House Hazards

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  • 2012
  • 1 Season
  • 4.6  (18)

In 2012, XiveTV premiered a unique, intriguing, and thought-provoking television series entitled House Hazards. This innovative show unearths and tests the hidden dangers in everyday homes, spreading awareness and arming viewers with practical tips on how to safeguard their living spaces. The series offers a combination of scientific exploration and practical education cloaked in a layer of entertainment, ensuring an engaging view while also delivering a potentially life-saving message.

In House Hazards, homeowners are subjected to every imaginable domestic disaster - from explosions and fires to floods and electrical mishaps. Each episode highlights a different array of household hazards, ensuring a surprising, intriguing, and sometimes terrifying visual journey into the unknown dangers lurking in ordinary homes. It exposes the threats that can be hidden in the most unexpected places, including the kitchen, bathroom, or even the backyard. Combining eye-opening insight with entertainment, House Hazards is a refreshing twist on home and lifestyle programming.

Guiding viewers through these domestic disasters are our hosts, scientific-minded Francesca Garigue, risk-taking Brendan Callaghan, and engineering genius Dan Dicaire. This dynamic trio uses state-of-the-art technology and bold experimentation to recreate actual home-related catastrophes, determine their causes, and, most importantly, figure out how they could have been prevented. The hosts' tangible chemistry and their unique skill sets each contribute to the comprehensive nature of the investigations, resulting in a show that balances humor, education, and pragmatism.

Francesca, Brendan, and Dan perform the bulk of the scientific testing inside a full-scale home replica. This venue serves as the ultimate test site, allowing the hosts to simulate genuine household mishaps in a real-world context. It is in this arena that audiences are brought face-to-face with the aftermath of these potential hazards, leaving them with indelible, cautionary lessons.

House Hazards treads where few other home programs dare to tread. It goes beyond simple DIY tips or home improvement projects and delves into hardcore scientific investigations of less apparent perils in the domestic sphere. It beautifully unites experiential knowledge with scientific research, ultimately providing audiences with an idea of how to make their homes as safe as they possibly can be.

The risks tackled in House Hazards ranges from common concerns like slips in the bathroom, raw or undercooked food, baby-proofing mishaps, and faulty wiring, to more unusual threats that most people wouldn't consider. The fact that these hazards are so actual and easily overlooked makes the show all the more relevant and vital. Through its uncompromising exploration of these dangers, House Hazards effectively changes the way viewers perceive their homes and empowers them with the necessary knowledge to mitigate said risks.

Replete with hair-raising experiments and indispensable advice, House Hazards thrives on both its shock value and its educational merits. It offers an edifying insight into the hazards that lay hidden in our homes without leaning into fear-mongering. Instead, it arms audiences with the knowledge and tools to address potential risks with proactive and safety-led measures.

Supplementing the core content are the striking visual effects and graphics that enhance the learning experience. Whether it's showcasing microscopic bacteria or illustrating the build-up of a disastrous event, these visual components provide a vivid and immersive viewing experience. These aspects prudently utilized serve to better communicate the potential threats and prevention methods to the viewer.

The strength of House Hazards lies in its innovative concept, the execution of riveting scientific experiments, and the unforgettable lessons it imparts. XiveTV

House Hazards is a series that ran for 1 seasons (14 episodes) between October 16, 2012 and on XiveTV

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Jack of All Trades
14. Jack of All Trades
November 13, 2012
The House Hazards domestic scientists put a buzz kill on the handiness of table saws. But it's their research on the hidden dangers of water heaters that really get them into hot water.
A House Divided
13. A House Divided
December 4, 2012
The walls come tumbling down and the furniture reaches a tipping point when the House Hazards experts discover how home renovations can quickly turn into home demos in the hands of the not-so-handy.
Braving the Elements
12. Braving the Elements
December 4, 2012
From hailstorms to flash floods, the House Hazards team of experts simulate a series of natural disasters. But their test home gets snowed under in the process proving there can never be enough weatherproofing.
Car Through House
11. Car Through House
November 20, 2012
An uninvited guest crashes the gang's dinner party, and the grass is definitely not greener when the wheels of potential domestic disaster are set in motion by the House Hazards team of scientists.
Collapse and Expand
10. Collapse and Expand
November 20, 2012
From an unexpected bath in the bedroom to a kitchen counter blender bender, the House Hazards domestic scientists shed light on the potential dangers lurking in everyone's home.
Dinner Party Disaster
9. Dinner Party Disaster
November 13, 2012
From 5-alarm chili to all-purpose flour power, the House Hazards domestic scientists get cooking to separate the facts from kitchen fiction when it comes to potential culinary dangers.
Holiday Horror
8. Holiday Horror
November 6, 2012
From a well-lit tree to a hot date night, the House Hazards test home goes up in smoke when a bad case of gas leads to internal combustion. Dan, Brendan and Francesca take the heat so others can avoid domestic meltdown.
Infestation
7. Infestation
November 6, 2012
From bug bombs to hare-triggered fires, your home is out to get you. The House Hazards team of domestic scientists unleashes an army of energized rabbits, exploding insect repellent and blazing rat traps.
Natural Disasters
6. Natural Disasters
October 30, 2012
Dan and Francesca debate the merits of an open-window policy when it comes to hurricane survival. Brendan and Dan go bowling - on the roof - to test whether the home is meteor proof.
Security Overload
5. Security Overload
October 30, 2012
After Brendan and Francesca break and enter his home, Dan flees to the panic room but it's no match for the well equipped, yet unwanted, guests. The domestic scientists then reveal the shocking truth about electric fences.
Reckless Abandon
4. Reckless Abandon
October 23, 2012
Sparks fly when Dan teaches Francesca about bathtub electrocution, and Francesca creates some fireworks of her own in the bedroom. The two then get into double trouble in the kitchen.
Home Entertainment
3. Home Entertainment
October 23, 2012
Brendan turns his amp up to get the music popping, but the result could shatter the party vibe. Dan and Francesca place a "bar" bet on, which is more dangerous - the tiki bar or the barbecue? And we blow up an air mattress.
Cleanliness
2. Cleanliness
October 16, 2012
Brendan maxes out a Laundry machine, Dan sets fire to a dryer and Francesca challenges Dan to see which is dirtier: the toilet or the kitchen sink.
Freak Accidents
1. Freak Accidents
October 16, 2012
The hosts get to work demonstrating real house hazards: a septic tank explosion, a grease fire, and what happens when you knock the neck off a helium tank.
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Where to Watch House Hazards
House Hazards is available for streaming on the XiveTV website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch House Hazards on demand at Amazon Prime, Amazon and Tubi TV.
  • Premiere Date
    October 16, 2012
  • IMDB Rating
    4.6  (18)