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Professor Benfield with the Presenters and Contestants of House Race
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Ian and Victoria Tuckley
Ian and Victoria love a bit of adventure - they had recently been travelling through North and Central America, Japan and Hong Kong amongst other places before the show. So building a house in a few days should have been an easy task for them!
Although they had never built a DIY kit self-build house before, they had done DIY and renovation jobs to their previous properties with only had a few minor disasters! One of which included an old favourite of drilling through a water pipe! The Tuckleys were waiting to move into a new home in Northampton, but would eventually have loved to build their own home somewhere exotic.
They were really looking forward to the challenge and were very enthusiastic about their house, which was to be environmentally sensitive, yet suitable for an urban setting.
Ray and Joanne Hulse
Ray and Joanne first got interested in building their own new home when they bought their first home which was a new-build, so they had the opportunity to influence the way it was built.
Since then they have renovated and decorated the house they have lived in for nearly four years in Ellesmere Port and have decided to take the plunge and go for House Race! They were very excited about the prospect of building their own home, Joanne even admitted that she felt really tearful when she saw the drawings for the first time! So far, they have loved the process so much that they are set to go ahead whether they win or not and have already looked at several possible plots of land.
The house was be based on their ideal home which would be an open plan barn conversion with lots of natural light and space.
