Crews work on the landscaping at the new home of Army Spc. Patrick Tutwiler and his family. The Tutwilers’ home was destroyed in a June 11 tornado in Chapman, and the ABC show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” built a new home in November. A show detailing the construction airs Sunday evening.

Dan Hanney, second from right, a rural Lecompton resident, works on molding that would be installed in a home in Chapman as part of an episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

Most of the time, Dan Hanney doesn’t do his carpentry work with national TV cameras in his face.

But he was willing to put up with the cameras to help his hometown.

Hanney, who lives near Lecompton, might see himself on Sunday’s episode of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” The episode was filmed in Chapman, the small town near Junction City that was hit by a tornado last year.

“It was great to be a part of that,” Hanney says of the recovery effort.

Hanney and his wife, Linda, went to high school in Chapman. He now runs a carpentry business with his brother, and she’s a mail carrier.

They heard in November that the ABC show needed carpenters in Chapman, where it was building a home for a wounded Iraq war veteran, a community center, storm shelter and doing other rebuilding work.

One woman was killed, and more than half the buildings in Chapman were destroyed in the June 11 tornado. Those buildings included the home of Army Spc. Patrick Tutwiler, who was shot in the neck in Baghdad and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, memory loss and speech problems. The “Extreme Makeover” crew, and hundreds of volunteers, did a blitz build to construct a new home for Tutwiler, his wife, Crystal, and their four children while ABC arranged for a family vacation in the Bahamas.

When the Hanneys arrived at the construction site around 6 on a Saturday morning, the house already had been enclosed — despite construction only being under way for a little more than a day.

Dan Hanney was part of a six-person crew that put molding around a bedroom ceiling.

“It was amazing,” he says. “It worked out about right. It might seem like six people would be overkill for a task like that that. But to do it in not much more than an hour and a half, it was just about right.”

He says a job like that, with normal staffing with his own business, would take six or seven hours.

The TV cameras captured some of their work.

“They were in and out, and we just kept on working,” Dan Hanney says. “They did stage a few things. The activity going on in a room next to us, they kind of staged that — some of it — because of trying to be everywhere at once.”

Meanwhile, crews were installing a stairway, countertops, landscaping and many other finishing touches around the home. And Linda Hanney was in a tent, serving coffee to the workers.

“Of course, they do a bunch of these, and they know how to do it,” Linda Hanney says. “But everybody was amazed with how they can work together without everybody getting in each other’s way.”

The show’s biggest star, Ty Pennington, wasn’t there, but Linda Hanney did talk to designer Paul DiMeo.

After a few hours, the Hanneys were done, and they drove back home.

Now, they’re looking forward to reliving the moment on Sunday. The show — a two-hour special — airs starting at 7 p.m. on ABC (Sunflower Broadband channels 12 and 200).

“We’re looking forward to it,” Dan Hanney says. “Of course, we’ll tape the program on Sunday evening.”