Josh Temple drops a 900-pound piano through the roof and luggage handlers throw all kinds of items down the stairs. Plus, a helicopter blade sails through a house.
An 8,000-pound elephant helps Josh Temple clog the toilet and he SCUBA dives in the basement. Plus, our insurance expert gives you the need to know answers on basement floods.
Josh Temple tears things up when he hosts a Demolition Derby in the backyard and invites Mexican Wrestlers to trash the house. Plus, a bear trapped in a house leads to trouble.
Clydesdale horses tear apart the house and skilled Japanese chefs destroy the wood floors using knives, cleavers, and fire. Plus, see what happens when your house slides down a mountain.
Medieval warriors take aim at the Disaster House, while one of the world's strongest men takes aim at the floor. Plus, a tree fall nearly crushes a sleeping homeowner.
Josh Temple drops a car onto the driveway from almost 10 stories high and demolishes mailboxes from a pumpkin cannon firing more than 100 MPH. Plus, a driver mistakes a front door for a garage.
A car drives right through the front door and animals create havoc in the attic! Plus, a house is swept away by an avalanche.
Josh Temple sponsors a roller derby inside the living room and with over 20 tons of machinery a 6.5 earthquake is created. Plus, a 250 ton boulder levels a home.
A flamethrower ignites the house and Santa Claus gets stuck in the chimney. Plus, lightning hits a house and a groom three hours before his wedding.
Josh Temple builds a giant slingshot that catapults lawnmowers through a fence and mountain boarders use the gutters as slide rails until they come crashing down. Plus, a house goes up in flames from a dog's water bowl.
The ultimate sand castle explodes in the house and sheep create havoc in the living room. Plus, kids break into a home, party, and create $250,000 in damages.
An overfilled hot tub collapses a two-story deck and 8,000 gallons of water flood Josh Temple's kitchen. Plus, leaky pipes lead to a black mold nightmare.
A 30,000-pound garbage truck lands on the house roof and 80s rock icons Slaughter trash the home.
We'll show you how to prevent one of the grossest house disasters possible, a problem that seeps up and into more than 500,000 homes every year - reverse sewage. Plus, how much damage can extreme winds do to your house? We create a homemade hurricane to show you how to prevent your most expensive investment from unhinging itself from its foundation and what your homeowners insurance will cover.
Fire and ice - both have the potential to create major disasters. First, we'll show you what to do - and, just as importantly - what not to do when a grease fire is about to turn your house into ashes in a blink of an eye. And - snow may look pretty on your roof, but how much is too much? We'll show you the silent disaster that awaits and how a few bucks can save you thousands.
Kitchens are often the central room in a house, but how do you fix the countless problems every kitchen seems to have? We'll show you the simple fixes every homeowner needs to know. Plus, fires of all kind threaten every home, but are you prepared? We get a fire real fire-breathing dragon to torch our own disaster house, and also show some simple pro-active steps to prevent your home turning into a pile of ash.
What would you do if a flood hit your house? Grab your life vest because we'll simulate one - and show you how to prepare and repair a 10,000-gallon flash flood through a family room. Plus, special tips in dealing with your home owners insurance. How expensive and labor-intensive is cleaning up graffiti? We'll have an all-out paintball war to show you how to clean-up the eyesore and physical damage caused by vandals.
How much damage can pets really do to your house? We're bringing in two Bengal tigers to accelerate the costly problems small cats and dogs can create in your home and show you the easy fix to this totally gross clean-up process. Plus, we put pedal to the metal and simulate the damage a car can do to a garage - when we mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake. An embarrassing tale, but we'll show you the simple fix.
Fires that are caused by lint in a hot dryer happen in thousands of homes every year. We'll show you how fast lint can accumulate and provide solutions to make sure it doesn't start a fire in your home. And, old chimneys with crumbling mortar are a huge fire hazard - and often overlooked. After we take our faulty chimney apart, we'll show you the correct way to lay a new brick chimney, and how to make sure the mortar won't deteriorate in the heat. We'll also talk about products and techniques to make chimneys safe, efficient and long lasting.
What abuse can your front door take? Watch us break it down with lumberjacks and build it back up with some of the coolest and safest products on the market. And if you think your yard needs a facelift, we up the ante by letting a monster truck rip around the sod and garden, leaving a path of destruction for us to fix.
Many things can damage the outside of a house - car doors, lawnmowers, grills, even landscaping. We'll take it to the next level and slam these things into the side of the house - and then show you which new replacement siding is best and why. And inside the house nothing wears down a floor faster than the wear-and-tear of dirty feet. So how do we protect it? We'll speed up the aging process with a full-on indoor parade, and then show you how to refinish the floors to a dazzling new shine.
Did you know that every American household is susceptible to hail damage? We're bringing in the big guns and swinging a real Huey helicopter through the neighborhood, dumping golf balls onto our roof just to show you the simple fix. Then, something we all need to learn - burglar-proofing a house - for the safety of your family and the security of your belongings.
Mice, rats and other varmints can actually make homeowners sick. But poisoning them can harm you as well. We'll show you the best ways to remove them and, more importantly, make sure they never come back. And, it's one word no homeowner wants to hear - mold. We'll take food and blow it up - and then let it sit at room temperature for a week. We'll show how to remove both common and severe mold outbreaks, as well as what you can do to prevent either from happening in the first place.
Energy loss is a silent disaster - it drains your wallet faster than you can say "Shut that door!" We'll show you how much energy a typical home loses, and provide solutions on how to improve the efficiency of your house. And, lightning can hit any house - and has the power to short-circuit everything to a crisp. We create our own lightning storm and show you ways to prevent it from shocking anyone or anything in your home.
Sinks get stained, chipped, cracked or smashed - and good sinks are not cheap. But we'll show you how to fix the structure of a sink - as well as the cosmetic - and it'll look good as new. And, gas explosions are catastrophic. But before we blow up a house to show you the potential danger, we'll show you how your home's gas system works along with gas detection tips that can keep your family safe.
Termites thrive in nearly every part of the country - and they love nothing more than feasting on the wooden structure of our homes. We'll show you the correct way to exterminate them, how to fix damaged parts of the house, as well as show you the best way to prevent termites in the first place. And to simulate when termites go too far, we'll bring in a professional-grade stump grinder to quickly show how they can compromise the structure of a house. A faulty foundation can ruin property value, so we'll show you how to fix it.
There are bats in the attic, and the Disaster House crew has set real bed bugs loose in the house. Experts Mr. Bat Man and Dr. Bed Bug come to the rescue, demonstrating how to safely and effectively remove these pesky nocturnal nuisances.
The Disaster House crew gets down to the root of wind damage - both inside and out. The crew uses the Disaster House Wind Tunnel to show how to fix common ceiling fan problems, and then they uproot a tree planted too close to home causing a tornado of structural damage.
How does the Disaster House crew show homeowners the damage a simple water leak can have on your home? It involves the crew dumping a 300-gallon dunk tank into the kitchen cabinets. Then the crew creates a huge mess when they drop a dumpster full of toilets from 100 feet high to demonstrate how to repair and prevent a potentially toxic mess.
The Disaster House deck railing doesn't stand a chance against professional MMA wrestlers and after the fight the crew demonstrates the proper way to repair the railing. A visit from an army of Motocross riders leaves the gravel driveway destroyed; leaving it to the crew to lay a new driveway that can last a lifetime.
Disaster House takes a turn for the medieval; men in tights operate a bird yielding trebuchet on the sliding glass doors. Next the crew blows up the garage to demonstrate how to protect your home from it's most flammable part.
On this episode of Disaster House the crew demonstrates how to set the mood with candle light, without having to call the fire department. An unusual problem occurs when the crew discovers a new tenant who has taken up residence inside the walls, leaving behind a massive waxy build-up.
The Disaster House crew focuses on the small things that can do big damage when they let 20 sugar-crazed kids loose in the living to find out how to fix the top kid-caused disasters. Then, the crew creates a dust storm to show you what happens when a 10,000 foot wall of dirt takes aim at your house.
Whether it's wind-blown debris or random objects falling from the sky, unexpected flying objects can cause major damage to your home. Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple show you first-hand with help from the Scottish games men, as they take aim at an awning. Then outdated material is replaced with a sturdy portico. Josh also simulates years of deck dry rot and demonstrates how to build and protect a new one.
On this episode of Disaster House we're plunging into plumbing problems. Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple pits two competitive eaters against two garbage disposals to see exactly what these machines can handle, then and show you how to install a new one on your own. Next, a basement in transformed into a walk-in freezer, making the pipes freeze and burst. Josh shows you how to fix the damage and talks prevention.
On this episode of Disaster House, we invite four top chefs to go crazy on our kitchen countertops to show you what kind of carnage can be done and how to repair it. Then a shower is transformed into a giant aquarium to prove how it's not as waterproof as you might think it is. Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple gives tips on how to keep the water out.
On this episode of Disaster House, Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple and a crew create a nocturnal obstacle course to simulate those little things you're destined to run over in the dark. Josh shows you just how dangerous an improperly lit property can be. Cool Tools host Chris Grundy guest-stars as we set him loose inside the "Disaster House" with a bevy of power tools to wreak havoc. This episode shows you what NOT to do when the DIY bug bites.
Landscape critters, like moles and voles, can really tear up a yard. And, so can our Earthdogs! On this episode of Disaster House, Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple sets these guys loose on the Disaster House lawn to show you what kind of damage to look for, and how to safely remove them from your property. Next a 24-ton truck topples to create a landslide. Josh shows you how to properly frame an exterior wall, complete with windows and doors.
Disaster House hosts its first-ever dance competition in the "Disaster House" living room to see what kind of foot-stomping creates the most squeaks in our floor. Host and licensed contractor Josh Temple explains what causes floor squeaks and how to easily fix them. With the recent string of Earthquakes happening throughout the country, Disaster House simulates one of its own. And, this time... we may have gone a little too far.