Taking on any DIY project is an exciting and rewarding
challenge, but turn that into a race
against the clock between two teams locked in the Mitre 10
store overnight, and that becomes very challenging,
indeed.
Our DIY enthusiasts are attempting
to build their very own hobby shed before the store reopens
again tomorrow, at 7:00 AM.
Hey, boys.
How's your painting going?
First wall's up.
Come on.
They'll have every aisle and every product
at their fingertips.
They'll also have professional builders on hand
to assist them.
Mate!
Uh oh.
We're in trouble.
For all that hard work and efforts
they get to take that shed home, but ultimately, they're
battling it out for the first prize
of $5,000 worth of Mitre 10 products
for their next DIY project.
They've also created all their own plans.
This should be interesting.
Our first team are best mates, Paul and Josh.
Josh and I have been mates for two years
now, since he moved over from Australia.
He's A lot of fun to be around.
He's got a fairly quirky sense of humour.
Paul's been here 16 years, but I still
treat him like an Aussie bloke at the end of the day.
Theoretically, we're a team of Aussies,
but I'm a Kiwi at heart.
Josh has got some pretty basic DIY skills.
I think he's pretty handy with a paintbrush.
Paul is amazing when it comes to DIY.
He analyzes every little detail and then just set his mind
to it, and gets the job done.
We want to build a great shed that's with a good quality
so at the end we can auction it and donate
the money to Starship Hospital and Ronald McDonald house.
Up again them are twin sisters, Caroline and Michelle.
My twin sister Michelle.
She is very, very determine.
When she wants to do something she will do it,
but like me we don't give up.
Caroline is very stubborn.
Likeable stubborn, though.
I am the boss.
I let her think that she is anyway.
The hobby shed we decided to go ahead and do a girly thing.
It's about functionality.
It's about storage.
Scrapbooking.
Having a lot of fun, I mean, I just lock the doors
and walk away.
It's gonna be coo.
We're gonna nail it.
Yeah.
Now, I'll be able to stand a night to judge the winning
hobby shed tomorrow morning.
We'll be comparing how well the designs came together,
the use of materials, how innovative they are,
and those all important finishing touches.
But all of that is eight hours away.
Teams are you ready?
It's time to lock the doors.
Michelle and Caroline's scrapbooking hobby
shed is inspired by a classic cottage design.
Their prepared materials include a subfloor, a pre-made frame,
and truss.
They should be able to quickly get the wall framing up,
and then tack on the roof trusses.
Building wrappers next, then exterior cutting, roofing,
and flashings.
Their hobby shed will then be plumbed, wired,
and insulated before they can get to the finishing details.
Their interior is lined with ply,
and they have multiple shelving units to contend with,
as well as a working sink and a scrapbooking table.
French doors and a peep hole will provide natural light,
but it's these touches that will put them up against the clock.
At the moment, we're we're just staining all our exterior
boards to go on the outside, so that as soon
as the builders have got these frames up,
we're going to chuck these up and we'll be
away onto the interior already.
We just can't wait for it to start taking shape.
Three, two, one.
Hold, hold hold it.
Yup, OK.
Paul and Josh's woodworking hobby
shed has a handcrafted feel, using a lot of exposed
timber and intricate detailing.
They have a stack of materials ready to go,
starting with their subfloor and premade frame and truss.
The boys will be lining the inside first, which
will save time as they will be able to start working
on the inside of the structure while the outside is
being finished.
The plumbing, wiring and insulation goes in next.
Then building graft, padding and adding the roofing
and flashings.
Inside the shed will be wall to wall bespoke cabinetry,
and as the master stroke, Paul will
build a French cleated wall system to store his tools.
It's a contemporary design, and it will be keeping them busy
all night long.
So Sam, teams are clicking on, they're getting ahead.
Absolutely, mate.
As you can see, the guys really are ripping into it.
But we've got two completely different teams here.
We've got the boys' team.
It's a very, very complicated plan.
They've got a huge amount of detail.
Yeah.
These guys seriously have got a massive job.
The girls on the other hand, have
got to run a humble little structure,
but the girls are focusing most of their attention
on the insides.
What are their chances of getting both of these builds
finished in one night?
Be honest, come on.
Pretty high.
[INAUDIBLE]
First wall's up.
Come on, catch up.
So I'm just making some table legs
for one of the work benches that's going inside.
Beautiful.
Sam has just arrived.
We're just going to go have a check with him about what we
need done tonight.
We're looking to put in a laundry tub system
for sort of-- to wash the brushes, that sort of thing.
Easy job for you?
Yeah, nice and boring.
I've just sprayed the splashes and we want the power points
in a different light.
We're using all LED technology and as I said,
it's very low in power use.
Doesn't generate a lot of heat.
Also, we're using cosmic LED speaker lights,
so we'll be able to Bluetooth music through our lights.
It's going to be awesome.
Hey boys, how's your painting going?
No answer.
So [INAUDIBLE] guys next door steal their ideas.
Next, we'll be putitng up the painting on the top of it,
maybe the exterior finish.
We are now at the halfway point.
Luckily, both teams have the main construction complete.
The frame is up and the roof is on.
But it's the next phase of the build
that is crucial to the success of both projects.
The fit out and the finishing.
It's these that make the space livable and make it innovative.
But with only four hours left, there's still a long way to go.
So boys, come on.
How's it going?
You know what?
Looking across at the girls, and they're
having a few drink breaks, and so I think we've got this.
Now, what I've noticed is your approach
is very different from the girls.
You're building the inside first, and kind of the outside
afterwards.
Yeah.
At the end of the day, yeah, it's
a little bit unconventional, but it's
going to work for the inside.
A brave move.
Yeah.
Tired or not?
No.
I think I've had about 11 coffees already today.
Feeling good at the moment.
Good stuff.
Keep going.
So ladies, how's it going?
Feeling pretty confident at the moment.
We've got the cleating up, which the boys don't have yet.
But you do know that the other team, they're
building from the inside.
Yeah
That's the Australian thing.
An Australian thing?
Yeah.
[INAUDIBLE] upside down.
25 past one, we're feeling good.
A long way to go, but we're all working together as a team.
Paul's doing a lot of the internal stuff now,
so it's ready to go when we've finished the external.
And that's what I've been helping the builders with.
Learning a lot of stuff tonight, which is fantastic.
What we've just done here is the deep fleshing out,
and then once we've the plywood on,
we can chuck a window up there.
So we just put the pink bits in and went into the electrician
to kind of her job.
Carolyn's in charge of putting all the modular storage
together.
She's a little bit stressed because she's
got a lot of cabinetry to put together.
That way.
We've got an awful lot of cabinetry here,
and you know, at 2 o' clock or whatever it is in the morning,
it's probably not what we should have been doing.
We should have just put a few shelves up
and been done with it, but hey.
Oh no, these can't be that.
There's nothing to screw into.
What I'm making now is the cabinets for the far wall.
You can put all your power tools and drills
and all that kind of stuff up and out of the way,
but easy to get to.
Everything in here is made out of plywood in French cleats.
Old school is a good school, absolutely.
Uh-oh.
We're in trouble.
That's pretty cool.
When I tell you, mate, I need you
to go over to that side, mate.
Yes, mate.
Right there, mate.
Push.
Touch more, mate.
Mate, mate.
Good day, folks.
Welcome to Diko's DIY.
Let's fit some more doors.
Give it.
Yeah.
Pretty awesome.
Mate.
We've got the doors and the windows in now.
We've just about finished the cabinetry, so you know,
the next step's going to be getting some paint on it,
and sprinting to the finish line, really.
Oh, that's beautiful, mate.
Hey guys, you've got one hour to go,
so you want to start concentrating
on all those little finishing off bits and pieces.
Looking really good.
Panic set in, got the shakes, paintbrush
is going everywhere, but trying to just do as much as we can.
We have power.
Whoo-hoo!
Feeling really confident we're getting it finished.
Really, really busy, though, down to the wire.
We are now rushing down to the finish line
to get all these details done, like where
to put the whiteboards and stuff,
and everybody's starting to feel a bit tired, actually.
Watch out.
Look.
Oh, cool.
It's too big, Carolyn.
Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
Yay.
That's it, guys.
Cool down.
That's awesome.
It was a fantastic night.
We really enjoyed ourselves.
And we worked really, really well,
and just seemed to know what we needed to do
and got on with it.
So yeah.
No arguments.
The hard work that we've put in tonight, it's been challenging.
But working alongside Paul and the awesome builders all
paid off.
So start.
Stan, I think what these guys have achieved
is frankly ridiculous.
It looks so good.
I am blown away with how much detail these guys have put in.
I think the design and the execution of it
is absolutely fantastic.
From the outside, it looks very contemporary.
The single steep sloping roof, beautiful big doors.
Yeah, there's a few things that need finishing off,
but you know what, with something this ambitious,
it's hardly surprising.
All in all, they've nailed it.
I can imagine having a hobby shed like this.
Stan, I think the girls have just excelled themselves.
I mean, what a cracking design.
Very cute.
Your classic shed shape, isn't it?
Your four walls, your pitched roof.
This is the perfect little hobby shed.
You can see this out in the backyard any day of the week.
Corrugated iron roof, I love that.
Cutting looks really good.
Couple of little things to finish off.
You know, they've stuck to the plan.
It looks absolutely fantastic.
The work in this shed looks amazing.
It's brilliant.
It seems to have that really elegant feminine touch as well,
doesn't it?
I mean, they've made the interior feel very homely.
You know what?
I think these are going to be really, really
hard to judge because they are two different spaces, these.
You know your typical woodwork is hot,
and this is more of a crafty sort of space.
But nevertheless, they've both been executed extremely well.
Firstly, congratulations, guys.
An amazing job.
I am very, very blown away as to how much you guys achieved.
In the time scale, it is mind boggling.
They both look great.
The brief was, if you finished your structure
before the sun came up, you get to keep it, so congratulations.
You get to take it home.
Both brilliant schemes, very, very hard to judge.
But tonight, there can only be one favorite, unfortunately.
That favorite gets to take home $5,000
worth of Mitre 10 products for their next DIY projects.
The favorites on the lock in tonight is Josh and Paul.
Really, really, really well done.
Carol, Michelle, I'll tell you what.
You should be super proud.
Seriously, that is a cracking building.
Beautifully designed, well built. You did a great job.
We've had a fantastic night.
The fact that we didn't win, it doesn't actually matter to us.
We've had, you know, the best time.
And the boys are donating the money
to charity, which is even better.
So everybody's winning.
It feels awesome to come out on top.
It's been amazing, and we're really
proud to be auctioning off our shed for Starship Hospital
and Ronald McDonald House.
And I think what we've done, we'll
get a great outcome for those two charities, so I'm stoked.
And we've had an awesome time as well, so it was great.