Every season of DIY SOS ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of DIY SOS!

Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team help Wayne and Susan, a couple in Bradford, move out of their boat into a house.

Bradford

Nick Knowles and the team's first mission is in Cardiff, where a couple's lounge is virtually uninhabitable. Meanwhile new recruit Kate Mclntyre introduces three DIY challenged families hoping to win the viewers' sympathy.

Cardiff

Stratford-upon-Avon throws up some unfinished loft bedrooms for Nick Knowles. Plus, Kate Mcintyre has three more household catastrophes vying for the viewers' vote.

Stratford-upon-Avon

The team havejust four days to build a kitchen from scratch in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. But with all their sneaky trips to a nearby health spa, will they finish on time?

Cheltenham

Nick Knowles and the home-improvement healers call on a Pembrokeshire family who still haven't completed a renovation they started 25 years ago, and Kate Mclntyre meets three more Dl Yers hoping to win viewers' sympathy.

Pembrokeshire

Thomas Christy's attempts to transform a disused shop into a home have left the place in danger of collapsing. And with a baby on the way, his wife Rachel's patience is wearing thin. Enter Nick and the team to put things right.

Caernarfon

When Daniel Carty , a construction consultant, began work on converting a former railway cottage in Surrey into a modern home, his wife had every faith in him. But many busy weekends have passed, baby Bradley has arrived and the lounge/diner has yet to be started. Cue Nick and the team.

Woking

Nick Knowles and the team have just four days to build a handmade kitchen from scratch for DIY-challenged Debbie Robins in Cheltenham. With Kate Mclntyre.

In Derby, the team assist on a project to restore a Victorian terraced house - at one time divided into bedsits to its former glory.

Derby

Assist decorating tutor Ian renovate his new home

Stockport

Revamp the bedroom of 14-year-old Andrew, son of widowed Maggie

West Midlands

Renovate the kitchen of recent divorcee Chris, who is hampered by a back injury

Sussex

Create a bedroom for widow Susie, who has been sharing her 14 year old daughters bedroom for a decade.

Farnborough, Hampshire

Complete David and Sara's self-build home, a project hampered by planning issues, builder walkouts and money troubles

Bristol

Finish the improvements to Scott and Gemma's house, made necessary after Gemma suffered a brain tumour, the project having been started by Scott himself.

An hour long special, assisting expats in Lake Como, Italy. Extend John and Kay's house in Tolentino and create a nursery for Ben and Lisa.

Italian Job Special

Nick Knowles and the team visit the Glasgow home of Margaret and her extended family. They help to speed up a loft conversion.

Glasgow

Complete Lesley and Mark's open plan living area in Torquay. A beautiful kitchen transformation using plain white units, topped with a spectacular dark granite surface.

Torquay

Complete a bedroom loft conversion for the son of an oil rig worker in Fleetwood.

Fleetwood

Rescue Angela and Steve's living room, left with a sagging ceiling and collapsed chimney breast by builder Steve's own efforts

Preston

Rescue Laurence's self-build project, begun 20 years ago but recently struck by fire.

Hexagon House, Brecon

Cumbernauld

Complete the conversion of Keith and Torsten's three storey house from bedsits back into one single home.

Manchester

Leeds

In dire need of TLC, a community centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, gets a visit from Nick Knowles and the team. The centre has a great football team, but the clubhouse is in such a state that they're reluctant to invite other teams to play. We also meet families pleading for the show's help.

Two-year-old Mia Phillips from Pembrokeshire suffers from cystic fibrosis. She needs constant care, and as a result her bedroom is crammed full of daunting medical paraphernalia. Parents Merrilee and Chris want to build a separate play area for their daughter. Cue Nick Knowles and his team of trusty workmen.

An incomplete extension means that Elsie and Duncan Pinches have put up with a kitchen lacking any natural daylight for 13 years. Nick Knowles and the team set to work on bringing a ray of sunshine into that dingy space. At the same time, they treat the couple to a dazzling new country-style kitchen.

Newbury

Faced with a pricey housing market, Kate and Craig settled for a property that hadn't been worked on since the 1930s. It turned out to be a money pit, and with the couple's savings gone, work ground to a halt. Enter Nick Knowles and the team to transform a tired lounge-diner into a modern space with an art deco twist. But will it suit a potential new arrival?

Northfleet

Daniel and Eve Luke bought a big old house divided into flats with the plan of converting it back into a beautiful home for their family. A year later the house still has no proper bathroom. Can Nick Knowles and the team realise Eve's dream of a hot bath?

Hartlepool

With five kids, single mum Sarah has no time for DIY, but her family desperately needs a dining area. Cue Nick Knowles with an African-themed design.

Rushden

A kitchen needs to be fitted in a week at a house in Tisbury, Wiltshire for a stressed-out couple.

Tisbury

The team enlist the help of the Navy to turn an empty shell of a building into an indoor education centre at Bath City Farm. With Nick Knowles.

Bath

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are in Rushden to help rescue the Wiggett family who are stuck in a vicious DIY circle.

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are on a mission in Eastbourne to help rescue Kim Dack, a teacher and single mother-of-three.

Eastbourne

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team are in Bolsover to help a couple convert a difficult loft space into a room for their young son.

Bolsover

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Vanessa Ronson, as the kitchen in her Victorian house in Cleethorpes currently resembles a building site.

Cleethorpes

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit Gloucester to help rescue 16-year-old Amy and 12-year-old Nick from their mum's hapless attempts at DIY.

Gloucester

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit Yarm, where they give a helping hand with an unfinished bathroom to Shahzad and Waheeda Ismail.

Yarm

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles. The team visit Norfolk to help Carl and Michelle Moorhouse convert a garage into an ideal room for their six-year-old son.

East Harling

Home improvement mishaps remedied by Nick Knowles and co. The team visit a young family in Warrington and help them with their home improvement problems.

Warrington

Home improvement problems remedied by Nick Knowles. The team help Angie and Paul Bowles create a county-style lounge down on their farm in South Wales.

South Wales

Home improvement problems remedied by Nick Knowles. The team visit Ipswich to help Jason and Toni Meekings, who have been transforming their three bed house into something bigger.

Ipswich

In this edition they are on a mission in Fishguard to help a worn out Mum and Dad of quadruplets renovate her bedroom and en-suite bathroomm so she can have the occasional half hour to remind herself that she is still human.

Fishguard

The team are in Swindon to try and turn Michelle Lovell's life around by finishing the renovation of her lounge.

Swindon

The team are in Crawley to help brothers Daniel and Adam renovate their kitchen/diner.

Crawley

Nick Knowles and the building team are in Navenby to help Maaike Zaan and John Heather complete the renovation to their disused telephone exchange.

Navenby

The team are in Grays, Essex to help busy paramedic Tina Freear renovate her lounge/dining room.

Grays

The team is in Manchester to help remedy the DIY disaster created by Kevin Vaughton after he tried to enlarge his kitchen.

The team are in Pembroke Dock to help supersize a tiny family bathroom

Pembroke Dock

The team are in in Clevedon to help transform an extension into a funky lounge.

Clevedon

Nick Knowles and the team save a family from their bare brick lounge.

Southampton

The team travel to Ipswich to help a single mother-of-two out of her DIY disaster.

Nick Knowles and the team are in Liverpool to renovate a garage into a child's playroom.

Liverpool

Nick Knowles and his team help the Erasmus family from Nottingham complete their kitchen.

Nottingham

Nick Knowles and the team help a couple in Rossendale, Lancashire.

Rossendale

Chelmsford

Do-it-yourself challenges. Nick Knowles and the team are in Chelmsford to give Karen and her family the kitchen of their dreams.

Nick Knowles and the team are in Epsom in Surrey. Dee Wilson unselfishly always put her family first as well as holiding down a high pressure job.

Epsom

Create a Victorian reception room for Sharon and Steve so they can renew their wedding vows in it.

Ramsgate

Complete a bathroom extension for Mark and Vicky, made necessary by their eight-year-old son's brain tumour which has confined him to a wheelchair; they had begun the work themselves, but a flood caused by a burst water pipe set the project back.

Completion of a children's bedroom and play area for the Harris family; the project having been begun by the family themselves, but was set back after a leaking sewer flooded the house.

Swansea

Finish an open-plan kitchen-diner for the Harris family, made necessary by their youngest daughter's medical condition which means she cannot be left unattended; the family had begun the project themselves, but work had not progressed beyond knowing down the dividing wall.

Stoke-on-Trent

Convert a bachelor's river boat into a more suitable family friendly environment, allowing his girlfriend who lives two hours away to move in.

Surrey

Complete the conversion of a garage into a kitchen for Paul and Pauline, made necessary by their growing family, now numbering six children including a daughter with Down's syndrome and twins with learning difficulties; they had begun the project themselves, but ran out of money.

Willenhall

Lymington

Sheffield

Wigan

In Essex, the Taylors need to turn their garage into a wheelchair-friendly downstairs bathroom for window cleaner Kerry following an accident.

Essex

Gosport

Kent

In Romford, the Morris family want to turn their loft into a space that will give Sharon's autistic 17-year-old son some independence.

Romford

The team is in Bridgwater to help the Robinson family.

Bridgwater

The team is in Frimley in Camberley to help the Oxford family.

Frimley

The team are in Oxford to help complete a bungalow extension for the Barker family.

Bowled Over in Oxford

Nick Knowles and the team are in Bradford to renovate a lounge for Emma and her son Thomas.

Lounging in Bradford

Nick Knowles and the builders tackle a wreck of a house in Caersws, Wales.

Caersws

Nick Knowles and the team are called to the rescue of the Curry family in Halstead.

Elping out in Essex

Nick Knowles and the team are in Watford to renovate a kitchen and dining area for a family that needs it to be medically clean. Lucy and husband Mario bought a rundown house that they hoped to renovate into their dream home, but everything changed when their daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The renovation is now on hold, but the need for a clean living space is greater than ever.

Worktop Woes in Watford

Nick Knowles and the team head to Leamington Spa to help out single parent Kate. Left in a building site by builders her unfinished extension means she's bringing up three children with no heating, no hot water and lots of brick dust.

A Little Luxury in Leamington

This time they help the Howard family from Kent, who live in a Victorian cottage which has been in the family for generations and has barely changed since it was built. The family's attempt at transforming their kitchen and sitting room have ended in disaster, and the team are drafted in to sort out the mess and create two stunning new rooms for a deserving family.

A Home for Howards

The team find themselves in Kingston-Upon-Thames with grandparents Ray and Linda. The couple have spent the last nine years bringing up their grandchildren after their mother sadly passed away. Twins Nathan and Chelsea, who are now both 14, have grown out of their toy room.

Grandad's Timewarp

The team visit Edmonton, North London, to help the Parenti family. They undertook extension and renovation work on their house four years ago, but a falling out with the builder forced dad Stephen to step in and do it himself, with semi-disastrous consequences.

Three Rooms for Three Daughters

The team visit Liz and Neil Capper, who live in a beautiful little cottage in Norfolk. It was always Neil who did the DIY and the tough jobs around the house but following several back operations he has been reduced to walking with crutches and can no longer do those difficult tasks.

Liz's Bedroom Bedlam

Compilation programme built around a day in the life of Nick Knowles. We revisit two of the great shows from the last series and see how the families are doing today. There is also the usual high quality funnies, Billy explores his talents with the English language, we learn how Julia became one of the lads and we get to go behind the scenes and witness what happens when the cameras aren't rolling.

Compilation

The Big Build - Chessington

The Big Build - Haydock

The Big Build - Mike's Home

The Big Build - Nottingham

The Big Build - Chippenham

Littlehampton

Chippenham

Aberystwyth

Durham

Cirencester

Dartford

Ottery St Mary

The team travel to Chesterfield to help Lisa and Richard Watson and their young family.

Chesterfield

The team travel to Wales to help a widower and his young daughter complete their new home.

Dolgarrog

DIY SOS is a British DIY television series made for the BBC, presented by Nick Knowles. The first episode was broadcast on 7 October 1999 and the show is still airing today. As well as being a DIY programme it also features comic relief from the cast.

The Best Seasons of DIY SOS

The Best Seasons of DIY SOS

Season 7

Season 9

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

Season 14

Season 15

Season 16

Season 17

Season 18

Season 19

Season 20

Season 21

Season 22

Season 23

Season 32