This was just the best fun to work on. The DIY team, marshalled by host Nick Knowles, are one big dysfunctional family with every affliction imaginable.  

A typical day’s filming felt like a surreal dream spent with a group of people suffering collectively from Tourette’s Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder all at the same time.  

It’s actually a tough schedule where the DIY team set themselves the task of performing what would normally take three months in five days to remodel or rescue a DIY disaster. And they do this every week for months.  

They are all genuinely funny people and the chemistry between them is great to film. Nick is a very shrewd rather lovely man who is so far ahead of the game he sets up situations in a very comical and original way.  

The others insult him relentlessly and the conversations which don’t make it into the show deserve their own outtakes DVD!  

On day one of my first day’s filming, we had to knock a wall down which escalated into virtually the entire back of the house.  

By the end of the week, the wall was back and it had the most spectacular fold out floor to ceiling window built into it.

I have never laughed so much in my life. The format has been around for seven years now and unlike defunct shows like Changing Rooms has still got legs.  

DIY SOS’s new producer Simon Knight should be mentioned here as he is a clever, charming bloke and hopefully will be able to move the format on and up in the same way that Top Gear stepped up a notch when a lot of people thought it had nowhere left to go.