8.1/1012 votes#1 - The Akana Family
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2007
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.
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9.1/1011 votes#2 - The Byers Family
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2007
Ty and the design team arrive in Corvallis, Oregon to renovate the dilapidated home of a 8-year-old cancer patient and her family.
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8.2/109 votes#3 - The Brown Family
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2007
Ty and the design team give a Connecticut family a new home after their house is flooded, ravaged by fire and robbed multiple times.
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NaN/100 votes#4 - The Carter Family
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2007
The team build a new home for the Carter family, who've been living in a refurbished chicken coop.
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NaN/100 votes#5 - The Yazzie Family
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2007
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
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7.2/1010 votes#6 - The Miller Family
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2007
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.
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NaN/100 votes#7 - The Marrero Family
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2007
A single father and his sons are given a new home by Ty and the crew. The family visits Spain during the construction.
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8.7/1011 votes#8 - The Swenson-Lee Family
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2007
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.
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8.7/1010 votes#9 - The Stockdale Family
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2007
Middleton, ID - A new home is built for the Stockdale family, whose children suffer from a debilitating blood disease known as Eosinophilic Enteropathy.
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NaN/100 votes#10 - The Vitale Family
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2007
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.
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- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Chapin Family
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/2007
Kirkland, WA — The team renovate the Chapin family's home, which was poorly constructed.
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NaN/100 votes#12 - The Ray-Smith Family
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/2008
Milbridge, ME The team renovate Brittany Ray and Ron Smith's home, which they claim is haunted.
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8.8/1011 votes#13 - The Woodhouse Family
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2008
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.
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NaN/100 votes#14 - The Luther Family
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/2008
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.
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NaN/100 votes#15 - The Voisine Family
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2008
Manchester, NH The Voisine family's home was destroyed by a flood in 2006. The crew build the family a new home.
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- 8.0/1012 votes
#16 - The Gilyeat Family
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/2008
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.
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8.3/1013 votes#17 - The Hughes Family
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/2008
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.
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NaN/100 votes#18 - The Lucas Family
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/2008
Cullen, VA -- The team build the Lucas family a new home.
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NaN/100 votes#19 - The Turner Family
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/2008
Fairmont, WV -- The Turner family's home is remodeled.
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NaN/100 votes#20 - The Boettcher Family
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 3/16/2008
Silver Springs, NV -- The Boettcher family's house is rebuilt.
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NaN/100 votes#21 - The Gaudet Family
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/23/2008
Mobile, AL -- The Gaudet family's home is rebuilt.
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NaN/100 votes#22 - The Latif Family
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/2008
The team rebuild the home of a single mother and they also transform a home in Delaware.
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7.8/1010 votes#23 - The Martinez Family
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 4/27/2008
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.
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8.2/109 votes#24 - The Silva Family
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/4/2008
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.
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NaN/100 votes#25 - The Giunta Family
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/11/2008
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.
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The Best Episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 5
Every episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 5!
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is an American reality television series providing home improvements for less fortunate families and community schools. The show is hosted by...
Genre:Reality
Network:ABC
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"The Akana Family" is the best rated episode of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" season 5. It scored 8.1/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/2007. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Byers Family".