[funky music]
‐ You know, one of the number‐one things
is shop safety.
‐ Safety is no accident. ‐ There you go.
‐ That was our old shop teacher.
"Want you to be careful on that bandsaw, everybody."
‐ [laughs]
"I learned by experience."
‐ "I'm not kidding around."
‐ How many are gone?
How many‐‐ Like, four are gone?
‐ If your shop teacher wasn't missing a finger,
he wasn't really a shop teacher.
He was just a sub.
"I'm not kidding around!"
[both laugh]
‐ Here we go.
[rock music]
‐ Yeah, baby!
[cackles]
Hi, I'm Tim Allen.
if there's one thing I love,
it's people who build things...
and hanging out with them.
All right, that's two things.
So I invited three incredible makers
to compete from their own shops.
♪ ♪
They'll be creating mind‐blowing builds
from cool stuff that I send them,
all for a cash prize.
♪ ♪
‐ I'm coming for you!
‐ I've asked my ride‐or‐die, Richard Karn,
and our resident expert, April Wilkerson,
to have fun with me
as these makers design, build, compete, and, of course,
add more power. [grunting]
What could go wrong?
Oh! Whoa! Whoa! ‐ Whoa!
‐ Except for maybe that. ‐ Whoo!
‐ This is "Assembly Required"
♪ ♪
Do you think our contestants realize how much fun we have
doing this?
‐ No.
And what they don't know is going to hurt them.
‐ [chuckles]
‐ All right, let's see what we got.
‐ Yeah. Let's roll the playback!
I've always wanted to say that.
‐ You did.
‐ My name is Sam Turner.
I living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
I am a CAD designer and fabricator.
♪ ♪
I've built diesel‐powered mountain boards,
diesel‐powered bicycles,
a monowheel‐style motorcycle that has the ring
that goes around the entire outside of the rider.
‐ This guy's right up your alley.
‐ Wow. No kidding.
[engine revs] ‐ Here we go.
I belong in this competition because
I'm really good at thinking outside the box,
coming up with ideas that aren't the norm.
‐ Everything he built there can apply to everything
we do on this show. ‐ I get it. I get it.
Formidable character already.
‐ Let's see who's next.
‐ My name's Bianca Moreno.
I'm a licensed general contractor.
I'm from Los Angeles, California.
When I first walk on to a job,
they think that I'm the taco truck or something like tha.
Then come to find,
I'm the general contractor.
That's right. I'm the boss on the job.
[both laugh]
The joke is, when they work with me
that it's not gonna stop.
And then you can pivot.
Pivot.
And I could stand like this for hours.
It's in my blood.
My father's a lifelong mechanic.
I can compete. I can hold my own.
On with the show.
‐ That's what we need. We need a lot of confidence.
‐ Won't stop.
I like that. ‐ Yeah.
‐ Who's next?
‐ Justin Thompkins, and I'm a general contractor.
Mostly what I do is high‐end custom residential work.
It's generally multimillion‐dollar properties.
I'm very scientific‐minded.
I love the science, the engineering,
the physics behind it all.
It's funny, 'cause people see me like,
"You're construction."
So they think, like, I don't know,
I'm some, like‐‐just meathead.
I'm a total goofball.
[both laugh]
I feel sorry for those other guys,
'cause they're going up against me.
‐ Wow. That was some really beautiful work.
‐ Oh, yeah. ‐ Really beautiful work.
‐ Let's get one thing straight.
Let me do the comedy around here, okay?
‐ I am very excited.
This is gonna be amazing. ‐ Mm‐hmm.
‐ Amazing.
‐ We'll see how they do under pressure.
Let's go live. Is everybody‐‐can hear us?
‐ I can hear you. ‐ Hear you loud and clear.
‐ I guess now Buzz Lightyear and I both have Tim Allen
as an inner voice.
‐ Yeah, baby. That's what I'm talking about.
That's "Toy Story 4."
"Woody, who do you suppose the other voice is?"
That's one of the better lines in the movie. Thanks for that.
‐ Makers, welcome to "Assembly Required."
I am your host, Richard Karn.
‐ Tim Allen here, second to speak,
first in your heart.
Great to meet some fellow builders.
‐ We have a great competition ahead for you.
And we're happy to see that you guys are in your own workshops,
where you can get your best work done.
‐ Here's the catch, guys.
Everything we send you, that's what you get to work with.
‐ But there's only room for two of you
in the final challenge.
The winner walks away with a cash prize
and, more importantly, bragging rights.
‐ And maybe Richard will follow you on social media.
‐ I will. I will follow you.
Tell them what they're gonna build.
‐ Let's talk about the Jacuzzi.
You haven't succeeded until you can say,
"I own a Jacuzzi." ‐ [chuckles]
‐ Most Jacuzzis run on house power,
meaning you're stuck dropping it on your patio
right underneath your kid's window.
Not prime real estate.
‐ So later, in round two,
two of you will attempt to build
a naturally powered Jacuzzi,
no electricity allowed to heat it or to move the water.
Off the grid, if you will.
But first, the Make or Break Challenge.
I want to know just how talented you guys really are.
We're staying with the water theme.
‐ Okay. All three of you are gonna build us
a drinking‐fountain fountain.
That was not a stutter.
A drinking‐fountain fountain is one that is both capable
of providing hydration
and relaxation.
‐ At the end of round one, we will test
that both features work.
‐ We want water in the air and water in the mouth, all right?
AKA, it's a hybrid station.
‐ You heard the man.
We have sent you a mystery crate of items
that will test your skills as America's best builders.
When time is up,
we will inspect your work, and we will put it to the test.
At the end, Tim and I will deliberate,
and we will decide
who is moving on to the next round.
Makers, your shipments have arrived.
You have 90 minutes to make or break
a drinking‐fountain fountain.
Your time starts...
both: Now.
♪ ♪
‐ Unpacking big stuff.
♪ ♪
‐ We have sent these makers a challenging mix of items.
It's up to them to figure out which ones
will help them make their design.
Add in the fact that they can use whatever they already have
in their own shops, and they have a lot of choices to make
if they hope to finish in 90 minutes.
‐ I'd say any drinking fountain
is gonna need a base,
so I say I start there.
♪ ♪
‐ Ooh, nice. Nice move.
♪ ♪
‐ These pipes, I'm planning on cutting and coping
and welding to the base of this stand to build an offset leg
so that it's almost like a tripod stand
that will hold my fountain.
♪ ♪
‐ Time to make some cuts.
It's gonna get loud.
[saw grinding]
♪ ♪
‐ So, Justin, walk us through what you're doing.
‐ We're gonna have the fountains shoot out
at different heights,
so you'll get a kind of cascade, cool‐looking,
Vegas, shooting fountain
and a drinking fountain on the tallest one.
‐ Almost like a Roman candle of water.
‐ "A Roman candle of water."
‐ [chuckles] ‐ Love it. Love it.
‐ This is a lot to do
in an hour and a half.
No doubt. ‐ All right. Good job.
♪ ♪
Fighting it.
‐ Bianca. ‐ Yes, sir?
‐ Walk us through what you got there.
‐ Well, this is just a fountain decorative roud
right here that I'm trying to do.
Not seeing it all quite yet.
‐ Nicely done. You got about an hour left.
‐ Which means you've used up one half hou.
30 minutes. ‐ Wow.
So math was your strong suit. ‐ Yes, it is.
The tangent, the cosine.
‐ All very useful as an actor.
♪ ♪
‐ Very, very high anxiety.
Just trying to get
something presentable.
‐ Sam, what do you got going?
‐ What they're gonna be is kind of a‐‐
a yin and yang symbol... ‐ Beautiful.
‐ And having water spraying from one side.
And I'm actually going to feed
my little propane torch into this side,
and have fire on that side and water on this side.
And then you turn it off, and it shoots water up
to drink out of, hopefully.
‐ You don't want to be drinking the fire.
You don't want to mess that little valve u.
‐ [chuckles]
‐ There's, like, so many different ways
they can go with this.
‐ There's always somebody in these builds that goes, like,
nutball right away. ‐ "There wasn't enough to do.
I want to add a couple more elements."
‐ I'm worried about valves and what kind of minerals
coming out of the thing, and this guy‐‐
"How do I get flame to come out of there?"
‐ We're talking water pressure. We're talking gauges.
I mean, have you ever tried to drink out of a firehose?
You can't. It's the pressure.
‐ Yeah, I often do that, Richard.
‐ The pressure is so hard. ‐ "Excuse me.
"Could you stop putting out that building?
I'd like to get a little drink out of your firehose."
‐ [laughs] Let's ask April how they should tackle
this two‐in‐one fountain.
‐ Oh, hey. Look at you.
‐ Now, the first build is just
a fountain and a drinking fountain.
‐ And I feel like that's very achievable
with the supplies that they've been given
and a little creativity.
So they do have a three‐way valve,
to where the water‐‐it can either be completely shut off,
but then it get go left
to, let's say, go to the water fountain
and then right to go to the drinking fountain.
‐ But inherently, the pressure coming in is exactly the same.
There's no way you can increase the pressure.
‐ Well, they can actually crimp it
in order to increase the pressure along the wa,
but then reduce the pressure on the water‐drinking side
so that it doesn't just squirt them in the face.
‐ Right. You got to get very creative here.
Plumbing and water flow‐‐
this just ain't my thing.
‐ I am thirsty. I am gonna leave you to it.
I wish the contestants luck with this one.
‐ Thank you, April. ‐ You're welcome.
♪ ♪
‐ You have 45 minutes left.
How many minutes have they used up?
‐ 45 minutes! ‐ 45 minutes.
45 and 45 is 90.
‐ 44. 43.
It keeps moving. What's that all about?
Oh, time marches on.
‐ Time marches on.
♪ ♪
‐ So I've got to hurry up big‐time.
‐ Time is going by a lot faster
than I thought it would.
So am I nervous? Yeah.
‐ Don't want to drop my pace.
I got to keep full kill mode engaged.
♪ ♪
[screams]
‐ Hey‐ho! Whoa, whoa! ‐ Whoa!
‐ Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey.
‐ [bleep]!
‐ Is he okay?
‐ [bleep]!
‐ Oh...
‐ I just drilled through the end of my finger.
[groans] [bleep].
♪ ♪
It hurts!
‐ Sam!
[music fades]
‐ I can bleed when we're done with the competition.
All right.
♪ ♪
‐ Are you okay?
‐ Oh, yeah. I'm good.
Just a little battle wound.
‐ Did you disinfect it?
Or did you burn it off with fire?
‐ Oh, just a Band‐Aid.
I only have 90 minutes, so just wrap it and keep going.
‐ But you're seriously okay, Sam?
You good? ‐ Oh, yeah. I'm good.
You know the project's gonna turn out well
when you sacrifice your own blood to it.
♪ ♪
‐ [imitates retching]
‐ Tim has a tough time with blood.
Not his own. ‐ Not my own.
‐ But other people's. ‐ Other people's.
‐ All right, makers, you've got 15 minutes.
♪ ♪
‐ Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on!
♪ ♪
‐ So now I've got to pull them out, bend them,
and then get the valves in.
♪ ♪
Damn. ‐ Oh, wait a minute.
‐ Uh‐oh. ‐ Uh‐oh.
‐ The problem is this pipe is deformed enough
that I can't get the spring bender on there.
‐ He's having a problem bending that copper.
How's he gonna connect those fountains?
‐ That's gonna be a problem.
♪ ♪
‐ Justin, how you doing there?
‐ Not so good,
because now I got to sweat all these fittings
'cause the copper wouldn't bend in the bender.
So I got to put fittings on, and there's just‐‐
you know, I got to sweat, like, 20 joints,
so it's not looking good.
‐ You got 13 minutes. ‐ 13?
Oh, that's it. Then I'm gonna do it.
‐ I am worried about Justin.
I hope he can finish.
♪ ♪
‐ Now, I'm working on my base.
♪ ♪
‐ Got less than five minutes.
This is exciting. ‐ 4 1/2 minutes.
♪ ♪
‐ I don't know if I can do it, but I'm gonna go for it.
‐ Cutting it close.
♪ ♪
‐ What's with all the water?
[chuckles dryly]
‐ [groans]
‐ And these get connected on to those.
♪ ♪
‐ One minute, people. One minute.
‐ Crazy town.
‐ This is very frustrating,
that I didn't have the right type of fitting.
♪ ♪
‐ [groans] It's coming down to the wire on this one.
♪ ♪
‐ Never gonna be finished.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
‐ It's the wrong torch. That's why.
Dang it. [chuckles]
♪ ♪
‐ Ten,
nine...
both: Eight... ‐ Seven...
both: Six, five, four,
three, two, one.
‐ All right, cut it off.
‐ All right. Step away‐‐
‐ Step away from your machines. ‐ From your fountain fountain.
‐ Step away.
♪ ♪
‐ That's extra points.
That's extra points. ‐ We love it.
Okay, makers, we will now test your fountains.
Your build should contain a working water feature
and a separate drinking fountain.
Should we go to Bianca first? ‐ There she goes.
Bianca, how are you feeling? ‐ Great!
I feel great!
‐ See, is that a skeleton? ‐ It's an owl.
‐ An owl. ‐ It's like, "Only with love."
‐ All right. Turn it on, and let's see what happen.
♪ ♪
There's the drinking fountain.
All right. Good.
‐ Yeah, leave it there.
And then light your house on fire and run away.
Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. ‐ That is a lot of water.
‐ Turn it off. Turn it off.
For the love of God, we live in California.
‐ Thank you, Bianca.
‐ Then I can just drink.
‐ Oh, God, she's gonna get dysentery.
♪ ♪
‐ Sam? ‐ Yes, sir?
‐ Any more holes in your body?
‐ No, hopefully they're just in the machine.
‐ All right, Sammy, light it up.
Let's see what it looks like.
[dramatically] Whoa. Yeah.
Whoa. Whoa. Look out!
‐ Yeah, there's‐‐ the wind's blowing this way,
so it's making it a little difficult, but‐‐
‐ Yeah, baby! ‐ Yep.
‐ We've got a yin and yang symbol,
representing the balance of fire and water.
‐ Oh, gorgeous. Beautiful.
‐ And then when you're ready to go,
you switch to drinking mode, and‐‐
‐ Very nicely done. Very nicely done.
‐ Oh, very nicely done. ‐ Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. ‐ Okay.
‐ Justin, let's take a look.
‐ Well, did you do it?
‐ No. It's not fully done.
‐ Oh, no. ‐ Shoot.
‐ But imagine this with the valve...
and then it would work.
‐ Unfortunately, it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
‐ Still, it's a beautiful design, from what we can see.
‐ Thank you.
‐ Justin, we're just so sorry
that we have to say goodbye to you.
‐ Say goodbye to Justin, but, my gosh, it was a great idea.
Great idea, my friend.
‐ It was a lot of fun building this.
I'm sweating my balls off over here,
but it's amazing how quickly
times goes by while you're working.
90 minutes seems like a long time,
but then before you know it, 90 minutes is up.
♪ ♪
‐ Sam, Bianca, congratulations
on making it to the second and final challenge‐‐
the Run with It Challenge.
Now, at the start, Tim challenged you to build
a naturally powered Jacuzzi.
Now it's time to get to work.
♪ ♪
Inside your crates are materials you can use
to build a naturally powered Jacuzzi.
And that's not all.
‐ I threw in an intact furnace.
Take it apart, build it up,
figure out the best way to use it
to help heat up your Jacuzzi.
And, of course,
you must incorporate your drinking‐fountain fountain
into the build to create a full experience, all right?
‐ When you complete your build after five days,
it will be shipped back to me and Tim,
where they'll be tested on three criteria‐‐
quality, design, and functionality.
You need to show us
the height of your skills
and deliver something truly original
with plenty of features and a design that tells us
which one of you is the better maker.
‐ We'll be tracking your progress,
and if we need to check in with you directly,
we're going to do that.
‐ Your crates will arrive tomorrow morning.
You got five days to complete this build.
Good luck.
♪ ♪
Run with it.
‐ Let's do it!
[dramatic music]
‐ Oh, boy. ‐ Yeah.
Five days in front of them.
I hope to see some truly spectacular designs.
♪ ♪
‐ [grunts] Here we go.
♪ ♪
All right.
‐ Got it. Got it.
[grunts] Maybe it comes out that way.
‐ All right, folks.
For round two, I've given them a lot of cool stuff.
‐ Tool kits. That's pretty cool.
‐ They can use whatever they have
laying around their shops, but I really want
to have these makers earn this win,
so I had our resident expert, April,
create a secret challenge.
As always, they're gonna have to be fixers
as well as makers.
‐ Day one of five, I need to wrap my head around things.
The gears are starting to spin.
♪ ♪
‐ Dive right in. ‐ I know.
‐ This is what it's all about. ‐ [chuckles]
‐ For me, I do a lot of thinking...
and then it kind of, like, comes together, so...
I don't have a complete plan.
I just have the concept:
this whole idea of man cave,
she‐shed, all that‐‐
a hot tub haven or something like that.
♪ ♪
That's that.
This is the temperature‐‐ thermometer.
Okay, so this is...
Oh, okay. Ooh.
Ooh. Mm‐mm‐mm.
This is not good.
[both laugh]
♪ ♪
How did that happen?
‐ April?
‐ Yes, sir?
‐ What's the Run with It repair today?
What'd we screw up for her?
What'd you screw for her? You take the blame.
‐ We have sent them copper tubing...
‐ Uh‐huh. ‐ Right.
‐ For running the water through,
but we put a kink in it,
so they're first gonna have to recognize that there's a kink,
and then they're gonna have to figure out how to fix the kink.
And that can get a little tricky, because one way
is just to cut out the kink and then solder in
a new section that's straight,
but depending on what side of the hot tub it's gonna be on,
they might not be able to solder it,
and then they're gonna have to go to a fitting of some sor,
a coupling, in order to put in a straight section.
‐ Seems like a problem you would want
to handle right away.
Don't want to have that bite you on day five.
‐ We'll see if it works out for her.
‐ Thanks, April.
♪ ♪
‐ That's crazy.
So I'm just gonna cut the kink out of this tube here.
♪ ♪
All right. So there you have it.
There's our eyebrows.
‐ Looks like she's not letting that slow her down.
‐ Nice.
♪ ♪
‐ So I'm starting to put my components in place.
We can make this the utility side.
♪ ♪
Okay.
Want to make this coil as small as possible
so I can throw it into my oven.
Hopefully the water going inside
will heat up enough to where...
I can then throw it into my hot tub.
‐ Bianca is making good progress.
♪ ♪
‐ [humming]
Kinked hose.
‐ Ah.
‐ Okay, well...
So we have our parts and pieces.
♪ ♪
‐ Noticed the problem but didn't fix it‐‐
curious.
‐ I don't even want to go cutting copper
and have to redo anything.
If I start cutting things now without my design plans,
I may end up messing up something,
and it could be a costly mistake.
♪ ♪
Yeah, today, I think, is gonna be a lot
of just contemplation.
Tim and Richard said we have to build a off‐grid hot tub
with zero electricity,
and it needs to be able to warm the water.
And I would like to make it circulate as well,
but that gets a little difficult without electricity
to run a pump, so I'm gonna have to great pretty creativ.
♪ ♪
Hmm.
♪ ♪
It's a lot to take in here. [chuckles]
♪ ♪
I am really struggling with my design.
‐ Good Lord. ‐ I don't know.
I've got a bajillion ideas I can come up with.
♪ ♪
Hitting a brick wall.
Cylinder. Spring. Plumbing.
Definitely not as far along with the progress
as I would like to be.
♪ ♪
‐ This is my yard goat,
this little guy here.
‐ [chuckles]
‐ Whoo‐hoo! ‐ Love that‐‐
I just love that thing. ‐ I know.
‐ I give her a couple grand, I could take the scooter,
put a V8 in it. ‐ Yeah.
‐ Okay, so we've got that out of the way.
I'm just gonna kind of size everything up.
I'm switching gears today
to the hot tub.
This thing has been sitting here for years.
I've not wanted to get rid of this thing
because it's broken.
I think it would serve me better
modifying it
and sticking it in that hot tub.
♪ ♪
I think we should do it.
‐ If it fits in there, it's gonna look cool as hell.
‐ Well, why not?
♪ ♪
‐ So, in cutting the lounge chair,
why does it have to flip up?
I can modify the side rails,
and I can get them to tuck back in.
Stupendous.
‐ I think it looks great.
That's really a slick idea.
‐ Kind of a spa vibe. ‐ I like it.
‐ Oh, my gosh.
This feels great!
‐ Fun fact‐‐"Jacuzzi" is not an Italian word.
It's an Italian name. Did you know that?
‐ No, I thought it was one of those fun Italian words.
‐ The company that we're talking about was founded
by seven brothers called the Jacuzzis.
‐ The Jacuzzi brothers? ‐ Yes.
Hot tubs springing everywhere because of these guys.
‐ Well, they've done the world a great service.
‐ Yes, they have.
‐ I will think of the Jacuzzi brothers
next time I'm soaking in a hot tub.
‐ [gags]
‐ [chuckles] ‐ Yep.
‐ It's the beginning of day three.
I had my eureka moment last night.
Let's make something water‐powered.
We need to force the water through,
so I came up with the idea of using a hydraulic pistn
or a hydraulic ram
and make my own hydraulic diaphragm cylinders
out of PVC
to circulate water through the furnace,
the little wood‐burning stove,
or circulate water through multiple jets
around the tub.
‐ So Sam is gonna be able to move water in his build
to go to the Jacuzzi jet.
That's really cool.
‐ There's something pleasantly utilitarian
in the design of his.
‐ Very different from what we've seen from Bianca
so far.
‐ He's thinking outside the box, I'll tell you.
Hey, outside the tub.
‐ Hey, Google, make a checklist.
‐ Got it. Starting a list called "Checklist."
What do you want to add?
‐ Four‐inch PVC.
Four‐inch‐to‐one‐inch reducer.
Floor flange. Black iron.
‐ Got it.
‐ I've gone ahead and cut these PVC pipes
into 30‐inch‐long segments.
♪ ♪
Perfect.
♪ ♪
‐ Turret lathe.
I ran one of those as a summer job.
‐ These aluminum pucks
that I just got finished machining on the lathe,
they are gonna basically act like the piston.
That will allow the springs to push
against this puck,
forcing water pressure into the system.
♪ ♪
‐ It sounds like a pretty complicated system
that he's building, but if he pulls it off,
that's gonna be amazing.
‐ Yep. ‐ Good progress.
♪ ♪
‐ Going into day three,
I think I'm going to focus
on the exterior of the tub.
[grunts]
I want to start putting the casing together.
I found a piece of lauan,
and I'm gonna use that lauan, I think, for the exterior.
‐ She's gonna lay this on top of it?
‐ Around it.
She's got a wood covering around the tub.
‐ So what happens with this is,
you got to be very gingerly with it.
You soak this,
and that would bend wood.
‐ That's a smart idea. ‐ Yeah, I know.
‐ That's a very smart idea. Yeah.
‐ Wow, that's gonna be a big bend
she's trying to get out of that wood.
‐ Once you start soaking this wood,
if you don't do this properly,
you will destroy the wood.
Craftsmanship is very important.
It's all about showing Tim and Richard what I can d.
I really want to win this competition,
so I'm gonna take a chance.
‐ Oh, God.
‐ Gonna try this.
This is a first. I've never done it before.
I feel like it's gonna work.
[grunts]
‐ It's so tight in there. What's she doing?
‐ I can do this to the back.
[groans] [wood crunches]
‐ Uh‐oh. ‐ Oh, wait a minute.
‐ Uh‐oh. ‐ Uh‐oh.
‐ I just heard a crack.
‐ Oh, no.
‐ [sighs]
‐ Oh, man.
Man, here we go. Here we go.
♪ ♪
‐ Veneer like that is very delicate stuff.
‐ This was going to be the outside casing of my spa.
I got to think this out real quick,
because if I'm gonna make any changes,
I'm gonna need to do it right away.
The clock is ticking. [sighs]
‐ Good Lord.
‐ Got to respect her vision,
but this is eating up a lot of her time.
‐ I mean, usually what you do to bend wood‐‐
you cut the back of it to relieve the pressure,
and that's really what I should have done.
‐ Sounds like she's got the solution.
She is still in the game.
‐ All right.
♪ ♪
Oh, look at that.
‐ This looks great. This is so soft.
‐ The wood details are nice.
♪ ♪
‐ Now, Bianca's backcountry chic.
Very different from Sam,
who has kind of an industrial thing going on.
♪ ♪
While the makers are busy, here's a cool hack
from April for you folks at home.
‐ Okay, we're excited to see what the Hack of the Day is.
‐ This one is one of the most useful, I think,
and simple but definitely useful.
Whenever you are working on something
and need a little bit of extra lighting,
you can take a flashlight.
I oftentimes attach it directly to the safety glasses
with zip ties, and...doink.
And then you can turn on the flashlight.
Blind? ‐ [groans]
‐ It works well for hipster coal miners.
‐ Yes, exactly. ‐ Yeah. Yeah. I like it.
Let's go back and see how these makers are doing.
♪ ♪
‐ Morning of day four.
Got the ram sliding assembly finished last night
and was able to test it and move it back and fort.
Today I'd like to get the winch
and the pump system hooked up.
♪ ♪
This is what I'm going to attach my winch to.
As long as it's flush with my cap,
we should be good.
♪ ♪
Let's see what it does.
♪ ♪
It works.
It went in. It went out. Nothing exploded.
‐ Wow.
‐ So you can be sitting in the tub,
start cranking on it.
♪ ♪
When the hydraulic cylinders are pulled out,
they are sucking liquid into them the entire tim.
And as you went over to this side
and would turn the valve to activate the water system,
this will slowly start coming around
as the water is spraying out of the hole.
‐ Is this like something in every hot tub?
I mean, I don't see this.
Is it hidden somehow? ‐ I think it's a pump.
‐ Well, it's person‐powered. ‐ Person‐powered.
‐ And we wanted something self‐contained.
‐ I guess. What a mind.
♪ ♪
‐ Hey, Google.
How much does a standard pallet weigh?
‐ How much does a standard pallet weigh?
Pallet weight may vary, but in general,
standard pallets weigh between 30 to 48 pounds.
‐ Okay.
Going into day four, I know I need to get a lot done.
Clock's ticking,
so I have to keep it in high gear.
I'm going to
start putting components together now.
Instead of designing from outside looking in,
I'm actually now today gonna be designing
from inside looking out.
‐ Well, she's incorporating the box
that the hot tub parts came in
to create another room. ‐ A little space.
‐ It's gonna be something lie
your own private little mini spa, hot tub structure.
So I'm not just making a functioning hot tub.
I'm making a hot‐tub experience.
♪ ♪
I'm feeling it right here.
Day four is where you're gonna start seeing
the second burner come together.
Do I need casters?
I want to make a little base
for the burner.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
Where's my other glove?
‐ Welding, of course.
Smart idea, getting some direct heat under the tub.
‐ Getting inside the hot tub,
you can move this heating plate wherever you want.
You have it‐‐you can put it under your bum,
if you need that extra warmth.
You can move it mid‐leg.
You can move it to your feet.
And it's like you're in this whole experience.
Oh, I just want to jump in. It's at 99.
♪ ♪
‐ Yeah, it's fun.
♪ ♪
‐ So it's day five, the final day of the build,
and I still have the majority of my plumbing to do.
That's mostly copper soldering at this point,
and it's a little time‐consuming.
♪ ♪
It looks like they've sent me a kinked roll of copper.
‐ There you go.
♪ ♪
‐ There is the kinked section of hose.
‐ You know, it's day five, you know, but no pressure.
‐ It's not the time to fix something
you knew about on day one.
‐ So I'm going to fix this the old‐fashioned way‐‐
soldering it back together.
Cut out the bad section,
put this piece and this piece back together
so that they whole roll could still be usable.
♪ ♪
‐ All right. ‐ [chuckles]
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, yeah!
Today's day five.
It's the last day of the build.
I'm going to start
putting my components into place.
We got to get this thing up off the ground.
And then we have our burner.
I kind of boxed myself into the confines
of my shipping crate, which is fine,
but that means now I need to put the puzzle pieces in.
I got all these pieces to work with.
I need to see what fits.
‐ In a minute, we'll test the water pump system.
♪ ♪
I sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears for this competition.
If it doesn't work,
that's, like, elimination right there.
♪ ♪
[spring snaps]
[bleep]. ‐ It just busted.
‐ I am screwed.
If you can't pump that water through the system,
it's never gonna get hot.
‐ This should be going through the heater system
at the moment.
Yeah, it should. If it has enough pressure.
At this point, I can't crank any further,
'cause I don't want to do any damage to my cables.
This little cheap garage door spring holder
could not handle what I was sending through it.
They're only designed to handle the strength of,
really, one,
maybe two garage door springs on the pulley,
and I have four, so it just popped apart
and sent all the variants flying.
So I'm gonna go try to swap it out
for a different style of pulley of some sorts
that will, you know, not explode.
‐ Day five's almost over.
♪ ♪
‐ It seems like 99% functionality,
which I think it's as good as it's gonna get.
Now that the build is winding down,
I'd like to test the coil,
make sure it's warming up the water properly.
♪ ♪
‐ I need to get some legs on my stand.
♪ ♪
‐ Is she gonna be able to put this together in time?
♪ ♪
‐ Remember, this is gonna be a burner,
so it's gonna transfer heat.
♪ ♪
‐ It feels like she bit off
more than she can chew. ‐ I think so, too.
♪ ♪
‐ The clock's ticking.
I'm down to the wire.
I have to keep it in high gear.
♪ ♪
[chain saw rumbling]
[both laugh]
‐ Don't see enough of that.
♪ ♪
Have these people eaten anything?
‐ Yes, they have.
‐ We just haven't seen them eat anything?
I haven't seen either one of these eat‐‐or use the restroom.
I mean, she's working her tail off,
and I don't see a‐‐
a turkey sandwich.
♪ ♪
‐ Originally, I was going
to just have the coil on the outside,
but, unfortunately, it does not conduct heat
well enough into this copper coil,
so I'm gonna turn this thing sideways and shove it in here,
so this coil will be on the inside directly touching fire.
Trying to be conscious of that time.
‐ Oh, boy, it's getting to that magic ten minutes.
I'm gonna drink a bit more coffee
so I can get really nervous and pace.
♪ ♪
‐ This is a big fix with just a couple of minutes left.
I mean, he's got to get it right.
A hot tub that's not hot is just a tub.
♪ ♪
‐ Oh, now she's dressing it up a little bit.
Aren't we fancy? ‐ Right.
♪ ♪
‐ Ten, nine,
eight, seven, six,
five, four,
three, two, one.
♪ ♪
‐ Time.
It was so challenging,
but I think I did enough
to take the cake.
I wanted to knock your socks off,
and once I knock your socks off,
jump right into the hot tub,
because it's hot and ready to go.
‐ Very happy with how the end result of this project went.
I have no clue what Bianca has built,
but I definitely think she needs to bring her A‐game
if she wants to compete against this.
♪ ♪
‐ Wow.
‐ That's a lot to behold, my friend.
We asked these makers to build us
a naturally‐powered Jacuzzi,
and they both delivered custom creations
dripping with their personality.
Sam built us an industrial‐themed hot tub,
and went to the extra mile
by adding a kinetic‐powered hydro jet system.
He re‐purposed his original fountain into the plumbing.
♪ ♪
Sam's hot tub is hot stuff,
but does it have what it takes to wash away the competition?
♪ ♪
Bianca has given us a rustic backyard spa experience
with her B's Nest
and incorporated her fountain from round one
to act as Jacuzzi jets.
With two separate heat sources on her tub
and a steam feature, has Bianca done enough to win,
or will she need, like, a time machine
to go back in time and give her tub another shot?
‐ We've had these hot tubs heating for 90 minutes.
So what's the plan of attack, Tim?
‐ You're gonna get your thong on and get in there.
‐[laughts] Well, that's not gonna happen.
Maybe we can just check the temperature.
‐ [chuckling] "Maybe we can just check the temperature."
‐ We're gonna see how well these makers have implemented
their heating systems in these off‐grid Jacuzzis.
I mean, if your hot tub ain't hot, it's just a tub,
and, well, where's the fun in that?
Looking to see if these builds can at least reach
the ideal range of 98 to 104 degrees.
Well, Sam's...
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
What's it say?
‐ 104. ‐ Okay. 104.
‐ Get the lobsters.
Bianca.
♪ ♪
‐ All right.
What do we got it at?
116. ‐ 116.
‐ That's hot. ‐ That's hot.
‐ She got it hot.
Both of these builds have given us more power
when it comes to the heat.
Now it's gonna come down to the design,
the ingenuity, and the functionality.
All right, design‐‐
what are you liking about the design here?
‐ Bianca's‐‐ this is just like her.
This is a very good expression of her.
All this stuff in the background.
‐ Bianca built something that's backwoods chic.
‐ This thing‐‐ ‐ The wood casing around the‐
‐ Wood casing, setting the lawn furniture in there.
‐ Yeah.
‐ That, to me, sold everything for me.
Sam's build‐‐ ‐ Very different.
‐ It's not real relaxing to look at.
It looks like you're making, you know, moonshine.
Corn liquor!
[gravelly voice] Come on, now.
[normal voice] Just scoop your booze right out of here.
♪ ♪
Design‐‐Bianca.
Ingenuity. ‐ Ingenuity.
‐ She used our fountain inside of this thing,
so you have a little waterfall in there.
That's very smart.
‐ Now, the wand is like a steamer.
Give yourself a facial and open up the pores.
Sam's has that very interesting idea.
‐ "The crank, and I'm gonna have a pump system."
So you have jets, which are in here.
Great idea.
‐ Ingenuity‐‐ ‐ Sammy.
We're down to functionality.
‐ Well, I mean, functionality‐‐
Sam's....
got a leak going on here.
‐ Whoa. Whoa.
♪ ♪
Got a leak there, and you got a leak over on this side, too.
♪ ♪
Not a good thing.
♪ ♪
Bianca. Let's move to Bianca's. ‐ Let's try Bianca's.
Bianca has two heating elements.
That's gonna get the water heated up,
but you don't have an easy way of getting into it.
‐ Nope. ‐ She didn't build a stair‐‐
‐ Well, you could climb on the hot stove!
‐ [laughs] That's right.
♪ ♪
‐ [groans] I don't know.
♪ ♪
We have bad news to tell somebody.
♪ ♪
‐ Hey, April, we need you.
‐ Hey, guys. ‐ Hi, Bianca!
Hi, Sam. ‐ Sam.
‐ Hi. [laughs]
‐ Well, you guys did an incredible job
with these builds.
‐ Thank you. ‐ Thank you.
‐ We didn't actually sit in the tub itself.
‐ Nobody here could stomach the idea
of Richard in a thong in either one of the tubs,
so we just...
He wears a thong constantly around here.
Listen, well, you both took this challenge
and ran with it, but we made a decision.
♪ ♪
‐ Okay.
The builder with the winning off‐grid hot tub is...
♪ ♪
‐ [whimpers]
Please, please. ‐ [laughs]
‐ Bianca, you win this thing. ‐ Bianca, you have won!
‐ No way! No!
‐ How do you feel? ‐ Are you kidding me?
‐ No, we're not kidding you. ‐ No, we're not.
‐ Whoo‐hoo‐hoo!
‐ And a tiny sum of $5,000 is on its way.
‐ Courtesy of iFixit.
They're also gonna be sending you this‐‐
She doesn't want to hear what she's won.
‐ Oh, my God! Thank you!
‐ They're gonna be sending you the ultimate tool kit.
‐ Sam, you did a great job. You really did.
We know that the intent was there,
and it was a beautiful idea,
but we had an issue.
The functionality of it just‐‐ it wasn't working.
‐ Look, you said it yourself.
The parts weren't meant for that much stress,
and you got a serious leak here.
‐ I still think what I built was awesome.
With a little bit more refinement,
it could have been, you know, out of this world.
A couple of the components didn't hold up
like I needed them to.
Definitely bring your A‐game
when it comes to creative thinking
and quickly thinking outside the box.
I gave it my all, but, you know,
it is what it is.
‐ This was a really tight competition between you two.
‐ Yes, they were both beautiful, beautiful builds
and very different ways of going about it.
‐ Right, but, Bianca, congratulations for the win.
♪ ♪
‐ I feel dumb for crying, because I'm really happy.
♪ ♪
Um...
♪ ♪
It's even hard for me to say.
Yeah.
[voice breaking] I'm proud of my work.
And these are tears of joy.
♪ ♪