Cowboy Builders

Season 8

2013 · 9 episodes · 9h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Bradford

   7 Mar 2013 · 60 min

   Dom and Mel are in Bradford, where a hard-working Dad has been toiling day and night to fix the mess left behind by a cowboy builder. In 2002 Naheem and Faye Khan bought a three-bedroom bungalow. Back then they had just one child, Ava, now thirteen - but since then the Khans have added five little boys to their brood. The family decided on an extension, but the stress of all living under one roof caused Faye and the kids to move out – making getting the work done all the more important. But having paid their builder £44,000, he walked off – leaving the Khan family with a half built wreck: without windows, doors, heating or electricity. Melinda has a huge task on her hands to prepare for a family of eight to move back home – with thirteen rooms in need of TLC, not to mention there being no kitchen and no bathroom. Meanwhile, Dom is on the trail of the builder who appears to have left a trail of devastation across Bradford. A pattern emerges of the cowboy giving low quotes, and then demanding more money before the job is finished. When he finally comes face to face with Dom, he makes a startling admission...

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   2. Potters Bar

   14 Mar 2013 · 60 min

   Melinda Messenger and Dominic Littlewood come to the aid of a couple from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. John Smith used his redundancy money to pay for an extension to his family home, but after six months the builders downed tools and walked off the job - leaving it leaking, freezing and unusable.

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   3. Bounds Green

   21 Mar 2013 · 60 min

   Dominic and Melinda attempt to help eEx-dancer Melissa and chef Carmine who employed a builder they knew from the local Italian community to extend their two-bedroom family flat. They ended up being left with a dangerous, unfinished, uninhabitable shell and full of rats.

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   4. Tettenhall

   28 Mar 2013 · 60 min

   Dominic and Melinda are in the West Midlands to to try and help Mike and Emma who have been left with an unfinished and incorrectly built extension and a house open to the elements by a rogue builder.

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   5. Mitcham

   4 Apr 2013 · 60 min

   Dominic and Melinda are in Mitcham where Vivienne's dream of an extension so that her children, grandchildren, foster children and the elderly she cares for can all enjoy time together ended in tatters. The builder she employed told her that the work would be covered by a warranty from the National House Building Council but instead, her home has been left riddled with damp and mainly uninhabitable.

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   6. Glasgow Update

   11 Apr 2013 · 60 min

   Dominic and Melinda return to Glasgow to check on events since they helped Natalie and Rob, a couple who lost their life savings to a cowboy builder they knew.

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   7. Mitcham update

   12 Nov 2013 · 60 min

   Dom and Mel follow up on the story of foster mum Vivienne.

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   8. Cambridge

   19 Nov 2013 · 60 min

   Melinda and Dom are in Bottisham, near Cambridge, on the trail of a cowboy who massively overcharges his customers.

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   9. Woking update

   26 Nov 2013 · 60 min

   Dom and Mel follow up with a rogue builder that featured in the first series in 2008.