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- We gotta put some siding, maturit blew off.tter.

I don't know if we're gonna get around this.

We got a very small window to get this done.

The weather is a big factor.

- Nobody wants to be shingling a roof in a snowstorm.

- You know, this thing was frozen in time,

so all hands on deck.

Hey, Mom, let's go see your new house.

(crying) - It's really nice.

You did a wonderful job.

(Randy): 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 a 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.

(bright music)

(Randy): It's the weekend.

You'd think we'd want a break from each other, but not us.

- Could've come back farther!

- We love an adventure.

- It just fits.

- The whole team, you know,

we're all gettin' together going for a bike ride.

So, we're leaving from Brigus, driving four hours

down to Argentia.

Find a place. Sit on the beach. Have a boil up.

It's the thing we usually do, you know, around Newfoundland,

and it's a thing that all the team gets together.

You know, so many projects on the go.

So much stress in the week.

It's good to get on the bikes, go for a run.

Leave it all behind.

Watch out!

- Super early!

Nice day off, and we're rolling in at the normal time, 7 AM.

Gettin' ready to go.

But hey, nobody minds taking a day off

to get a good quad ride in.

Right on Newfie tradition.

- It's a hard, you know, thing to say

if it's worth getting up this early to go for a ride,

but you know, when we gets out there

and we gets a good meal cooking,

all that'll be forgotten about.

- Let's see, some Newfie Steak.

Some mac and cheese.

And end it off with some chocolate.

- You enjoy yourself. You stop.

There's a boil-up, fine feed, good laugh.

Mud, dirt, come on with it.

- Yeah, we work and play together.

We're like a big family. We even argue together.

No comment.

(laughing)

- Come on!

(engine revving)

We're running out of daylight!

- Hey, you ready to go? Let's go.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): The four-hour ride across the Avalon

to the beach is a perfect time to clear your head.

(indistinct shouting)

The past year has been busier than ever for me and my crew.

We started and finished some amazing projects

in Brigus and beyond.

I'd say we've had some happy clients.

- Wow. Oh, wow!

- Oh! (laughing)

- This is fabulous.

- Ah!

- Oh, wow! - Look at that!

- I love it.

(Randy): So, yeah, it's time for a little celebration.

We work hard, time to play hard too.

We made it!

There's nothing better. It's beautiful.

Look, the mountains, the ocean.

We're at the edge of North America.

Start a fire. Have a big feed.

Who wouldn't want to do this?

I definitely can't talk to you anymore.

We're hungry. Cook some food!

(upbeat music)

(indistinct chattering)

- Lonely man baloney.

(whistling)

- Randy's not a bad cook.

- She never said I was a good one.

(laughing)

Turn that over. - Yeah, that's what I asked.

- What d'you got, a taster on the go yet or what?

- Nope. No tasters. - Oh! Look!

The first one, I told you,

your hand in the pot helping, but not any tasters.

The first one. (laughing)

- A long ride. Everybody's hungry.

So, we got some chowder. Moose sausages.

Some fish and brews over there. Some bacon, baloney.

(Paul): Macaroni and cheese?

- Eh...

For the old man, anyway.

- I'm gonna cook the toutons.

Nice easy job. Definitely a Newfoundland tradition.

Basically, it's just bread dough fried up in a frying pan.

And Paul stood up doing nothing. We gotta get him on a job.

(laughing)

I said get in and get at something, Paul.

- I brought you the sausage. That's good enough.

What'd you bring? - You gotta cook 'em too!

Oh, look at that!

- Toutons.

(Randy): The day was awesome.

You know, we started in Brigus, four-hour drive on the quads.

Everybody had a good time.

Had a boil up.

Now we're playing some axe throwing.

What better of a day can you ask for?

No.

(shouting, cheering)

- Come on. Sink your bull's-eye!

(laughing, cheering) - Bull's-eye!

Show you how it's done, huh?

- The rookie!

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Back to work, and back

to one of my biggest projects in Brigus...

My mom's house.

Since my dad and I have been building it ourselves,

with some help from the rest of the team,

our budget is $200,000.

The house has two bedrooms, one for my mom,

and the other for the kids when they visit.

It's an open-concept layout,

and the kitchen looks out over the forest.

So you have a cabin in the woods feel.

I really wanted this to be the perfect place

for the family to get together,

and that's exactly what it's going to be.

The stakes are high, because I wanna make Mom happy.

Building this place has been a personal project

for me and my dad, that started as a tree lot

that we cleared.

Watch your noggins!

Then we dug for the foundation, and got the footings in

before Snowmaggedon buried it in snow for the whole winter.

I ain't moving that. (laughing)

But once spring came,

the crew's been helping us to get back on track.

It's been a lot of work to get to this point,

but now it's finally ready for some finishing touches.

So, I called in Sam and Sasha,

who I've worked with on many projects before,

to really help me with some final details

to make this house extra special for Mom.

- Ah, this is so fantastic.

- Oh, this is great, Randy!

- Wow.

- So, this has been me and my father's

weekend project, trying to get my mom in.

Now I gotta get it done, and I gotta make sure

that this is gonna be perfect.

- Yeah, I love the layout.

Nice and open, yeah. - I love the trims.

- Love the trims. It's my favourite.

- The wood trim, it's gonna be

pine stained the same colour as the floor,

because we're going with a herringbone throughout.

- Oh, I love that. - Love that colour.

I love that you're doing the herringbone pattern.

It's gonna look so cool.

You're really taking that wood feeling from the outside,

and bringing it into your house. - Yeah, definitely,

and this is only primed now.

So, we need a little bit of help on the colour of the space.

- Yeah, keeping it light in here is gonna be important.

- Exactly. You can bring pops of colour in your furnishings.

- So, you're saying all the walls, keep them white?

- Yeah, definitely! Your features are gonna pop out.

So that wood element is really gonna be the showstopper.

(light music)

(Randy): This is gonna be the living area.

- I'm thinking for the fireplace bump out here,

maybe doing like, an accent colour.

- Yeah. - Definitely.

- Right? The rest of your walls are all white.

- True that. - Maybe do a focal point

so they stand out. And then maybe with that colour,

we can tie that in with our furniture.

- Yes. - I'm thinking with the space,

we can maybe look at having like, a sofa back here.

- Sofa back here. - End tables.

- Maybe two chairs over here.

A nice rug, ground the space.

Bring in some colour. - For sure.

- Great place for the kids to run around?

- Perfect.

(Randy): And I got the kids' room started,

but my mom's... that's a tough one.

So, this is the main bedroom.

- Beautiful. - Oh, this is a great space.

- Do have any ideas for the design in here,

what you wanna do? - I have nothing!

(laughing) This isn't my specialty,

so I'm gonna leave that to you. - We'll take care

of your mom's room, no problem.

- Well, it takes a whole load off of us.

It's been frozen in time, so we gotta speed this up.

So, I'll let you make the decisions,

and I'll just go get to work. - Okay, sounds good. Let's go.

(upbeat folk music)

(Randy): With Sam and Sasha now working on my mom's house...

that frees me up to take on a new project in Bay Roberts.

My company is always happy to lend a hand to the community.

This church is a big part of this area.

You can see it for miles across the bay,

so this one's extra special.

I love anything that's old.

Like, this church was built in the 1900s.

It's just amazing how they built it years ago.

So, anything we can do to help to fix it up

and keep that alive, it's pretty cool.

(upbeat music)

We gotta fix the bell tower. There's some screens

that are blown off.

Just over time, and the wind on 'em,

and the birds picking at it, it got a lotta use and abuse.

So, we got the lift here.

We're getting up, fixing them screens.

Just trying to prevent that to happen again.

- Going up in the lift today. We gotta do some work here.

I'm not too bad with the heights. It's the swaying.

(Randy): We got Paul driving the lift.

And we got Nikki and Josh going up in the basket.

So, they're the ones that's gonna be hands on

fixing the screens.

This is a good little project for them

to actually get that experience of getting that height

and getting what it feels like.

It's like riding a bike for the first time.

- So the tip's gotta be flush with this basket?

- There's always concerns when you're dealing, you know,

50, 55 feet up in the air.

The weather here is always windy.

You know, it's gusting probably 50, 60 here now today.

And no matter what way the wind is blowing,

it's blowing down here.

We're always fighting against it,

because no matter what you're doing,

everything is blowing outta yer hand.

(Randy): We started a new job repairing the screens

on a church bell tower 50 feet in the air.

It's the windiest spot in Bay Roberts.

- Oh, okay, so gotta be perfectly flush, okay.

(Randy): In the last year, Nikki's made a ton of progress.

She's losing more of that rookie tag on each job,

but today is a whole new challenge for her.

Nikki's going to new heights for this one.

When you get up, that thing is gonna start swaying.

Definitely when the wind goes, and now look,

it's getting miserable over there.

Nikki, are you nervous? (laughing)

- My biggest worry today is the wind and the sway.

I'm a bit nervous when the sway kicks in.

It hits your stomach hard. You gotta kinda be on your toes.

- It's like being on a boat. - Yeah. You gotta have a lot...

- She'll have her sea legs before the end of the day.

- Absolutely. (Randy chuckling)

(microphone feedback)

- I think she's a little bit nervous.

A little bit. - Go on. She's petrified.

- Her knees is shaking.

- That's good!

- Now, can you get me? Hey? No?

Well, we'll just do S.O.S. - Ha ha.

(Randy laughing)

Are you not coming up for one little look with us first?

- Nothing to look at!

- It was nice knowing you, buddy.

- We'll joke around, but we don't want anyone to get hurt.

Josh is going up with Nikki too,

and we'll make sure they're all hooked on

and they can communicate back and forth.

Hey, the thing is... is don't be jumping around.

- That's what I said to Josh. - As soon as you feel...

That's why I wanna have the radios.

You don't need that. I'm gonna take that one off.

Hey, I wouldn't go anymore up tilting.

I wouldn't tilt any more like that.

- Two-and-a-half feet, go in.

- Okay.

(Josh): We're good.

(Randy): How was it?

- No.

- Yeah. The stabilizer is coming up!

(upbeat music)

- Hey, you got her done or what? How you're down here?

- No. - Why not?!

- Because you were all down here drinking coffee

and we were up there blowing away!

- Look, even the crows are wondering what you're at.

(Paul): Waiting for it to rain.

(Randy): Break time's over,

and so is Nikki's fear of the sway.

That's awesome.

So, it's back at her to finish the job,

and then we can call it a day.

(folk music)

(saw whirring) So, all hands on deck.

We got a lot of people in the shop

just because we got a whole lot of projects

and a lot of stuff to get done before the winter.

Including my mom's place.

She's been renting a place until we're finished

building her house.

I'm pushing hard on the weekends to get it all done.

We got the kitchen cabinets built,

so that was a big thing off the list.

Dive right in.

And we started painting. Well...

kind of. (laughing)

My mom loves the kids.

So they're getting a room across the hall

when they stay over with Nan for sleepovers.

And I thought I'd make some beds

that are like tents,

and some giant night lights for the wall.

They're gonna look like clouds.

All I gotta do is build them.

(upbeat music)

We're actually gonna make 'em raised off the wall,

put some LED lighting behind it,

and the actual cloud stepping at different

widths off the wall.

It'll give a nice glow. It'll look pretty catty.

We gotta shingle Tony's roof. - Yup.

- Been a long time on that roof, though.

We shingled that, what probably...

- I'd say roughly like, 17, 18 years ago.

- Time flies. - Mm-hmm.

- I remember that was one of the first jobs

that you let me have a little bit of control

instead of just being a helper. - Mm-hmm.

- Graduate from being a rookie to actually cuttin' some wood.

Nailing stuff on. - I know.

- So, were you nervous letting me...?

You know, she never blew down or fell down,

so me nailing them walls on... Pshht, must have been good.

- You done a good job, but I'm still nervous

right now, today, worried for your safety.

- God...

- That's it. Father, son.

You always worry.

- Oh, yeah. - Yes.

But you're getting better.

Another 10, 15 years, you'll be as good as me.

(laughing)

- What?!

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Well, I must have done something right.

Tony's place is still standing.

But the roof? That's another story.

So it's time to fix it.

Yeah, so we're here shingling today.

This is one of the very first houses that I actually worked on

with the old man, and grandfather, and me uncle.

So, it means a lot here.

And now we're re-shingling it again!

(upbeat music)

The roof is in such bad condition.

The last time we had a big rainstorm,

actually, a little bit of water got inside.

So, this is very urgent to get it all fixed.

It put a little bit of a wrench in our timeline

plus our schedule.

- We're gonna flip it and put it on top.

Okay.

- First section straightened away yet, Nikki?

- Almost. I'm downhill a little bit,

but that don't bother me if it don't bother you.

- Most important is you level this way.

- Okay.

- We got the whole team. Paul and Nikki's on the roof,

so they're taking all the old shingles off

and putting new shingles on.

And then we got Cody and Al on the ground.

They're trying to prep all the shingles,

get 'em gummed,

and actually get them up to Paul and Nikki.

The thing about shingling, everybody gotta be in sync.

Hey, Nikki? How come Paul's side looks clean?

- I was busy setting up scaffold.

- Ah.

- Don't go startin' with no rookie talk.

- That's what they call it.

(upbeat music)

We got a very small window to get this done.

Just yesterday, it was white in St. John's.

Coming out here, we don't have much,

because we're at a lower sea level, but it's coming.

Once the wind picks up or the weather changes,

yeah, we're... we're backlogged.

But, hey, we gotta try to get it all done.

The big challenge with this one, it's a 12 on 12 roof.

That's a 45-degree pitch.

Good for shedding rain and snow...

but a challenge to shingle because it's steep.

Where the house is located, beautiful views.

You got a pond on one side.

Ocean on the other.

But that comes with a price. It's windy.

When the wind kicks up, especially coming off the ocean,

it can blow shingles around, it can blow planks.

You think about it now, you're probably like

30 feet in the air.

You're up there on a 45-degree angle

trying to hold on, on a calm day,

but when it's like gusting 80 to 100, it's not too nice.

- Easy.

- A shingled roof out here next to the ocean,

you're lucky to get, like, 15 years.

If you were inland,

you'd probably get, like, 20, 25 years.

That's the breaks of being here on the ocean.

In this area, extra gumming, extra nails is a must.

If not, we'll be picking 'em up in the pond or in the ocean

come another day or so.

(Randy): In Bay Roberts,

we've been working on the church

helping with some maintenance.

It can be seen for miles.

And being on the hill, it can get hit by strong winds.

So we fixed the screens on the bell tower,

and now we're going underground.

We're bracing up this floor in the basement in the church.

The old floor joists got a bit of bounce

and its right where everybody walks up the aisle.

So, what we gotta do, we gotta put a beam

to brace all that up.

As you see, them beams are 100 years old.

They're cut all over the place.

It's a lot of span on them old logs.

To reinforce the floor, we gotta attach a 50-foot long,

two by ten beam to the joists.

We'll build forms for concrete pads

and install posts between the beam and the pads.

And that'll be the extra support needed

for another 100 years.

Nothing's level, nothing's square.

Trying to work with it. Other than that, though,

Harv, it's going well.

- We'll get it done today.

We got our holes dug for our concrete footing,

so this concrete is to hold the jack posts,

and then it'll go up to our beam.

That's the reason why we got it dug down right here.

Alright...

I'll get me nail bag.

(upbeat music)

We got a span of 50 feet...

(Al): I got this end. You go to the end.

...and we'll sister 'em together two by ten

with glue and nails to make the support beam.

So, uh, we got the beam up in place.

We got the pads made for the footings.

The concrete's coming. We'll get them poured.

(truck beeping)

We're gonna take it by buckets and carry it in.

It's all muscle.

(Randy): It's the only option getting concrete in here.

We can only use buckets, just because

there's not enough room to get a wheelbarrow

or cement truck in, so many hands make light work.

We got the cement poured,

so we'll just make a little flat surface here,

and wait for the cement to cure,

and lay the posts on, then we're good to go.

(upbeat music)

Back in Brigus at my mom's new place,

it may not look like a big job,

but it's an important one to finish a house.

It's the trim work.

The custom window boxes are in and stained.

The rich colour adds that woodsy feel,

which... what I was going for.

But we still need to trim out the windows.

And Al's like the old man.

He got the patience to do it.

- Windows can be a challenge, yes.

It's just a matter of taking a little bit of time

and extra time to do it, and it's perfect.

I'm not afraid of a challenge, no.

I'll get it done.

I don't mind working for Randy.

You know, he just got stuff that gotta be done,

he'll tell you what gotta be done, you go do it.

Other than that, he's pretty good, normally.

Or to me, anyway. I dunno about anybody else,

but to me he's good. (laughing)

Maybe he's afraid of me. I don't know.

(upbeat folk music)

(Randy): Down on the Bay, the winds have picked up.

But we got a small window to finish Tony's roof.

Nikki and Paul did a great job on the bay side of the roof.

Now it's time for the pond side.

- Today, we're finishing shingling this roof.

The big difference is... the weather.

Of course. Welcome to Newfoundland.

Yesterday was mild, not so much wind.

Today, it's twice as windy, twice as hard, obviously,

to get it done.

- But, the sun is shinin',

and this is the three-day window,

so let's get to it.

Come on. You're not gonna get it shingled down here.

(laughing)

Nikki, she finds the cold a lot more than I do.

The thing is, you just gotta put it out of your mind

and the cold's the cold,

the job's still gotta be done,

so it's just as well to smile and be happy than miserable.

The wind's supposed to come up later on this afternoon,

so it's much better for us to get it done now

while it's not blowing a gale,

because it just gets to be a big pain

when you start losing your shingles

and you gotta spend more time holding onto to 'em

than actually puttin' them on.

(suspenseful music)

- Nobody wants to be shingling a roof in a snowstorm.

This is just the start of it.

The quicker you can get her done and get out of here

it's the best-case scenario.

(Randy): At the bay in Brigus Harbor,

we thought we had a three-day window of clear weather

to finish Tony's roof, but I should have known better.

We got hit with three seasons all at once on this project.

But we can't stop now.

- We never really beat the weather,

but we're gonna get it finished now before...

it gets too bad.

We're just here taking off our roof brackets now

and we'll break down the scaffold, and we'll be off

to the next one. I'm happy enough to have this done.

- An hour to finish up. An hour to get this down.

And we're pulled out. Done.

Makin' our way down. Back on solid ground.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Just because it's the weekend,

doesn't mean I can slow down.

I got to get my mom into her new house,

so I'm asking a huge favour from Jason.

- So, what is it this weekend?

- I got some fun on the weekend.

- What's that? - It's herringbone flooring.

- Hold on a second here. You didn't say anything

about herringbone on the phone. - Well, if I would've said that,

you wouldn't have come on the weekend!

(laughing) - Always a surprise, Randy.

- I called in a favour.

We need to get the flooring all done,

and if our team is too busy,

or we just need a good flooring job,

we'll give Jason a call.

I'll owe him one now.

- Where? - Throughout.

Living room, kitchen, dining room, two bedrooms.

- What's the timeline? - Yesterday.

(laughing)

That's the flooring over there if you wanna have a look.

- Yeah. Herringbone. - It is.

Herringbone looks deadly.

But it's tangly. So many angles.

And you're lining up the points.

If it's off a little bit, it's gonna look so wonky.

It's just not like a straight flooring.

We could do this place in one day.

Herringbone is probably gonna take two or three days.

It's an oak floor, engineered,

and it can be either glued down or clicked.

We're going with the clicked version just because

it's quicker, easier.

- Nice. - Yeah.

- It's a nice floor.

There's a little bit of math involved

with your cuts, and you know, everything's cut on a 45.

But measure twice, cut once,

and, uh, get it done.

You're gonna have an arrow.

Which way are you thinking that you want that to run?

- Uh... probably the way you're going now?

- Okay, good. (laughing)

And what's your focus point here?

You could start it in the middle in here,

but you're gonna have furniture.

Nobody's really gonna see if it's even against the walls.

Better to have it where it's wide open.

- I guess really coming in through the front door.

When you're coming in through that front door,

you open it up, there it is.

You see the arrow.

- Yeah. We'll have it centred.

- I think that'll look pretty good.

Then you can come out, fan out into the kitchen,

the living room. - Continue all the way through.

- Yeah. It's a special look.

It's not what you see everywhere.

And it is for Mom, so the cattier

we can make it look, the better.

Works for me. Works for you?

- Works for me. - Well, hey, happy weekend!

- Yeah. - I'll let you at it.

- Thanks, Randy. - Bye!

(upbeat music)

We got two weeks to finish the rest of the house,

and we need this flooring done to keep moving ahead.

Without the flooring, you know, we can't finish off

the baseboard trim.

We can't bring in the furniture. So, it hinders a lot.

I'm saying Jason got time, but he really don't.

He got two days, so if I come in Monday,

I'm hoping this is all done,

'cause we got a stack load of work to get done.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): We're starting the week by finishing

the last bit of work at the church in Bay Roberts.

We gotta put some siding on the back.

It blew off, so we gotta take that off, put the new on.

I don't know if we're gonna get around this.

It's, uh, pretty tight, so...

it's a lot bigger than what we pictured.

We ain't gettin' around there.

It's gonna be five... five-fourths or twenty.

You're looking for about 24 hands

and that's pretty well what you own.

- Yeah.

We can't get the lift around the corner. It's too big.

So, uh, it's back to climbing on the scaffold.

It sucks.

We gotta be done by the end of the week.

But weather is a big factor.

There's supposed to be more wind, more rain,

so not looking good.

(upbeat music)

It turns out I was right. We got hit by rain and more.

- Just here now finishing off the siding on the church.

It should take us probably a couple days by the time

we get all the way to the top. It's pretty high.

- Oh...

- It's not that bad of a job, but it's not the funnest

this time of year. With all the cold,

the siding gets pretty brittle,

so it's a little harder to cut, and it takes a little longer.

But we're gonna get it done.

(Randy): In Bay Roberts, we only have one more thing to finish up

at the community church, the siding at the back.

But this early part of winter is misery.

Rain, snow, wind.

- Froze to death. (Paul): Nikki's a wuss.

It's not warm enough for her.

(Randy): But we gotta push through.

And after all the effort,

it's a great feeling to finish a job

that means a lot to the community.

(folk music)

Back at my mom's new house in Brigus,

it's just days away from Mom moving in.

So, the whole team's here today

doing some finishing touches.

Jason was here, got all the flooring down.

He did an awesome job.

And the electricians are here

finishing off the heaters.

Right now, we're just trying to get Mother in the house.

But there's still a lot to do.

It's all the little details that take so much time,

so all hands on deck.

(upbeat music)

The big install for me today is in the kid's room.

Hey, Nikki! - Yo!

- Come give me a hand to lay this up, please.

I built these really cool cloud shapes

to be giant night lights for the kids.

- I can't wait to see the final plug in.

- Okay... - Oh, my children

would love this. This is definitely...

a pretty cool idea for a kids' room.

Do you wanna get that light off?

- Uh, we'll get the other one on first,

and then we'll adjust it all.

- That one probably gotta come this way. Yeah.

- It's all about placement.

Let's see what it looks like. The moment of truth.

- Ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Don't they look wicked!? - It looks catty!

Oh man, the kids is gonna love it,

especially here in the nighttime...

- Hang on. - ...big night light.

- Ahh... - Phew!

- You did awesome.

(upbeat music)

(Randy): Before the rest of the furniture can come in,

there's a few more custom features to take care of.

- These are floating shelves

going next to the fireplace.

It's, uh, gonna be all glued. No nails.

If I use nails, I have to fill every hole.

And it just don't look as clean as just glued.

Randy does all the design and does all the figuring,

I guess we'll call it, then he hands me off a drawing,

or tells me what he wants, and, uh...

I try to make it happen from there.

(upbeat music)

So now I just have to glue them together

and fold it together like a book, and we're done.

(Randy): I love all the custom touches we're doing.

The house does have a view of the forest,

so I'm adding wood features wherever I can.

And since the old man is the pro in the shop,

I'm getting him to do it.

- We're making not your traditional spindles.

It's gonna be from floor to ceiling.

Randy comes up with all the ideas, pretty much.

But it's a lot of work.

This is eight hours' worth of planing,

then we got a couple hours' worth of cutting,

another four or five hours' worth of sanding,

and then we have installation. So, yeah, a lot of work.

Basically, this is the idea.

Yeah, I just have 40 more to make and I'll be done.

(Randy): Hmm. Is he complaining?

Well, I could've got him to install them too.

(upbeat music)

But Nikki and Paul are happy to jump in.

A lot of long hours and hard work

has gone into this place.

So I'm thankful to all the team,

and I can't wait for my mom to see it all.

No pressure on me.

- They're plumb right now.

You okay?

You're welcome.

- Thanks, Nikki! - It's okay.

(Randy): I can't believe it.

The day is finally here.

The house that Dad and I built for my mom is just about ready.

I got Sam and Sasha finishing things up

so Mom can open the door and move right in.

- I just feel like Betty's place was so much fun

for us to do. It was a little Scandinavian house.

And I feel like it really came together in the end.

- We decided to kind of go with a neutral,

natural kind of a palette. Simple, streamlined.

We really wanted the nature to come in through the windows,

and that really to be the highlight of the home.

- There was a really cool mural wall that we did

with some leaves, and so we basically

went outside, found these leaves,

and ironed them to actually make them flat.

And then we just framed them.

- It really brought the outside in.

Being minimal doesn't need to be cold and sterile.

So, the chairs that we did, we painted them

all different colours. Nothing too loud.

Kind of a nod to the Jellybean Row,

the colourful houses of Newfoundland.

So, it was nice to bring in some colour

into a white canvas space.

(upbeat folk music)

(Randy): Big day today. I gets to show my mom her place.

I'm a little bit nervous. You know...

it's like buying your mother a present.

You never know if she's gonna like it.

You're trying to think of all the things that she do like

and put it into this one gift.

So, this is one big gift that I'm trying

to let her open up.

Let me go get my mom and see if she likes it,

because she can't return it.

Hey, Mom, let's go see your new house!

- Okay, here we go.

Wow. Nice!

Really nice. I loves it.

- Yeah? (tearfully): Nice.

It's really nice. You did a wonderful job.

- Well, we did a lot of work. - Yeah.

- Nice big, open kitchen.

- Favourite place is the kitchen.

- The living room. Great space.

Nice for family gatherings.

- Really, really nice.

The layout, I really likes it.

The shelves are nice. I likes the way they are opened.

So I can put a lot of stuff on it.

- Yeah, you can put the kids' pictures,

put a lot of pictures. Maybe a picture of me.

- Oh, I'll definitely put a picture of you!

(laughing)

- We gave you some storage underneath too.

- That's perfect. - Gave you an electric fireplace

so you don't have to fool around with propane or...

- No wood. - ...wood.

- I likes the heat. (chuckling)

I likes the flooring.

And you can see the different shades in it.

- This herringbone flooring was a lot of work.

But this house, especially being for you,

we wanted to throw everything at it to make it look beautiful.

And... - It is.

- ...bringing all them wood colours in,

especially because we're in the woods.

(laughing)

- I like the wood. - We're in the woods.

This is a good place to spend some time

with the whole family, gathering in this living room.

The kids'll be able to come over.

It looks nice now, wait 'til they come in.

- Oh yeah, make a mess, wouldn't they?

(laughing) We'll make a mess together.

- So, we built the dining room table.

That was custom. - Real nice.

- And we brought the colour from the spindles.

- Yes.

- The chairs, different colours. Nice.

Let's see. Made for short people, I think.

Yeah, this is made for someone short.

- Yeah, like Grady says, "You're only three apples high."

- Oh, yes. (Randy laughing)

Three apples high, that's just what I am.

- Everything's in here custom made, tailored to you,

tailored to our family,

and shows what we can actually do.

Because this was a special build to all of us,

'cause it was for you.

- You did a wonderful job on it.

I got to say, really nice.

- Why don't you have a look at the kitchen?

We made a little nook for the two kids to be able

to sit down, eat their mac and cheese.

- While I'm getting stuff ready for supper?

- Yeah. - Great idea.

- And you got a great place for preparing all the meals.

I made this island big so you can be here prepping

all the turkeys, the Jiggs dinner.

- Yeah. - Can you find your fridge?

- He's well hided.

I guess it's there. - It's right here.

We wanted it to blend in with the cupboard doors.

Figured we'd do something a little special.

- It's real nice.

I won't have to clean no fingerprints now.

That's perfect.

- So, you got a lot of drawers to put stuff,

'cause we know you love getting them deals

in the supermarket, so... (laughing)

Overstocking the shelves.

When we has a snowstorm and blocked in,

I knows where to go get food.

(laughing)

- That cupboard, the black sets it off.

- So, you think it's a keeper? - Yeah.

- Good, 'cause we ain't changing it.

(laughing) - Too late now, is it?

- It's too late now.

- I likes the sink. Nice and big.

Handle the dinner pots.

I loves the kitchen. Lovely layout.

- I'm happy that you love it, 'cause we...

put our heart and soul in trying to make it yours.

We know you love to make dinners.

The whole family come over, so every single little piece

that we put it, it was put in for something

for you to be able to enjoy.

- You did a wonderful job. - Everything is awesome.

This whole open-concept is awesome,

but the real feature place is gonna be the kids' bedroom.

Before we go to the kids' bedroom,

I'll show you your bedroom. Excited to see it?

- Yes, yes! Let's go! Come on!

(laughing)

Wow, look at this!

Lovely!

- We brought the flooring herringbone pattern

in the bedroom.

Great help from Sam and Sasha to decorate

this room for you. - They did a wonderful job.

- 'Cause you know, me decorating...

Great on woodworking, not so good on decorating.

(laughing)

- Loves it. I can't wait to crash into it,

relax and enjoy it.

- As special as this room was decorated by Sam and Sasha,

we had two special decorators in the other room.

They did some special design for you.

- Okay. - Wanna have a look?

- Sure! Let's go. - Let's go look.

Two special designers designed this one!

- Wow, look at this!

Oh, man. They're nice!

Hoo-hoo! Can't wait to see them in this! Haha!

They'll do some jumping. - I know.

- Rhiannon and Grady's gonna love it.

- Definitely gonna love it.

These beds that we designed for 'em,

we did it in a way that they're all bolted together

so you can take them apart pretty easy.

- Okay. - Remove them if you want.

- Lot of work into them. - Little bit of work gone

into 'em. - I'd say!

- But it was for two special people.

- I know. - Can you tell

which handprints is whose? (laughing)

- Yeah, I can see!

It's nice. I'm glad they did that.

- And when the kids are sleeping over,

we got a little night light behind their heads.

I got a real big night light made for 'em out of them clouds.

- That's so cool. They're gonna love it.

- I'm sure they'll love it. They'll be here all the time.

- Sure! They'll come when they like.

- Mint! Freedom tonight. (laughing)

So, what do you think of it? - Loves it.

- This thing been a long time coming.

It was frozen in time.

Just as we thought we were getting ahead,

we had a big dump of snow, and we couldn't do anything.

We definitely pulled out all the stops.

We had the whole team here, all the family here.

We pulled it all off.

- I know, it was a long time, but it's well worth it.

I'm proud of you, Randy. Really proud.

- We did it all for you. Here's your new home.

- I'm home.

- Let's go get the kids and show 'em.

- Sure. - 'Cause they're gonna be

happy to see it.

- Woo-hoo! Mint!

- Do you like it?

- Go see.

(gasping) - What do you think? What do you think?!

- My mother as a client, you know, pretty good.

(laughing) Not too bad.

The worst, best, all the above.

(laughing)

A little bit tricky, because it is for my mom,

so I wanted everything to be perfect.

- You did a wonderful job.

You did everything that I wanted, so perfect.

I can't wait for the kids to see their room.

Are you gonna stay here a lot with me?

- Mm-hmm! - Yeah?

- Yes!

(babbling)

(Randy): This might be Nan's place to the kids,

but it's also extra special,

because I built it with my dad...

- Hello!

- ...and with my work family.

- Wow!

Jeez, this place really come together in the end,

didn't it? - What do you think?

- The kitchen is awesome!

(Grady): Good! - It's good?!

- Wicked, ain't it, b'y?!

- You know, to have this all done,

everybody here enjoying the space.

This is what it was meant to be.

Good food, good drinks, and good people.

- So happy to be in, eh? Finally.

- This year was amazing. We had so many projects.

So many different ones, from renovations to new builds.

- We've, uh, battled everything from weather,

to deliveries,

to time pressure,

and we always come through.

You know, along the way we've had a little bit of fun

with cook up, boil ups, the scattered little meal

and, uh, you know, it's a good experience.

- I'm happy we're here and we got through all this,

and we're ready to go.

It's more meaningful when it's family.

And I considers Betty like family.

And in the end, to walk in and see the finished product,

and to see Mother... are you gonna cry?

Don't you cry! You better not!

- We definitely wouldn't be able to do this without,

you know, having the whole team together.

It was a uphill climb, but hey,

everybody pulled through, everybody came together.

We're like one big family. That's what it's all about.

- Cheers to family. Can we get a new rookie

for next season? - Sure!

(all laughing)

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