Two young tradies were the latest Welsh participants in the new series of Channel 4's popular daytime property programme The Great House Giveaway when they hoped to make a profit by updating a much-loved family home. Presented by Simon O'Brien and Tayo Oguntonade, the programme follows the rollercoaster renovation ride for two strangers put together and given a house and a renovation budget and usually a tight timescale to bring the property back to life before selling it back at auction.

Connor was a 20-year-old construction worker who had just set up his own business and Lia was a 23-year-old carpenter so the duo were surely dynamically skilled enough to make good progress renovating a property?

With the housing market in the Newport area a hot spot, the show failed to bag a bargain house at auction, so they had to pull a few property strings and work some contacts to find a house for the pair to work on - and they struck renovation gold with a terrace home that they snapped up for £162,500. The four-bed period property in Newport had been the much-loved family home for decades. To get all the latest dream homes, renovation and property TV programme news straight to your inbox twice a week sign up here.

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With great emotion, viewerrs saw the elderly couple say goodbye one last time to the house they adored and the keys were handed over to the young pair of renovators, with the heavy responsibility of updating this period beauty with the care that its former owners would wish for. The pair had a budget of £20,000 and a timescale of just three months to complete this exciting but substantial renovation.

Overall the house was in a decent condition with just a few damp patches and dated decor to sort but it was sprawling over three storeys and looking for an update to suit a modern family, so removing the wall between the current dining room and kitchen was one of the first things to be decided. But even that came with some worry with a call from a structural engineer required to check that the steel supporting beam that the builders had installed was correct.

However, the main challenge for Lia over at least the first month of the project was the illusive Connor, who started the project with great enthusiasm and then began randomly turning up to work on the house some days and throwing the timeline off track. It was bad timing for him, having set up his own business a few months before applying for the show and being inundated with work.

Lia said: "I'm a bit worried about communication with Connor at the moment, it was good in the beginning but I haven't heard anything from him this week and I'm a bit concerned that I haven't heard from him about when he's doing the electrics - it's the pace we need now, the pace to keep it moving on and keep it going, communication has dropped down a little bit and I'm getting a bit worried whether he's still on board and whether he's still ready to smash this out as we were in the beginning."

Lia kept going and called on her carpenter dad and her partner to assist get the walls ready for plastering when Connor appeared and made a start on a rewire of the house. He promised to take the whole of November off to dive into the project with Lia now ploughing on admirably through the list of jobs. See what happened when the show was in Aberdare that created tears.

The first few days of November Connor was a no show again but when he eventually committed full-time he threw himself into the project totally, doing back-to-back 18-hour days to make up for the slow start and making impressive headway through his long list of jobs. Not every stranger pairing on the show make a good team, check out the argument at an Anglesey bungalow here.

But with only a few weeks to go the pair started to worry that they had bitten off more than they could chew. Lia said: "We've realised that this is a huge house and three months is nowhere near enough time to do it together but by ourselves, which is annoying because we've got the trades between us. So we've decided to bring in some plasterers to help."

Getting in outside trades helped push the property to the finishing line. The all-important kitchen diner was crowned with the bargain of the series - a set of patio doors that Lia sourced for absolutely no cost. She was also canny with her cost cutting in the bathroom too, restoring the original cast iron bath with specialist paint for just £30.

The pair, with help from their families and hired trades, completed the garden including constructing a deck, fixed the damp, rewired, replumbed, replastered, fitted the new kitchen and bathroom, refurbished or replaced the windows, and decorated throughout and they couldn't be happier - but was it all worth it?

Presenter Tayo Oguntonade returned with the all important figures and a surprise no-one saw coming. The house was bought for £162,500, the £20,000 budget was spent and then went over by £6,459. Tayo asked Lia why this might have happened and she very tactfully said it was probably down to the new roof in the extension and buying more windows than expected.

Connor did own the overspend, saying that some of it was down to rushing at the end and needing to bring in extra hired help. Adding in the fees, taxes, loan repayments and utilities that added up to £21,847 making a total spend on the £210,806.

Tayo said: "We were about to list this property on the market at £220,000 but something unexpected happened. Someone local had their eye on the property and they came and had a look around and they liked what they saw. They actually liked it so much they didn't want us to put it on the market and they put in a cash offer to stop us from doing so, and I have to tell you we have accepted that cash offer, which came in at £227,500." That's a profit of £16,694 to share between them, taking home £8,347 each.

Lia said: "I'm really happy with that, it's a brilliant price, if they could have waited for it to go to market they could maybe have got it for a bit less, the fact that they wanted to snap it up so quickly is quite a compliment."

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