Find It Fix It Flog It (2016-2022): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript
Whoa! Look at this!
The homes of Britain are
stacked with old possessions.
There you are. There you go. Look at
that. That's lovely.
What looks like junk can actually be
worth a pretty penny.
What could you use that for?
That looks immaculate as well.
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien
are here to help turn that clutter
into hard cash.
I think we can get serious money
for that. £100,000? Yeah.
Upcycling genius, Simon...
That looks cool.
...and his restorer love
turning everyday objects into
fantastic furniture.
Wow! Oh, my God!
I never would believe that.
Whilst for Henry and his mechanic...
I mean, that is crazy.
It looks fabulous.
...it's all about restoring
retro relics and vintage classics.
She's off! It runs!
Despite their differences,
they always come good.
And they'll turn a tidy profit
for their owners.
You are going to put
in your pocket £10,630.
Lovely. Absolutely brilliant.
Today... I'm going to immerse
myself in this stuff.
...Henry gets to grips
with a delicate restoration.
That's a result, man!
Simon thinks he's struck it lucky.
Come here! Come on!
Absolute winner.
And expectations are running high
at the valuation day.
I've brought a jacket
with big pockets, look.
Yeah, well, let's hope you need 'em, mate.
Have you eaten all the wine gums, then?
Have a mint. I don't like mints.
You need a mint.
HE LAUGHS
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien's hunt
for hidden treasure
has brought them to the
West Midlands, near Coventry.
We are very close to Meriden,
a little town that is the
absolute centre of England.
Is that right? Yeah.
As well as the epicentre of
the country,
this was also the birthplace of
the playwright whose works have
been performed more than any other.
OK, I can tell you something about
this area. Yeah, go on, then.
If you want to hear Shakespeare... Yeah.
...spoken as it would have been
spoken when it was first performed,
knock on any of these doors.
Any door? Any door.
And because we are
in the very centre of the country,
this accent has remained the same,
but because we are
so far from the sea round here...
They haven't changed.
They haven't changed.
The boys are visiting two locations
to try to make the most money.
And it's Henry's choice first.
Today, do you want to know?
Yeah, come on, where are we going?
Scrapyard.
Stop the car, Henry,
I'm getting out.
Oh, my word, here we go.
When I hear the word scrapyard,
I can see, oh,
Henry "Petrolhead" Cole
absolutely in heaven and
me walking round going, "Och, God."
Now, look, I promise you, mate,
a scrapyard in the loosest term.
It's not exactly a scrapyard,
but Henry hopes to make Lee Bindley
some money for the timber mill
and joinery business he runs
on the site of a former farm.
Much of the land is dedicated
to a stockpile of old cars,
farm machinery and bolts.
It just accumulated slowly.
HE LAUGHS
There wasn't any plan.
The outbuildings are stuffed
with all manner of collectables.
Without spending a couple of days
evaluating it and sitting
down and counting it up,
I've no idea how much it's worth.
There's some nice old cars, actually.
...quite interesting old cars.
Lee's hoping the boys find
some choice items to restore and
raise some cash to plough
into his timber business.
Lee, good morning.
Good to see you. Good to see you,
man. How big is this place?
Six or seven acres.
So we know, more or less,
where everything is to within
a yard or two, you know?
Do you really?
So you'll know if we put
anything in the van or not.
THEY LAUGH Oooh...
We're just going to let ourselves
loose on your place,
see what we can dig out.
See what we can do with it.
And you end up with the money.
Well, I've got big pockets, boys.
I've got big pockets.
Hey, mate, let's hope
we can fill them, hey?
Henry and Simon need to find
two items each.
They can choose anything that
they can add value to, sell on,
and return Lee a tidy profit.
Come on, Henry, got to be your kind
of stuff. Is that a VW camper van?
Well, mate, I think it's one of
those that's good from far,
but far from good.
I've seen a lot of those Volkswagen
campers on the M5 on fire.
THEY LAUGH
Oh, dear, dear, dear.
We should not be touching this.
My first impressions
was a lot of the stuff,
I can't really do anything with.
So not a great start for Henry.
But Simon has spotted something that
he thinks could give him
the cutting edge.
Excuse me, sir.
Oh, don't start, what?
I just so happen to have a piece
of round armoured glass... Yeah?
...which would just sit perfectly on
top of there, I reckon.
And make myself a nice table.
Oh, but you're sitting
there with the family,
if that was a Lazy Susan,
give it a spin, you just sawed
the two kids straight off.
They're not going to kill you.
I can't believe you got that.
I've gone out on a limb
with my circular saw blade because
it's all based on the fact that
I've got a piece of round armoured
glass, which I think will fit
perfectly on top.
If that's the case,
I'm on to a winner.
For his first item, Simon
has selected an unusual upcycling
opportunity, but he's still not sold
on Henry's choice of location.
Isn't it exciting you already?
Exciting?
It's ostensibly
a field full of cars.
Yeah, well, what were you expecting?
Well, there had better be
something better in here.
A field full of quinoa or something?
Oh, now, this is looking more
like it. Oh, yes.
At the back of the barn,
Henry has spotted something
rather intriguing.
Oh, this is...
Oh, mate, talking about wood,
look to your left,
don't look to the right, there.
A 1940s American station wagon.
This is a woody, you know.
Why is it called that?
Well, because of the medieval
timber frame of it.
Oh!
But in the '50s, it was your
quintessential tourer for the
family, plus you'd get a small horse
in the back because it's an estate.
The estate is in a state and
too far gone to make any profit on.
I remember I saw a car once
with a wooden engine. What?
Yeah, it wouldn't go.
HE LAUGHS
Oh, my word. THIS is an amazing
thing. Come on, get it out.
They have spotted a classic American
bicycle. It's a 1957 Schwinn Wasp.
That is stunning. This is coming
out. I'm having that, by the way.
Now, those bicycles
are seriously desirable.
Oh, mate, this is a treasure.
Henry smells easy money and thinks
he's found his first item,
so he's not hanging around.
METAL TINKLES
That will be the precious toolkit. Yeah.
Look at that, side stand.
Schwinn bicycles were
a real status symbol
for suburban kids in '50s America.
Today, they are very tricky to get
hold of and collectors will
pay hundreds, even thousands of
pounds, for one in mint condition.
Do you know what this
is the forerunner of?
The Cruisers were everywhere.
You see them, don't you,
in the old '50s films.
What this became was
a mountain bike.
Henry may think it's his first find,
but Lee has some bad news.
Henry, Henry! Whoa!
He's just looking after it
for a friend. What?
It's in storage. So I can't have it?
No, unfortunately not.
Lee doesn't want to sell it.
It was out of bounds.
And I'm left bereft.
The bike is a huge disappointment
for Henry, and his hunt continues.
I think this might be looking up.
Well, it looks like an air meter.
Henry has spotted a garage air pump
which would have been used to
inflate tyres on the forecourt
back in the '60s.
Fully restored,
this could make Lee about £700 on
the motoring memorabilia market.
But returning this one
to former glories
looks far from simple.
You are funny. Why? You immediately
get attracted to this.
Shall I say that Henry and I
have very different tastes?
If the glass is OK
and the dial can be cleaned up,
you're halfway there on value. OK.
Henry's plumped for the pump
for his first item.
If he makes more than 50 quid
on that,
I'll eat my hat.
Simon's sceptical,
but Henry is on a roll.
Are you looking up?
Oh, yeah. I feel good.
I see what you are looking at.
He thinks he's also found
his second and final item.
The little knick-knack shelves
up there.
Up in the rafters, rusting away,
is a discarded workshop
storage unit.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
There's always room for
a knick-knack shelf, isn't there?
He saw it just before me,
those shelves.
And I was, yeah, I wasn't very happy
about that because I think
he's got a winner there.
Well restored, a set of shelves
like these could go for £400.
What do you reckon?
Blast that, mate? Yeah.
Give it some nice primary
colours or something.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Look at this!
Meanwhile, something strange
has caught Simon's eye.
It's just gorgeous.
The old timber is in fact
a wooden mould,
used in a foundry
to make cast steel items.
Hey, I like that a lot, you know.
Yeah, so do I.
I can see it as some kind of stool,
kind of footstool, kind of pouffe.
I'll carry this one.
Simon is inspired, and he also bags
his second and final item.
Rummage over, but what will Lee make
of Henry and Simon's trawl?
That's a right old pile of crap
you found, innit? Well, it's yours.
THEY LAUGH
Do you reckon you can make money
out of that? Oh, yeah.
Can I just apologise, though? Go on.
For that bit of rubbish.
I mean, that is rubbish.
That nearly went on the fire ten
years ago, that did.
That's beautiful.
Ahem. That's a better item,
wouldn't you say?
Oh, much better item, that.
Definitely. What?
You made a good choice, there.
Thank you so much, Lee.
I beg your pardon, Lee?
Cast aluminium, do you see this? Oh,
yeah? Look at that. Cast aluminium?
You could even perhaps polish it.
We'll see.
We couldn't have had better items, actually.
Well, I'll believe it when I see it.
You'll see it.
You'll see it in readies.
Those big pockets of yours, we'll be
filling them up for you. Yeah.
We will. Come on, then. Let's get to
work. Cheers. Cheers, Lee.
Coming up, the restorations get off
to a cracking start.
I only left you for five minutes.
The air pump causes some problems.
My first concern is whether this
ali polishes up.
And Simon introduces Henry
to a London lock-up.
This is probably going to be
my biggest challenge yet.
Restorers Henry Cole
and Simon O'Brien are on
a mission to turn clutter into cash.
I can't believe you got that!
And they're about to start
restoring their first finds.
Henry's workshop is in
sleepy, rural Oxfordshire,
and it's time to see what his
mechanic and restorer thinks
of what he's brought home.
Open them! What do you reckon? Er...
It's not what I was expecting!
Meet Guy Wilson,
he's Henry's restoration genius.
Guy and I have known each other
since we were 15,
so I know him probably better than
I know anybody on this planet.
Like Henry, Guy's first love
is anything with a motor.
But he's much more than a grease
monkey. He can fix anything.
I think that's quite a simple resto.
It is a simple restoration
to make it look pretty,
but to get it working,
that is a lot of work.
Henry doesn't actually need the pump
functioning to pocket profit
from keen collectors, so he and Guy
can focus their attention
on improving the aesthetics
of both their items.
I think either black
or British Racing Green.
I fully agree with you. Oh, at last!
Henry's plan for the shelving unit
is to paint it. Ready?
Get the other side! Come on then.
It might sound straightforward, but
that's reckoning without the rust.
What we're going to do is we're
going to give it a quick hoover
and a rub down,
ready for blasting.
Sandblasting involves
a local specialist blasting sand
at the metal to rid it of rust.
I've got to tell you, mate,
you are seriously dusty.
Well, it's hardly surprising.
This is the kind of restoration
I like.
Guy doing all the hard work,
and me doing absolutely nothing.
If you stand in a south-westerly
direction yourself,
with your face,
it might actually blow the dust
off your hair and your face.
Up in Liverpool, Simon is showing
off his finds to Gemma,
his up-cycling expert.
What on earth is that?
That's a very good question actually.
Fine Art graduate Gemma runs her
own arts and crafts business.
I'm going to get you
to prepare your furniture,
and we'll get
a top layer on as well today.
Her recycling and up-cycling
workshops sell-out
as people bring in old furniture,
and depart with new skills,
and tastefully rejuvenated homeware.
The big difference
between Gemma and I.
She seems to be more
measured about stuff,
so I think in that way we complement
each other very well.
He is sort of like my big brother.
If we make a top for it, you've got
a really cool one-off kind of stool.
OK. And then this?
What does that look like to you?
A big, rusty old saw.
Some people could say that, but to
me, that looks like a tabletop. OK.
Right? You've got
a good imagination.
The saw blade could be a great idea,
it could do really well,
but it could also be
a bit of a disaster.
Simon's up-cycling ambitions
haven't convinced Gemma,
but he is pressing on
with his table plans.
He's cleaning up the sawmill blade
for Ian, the blacksmith,
who will create the metal legs for
the new table.
Ian, how are you?
Thanks for coming. All right?
So we have got more scrap to look
at, have we? This is not scrap, Ian!
What you are looking at here is
a beautiful one-off dining table.
It would be... this.
You've got the tabletop there.
Underneath you've got a swirl of
ironwork coming up like that
to meet the tabletop. A spiral,
that's called. OK. Is it doable?
It can be done.
See, I told you he understood me.
If the concept I have in my head
comes off, I think it could be
a one-off, really unique piece
of furniture, which will fly.
Simon's table dreams
are in Ian's hands.
In Oxfordshire...
Ready? Yes, just gently.
Henry and Guy are trying to
dismantle the old '60s garage
air pump so that it's ready
to go to the painters.
The value is in the glass
display and head.
Breaking that would make the item
worthless. Now we are cutting grass.
Now it's in... Out.
Don't break that.
I think that's ready to come out. No.
That's a result, man. My first
concern is whether this polishes up.
It's time for right-hand man Guy
to fire up the polishing mop.
Meanwhile, Henry is taking
the rest of the pump to pieces.
Well, trying to.
The tool that I yearn to use
is a sledgehammer.
I'm really losing the plot
with this thing.
And so far, the pump is winning.
I've now smacked my finger on it.
Bingo.
With the body of the pump
now dismantled,
it's ready to go to the painters.
So, it's time to see how Guy
is getting on. Oh, I say.
What do you think of that? Mate,
that is beautiful. That is stunning.
That mirror polished aluminium
surround round the dial,
that is where we are going
to make our money.
For a top-notch finish, the lads
are sending this item off to the
local polisher, who can clean up
the rest of the top for about £40.
Simon is hoping that his foundry
mould stool will be more
straightforward to create.
But then our question then is...
Is this the bottom?
Yes, this is going to be the bottom,
as I see it, yes.
All Gemma has to do is remove
a few of the wooden blocks
to level off the base of the stool.
Just by putting it back together carefully,
and balancing it out,
then what you are going to have is
something that doesn't actually need
that much work to be very effective.
The whole side has come off.
I only left you for five minutes!
A bit of glue will sort that out.
I think it looks really good.
It's going to take shape.
The boys both select property owners
who need a clear out,
and now it's Simon's turned
to choose a worthy cause,
so he's bought Henry
to Barnes in London.
It's not going to be as big
as the site you took us to,
but there's going
to be quality here.
I'm going to test your creativity
to its eighth degree.
They're meeting Alex and
business partner Jason.
We do house clearances, and when we
are doing them, we come across
interesting things that we think we
will do something with one day,
and because we get so busy, nothing
really ends up happening with them.
That's why it's full.
Simon wants to help Alex and Jason
clear out some clutter and
make them some cash in the process.
I hope that they can find something
that is worth maybe doing up
that they can sell on.
Alex. Hi, pleased to meet you.
You must be Jason.
So, you guys clear houses,
and then do you kind of hoard stuff
as well at the same time, or what?
I used to be quite a bad hoarder.
I'd hold onto everything,
even receipts for things
because I'd remember the event.
Jason, are you his kind of therapist
when it comes to the hoarding?
Sort of. I tend to say no, just get
rid of it, but he's like,
"No, we'll keep it, do something
with it, or we'll sell it."
Let's go and have a look, come on.
Enlighten me.
Yeah. You're in trouble, mate.
I'm impressed.
This is probably going to be
my biggest challenge yet.
I was so looking forward to bringing
Henry here because it was
completely out of his comfort zone.
There are no dead vehicles here,
there's no big barn
to search around.
You've got to look in amongst
everything to find the nice pieces.
I'm going to immerse myself
in this stuff. Good lad.
Despite his reservations,
Henry is up for the challenge.
I'm having that because it's the
only thing with wheels on.
The fire engine. Just because
it's a vehicle of some sort.
I mean, do me a favour!
Digging deeper, Henry eventually
finds something for Simon.
Wow! That's got your name
written all over it.
My first find, it just leapt out,
was the Chateauneuf du Pape
grape bucket.
Put it on my back.
I'm walking along,
picking the grapes. Off you go.
One antique grape picker's bucket
picked. Come on, give us a hand.
Oh, right!
Simon and Henry turn their
attentions to the biggest item
in the garage.
Yes, it's nearly there!
Wow! We're in!
That's it!
We can't leave it too long
in London, can we?
We might get clamped.
This mobile baking trailer
cooks up baked potatoes.
Ideal for small catering businesses.
They sell for £6000-£8000 new.
So, does it work? No.
But that's not putting Henry off.
He's going to speculate
on this mobile spud machine.
I think it'll get going
pretty quickly.
I mean,
surely that's worth some good money,
with only a little bit of fettling?
Cheers, lads.
We'll get straight back in.
Hey, Simon.
I reckon this is for you.
Perhaps the most fascinating thing
we found today was the old
cine reels, the old rolls of film.
Setting up stalls. Covent.
Must be Covent Garden.
Man, look. 12th of the second, 1962.
Swinging London.
They may not be worth anything,
but wouldn't it be fantastic
to see what's on them?
This lock-up is small,
but for the boys it's
a gift that just keeps giving.
It might be a frame.
When I turned it round,
there's this beautiful gilt frame.
That is a beautiful old thing.
You could do well out of that,
a man of your calibre.
I'm liking it, I'm liking it.
I'm very excited about that.
Yeah, you should be.
With a bit of careful restoration,
he's going to get
a nice little earner out of it.
It is stunning.
A morning without machines
is starting to change Henry.
I'm getting into this
up-cycling star.
He's spotted what could be
his last find.
Don't you think that is quite
decorative and rather lovely? Huh?
Mr leather biker Henry Cole.
Digging out nice fashion
pictures of ladies.
I'm putting that to one side, and
you're not having it. All right? OK.
Best of luck with them, Henry.
And, with Henry's
fashion pictures bagged,
the boys have their two items each,
plus they're both keen to see
what's on these old film reels.
Fellas, I'll tell you this much.
Henry was unenthusiastic about this.
And I've had a ball, I've loved it.
It has been incredible.
What we have learned today,
is sometimes great things come
in small parcels. Yes? You're right.
And not everything that doesn't
have an engine is boring.
No, no, I've learnt a lot today.
Coming up... Best of luck mate.
Henry takes a restoration risk.
If this goes badly,
is going to look like it's been
shot by a machine gun.
Simon gets a surprise.
Gemma, come on.
Absolute winner.
And, at the first valuation,
will Lee be leaving with any loot?
I brought a jacket with big pockets.
Yeah, well, let's hope
you need them, mate!
We can't leave it too long
in London, can we? It might get
clamped!
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien
are making money from clutter.
Wow. That's got your name written
all over it.
They've now selected their final items
so they've returned to
their workshops.
In Liverpool, Simon is showing off
his latest finds.
This is fabulous. You see?
And the grape-picker's hod.
What do you reckon that is?
It's a bucket.
HE LAUGHS
It's a Chateauneuf-du-Pape bucket.
Right, yes. OK.
So it's a French bucket.
Perhaps a quick search on the
internet will convince Gemma.
Look what I've just found.
One of those buckets,
approximately £887.
Online. Exactly the same,
same colour, straps, everything.
I was amazed when I saw how much
these buckets were going for.
Hey, Gemma. Come on.
Absolute winner.
As far as Henry's concerned - ooh!
Well, I know now
he's already onto a loser.
To maximise the value of the
grape picker's hod,
it must have leather shoulder straps.
Hello! Aye-aye! How are we doing?
So Gemma's taking it to Paul
the saddler.
This looks very interesting.
I've not met Paul before but he's
got a really good reputation.
He's supposed to be very good at his job,
so he's more than capable of
doing two straps, surely.
I've never seen anything like
that in my life.
Fixing horse saddles is
Paul's bread-and-butter.
Just a bit like a rucksack, really.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No problem.
Is that something you can do?
Yeah, yeah.
But like any saddler, he'll happily
make up any leather item.
At his Oxfordshire HQ, Henry
and restorer Guy are feeling
equally confident about
their potato oven.
I genuinely believe we can get some
good money for this.
There is a slight problem.
Go on.
It doesn't actually work.
So that should read 'cold potatoes',
hey? Next.
Check these out.
And I think those are
relatively decorative.
The Louis Vuitton might
be worth something,
just because people like
Louis Vuitton. Yes.
This one, to me, would be worth
50 p.
Ouch.
Determined to prove Guy wrong,
Henry goes online.
I'm putting 'Louis Vuitton vintage
advertising'.
I think it looks posh, doesn't it?
I mean, that would look good in
someone's lavatory or
something like that, you know.
It's posh. Look, straightaway, bingo.
There it is.
And it is $239.
1.5 inch deep.
Oh, that sounds canvasy.
This isn't canvas, this is a print.
I think I might have messed up
on the Louis Vuitton print perhaps.
It's probably quite popular and has
been reproduced on many occasions.
So Henry's worried he may have
his fingers burned by the
fashion prints, but there's no
chance of that happening
on the broken potato oven.
Feast your eyes, mate.
As the oven is gas powered,
only a registered engineer can work
on it so Henry has called plumber
Joe to take a look.
I don't know what's wrong with it, mate,
but it's something to do with
the gas. No worries.
Well, I can go through it, work
it out and see what's wrong.
All right, mate.
Joe's got years of experience
servicing gas heaters,
but this oven is in a sorry state.
The pilot rail is completely blocked
so we're going to take it
back to the workshop, strip it down
and see what we can do with it.
With the internal pipes and
burners clogged with rust,
this oven may be beyond repair.
Henry's big black potato maker
could turn out to be
a huge white elephant.
In Liverpool, restorer Gemma
has returned with the finished
grape picker's hod.
Hello, hello.
What do you think of this?
That is brilliant. It is fab, isn't
it? Yeah. Really pleased with it.
I thought you'd like it. Yeah.
So it's time to turn their
attentions back to the items
Simon sourced at the first location.
Gemma makes a cushion seat
from an off-cut fabric.
A simple job which has cost
only £10 for the foam.
Definitely look good in my house.
To complete the stool,
Simon is preparing to stain it
with Danish oil.
It's the dark stuff.
Oh, no. Too late.
Staining is fast and cost-effective
way to transform wood colour.
You can pick up a tin for
under a tenner.
A lot of people don't put oil on.
They just wax it directly.
But that doesn't seal it.
If you spill anything on it,
it will soak into the wood.
A couple of coats of Danish oil
literally makes it
impregnable to anything.
Meanwhile, blacksmith Ian
has created
a spiral base for the
saw blade table.
As Simon is a regular customer,
Ian has done the work at cost.
What do you think? That's immense.
I gave him a little sketch
and he's come back
with better than I expected.
Simon already had a glass tabletop
knocking around in his
lock-up but if this one doesn't fit
he'll need to buy a new one,
which would seriously eat into
any profit margin.
It just fits perfectly,
it couldn't be better.
Simon already has a buyer in mind.
It's perfect for a local bar.
You can have it for a just a slice,
a nice slice of, er...
300?
I can stretch to 150.
Oh, God! You're
going to kill me on this, come on.
200? OK, yeah. Done?
I'll get it for 200.
Deal.
A result!
Henry has already dismantled
his 1960s garage forecourt pump
and guy has cleaned up the
cubby-holes.
Now he's taking them to the local
resprayer for painting.
And do you want it blast cleaned,
powdered-coated?
I'd like it blasting,
then powder-coating, please.
Get it in and let me hit it hard,
then. Yeah, come on, then.
Let's go and see Shaun.
First, the old rust and paint
is removed in an industrial
blasting process.
Best of luck, mate.
Sand is propelled by highly
compressed air,
travelling at 400mph.
The sand tears the old paint
from the metal.
There's always two chances
with blasting,
whether it goes well, or not.
If this goes badly it's going to
look like it's been
shot by a machinegun.
Then we've got a massive problem.
Sand blasters like this can be found
throughout the country
and sending your rusty metal
to be cleaned
is a quick and cheap process.
Just 15 minutes in the blast room
and it's ready
for the powder-coat painting.
Powder-coating relies on the
electro-magnetic pigments
sticking to the bare metal items.
When completely covered the paint
is melted in a vast oven.
200 centigrade for 20 minutes and
a cost of £280 for both items,
they are immaculately restored.
Oh, yes, please.
That is stunning. Everything...
...is like I imagined it to be.
Just stick it on there.
The pump just needs to be reassembled.
I think we'll start fitting the
panels to the actual kind of
chassis. Right, put that on there.
Can you manage that?
Don't be like that.
Yeah, when that came back
from the polishers,
I thought we're going to have
a lot of work to do on it.
But, no, what a result.
Just the display to be installed
and it's finished.
It looks fabulous, doesn't it?
That is absolutely stunning, Guy.
That really makes it.
That's the little piece
de resistance, isn't it? Yeah.
The mirror-polished ali,
it's come up beautifully.
I've kind of got a thought in my
head that it could be worth,
you know, late three figures.
The cubby-holed shelves have also
been cleaned up and painted
and just in time...
...as it's the first
all-important valuation.
Henry's choice of salvage spot was
Lee's farm in the West Midlands
where the boys rescued
two items each.
Owner Lee wanted money he could
plough into his timber business.
Now he's about to find out what
Henry and Simon have done
with his old junk and how much it
will make him.
Wow!
Oh, good, that's a good reaction.
That is a good reaction.
I think he likes it, mate.
This is my favourite.
Well, I have to agree, Lee.
Excellent, fellas, excellent.
Cheers, Lee. Hey, look,
I'm thrilled you like them, man.
It makes all the hard work
worthwhile. That is beautiful.
The key to it is the
mirror-polished ali top to it.
It's beautiful, it is.
Do you know
what, Lee, I have to agree.
ALL LAUGH
All right, OK with your auto
memorabilia. Hey, Lee, now look.
Hopefully you're impressed with what
we've both done.
I'm very impressed.
The key, obviously,
is whether we've made you any money.
I've brought a jacket with big
pockets, look. Yeah.
Let's hope you'll need 'em, mate.
Adam, our valuer, is going to tell
you whether we've had a result,
or not. Very good.
Adam Partridge owns several auction
houses in the north-west of England.
With 20 years of sales experience,
there's nothing he can't
accurately value.
Lee, nice to meet you.
Well, mate, come on then,
let us know.
Henry's first find was the
industrial shelving unit.
He spent £140 transforming it
but what will Adam
think it's worth now.
The shelvings look amazing,
don't they?
They're industrial chic and they'd
fit in a trendy loft apartment.
Yeah. The job looks amazing.
Obviously, I didn't see them before
but I can imagine that they
were knackered, were they, Lee?
They were proper knackered.
They were proper rusty, there's
a lot of work gone into that, Adam.
If you find the right buyer, you
should be able to get £400 for them.
That's what I'm going to say.
So minus the cost of sandblasting
and painting,
the shelving unit
has made £260 profit.
In the scrap it would have made
about five quid.
Rock and roll, we're 255 up!
Henry has also turned back the clock
restoring this 1960s garage
air pump at the cost of £140.
I think that's a fabulous object,
isn't it? It's stunning, mate.
There's such a demand for automobilia,
petrol pumps and all sorts
of things like this.
I can see that making 400 quid
again, I would have thought.
Well, do you know what, mate? Yeah.
I've sold it for 400. Have you?!
Yeah, to an automobilia museum.
So that is going to Austria
next week.
The air pump has inflated the
profit, netting Lee another £260.
Not having it working is not
important any more because
anybody who's going to want that
is as a decorative object and you've
obviously saved a lot of money by
not having it working,
which maybe would have wiped out
a lot more of your potential profit.
Absolutely, mate. Good thinking,
Henry, good thinking.
Cheers, Lee, thank you.
You see, that pocket's doing
all right.
For Simon's first item he used
imagination, upcycling a circular
saw to make an unusual table,
spending just £60 in the process.
Adam, you know, I wouldn't like to
have brought that unique,
circular saw table here but it's
already sold, mate. Yeah, I know.
So before I tell you have much I got
for it, let's get the valuer on it.
Well...
I'm going to say £200 for it.
Oh, there you go, I got a good price
for it, then. What did you get?
£200 for it.
Valuer Adam and Simon's
buyer are in synch.
The table's made £140 profit.
Now, moving on to the next piece.
I just thought it was
just a lovely piece of wood.
You know, intrinsic value...
Was it just a pile of...
Nothing. ..wood before? Yeah.
Finally, the old foundry mould
that Simon's transformed into
a stool, by spending
just £10 on materials.
Um...
Must be worth...
ADAM SIGHS
70/80 quid. Let's say £75.
This stylish stool has made
a handsome profit of £65.
So, Lee, the total amount of money
that we collectively have
made for you is 725 of your
finest British pounds.
Good news, I'm very,
very pleased about that.
That's got to be good, hasn't it,
mate? Well done, lads.
That's going back into
your wood business?
Well, a couple of quid might.
I've got to celebrate, haven't I?
You've got to celebrate.
You can't have this money
and not celebrate.
No, absolutely.
You know, a fiver
into the timber business,
720 for a great day out, eh?
Happy days.
The lads have come up trumps with
their first round of
renovations, amassing an
impressive £725 for owner, Lee.
I think they've performed excellently.
And I'm very pleased
that the items will give
people pleasure in the future.
Coming up...
Simon gets a rude awakening.
Give me a moment,
give me a moment.
Henry gets a screening.
This is the bit we've been
waiting for.
And how much money will Alex and
Jason get at the second valuation?
Hey, Adam. Hopefully it's good
to see you, mate.
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien are on
a mission to turn your
clutter into cash.
With Henry's choice of barn,
they've made Lee Bindley £725.
That's got to be good...
Well done, lads.
Competitive Simon wants to make even
more cash for house clearers,
Alex and Jason.
And he has high hopes for
his restored grape-picker's hod.
But now his attention turns to
the antique picture frame.
The frame is a bit
daunting, actually.
You either have to
replicate that exactly
or it will just look appalling.
So he's asked gold leaf
expert and restorer
Dee Stonehouse to pop by
and give him advice.
Hi. Hi.
Simon is hoping that Dee can confirm
his hunch that this frame is
a 300-year-old antique.
When I saw this,
I just got a feeling it had
a bit of age about it.
18th century, possibly?
I wouldn't have thought
it's that old, actually.
I was a bit disappointed that the
gilding expert didn't think
it was 18th century.
I'm still not convinced.
Despite this blow, Simon wants to
try regilding the frame.
This is 24-carat. Wow.
Which is pure gold. Pure gold.
That's pure gold. May I? You may.
That's so cool.
Just beaten and beaten and beaten
until it's that thin.
Really? Yeah.
It's 0.06 microns.
THEY LAUGH
That doesn't fit in my head.
That's incredible.
First, a light glue is
applied to the frame
and then the gold is brushed on.
You can see how it sticks on.
See? Yeah.
Can I have a go?
Yeah, of course you can.
And then...
Oh!
It's got no weight. I know.
It's so light, isn't it?
Just try and place it.
That's it. Just blow.
That's it.
It may look spectacular,
but there is a small issue.
This stuff is literally worth
its weight in gold.
Just the gold leaf
itself for that frame
is going to be around
about £200 maybe.
And that's just the gold.
Give me a moment.
Give me a moment, Dee.
There are some good paints
on the market
that imitate gold and gold leaf.
Shall we try painting?
Should we try painting?
Let's try painting.
At 20 quid a pot,
gold paint wouldn't eat up all
of Simon's profit.
You can immediately...
Tell the difference, yeah.
But still... pretty impressive.
In Oxfordshire, Henry is finally
going to find out what's on
the old cine reel he found.
He is not expecting to
make any money,
but curiosity
has got the better of him.
This is the bit we've been
waiting for.
OK, here we go.
This looks like
Covent Garden market.
It's black and white,
which is a shame.
I kind of wanted it colour.
But, you know,
obviously we are lucky to
have anything on it.
Shot in 1962, this footage shows
life in central London
half a century ago.
See, I imagined Covent Garden market
to be chic, you know, shops on this.
But not in 1962.
It was a trolley and an old bloke
in an old Macintosh...
with a load of veg on.
That was your Covent Garden market.
I have to tell you,
there isn't any value to this stuff.
It's worthless.
It's just lovely though
to see a snapshot back in time
of commercial life.
This trip down memory lane won't
raise Alex and Jason a penny.
But there is better news about
his hot potato oven.
It's not very hot. Is it working?
It's all on, mate. Is it really?
Yep. Oh, mate, check that out!
It works!
We are going to give the
nation potatoes.
Joe hasn't just fixed the
potato oven for Henry,
he's sorted a potential sale.
I've been speaking to the wife...
And?
I'll make you an offer.
Really? Yep. Sold. Fantastic.
Another result.
Back in Liverpool, Simon has newly
completed restoring his haul.
Are you ready? Yeah.
Glance over there.
Oh, wow! That is fab!
I wasn't sure. I know you liked it
in just a shabby-chic kind of state.
It did look good beforehand but it
looks so much better now. I like it.
Phew!
Simon thinks he will get a better
price for his antique frame if
he removes the mirror and replaces
it with a blackboard
for a cafe menu display.
Bling!
And his plan may have
paid off already.
Simon thinks he may have found
a buyer at the local bistro.
You've got a lovely place here and I
think it would fit. Do you agree?
I do agree that we do have
a lovely place here.
THEY LAUGH
But equally,
I do think that it would work.
Come on, then.
Make me an offer. 150.
Would you go 150? That's your best
offer? Can we squeeze any more?
Um... Not at this moment. No? OK.
All right, listen. I will accept
that as a fair offer. Right, OK.
Simon has sold one item.
But what will everything
else be worth?
It's time for the final valuation.
Simon wanted to make some cash for
house clearers, Alex and Jason,
whose business has left them with an
overstuffed lock-up in London.
Hey, boys. Hello.
Come and join us. Come on in.
Will Simon top the £725 profit
that Henry's choice made for
Lee Bindley?
Wow. Yeah.
Look at that.
A complete transformation.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think that's amazing, myself.
I really did look into getting it
fully restored. Yeah.
And in the end, for the working,
there would have been no...
There would've been a loss.
Right. Yeah. A massive loss.
Switched the other way.
Just turned it into bling.
And very pleased with that indeed.
It's beautiful, mate.
Boys, I've actually redrawn both
those pictures myself.
Right. Actually, I think they are
a huge improvement.
All you actually did was polish
the glass, wasn't it?
Did I?
THEY LAUGH
I did a lot of research though,
that's what I did.
More importantly, I think, did we
actually make you boys any money?
That's what we want to know.
I think we'd better get Adam in,
hadn't we? Here is our valuer.
Auctioneer Adam Partridge has
cast his expert eye
over all four items.
Hopefully it's good to
see you, mate.
THEY LAUGH
This is the bit I get nervous.
First up, Simon.
He took an old gold frame and
mirror and turned it into
a stylish cafe menu board
for just £20.
I must say, this is a very clever
use of what presumably was
a knackered frame before. Yeah.
It was.
At auction houses, we get these sort
of things all the time and
it's very hard to sell them.
Now, to me, that looks like it
should be £100 worth,
perhaps a little bit more.
Thank you, Mr Valuer.
Smug look.
You'll be pleased to know, mate,
that I topped that valuation. OK.
I sold that to a very fashionable
little cafe in Liverpool for £150.
Good on you, Si.
A good bit of business from the
local bistro means
Simon has made £130.
Moving on now, I'm very excited.
Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Everyone knows the name.
Simon added leather straps,
which costs £50,
to bring this antique grape bucket
back to its best.
Research suggests it should be
worth about £800.
Yes, well, I think that's a period
bucket but it's been enhanced
perhaps in the last 20 or 30 years
with the application of the
Chateauneuf-du-Pape
lettering and logo.
In my view, it is not an original
Chateauneuf-du-Pape bucket,
which would be worth many,
many hundreds of pounds.
It's a beautiful decorative item.
My view,
that's worth maybe 150 tops.
I'd say 100 to be on the safe side.
£100. Well, the
leather straps cost £50.
That was my banker.
That was our banker, wasn't it?
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a huge blow.
The grape bucket isn't an original.
Simon is still in profit
but £50 is a lot less
than he thought he would make.
Adam, come on then.
Do the damage on that, mate, then.
Those two lovely pictures that
I hand-drew myself.
Henry's first choice hasn't
exactly been labour-intensive.
Cleaning up these old frames
pictures hasn't cost him a penny.
Well, yeah, I have to say that they
are probably magazine cuttings,
aren't they? Straight to my heart.
I've not come to be mean, but they
are worth what you can get for them.
My top valuation would
be £40 on the two there.
Henry has added an easy £40 to
Alex and Jason's total profit.
But his final item
has needed more work.
My potato oven there...
Yeah, that's great.
...which we have lovingly fixed up. Yeah.
He spent £400 getting his mobile hot
potato oven back on the road.
I just think it's a lovely thing.
You can buy them new.
They are going to cost six, maybe
£8,000 for a really good example.
That obviously is
a second-hand reconditioned model.
I reckon £2,000 or so would be
a decent price to expect for it now.
Well, interesting, OK. The guy who
fixed it up with me... Yeah.
...who put the new burners in...
Yeah. ..offered me two grand for it.
So, the oven has cooked up a
tasty profit of £1,600.
I'll do my maths.
That gives you a profit of £1,820,
which is not to be sniffed at,
is it?
No. Brilliant.
Thank you very much. Cheers.
The boys' efforts mean that Alex
and Jason are walking away
with a whopping £1,820.
Henry and Simon have been brilliant.
They cleared our space for us.
They've made us a load of money.
We haven't really had to do
anything. So it's been fantastic.
Disappointed to find out about the
bucket, in his opinion,
wasn't original,
but I know that I can certainly get
more than 100 or 150 quid for it.
That I'm certain of.
The four finds from Henry's choice
leave Lee Bindley with
a £725 profit.
But Simon has earned today's
bragging rights.
His choice pulled
in another grand more.
I think that was a result. Hmm?
It certainly was.
A very profitable day for
everyone involved.
Some people have gone away very
happy and what's more,
we have proved that with
a little bit of imagination,
there is money to be had.
And you have won.
Yeah, I did win, didn't I?
Subtitles by Ericsson
The homes of Britain are
stacked with old possessions.
There you are. There you go. Look at
that. That's lovely.
What looks like junk can actually be
worth a pretty penny.
What could you use that for?
That looks immaculate as well.
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien
are here to help turn that clutter
into hard cash.
I think we can get serious money
for that. £100,000? Yeah.
Upcycling genius, Simon...
That looks cool.
...and his restorer love
turning everyday objects into
fantastic furniture.
Wow! Oh, my God!
I never would believe that.
Whilst for Henry and his mechanic...
I mean, that is crazy.
It looks fabulous.
...it's all about restoring
retro relics and vintage classics.
She's off! It runs!
Despite their differences,
they always come good.
And they'll turn a tidy profit
for their owners.
You are going to put
in your pocket £10,630.
Lovely. Absolutely brilliant.
Today... I'm going to immerse
myself in this stuff.
...Henry gets to grips
with a delicate restoration.
That's a result, man!
Simon thinks he's struck it lucky.
Come here! Come on!
Absolute winner.
And expectations are running high
at the valuation day.
I've brought a jacket
with big pockets, look.
Yeah, well, let's hope you need 'em, mate.
Have you eaten all the wine gums, then?
Have a mint. I don't like mints.
You need a mint.
HE LAUGHS
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien's hunt
for hidden treasure
has brought them to the
West Midlands, near Coventry.
We are very close to Meriden,
a little town that is the
absolute centre of England.
Is that right? Yeah.
As well as the epicentre of
the country,
this was also the birthplace of
the playwright whose works have
been performed more than any other.
OK, I can tell you something about
this area. Yeah, go on, then.
If you want to hear Shakespeare... Yeah.
...spoken as it would have been
spoken when it was first performed,
knock on any of these doors.
Any door? Any door.
And because we are
in the very centre of the country,
this accent has remained the same,
but because we are
so far from the sea round here...
They haven't changed.
They haven't changed.
The boys are visiting two locations
to try to make the most money.
And it's Henry's choice first.
Today, do you want to know?
Yeah, come on, where are we going?
Scrapyard.
Stop the car, Henry,
I'm getting out.
Oh, my word, here we go.
When I hear the word scrapyard,
I can see, oh,
Henry "Petrolhead" Cole
absolutely in heaven and
me walking round going, "Och, God."
Now, look, I promise you, mate,
a scrapyard in the loosest term.
It's not exactly a scrapyard,
but Henry hopes to make Lee Bindley
some money for the timber mill
and joinery business he runs
on the site of a former farm.
Much of the land is dedicated
to a stockpile of old cars,
farm machinery and bolts.
It just accumulated slowly.
HE LAUGHS
There wasn't any plan.
The outbuildings are stuffed
with all manner of collectables.
Without spending a couple of days
evaluating it and sitting
down and counting it up,
I've no idea how much it's worth.
There's some nice old cars, actually.
...quite interesting old cars.
Lee's hoping the boys find
some choice items to restore and
raise some cash to plough
into his timber business.
Lee, good morning.
Good to see you. Good to see you,
man. How big is this place?
Six or seven acres.
So we know, more or less,
where everything is to within
a yard or two, you know?
Do you really?
So you'll know if we put
anything in the van or not.
THEY LAUGH Oooh...
We're just going to let ourselves
loose on your place,
see what we can dig out.
See what we can do with it.
And you end up with the money.
Well, I've got big pockets, boys.
I've got big pockets.
Hey, mate, let's hope
we can fill them, hey?
Henry and Simon need to find
two items each.
They can choose anything that
they can add value to, sell on,
and return Lee a tidy profit.
Come on, Henry, got to be your kind
of stuff. Is that a VW camper van?
Well, mate, I think it's one of
those that's good from far,
but far from good.
I've seen a lot of those Volkswagen
campers on the M5 on fire.
THEY LAUGH
Oh, dear, dear, dear.
We should not be touching this.
My first impressions
was a lot of the stuff,
I can't really do anything with.
So not a great start for Henry.
But Simon has spotted something that
he thinks could give him
the cutting edge.
Excuse me, sir.
Oh, don't start, what?
I just so happen to have a piece
of round armoured glass... Yeah?
...which would just sit perfectly on
top of there, I reckon.
And make myself a nice table.
Oh, but you're sitting
there with the family,
if that was a Lazy Susan,
give it a spin, you just sawed
the two kids straight off.
They're not going to kill you.
I can't believe you got that.
I've gone out on a limb
with my circular saw blade because
it's all based on the fact that
I've got a piece of round armoured
glass, which I think will fit
perfectly on top.
If that's the case,
I'm on to a winner.
For his first item, Simon
has selected an unusual upcycling
opportunity, but he's still not sold
on Henry's choice of location.
Isn't it exciting you already?
Exciting?
It's ostensibly
a field full of cars.
Yeah, well, what were you expecting?
Well, there had better be
something better in here.
A field full of quinoa or something?
Oh, now, this is looking more
like it. Oh, yes.
At the back of the barn,
Henry has spotted something
rather intriguing.
Oh, this is...
Oh, mate, talking about wood,
look to your left,
don't look to the right, there.
A 1940s American station wagon.
This is a woody, you know.
Why is it called that?
Well, because of the medieval
timber frame of it.
Oh!
But in the '50s, it was your
quintessential tourer for the
family, plus you'd get a small horse
in the back because it's an estate.
The estate is in a state and
too far gone to make any profit on.
I remember I saw a car once
with a wooden engine. What?
Yeah, it wouldn't go.
HE LAUGHS
Oh, my word. THIS is an amazing
thing. Come on, get it out.
They have spotted a classic American
bicycle. It's a 1957 Schwinn Wasp.
That is stunning. This is coming
out. I'm having that, by the way.
Now, those bicycles
are seriously desirable.
Oh, mate, this is a treasure.
Henry smells easy money and thinks
he's found his first item,
so he's not hanging around.
METAL TINKLES
That will be the precious toolkit. Yeah.
Look at that, side stand.
Schwinn bicycles were
a real status symbol
for suburban kids in '50s America.
Today, they are very tricky to get
hold of and collectors will
pay hundreds, even thousands of
pounds, for one in mint condition.
Do you know what this
is the forerunner of?
The Cruisers were everywhere.
You see them, don't you,
in the old '50s films.
What this became was
a mountain bike.
Henry may think it's his first find,
but Lee has some bad news.
Henry, Henry! Whoa!
He's just looking after it
for a friend. What?
It's in storage. So I can't have it?
No, unfortunately not.
Lee doesn't want to sell it.
It was out of bounds.
And I'm left bereft.
The bike is a huge disappointment
for Henry, and his hunt continues.
I think this might be looking up.
Well, it looks like an air meter.
Henry has spotted a garage air pump
which would have been used to
inflate tyres on the forecourt
back in the '60s.
Fully restored,
this could make Lee about £700 on
the motoring memorabilia market.
But returning this one
to former glories
looks far from simple.
You are funny. Why? You immediately
get attracted to this.
Shall I say that Henry and I
have very different tastes?
If the glass is OK
and the dial can be cleaned up,
you're halfway there on value. OK.
Henry's plumped for the pump
for his first item.
If he makes more than 50 quid
on that,
I'll eat my hat.
Simon's sceptical,
but Henry is on a roll.
Are you looking up?
Oh, yeah. I feel good.
I see what you are looking at.
He thinks he's also found
his second and final item.
The little knick-knack shelves
up there.
Up in the rafters, rusting away,
is a discarded workshop
storage unit.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
There's always room for
a knick-knack shelf, isn't there?
He saw it just before me,
those shelves.
And I was, yeah, I wasn't very happy
about that because I think
he's got a winner there.
Well restored, a set of shelves
like these could go for £400.
What do you reckon?
Blast that, mate? Yeah.
Give it some nice primary
colours or something.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Look at this!
Meanwhile, something strange
has caught Simon's eye.
It's just gorgeous.
The old timber is in fact
a wooden mould,
used in a foundry
to make cast steel items.
Hey, I like that a lot, you know.
Yeah, so do I.
I can see it as some kind of stool,
kind of footstool, kind of pouffe.
I'll carry this one.
Simon is inspired, and he also bags
his second and final item.
Rummage over, but what will Lee make
of Henry and Simon's trawl?
That's a right old pile of crap
you found, innit? Well, it's yours.
THEY LAUGH
Do you reckon you can make money
out of that? Oh, yeah.
Can I just apologise, though? Go on.
For that bit of rubbish.
I mean, that is rubbish.
That nearly went on the fire ten
years ago, that did.
That's beautiful.
Ahem. That's a better item,
wouldn't you say?
Oh, much better item, that.
Definitely. What?
You made a good choice, there.
Thank you so much, Lee.
I beg your pardon, Lee?
Cast aluminium, do you see this? Oh,
yeah? Look at that. Cast aluminium?
You could even perhaps polish it.
We'll see.
We couldn't have had better items, actually.
Well, I'll believe it when I see it.
You'll see it.
You'll see it in readies.
Those big pockets of yours, we'll be
filling them up for you. Yeah.
We will. Come on, then. Let's get to
work. Cheers. Cheers, Lee.
Coming up, the restorations get off
to a cracking start.
I only left you for five minutes.
The air pump causes some problems.
My first concern is whether this
ali polishes up.
And Simon introduces Henry
to a London lock-up.
This is probably going to be
my biggest challenge yet.
Restorers Henry Cole
and Simon O'Brien are on
a mission to turn clutter into cash.
I can't believe you got that!
And they're about to start
restoring their first finds.
Henry's workshop is in
sleepy, rural Oxfordshire,
and it's time to see what his
mechanic and restorer thinks
of what he's brought home.
Open them! What do you reckon? Er...
It's not what I was expecting!
Meet Guy Wilson,
he's Henry's restoration genius.
Guy and I have known each other
since we were 15,
so I know him probably better than
I know anybody on this planet.
Like Henry, Guy's first love
is anything with a motor.
But he's much more than a grease
monkey. He can fix anything.
I think that's quite a simple resto.
It is a simple restoration
to make it look pretty,
but to get it working,
that is a lot of work.
Henry doesn't actually need the pump
functioning to pocket profit
from keen collectors, so he and Guy
can focus their attention
on improving the aesthetics
of both their items.
I think either black
or British Racing Green.
I fully agree with you. Oh, at last!
Henry's plan for the shelving unit
is to paint it. Ready?
Get the other side! Come on then.
It might sound straightforward, but
that's reckoning without the rust.
What we're going to do is we're
going to give it a quick hoover
and a rub down,
ready for blasting.
Sandblasting involves
a local specialist blasting sand
at the metal to rid it of rust.
I've got to tell you, mate,
you are seriously dusty.
Well, it's hardly surprising.
This is the kind of restoration
I like.
Guy doing all the hard work,
and me doing absolutely nothing.
If you stand in a south-westerly
direction yourself,
with your face,
it might actually blow the dust
off your hair and your face.
Up in Liverpool, Simon is showing
off his finds to Gemma,
his up-cycling expert.
What on earth is that?
That's a very good question actually.
Fine Art graduate Gemma runs her
own arts and crafts business.
I'm going to get you
to prepare your furniture,
and we'll get
a top layer on as well today.
Her recycling and up-cycling
workshops sell-out
as people bring in old furniture,
and depart with new skills,
and tastefully rejuvenated homeware.
The big difference
between Gemma and I.
She seems to be more
measured about stuff,
so I think in that way we complement
each other very well.
He is sort of like my big brother.
If we make a top for it, you've got
a really cool one-off kind of stool.
OK. And then this?
What does that look like to you?
A big, rusty old saw.
Some people could say that, but to
me, that looks like a tabletop. OK.
Right? You've got
a good imagination.
The saw blade could be a great idea,
it could do really well,
but it could also be
a bit of a disaster.
Simon's up-cycling ambitions
haven't convinced Gemma,
but he is pressing on
with his table plans.
He's cleaning up the sawmill blade
for Ian, the blacksmith,
who will create the metal legs for
the new table.
Ian, how are you?
Thanks for coming. All right?
So we have got more scrap to look
at, have we? This is not scrap, Ian!
What you are looking at here is
a beautiful one-off dining table.
It would be... this.
You've got the tabletop there.
Underneath you've got a swirl of
ironwork coming up like that
to meet the tabletop. A spiral,
that's called. OK. Is it doable?
It can be done.
See, I told you he understood me.
If the concept I have in my head
comes off, I think it could be
a one-off, really unique piece
of furniture, which will fly.
Simon's table dreams
are in Ian's hands.
In Oxfordshire...
Ready? Yes, just gently.
Henry and Guy are trying to
dismantle the old '60s garage
air pump so that it's ready
to go to the painters.
The value is in the glass
display and head.
Breaking that would make the item
worthless. Now we are cutting grass.
Now it's in... Out.
Don't break that.
I think that's ready to come out. No.
That's a result, man. My first
concern is whether this polishes up.
It's time for right-hand man Guy
to fire up the polishing mop.
Meanwhile, Henry is taking
the rest of the pump to pieces.
Well, trying to.
The tool that I yearn to use
is a sledgehammer.
I'm really losing the plot
with this thing.
And so far, the pump is winning.
I've now smacked my finger on it.
Bingo.
With the body of the pump
now dismantled,
it's ready to go to the painters.
So, it's time to see how Guy
is getting on. Oh, I say.
What do you think of that? Mate,
that is beautiful. That is stunning.
That mirror polished aluminium
surround round the dial,
that is where we are going
to make our money.
For a top-notch finish, the lads
are sending this item off to the
local polisher, who can clean up
the rest of the top for about £40.
Simon is hoping that his foundry
mould stool will be more
straightforward to create.
But then our question then is...
Is this the bottom?
Yes, this is going to be the bottom,
as I see it, yes.
All Gemma has to do is remove
a few of the wooden blocks
to level off the base of the stool.
Just by putting it back together carefully,
and balancing it out,
then what you are going to have is
something that doesn't actually need
that much work to be very effective.
The whole side has come off.
I only left you for five minutes!
A bit of glue will sort that out.
I think it looks really good.
It's going to take shape.
The boys both select property owners
who need a clear out,
and now it's Simon's turned
to choose a worthy cause,
so he's bought Henry
to Barnes in London.
It's not going to be as big
as the site you took us to,
but there's going
to be quality here.
I'm going to test your creativity
to its eighth degree.
They're meeting Alex and
business partner Jason.
We do house clearances, and when we
are doing them, we come across
interesting things that we think we
will do something with one day,
and because we get so busy, nothing
really ends up happening with them.
That's why it's full.
Simon wants to help Alex and Jason
clear out some clutter and
make them some cash in the process.
I hope that they can find something
that is worth maybe doing up
that they can sell on.
Alex. Hi, pleased to meet you.
You must be Jason.
So, you guys clear houses,
and then do you kind of hoard stuff
as well at the same time, or what?
I used to be quite a bad hoarder.
I'd hold onto everything,
even receipts for things
because I'd remember the event.
Jason, are you his kind of therapist
when it comes to the hoarding?
Sort of. I tend to say no, just get
rid of it, but he's like,
"No, we'll keep it, do something
with it, or we'll sell it."
Let's go and have a look, come on.
Enlighten me.
Yeah. You're in trouble, mate.
I'm impressed.
This is probably going to be
my biggest challenge yet.
I was so looking forward to bringing
Henry here because it was
completely out of his comfort zone.
There are no dead vehicles here,
there's no big barn
to search around.
You've got to look in amongst
everything to find the nice pieces.
I'm going to immerse myself
in this stuff. Good lad.
Despite his reservations,
Henry is up for the challenge.
I'm having that because it's the
only thing with wheels on.
The fire engine. Just because
it's a vehicle of some sort.
I mean, do me a favour!
Digging deeper, Henry eventually
finds something for Simon.
Wow! That's got your name
written all over it.
My first find, it just leapt out,
was the Chateauneuf du Pape
grape bucket.
Put it on my back.
I'm walking along,
picking the grapes. Off you go.
One antique grape picker's bucket
picked. Come on, give us a hand.
Oh, right!
Simon and Henry turn their
attentions to the biggest item
in the garage.
Yes, it's nearly there!
Wow! We're in!
That's it!
We can't leave it too long
in London, can we?
We might get clamped.
This mobile baking trailer
cooks up baked potatoes.
Ideal for small catering businesses.
They sell for £6000-£8000 new.
So, does it work? No.
But that's not putting Henry off.
He's going to speculate
on this mobile spud machine.
I think it'll get going
pretty quickly.
I mean,
surely that's worth some good money,
with only a little bit of fettling?
Cheers, lads.
We'll get straight back in.
Hey, Simon.
I reckon this is for you.
Perhaps the most fascinating thing
we found today was the old
cine reels, the old rolls of film.
Setting up stalls. Covent.
Must be Covent Garden.
Man, look. 12th of the second, 1962.
Swinging London.
They may not be worth anything,
but wouldn't it be fantastic
to see what's on them?
This lock-up is small,
but for the boys it's
a gift that just keeps giving.
It might be a frame.
When I turned it round,
there's this beautiful gilt frame.
That is a beautiful old thing.
You could do well out of that,
a man of your calibre.
I'm liking it, I'm liking it.
I'm very excited about that.
Yeah, you should be.
With a bit of careful restoration,
he's going to get
a nice little earner out of it.
It is stunning.
A morning without machines
is starting to change Henry.
I'm getting into this
up-cycling star.
He's spotted what could be
his last find.
Don't you think that is quite
decorative and rather lovely? Huh?
Mr leather biker Henry Cole.
Digging out nice fashion
pictures of ladies.
I'm putting that to one side, and
you're not having it. All right? OK.
Best of luck with them, Henry.
And, with Henry's
fashion pictures bagged,
the boys have their two items each,
plus they're both keen to see
what's on these old film reels.
Fellas, I'll tell you this much.
Henry was unenthusiastic about this.
And I've had a ball, I've loved it.
It has been incredible.
What we have learned today,
is sometimes great things come
in small parcels. Yes? You're right.
And not everything that doesn't
have an engine is boring.
No, no, I've learnt a lot today.
Coming up... Best of luck mate.
Henry takes a restoration risk.
If this goes badly,
is going to look like it's been
shot by a machine gun.
Simon gets a surprise.
Gemma, come on.
Absolute winner.
And, at the first valuation,
will Lee be leaving with any loot?
I brought a jacket with big pockets.
Yeah, well, let's hope
you need them, mate!
We can't leave it too long
in London, can we? It might get
clamped!
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien
are making money from clutter.
Wow. That's got your name written
all over it.
They've now selected their final items
so they've returned to
their workshops.
In Liverpool, Simon is showing off
his latest finds.
This is fabulous. You see?
And the grape-picker's hod.
What do you reckon that is?
It's a bucket.
HE LAUGHS
It's a Chateauneuf-du-Pape bucket.
Right, yes. OK.
So it's a French bucket.
Perhaps a quick search on the
internet will convince Gemma.
Look what I've just found.
One of those buckets,
approximately £887.
Online. Exactly the same,
same colour, straps, everything.
I was amazed when I saw how much
these buckets were going for.
Hey, Gemma. Come on.
Absolute winner.
As far as Henry's concerned - ooh!
Well, I know now
he's already onto a loser.
To maximise the value of the
grape picker's hod,
it must have leather shoulder straps.
Hello! Aye-aye! How are we doing?
So Gemma's taking it to Paul
the saddler.
This looks very interesting.
I've not met Paul before but he's
got a really good reputation.
He's supposed to be very good at his job,
so he's more than capable of
doing two straps, surely.
I've never seen anything like
that in my life.
Fixing horse saddles is
Paul's bread-and-butter.
Just a bit like a rucksack, really.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No problem.
Is that something you can do?
Yeah, yeah.
But like any saddler, he'll happily
make up any leather item.
At his Oxfordshire HQ, Henry
and restorer Guy are feeling
equally confident about
their potato oven.
I genuinely believe we can get some
good money for this.
There is a slight problem.
Go on.
It doesn't actually work.
So that should read 'cold potatoes',
hey? Next.
Check these out.
And I think those are
relatively decorative.
The Louis Vuitton might
be worth something,
just because people like
Louis Vuitton. Yes.
This one, to me, would be worth
50 p.
Ouch.
Determined to prove Guy wrong,
Henry goes online.
I'm putting 'Louis Vuitton vintage
advertising'.
I think it looks posh, doesn't it?
I mean, that would look good in
someone's lavatory or
something like that, you know.
It's posh. Look, straightaway, bingo.
There it is.
And it is $239.
1.5 inch deep.
Oh, that sounds canvasy.
This isn't canvas, this is a print.
I think I might have messed up
on the Louis Vuitton print perhaps.
It's probably quite popular and has
been reproduced on many occasions.
So Henry's worried he may have
his fingers burned by the
fashion prints, but there's no
chance of that happening
on the broken potato oven.
Feast your eyes, mate.
As the oven is gas powered,
only a registered engineer can work
on it so Henry has called plumber
Joe to take a look.
I don't know what's wrong with it, mate,
but it's something to do with
the gas. No worries.
Well, I can go through it, work
it out and see what's wrong.
All right, mate.
Joe's got years of experience
servicing gas heaters,
but this oven is in a sorry state.
The pilot rail is completely blocked
so we're going to take it
back to the workshop, strip it down
and see what we can do with it.
With the internal pipes and
burners clogged with rust,
this oven may be beyond repair.
Henry's big black potato maker
could turn out to be
a huge white elephant.
In Liverpool, restorer Gemma
has returned with the finished
grape picker's hod.
Hello, hello.
What do you think of this?
That is brilliant. It is fab, isn't
it? Yeah. Really pleased with it.
I thought you'd like it. Yeah.
So it's time to turn their
attentions back to the items
Simon sourced at the first location.
Gemma makes a cushion seat
from an off-cut fabric.
A simple job which has cost
only £10 for the foam.
Definitely look good in my house.
To complete the stool,
Simon is preparing to stain it
with Danish oil.
It's the dark stuff.
Oh, no. Too late.
Staining is fast and cost-effective
way to transform wood colour.
You can pick up a tin for
under a tenner.
A lot of people don't put oil on.
They just wax it directly.
But that doesn't seal it.
If you spill anything on it,
it will soak into the wood.
A couple of coats of Danish oil
literally makes it
impregnable to anything.
Meanwhile, blacksmith Ian
has created
a spiral base for the
saw blade table.
As Simon is a regular customer,
Ian has done the work at cost.
What do you think? That's immense.
I gave him a little sketch
and he's come back
with better than I expected.
Simon already had a glass tabletop
knocking around in his
lock-up but if this one doesn't fit
he'll need to buy a new one,
which would seriously eat into
any profit margin.
It just fits perfectly,
it couldn't be better.
Simon already has a buyer in mind.
It's perfect for a local bar.
You can have it for a just a slice,
a nice slice of, er...
300?
I can stretch to 150.
Oh, God! You're
going to kill me on this, come on.
200? OK, yeah. Done?
I'll get it for 200.
Deal.
A result!
Henry has already dismantled
his 1960s garage forecourt pump
and guy has cleaned up the
cubby-holes.
Now he's taking them to the local
resprayer for painting.
And do you want it blast cleaned,
powdered-coated?
I'd like it blasting,
then powder-coating, please.
Get it in and let me hit it hard,
then. Yeah, come on, then.
Let's go and see Shaun.
First, the old rust and paint
is removed in an industrial
blasting process.
Best of luck, mate.
Sand is propelled by highly
compressed air,
travelling at 400mph.
The sand tears the old paint
from the metal.
There's always two chances
with blasting,
whether it goes well, or not.
If this goes badly it's going to
look like it's been
shot by a machinegun.
Then we've got a massive problem.
Sand blasters like this can be found
throughout the country
and sending your rusty metal
to be cleaned
is a quick and cheap process.
Just 15 minutes in the blast room
and it's ready
for the powder-coat painting.
Powder-coating relies on the
electro-magnetic pigments
sticking to the bare metal items.
When completely covered the paint
is melted in a vast oven.
200 centigrade for 20 minutes and
a cost of £280 for both items,
they are immaculately restored.
Oh, yes, please.
That is stunning. Everything...
...is like I imagined it to be.
Just stick it on there.
The pump just needs to be reassembled.
I think we'll start fitting the
panels to the actual kind of
chassis. Right, put that on there.
Can you manage that?
Don't be like that.
Yeah, when that came back
from the polishers,
I thought we're going to have
a lot of work to do on it.
But, no, what a result.
Just the display to be installed
and it's finished.
It looks fabulous, doesn't it?
That is absolutely stunning, Guy.
That really makes it.
That's the little piece
de resistance, isn't it? Yeah.
The mirror-polished ali,
it's come up beautifully.
I've kind of got a thought in my
head that it could be worth,
you know, late three figures.
The cubby-holed shelves have also
been cleaned up and painted
and just in time...
...as it's the first
all-important valuation.
Henry's choice of salvage spot was
Lee's farm in the West Midlands
where the boys rescued
two items each.
Owner Lee wanted money he could
plough into his timber business.
Now he's about to find out what
Henry and Simon have done
with his old junk and how much it
will make him.
Wow!
Oh, good, that's a good reaction.
That is a good reaction.
I think he likes it, mate.
This is my favourite.
Well, I have to agree, Lee.
Excellent, fellas, excellent.
Cheers, Lee. Hey, look,
I'm thrilled you like them, man.
It makes all the hard work
worthwhile. That is beautiful.
The key to it is the
mirror-polished ali top to it.
It's beautiful, it is.
Do you know
what, Lee, I have to agree.
ALL LAUGH
All right, OK with your auto
memorabilia. Hey, Lee, now look.
Hopefully you're impressed with what
we've both done.
I'm very impressed.
The key, obviously,
is whether we've made you any money.
I've brought a jacket with big
pockets, look. Yeah.
Let's hope you'll need 'em, mate.
Adam, our valuer, is going to tell
you whether we've had a result,
or not. Very good.
Adam Partridge owns several auction
houses in the north-west of England.
With 20 years of sales experience,
there's nothing he can't
accurately value.
Lee, nice to meet you.
Well, mate, come on then,
let us know.
Henry's first find was the
industrial shelving unit.
He spent £140 transforming it
but what will Adam
think it's worth now.
The shelvings look amazing,
don't they?
They're industrial chic and they'd
fit in a trendy loft apartment.
Yeah. The job looks amazing.
Obviously, I didn't see them before
but I can imagine that they
were knackered, were they, Lee?
They were proper knackered.
They were proper rusty, there's
a lot of work gone into that, Adam.
If you find the right buyer, you
should be able to get £400 for them.
That's what I'm going to say.
So minus the cost of sandblasting
and painting,
the shelving unit
has made £260 profit.
In the scrap it would have made
about five quid.
Rock and roll, we're 255 up!
Henry has also turned back the clock
restoring this 1960s garage
air pump at the cost of £140.
I think that's a fabulous object,
isn't it? It's stunning, mate.
There's such a demand for automobilia,
petrol pumps and all sorts
of things like this.
I can see that making 400 quid
again, I would have thought.
Well, do you know what, mate? Yeah.
I've sold it for 400. Have you?!
Yeah, to an automobilia museum.
So that is going to Austria
next week.
The air pump has inflated the
profit, netting Lee another £260.
Not having it working is not
important any more because
anybody who's going to want that
is as a decorative object and you've
obviously saved a lot of money by
not having it working,
which maybe would have wiped out
a lot more of your potential profit.
Absolutely, mate. Good thinking,
Henry, good thinking.
Cheers, Lee, thank you.
You see, that pocket's doing
all right.
For Simon's first item he used
imagination, upcycling a circular
saw to make an unusual table,
spending just £60 in the process.
Adam, you know, I wouldn't like to
have brought that unique,
circular saw table here but it's
already sold, mate. Yeah, I know.
So before I tell you have much I got
for it, let's get the valuer on it.
Well...
I'm going to say £200 for it.
Oh, there you go, I got a good price
for it, then. What did you get?
£200 for it.
Valuer Adam and Simon's
buyer are in synch.
The table's made £140 profit.
Now, moving on to the next piece.
I just thought it was
just a lovely piece of wood.
You know, intrinsic value...
Was it just a pile of...
Nothing. ..wood before? Yeah.
Finally, the old foundry mould
that Simon's transformed into
a stool, by spending
just £10 on materials.
Um...
Must be worth...
ADAM SIGHS
70/80 quid. Let's say £75.
This stylish stool has made
a handsome profit of £65.
So, Lee, the total amount of money
that we collectively have
made for you is 725 of your
finest British pounds.
Good news, I'm very,
very pleased about that.
That's got to be good, hasn't it,
mate? Well done, lads.
That's going back into
your wood business?
Well, a couple of quid might.
I've got to celebrate, haven't I?
You've got to celebrate.
You can't have this money
and not celebrate.
No, absolutely.
You know, a fiver
into the timber business,
720 for a great day out, eh?
Happy days.
The lads have come up trumps with
their first round of
renovations, amassing an
impressive £725 for owner, Lee.
I think they've performed excellently.
And I'm very pleased
that the items will give
people pleasure in the future.
Coming up...
Simon gets a rude awakening.
Give me a moment,
give me a moment.
Henry gets a screening.
This is the bit we've been
waiting for.
And how much money will Alex and
Jason get at the second valuation?
Hey, Adam. Hopefully it's good
to see you, mate.
Henry Cole and Simon O'Brien are on
a mission to turn your
clutter into cash.
With Henry's choice of barn,
they've made Lee Bindley £725.
That's got to be good...
Well done, lads.
Competitive Simon wants to make even
more cash for house clearers,
Alex and Jason.
And he has high hopes for
his restored grape-picker's hod.
But now his attention turns to
the antique picture frame.
The frame is a bit
daunting, actually.
You either have to
replicate that exactly
or it will just look appalling.
So he's asked gold leaf
expert and restorer
Dee Stonehouse to pop by
and give him advice.
Hi. Hi.
Simon is hoping that Dee can confirm
his hunch that this frame is
a 300-year-old antique.
When I saw this,
I just got a feeling it had
a bit of age about it.
18th century, possibly?
I wouldn't have thought
it's that old, actually.
I was a bit disappointed that the
gilding expert didn't think
it was 18th century.
I'm still not convinced.
Despite this blow, Simon wants to
try regilding the frame.
This is 24-carat. Wow.
Which is pure gold. Pure gold.
That's pure gold. May I? You may.
That's so cool.
Just beaten and beaten and beaten
until it's that thin.
Really? Yeah.
It's 0.06 microns.
THEY LAUGH
That doesn't fit in my head.
That's incredible.
First, a light glue is
applied to the frame
and then the gold is brushed on.
You can see how it sticks on.
See? Yeah.
Can I have a go?
Yeah, of course you can.
And then...
Oh!
It's got no weight. I know.
It's so light, isn't it?
Just try and place it.
That's it. Just blow.
That's it.
It may look spectacular,
but there is a small issue.
This stuff is literally worth
its weight in gold.
Just the gold leaf
itself for that frame
is going to be around
about £200 maybe.
And that's just the gold.
Give me a moment.
Give me a moment, Dee.
There are some good paints
on the market
that imitate gold and gold leaf.
Shall we try painting?
Should we try painting?
Let's try painting.
At 20 quid a pot,
gold paint wouldn't eat up all
of Simon's profit.
You can immediately...
Tell the difference, yeah.
But still... pretty impressive.
In Oxfordshire, Henry is finally
going to find out what's on
the old cine reel he found.
He is not expecting to
make any money,
but curiosity
has got the better of him.
This is the bit we've been
waiting for.
OK, here we go.
This looks like
Covent Garden market.
It's black and white,
which is a shame.
I kind of wanted it colour.
But, you know,
obviously we are lucky to
have anything on it.
Shot in 1962, this footage shows
life in central London
half a century ago.
See, I imagined Covent Garden market
to be chic, you know, shops on this.
But not in 1962.
It was a trolley and an old bloke
in an old Macintosh...
with a load of veg on.
That was your Covent Garden market.
I have to tell you,
there isn't any value to this stuff.
It's worthless.
It's just lovely though
to see a snapshot back in time
of commercial life.
This trip down memory lane won't
raise Alex and Jason a penny.
But there is better news about
his hot potato oven.
It's not very hot. Is it working?
It's all on, mate. Is it really?
Yep. Oh, mate, check that out!
It works!
We are going to give the
nation potatoes.
Joe hasn't just fixed the
potato oven for Henry,
he's sorted a potential sale.
I've been speaking to the wife...
And?
I'll make you an offer.
Really? Yep. Sold. Fantastic.
Another result.
Back in Liverpool, Simon has newly
completed restoring his haul.
Are you ready? Yeah.
Glance over there.
Oh, wow! That is fab!
I wasn't sure. I know you liked it
in just a shabby-chic kind of state.
It did look good beforehand but it
looks so much better now. I like it.
Phew!
Simon thinks he will get a better
price for his antique frame if
he removes the mirror and replaces
it with a blackboard
for a cafe menu display.
Bling!
And his plan may have
paid off already.
Simon thinks he may have found
a buyer at the local bistro.
You've got a lovely place here and I
think it would fit. Do you agree?
I do agree that we do have
a lovely place here.
THEY LAUGH
But equally,
I do think that it would work.
Come on, then.
Make me an offer. 150.
Would you go 150? That's your best
offer? Can we squeeze any more?
Um... Not at this moment. No? OK.
All right, listen. I will accept
that as a fair offer. Right, OK.
Simon has sold one item.
But what will everything
else be worth?
It's time for the final valuation.
Simon wanted to make some cash for
house clearers, Alex and Jason,
whose business has left them with an
overstuffed lock-up in London.
Hey, boys. Hello.
Come and join us. Come on in.
Will Simon top the £725 profit
that Henry's choice made for
Lee Bindley?
Wow. Yeah.
Look at that.
A complete transformation.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think that's amazing, myself.
I really did look into getting it
fully restored. Yeah.
And in the end, for the working,
there would have been no...
There would've been a loss.
Right. Yeah. A massive loss.
Switched the other way.
Just turned it into bling.
And very pleased with that indeed.
It's beautiful, mate.
Boys, I've actually redrawn both
those pictures myself.
Right. Actually, I think they are
a huge improvement.
All you actually did was polish
the glass, wasn't it?
Did I?
THEY LAUGH
I did a lot of research though,
that's what I did.
More importantly, I think, did we
actually make you boys any money?
That's what we want to know.
I think we'd better get Adam in,
hadn't we? Here is our valuer.
Auctioneer Adam Partridge has
cast his expert eye
over all four items.
Hopefully it's good to
see you, mate.
THEY LAUGH
This is the bit I get nervous.
First up, Simon.
He took an old gold frame and
mirror and turned it into
a stylish cafe menu board
for just £20.
I must say, this is a very clever
use of what presumably was
a knackered frame before. Yeah.
It was.
At auction houses, we get these sort
of things all the time and
it's very hard to sell them.
Now, to me, that looks like it
should be £100 worth,
perhaps a little bit more.
Thank you, Mr Valuer.
Smug look.
You'll be pleased to know, mate,
that I topped that valuation. OK.
I sold that to a very fashionable
little cafe in Liverpool for £150.
Good on you, Si.
A good bit of business from the
local bistro means
Simon has made £130.
Moving on now, I'm very excited.
Chateauneuf-du-Pape.
Everyone knows the name.
Simon added leather straps,
which costs £50,
to bring this antique grape bucket
back to its best.
Research suggests it should be
worth about £800.
Yes, well, I think that's a period
bucket but it's been enhanced
perhaps in the last 20 or 30 years
with the application of the
Chateauneuf-du-Pape
lettering and logo.
In my view, it is not an original
Chateauneuf-du-Pape bucket,
which would be worth many,
many hundreds of pounds.
It's a beautiful decorative item.
My view,
that's worth maybe 150 tops.
I'd say 100 to be on the safe side.
£100. Well, the
leather straps cost £50.
That was my banker.
That was our banker, wasn't it?
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a huge blow.
The grape bucket isn't an original.
Simon is still in profit
but £50 is a lot less
than he thought he would make.
Adam, come on then.
Do the damage on that, mate, then.
Those two lovely pictures that
I hand-drew myself.
Henry's first choice hasn't
exactly been labour-intensive.
Cleaning up these old frames
pictures hasn't cost him a penny.
Well, yeah, I have to say that they
are probably magazine cuttings,
aren't they? Straight to my heart.
I've not come to be mean, but they
are worth what you can get for them.
My top valuation would
be £40 on the two there.
Henry has added an easy £40 to
Alex and Jason's total profit.
But his final item
has needed more work.
My potato oven there...
Yeah, that's great.
...which we have lovingly fixed up. Yeah.
He spent £400 getting his mobile hot
potato oven back on the road.
I just think it's a lovely thing.
You can buy them new.
They are going to cost six, maybe
£8,000 for a really good example.
That obviously is
a second-hand reconditioned model.
I reckon £2,000 or so would be
a decent price to expect for it now.
Well, interesting, OK. The guy who
fixed it up with me... Yeah.
...who put the new burners in...
Yeah. ..offered me two grand for it.
So, the oven has cooked up a
tasty profit of £1,600.
I'll do my maths.
That gives you a profit of £1,820,
which is not to be sniffed at,
is it?
No. Brilliant.
Thank you very much. Cheers.
The boys' efforts mean that Alex
and Jason are walking away
with a whopping £1,820.
Henry and Simon have been brilliant.
They cleared our space for us.
They've made us a load of money.
We haven't really had to do
anything. So it's been fantastic.
Disappointed to find out about the
bucket, in his opinion,
wasn't original,
but I know that I can certainly get
more than 100 or 150 quid for it.
That I'm certain of.
The four finds from Henry's choice
leave Lee Bindley with
a £725 profit.
But Simon has earned today's
bragging rights.
His choice pulled
in another grand more.
I think that was a result. Hmm?
It certainly was.
A very profitable day for
everyone involved.
Some people have gone away very
happy and what's more,
we have proved that with
a little bit of imagination,
there is money to be had.
And you have won.
Yeah, I did win, didn't I?
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