudroom,

and the other for a massive kitchen.

With an open-concept design,

the living room has to be a showstopper as well,

starting with the fireplace.

It was big, bulky, and out of date,

so the Mitchells just wanted it to fit in

with the rest of the design.

So it's me and Nikki.

32 and seven eighths. (Nikki): 32 and seven eighths.

- She's gonna be doing the cutting.

She's got pressure on her today.

I'm gonna be doing the nailing,

and, uh, try to get this fireplace done today.

- Off the phone!

- Ah! Ah! Ah!

It's not too bad.

The start process to actually get going

is the hardest thing with the shiplap.

We should be able to bang this out in a couple hours.

- Seventy-three and three-sixteenths?

- No, one eighth.

- Seventy-three and one-eighth?

(Randy): Shiplap is pretty popular these days,

but it been in the East Coast for centuries.

We've been doing shiplap before it was cool.

With shiplap, the boards are joined together

with a 90-degree notch

that's called a rabbet joint.

It's called shiplap because the old-timers

build the boats out of these old boards.

And the seal between 'em was watertight.

Shiplap was used on a lot of Newfoundland houses.

It kept that sideways rain out.

- You're not gonna need too many more of them long ones.

- I'll need two more pieces.

(upbeat music)

We're using shiplap on the Mitchells' fireplace

for a design feature.

It's a shout-out to the Newfoundland ways,

and it's a way to bring some old into the new.

Plus, Deana wants that coastal feel.

(upbeat music)

Down on the harbour back at the Neils' house,

we're getting ready to fix the family dock.

I got Paul, Al, and Nikki

ready to build the forms for the new concrete.

We're basically pouring concree over the ocean

to fix the damage.

In order to do this, we're gona drill a bunch of holes

into the existing dock

and put one-inch rebar into 'em,

and that's gonna hold the forms while we pour the concrete.

The forms are basically a box,

and that's gonna hold the concrete

while it dries for a couple of days.

When the concrete is all dry,

we can bust off the forms, and then we're all done.

The challenge is doing it from the water,

and that's where we're gonna work from a raft.

That's where Nikki comes in.

- And we thought she was gonna be good on a raft.

(laughing)

- Give me your hand!

- We're gonna build a raft.

We're gonna take two barrels and build a frame around it

so we can get in the water and, uh,

Nikki had two days off, so she drew...

drawed the short straw.

- So, I've been off on a little bit of a mini holiday

the last few days,

so because I missed the last couple of days,

I'm the lucky one who gets to go on the barge

and be in the water. So, we'll see how that pans out.

(Randy): We couldn't find a little raft,

and a canoe was probably gonna be too tippy,

so barrels, and make a little floating dock.

Put it on drill.

- Spracklin! (laughing)

- It's okay. You had two days...

- I'm on a bit of an angle first so I can get it to go straight.

- She was on holidays. We'll let that one go.

(laughing)

(upbeat music)

SS Nikki.

- Let 'er go.

- Dead honest? I'm a nervous wreck,

'cause if anybody's gonna fall in, it's gonna be me.

Randy's got a bit of confidence in me

because I've got my sea legs.

It's totally different being in a boat jiggin',

you're safe.

Out on the side of the cliff,

Lord dyin' they had to put me on this.

So, being used to cod jiggin' and doing this?

It's chalk and cheese.

Now all jokes aside,

I knows we likes to have a good time,

but don't go playin' no funny tricks while I'm on that.

- No, no. You're not goin' in today.

- If I'm goin' in, you're comin with me.

(Randy laughing) Hell or high water.

- Hold on to the wire.

You good?

Now you can haul yourself across, right?

- Right there is good.

Stop movin' the boat!

Oh, hang on.

- Told ya, she got her sea legs.

Nikki has to drill a half a dozen holes

into the old dock.

They have to be seven to eight inches deep.

She got her work cut out for her.

- It's hard tryin' to balance yourself

and push at the same time.

Boys, don't go laughin' either, because I'll jump off.

(suspenseful music)

I gotta move back for a second, Spracklin.

- This is gonna be the worst, 'cause you're gonna have

a lot of rope out.

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh!

- Boys, I still can't hold!

(Randy): Down on the harbour at the Neils' house...

Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh!

- Boys, I still can't hold!

- Hang on, hang on, hang on. Calm, huh?

(Randy laughing)

- Hey, young fella!

My leg is shaking here now.

This is my mind, "Don't fall over,

don't fall over."

(upbeat folk music)

Three left!

(Randy): Nikki's doing an awesome job

drilling the holes for the rebar.

- Me arms is gettin' tired!

- Now we can start building the forms.

- 'Kay.

- Perfect! Done!

- Done! - Nobody fell in!

- And you didn't fall in. - Good job on raft control.

- Hey, Nikki did all right.

She rocked that barge.

Got all the bolts in, and she never fell in.

So next, we'll build the forms on the water.

Here, do you want me to get that one?

You don't want a blowout there.

A big blow out would mean

we're gonna lose all the concrete out into the ocean.

Concrete got so much pressure

when it's actually formed,

and if we don't have it bolted in tight and good,

the concrete can actually push the form out,

and all run out in the ocean.

If we have a blowout, that's like a $2,000 bill

and another day's labour.

Nikki, I need it to be like, four inches longer,

and then cut it... - On a 45?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's going pretty good.

We still gotta bolt on the bottom of this form.

The tide is coming in.

This morning, the tide out was good.

It worked to our advantage.

Now that it's up,

our little floating dock is almost level with this dock,

so somebody gotta sit down on it

and probably put their feet in the water.

Probably gonna be Nikki.

Hopefully there's no sharks around.

- Duh-nuh! Dun-nuh!

- So you're gonna have to sit in the middle,

brace your feet against the concrete.

- I gots like, two-foot legs, man!

How do you expect me to put my (bleep) out there

and my legs in here?

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Like all of our projects,

this one is a real team effort.

Nikki and Paul is finishing up the forms...

...while I prep for the concrete delivery.

Today went okay.

If it rains tomorrow,

in this scenario, we can't pour concrete,

just because it'll make it too wet. It's a no-no.

(thunder booming)

Sure enough, the Newfoundland weather got us again.

Rain and concrete don't mix.

It sucks. I gotta push for another day.

So, luckily enough, the roof trusses

showed up at my mom's place.

No amount of rain is gonna stop us at this.

Seems like this project here been delay after delay.

We're here today, like, soaking wet.

Not ideal. Nobody loves it, but we're gonna get it done.

The whole house is completely framed up now.

We have a big boom truck to lift the roof trusses

one at a time.

So I have Al making all the adjustments on the ground.

Paul and Josh are up on the rof

nailing the roof trusses in place.

And Nikki, she's gonna guide them in.

- You're the tag person?

Boom!

Stressed out!

Never done trusses, so...

- So keep a little bit of a tension on it.

Don't ever get your hands caught.

Don't get hooked up in the rope,

like a fisherman. - Hey.

- Not ideal here working in the rain.

Rain slows you down, generally.

But we're in Newfoundland!

You gotta be with the boom.

When you sees the boom,

follow the rope with the boom.

- Some fun.

Puttin' up trusses. It's not an easy job for anybody.

And up there is just as hard,

so it'll be nice when it's done.

There we go.

(upbeat music)

Right in your hand, buddy!

You good?

It's all about the system.

I had to get my system down pat first.

I'll go get the next ones ready, okay?

- Yeah.

- From the ground to up top just like that!

Getting to see all sides of the trusses today!

Gotta get that rookie label off me!

Try that, Patty!

Do you want me to move it down?

Josh, get ready!

This is the final gable goin' up!

It's been a rough day, a hard day,

but we got 'er done. That's all that matters.

We're almost there.

Yeah, right there!

(light music)

(rain pattering)

(Randy): Down on the harbour,

me and Nikki is back at Neils' place.

The concrete is getting poured today

but as usual, the weather is not in our favour.

It's been raining here all morning.

The weather person said it was supposed to be sunshine,

but we had a lot of rain.

Too much rain, we can't pour concrete.

Big stakes, because if the truck comes

and we can't pour, like,

the concrete is two to three thousand dollars,

so I'm gonna be out that money and, uh...

Not gonna be fun.

Not having this done today puts us in a big bind.

- The work is done, pretty much.

We just gotta get the weather to hold off

so we can get it here.

Rain, rain, go away!

We need our concrete today!

(Randy): With the rain pushing back on our concrete pour

at Neils' dock,

we could still move ahead at the Gushues' house

down the bay.

Paul and Nikki are installing the new floor

upstairs in Tim's captain's quarters.

- Twenty inches?

- Nineteen and fifteen sixteenths.

(Randy): The old master bedroom

is being turned into a new office.

Plenty of room for a desk and built-ins.

The new add-on is gonna be a great spot

for Tim to look out over the harbour.

- No pressure.

- With these old houses, it's always a challenge

mixing the old with the new.

We're keeping all the old floorboards

in the study area.

So, picking the new floor,

we wanted to compliment the old flooring,

and not look so out of place.

(Paul): Don't push down so hard

'cause you're putting the brakes on.

I've had a few apprentices, you know,

throughout the years.

The big thing that makes a good apprentice

over a bad apprentice

is their will to listen.

- So, I needs to come up and put more nails in?

- More screws.

And just retain the little bit of knowledge

that you're taking the time to show them.

That's your prep. Prep is everything.

That's a lot of qualities, which Nikki got.

- I'm still learning. I'm not as fast

as the rest of the boys.

My ultimate goal in doing this

is to be the journey person like Paul.

- So now see if you can make that squeak.

No more squeak.

- I wanna follow in his footsteps one of these days.

It might take me twice as long as him

to get there, but I'm gonna get there.

(bright music)

(Randy): With the skies cleared up,

the whole crew is back at Neils' dock.

The weather is working out.

There's no rain. That's cool. - Woo-woo!

- T-shirts on! Can't go no better than that.

We have a two-hour window

to get this concrete poured.

That's our truck!

Cement is here!

Ready to go!

The concrete form's next to the ocean.

It's two stories below the ground level

and there's no easy access.

So, we had to build a chute from the top level

to get to the dock.

It's like one big slide for concrete.

Then we had to fill the wheelbarrows full of cemen,

bring them over to the chute,

and put 'em down below.

Put a bit in 'er.

Not an easy job.

We got all hands on deck,

and a great assembly line.

The whole team loves when we're all working togethe.

It's all comin together!

The concrete's going in the form.

If anything's gonna happen to it, it's when it's all

full of concrete, that's the most pressure.

I'm not gonna say anything else about it not going in the water

'til we're done.

(upbeat music)

Pouring the concrete is the first step.

The next step is getting them air bubbles out.

This is a, uh...

just an old stick

we use to plunge concrete to make sure it gets in

every crevice.

If you leave air bubbles in the concrete,

you're gonna create voids,

which is a structural no-no,

because salt water is able to get inside,

and that'll break it to pieces,

and then we'll have to fix it again.

So, we have to keep plungin'

until it's solid as a rock.

And when we're done,

we use it as a fishing pole.

I say start fillin' the other side.

So, the hard part is done,

but we still have to fix the walls on the upper deck.

Today went well. We started off

in the pouring rain this morning.

Didn't really think we were gonna make it happen,

but we did.

It's done. No blowouts.

- There's no easy job when it comes to cement.

- No.

- The next step is let this harden.

So, we'll come back tomorrow morning

and strip all the forms off,

and hopefully it all looks pretty.

(upbeat music)

Back at the Gushues' house,

we got the stairs stripped, sanded,

and using white as an accent to really bring it back to lif.

- Fill me up.

- The character on them steps is 150 years old.

There's a lot of people travelling

up and down them stairs.

Even Tim as a little boy.

So, you definitely don't wanna paint over the treads.

It's a lot of history in looking at that natural wood.

- What a difference!

A huge difference! It's like chalk and cheese.

(Randy): So with the painting finished,

I know Tim and Valerie wanna move into this house

very quick.

So, we gotta move on to the electrical.

And Steven, my electrician, is here to help.

Puttin' the lights where they gotta go here now.

Low turn chandelier.

You wanna make sure that the lights

go in the right location,

so I'm just checking my list.

Study times three.

So, they go upstairs.

On the second floor

where the old master bedroom used to be,

we're creating a new office and a lookout area for Tim.

- What we'll do here now is we'll find centre...

- Yeah. - ...go 37...

- Yeah. - ...and then whatever's left...

- Whatever's left, we'll take it off?

- You'll halve that one. - No problem.

- I'll build it to fit, kinda.

In Tim's study,

we're building a custom wall unit for more storage.

It'll have special lighting to showcase Tim's collectibles.

When we pre-build in the shop,

the measurements have to be precise

in order to match up with the lighting plan on site...

we hope.

It's definitely a great feature wall for his new study

to be able to put items,

and it's gonna look good at the end.

(upbeat folk music)

With electrical happening at the Gushues',

I can bring my team back to finish the dock

at the Neils' house.

Today, we gotta unbolt the anchors

that we had holding the forms,

get that off, then we're able to haul the form off

and see what we got.

- Hey! - Ho-ho-ho!

- Easy, now! Wait!

You'll get your moment. Hang on.

- Oh, Nikki! - Yo?

- Snails. Same as what you were eating

in that restaurant. - Escargot at its finest.

- Ready?

I'm out.

This dock been a challenge for sure,

especially with all the delays

and working with expensive concrete.

Come back towards us.

But the forms are off,

and the dock is looking mint.

- So I'll get a grinder?

- We just need to cut off the excess rebar

and then it's all done.

Hey, didn't you say there was a snail down there?

- Escargot!

- Hundred bucks to eat it now.

Right now.

- Get down and get it.

- You'll eat it?

- For a hundred bucks cash in hand right now

out of your pocket?

Absolutely! You don't think I will.

A hundred bucks!

You know what's well worth a hundred bucks?

If he falls off there now. (laughing)

- Here you go. - You gotta haul it out.

- I'm not haullin' it out!

- Here's your, uh, platter.

- Oh come on now, boys!

- Here's your shell opener!

(laughing)

- I'm gonna throw up!

Ready? - Blegh!

- Haul out your money!

- I don't have my wallet.

- Oh, well don't you dare take no tricks!

Ready? - Ugh!

at the Neils' house,on tr

we're finishing the concrete dock.

Didn't you say there was a snail down there?

- Escargot!

- A hundred bucks to eat it now.

- Ready? - Blegh!

- I can't swallow. (laughing)

(gagging) I had it down!

Gone. Pay me, baby!

(all laughing)

It don't taste like at the restaurant.

He owes me a hundred dollars.

I ate a snail. That's the deal.

Which is pretty gross, but I did it!

(laughing) And I won!

I don't care what it is if I got to take money

from your pockets. Speaking of money,

where is the money?

- I got no money.

- Oh, you don't make bets and have no money!

- I knew I left my wallet home for a reason.

- Go on, Randy, you leaves your wallet home every day

of the week. - Well, see then!

- So he don't have to buy coffee.

- Case closed!

I'll settle up with her later.

A bet's a bet, as much as it hurts.

And I can't believe she ate it.

It looks mint.

It turned out really good, nice and smooth,

no honeycombs.

Fixing the dock at the Neils'

has been challenging for sure.

Retiring the barge.

Now that it's all done, I feel good.

It's cool to work on the most photographed house

in Brigus, right next to the ocean.

We'll probably take on another water project,

because Nikki got her sea legs,

we even got a barge.

(bright music)

And there she was, on dry dock.

- Toodle-loo, barge!

(laughing)

(upbeat music)

(Randy): So back at the woodshop...

...my dad's working on the built-ins

for Tim's study.

- Get the table saw going.

- We're just a few days

from Tim and Valerie moving back in,

and there's so much stuff to d,

including all the finer detail.

So, I called in Sam and Sasha

because they do amazing work

all over the area, and it'd be fitting

to decorate this one as well.

So, this is an older home that we're adding a piece on,

And it's really special to the homeowners.

His father grew up in this house.

It's a hundred and plus year old house,

so it means a lot to him. So we want to bring that

into the house. - Yeah, oh I can't wait

to get in there and do it. - Can't wait.

- We're also adding a new covered patio.

Tim refers to it as a front bridge

because he calls this whole place a landlocked ship.

- Oh, that's perfect. - Yeah, I love that.

So, on the new bridge,

we could do maybe some rocking chairs,

some outdoor furniture.

- It's somewhere you're gonna want to sit outside, the view.

They're right on the water.

- Sit down there, look out over the ocean,

watch the whales. - Yeah.

We really have to make that a living space.

- Oh, yeah. I think they'll spend just as much time

outside as inside. - For sure.

So then, we have a nice sitting area outside,

that's great. So let's bring that feel maybe

into the living area a little bit.

So when we go into the living area,

is there any existing colours that we're gonna be

working with right now? - Yeah, the trim is blue.

- Okay. - Think like blueberries.

- Okay. (laughing)

- Brigus is famous for their blueberries,

so I know Valerie will wanna incorporate that.

- So I think it's really important to complement

the blue trim, but we won't go overboard with the blue.

- No. So maybe with the blue trim,

we can bring in some wallpaper to soften the trim

a little bit? - Yeah, I think that would be

really nice, and a little bit maybe a vintage feel

too with the wallpaper where the house is older.

- Sounds Brigus! - Oh, I love using wallpaper!

And then maybe in Valerie's extension,

do some colours that complement the blue.

- So soft tones. - Yeah.

- So it goes well together, 'cause it's an open space.

- It is, yeah.

- So for Valerie's space, I think the key for us

is to have really soft furnishings.

- And maybe we'll use some furniture

that has some curved lines to kinda work

with the shape of the room.

- Sounds like a retreat. Sitting back, looking out

over the ocean. - Right?

- I almost wants to go there! (laughing)

- We'll go in, Randy's laying back,

having a time! - A cup of tea.

- Now that you got a room made for two of 'em,

but mostly Valerie, let's talk about upstairs.

It's gonna be Tim's space.

As Tim called it, the Captain Quarters,

and design a room for him.

(Sasha): I like the idea of doing a study,

having his desk, built-ins.

(Sam): We can show all his pieces then

in the built-ins. - Exactly.

- It'll be like a little museum of his pieces.

And also we can do a colour that really complements

the blue that's happening downstairs.

- Change it up a bit. - Like a darker green?

- Yeah. I love the idea of the green.

I think that would be great, because I feel like

that colouring on its own will kind of stand out,

so we don't need a huge amount of other colours

and textures, decor-wise. - Exactly.

All of his pieces, his collection,

will speak for itself.

- It sounds like you ladies got this!

- Oh, I think so! - Oh, we're ready!

- I'll just go back to work, leave you to it!

- You get working on the built-ins.

- I know, right? (laughing)

(upbeat music)

(Randy): So not a minute too soon,

them built-ins is ready to install.

- When my dad builds something in the shop,

he loves to see that project right through.

So, it's him and Al putting them in.

Once they're up, they'll need a lick of paint.

Don't leave any holidays.

Holidays mean when you're painting,

you'll miss a spot,

because you went home and had a holiday.

(Rand): Down on the harbour at the 150-year-old

Gushues' house,

this $80,000 project is almost complete.

We got all hands on deck to get it done.

Today, I'm not the boss.

The designers are.

I'm just doin' what I'm told.

Hanging pictures.

So, Sam and Sasha can put their final touches

on this amazing 150-year-old house.

- It was definitely a challenge

designing three very different spaces.

Upstairs is really Tim's space.

Downstairs is Val's own space,

and then the living room is kind of their space together.

- They have two totally different personalities.

Such beautiful people,

but he is the captain,

and she is the lady. (laughing)

The key with each room is that we brought a little

piece into each room.

So, bringing the green in from upstairs

down to the living room.

Bringing the pink from here back into the living room.

So it all kind of tied together.

(Sam): The wallpaper is very Newfoundland.

It's very Brigus.

It's by a Canadian designer,

and she actually came to Newfoundland,

spent some time here,

and created a Newfoundland collection.

It's got that beautiful blue that is in the trim

and in the doors,

but also that really beautiful soft green

that we've tied in throughout the house.

- This house is extra special to Tim and for Valerie now too

because Tim's father was actually born in this house.

And for Tim and Valerie

to walk in and enjoy the space,

it means everything.

Well, what do you think of your front porch?

(Valerie gasps) (Tim): Oh, my.

Well, you've been busy.

(Randy): We've been busy!

(Valerie): Oh my gosh, it's beautiful!

- Amazing, isn't it?

- I love it. What we like to call the front bridge.

- Front bridge.

(Valerie): This is beautiful!

The furniture, the colours, the flowers.

We really weren't expecting

the covered bridge to be such a key part of our home.

But to see it transformed,

it's just gorgeous.

- Way back when you started it,

there was no covering at all.

But in the pictures that we could see

from about the 1890s,

it had the covered bridge.

In fact, my aunt who is in her 100th year

remembers when it was removed

and wished that it hadn't.

So, she's still with us,

so she'll be happy to see it back.

- Yes, well there you go,

we're puttin' a little bit of history back.

- Yeah, exactly.

- Think this is beautiful? Wait 'til you see inside.

(Valerie): Oh, Randy, it's absolutely beautiful.

It's absolutely gorgeous.

It's hard to believe that this was the same space, Randy.

- It is, yes. - It's been totally transformed.

It's amazing.

This wallpaper is just beautiful,

with the blueberries.

(Randy): It goes hand-in-hand,

the wallpaper with the blueberries,

the blue on the trim.

- Blue seas and blue skies.

(laughing) - It is, for sure.

- It's everything we could have wanted,

and I think more. - More.

- I absolutely love how you've been able

to take what was here in the 1870s,

and take it to the modern times,

but not leave the past behind.

- That's what our joy is, these old houses,

to actually build a piece on,

but keep a lot of the original,

like the staircase.

- Yeah! - You used to slide down this

as a boy. - As a youngster, yeah.

- It was a lot of work to bring this back to life,

but it was well worth it. - Oh, I think so!

- And can you imagine them stair treads,

if they could talk? A hundred years

of people walking up over with their boots on.

- Well, I don't know what house you lived in,

but there'd be no boots going up that one here.

(laughing)

- So keeping them little pieces

is a great feeling for us, and I'm sure it's great for you.

And even tearing down this old wall,

we found an old hockey card.

(Harvey): Randy Moller. - Oh yeah?

- Quebec Nordiques.

- Let's take a look at your room.

- Oh, I'd love to see my room.

This is absolutely gorgeous!

It really captures what I wanted here,

which was a lovely feminine space.

I feel that here, and oh my gosh,

there's just so much here to take in!

This is where I want to have friends and family,

sit, relax, have a cup of tea,

a glass of wine.

- That's a nice place for it. - Oh, it's beautiful.

And what's lovely is the room flows,

so you can just enjoy all of the space.

- It's a beautiful space, and it all started,

if you can remember your coin ceremony.

- Yes!

- I think it's supposed to bring good luck?

- Loads of good luck. And did you feel you had good

fortune as you worked through it?

- We did. We had a lot of good luck on this one.

Everything went smooth, and actually,

it was Nikki's first time

framing up this one, her and Paul.

- Well, you wouldn't know it. - So we had the whole team in

from the ground up, and...

it was just a fun build to be in.

- You built an amazing piece of additional property for us,

and now this space is just transformed.

It's gorgeous.

- Even though the first level is amazing,

we got another level to go have a look at as well.

- Well, Valerie, if you're free to cut us adrift

to go have a look at that? - For sure.

- Can't wait to see it.

- Tim always refers to this place

as a landlocked ship,

and it's always interesting to work with homeowners

like that. So, for Tim, this is his ship,

and I think we made it work.

She's stuck aground.

- Oh, my! Holy cow!

Welcome to the captain's cabin!

(Valerie): Oh my gosh.

This is gorgeous.

- I love the colour.

The beautiful lamps there.

- Oh, wow. - It's like your below-decks.

Well, well done.

I love what's done here. The shelves are fantastic.

- We knew you had a lot of artifacts,

so why not do a built-in in this room?

- It's absolutely perfect to gather up

all the little treasures from all the little voyages.

(Randy): Me and Father back in the wood shop,

Paul and Albert was here putting them together.

So it was a team effort.

- Holy smoke. I love it!

It's absolutely beyond what I could have imagined

was possible for this space.

Beautiful. (Valerie): Oh, wow.

- It'll be a job to get me out of it!

(laughing) - It will indeed.

- I'm thrilled to death with my space,

the ship's office,

and what I call the captain's cabin,

where we have the panoramas out the window.

This house, it was built in 1870.

We still have the feel for the old home,

but we've now been able to take it

to the next generations,

and hopefully for another century and a half beyond that.

- What you've been able to do with our home

is really incredible.

- Oh, thanks. - Thank you.

- See, we got two great spaces. There's only one final

thing to do. - We must put a name

on this ship! - Yes, indeed.

- Something that usually happens with a ship,

they'll christen it, so with this being

a landlocked ship, it wouldn't be fitting

if we didn't have the whole team.

And we're gonna name this ship.

- This home, which has stood here

since around 1870,

has never received a name.

We have chosen to give our home

the name Le Bleuet,

the French Canadian word for blueberry,

the modest berry for which Brigus is renowned

that helped ensured our ancestors' survival

through the long winter.

To Le Bleuet.

(all): Le Bleuet! Le Bleuet!

Le Bleuet!

(Randy): Next week on Rock Solid Builds...

Looking at a hundred plus year old barn

ain't gonna scare us away.

- This whole wall is decayed, gone.

- Comin' down on your toe. - Watch out!

- What?!

- It definitely was a free dock,

but it came with a price, because we had to sail it

across that channel.

- So, Randy and Paul are sitting in a new warm shop

building stuff, while we're out in the rain.

I'm quittin'.

Peace out! (Randy): Hey, hey, hey!

Come back here, now. Don't run away!