
Ask This Old House
Building a sawhorse; frost-proof outdoor faucet; how to collect and compost leaves.

Building a sawhorse; frost-proof outdoor faucet; how to collect and compost leaves.

Hand pruners; repairing shutters; water heaters; tankless hot water system.

Windows arrive from Wisconsin; staircase construction; search for the house's main sewer.

Putting up the house walls; manufactures log cabins in Vermont.

Installing the floors in the house; paving the driveway; a tour of the the Trump Tower.

Pouring concrete for the house utility and garage floors; thermal heat pumps.

Searching for salvaged stained-glass in Stamford, Conn.; laying concrete blocks.

A 100-year-old apartment complex in Boston; a solar powered office building.

Sketches of the landscape and new fences; a special kind of pool; structural steel is fabricated.

Forming the footings and foundation; moving a house from the 1800s to a new location.

Rich Trethewey explains the radiant heating floor system; Steve tours a plastic house.

A custom stairway is installed, and Steve tours where it was manufactured.

Richard Trethewey takes viewers on a tour of a boiler factory in Germany.

Steve explains the barn's new heating system, and drywalling begins.

Steve reviews landscaping progress; Barbara and Steve visit a kitchen design center.

The well is connected, Richard Trethewey reviews the plumbing, and a mason builds a wall.

Repairing a flat wheelbarrow-tire and an aluminum rain gutter; drilling a hole in ceramic tile.

Installing an under-sink filter; types of residential water filter; a drought-resistant tree.

Demolition begins with the destruction of the current roof; the floorplan is finalized.

A half Cape in Reading, Mass. where homeowners want to add a second story.