
This Old House
Preparations are underway for installing the restored Victorian double doors.

Preparations are underway for installing the restored Victorian double doors.

The show begins with a visit to the Wharf Rat Club, and then we check out house progress.

We visit Nantucket's Life-Saving Museum; the job site is a flurry of activity.

We visit the 1827 African Meeting House and then go to Switzerland.

Heat pump wells are drilled, and we tour some of the island's preserved open spaces.

We view the approved window color; the mason parges the concrete block foundation.

The framing crew assembles the gable wall, and the homeowner considers geothermal.

The general contractor checks out the nearly entirely reframed house.

The mason takes down the unneeded chimneys, and we learn how to mix the perfect mortar.

We catch up with the general contractor, who is well into a gut job on the building.

We review the house design, which the island's Historic District Commission must approve.

In the spring and summer of 1996, we turn a Nantucket Victorian into a year-round retreat.

Building a raised garden bed using composite landscape timbers made from recycled plastic.

Solutions for steadying a wobbly toilet; preventing water from leaking in the foundation.

New windows arrive, the crew discusses structural design; looking for old columns.

Steve Thomas visits the Tower of London and meets a Beefeater; Norm Abram visits a woodworking shop.

The crew inspects new beam work; Richard Trethewey reviews 2,000-year-old Roman plumbing.

The roof is off at the flat, and bricklayers are extending the mansard sides.

"This Old House" travels to London, England, for its first overseas project.

It's the final day in Kirkside; Norm installs a curved and kerfed step.