Salvage Hunter Drew Pritchard left with 'difficult decisions' after he 'gambles the lot'

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Salvage Hunter's Drew Pritchard was well aware that his dream restoration project would be a risky venture. His worst nightmares came true when, 10 months into the rebuild and after spending £200,000, he found himself out of funds.After being denied a bridging loan and maxing out his credit cards, the TV personality had to resort to drastic measures to keep his dream afloat.

To ensure work didn't come to a standstill at his five-storey Georgian townhouse in Bath, Somerset, he had to part with some of his most prized antiques and collectibles."There's been a lot of stress, sleepless nights, a lot of worry – because I can't back out now," he reveals in the latest episode of a special Salvage Hunter series titled Georgian House Restoration. "It's not a never-ending supply of money.

You know, I don't have have a magic money tree, as they say."The five-part series on Quest channel follows Drew's journey to renovate a Grade I-listed property that was divided into five flats in the early 1970s.

Drew purchased the house for £1.5m in summer 2022, but the "botched" conversion left him and his team with a mountain of work - and there have been unforeseen hurdles along the way.