Season 38 Episode 18
This Old House
TV-GHouse/garden • How-to • Home improvement
Season 3818 Episodes
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Arts and Crafts Class BeginsS38 E1Exploring what has been preserved and altered over the years; the plans for the second and third floors; how the homeowners envision using the outdoor space; the inefficient boiler; plans for future mechanical and plumbing systems; outdated kitchen.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: A New Look, Inside and OutS38 E2Jill Goldberg sorts through colors and wallpaper ideas for the living room; old plaster walls are demolished; Kim Turner presents her first landscape plan; a certified arborist removes the old Silver Maple; the exterior back wall is taken down.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Make Way for the Family RoomS38 E3Tommy and Kevin replace a 100-year-old wooden beam with a new steel beam to provide support for the new addition; local examples of Arts & Crafts style houses; the old oil tank gets drained and removed; digging for the new foundation begins.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Foundation FundamentalsS38 E4The new concrete foundation is poured; Emily, Roger and Kim try to find mature specimen trees for the yard; a precast concrete bulkhead is installed; Mark erects a concrete wall; the old foundation gets waterproofed with a synthetic rubber spray.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: A Steely DenS38 E5Tommy and Kevin see how the steel beams are fabricated; Kevin finds Tommy supervising erection on the back of the house; the third floor has been demo'ed and Richard starts an HVAC plan for the second floor; the porch is demo'ed.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: One Brick at a TimeS38 E6Starting the new chimney; seeing how bricks are mixed, formed, cut, and baked at a 100-year-old factory; the homeowners' dream kitchen; changing the pitch of the two back dormers to match the pitch of the new gable.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: To Paint or Not to PaintS38 E7A custom range hood; the original chimney is demo'ed and a new one is built; Jill Goldberg discusses options for the fireplace; other decisions to make are tile for the first floor powder room and whether to paint the wood panels in the living room.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: A New Look to Match the OldS38 E8Demo of old walls reveal a hidden doorway; the design plan for the new master bath presents a classic plumbing problem; creating elaborate cuts with computerized cutting machines; Scott Caron installs a ceiling fan; new double-hung windows.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Arts and Crafts From Top to BottomS38 E9Framing the new Arts and Crafts front porch using custom-cut and assembled rafters; marble from Vermont for the countertops; discovering how marble makes its way from inside the mountain to inside the kitchen; color selection; the lost art of stucco.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Shedding the Old LookS38 E10The guys build an outdoor Yoga shed; on the main house, a standing-seam copper roof is installed over the front porch; Tommy trims a window using a PVC product with a rabbet joint; plumber Kevin Bilo installs a state-of-the-art boiler.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Underground EnergyS38 E11Removing a service pole at the front of the property; Norm helps Charlie build the flared porch columns; a new brick patio; the kitchen cabinets are delivered; the architect calls for decorative half timbers and stucco to accent the front gables.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Changes Start to ShowS38 E12Using pre-primed red cedar to shingle the house; a stylist helps figure out window treatments; radiant floor tubing is installed in the tracks under the existing old basement floor; repairing the grand living-room fireplace; repointing loose bricks.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Decorative Touches Make a DifferenceS38 E13Assembling the roof on the ground; a lift helps raise the roof into place; the technique of Lazure painting, a watercolor style of painting interior walls; refinishing oak veneer; installing wood paneling in the living room; screening trees.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Shiplap for a Ship Shape HouseS38 E14Tommy installs the shiplap; using reclaimed granite, Kevin helps Roger's crew lay a second set of steps for the walkway; Roberto finds and cuts a marble slab for the kitchen island; Mark builds the cast stone mantel surrounding for the new fireplace.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: Details Make the House BeautifulS38 E15Installing the marble in the kitchen island; laying the first giant stones for the fieldstone wall; hanging wallpaper over a secret door; how the radiant floor heating, air conditioning and supplemental heating system work; extra-large dog door.
Arlington Arts & Crafts: An Arts & Craft for the AgesS38 E16The Arts and Crafts house in Arlington is near completion and the guys come to take a last look and celebrate with the homeowners; touring the yard; Tommy and Norm check out the addition at the back of the house; touring the updated first floor.
Detroit: Rebuilding Motor CityS38 E17Kevin introduces the city of Detroit; Kevin meets the homeowners for a tour of the first and second floor; Tommy is in the back yard, assessing some of the repairs needed; plumbing issues in the basement; suggestions for upgrading the electricity.
Detroit: Ready for RehabS38 E18Kevin meets Detroit's Mayor to learn about the city's efforts to revitalize neighborhoods; Wes Kasperski installs an alarm system to keep the house protected during renovation; Frank works with Tommy and Kevin to blow in new insulation from the roof.
Detroit: Ready for RehabSeason 38 Episode 18
Cast
Kevin O'Connor, Richard Trethewey, Tom Silva, Jenn Nawada, Norm Abram, Jeff Sweenor, Mark McCullough, Charlie Silva, Mauro Henrique, Nathan Gilbert, Roger CookRating
TV-G
Genres
House/garden, How-to, Home improvementMore Like This
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