This year, the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre is located at a 100-year-old mansion located on Bay Street South in Hamilton, Ontario, where the contestants will take charge of renovating one room, as well as a common kitchen and turn the Handyman Rehabilitation Centre into a functional bed and breakfast.
In the end, Joe won the "golden helmet" for being the most improved, while Casey was nominated as the worst due to having destroyed three walls (his own, Dez's and Tex's) in the episode.
Andrew and Geoff are divided on who is worse: Joe for failing to lead (and having disastrous challenges, including his workbench collapsing during evaluation) or Casey for letting Marnie do most of the gruntwork (and in the test to see if his workbench held up, he smashed a hole in it himself) and the fact that his joinery in the group challenge (he had cut all the wood) is iffy at best.
In the end, Jo, who was left with the deciding vote, declares that Joe, who was named the most improved in the previous episode, is the worst.
For the second episode in a row, the experts are unanimous in choosing Dez as the most improved for the shower (though a failure for leaky plumbing, it's still better than the rest, plus his restoration had also impressed Geoff).
For the first time since rehab began, the experts agree that Joe is clearly the worst (with Jo claiming that he has gone backwards), but Andrew makes the case for Casey due to Marnie continuously doing all his challenges, as well as him personally begging Casey to read the thinset mortar instructions for a full hour during the group challenge (before Charmaine mixed it herself).
The clear most improved award goes to Charmaine for her work (mainly due to the fact that Jo filled in for an ill Tiina for the Closets Challenge and was the only one to pass the Curtains Challenge, thanks to her sewing experience), while Joe is the first contestant to be named the worst three times in a span of four episodes (he joins Jeff Gignac from the previous season as the only nominees to be named the worst in consecutive episodes) and his remedial job is to clean all five curtains, including his own, while the nominators (particularly Marnie) lecture him about showing respect for women.
Dez lashes out at the experts when they pointed out his errors (as his table lacked proper bracing, in addition the aforementioned mistakes on the design and positioning).
Joe is criticized due to not finishing the bannister (installing two of the four supports with one screw each), but concedes that he has improved considerably since the previous episode after passing the table challenge.
The experts are underwhelmed by Charmaine's work, her table having sharp edges due to not having grouted the tile tabletop and her finished headboard being "decidedly different."
As for the kitchen, Jo is not impressed by grout on the counters, while Geoff's main criticism is on the sink and drain, which Tex had virtually disassembled to install.
As his final task, he demolishes his own room before vowing that in a year's time, he will no longer be Canada's Worst Handyman.