List of Canada's Worst Handyman episodes
This is a list of episodes for the first season of the Canadian television series "Canada's Worst Handyman," where the worst contestant, as determined by 25 challenges over 12 days, is given the dubious title. Format. Each of the first five episodes contains four or five individual challenges taken from two days of shooting, where a contestant and their nominator work together to complete a task in a given amount of time. There is also a yardwork challenge in each episode, where the contestants have to work together (but without their nominators ) to decorate a shed at the front of the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre. At the end of each episode, one contestant is named the most improved (represented by a toolbelt), which allows them to be in charge of the next yardwork challenge and another is named the worst. For the contestant named the worst, the contestant must hang their head in shame and nail their portrait to the side of the shed. They are then given a private lesson by Andrew relating to the reason why they were named the worst. Episode 1: Demolition Day. The first episode introduces the contestants  as they first enter the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre. After the contestants are greeted by show host Andrew Younghusband, each contestant is given a dilapidated one-bedroom apartment at the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, where their individual challenges will take place. The rooms are color-coded: Darryl in the purple apartment, Merle in the green apartment, Keith in the blue apartment, Jeannie in the yellow apartment and Barry in the red apartment. Before entering their apartments, the contestants must break down a wall blocking the entrance as symbolism for the beginning of the rehabilitation process. Keith was picked to do the honours  due to his lack of experience, but it was ultimately an impatient Merle who knocks this wall down. At the start of the first day, they are introduced to general contractor Greg House and interior designer Robin Lockhart, who will teach the contestants the skills needed to tackle the 25 challenges. Darryl was named the episode's most improved handyman due to his overall attitude and first impressions, while Barry was named the worst because he did not listen to the instructions given by the experts-- a fact that Barry in fact admitted to and, in retrospect, was deserving of . His extra lesson: a lesson in listening skills, where Andrew asked Barry to do one instruction until he got it right-- cutting a board 21 and 7/8" long. Drywall Patching. The contestants must patch a hole in their ceiling. Yardwork Challenge: Shingling. The contestants must work together to shingle the roof of the shed right outside the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre in 90 minutes. Shingles and roofing nails are provided, and instructions are provided on the shingle packages themselves. For safety reasons, the crew insists that only two persons were to be on the roof at any given time. The roof  has already been tar-papered prior to the challenge. The team begins by not nominating someone to be in charge. Merle begins right away on the roof with the nails while Darryl and Barry deliver the shingles to the roof. While Merle and Barry argue on which way the shingles should be facing, Jeannie offers to read the instructions aloud to the rest, but the instructions she reads are for a flat roof and the shed is a peaked roof and the others ignore her. Merle convinces Barry that his way of aligning and nailing the shingles (in blocks rather  than in rows) is correct (which it is not), but Barry continues to attach the shingles upside-down. Eventually the upside-down shingles were removed and replaced. Soon, work begins on both sides of the roof-- Merle and Jeannie together on one side (with Darryl on the roof), while Barry, Keith and Merle work on the other (with Merle on the roof). On Jeannie's end, the shingles are laid out in courses, but the shingles themselves do not overlap, prompting Merle to make a quick patchwork fix. The effect of the block-by-block shingling on the other side  leads to a very bumpy roof, which, as Greg notices, would easily fall apart if a strong enough gust of wind hit the roof. The rule that two people were to be on the roof at any time was quickly broken when Barry decides to go on the roof himself ("we didn't build it so it's gotta be safe" is his rationale), leading to Keith also joining Darryl and Merle on the roof. Keith mainly went up to the roof to tell the others how to shingle a roof with a valley, which the roof of the  shed has none, but which Keith insists that it had in its peak. In the end, though, the contestants together manage to completely shingle the roof, albeit poorly with low quality. Toolbox Building. Prior to entering the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, each contestant was asked to build a toolbox based on a very simple diagram, to replace their existing tool storage. Jeannie had used plastic filing cabinets, Merle a cardboard box and Keith a suitcase from an old Fisher-Price record player. Painting. The contestants must paint a mural on the living room wall. The contestants may choose seven items of  their choosing, but must commit to their choices before his challenge begins. After the painting, their challenges are inspected by Greg and Robin, as well as (for this episode only) psychologist Dr. Julie V. Hill. Episode 2: Toilet Training. This episode focuses on various bathroom-related renovations. Merle was named the most improved handyman of the episode, largely as he was one of the two contestants to have a working toilet, while Keith was named the worst because of his hostile attitude towards the experts, particularly Robin. His extra lesson was one where Andrew convinces him to stop making fun  of the experts-- Robin in particular, who he called a witch-- and voice his concerns with them personally. In the end, Keith decides to apologize. Replacing a Toilet. The contestants are tasked with removing the existing toilet and replacing it with a new one. Vinyl Flooring. The contestants are asked to use vinyl flooring to cover their tiled bathroom floor. Keith asks why this was not done before the toilet was replaced, as it is how it is done in new construction, to which Greg replies that the task is there to improve their overall renovating skills. Yardwork Challenge: Interlocking  Brick. After Darryl reluctantly invites the others to see his botched vinyl floor, he wants to be left alone, yet he is the foreman of the yardwork challenge, which makes his task all the more difficult. This is compounded by the fact that Barry resolves to be a pain in Darryl's face, while Merle and Jeannie resolve to blindly follow Darryl's decisions. In this challenge, the contestants must lay down a path with interlocking brick. Darryl's plan is to lay a path out from the shed door, with a flower bed and fire pit on the side . Keith gets going on the fire pit, while the rest dig a path for the brick that is mere inches deep. Because of Darryl's dislike of Jeannie, Jeannie is sent to help Keith with the fire pit. Merle is put to laying down the bricks after very little limestone pad is spread out. The bricks are put down in rows and are not interlocked (defeating the purpose of interlocking brick and create lumps in the ground because a level was not used. Worse yet, to create the impression of level dirt is being backfilled to make the bricks level , a fact that Barry points out (by asking him what the level was for) but Darryl quickly dismisses, saying "it's too late for that." Merle eventually finishes the fire pit, which is far too shallow and surrounded by one layer of loose brick and the flower bed is quickly finished. The contestants celebrate with a fire. Tiling a Backsplash. The contestants must tile the backsplash above their bathroom sink in 30 minutes. They will then have another 90 minutes to grout and paint their bathrooms, as well as finish any remaining incomplete tasks. Episode 3: Some Assembly Required. This  episode focuses on installations in the bedroom. Although everyone made noticeable progress in rehabilitation, Keith was named the most improved handyman of the episode, while Jeannie was named the worst because of her lack of skills and refusal to ask for help. It takes Jeannie 46 tries just to put a single nail to the side of the shed and her extra lesson was more practice in the use of a power drill. Building a Shelf. The contestants must build and mount three shelves onto a concrete wall in one hour. Contestants are given pine boards, glue and screws to  do this. As a final test, all of the shelves are tested to see if they hold a certain amount of weight. Laminate Flooring. After being given a brief lesson on using a drill by Greg after seeing abysmal drilling techniques in the morning challenge, the contestants are given another lesson on using a jigsaw for their next challenge: to lay down tongue-and-groove laminate flooring in their bedroom... or rather, the contestants will direct their nominators on how to lay down laminate flooring. This is a test of whether contestants can understand the instructions (given with the flooring ) and give them out correctly, as well as their planning skills. At the end of the challenge, none of the contestants manage to finish the flooring, even with helping their nominators. Yardwork Challenge: Painting the Shed. Merle, as the most improved handyman in the previous episode, is tasked to lead the contestants into painting the shed with a design of his own choosing. Although Merle is up to the challenge of leadership, Darryl had plans to sabotage it to knock him down a notch. To do so, he tries to sabotage the work that Merle had allotted to Jeannie (who  Darryl greatly dislikes) while Merle himself was addressing the queries by the others. Merle still had other issues to deal with, as both Keith and Darryl refused to work and Merle himself was not painting as he was trying to help Jeannie. When time runs out, Merle admits that the challenge itself was a failure, with many spots left unpainted, but through no fault of his own. Building a Chair. Robin teaches the contestants on building a straight-back chair, centering about three points: "Form, Function and Construction." Assembling the Bed. The contestants were to assemble a pre-fabricated bed  and end table combination from IKEA, after which a quick evaluation of each contestant's bedroom was performed. Episode 4: Counter Revolution: The Switcheroo. This episode focuses on kitchen renovations. For each individual challenge in this episode, contestants were paired with the nominators of other contestants. In an interesting twist, Keith's nominator, David, was named the most improved as he assisted Darryl, Barry and Merle in completing their tasks, while Keith himself was named the worst, largely due to his lack of leadership in the yardwork challenge and the fact that he had completed only one of the 19  challenges so far, building a chair in the previous episode that led to him being named the most improved. His extra work consists of building a smaller-scale fence from popsicle sticks. The Kitchen Sink. The contestants must remove the existing sink and countertop and replace it with a new sink and countertop, including disconnecting and reconnecting the plumbing, all in two hours. This is indeed the hardest challenge to date, involving many skills from previous episodes. Vinyl Tiles. The contestants have to tile their kitchen floor with stick-on vinyl tiles in a diagonal checkerboard pattern. The main skill  is to determine a center point in the room and working their way out. Because of inconsistent joins and rough edgework across the board, all of the contestants fail in this challenge. Wallpapering. The contestants have to apply wallpaper to a wall in their apartment. Four of the five contestants will be given regular wallpaper, but the fifth will have custom-made wallpaper with a pattern consisting of Andrew's facial expressions. Yardwork Challenge: Fencing. Keith leads the team into building a picket fence and planting a small flower bed. He does so by first using interpretive dance, but has  no plan of attack. When Jeannie offers her thoughts, Keith sends her to do the most backbreaking task: mixing the concrete for the fenceposts. Keith then gets everyone else to dig holes for the fenceposts at random spots without measurements, and not very deep at that. This stresses the other men, who notice that the fence is not straight and not level. Keith, for his part, does not budge and everyone quickly becomes frustrated by Keith's lack of leadership, believing that it stifles their opportunity to improve. Keith himself is doing none of the hard work himself, despite his  drive to learn. While the rest quickly get the idea of how to do it correctly (for example, putting the pickets up from one end to the other), Keith continues to get everyone to do things in his artistic manner incorrectly (his rationale for not putting the pickets up correctly: a "quantum physics" phoenomena where the pickets themselves would "establish their own order" if they were to be placed randomly). Due to the lack of leadership, Barry has taken a seat, while Merle has disappeared, taking a nap in the shed and when Andrew notices this, Merle begs him to  mercifully end the challenge. Hanging a Door. The contestants are to hang a door that leads into their kitchen. Merle is especially motivated in this challenge, having wanted to hang nine new doors in his house but having never gotten around to it in ten years. Episode 5: Six Degrees of Renovation. As the second-to-last episode, Merle was named as the worst, despite his significant improvements, for his ignorance of safety after accidentally cutting himself with a utility knife. As he hangs his head in shame, another duct tape joke (which had been persistent throughout the episode) is  cracked at his expense, this time by Jeannie. As Merle attaches his picture on the wall of shame, his prompted to add a dab of paint to his picture to denote where he had cut himself. His extra lesson is a long lecture about what is safe and what isn't when it comes to cutting, of all else, duct tape. The episode begins with Merle showing up early and completely disassembling his duct tape-patched drywall from the first episode, due to his inability to sand and apply a second coat of plaster (which was done during the events  of an earlier episode). At first, he opted to chisel off the plaster (instead of sanding) and sealing off the second coat with newspaper, but the ceiling had apparently haunted him enough to do the drywall path over again. This time around, Merle does the drywall patching correctly, complete with a shim for support, all without duct tape, which he vowed to avoid for the remainder of the day. As the rest of the contestants file in, they are told to do a final coat of plaster on their drywall patches. Upholstering. The first challenge of the episode has the  contestants upholstering a chair, either the chair they had built in the third episode or a bar stool provided from the supplies. As an effort to test Merle's will to keep his word and avoid duct tape, Robin (teaching the contestants the skills needed) specifically allows the contestants to use duct tape to upholster their chairs and provides a large number of rolls. Merle quickly caves (while the others, aware that the stipulation was a joke at Merle's expense, refuse) and begins the challenge with the duct tape. Yardwork Challenge: Arbours. In this episode's yardwork challenge, led  by Keith's nominator, David, the contestants build an arbour for the shed, as well as assemble a barbecue. David begins the challenge on the right foot, consulting the rest of his team on what an arbour is (explained to him by Jeannie), and how to build it. To dig the holes for the footings, an auger is used, which Barry and Darryl (the prime candidates, according to David) operate. Jeannie is put to mixing concrete, Keith assembling the barbecue, while David himself cuts the cross beams. Things go along swimmingly until Barry and Darryl are both sent flying from  operating the auger too fast. Eventually, the holes are dug and everyone (except Keith) work together into installing and levelling the posts and crossbeams. The yardwork challenge (save Keith's barbecue) is a resounding success, although the contestants are somewhat disappointed that Merle (still at hospital) did not participate. The only resounding failure in this project: how bad the other yardwork challenges look in comparison. Stippling. The four remaining contestants are tasked to apply stipple onto their ceiling. Ceiling Fan. The handymen are to install a ceiling fan in two hours, which disturbs Barry, having been involved in a near -fatal electrical accident back at home while fixing his dryer. The contestants are also told that the circuit breakers controlling the fluorescent tube lighting that they will be replacing with the fan has been turned off, unaware that he had lied. Not one contestant catches this and the challenge begins on a bad note as both Greg and Andrew are forced to lecture the contestants about safety. Hanging Mirrors. The contestants are to install four IKEA KRABB mirrors on a wall, in any configuration they choose. Screwing a Hook. The final challenge is to hang a hook from their patched  ceiling so that a plant can be supported on it. They then have the rest of the afternoon to redo and/or complete whatever previous tasks were unfinished (including decorating their apartment) for their final apartment inspections. In the end, of the 19 individual challenges, Jeannie finishes the fewest with only three completed, while Keith and Barry complete four. Darryl has finished five challenges, while Merle has the most with eight. Episode 6: Curtain Call. In the final episode, the five contestants gear up for their final exam: the contests must work together to renovate a one-bedroom apartment (not unlike  their own apartments) within ten hours. The tasks that must be done include the following: The contestants may also choose to ask for assistance from Greg or Robin once each during this challenge, for which the experts will assist them in whatever tasks are necessary for one hour. However, the nominators will not be helping their nominees, instead enjoying the action from a separate room, where their only task was to "assemble two futons." Jeannie begins the challenge by suggesting that a foreman be nominated (akin to how a foreman was nominated in all but the first yardwork challenges), a  motion supported by Keith, but shot down by Merle. The nominators begin on their separate tasks: Merle going to do the bathroom sink, Darryl to the kitchen cabinets, Barry and Jeannie to the hardwood flooring, while Keith begins work on the TV unit-- a disastrous start, as Andrew notes, as all of them had failed challenges relating to the tasks they would have to do (Merle with the kitchen sink, Darryl with his bed assembly and hanging doors, Barry and Jeannie with three floors and Keith with the shelves and his initial failure with his chair). Greg also believes it 's a bad start, as the contestants are working from the floor and working their way up ("Things fall down," as Robin notes, to explain Greg's rationale that the drywall should be first). Robin later on also voices her opinion on Keith's choice of doing the furniture first ("You don't put the furniture in the room before you build the room"). In the bathroom, Merle begins by ripping out the sink, exposing a hole in the drywall and attempts to mount the new pedestal sink into the old sink bracket. It works, but the pedestal is too  short. Reading the mounting instructions only confused him further. Keith, after cutting one board, takes a break and tries to use his break to assist Merle, but quits after reading the instructions. Merle, needing help in trying to get the pedestal to meet the sink, solicits Jeannie's help. Jeannie's advice to lower the sink elicits a round of applause from the nominators' room. Merle would eventually manage to remove the old bracket, put the pedestal in place, and balance the new sink on top of it, before measuring and installing the new brackets into place. However, Merle later  found out he had measured incorrectly, and the pedestal remains too short. Merle then attempts to secure the pedestal in place, but realizes that he does not have the drill bit needed in order to drill into the concrete floor. Keith's assistance proves to be useless, as his belief that it is a problem with the drill settings and not the drill bit causes the existing drill bit to break. Completely frustrated with the sink, Merle decides to solicit advice from Barry on whether to just simply take the sink down and tile the bathroom first (which is the  correct procedure), to which Barry replies in the affirmative. Barry begins his flooring by applying adhesive on the floor using a small putty knife instead of a large notched trowel, which, as Scot mentions, would take him too much time to complete. Furthermore, Barry decides to kick the first course of flooring into place. As Barry and Jeannie lay their tongue-in-groove floor down in courses (which is correct), they are still using very little glue, which they think (despite the massive supply) that they are being liberal with. As they move along, they use even less glue. In  the next room, Darryl has managed to successfully take down the existing cabinets and is trying to assembling new ones. Meanwhile, all Keith has done in his first 90 minutes with the furniture is to make two cuts on a pine board and take three smoke breaks. At the lunchtime mark (two hours into the challenge), not a single task is completed. Barry suggests that the calls to Greg and Robin would not be made until the final hours when more manpower is needed instead of earlier when a plan on completion can be devised. Keith also expresses his intention  to work with Darryl on the cabinets, which is news to Darryl as he had elected to take his lunch earlier so that he could work in silence, believing that the others were holding him back. As a result, Darryl sends Keith on a wild goose chase trying to look for screws. As the rest return to work, Barry has taken on the role of leader, laying out their plan to call Robin and Greg in with very little time remaining. Barry and Jeannie continue to work on the floor slowly-- at their pace, the floor itself would be a  15-hour job. Keith continues to assist Darryl in mounting the assembled cabinets to the walls (although one fails to mount due to mismeasurement), while Merle is tiling the bathroom wall, correctly this time around (compared to his bathroom challenge). For a brief moment, everyone seemed to be working at the same time... until Keith takes his eighth break of the day and Jeannie manages to get a splinter in her finger while installing the floor (which had also vindicated Merle somewhat as he was no longer the only one who had injured themselves on the show after he cut  himself during the upholstery challenge in the previous episode). At the 3.5-hour mark, the shed has been moved from the front yard of the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre to the roof in preparation of the finale by the crew. At that point, no tasks have been completed. Keith and Darryl have mounted the last cabinet and are preparing to hang the six cabinet doors. However, faced with the difficulty of hanging the doors, Keith walks off. Darryl also gives up on the cabinet doors to tackle the glass blocks (it is revealed here that the contestants had also attempted a  glass block challenge earlier, although no mention of the challenge itself had aired in previous episodes, and that Darryl had performed poorly). Unable to form a plan on the glass block, Darryl returns to the cabinet doors. They manage to hang two, but they do not close together. At the same time, Merle, still in the bathroom, decides to go back to the plumbing as the tiling lay there incomplete, yet the pedestal has not been secured in place, forcing Merle to believe that the sink is drooping is because of improper bracket installation. He screws a pine board into  the wall in an attempt to fix this and gets the help of Keith to handle securing the pedestal and hooking up the pipes while Merle gets the sink in position. Meanwhile, Barry and Jeannie continue their work on the floor, still using very little glue and still taking longer time than it should. After five hours of work, no tasks have been completed and Jeannie is believing that all their tasks are on the right track (despite the fact that none of the bedroom tasks have started). Keith and Darryl, still not having adjusted the doors, have moved on  to Keith's original task of building the furniture. Keith's TV stand (consisting of three boards screwed to each other at this point), however, has the structural integrity of his Presbyterian Chair. Keith and Darryl expand upon that structure, although they do little to improve the piece's structural integrity. However, they can now claim that one task is complete. Merle contributes his share of the work when his plumbing is complete and his sink is tested and shown not to leak. The simple parts of his tiling is also complete, although he refuses to attempt the difficult areas  (where cut tiles are necessary). This means that with 4.5 hours to go, three tasks are complete. As Keith takes his 15th smoke break, Merle begins to work on the glass block by first constructing a window frame for the port, while Barry and Jeannie continue to lay down hardwood. Darryl, in the meantime, has gotten all six doors mounted, but is making a fourth attempt at making them all balanced and close together. When Keith wants to partner with Darryl again, Darryl advises him to start the wallpaper, a bad decision considering that the drywall must be done first  and that Keith had failed miserably in his drywall challenge. Keith starts off incorrectly again as he chooses to start wallpapering next to the door frame in the middle of the wall. Andrew convinces Keith that the wallpapering is incorrect, which only makes him take his 17th smoke break. As Andrew is trying to press Keith back to work, he learns that Keith and a crew member have made a wager, with the crew member betting ten dollars that the wallpapering would not be finished before time ran out. Andrew also accepts the bet (surprising Merle, who had also taken  a break and was in on the conversation), believing that he's in for an easy $10. When Keith returns, he begins in the corner without taking down his first piece. His next piece isn't lined up at the seam, nor is his piece cut to get around the door frame. Because the wallpaper was started before the drywall, the strapping for the drywall is in the way and Keith is attempting to address this by removing the strapping, which he gives up after about a minute. His alternative method of working around the strapping is far worse , as it leaves a gap between the strips of wallpaper. Andrew convinces him that the wallpaper should be taken down and the drywall be attempted first. Meanwhile, Merle has completed the frame for the glass block window. Without the fame, the port is designed to hold five blocks per row with reasonable gap. However, with the frame in place, only four blocks can be accommodated per row. To address this, Merle accepts Barry's suggestion of making the space between the blocks wider. Merle, Darryl and Keith mix the adhesive (or rather, Darryl and Keith watch as Merle does the  mixing). Merle makes the perfect mix, but Darryl's laying of the adhesive between the blocks pushes the mortar underneath each block out of line. Merle is also assisting Darryl by using his finger as a spacer and as a trowel. Barry also notices that the blocks are being installed on a slight slant instead of being level. Realizing that the project has become a disaster, he leaves Darryl alone with the job and goes to work on the drywall with Keith. Keith, however, takes this as the time for his 21st break. Barry and Jeannie have finally finished their  hardwood floor after seven hours of work, although their floor is still several centimetres away from the wall. With only three hours remaining, Robin is given the call by Jeannie. When Robin enters, she immediately suggests taking down the wallpaper and doing the drywall, which Keith is tasked to do. Robin also suggests that the kitchen floor should also get started, as the adhesive requires an hour to get sufficiently sticky so that the tiles can be adhered onto the floor. Barry begins on applying the adhesive (which also forces Darryl to finish the glass block from the living room  side). At the eight-hour mark, Barry makes the call to Greg. When Greg enters, he shows Merle and Keith how to use a "deadman" in order to prop the drywall up so that it can be screwed into place, and helps them complete the drywall. Merle then gets moving on the drywalling, while Keith takes his 24th break. Merle quickly reins Keith in, and manages to finish their drywalling with only 40 minutes to go. Although there is suitable time to do some plastering, Merle declares himself finished for the day. Andrew is forced to coax Merle and Keith  (who had taken another break) back into work after telling them that quitting early may make them earn the title of Canada's Worst Handyman. While Merle gets back to work, Keith attempts the wallpapering one more time (this time with the drywall installed), but quickly gives up, taking another break. At this point, Andrew is convinced that he has won his ten dollars and Keith concedes defeat in their bet. Barry and Jeannie, in the meantime, continue with their adhesive, while Darryl, having finished the glass block, goes to work on getting the cabinet doors perfect. Barry's strategy  of adhesive laying, however, soon gets all three into trouble, as the three are now boxed in by the adhesive, painting themselves into a corner (for which Scot and David make mock celebratory gestures). Undeterred by this, however, Barry begins laying down the tiles even though the adhesive has not been fully laid out, or anywhere near suitably sticky enough for the tiles to adhere to the floor. In fact, his application of the adhesive concurrently with the tile gets the adhesive "over" his new tiles not to mention the new hardwood floor and the new cupboards. In the haste  to get everything finished, Darryl quickly puts handles on the cabinet doors without checking to see if the handles were level or aligned parallel to each other. With the final exam finished, Greg and Robin believe that everyone is still in the running for Canada's Worst Handyman: Darryl for the lack of planning skills, Jeannie for doing too little overall, Barry for not following directions, Keith for taking too many breaks and Merle because he is doing things too quickly. When the final exam is evaluated, only one (Merle's bathroom sink installation) of the contestants' eight completed works  are given a passing grade. The final verdict: although his two floors were both awful, Barry is not Canada's Worst Handyman, as he has admitted to learning by failure. Jeannie is also free to go as well because, although she had injured herself, she quickly got right back into the game. Darryl's poor carpentry skills meant that he could still be Canada's Worst Handyman, while Keith's wallpapering meant that he, too, was still in the running. As for Merle, knowing how to do things right and getting the skills needed to get off his duct tape  addiction, his aversion to measuring and, above all else, get his daughter's room finished makes him definitely not Canada's Worst Handyman. As he leaves, he makes a celebratory dance. Darryl and Keith meet Andrew atop the roof of the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre, where one will be named Canada's Worst Handyman and a final special lesson awaits them. As Andrew explains, Keith was not handy because he never bothered to play with tools, while Darryl was not handy because he was never allowed to use them. Keith had made the largest mess in the final exam, while Darryl  had made the single largest blunder. Between the two, though, Darryl wins out and Keith is named "Canada's Worst Handyman" for his overall lack of focus, having taken 34 breaks during the final exam and changed projects 14 times, with none of them earning the passing grade. Episode 7: Best of the Worst. This is a recap episode, which detailed the adventures of each contestant through the rehabilitation process. The Handyman Rehabilitation Centre was demolished at the end of the episode.