An Extreme Home Makeover volunteer watches as the old house is torn down. The volunteers worked for hours on location. Nicole Rogers/The Daily

SLAUGHTERVILLE — OU students helped build a new house in just 106 hours as part of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”

Thousands of volunteers from the Norman area, many of them OU students, worked from Feb. 1 to Sunday to build a 2,800-square-foot home for the Skaggs family. Most volunteer positions were filled when people signed up, and many students worked the midnight to 6 a.m. shift.

Alan Davis, human relations graduate student and former football defensive end, volunteered Friday and Saturday with Sooner Legends catering company. He said he was impressed by how quickly the house was built considering the muddy conditions.

“It was incredible how fast [the volunteers] built the house,” he said. “Usually a house like that would take about a year to build with all the weather issues and delays, but they worked through the weather.”

Jillian Harris of ABC’s “The Bachelorette” and platinum music artist Xzibit of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” were the celebrity guest designers.

Adam Baldwin, architecture senior, helped design a dinosaur-themed room for one of the Skaggs’ children. An OU professor designed all the children’s bedrooms.

Peggy Sealy, Ideal Homes spokeswoman, said the community has been very supportive of the Skaggs family.

Jhett Skaggs, age 3, survived a heart transplant as an infant. Before “Extreme Makeover,” the family was living in a moldy, rotting, termite-ridden home, which was extremely dangerous for the child’s weak immune system.

“[Jhett as an infant] was lethargic, constantly crying, losing weight and stopped breathing on two occasions where Brian and Audra (Jhett’s parents) performed CPR and saved his life,” Ideal Homes stated in a press release.

“After extensive testing, Brian and Audra were told that Jhett needed a heart transplant. Because he was so young and had already suffered multiple cardiac arrests, Jhett’s chances of survival were very slim. Miraculously, an organ donor was found and at just 10 months old, Jhett received a new heart.

“[Jhett] faces a lifetime of treatment. In addition to requiring numerous trips to Houston each month for check-ups, Jhett’s daily regimen includes a series of medications and his weakened immune system leaves him very susceptible to mold, germs and illness.”

Ty Pennington, the host of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” was there for the “door knock” and when they poured the slab Tuesday, but then he was gone until Saturday when they demolished the original house.

The show helps build houses for two families per week.

When he was not in Lexington, Pennington was elsewhere filming “door knocks” and reveals.

The show featuring the Skaggs will air in April or early May.