Consider this a public service announcement: never, ever hire a contractor without doing your homework. That’s the lesson at the heart of this week’s Holmes Family Rescue, airing Wednesday, June 11 at 9:00 PM ET on HGTV. In “On the Right Footing” (Season 4, Episode 2), Mike Holmes, along with daughter Sherry and son Michael, tackle a home addition gone spectacularly sideways.
The homeowners dreamed of extra space, but thanks to a string of contractor mishaps, they’re left with half-finished work and a mounting sense of dread. Cue the Holmes family, whose mission is not just to fix shoddy construction, but to restore faith in the very notion of home improvement. What they find is a mess of code violations, structural shortcuts, and the kind of buried problems that make Mike’s blood boil.
The episode’s title hints at the source of the disaster: a foundation that’s anything but solid. Will the Holmes crew be able to set things right, or is this house doomed to forever rest on shaky ground?
Holmes Family Rescue airs Wednesdays at 9:00 PM ET on HGTV.
