DIY Network Destroys A House - Disaster House Hosted by Josh Temple Accelerates Wear and Tear To a Home With Eye-Popping Experiments

Brand-New Series Premieres Tuesday, October 6 at 10 pm ET

A piano dropping through the roof and a demolition derby in the front yard are all part of DIY Network's Disaster House10 p.m. ET. The original, 13-episode series features host and contractor Josh Temple whoinflicts all kinds of abnormal damage to demonstrate the punishment a normal home takes over the years.  The man-made earthquakes, flooded basements and busted roofs, are an exaggerated, over-the-top illustration of what it takes to repair the most common and not-so-common household catastrophes., premiering Tuesday, Oct. 6
 
"Disaster House is one-of-a-kind home improvement television," Temple says. "Each and every week we stress this house out to the max - from the rafters to the floor boards, nothing is off limits. But we have tons of fun in the process and simultaneously get to show viewers how to confront and handle a variety of natural and manmade disasters that might present themselves during the course of home ownership."
 
DIY Network's very own Disaster House (located in Englewood, Colo.) suffers extreme damage and gets repaired on a weekly basis.  Featured scenarios are:  a roller derby team whose room-to-room training session produces dry wall holes and divots throughout the home; a local fire department blasts water into the residence where Temple SCUBA dives in the basement to demonstrate how to repair it, a sedan dangling 20 feet from a crane is dropped to illustrate driveway damage; a group of medieval era re-enactors destroy the home's windows and façade and finally, a "World's Strongest Man" competitor unleashes some serious weight on the floor to simulate damage often caused by termites.  Every disaster has a solution, and Temple is there show viewers which repairs they can do themselves and which ones should be left to the pros. In addition, each episode features a Disaster of The Day; real photos and videos sent in by viewers who have lived through their own, often bizarre disasters. For example, the sun and a glass bowl cause a house fire and a helicopter blade sails a half mile through a homeowner's roof.