Self-proclaimed 'unhandy' Robert tried to surprise his partner and cottage owner, Rose, by finishing the sunroom but leaving a disaster in his wake instead.
Jerry has a rule at the cottage: only four hours of work a weekend. The trouble is much to wife Kathy's dismay, many projects get started but very few actually get finished.
Melissa and her friend Lorraine got in way over her heads with a DIY window project researched online and soon called in the Reno My Reno team for some reinforcements.
Rob and Karen bought their dream property from a couple who were heavy smokers, but they didn't anticipate the smell of smoke would be next to impossible to remove.
Todd and Marie were blindsided by a flood that destroyed carpets and paneling, leading to three years of stalled projects.
When brother and sister duo Brad and Lindsay bought their lakefront property their goal was to live there full time. That is, until Brad gutted the place and the project stalled.
Val and Shelley's weekend retreat was as crooked as they come. And when Val decided to lift the cottage to level it, his attempt to fix the problem only made things worse resulting in a crooked door and a torn-up porch.
Ross bought this property years ago as a party pad for him and his friends. Poor heat flow resulted in Ross' attempt to fix it with a shoddy reno that just made things worse.
David and Judy saw the potential in this fixer-upper. Despite David's lack of reno know-how, he decided to dive right into Judy's number one project on the to-do list: raising the ceiling.
Garry's lack of DIY know-how resulted in cobbled together framing, spray foam oozing out of every cavity and a living space that resembled a lumber yard.
Dave and the Reno My Reno team step up to teach Rami the proper way to build stairs and turn his disaster deck into a stunning outdoor space.
For over fifteen years, Guy has been using the bunkie as a storage space for wood, tools, vehicles and a lot of unusable cottage junk and his wife Suzanne is tired of him using the guesthouse as a man-cave junk depot.
Kevin considers himself somewhat handy, but you wouldn't know by the look of the cottage basement.