Holmes Makes it Right
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Holmes Makes it Right is a 2012 Canadian home renovation series on HGTV[1], hosted by general contractor Mike Holmes; DIY Network aired the series in the United States[2]. It is the fourth Holmes series, following Holmes on Homes, Holmes in New Orleans, and Holmes Inspection[3]. Similar to previous series, Mike and his Holmes Crew tackle complex construction projects, in order to abide by his motto of "Make it Right".
Unlike previous series, which focus on substandard work done by other contractors (as in Holmes on Homes) or deficiencies overlooked by home inspectors (as in Holmes Inspection), the show focuses on homeowners and communities that may have had a life-changing event that affected their construction timelines.
In 2019, select episodes of the series were remade into a new series, Holmes Makes it Right: Retooled. This series provides additional context and contains unused footage from the original series.
Crew
Much of the crew from Holmes Inspection return for this series, though there are a number of new crew members as well as others who departed over the course of the series.
- Damon Bennett is the longtime crew chief of the Holmes Crew, having been on the Holmes Crew since season 4 of Holmes on Homes. He departs the Holmes Crew partway through the second season to start his own company.
- Adam Belanger is another longtime crew member, having been on the Holmes Crew since season 5 of Holmes on Homes. At the time, he was also the husband to Mike's oldest daughter, and father to Mike's oldest grandchild.
- Carl "Carlito" Pavlovic" is another longtime crew member, having been on the Holmes Crew since season 5 of Holmes on Homes. He is the second most experienced member of the Holmes Crew after Damon, and shares crew chief duties with Adam following Damon's departure from the Holmes Crew.
- Mike Holmes Jr. is the youngest child of Mike, and is working towards his carpentry Red Seal certification. Having been on the crew since season 5 of Holmes on Homes, he gets his first experience as a crew chief late in the series.
- Sherry Holmes is the middle child of Mike, having joined the Holmes Crew on Holmes in New Orleans on the pretense of an opportunity to travel, but finding her passion in following the family business along the way.
- Nichole Faucher is another member of the Holmes Crew, having joined in season 2 of Holmes Inspection.
- Rob Brown is another member of the Holmes Crew, having joined in season 2 of Holmes Inspection, leaving after only a few episodes.
- Evan Jatou is another member of the Holmes Crew, having joined in season 2 of Holmes Inspection, leaving after only a few episodes. He comes from a bricklaying and masonry background, but has since diversified into other trades as well.
- Derek Ullman is a new member of the Holmes Crew. The best friend of Mike Jr., he is accomplished in masonry.
- Blake Steed is a framer from a company that was hired in the second episode of the series, but ended up joining the Holmes Crew shortly afterward.
- Tommy "Toast" Quesnel is a new crew member for the first season of this series.
- Tyler Stenson is a new crew member for this series.
- Glen Coyle is an ex-military man who joined the Holmes Crew in the final episode of the first season after a trial period.
- John Kendall is another member of the Holmes Crew in the final episode of the first season after a trial period.
- Andrew Evans is an experienced renovator and tattoo artist who was part of the Holmes Crew for the second season.
Episodes
Season 1
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| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "A Case of Shingles" | October 16, 2012 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a semi-detached home whose roof has started to have persistent leaks and ice dams. With the homeowners' daughter being the owner of the adjoining house, the Holmes Crew remodel the roof of both homes so that the roof will no longer be an issue for the family. | ||||
| 2 | 2 | "Building Castles" | October 23, 2012 | |
| When a case of arson destroys part of the Jamie Bell High Park Adventure Playground in Toronto's High Park[4], the Holmes Crew, alongside landscape architect Janet Rosenberg and an army of contractors, firefighters, and other volunteers, help build a better playground in its place.[5] | ||||
| 3 | 3 | "Ventilation Blues" | October 30, 2012 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a recently renovated home whose bathroom is falling apart, and whose kitchen floor is severely unlevel, and for which the HVAC and plumbing installations have severely compromised the structural integrity of the home. | ||||
| "Caught in a Trap" | November 6, 2012 | |||
| November 13, 2012 | ||||
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a home undergoing an addition that went completely off the rails after initial demolition work had been completed. Exacerbating the issue was that the a rainstorm had damaged the homeowners' belongings, leaving them with an uninhabitable home, forcing the family to live in a tiny condo while their home laid abandoned. | ||||
| 6 | 6 | "Urea Got Me" | November 20, 2012 | |
| When a pair of homeowners were notified that an insulation installer they had hired had injected toxic urea-formaldehyde insulation, a substance banned in Canada for decades, into their home, they fear for the health and safety of their child. While the Holmes Crew tries to repair this mistake, they subsequently discover a completely moulded out basement that is a more pressing health and safety issue to their child. | ||||
| 7 | 7 | "If the Shoe Fits" | November 27, 2012 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a teacher who was victimized by a hit-and-run attack outside of their home. While he is on the road to recovery, the Holmes Crew remodel their backyard and basement so that he can enjoy the comforts of home. Boxing legend George Chuvalo makes a guest appearance. | ||||
| 8 | 8 | "Title Fight" | December 4, 2012 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to help new homeowners who, upon discovering issues made by previous homeowners that severely compromise the structure of their home, are embroiled in a dispute with their title insurance providers and the local government in an effort to get their issues fixed: apparently, this defective work had passed inspection in the past. While reconstruction is going on, the homeowners give birth to a child, and separately employ one of Mike's regular subcontractors to install a new HVAC system. | ||||
| 9 | 9 | "Money for Nothing" | December 11, 2012 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive in St. Catharine's, Ontario to help out homeowners who hired a company called "All Canadian Kitchens", who claimed they could renovate their kitchen for $14,000 based on a newspaper advertisement. However, it seems that this was part of an overall fraudulent scheme to extract money from homeowners[6]; while the original contractor had since been arrested, and is facing justice[7], the Holmes Crew proceed to give the homeowners a kitchen worthy of the advertisements they saw. | ||||
| 10 | 10 | "Labor of Love" | April 16, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the Brampton, Ontario home of Gene Odulio, a high school football player who passed away after collapsing on the field at a game[8][9]. His football coach, also a shop teacher, had intended to help remodel Gene's family basement, but issues discovered along the way forces him to call the Holmes Crew for help. The Holmes Crew are joined by a group of students comprising of both football players and shop class students eager to give Gene a final tribute. | ||||
| 11 | 11 | "Breaking Through" | April 23, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a deaf homeowner who had attempted to remodel her bathroom as part of a DIY effort with help from friends and family, but encountered unexpected issues requiring professional help that has left her without a bathroom for five months. Nancie, a homeowner from a Holmes on Homes episode who works as a sign language interpreter, assists with bridging the communication gap between the homeowner and the Holmes Crew. | ||||
| 12 | 12 | "A Lift Up" | April 30, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a family with a daughter who has cerebral palsy, and a poorly-designed and non-functional wheelchair lift that has become an obstacle in making the home usable for their daughter. | ||||
| 13 | 13 | "Over Their Heads" | May 7, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to fix a home where a $10 error with improper staples has resulted in a $10,000 roof repair, in addition to a number of structural issues and overloaded electrical circuits made by a previous contractor. | ||||
| 14 | 14 | "Mystery Staircase" | May 14, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to investigate a home that contains an attic space that appears to have a staircase leading into the house, but no way to reach it from within. | ||||
| 15 | 15 | "Building Hope" | August 27, 2013 | |
| When the homeowner encounters health issues in the midst of renovating her home, the homeowner's daughter calls upon the Holmes Crew to help lead the project to completion. | ||||
| 16 | 16 | "Starting Again" | September 3, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to help a man whose father had sealed the bedroom he and his wife shared ever since his wife passed away, and as a result has fallen into disrepair. | ||||
| 17 | 17 | "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" | September 10, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to help a homeowner who hired their next-door neighbour to complete a renovation, only for that work to be incomplete, creating animosity between the two neighbours. | ||||
| 18 | 18 | "Log Jam" | September 17, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to help a military man complete their forever home for his family, but for now can't enjoy it due to being deployed abroad. | ||||
Holmes Makes it Right: Retooled - Season 1
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
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| 19 | 1 | "House Sandwich" | September 24, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a home with a leaky basement, for which the homeowners attribute to the presence of neighbouring houses on either side that had, since their construction, caused the grading of the yard to come into their basement. However, what they find is that there are other factors in play, and the presence of neighbours is only a small contributing factor to the issues that need to be fixed. | ||||
| 20 | 2 | "Below Board" | October 1, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a volunteer firefighter who, after a rainstorm, discovered that their family home's exterior walls are slowly rotting way. The root cause of the issue was the poor quality of the home's windows and doors, and the improper installation of the home's exterior materials. The homeowner also personally assists in the reconstruction effort, after admitting to the Holmes Crew to certain mistakes in trying to re-face the home's existing deck. | ||||
| 21 | 3 | "5 Years Old" | October 8, 2013 | |
| The homeowners were under the impression that a new home would be free of defects, and any that they do encounter would be covered by Ontario's new home warranty program. When defects were found, the home builder managed to stall out the homeowners long enough so that the coverage provided by the warranty program would expire, allowing the builder to absolve themselves of all responsibility. The Holmes Crew arrive to provide the repairs that the homeowners should have had, guaranteeing their work for a period of time far longer than what the new home warranty program could provide. | ||||
| 22 | 4 | "Broken Record" | October 15, 2013 | |
| A couple finds themselves victims of Charlesworth Carter, a contractor with a reputation of defrauding homeowners who has been repeatedly jailed and, at the time of filming, has an outstanding warrant for his arrest [10][11]. The Holmes Crew arrive to give them the kitchen that the homeowners should have had in the first place. | ||||
| 23 | 5 | "Hoofed Roof" | October 22, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at Sunset Farms, where a barn had a recently shingled roof that is now falling apart and threatening the health and the well-being of the horses stabled inside. The Holmes Crew are assisted by concerned neighbors who are themselves experienced stablehands, who are tasked with the safety and well-being of the horses while the barn is being repaired. | ||||
| 24 | 6 | "High Water" | October 29, 2013 | |
| Following the 2013 Alberta floods, Mike arrives in High River, Alberta, to lend his expertise in the rebuilding effort.[12] The episode follows the Rotheisler family, owners of a Holmes-approved home, built by Legacy Homes, a Calgary-based builder who builds homes to Mike's high standards, as they rebuild the basement to their home. This is the first episode on any Holmes show to have no Holmes Crew members appear. | ||||
| 25 | 7 | "A Tear in the Fabric" | November 5, 2013 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to repair the roof deck of a townhouse after it was discovered that water was pooling on the deck and was not properly draining, only to discover that the original contractor had compromised the waterproofing of the deck in attempting to make repairs, causing leaks all over the house following a rainstorm. This episode is the first episode to have one of Mike's grandchildren, Wyatt, appear, when his father brings him to visit the jobsite. | ||||
| 26 | 8 | "Here in Spirit" | August 26, 2014 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a home where one of the homeowners recently passed away, with a surviving homeowner suspecting that a buildup of deadly mold in their attic may have been the cause. The efforts to find the mold and remove it if it exists is made harder by the fact that the adjoining home in their semi-detached residence has long been abandoned. | ||||
| "5 Alarm Chili" | September 2, 2014 | |||
| September 9, 2014 | ||||
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a home ravaged by fire, and learn that the homeowner and several guests, among them a baby, was barely able to escape alive after a deliberate arson attack on their home. The insurance company was quick to pressure the homeowner to have one of their preferred contractors to restore her home, but this only raised suspicion as to whether they were acting with the homeowner's interests in mind when they insist on covering up rather than removing the evidence of fire damage. | ||||
| 29 | 11 | "Lawn and Order" | September 16, 2014 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive a home near where Mike resides, and find homeowners who want to extend their existing deck into their backyard, only to end up with a flimsy deck and retaining walls inappropriate to hold back the earth and accommodate the massive changes in elevation on their property. | ||||
| 30 | 12 | "Great Wall of Crap" | September 23, 2014 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at a home with a retaining wall separating their home from their neighbour. The wall is on the verge of failure, and in the process of replacing it, the original contractor had started to deviate from plans drafted by an engineer, including having the base of the wall above the grade of their neighbour's property. When the engineer inspected the work done by the original contractor and claiming that it was the worst job he had seen, the contractor angrily walked off the jobsite, unwilling to tear down the work and start over. Complicating matters was that the original plans called for a fence to be installed taller than what local bylaws allowed. | ||||
| 31 | 13 | "Flood Suckers" | September 30, 2014 | |
| After a torrential downpour in Toronto causes extensive water damage to basements across the city, the Holmes Crew arrive at a home where the homeowner's son, himself an aspiring tradesman who has competed in WorldSkills sanctioned competitions in bricklaying, ended up doing more work than those that were hired to clean out their damaged basement. The Holmes Crew is especially motivated to restore a carpentry workshop in the basement where the homeowner's father had spent a lot of time with his grandson, teaching him many of the skills he knows. | ||||
| "Another Storey" | October 7, 2014 | |||
| October 14, 2014 | ||||
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a couple whose second story addition plans had been derailed due to a contractor who took advantage of their generosity. Upon further inspection, the structural integrity of the addition was so compromised, and the cost to repair so expensive, that Mike makes the unprecedented move of offering to buy out the homeowners so that they can recoup their losses. Ultimately, however, the homeowners choose to have the home restored. This two-part episode is dedicated to the memory of Craig Lowe, a painter who was among Mike's trusted subcontractors ever since the beginning of Holmes on Homes; these were the last episodes he appears before his untimely passing in a scuba accident in Nova Scotia.[13] | ||||
| 34 | 16 | "Investment Gate" | October 28, 2014 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive at the home of a pair of police officers who found themselves victims to a complex and elaborate contractor scam, defrauding families out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. With the original contractor having committed suicide, the Holmes Crew fix the family's damaged basement so that they can feel some sense of restitution. | ||||
| 35 | 17 | "To Mike, From Aggie" | October 28, 2014 | |
| When Mike finds a letter addressed to him in his mail from a woman in need acting on behalf of her daughter-in-law, he leads the Holmes Crew to fix the kitchen of the latter's tiny home. | ||||
| 36 | 18 | "Walk the Planks" | November 4, 2014 | |
| The Holmes Crew arrive to help homeowners who discover that their second storey deck is on the verge of collapse due to rotting wood, and none of the prospective contractors they sought out fully understood their plight. | ||||
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Holmes Makes it Right: Retooled - Season 2
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Building Hope" | April 23, 2019 |
| 2 | 2 | "Lawn and Order" | April 9, 2019 |
| 3 | 3 | "Investment Gate" | April 16, 2019 |
| 4 | 4 | "Flood Suckers" | May 21, 2019 |
| 5 | 5 | "Great Wall of Crap" | May 10, 2019 |
| 6 | 6 | "Urea Got Me" | May 28, 2019 |
| 7 | 7 | "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" | June 4, 2019 |
| 8 | 8 | "House Sandwich" | June 18, 2019 |
| 9 | 9 | "Log Jam" | May 14, 2019 |
| 10 | 10 | "Money for Nothing" | June 25, 2019 |
| 11 | 11 | "Broken Record" | April 30, 2019 |
| 12 | 12 | "To Mike, From Aggie" | May 7, 2019 |
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References
- ↑ Holmes ‘Makes it Right’ with new TV series, The Canadian Press, October 16, 2012.
- ↑ DIY Network Launches U.S. Premiere of Mike Holmes New Series "Holmes Makes It Right" on Tuesday, August 6, DIY Network press release, July 15, 2013
- ↑ When Disaster Strikes, Holmes Makes It Right, Canada NewsWire, September 10, 2012.
- ↑ Man arrested after High Park playground fire, CBC News, March 24, 2012
- ↑ Mike Holmes to help rebuild High Park playground, CBC News, May 18, 2012
- ↑ Kitchen reno complainant calls Mike Holmes, St. Catharine's Standard, December 10, 2012
- ↑ Kitchen accused had ‘scheme to scam’ from start to finish, Niagara This Week, August 24, 2013
- ↑ Brampton teen dies after collapsing during football game, Toronto Star, September 10, 2012
- ↑ Brampton teen dies after collapsing during football game, Toronto Sun, September 10, 2012
- ↑ Charlesworth K. Carter: Serial bad Toronto contractor sentenced to 90 days in jail, Toronto Star, June 25, 2012
- ↑ Convicted contractor facing jail, probation, restitution of $23K to three consumers, Inside Halton, February 26, 2015
- ↑ Flooded High River home profiled on special episode of Holmes Makes it Right, Calgary Herald, October 27, 2013.
- ↑ Holmes on Homes painter dies while scuba diving, Toronto Sun, August 3, 2014.
External links
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date |
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| 13 | 1 | "Over Their Heads" | April 28, 2021 |
| 14 | 2 | "Ventilation Blues" | May 5, 2021 |
| 15 | 3 | "5 Years Old" | May 12, 2021 |
| 16 | 4 | "Walk the Planks" | May 19, 2021 |
| 17 | 5 | "Breaking Through" | May 26, 2021 |
| 18 | 6 | "5 Alarm Chili" | June 2, 2021 |
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