| Episode # |
Title
& description
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| 1
( Season I )
|
Miss Scarlett
in the Basement: Investigating drainage, gutters, basement leaks;
Repairing drainage boo-boos around your home. |
| 2 |
Lights, Camera,
Action: Replacing a frayed old lamp cord, and repairing plugs
that are downright dangerous or have already melted. |
| 3 |
Plumbed Out:
Fixing a drippy faucet and replacing a corroded old showerhead with
a low-flow model. |
| 4 |
O
Holey Blight: Patching potholes and replacing mummified window
putty; arcane secrets of the pros. |
| 5 |
Caulk
Around the Clock: Everything you'll ever want to know about
caulk. The subject is inexhaustible. |
| 6 |
Door
#1 for 500 Please.. Installing a pet door for Fur-face
and fixing a cranky sliding door. |
| 7 |
Hangups:
Solving the riddle of the elusive stud. Also, using wall anchors
and hanging a wooden shelf. |
| 8 |
Switch Witch:
Installing a mood-altering dimmer switch. Also, installing
a "thumb" switch to make bedtime more fun. (or at
least, less trouble) |
| 9 |
Plumb
Loco: Replacing foul and mouldy caulk around a tub, and installing
a shower curtain rod. |
| 10 |
Fixture Perfect:
Changing a lighting fixture that pre-dates World War 1. Dare to
tamper giddily with an electrical T. Rex. |
| 11 |
Brick Tricks:
How to turn that pile of loose bricks into a mortared and perky
little set of garden steps. |
| 12 |
Prep 'til
you Drop: (formerly "Caulk 'til you Drop", but we didn't
use caulk, we used Spackle): Repairing a crack in a wall but
first making it into a cavernous pit by mistake. This episode
won the "How Hard Can it Be?" Award for a simple repair
turned ugly. |
| 13 |
Fixin'
Kitchen: Fixing a rocking chair that's lost its rocks, and repairing
a wooden drawer that wanted a career of its own. |
| 14 |
Knob
Jobs: Fun with door knobs, and fixing a door so it doesn't
have to be hip-checked to close |
| 15 |
Jumpin'
Jacks: Wiring
your own jacks or installing a second phone line. |
| 16 |
Screening
Meemies: Installing
new screening in a door or window, and replacing the couplings on
a hose after you've run over them in the driveway. Out takes
included. |
| 17 |
I'll
be Hanged:
Installing hooks on the back of a door, and fixing a squeaky hinge. |
| 18 |
Blind
Luck: Putting
a blind up. Much dropping of screws and tripping on ladders.
Much smouldering laughter. |
| 19 |
Dry
Rot Blues:
Replacing a rotten deck board. Much more fun than it sounds.
Or looks. Or is, really. |
| 20 |
Paint
Too Proud to Beg:
Compelling tips on painting a room. |
| 21 |
A
Toilet to Forget:
Fixing a toilet that overflows, underfills or runs. Also,
removing a giant clog of unknown origin. |
| 22 |
Power
to the Tools:
A brief and incisive overview of useful power tools. |
| 23 |
And
Miles to Go Before I Squeak:
Repairing baseboard and fixing a squeaky hardwood floor. |
| 24 |
Taming
the Gap:
Drywall repair. The "Ishtar" of repairs. It
goes on and on. They left out the part when Mag got her hair
caught in the blow-dryer. |
| 25 |
Glue
'Em if they Can't Take a Joke:
Fixing many treasured objects. Getting punchy
on glue fumes. Laughing a bit too much at things that aren't
funny. |
| 26 |
Anatomy
of a Toolbelt:
The season climax; designing your own tool collection. |
| 27
( Season II )
|
Set
'em Up, Joe: Setting up your work area by building a lightweight,
knock 'em down work table, and then using it to fix a wobbly chair. |
| 28 |
She'll
Be Plumbin' Around the Mountain: A hysteria-inducing attempt
at replacing a shower faucet cartridge, plus installing a medicine
cabinet. |
| 29 |
If
You Can't Take the Seat, Get Outta the Bathroom: Replacing a
revolting old toilet seat, then fixing faulty parts inside the toilet
tank. |
| 30 |
What
a Doorknob!: Hanging a mirror, followed by making a coat rack
out of old doorknobs. |
| 31 |
Fittin'
Trim: Installing a curtain rod, plus replacing trim around a
window. |
| 32 |
Doorway
to Heaven: Door problems of a most foul order. Includes
weatherstripping repair and installing a new threshold. |
| 33 |
Chips
Off the Old Block: Repointing bricks, and repairing flaking
concrete on a foundation wall. |
| 34 |
Getting
in Touch with My Shelf: Installing sliding baskets in kitchen
cabinets, plus putting a wooden shelf in that wasted space up high
in your clothes closet. |
| 35 |
Know
Thy Shelf: Putting together ready-to-assemble shelving, then
building some wooden utility shelving from scratch. |
| 36 |
Just
Plane, Folks: Planing a door to fit, then replacing weatherstripping. |
| 37 |
Tile
Me No Secrets:
Installing window insulation film and then tiling a kitchen backsplash. |
| 38 |
Paint
Over 'til it's Over:
Exterior paint problems and how to repair them, plus different techniques
for removing finishes. |
| 39 |
What
the Bell:
Replacing a door chime, then upgrading a thermostat to a digital
electronic model. |
| 40 |
Railing
at Fate:
Gate hardware foibles, plus building a simple porch or patio railing. |
| 41 |
Even
the Mitey Shall be Dust:
Replacing dusty old furnace filters, humidifier filters and floor
registers, plus a review of smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors. |
| 42 |
Cover
Me:
Insulating hot water heaters and hot water pipes, plus Fun with
Copper Fittings - building a garden arbour with copper. |
| 43 |
Through
a Glass Smartly:
Re-glazing a broken window, including cutting your own glass to
size. |
| 44 |
Prong
Day's Journey into Light:
Installing a motion sensitive switch, and replacing a 2-prong electrical
receptacle with a 3-pronger. |
| 45 |
You
Can Feel it in Your Drawers:
Tightening, mending or replacing loose drawer and cupboard knobs;
Adjusting hinges on kitchen cupboards. |
| 46 |
We
Got a Groovy Kind of Wood:
Installing tongue-and-groove pine in a sunroom, then trimming it
out after installation. |
| 47 |
Sticky
Business:
Installing self-stick linoleum tiles, plus cleaning fridge coils
and repairing a loose doorknob. |
| 48 |
We
Will Lock You:
Surface-mounted deadbolt installation, plus replacing a lockset. |
| 49 |
Learning
to Love Your P-trap:
Setting up a composter, then replacing a p-trap with special guest
Kathryn Greenwood, star of CBC's Wind at My Back. Kathryn
Greenwood. |
| 50 |
Working
with a Personal Drainer:
Replacing tile grout around bathtub tiles, fixing a clogged bathtub
drain. |
| 51 |
Gutter's
Last Stand:
Patching and repairing broken gutters, then building a window box
or planter. |
| 52 |
The
Family Tools:
Installing tool holders; upgrading an exterior light to a motion-sensitive
lamp. |
| 53
( Season III )
|
Crack
to the Future:
Repairing cracks in an asphalt driveway, and fixing divots in a
concrete basement floor. |
| 54 |
What
a Set of Pipes:
Live simulated plumbing emergency repair with special guest Kathryn
Greenwood. |
| 55 |
A
Rail Hold by an Idiot:
Re-affixing a loose iron porch railing, and repairing crumbly flagstone
mortar. |
| 56 |
Brickin'
Little:
Removing soot stains from a brick fireplace surround and repairing
a sunken brick walk. |
| 57 |
Bottom's
Dream:
Repairing an upholstered chair whose bottome sags floorward, and
installing a wooden cap on an interior half-wall. |
| 58 |
Stairy
Stairy Night:
Repairing gaps in stair risers with foam backer-rope and caullking,
plus prepping bicycles for winter storage and lubing 'em up for
spring. |
| 59 |
Thank
Your Lucky Bars:
Installing security bars in a basement window. |
| 60 |
Who
Cut?:
Equalizing the leg lengths on a chair that rocks, and repairing
a drawer that sticks. |
| 61 |
Whose
Line is It?:
Running an additional telephone extension and connecting the jack. |
| 62 |
Chairish
is the Word I Use to Describe:
Replacing a broken rung on a wooden chair, and removing scratches
from hardwood floors. |
| 63 |
A
Lovely Day for a Webbing:
Re-webbing patio furniture, plus fixing problem holes in drywall. |
| 64 |
Legged
and Dangerous:
Repairing rotting chair legs, plus an introduction to sharpening
tools. |
| 65 |
The
Wood, the Bad and the Ugly:
Installing wooden hand railings, complete with safety returns. |
| 66 |
Jig
Newton:
Replacing or installing cabinet door pulls using a jig, plus installing
a transition strip between two floor levels. |
| 67 |
Glue
Me Like You Did Last Summer:
Taking apart a rickety table and prepping it for re-gluing, then
putting it back together again, plus more on sharpening tools. |
| 68 |
Everything's
Coming Up Hoses:
Replacing old washing machine hoses, and replacing the exhaust hose
on a dryer. |
| 69 |
Wire
We Here?
Replacing an outdoor low-voltage lamp, plus relacing melted or damaged
cords on small electrical appliances. |
| 70 |
See
Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Seal Me:
What can go wrong with cinder block foundation walls and seepage,
sealing foundation walls properly, plus re-igniting a gas furnace
pilot light. |
| 71 |
Shut
Off or Ship Out:
Knowing how to shut off gas in an emergency, knowing how to turn
off the water supply to the house, shutting off power to the house
in the event of an electrical fire, plus insulating a sweating toilet
tank. |
| 72 |
Wall
of Shame:
Sanding techniques for stripping down a painted piece of furniture,
plus repairing wallpaper boo-boos. |
| 73 |
Abdicating
the Throne:
Maintaining your central air condenser unit, plus removing and replacing
a toilet. |
| 74 |
Nice
Rack:
Repairing an inverted electrical switch, plus attaching a towel
rack to a hollow core door. |
| 75 |
Plumb
Here Often?
Testing for leaks, then replacing gaskets in a leaky toilet tank,
plus repacking leaky faucet valves. |
| 76 |
Glazed
and Confused:
Replacing the glass in a metal picture frame, plus repairing a split
chair seat. |
| 77 |
Hang
that Dang Thang:
All the tricks for wiring and hanging a picture properly, plus installing
a mosquito net canopy over a bed. |
| 78 |
Rowdy,
Neighbour!
Installing privacy lattice before the next wild party. |