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- Holmes on Homes is a Canadian television series featuring general contractor Mike Holmes visiting homeowners who are in need of help, mainly due to unsatisfactory home renovations performed by hired contractors.
- Homes in need of repair and often substandard work done by fraudulent or poor-quality contractors. The focus of Holmes Inspection is on homeowners who have been victimized solely as a result of poor home inspections.
- Follows Mike Holmes, his daughter Sherry, and son Michael in their most heart-warming and moving series yet.
- Mike Holmes is back and better than ever. Fan favorite episodes of his top- rated series, 'Holmes Makes It Right' have been Re-Tooled, as Mike takes a deeper dive into construction issues with his characteristic no nonsense attitude and unrivaled skill set. Mike gives viewers even more valuable and pragmatic takeaway as well as never before seen footage. Still opinionated. Always informative. Surprisingly candid.
- Mike is called in to help Angela and her family figure out why their house is so cold since they had an addition built.
- Jenny and Allan hired a contractor to create a wheelchair accessible bedroom and bathroom for their developmentally challenged son. To finance the addition to their house Jenny and Allan applied to some charities including President's Choice Children's charities. The contractor that came recommended to the couple soon became hostile to the point where Allan had to throw him out of the house. Now Mike Holmes and his crew are put in charge of completing the task that the first contractor failed to complete.
- Rosy and her family hired a contractor to finish their kitchen and bathroom, but he under quoted them and kept demanding more and more money in order to finish the job. After running out of cash and patience, they stopped the job and were left with an unusable, barren kitchen for five months. Mike Holmes and his crew undo the small amount of work that the contractor had done, and build Rosy and her family the beautiful, functional kitchen they had waited so long for.
- Sian hired a contractor to pour a new foundation around the perimeter of her house but the wall was too small for the size of the house. So, the upper part of the house now overhangs over the foundation. Mike Holmes arrives to shore up Sian's house and give her a safe, warm basement.
- 2001–2009TV EpisodeRon and Jill hired a contractor to renovate their house and turning it into a two storrey house but after the shoddy work that the contractor did and failing to get the inspections done for the structure, the plumbing, and the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) the couple decided to call the police on the contractor but because the previous contractor had done work on the house it's become a civil litigation. Ron and Jill have contacted Mike Holmes and his crew to finish the work and get it inspected and bring Ron, Jill, and their children home.
- 2001–2009TV EpisodeAfter a personal issue Jim and Lisa decided to renovate their basement and turn it into a livable space with a fireplace, bar, and a recreation room all for $15,000. After they gave the contractor several chances to be honest with them Jim and Lisa suddenly realized that they man they had thought was their friend couldn't finish their basement for the amount of money that he charged. Lisa wrote to Mike Holmes to see if he and his crew were talented enough to give them the basement that they wanted in the first place.
- 2001–2009TV EpisodeBill and Marie brought a house and decided to do renovations but after being out of their home for almost a year and shabby work Bill and Marie's daughter Sara wrote to Mike to get her parents into their house.
- Alessandra and Max bought a house that was "turn key" according to a real-estate brochure. But after they got engaged, Max started noticing hairline cracks in between the island and the kitchen wall, and a crack in the bathroom tiles around the shower stall upstairs. A first home inspector told them that the crack in the kitchen ceiling was purely cosmetic and that a little plaster and paint would fix it. After being told that they shouldn't use the bathroom they called in Mike, Shawn, Ben, and Desmond to tear apart their kitchen and bathroom. After they tear apart the kitchen ceiling Mike etal find the source of the leak is coming from the drain in the bathtub upstairs and find that the woman who owned the house prior hired contractors who cut corners, fed knob and tube electrical; and no venting in the plumbing to keep sewer gases from backing up into the house, now Mike and his crew have to source out the problems, fix them and give Alessandra and Max what they should have had in the first place.
- Barb wanted to surprise her son with a basement bathroom and exercise room so she hired a friend's son. But after delays, shoddy workmanship and excuses she threw them out and hired Mike to complete the job.
- Jayson and Tammy thought they had hired a person who could over see the renovation of their front stairs. After hiring the contractor who sold them the job weird people started showing up at their house, who dismantled the front porch without any permits, who stalled them until the warranty was up. The contractor who sold them the job returned and said that he wasn't going to refund their money. At a loss at what to do Jayson and Tammy decided to hire Mike Holmes and his crew to dismantle their front porch and give them the porch that they should have had right from the start. Mike then saw very shoddy looking dormers on their roof. which Jayson suspects were installed after they moved in to make the house look bigger than it was, and poorly installed siding along their windows; that was installed widthwise instead of lengthwise. Mike decided to fix everything about the house that was wrong and give Jayson and Tammy a completed outside to their house.
- Don bought a 120 year old townhouse so that he could get out of the condo lifestyle and have a place for his dog Parker to go out. Don decided that he wanted to renovate the kitchen and bring it into the middle of the house so he hired a contractor, who turned out to be a glass installer who did renovations on the side. After Don started to notice things that didn't seem quite right he decided to sever his ties with the contractor and hire Mike Holmes and his crew to finish the kitchen renovation that the other contractor was inexperienced at doing.
- 2001–2009TV EpisodeOlivia hired a contractor to turn her basement into a livable area of her house so that her daughter and grandchildren could live with her in a nicer neighborhood. After she caught the contractor sleeping on the job she knew that she had to let the man go. Now with botched electrical work, very shoddy plumbing, and no steel lintels above the windows Olivia had no choice but to hire Mike Holmes and his crew to redo everything that the previous contractor seemed incapable of doing.
- A couple falls for a too-good-to-be true price on a backyard construction project; Mike takes a deep dive into hiring the right contractor for the job, setting up a proper payment schedule and explaining the benefits of retaining walls.
- Mike Holmes helps a couple pick up the pieces after getting conned out of $300,000 by a contractor friend who has conned millions from other families; Mike reflects on the project while taking a closer look at construction issues.
- Mike Holmes helps an overwhelmed woman finish a small cottage conversion after her mother sinks her life savings into the project and suffers a medical emergency; Mike talks about construction contracts, tempered glass and water leaks.
- Mike Holmes comes to the rescue of a couple who were scammed out of their money by a contractor; Mike takes a deep dive into the benefits of tile underlayment, how to tell if a contractor is cutting corners and the value of a quality range hood.