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'''Holmes on Homes''' is a Canadian television series airing on Home & Garden Television in Canada, and also on several other Alliance Atlantis networks in Canada (including BBC Canada and Life Network), as well as in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and on Discovery Home in the United States. It has been consistently the highest-rated show on the Canadian HGTV (HGTV having once claimed that an episode had gotten its highest-ever ratings), with shows airing upwards of 20 times a week at the peak of its popularity. It has won the Gemini viewer's choice award, a testament to the popularity of the show in Canada.
Originally, ''Holmes on Homes'' ran as a series of 30-minute episodes (with one one-hour special ''Whole House Disaster''), but moved to a one-hour format midway through the third season due to popular demand. Several longer specials have aired: the one-hour season finale to the first season ''Whole House Disaster'', the one-hour ''Holmes for the Holidays'' at the end of the third season, the two-hour ''House to Home'' season finale for the fourth season, the two-hour specials ''Out of the Ashes'' and ''Holmes Inspection'' in the fifth season, and the two-hour sixth-season episode ''Pasadena 911''. To date, only half-hour episodes from the first two seasons are available outside Canada, although the latest episode is available for viewing on HGTV's website[1]. As of the fall of 2006, the show is in its sixth season. In May 2006 the 60-minute length season 3 and 4 episodes are appearing in the USA on the Discovery Home channel. In Canada, the first four seasons of half-hour and hour long episodes are also available on DVD.
The show's premise revolves around general contractor Mike Holmes visiting homeowners in the Greater Toronto Area who are in need of help, mainly due to a previous less-than-impressive home renovation experience with regards to hiring professionals. The typical episode has homeowners describing their experiences with the previous contractor, including what had caused the original contractor to leave the work incomplete or with substandard work (often under Ontario building codes). Holmes would also go into detail to explain why the work he sees is substandard and needs to be replaced during the repair process. The original contractors are never named on the shows, although an episode of CBC Television's ''Marketplace'' has done investigative journalism behind a sixth-season episode and exposed the contractor alleged to have been at fault.
Typically, after beginning the repair work, Holmes and his crew of contractors often find that their small repair project has escalated into a larger one due to surprises that they find and are forced to fix; only on rare occasions have the show's crew ''not'' been forced to tear everything down and start over. However, in the end, Holmes presents the homeowners with a completely finished place, often with a few extra surprises. Throughout the rebuilding process, Holmes often comments on the professionalism of the people hired for the job or lets other contractors talk about how to build things correctly - on some occasions Holmes has vented out his frustrations in front of the camera.
Several episodes have deviated from this formula: a fourth-season episode explores the issue of mould in the household, and Holmes is brought in to investigate the matter after the homeowner had done some investigative work, a fifth-season episode saw Holmes and crew build a fence for 55 households, while a sixth-season episode saw Holmes and crew clean up and restore a house that had been rented out by the homeowner and, without the knowledge of the homeowner, turned it into a marijuana grow-op. The sixth-season ''Pasadena 911'' two-hour episode also saw Mike and senior contractor Damon Bennett travel to Los Angeles to help out a couple in need after Holmes' own appearance on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''.
Because of the show being a television series, costs for the homeowners, who are likely to be strapped for cash due to the previous contractors, are kept to a minimum (often half of the regular cost of repair). Some contractors hired on the show have even donated time, materials, and labor to help homeowners in need.
Throughout the series, Holmes also encourages viewers to be more vigilant of persons who may try to steal money through fraudulent contracting work, and gives out various pieces of advice on picking the right contractors, home inspectors, and other tradespersons. Throughout the show, Holmes and company also show what to do and what not to do in the construction industry, especially for do-it-yourself renovators.
A constant theme is skipping building permits. On most shows problem contractors have usually talked the buyers out of getting building permits. The reasons given are many: they are not required, they will just add expense with no benefit, they will expand the scope of the job to bring existing construction up to code, they alert the tax assessor to increase property taxes. While there may be some truth to some parts of this, not having permits allows the contractor to perform substandard and poor quality work. Avoid contractors that do not want to work under a building permit. A less frequent occurrence is contractors that obtain the permits, but then never schedule the inspections. Get a schedule of inspects (there can be several) and be present so you know if you contractor is building to code.
Working under a building permit usually requires using licensed tradesmen for many jobs, e.g. electrical and plumbing. While this is more expensive then having a handyman perform these jobs it will insure that the work is done correctly before it is sealed up behind walls. Mike frequently points out electrical and plumbing work hidden behind drywall that was obviously not done by a licensed contractor and would cause problem in the future.
The show is not heavily sponsored by Home Depot, although many assume it incorrectly. They do not supply trailers, tools or materials to Holmes on Homes, nor any of its contractors. Mike Holmes is a consultant for their At Home services department and that is one of the only affiliations the show has with Home Depot, aside from DVD sales. Most Canadian Home Depot stores sell DVDs of the show; as of this writing (early 2006) many Home Depots include a life-sized cardboard cutout of Mike Holmes with his arms crossed.
Holmes on Homes gets their donated materials from many other companies interested in helping the show's cause. Not all materials are donated.
Holmes originally was hired on ''Just ask Jon Eakes'', a home improvement show (also on HGTV) hosted by Jon Eakes, for some behind-the-scenes work. Mike Holmes approached the show's producers Scott Clark McNeil and Michael Quast with an idea for a new kind of home improvement show. Although submissions to be on the show were initially few and far between, with Holmes doing work on small botched jobs early on in the series, the number of submissions quickly ballooned by the show's fourth season. They are currently filming season 6 while taking submissions for Spring 2007's season 7.
Although Holmes serves as the show's host, he brings with him several other equally skilled contractors who are regulars on the series (although not in all seasons):
The current construction crew in the sixth season (with the exception of the ''Pasadena 911'' two-hour special, which uses a different Los Angeles-based crew) is as follows:
★ Damon Bennett – introduced in the fourth season of the series, Damon is the senior contractor starting in the sixth season. He is also the only series regular other than Holmes himself to be part of ''Pasadena 911''.
★ Adam Belanger – Became a series regular in the fifth season.
★ Corin Ames – Mike's apprentice beginning in the fifth season.
★ Mike Holmes Jr. – Mike's son has been seen in parts of the first four seasons, and appears as a series regular from the fifth season onwards.
★ Steve Buck – became a series regular in the sixth season.
★ Carl Pavlovic – became a series regular in the sixth season.
The following is a list of crew members who have appeared in the first five seasons:
★ Shawn Morren – Shawn was the site supervisor from the first season to the fifth season when he left the show to start his own business.
★ Benjamin Green – Benjamin ("Bengi") was Mike's senior contractor for the first four seasons of the series.
★ Desmond Hamlyn – Desmond was another contractor having appeared in the first four seasons of the series.
★ Don Carter – Don, a tile specialist, appeared for the first two seasons of the series, as well as ''Holmes for the Holidays''.
★ Micah Morren – Micah, brother to Shawn, appears in the fifth season of the series.
★ Gogi Sidhu – Gogi appeared in the fifth season of the series.
★ Brennan Cavendish – Brennan also appeared in the fifth season of the series.
★ Dan Rapa – Dan, a plumber, was introduced in the fourth season, and became a series regular in the fifth.
Several other tradespersons running their own companies also make regular appearances on the series.
Home renovation expert Jon Eakes has also appeared as a guest in one episode, and ''Handyman Superstar Challenge'' winner Jordan MacNab made a guest appearance in an episode of the sixth season.
'Season One':
# ''Additional Grief''
# ''Soggy Sorority''
# ''Botched Basement''
# ''Attica! Attica'' / ''Crappy Capping''
# ''Cold Comfort''
# ''Flimsy Floor''
# ''Kitchen Catastrophe''
# ''Window Pain''
# ''Faulty Showers''
# ''Tiles and Tribulations''
# ''Site Unseen''
# ''Sweet Home Abandoned''
# ''Whole House Disaster'' (1-hour)
'Season Two':
# ''Terrible Terrace''
# ''Drafty Ducting''
# ''Ramp Revamp''
# ''Flooded Foundation''
# ''Garage Grievance''
# ''Lamin-Ain't''
# ''Roof Goof''
# ''Floor Fiasco''
# ''Doozy Jacuzzi''
# ''No Grout About It''
# ''Access Denied''
# ''Jacking the Box''
# ''Hell's Kitchen''
'Season Three - Half-hour':
# ''Shower Stalled''
# ''Cabinet Chaos''
# ''Cold Feet''
# ''Exit Wound''
# ''All Decked Out''
# ''Step By Step''
# ''Smoke and Mirrors''
# ''Wall of Shame''
'Season Three - Full-hour':
# ''Drain Disdain''
# ''Twice Bitten''
# ''Honeymoon Ensuite''
# ''Semi-Dilemma''
# ''Wash & Weep''
# ''Holmes for the Holidays''
'Note': ''Holmes for the Holidays'' is filmed during the second production season, but considered as part of the third airing season, although it is not among HGTV's rotation due to it being a Christmas special.
'Season Four':
# ''Bungled Bungalow''
# ''Kitchen Coleslaw''
# ''Bar None''
# ''Two Steps Back''
# ''Window Well to Hell''
# ''A River Ran Through It''
# ''Best Laid Plan''
# ''Sunnyside Down''
# ''This Mould House''
# ''Hullaba Loo''
# ''Unfinished Business''
# ''House to Home'' (Two 1-hour parts)
'Season Five':
# ''House Arrest''
# ''O-fence-ive''
# ''Falling Flat''
# ''Bargain Basement''
# ''For Annie''
# ''Ceiling the Deal''
# ''Out of the Ashes'' (Two 1-hour parts)
# ''Taking a Bath''
# ''Showing the Cracks''
# ''Wall of Sound''
# ''What a Mesh''
# ''Holmes Inspection'' (Two 1-hour parts)
'Season Six':
# ''Shaky Foundation''
# ''Let's Rejoist''
# ''Completely Incomplete''
# ''Stone Walled''
# ''Gone to Pot''
# ''Pasadena 911'' (Two 1-hour parts)
★ ''Lack of Truss''
'Note': the last four episodes of the fifth production season were aired as part of the sixth airing season.
Episodes slated to air in the sixth season include:
★ ''Lien on Me'' (Two 1-hour parts)
★ Holmes on Homes Official website
★
★ Orphan Child Charity Mike Holmes helps SOS Children's Villages
Originally, ''Holmes on Homes'' ran as a series of 30-minute episodes (with one one-hour special ''Whole House Disaster''), but moved to a one-hour format midway through the third season due to popular demand. Several longer specials have aired: the one-hour season finale to the first season ''Whole House Disaster'', the one-hour ''Holmes for the Holidays'' at the end of the third season, the two-hour ''House to Home'' season finale for the fourth season, the two-hour specials ''Out of the Ashes'' and ''Holmes Inspection'' in the fifth season, and the two-hour sixth-season episode ''Pasadena 911''. To date, only half-hour episodes from the first two seasons are available outside Canada, although the latest episode is available for viewing on HGTV's website[1]. As of the fall of 2006, the show is in its sixth season. In May 2006 the 60-minute length season 3 and 4 episodes are appearing in the USA on the Discovery Home channel. In Canada, the first four seasons of half-hour and hour long episodes are also available on DVD.
| Contents |
| Premise |
| History |
| Construction crew |
| Current Crew |
| Former Crew |
| List of episodes |
| External links |
Premise
The show's premise revolves around general contractor Mike Holmes visiting homeowners in the Greater Toronto Area who are in need of help, mainly due to a previous less-than-impressive home renovation experience with regards to hiring professionals. The typical episode has homeowners describing their experiences with the previous contractor, including what had caused the original contractor to leave the work incomplete or with substandard work (often under Ontario building codes). Holmes would also go into detail to explain why the work he sees is substandard and needs to be replaced during the repair process. The original contractors are never named on the shows, although an episode of CBC Television's ''Marketplace'' has done investigative journalism behind a sixth-season episode and exposed the contractor alleged to have been at fault.
Typically, after beginning the repair work, Holmes and his crew of contractors often find that their small repair project has escalated into a larger one due to surprises that they find and are forced to fix; only on rare occasions have the show's crew ''not'' been forced to tear everything down and start over. However, in the end, Holmes presents the homeowners with a completely finished place, often with a few extra surprises. Throughout the rebuilding process, Holmes often comments on the professionalism of the people hired for the job or lets other contractors talk about how to build things correctly - on some occasions Holmes has vented out his frustrations in front of the camera.
Several episodes have deviated from this formula: a fourth-season episode explores the issue of mould in the household, and Holmes is brought in to investigate the matter after the homeowner had done some investigative work, a fifth-season episode saw Holmes and crew build a fence for 55 households, while a sixth-season episode saw Holmes and crew clean up and restore a house that had been rented out by the homeowner and, without the knowledge of the homeowner, turned it into a marijuana grow-op. The sixth-season ''Pasadena 911'' two-hour episode also saw Mike and senior contractor Damon Bennett travel to Los Angeles to help out a couple in need after Holmes' own appearance on ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''.
Because of the show being a television series, costs for the homeowners, who are likely to be strapped for cash due to the previous contractors, are kept to a minimum (often half of the regular cost of repair). Some contractors hired on the show have even donated time, materials, and labor to help homeowners in need.
Throughout the series, Holmes also encourages viewers to be more vigilant of persons who may try to steal money through fraudulent contracting work, and gives out various pieces of advice on picking the right contractors, home inspectors, and other tradespersons. Throughout the show, Holmes and company also show what to do and what not to do in the construction industry, especially for do-it-yourself renovators.
A constant theme is skipping building permits. On most shows problem contractors have usually talked the buyers out of getting building permits. The reasons given are many: they are not required, they will just add expense with no benefit, they will expand the scope of the job to bring existing construction up to code, they alert the tax assessor to increase property taxes. While there may be some truth to some parts of this, not having permits allows the contractor to perform substandard and poor quality work. Avoid contractors that do not want to work under a building permit. A less frequent occurrence is contractors that obtain the permits, but then never schedule the inspections. Get a schedule of inspects (there can be several) and be present so you know if you contractor is building to code.
Working under a building permit usually requires using licensed tradesmen for many jobs, e.g. electrical and plumbing. While this is more expensive then having a handyman perform these jobs it will insure that the work is done correctly before it is sealed up behind walls. Mike frequently points out electrical and plumbing work hidden behind drywall that was obviously not done by a licensed contractor and would cause problem in the future.
The show is not heavily sponsored by Home Depot, although many assume it incorrectly. They do not supply trailers, tools or materials to Holmes on Homes, nor any of its contractors. Mike Holmes is a consultant for their At Home services department and that is one of the only affiliations the show has with Home Depot, aside from DVD sales. Most Canadian Home Depot stores sell DVDs of the show; as of this writing (early 2006) many Home Depots include a life-sized cardboard cutout of Mike Holmes with his arms crossed.
Holmes on Homes gets their donated materials from many other companies interested in helping the show's cause. Not all materials are donated.
History
Holmes originally was hired on ''Just ask Jon Eakes'', a home improvement show (also on HGTV) hosted by Jon Eakes, for some behind-the-scenes work. Mike Holmes approached the show's producers Scott Clark McNeil and Michael Quast with an idea for a new kind of home improvement show. Although submissions to be on the show were initially few and far between, with Holmes doing work on small botched jobs early on in the series, the number of submissions quickly ballooned by the show's fourth season. They are currently filming season 6 while taking submissions for Spring 2007's season 7.
Construction crew
Although Holmes serves as the show's host, he brings with him several other equally skilled contractors who are regulars on the series (although not in all seasons):
Current Crew
The current construction crew in the sixth season (with the exception of the ''Pasadena 911'' two-hour special, which uses a different Los Angeles-based crew) is as follows:
★ Damon Bennett – introduced in the fourth season of the series, Damon is the senior contractor starting in the sixth season. He is also the only series regular other than Holmes himself to be part of ''Pasadena 911''.
★ Adam Belanger – Became a series regular in the fifth season.
★ Corin Ames – Mike's apprentice beginning in the fifth season.
★ Mike Holmes Jr. – Mike's son has been seen in parts of the first four seasons, and appears as a series regular from the fifth season onwards.
★ Steve Buck – became a series regular in the sixth season.
★ Carl Pavlovic – became a series regular in the sixth season.
Former Crew
The following is a list of crew members who have appeared in the first five seasons:
★ Shawn Morren – Shawn was the site supervisor from the first season to the fifth season when he left the show to start his own business.
★ Benjamin Green – Benjamin ("Bengi") was Mike's senior contractor for the first four seasons of the series.
★ Desmond Hamlyn – Desmond was another contractor having appeared in the first four seasons of the series.
★ Don Carter – Don, a tile specialist, appeared for the first two seasons of the series, as well as ''Holmes for the Holidays''.
★ Micah Morren – Micah, brother to Shawn, appears in the fifth season of the series.
★ Gogi Sidhu – Gogi appeared in the fifth season of the series.
★ Brennan Cavendish – Brennan also appeared in the fifth season of the series.
★ Dan Rapa – Dan, a plumber, was introduced in the fourth season, and became a series regular in the fifth.
Several other tradespersons running their own companies also make regular appearances on the series.
Home renovation expert Jon Eakes has also appeared as a guest in one episode, and ''Handyman Superstar Challenge'' winner Jordan MacNab made a guest appearance in an episode of the sixth season.
List of episodes
'Season One':
# ''Additional Grief''
# ''Soggy Sorority''
# ''Botched Basement''
# ''Attica! Attica'' / ''Crappy Capping''
# ''Cold Comfort''
# ''Flimsy Floor''
# ''Kitchen Catastrophe''
# ''Window Pain''
# ''Faulty Showers''
# ''Tiles and Tribulations''
# ''Site Unseen''
# ''Sweet Home Abandoned''
# ''Whole House Disaster'' (1-hour)
'Season Two':
# ''Terrible Terrace''
# ''Drafty Ducting''
# ''Ramp Revamp''
# ''Flooded Foundation''
# ''Garage Grievance''
# ''Lamin-Ain't''
# ''Roof Goof''
# ''Floor Fiasco''
# ''Doozy Jacuzzi''
# ''No Grout About It''
# ''Access Denied''
# ''Jacking the Box''
# ''Hell's Kitchen''
'Season Three - Half-hour':
# ''Shower Stalled''
# ''Cabinet Chaos''
# ''Cold Feet''
# ''Exit Wound''
# ''All Decked Out''
# ''Step By Step''
# ''Smoke and Mirrors''
# ''Wall of Shame''
'Season Three - Full-hour':
# ''Drain Disdain''
# ''Twice Bitten''
# ''Honeymoon Ensuite''
# ''Semi-Dilemma''
# ''Wash & Weep''
# ''Holmes for the Holidays''
'Note': ''Holmes for the Holidays'' is filmed during the second production season, but considered as part of the third airing season, although it is not among HGTV's rotation due to it being a Christmas special.
'Season Four':
# ''Bungled Bungalow''
# ''Kitchen Coleslaw''
# ''Bar None''
# ''Two Steps Back''
# ''Window Well to Hell''
# ''A River Ran Through It''
# ''Best Laid Plan''
# ''Sunnyside Down''
# ''This Mould House''
# ''Hullaba Loo''
# ''Unfinished Business''
# ''House to Home'' (Two 1-hour parts)
'Season Five':
# ''House Arrest''
# ''O-fence-ive''
# ''Falling Flat''
# ''Bargain Basement''
# ''For Annie''
# ''Ceiling the Deal''
# ''Out of the Ashes'' (Two 1-hour parts)
# ''Taking a Bath''
# ''Showing the Cracks''
# ''Wall of Sound''
# ''What a Mesh''
# ''Holmes Inspection'' (Two 1-hour parts)
'Season Six':
# ''Shaky Foundation''
# ''Let's Rejoist''
# ''Completely Incomplete''
# ''Stone Walled''
# ''Gone to Pot''
# ''Pasadena 911'' (Two 1-hour parts)
★ ''Lack of Truss''
'Note': the last four episodes of the fifth production season were aired as part of the sixth airing season.
Episodes slated to air in the sixth season include:
★ ''Lien on Me'' (Two 1-hour parts)
External links
★ Holmes on Homes Official website
★
★ Orphan Child Charity Mike Holmes helps SOS Children's Villages
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