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S2 E31 Blundering Basement

Home & Lifestyle

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21m

Feb 7, 2009

Zubin is a hard working guy who has been running between his job and his basement disaster that he’s preparing for his son. Sandra, his wife doesn’t believe Zubin is actually doing any Reno’s when he goes to the basement

Season 2, 46 Episodes

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Attack

Kitchen Attack,

Power tools cause a kitchen renovation to be a bigger job than anticipated.

Disaster DIY - Wrecked Room

Karen is fed up with her husband Robert’s attempts to fix and finish the family rec room. They have a young son who needs a safe place to play, and Robert doesn’t have the first clue about renovation.

Disaster DIY - Emergency Entrance

Emergency Entrance,

Ulrike is a DIY dynamo who single-handedly dug and built a walk up entrance to her basement. Unfortunately, she didn’t do it to code and has been shut down twice by the city building inspector.

Disaster DIY - Bathroom Blowout

Bathroom Blowout,

Scott is in deep trouble. He’s started and stalled a bathroom reno at potty-training time, and wife Catherine is furious with him. Their daughter can’t make it all the way down to the basement in time.

Disaster DIY - Pet Project

Julius is the dive-in type, and he ploughs into renovations without any foresight. His wife Angie is grateful that he’s tried to make a dog house, cat house, and garbage shed, but he’s made a complete mess of all of them

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Collapse

Kitchen Collapse,

Tony Armstrong is the king of temporary fixes. He has a large kitchen (and a large family) that needs some permanent solutions. Can Bryan help Tony learn how to do the job right, once and for all.

Disaster DIY - Plastic-Wrap Deck

Plastic-Wrap Deck,

Ed and Jocelyn want to add to their living space by closing in their deck. DIY guy Jocelyn has made a complete mess with makeshift fixes like covering it in plastic sheeting.

Disaster DIY - Bathroom Blunder

Bathroom Blunder,

Bob has a handyman father-in-law who wants Bob to do the best for his daughter, Laura. Bob doesn’t know the first thing about renovation but tried his hand at it anyway, and made a huge mess of their small bathroom.

Disaster DIY - Trailer Disaster

Trailer Disaster,

Les wants to sit and enjoy his time at his vacation home, but the deck he built out of found lumber and old pallets is falling apart and is a hazard to walk on! What was supposed to be a relaxing spot is now a headache.

Disaster DIY - Buyers Regret

Greg and Tracey have bought their first house and it’s a real fixer-upper. Greg thinks that he’s up to the task, but he’s made a real mess of his dining and living room. Can Bryan give Greg the know-how?

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Blues

Bill’s wife Joan has been reluctant to let him renovate the kitchen, because the ‘thrifty’ renovations he has done in the past were poorly done, using leftover materials, badly fitted into the space.

Disaster DIY - Bummed Out Basement

Bummed Out Basement,

22-year-old Scott promised his mother he’d renovate her basement, so he could move in and save money for a new place. He’s started, but he’s so wet behind the ears that he doesn’t know where to turn next.

Disaster DIY - Office Fallout

Office Fallout,

Mike gutted a second floor room to make it into an office, and thought it was going to be a piece of cake to fix, until two major structural problems brought him to a screaming halt.

Disaster DIY - Bedroom Breakdown

Bedroom Breakdown,

Tamara has had it with Paul’s perfectionism. He started to reno the bedroom almost a year ago, and doesn’t know what to do next, so rather than do it wrong, he’s stopped altogether.

Disaster DIY - Cracked Up Kitchen

Cracked Up Kitchen,

Bryan teaches Joe how to reno his kitchen from scratch.

Disaster DIY - Bathroom Bust

Paul is determined to finally finish the boutique bathroom his wife Heather has always wanted. But the last reno Paul did was so terrible, that she’s begging Bryan to come in and teach him how to do it right!

Disaster DIY - Space Wars

Doug and Kim have some space issues. The laundry room is in such bad need of repair that she won’t even let her three sons in there to learn how to do their own laundry. But Doug has done so much wrong...

Disaster DIY - Basement Rescue

Basement Rescue,

Paul has started to reno the basement to add some much needed space to the crowded house. His wife Lisa is concerned that he really doesn’t know how to proceed, and that he might be making some dangerous choices!

Disaster DIY - Living Dangerously

Living Dangerously,

Single dad Dan has two young daughters and is living in a messy and potentially dangerous incomplete reno. During the demolition, he had grand plans, but really doesn’t know how to put them into action.

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Catastrophe

Kitchen Catastrophe,

Donna’s husband Chris refused to fix their outdated and badly damaged kitchen, so while he was visiting home in Greece, she took matters into her own hands. She demolished the kitchen, but didn’t know what to do next.

Disaster DIY - Double Disaster

Double Disaster,

Aaron and Evadne bought a fixer-upper as their first home, and both are eager to get their hands dirty. He’s tried to reno the laundry and she’s tried to fix the basement window. They’ve both made a mess.

Disaster DIY - Shed in Shambles

Shed in Shambles,

Bill fancies himself a handyman, but his wife Joanne disagrees. She’s tried to cover his reno mistakes with decorative touches, but now that the raccoons have moved into their ramshackle shed.

Disaster DIY - Inaccessible Bath

Inaccessible Bath,

Donna wants to turn a large bedroom into a wheelchair-accessible bathroom for her son Wesley, but she’s running out of resources and know-how. Bryan will teach her how to make the room safe and accessible.

Disaster DIY - Vile Verandah

Tremayne is trying to fill his dad’s shoes and fix the verandah on their historic century home. But so much has gone wrong that Bryan will have to come in and teach him how to start fresh.

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Confusion

Kitchen Confusion,

Kim fancies herself a chef, and David wants to make her a kitchen she can really cook in. But he’s gotten off to a terrible start and flooded their kitchen with cement! Bryan will rein him in and start him off right.

Disaster DIY - Easy Bein' Green

Easy Bein' Green,

Amy and Alex are trying to go green. She has terrible allergies, and he doesn’t want to waste a thing, so Bryan will teach them that it’s easy to be green when doing a basement reno.

Disaster DIY - Kitchen Calamity

Kitchen Calamity,

Cee has been shoving paper Mache into her walls in her kitchen to attempt to hold it together, while partner Sue questions the sturdiness of Cee’s creative Reno’s.

Disaster DIY - Tiling Crackdown

Tiling Crackdown,

Nicole has called on Bryan to help. Her mother Bernice has been dry fitting tiles and wrapping the shower in cellophane as she attempted to do it all herself over the last two years.

Disaster DIY - Bathroom Boundaries

Bathroom Boundaries,

Karen and Steph are newly weds and have recently moved into the basement of Steph’s mother. In order to get some privacy, Steph tried to build a bathroom in their apartment.

Disaster DIY - Hair Raising Reno

Hair Raising Reno,

Frank bought a new house and convinced his wife Andrea that if they moved in with his parents, he could finish the house in two weeks. It’s been six months and all Frank has managed to do is gut the entire house and put down some sub floor…

Disaster DIY - Blundering Basement

Blundering Basement,

Zubin is a hard working guy who has been running between his job and his basement disaster that he’s preparing for his son. Sandra, his wife doesn’t believe Zubin is actually doing any Reno’s when he goes to the basement

Disaster DIY - Hair Raising Reno

Hair Raising Reno,

Clifton and Caroline have seven children and in an effort to help makes ends meet, Clifton built a hair salon for Caroline in the house. The trouble is Clifton is clueless when it comes to home renovation.

Disaster DIY - Kitchen in Chaos

Kitchen in Chaos,

David is a scrambled guy. He has started renovations all over the house and never finished them. His wife Marika has finally had enough after he messed with her kitchen.

Disaster DIY - Disaster Dude

Stacey a Buddha master of calm, has had a meditative vision of her husband Kevin finishing the rec-room in their basement. Kevyn on the other hand has a vision of himself being handy, but this vision is far from reality.

Disaster DIY - Mudding Muddle

Mudding Muddle,

Marcello’s patience like his espresso is running short. His partner David convinced him to move out of his nice clean condo and into this money pit. He assured Marcello that he could finish the house in a two months.

Disaster DIY - The Elephant

Tony wanted a 70inch television in the basement. To get this, he had to knock down the bathroom and move it into the laundry room. His wife Janice is furious because now she has no bathroom and no laundry room.

Disaster DIY - Bumbling Benny

Bumbling Benny,

Benny is spending too much time on the yoga mat while his young family struggles to maneuver around his makeshift shed in the backyard. He wanted to build a storage shed and the monstrosity had to be torn down.

Disaster DIY - Gravel

Mark has improperly pieced together his basement; use of the wrong materials and misuse of the right ones has pushed his wife Maryse over the edge. So Maryse calls Bryan to comes in to give Mark a crash course.

Disaster DIY - Humane Society

Humane Society,

The Oakville Humane Society is about to burst at the seams! This facility was meant to house 150 animals, but they currently have 400. With little money to repair the aging building, they need Bryan's help.

Disaster DIY - Small Vision Kitchen

Small Vision Kitchen,

Brian’s self proclaimed laziness has left him and his wife Miki with a constructions site for a Kitchen. Miki can’t cook (which she loves) and Brian can’t eat her cooking (which he loves).

Disaster DIY - Bathroom Reborn

Bathroom Reborn,

Graham has half done half of the bathroom and Heather has lost all her patients. Lose tiles and lack of direction has left her without relief. Can Bryan show Graham the way to fully refinish his bathroom?

Disaster DIY - Diamond in the Rough

Diamond in the Rough,

Steve has promised Leslie a finished laundry room in the basement and not followed through. The lack of progress has made Leslie put her hopes out to dry. Will Bryan help Steve complete the job?

Disaster DIY - Finally Finishing

Finally Finishing,

Justin needs no help starting the job, it’s the finishing that has escaped him. Holes in the floor, exposed heating ducts and a partially exposed brick wall are driving his wife Rachel crazy.

Disaster DIY - Family Dreams Come True Pt.1

Family Dreams Come True Pt.1,

David Paquette has found himself and his 5 children living in a structurally compromised house. With no hot water and only a woodstove for heat Andrew Hamilton and the Local community reach out for the Bryan's help.

Disaster DIY - Family Dreams Come True Pt.2

Family Dreams Come True Pt.2,

Part two of providing David Paquette and his 5 children with a dream home.

Disaster DIY - Backyard Blues

Backyard Blues,

Fran’s back yard and pool have fallen on the wayside. A rickety fence, a shamble of a shed and putty filled cracks in the pool deck have left her kids Melissa and Michael pleading with her to get help.

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Disaster DIY

Home & Lifestyle

G

2 Seasons

21m

Brian comes to the rescue of homeowner's with renovation disasters.

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