Episode 8: Dining Room and Foyer

Plot:

Rather than competing first for a budget allowance, each team is competing to see how many days they get the extra help. The labor competition involves making an entire breakfast using the same kind of tools they use in their renovations: making juice with a drill, cutting toast with a miter saw and jellying it with a paint roller, cutting grapes with pruning shears and making egg salad with a hammer. The team that completes breakfast the fastest gets help for three days, while the second place team gets help for two days and the third place team one day. Once the labor competition is over, the helpers are brought out. To the teams¿ utter surprise, the help turns out to be none other than Katie, Joey and Cindy¿s mothers. During the renovations, the guys are offered an ¿escape¿ to go play paintball. Meanwhile, Rebecca and Katie struggle to find the right paint colors while Cindy tackles a complicated faux finish for her dining room. A special dinner for the teams is held at Katie &