Nigel and Jilly Gough hope an old Victorian house in Henley holds the key to mortgage-free living; while in Diss, Norfolk, Alan and Susan Hutchinson concentrate on a game keeper's lodge.
Two amateur developers decide to dig out their basements. It's one of the riskiest ways of creating space, and they start out just as the property market begins to crumble.
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