The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades Lockdown DIY Show

We’re always interested in people who commit to keeping the ‘old ways’ alive, artisan craftspeople who have a passion for skills from yesteryear. There’s something about hand-crafted, bespoke, unique things made with sometimes ancient techniques that modern production and technology just can’t replicate.

Such is the case with BBC1’s The Repair Shop, where each week a team of experts at The Weald and Downland Living Museum, just outside Chichester, take the ‘unfixable’ treasured possessions and restore them for the owners. One of the experts is 50-year-old furniture restorer Jay Blades, who has a new show for DIYers.

“We’re on to a winner – you heard it here first,” said Jay, who believes his new Home Fix series will run and run. “This series taps into our worker bee mentality, that desire to do jobs around the house and garden.”

The show, which airs on weekdays on BBC1 and sees Jay fix up old objects, create new ones and share his cheats for replicating household products, reconnects us with a golden era before mass consumerism and landfills full of broken TVs

“We’re looking back fondly to a time when we fixed stuff rather than chucked it away, getting items out the loft to repair them, instead of buying new. “It’s a return to the days of our parents, to the Second World War and the 50s – the make-do-and-mend era.”

In recent episodes, he has shared his recipes for furniture polish, and a solution to clean the fridge using apple cider vinegar and peppermint oil.

As well as Jay’s clever tips and advice, there will be archive footage from gardening expert Monty Don, and Sarah Moore, presenter of BBC1’s Money For Nothing. Jay Blades’ Home Fix is at 10 am, weekdays on BBC1

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