When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliets meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliets father after all. Before long hes employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.