A profoundly deaf couple, whose home was left unsafe by unfinished building work, will see it being transformed by hundreds of volunteers when the latest episode of DIY SOS is broadcast.<\/p>\n
Ahmed and Rifat Ali, from Bitterne in Southampton, lost \u00a372,000 on a ground floor extension which was halted and later condemned.<\/p>\n
The couple and their three children were left living upstairs, unable to use their kitchen or garden, until the hit BBC show’s team rebuilt the house last October.<\/p>\n
The episode, which reveals technology designed to help the couple run their home, will be on BBC One and iPlayer at 20:00 BST.<\/p>\n
DIY SOS designer Gaby Blackman said: “All we hear about in our community is division and that is not what we found. We found a united, kind, warm community all really just trying to help a family in need.”<\/p>\n
More than 150 tradespeople turned up on the first day of the build, with presenter Nick Knowles saying the team had to do “six months work in about seven days”.<\/p>\n
Before work began, Ahmed, speaking through an interpreter, told volunteers: “It’s been quite a dark period and I just feel like this is the light at the end of the tunnel.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A profoundly deaf couple, whose home was left unsafe by unfinished building work, will see it being transformed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}