article_snippet.sent: When builders walked out, builders only had tarpaulin protecting the house throughout winter,' Gaby explains on Channel 5 show Britain's Horror Homes. '
article_snippet.sent: For six months, the family were forced to live in one room of the house as the family couldn't afford to get the problems fixed straight away, having already shelled out to the cowboy builders who left the family in the lurch.
article_snippet.sent: the cowboy builders who left them in the lurch left the family with no roof and just tarpaulin protecting the house from the winter elements.
article_snippet.sent: When The parents sprung a small leak in part of the roof, The parents called in a builder who recommended The parents re-tile the roof at a cost of about £3,000.
article_snippet.sent: But after removing all the tiles, that then told The parents that the roof structure was unsound so that wouldn't be able to re-tile.
article_snippet.sent: A back view of the property shows how the garden was left looking like a rubbish tip while the house had no roof.
article_snippet.sent: The family had to live in one room for six months as The family couldn't afford the repairs .
article_snippet.sent: We were left with a roof no longer salvageable.'
article_snippet.sent: The collapse of a roof no longer salvageable left The collapse of the roof home filled with rubble .
article_snippet.sent: With the tiles gone, the family were left with bare rafters and no protection from the elements .
highlights_snippet.sent: Parents Phillip and Gaby Beckle-Raymond discovered a leak in roof .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Family had to live in one room for six months as home had no roof .
  