About this season
Who do you turn to when a home renovation job goes horribly awry? Spike’s original docu-reality series, “Catch a Contractor,” aims to turn the table on contractors who have done their clients wrong. Host Adam Carolla helps homeowners regain their dignity and their humble abodes from the clutches of crooked contractors.
Episodes (10)
1. Take the Money and Done
8.0Aired 5 October 2014 • 30 min
Adam and Skip go after one of the most deceitful contractors ever. After adopting 4 kids, a family trusted a high school friend to expand their kitchen, but he took their money, their appliances, and their trust.
2. If at First You Don't Succeed, Lie, Lie Again
Aired 12 October 2014 • 30 min
A couple needed to build a deck to expand their tiny home and a retaining wall to keep the house from sliding down the hill. Instead, they got a part-time stripper and a fulltime liar who’s horrible work is ready to collapse!
3. Paved with Bad Intentions
Aired 19 October 2014 • 30 min
After ruining a young couple's yard and their plans to start a family, contractor Ray proves hard to catch. Skip and Adam try to bring Ray back to the job!
4. Concrete Bungle
Aired 26 October 2014 • 30 min
Adam & Skip hunt for a reckless contractor that left a family in danger and their backyard torn-up, upturned stakes that look like booby traps, and a 20’ drop with no safety fence!
5. Hack Attack!
8.0Aired 2 November 2014 • 30 min
A contractor Adam and Skip have busted before is back at it again; after betraying his fellow former marine, angry words explode into a brawl.
6. Worse Than a Warzone
7.0Aired 9 November 2014 • 30 min
After escaping a war-torn country, one family's contractor turns their home into a combat zone; cooking in a tent and living in one room.
7. Run for the Border
Aired 16 November 2014 • 30 min
After a family spends nearly $100,000 they are left with no roof and a missing contractor.
8. Twice Burned
Aired 23 November 2014 • 30 min
After a fire nearly consumed a couple's home a contractor stole their money; Adam and Skip try to put the flames out on this nightmare.
9. A Roofless Business
7.0Aired 7 December 2014 • 30 min
A contractor fails to finish a family's roof, forcing them out of their home; Adam and Skip try to get the contractor to return and do it right.
10. Benedict Contractor
Aired 14 December 2014 • 30 min
A couple trusts their contractor friend until he wrecks their condo and vanishes with their cash.