
Ask This Old House
Preventing a tree from splitting by installing steel cables and through-bolts.

Preventing a tree from splitting by installing steel cables and through-bolts.

Removing moss and lichen from a roof; repairing a leaky valve.

A new project to remodel an attic in a late Victorian-style house.

The modest yellow ranch house is now a two-story Garrison-style colonial.

A greenhouse window is installed on the second floor.

A mason completes work on the chimney; Bob takes a trip to Ryland Homes in Maryland.

Norm trims out a window while our host checks out the last-minute work in the chapel.

Drywall has been treated with a bonding agent so that a two-coat finish plaster can be applied.

A break in the rainy weather means the crew can put up the new redwood siding.

The lightweight concrete is mixed and poured over the kitchen's radiant floor tubing.

In the basement, aluminum plates will help direct heat up through the old wood floor.

The woodwork in the chapel has been sanded and the entire rear addition has been gutted.

The team goes to San Francisco to take on the conversion of a 1906 church into a home.

The grand finale in Milton, with the house completed and furnished.

The landscape crew puts in a sod lawn, and we receive a one-button key-fob security controller demo.

Interior designers begin their work as the construction crew scurries to finish up the job.

The show opens with the landscaping crew putting in a granite block curb around the driveway island.

A 490-pound soaking tub is hoisted through the master bath window.

A new clog-free gutter system, a prefabricated wine cellar, and the central vacuum system.

The site is thick with trucks delivering drywall, cement board, and interior wooden doors.