1962: NO PLASTER? NO PROBLEM | Bucknell's House | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive

In 1962 Barry Bucknell's weekly DIY series Bucknell's House began, taking viewers step-by-step through the transformation of a dilapidated Victorian house in Ealing into two modern homes. In this episode, Barry tackles dry lining walls - a way for the amateur developer to get round the problem of a highly skilled job like plastering. He demonstrates two methods, all the while keeping his shirt and tie impressively clean throughout.
Clip taken from Bucknell's House, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 31 October, 1962.
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[@stanwest3529]

Never mind the collar and tie ..when I was employed as a painter in the late 50s the foreman wore a bowler hat

[@marklatimer7333]

So he was the only one with a hat hard, everyone else had to rely on the BS008 Flat Cap and obligatory 'Woodbine'.

[@harry.godwinson1]

he he he.they did use to say when i started on site that a plasterer could wear his sunday best shoes for work he had so little dropage.

[@cricketbatguitar]

Most of the ones I know manage to give their radio a fairly decent coat too!😅

[@marklatimer7333]

@@cricketbatguitar Yer why is that, workman (in the UK) can't seem to work without a radio tuned to some God awful racket station - you don't see our young Barry above fiddling about with his Wireless (which would have been the size of Wales) trying to find the 'Home Service' or the 'Light Programme' and he's far too young for the 'Third Programme'.

[@madcarew5168]

Seen it with Eric Sykes& Tommy Cooper.....probably built better than the cowboys these days!!! As was asked of two guys..what are you doing?...stacking stones..and you..building a Cathedral......

[@jimroberts3009]

I well remember Barry from all those years ago. My dad was a builder, this was required watching in my household, on an old black and white TV. I'm now 72.

[@pyewackett5]

According to his wife , you couldn't rely on Barry to fix even the simplist of household tasks around the home ...

[@tuppencethreefarthing8067]

I remember watching it as a child and my Mum dreading what it would inspire Dad to attempt next.

[@realjohn4064]

I love the fact he's wearing a tie. Can't be found looking sloven when plastering!

[@ray-wm7yd]

Surprised he's not smoking a pipe!

[@richardstetson8221]

There's a video with bricklayers in the 40s and the guy was wearing a shirt and tie with a cardigan sweater

[@dameceliamolestrangler3379]

Hyacinth would have been proud of him.😂

[@jonathancallan-hg9nk]

Brilliant the way he had to wear a tie, with a clip, and put his hand on his hip when speaking into the camera. He was rough though but back then what did we know? I remember my dad watching this and Barry had pioneered the use of hardboard tack nailed to beautiful panelled doors to make them look 'flush' and modern. So pops nailed up all the doors in the house which of course never quite closed properly ever again.

[@nicholasallen6201]

BB was a great one for covering doors and banisters with hardboard using the ‘pin and glue’ method. Revealing those original features was one of the pleasures of home ownership in the 1980s

[@JJONNYREPP]

1962: NO PLASTER? NO PROBLEM | Bucknell's House | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive 27.5.24 Many's the time older brother walked in a room yo find his oppo younger brother parading about in some old feather laden women's slippers whilst he mixed the plaster....a fine and jolly set of apprentice anecdotes seem to exist re plaster board, slippers and a laughing older sibling.....

[@juliangeorge9757]

I think he covered up fireplaces as well 😂

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@juliangeorge9757 Comments on ‘1962: NO PLASTER? NO PROBLEM | Bucknell's House | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive’ 0915am 8.6.24 With what.....?

[@jannenreuben7398]

Bucknell's show was a masterclass on how to take a perfectly good thing and screw it up royally.

[@Brutaga]

😂😂😂😂❤

[@marklatimer7333]

It was this Bloke that was almost solely responsible all the destruction of all the pre-war Fireplaces in Britain in the 1960s. Funny how 50 years later the plasterboard walls are torn down and the 'ugly' brickwork left exposed. Polystyrene Ceiling tiles were another of his favourites, even in Kitchens, you know the things that will turn any room into a crematorium oven in the event of even a minor fire.

[@kevfit4333]

I think he must have had shares in a hardboard company.

[@BusinessButlers]

Let's not also forget his obsession with putting hardboard over lovely victorian doors as well as across the wooden staves of a staircase to fill it in. He was a maniac.

[@marklatimer7333]

@@BusinessButlers I'm afraid I'm old enough to remember the era, I have a certain understanding of what was happening at the time. My parents were typical for the time, a young couple who had been grow up during the war and through crippling rationing that went on for 10 years after the war finished, everything was is short supply and everything was dull and old. By the time the late 50's and early 60's these young couples were getting married and buying their own homes (yes that was possible back then). The houses they were buying were either modern Ticky-Tacky or older pre-war houses that were painted in only two colours available back then Green or Cream (and dark brown varnish). I can understand the desire to get rid of the 20 years of dullness and make everything look like a modern house. Everything goes through phases remember woodchip and 'ragging'?

[@Hereford1642]

@@marklatimer7333 Paint your pine furniture. Strip your pine furniture. It all makes the world go round. Did you hear about the three antiques dealers that got shipwrecked on a desert island with just a single chair? They all made a very good living.

[@lapisredux]

the country had been through a devastating war and years of rationing...they wanted something new and to forget the past and covering it up was the quickest way...now people romanticize about the past.

[@lordred4116]

Shirt and tie working on brickwork. I've been to weddings were guests wear hoodies!

[@martinhunt6004]

I say, that is most splendid.

[@EMEL-hr4ut]

I was waiting for him to wipe that muck off of his nice clean trousers. Never happened. I bet those trousers are washed and pressed every night

[@ivanbeavon9050]

This was a time when the BBC had something interesting to watch 😮

[@JJONNYREPP]

rough bulging walls became high fashion in the decor stakes during the 80's.....now all our pubs are riddled with such rough, dusty, bulging walls.....

[@Benzknees]

Very much so. As Lord Reith put it: 'To have exploited so great a scientific invention for the purpose and pursuit of “entertainment” alone would have been a prostitution of its powers and an insult to the character and intelligence of the people.’ In this context the modern day BBC might be considered as something of a 'pimp'...

[@jonathanperry4189]

It certainly educates but it's a niche viewership

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@jonathanperry4189 Comments on ‘1962: NO PLASTER? NO PROBLEM | Bucknell's House | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive’ 1.6.24 1126am educates? reminded me of a few people in the building trade.... though the lay a long line of plaster along some board prior to hoisting up to plant onthe wall was a new un..but, seemingly, a well tried and rtested method of wall partion wall erection and render...

[@FSCforal]

-jimmy saville,rolf harris and gary glitter 😂 list is endless lol

[@Bobbajobb956]

Funnily enough there is a skip in the front garden on google street view filled with dot n dab plasterboard from this house ….. 79 the grove Ealing… 😂😂

[@jimrivets8678]

😂

[@dobson156_xjs7]

hahah you're right

[@depniff]

With no way of re-watching this, I can imagine lots of DIYs frantically writing down everything he said before they had a go. We can laugh at some of the techniques now but he did well with the equipment that he had especially as he seemed to do nearly all of this in one take. Some good hammer and nail action.

[@whiteonggoy7009]

Just press download

[@BarryTheBeef]

@@whiteonggoy7009 that's the point they were making. you couldn't just download it in 1962. They were saying people would have had to take notes quickly and hope for the best

[@SunburntHands]

When did they bring in factsheets? They used to give you an address at the end of this sort of programme, and you'd send a stamped envelope with your address on it (an SAE) and they'd return it to you with a printed sheet of technical information from the programme. We had a couple from Changing Rooms in the 90s.

[@yandan7010]

I'm busy replying here instead of just watching the vid lol. Believe it or not but peoples attention spans and ability to retain facts and information has turned to sh*te.

[@depniff]

Maybe this was an early example of watching someone do something difficult that you never need to worry about and for that reason, it makes you feel better. They knew that only a tiny percentage would ever try this but its nice to sit back in your own clean shirt and tie with pipe lit and be thankful for what you have

[@PeterRoberts-l8w]

Man was a genius, no editing and all done live. He went on to create the trailer tent and mirror dingy.

[@RKSidd]

First algorithm recommendation that i watched all the way through. I miss those respectful tones of presenters and anyone else who was on tv before the MTV generation

[@jamielee9350]

"Barry Bucknell the Butcher of Baroque"🤣🤣🤣

[@nicholasm5465]

The wafer thin polystyrene 'insulation' held on with sellotape

[@grenvillephillips6998]

The man is a legend!

[@depniff]

No comments section back in those days. I wonder if any plasterers wrote in to say he's doing it all wrong and they are unsubscibing from the bbc as a result

[@giulioz.4928]

Fanny Craddock mentioned receiving nasty letters by mail. I assume this program also got mail

[@judiprince7727]

Barry ruined more houses than the german airforce did in the second world war!😅

[@tangerinedream7211]

They can still use spot and dab method. All those Edwardian and 30s houses had original features ripped out in the 60s to modernise them, then 30 years later all the modernisation was removed to put them back to period . Thanks for the upload.

[@snafujag100]

Whenever my Dad would attempt DIY, Mum always called him Barry Bucknell lol.

[@532bluepeter1]

And now it is all being ripped out again!

[@andrewmabbott7354]

omg length of that spirit level

[@matthewlawrenson3628]

Very few BBC shows made on 405-line videotape still exist on their original tapes. This episode of "Bucknell's House" is one of them. No idea why they kept this when they wiped or junked 99% of everything else.

[@monteceitomoocher]

I see no 405 line structure here, it's possibly a film copy, like you say the BBC were absolute philistines for wiping stuff, though the cost of videotape then meant it had to be reused after use.

[@goodiesguy]

@@monteceitomoocher this IS videotape, but it has had noise reduction applied to remove or smudge/blur the 405 line structure.

[@kenpercival]

My Edwardian house had been Barry Bucknelled when I bought it. Period bannisters and doors all covered in plain hardboard. Didn't take long to strip it all off to reveal the true beauty. The 1960s were brutal for interiors and architecture!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Yep, my first house (also Edwardian) had also been Bucknelled - I pulled various sheets of hardboard off the doors to reveal the lovely original hardwood panelled doors beneath - modernity wasn’t always good!

[@simonhodgetts6530]

Yep, my first house (also Edwardian) had also been Bucknelled - I pulled various sheets of hardboard off the doors to reveal the lovely original hardwood panelled doors beneath - modernity wasn’t always good!

[@pyewackett5]

The '60's like the '50's was all about getting rid of fussiness. People were looking for a more streamlined, minimalist existence. Nobody was interested in looking back. Quite easy to return to the Victorian/Edwardian aesthetic. Personally i much prefer Formica over stripped pine anyday :)

[@nicholasm5465]

Shirt, tie and trousers getting all messed up ! 🤣

[@passing4human598]

😂As someone currently suffering with builders doing work in my house with their arse cracks proudly on display, I weep for the days of Barry and his decorating shirt, tie and trousers.

[@kevfit4333]

A lot of tradesmen wore a full suit back then.

[@darrelltregear756]

The guy got class

[@CarlosAlberto-ii1li]

@@kevfit4333 Tarmac lorry drivers were almost always seen in a 2 piece suit open collar shirt, trousers turned up 'enough' and boots on.

[@CarlosAlberto-ii1li]

I used to watch this every week, he was great always had a collar and tie as did my Father who was a carpenter. This must have helped many with DIY and not long after the end of the war also showed some technology.

[@morris2450]

A great way of applying board to an uneven surface

[@Reprint001]

The days when you put more clothes on instead of the heating on to get warm. 😂

[@GhastlyCretin]

I never left those days behind lol

[@simonhodgetts6530]

You mean like the last 2 years, given the energy prices? I even had to out coats on the bed to keep warm during the first winter!

[@unnamedchannel1237]

I have no heating in my house just put more cloths on. If it gets really cold warm a hot water bottle and put that on my body . In saying that when I am at work everybody moans they my office is like a fridge because I turn the air con way down

[@davidstreet3505]

My Grandad was a professional decorator and one of the team of pros who did the prep and finished the jobs properly after Barry did his bit to camera.

[@nezbit8989]

I like how he’s wearing a shirt tie and trousers even to do messy manual labour. It was the norm back then to dress smart even if you were just sitting in your house 😄

[@grahamstephenson9393]

just missing a pipe like Mr cholmondley warner, Never mind the rising damp,

[@jimroberts3009]

Fancy doing DIY in a shirt and tie, as did the presenters in the old gardening shows. We British people dressed properly in the old days! 😄😄😄

[@rob_in_stowmarket_uk]

Notice the hook at the top of the board he’s fitting, to stop the whole thing falling on his head? Bleedin’ classic! 😂😂😂😂

[@John-ou4rm]

You'd normally nail a bit of 4x2 on the ceiling so once the plasterboard pushed up into place it couldn't fall away. Use a similar technique putting plasterboard on a ceiling

[@swaneknoctic9555]

Can’t believe I was born 18 years after this. It looks like 1912 not 1962.

[@alexwatson6136]

😂😂

[@nrw34260]

My Dad was crap at diy, that we facetiously called him Barry Bucknall. 😂😂

[@Fordmad90]

What a gentleman no iphone or smoking roll ups spitting all over the floor like most plasterer do haha

[@mickhardstaff6605]

And no radio blasting out .

[@Fordmad90]

@@mickhardstaff6605 yeah and shouting over the radio haha

[@benchippy8039]

I didn’t even know dot and dab was a thing in ‘62. I like the idea of brushing muck unto the wall to make sure it’s worked into the brickwork

[@davidsamways]

I had to chuckle at the puny piece of polystyrene recommended for insulation. I insulated the loft of our 1912 house recently. It had had nothing done to it since the 60s. I found a 1" layer of fibreglass insulation between the rafters - I wonder if they ever felt the benefit?!

[@Nine-Signs]

this man was single handedly responsible for the saving of myriad beautiful old school wooden doors as to "modernise" your house he advised and showed how you could board over panel doors to give them a flat 60's modern look, the result of that was that for decades thousands of good at times often artisanal, wooden doors were saved into modernity where these days the flat panels are removed and the old door shown off in all its glory.

[@strangetrip837]

My dad and I used to laugh watching Barry when I was a lad! Happy memories 😂😂

[@martinhughes2549]

Looks like rare 405 VT.

[@MARKMANIATT]

Fascinating for several reasons: I started as an Apprentice Plasterer in June 1976. For small patches we would occasionally stick plasterboard with Bonding Plaster after first PVA coating both wall and board.Never full walls as Drywall adhesive hadn’t come out yet. I would be interested to know what Barry was using. He could have done with a Gauging Trowel though! I also don’t remember Tapered Edge boards then.Square Edge was it. Polystyrene in those days was a fortune. I doubt many used it.I was also interested to hear him use the term ‘Dry Lining’ My memory isn’t what it was after 48 years in the trade but I’m fairly sure I’m correct. As for a shirt and tie. One Spread I used to work with wore a Suit, Shirt & Tie to site. He would take off his jacket, hang it up, put on his full Overalls and do his days graft. The reverse at close of day after cleaning his hand, rubbing a drop of Tallow ( grease) into them and off he went home. He always said his neighbours thought he was a Pox Doctors Clerk!!!

[@kenstevens5065]

Got to be the late 50's early 60's, plastering wearing a collar and tie! Anybody remember Kenny Everett taking him off with the blood stained Reg character?

[@markhedger6378]

My favourite DIY not many fingers left though thanks for the reminder 😀

[@SloopyDog]

I used to watch Barry Bucknels DIY programs in the '60s. and I thought he was great. however, when I see the skills of today's tradesmen he wasn't very good.

[@bermudarailway]

No sds drills ,timberlok screws ,laser levels ,cordless tools ,decent easy to use glues I don't know how anything got done,but it did.

[@jonesie1976ify]

Reminds me so much of my grandad, never seen him without brilcreem in his hair and a shirt and tie on

[@neilfurby555]

This is almost a comedy, he gradually gets messier as he splashes about with his bucket and trowel. Surely this was not how a plasterer would have dressed, this has to be the BBC dress code gone a bit daft. Sadly this bloke did untold damage to decent houses with hardboard, plate glass, polystyrene tiles and a big hammer to destroy fireplaces, all in the name of modernisation.

[@michaelstevens3479]

Job time 15 mins cleanup two hours.

[@toshishimura]

As of May 2024 hes almost finished

[@ironimp1]

It's a pity that this advice was promoted as a solution; in time it had to be removed because the battens and plasterboard just rotted! It caused a lot of toxic mold too. 🥴

[@Arfabiscuit]

His dressed smarter than most office workers of today

[@macduff14]

I remember my old journey man talking about him when I was an apprentice joiner in 1970

[@markjames9487]

He’s better than the cowboys who done my kitchen walls

[@alanwilkinson9487]

Ar... Those where the days when you dressed up like a Christmas turkey to do the DIY... Got to look the part.. 😂

[@thomasdonald3291]

I asked my nan why they did this to their edwardian farm house she said they had grown up with it and it was time for a change. I get why so many people's tastes changed during thst period.

[@john_smith1471]

Bevelled edge plasterboard a modern method in 1962, but we still needed to wait for self adhesive joint tape to be invented.

[@fritzdrybeam]

"The wall is rough, and bulging all over the place" Ah, site bricklayers.

[@John-ou4rm]

This isn't the way we do dot and dab nowadays. If the wall was seriously uneven then we'd reasonably level up the low points, then effectively we just spot 'dollop' some muck on the wall with additional emphasis along the edges, then throw the plaster board up and us a long straight edge (a piece of 4 by 2) and hit it to get it plumb while checking with a level. Nobody sticks pieces of plasterboard on first as height markers given it takes time to go off, but with a really concave and all over the place wall it could make sense.

[@fburton8]

Isn't this just a sticking plaster solution?

[@Dooguk]

Similair to the dot and dab method used today.

[@ralphicus1]

Will last a good few years if the walls are dry, maybe 1/2-1/3 the life of wet plastering with a lot less mess and skill required

[@iainmccraith1514]

Ho ho

[@WSMITHify]

I wish it was 1962 now

[@bastardohorribilis949]

Amazing! Great video. The beginnings of dot and dab. Should have stuck to sand and lime.

[@sie4431]

I've been waiting almost 20 years to see a clip from this series. It was filmed in a real house in Ealing that has featured a few times in TV. A few doors down from this house is the restaurant used for the memorable scene in only fools and horses where a man fakes a heart attack and is whisked away by ambulance A few years later the BBC shot another scene a few doors down from that for their vampire drama ultraviolet. Not bad for a stretch of road that would take a minute to walk end to end

[@JJONNYREPP]

1962: NO PLASTER? NO PROBLEM | Bucknell's House | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive 27.5.24 Pity father isn't here...i might have gotten some construction industry chit chat....

[@markalexwhite]

79 The Grove, Ealing

[@terieffo8]

And the majority of these builders back in the day didn't rip people off and make a small fortune doing so. At 78 I'm old enough to remember.

[@PeterOHalloran-hf2ho]

A lot of the elderly builders Gentleman wore ties away back it was the thing at that time just look at the old workshops and old engenering workshops factory's woodworking shops they had a lot of respect in their work place the way they presented themselves

[@channelrumahidaman]

how strong was the impact?

[@vinnyrea5608]

Haha😂 the old podger. Can't imagine mixing adhesives or plaster with one of them now. Especially when working in a 2 and 1 gang trying to keep the lads going on the trowel. 5 100 weight bags at a time in the tin Bath. Proper graft back in them days. Hats off to them👌

[@israeladesanya4596]

My mate still has one in the back of his van now, he always says "that'll come in handy one day"😂

[@bartonseagrave9605]

He is going to a Wedding after this as he is Best Man.

[@opencurtin]

I’d imagine this was very informative back when it first aired !

[@HeathenGeek]

You need to get a laser on that mate 🙂🙂

[@iainmccraith1514]

Might just give me a chance of gettin it right that time round 😏

[@iwantagoodnameplease]

I like how he "rests" his knife in the door, instead of just putting it on the table.

[@Nine-Signs]

WTF can't I buy a foot rocking thing today! that would saved load of ball ache o.O Never even seen such in 40 years until on here.

[@malmes999]

Early day dot and dab brilliant 👍

[@davidturner8689]

Laugh at this but look at the quality of workmanship we have today. New builds need 'SNAGGING'. For Gods sake jobbing builders need putting down, they ruin the trade for the proffessional builders, people who know how to do the job, have been taught. Ive seen even small jobs ruined because the builder had 'NO PRIDE '. No knowledge, no pride equals rubbish.

[@MM2009]

British still live in these conditions, black rot and high humidity everywhere, some filled 50mm cavity and call this "insulation"😂😂😂 , half of their houses with single pane glass, other 1/2 double glazed not meeting early 90s standard in Central Europe 😂😂😂. Now ready for the heatpump revolution 😂😂😂

[@trueaussie9230]

You have to admire the collar and tie and suit pants. His suit coat will be on a hook somewhere. You also have to admire how clearly and concisely he speaks. No 'y'know', 'I mean', 'literally', 'like', 'and ... yeah'. Oh, how I miss the days of people who could communicate.

[@johnmcdyer1573]

This is like a good Ealing comedy waiting for Alec Guinness to pop his head around the corner 😂😂😂

[@georgepointer1127]

Or Eric sykes with a plank.

[@744shinryu]

Ah, first hand video of seeing where all these refurbishment that I have to undo come from. No issues with workmanship, usually quite spot on. But gypsum boards just trap too much moisture, aide in creating condensation, and even when you don't have any noticeable signs of damp etc, you just have a living space 20% higher in relative humidity at all times.

[@phonotical]

What a rough recording, almost as though it's playing at the wrong frame rate, who processed this monstrosity

[@markkillion8980]

3/8” thick expanded polystyrene. Barry was going whole hog. He didn’t look like a highly experienced tradesman but he seemed to perform the tasks well enough. While maintaining a pleasant attitude.

[@brianlopez8855]

Lovely flat vertical brick wall carefully laid to mount the board on. Shame he didn't use 3 inches of polystyrene on a bigger studs frame but everything was very expensive post war..

[@treborretsnom6186]

Hilarious, he just contradicts himself all the way through, i want to avoid plaster...lets get started, i need to mix some plaster 😝😝🤣🤣😂😂

[@troytempest290]

Don’t all plasterers dress this way..? 🤣

[@mancroft]

Makes King Charles sound common.

[@marklatimer7333]

So no Hard Hat required back then apart from the BS008 Flat Cap and obligatory 'Woodbine'.

[@jasonharding9490]

Then, on 19th May 2015: 'Viewers, please retune your set to Charlie DIYte'.

[@jonathansmith3669]

You know back then Barry was the best at DIY. Watched with my dad good memories.🇬🇧

[@tonyjustice4554]

i remember using the posser omg!

[@neilparkin4173]

I bet he can't wait for someone to invent a gauging trowel, painful watching him using a brickies trowel

[@tuppencethreefarthing8067]

Did Kenny Everett base his accident prone DIY presenter Reg Prescott on Barry?

[@madcarew5168]

Good old Barry..the Formica man!!!

[@pyewackett5]

A lot less Formica survives today than anything turn of the century . Still tonnes of that stuff

[@madcarew5168]

@@pyewackett5 lot less??

[@pyewackett5]

@@madcarew5168 Formica is not as plentiful as Victorian/Edwardian furniture.

[@pyewackett5]

Unless you live or work with the stuff , of course you are going to dismiss such things. I work in a place that still drips Formica

[@pyewackett5]

I love it.

[@Nine-Signs]

i thought plasterboard was a 70's onwards product.

[@timpea9766]

Shirtsleeves and a bucket. My kind of DIY.

[@alec1113]

Brilliant , well before power tools . I used dot and dab method the other day , god im old .

[@jackhargreaves1911]

I never forgot his solution to ‘ugly panel doors’. So I knew that all I had to do was pop the plywood pinned to the apparently flat doors in the period house we bought in 1998. Voila, instant restoration of beautiful original 1927 panel doors! Ditto the fireplaces that had also been ‘Bucknalled’.

[@michael5089]

Brilliant. Anyone in here also remember Hammer It Home? I still have the tie-in book my dad bought but can never find any clips of it. Mike Smith is a name that I think presented it? From the 70s. And not the Mike Smith who was married to Sarah Greene. He was later.

[@thefreedomguyuk]

NO PLASTER => Using plaster... 😅

[@jrbs]

How the hell can you do a job like this in a shirt and tie wearing your best trousers?

[@marty1234able]

These days "dot and dab ' plaster boarding takes a few minutes.

[@PeterOHalloran-hf2ho]

We need more of these great programmes great DIY He's is taking his time with great detail not like today all speed and all ads

[@Davyfb75]

Rather like Fanny Cradock cooking in her evening dress.

[@FlashPan73]

How many builders/DIYers wear a tie now? :)

[@MichaelBosley]

"Lovely messy job" he says, wearing the most impractical shirt and tie.