This Old House
The crew visits Dickie Silva's fire-gutted home and offers to help rebuild.
The crew visits Dickie Silva's fire-gutted home and offers to help rebuild.
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Replacing carpeting with hardwood floors; flooring; replacing a rusty sink stopper.
Replacing ailing grass with ivy and pachysandra; opening double-hung windows that are painted shut.
Norm shares tips on shingling and replaces the old, wrong square columns with new round ones.
The homeowner considers historical paint colors; working on PVC piping in the new laundry room.
U.S. Forest Service carpenters repair, with hand tools only, a National Historic Register log cabin.
The plumbing stack in the kitchen is moved; Tom explains how past work has compromised the home.
The homeowner tries various ways of removing paint from the window castings.
Learning about a new airgun and lightweight nylon hose to shingle the base of one of the turrets.
The foundation walls go up after a delay due to the soil cleanup process.
The fire department suspects fuel oil was spilled during the fire.
Norm and Tom set up an on-site woodworking shop, and Dick gives us a tour of the new garage.
New windows arrive, and we put up corner trim with two layers of cementitious board.
We tour the framed and sheeted house and discuss the fine points of shed dormers.
Homeowner Dick Silva gives a tour of the newly framed first floor.
The foundation walls go up after a delay due to the soil cleanup process.
The fire department suspects fuel oil was spilled during the fire.
A clogged aerator on a bathroom faucet is replaced; houseplants.
Repairing an interior door that won't latch shut; bamboo plants.
A big day on the site: the structural insulated panels for the new workshop are hoisted into place.
Richard Trethewey lays out radiant floor heating tubes over a layer of rigid insulation.
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