Season 5 (2007)
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Episodes 26
The Akana Family
In the two-part season premiere, Ty and the design team rebuild the home of a Hawaiian woman after a flood destroyed it. They then build a community center for the family-services foundation she runs.
Read MoreThe Byers Family
Ty and the design team arrive in Corvallis, Oregon to renovate the dilapidated home of a 8-year-old cancer patient and her family.
Read MoreThe Brown Family
Ty and the design team give a Connecticut family a new home after their house is flooded, ravaged by fire and robbed multiple times.
Read MoreThe Carter Family
The team build a new home for the Carter family, who've been living in a refurbished chicken coop.
Read MoreThe Yazzie Family
For the past five years the Yazzie family have been living in a mobile home that has no running water or heat, and only half the trailer with functioning electricity. Seeing that his family's mobile home had no heat, at 13 years of age, son Garrett tapped his scientific intuition to create a solar heater and a water heater. To create these, he used recycled materials, including an old car transmission and 69 aluminum cans, combining them with power generated from the sun. Garrett's makeshift heating system followed the Navajo principles of living off the land, not wasting anything and recycling everything that the earth has to offer. For his invention, he became the first Navajo to win 9 out of the 10 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Awards
Read MoreThe Miller Family
The crew renovate the Miller family's home due to Radon poisoning. The family meet David Beckham while in New York, away from their dangerous home.
Read MoreThe Marrero Family
A single father and his sons are given a new home by Ty and the crew. The family visits Spain during the construction.
Read MoreThe Swenson-Lee Family
Minnetonka, MN - Ty and his team build the Swenson-Lee family a new home in seven days. The family's 12 year old daughter witnessed both her parents die in tragedy. The family are sent to Disneyland for a vacation during construction.
Read MoreThe Stockdale Family
Middleton, ID - A new home is built for the Stockdale family, whose children suffer from a debilitating blood disease known as Eosinophilic Enteropathy.
Read MoreThe Vitale Family
Athens, VT The Vitale family have two sons. Their youngest son, Louie Angelo Jr., was diagnosed with multiple birth defects. The team transforms their home to make it handicap-accessible.
Read MoreChapin Family
Kirkland, WA — The team renovate the Chapin family's home, which was poorly constructed.
Read MoreThe Ray-Smith Family
Milbridge, ME The team renovate Brittany Ray and Ron Smith's home, which they claim is haunted.
Read MoreThe Woodhouse Family
Calahan, CO — In just seven days the team builds the Woodhouse family a new home. Kayla Woodhouse, the family's daughter, has a rare neurological condition that lowers her sensitivity to pain and temperature.
Read MoreThe Luther Family
Port Deposit, MD The Luther family's home is rebuilt by Ty and the team. Renee Sherrard-Luther operates a non-profit therapeutic riding program that helps the physically disabled.
Read MoreThe Voisine Family
Manchester, NH The Voisine family's home was destroyed by a flood in 2006. The crew build the family a new home.
Read MoreThe Gilyeat Family
Kansas City, KS - Daniel Gilyeat lost his leg during his second tour of Iraq. The team rebuild the family's home to make it handicap accessible.
Read MoreThe Hughes Family
Louisville, KY — The Hughes family's eldest son, Patrick, was born blind. The team renovate the family's home to make the house safer and more accessible.
Read MoreThe Lucas Family
Cullen, VA -- The team build the Lucas family a new home.
Read MoreThe Turner Family
Fairmont, WV -- The Turner family's home is remodeled.
Read MoreThe Boettcher Family
Silver Springs, NV -- The Boettcher family's house is rebuilt.
Read MoreThe Gaudet Family
Mobile, AL -- The Gaudet family's home is rebuilt.
Read MoreThe Latif Family
The team rebuild the home of a single mother and they also transform a home in Delaware.
Read MoreThe Martinez Family
Albuquerque - Today's home belongs to a pastor whose family moved six years ago from the Colorado mountains to a high-crime neighborhood in New Mexico. By offering food and shelter to the troubled and homeless, he and his family have helped reduce the local crime rate by 50% since they arrived.
Read MoreThe Silva Family
Ty and team transform a home that is unsafe due to overly high lead levels, for two parents who have helped look after many kids over the years through foster care.
Read MoreThe Giunta Family
After an injury that leaves him without the use of his legs, a man has to live away from his family as his home is not set up to accommodate his disability. With the help of his faithful team, Ty will hopefully reunite the family.
Read MoreThe Usea Family
After the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, today's homes are yet to be restored to their former glory. So along with a church, Ty and the team rebuild them to their former glory.
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