BUYING a home by mistake on Houses Below The Hammer was a catastrophe for one viewer, who was ripped off by cowboy builders whereas caring for a sick relative.
Martin Roberts offered BBC One’s Houses Below The Hammer, however suffered a well being scare final 12 months so he shares the duties with co-presenters Martel Maxwell and Dion Dublin.
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Each episode options homes which might be up for public sale and reveals the journey of the brand new proprietor. Nevertheless, for one unfortunate home proprietor, it was not a cheerful ending.
She revealed on the present that she purchased her property with out even seeing it, then employed some builders and paid them earlier than she was known as away to the USA to look after a sick member of the family.
Followers later mentioned the second on-line, with one particular person commenting: “She returned to search out the builders hadn’t executed the work and had p****d off with the cash. I feel she was nonetheless in search of a alternative builder on the finish of the present (postie distracted me so I missed the tip!)”
One other added: “What was even scarier was when the presenter requested her what her price range was for renovation.
“She mentioned one thing like ‘I’ve simply given up my job so I am unable to borrow any cash, so my final wage cheque I assume’ – while standing in a home that was mainly falling down.
“I did not see what occurred subsequent, however I assume she did not sleep at night time for a very long time!”
One other added: “I believed Houses Below the Hammer was a good programme just like the one with Nick Knowles.
“I want to look at this episode as a result of it looks like she employed a bunch of cowboys along with her final bit of cash just for them to rob her.”
The massively standard Houses Below The Hammer is in its twenty seventh collection.
Martin Roberts, 61, confirmed to The Solar On-line earlier this week that the present is a part of his life and he’s nonetheless filming twice every week.
He says that he’ll proceed to suit it round his new ITV DIY docuseries as he renovates a pub – following within the footsteps of Solar columnist Jeremy Clarkson.
He instructed The Solar On-line: “So long as individuals are watching it, so long as individuals are nonetheless having fun with it, so long as folks come as much as me, as they do it on a regular basis and say, , you actually helped me by means of some powerful instances, thanks for doing Houses Below The Hammer, I will keep on doing it.”
Like Jeremy Clarkson, he’s doing up a pub known as The Hendrewen Resort in Blaencwm, South Wales which would be the topic of the brand new programme.
Like the previous Prime Gear presenter, Martin has had hassle together with his coronary heart.
The TV character underwent emergency coronary heart surgical procedure after docs instructed him he had hours to dwell.
