27 Facts About Mike Holmes

Mike Holmes began learning construction from his father starting when he was six years old.

Mike Holmes has run two companies during his 20-year contracting career.

Mike Holmes has three children: Amanda, Sherry, and Mike Jr.

In 2006, Mike Holmes started The Mike Holmes Foundation after seeing a renovation that was so poorly done that he felt it was necessary for him to tear the house down and start again rather than try to repair the damage.

The purpose of The Mike Holmes Foundation is to encourage young people to enter the building trades as well as to assist those who have been impoverished by bad renovations.

In 2006, Mike Holmes was recognized in the House of Commons of Canada for his promotion of skilled trades and for his advocacy for improved building standards.

Mike Holmes was acknowledged as an "extraordinary craftsperson" and "an accomplished master builder with a social conscience".

Mike Holmes is the author of two books: Home Renovation with Canada's Most Trusted Contractor, Mike Holmes Inspection: Everything You Need to Know Before You Buy or Sell Your Home, as well as a weekly newspaper column.

Mike Holmes' first starring series was Holmes on Homes, which premiered in 2003, on Corus Entertainment's HGTV Canada.

In June 2019, Bell Media announced a new development deal with Mike Holmes, ending his relationship with HGTV Canada.

Between the end of Holmes on Homes and the start of Holmes Inspection, Mike Holmes starred in a one-season series, Holmes in New Orleans, on the construction of a new home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, to replace one destroyed during Hurricane Katrina.

Mike Holmes began a new series in 2009 called Mike Holmes Inspection that profiles home inspections gone wrong.

Mike Holmes inspected the houses while checking up on the construction, leaving long-time crew member Damon Bennett as the lead site manager and backup host.

Best of Mike Holmes on Homes is a 2012 remix TV series featuring clips from Mike Holmes on Homes, brought together on a common theme, to illustrate home problems.

Mike Holmes started a new series for 2012 called Mike Holmes Makes It Right, where he profiles and renovates disaster-stricken.

Over 12 one-hour episodes, the Mike Holmes family takes on five different houses, and repairs them.

Mike Holmes was a judge on all seasons of Handyman Superstar Challenge.

Mike Holmes was a judge on season 1 of Canada's Handyman Challenge.

In late April 2015, Fox announced a new eight-episode Mike Holmes-hosted show entitled Home Free, which premiered on July 22.

Mike Holmes has been a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show twice during a season 4 episode in December 2006.

Mike Holmes helped the Tiu family who bought a new house, a bungalow, in the Los Angeles area which he had to fix a shoddy renovation left by a clueless contractor.

Mike Holmes made a guest appearance on an episode of the Canadian series Corner Gas as Wanda's ex-boyfriend.

In October 2019, Mike Holmes made an appearance on HGTV's renovation competition series Rock the Block when he was a guest judge for one of the projects.

In July 2021, Mike Holmes was a guest judge alongside Mina Starsiak of Good Bones on the HGTV renovation competition series Battle on the Beach, where contestants team up with a star designer to battle it out renovating their outdated beach houses in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Mike Holmes has partnered with several home builders and renovators in Canada and the United States to develop the Mike Holmes Approved Homes program.

Mike Holmes is an advisor for Ottawa Land Bank, a land banking service for speculators, managed by Oakwood and John Liptack.

In 2025, Mike Holmes removed all webpages, ads, and videos in which he endorsed AGM Renovations after AGM came under investigation by the Electrical Safety Authority in Ontario.