How a domestic abuse safe house gets built

How a safe house for survivors of domestic abuse is built.

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00:00It's a great feeling because, you know, if you're making a house for somebody

00:03and everyone has the right to feel safe in their own home,

00:05so it's a great feeling to know that you're doing this and having an effect on somebody else.

00:14You start with your foundations, then your walls go up, you get to your joist level,

00:18your first floor walls then go up again, your roof trusses would then go on,

00:22your windows, and you'd then be working internally, so you'd then go through your pre-plaster.

00:27So all your pipe work, your electrics, your stud walls go up,

00:31you plaster the house and then it's painted, the doors go in, the sanctuary goes in,

00:35the kitchen goes in, and stuff like that.

00:37And when this house is finished, it will be fitted with all sorts of security.

00:41And then it comes with CCTV alarms, and you've got arson-proof letter plates,

00:46you've got security chains on the door,

00:48all sorts of extra security features, obviously, for the safeguarding.

00:52I think the Brick by Brick campaign is really important,

00:55not just for myself and everybody that's included in this development,

00:58the survivors of domestic abuse, and they've got children and things like that.

01:02It's just great to know that you're doing something for them,

01:05because there are obviously hundreds and thousands of people out there

01:08who are probably suffering with things like this.