From Broadcasting to Building: Sam Pinkham’s Construction Journey

So have you had any involvement in construction and the building trade prior to co-founding SHAC Gr- SHAC Group with, uh, Simon Pont?

Um, so I, I'd restored 16 houses myself-

Wow

... um, because radio, as you know, doesn't take up all your day.

Mm.

So if we were on the radio or TV for two or three hours, I had the rest of the day.

And I loved, I love property.

I loved res- restoration.

Um, so my first house was a, um, three-bed ex-council house in Northampton.

I bought it for 18 grand.

Uh, res- I've still got that, funnily enough.

Amazing.

I restored it, and then I remortgaged that and bought...

So I did 15 of them and restored m- did most of the work myself but brought in the trades when I needed qualified people, the sparkies-

Yes

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the plumbers.

Um, but I did all the labor myself to save, to save the pennies.

And so I've always had an interest but was never a...

I've, I'm not a qualified trade.

So what, what was the reason for keeping your very first house?

Because I bought it for 18,000.

Yeah.

When I re...

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