This Old House - Season 10
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Thu, 1 Sept 1988
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Lexington Bed and Breakfast
26 Episodes
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 1
Season 10 - Episode 1
Our host tours Lexington real estate with agent June Goodwin, looking at older homes as well as newer construction. We tour a new condo deve...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 2
Season 10 - Episode 2
Mary-Van and Jim Sinek discuss expanding their side-by-side, two-family Lexington home with a new addition, which will double the existing s...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 3
Season 10 - Episode 3
Our host shows us how to use a laser level, which excavators use to achieve uniform depth for foundation footings. He, our master carpneter ...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 4
Season 10 - Episode 4
Our host and master carpenter meet with Gene Romanelli to discuss foundation footings and begin pouring the concrete garage slab. Our host t...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 5
Season 10 - Episode 5
Jim Sinek and the guys remove the interior wall in the living room. Our host meets with concrete specialist Rich Toohey, and then watches th...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 6
Season 10 - Episode 6
Our host watches demolition in the kitchen, including the removal of the sink and cabinets. Then he and Mary-Van discuss options for the new...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 7
Season 10 - Episode 7
After getting a progress report from our host, our master carpenter confers with Tom Silva. Our host then meets with Tom Wirth to discuss a ...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 8
Season 10 - Episode 8
The garage is nearly complete and fitted with trim that has been primed before construction. Our host and Mary-Van discuss insulation in the...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 9
Season 10 - Episode 9
Cedar siding arrives and the crew begins to install it. Lighting consultant Dick Metchears meets with our host to discuss fixtures. Audio co...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 10
Season 10 - Episode 10
Our host meets with landscape artist Roger Hopkins to check his progress on the granite wall and terrace. Then we visit the Blue Mountain Qu...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 11
Season 10 - Episode 11
Our host and Tom Wirth look at the new plantings that have arrived at the jobsite. We then check Roger Hopkins' progress on the granite step...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 12
Season 10 - Episode 12
The crew is busy installing the new decking at the back of the house. Our host meets with zero-clearance fireplace specialist Lou DeMaria to...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 13
Season 10 - Episode 13
Our host meets with Tom Wirth to discuss progress on lanscaping. Then we watch as Ken Dickenson puts in the exposed aggregate concrete wheel...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 14
Season 10 - Episode 14
The new plantings are in and a vegetable garden fence is put in place. The crew installs wallboard while our host and our master carpenter s...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 15
Season 10 - Episode 15
Our host and master carpenter discusses how the rain gutters can best divert water away from the fir deck, wooden doors, and kitchen windows...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 16
Season 10 - Episode 16
Our host and Jim Sinek discuss the budget. Meanwhile, plastering contractors have begun their work. Our host tries out plastering stilts. Th...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 17
Season 10 - Episode 17
The guys erect a lamppost in the frontyard. Carpet underlayment is installed in the home office, while the crew also hangs burlap coverings ...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 18
Season 10 - Episode 18
The crew installs a metal railing on the granite patio using hydrolic cement. We then visit a single-family home development in Aurora, Illi...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 19
Season 10 - Episode 19
At the front of the house, our host watches Charlie McGongagle put up a permanent drain pipe, while John Silva installs a new storm door. In...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 20
Season 10 - Episode 20
Our host and electrical contractor Buddy Bisnaw discuss outlets in the kitchen. Richard Trethewey accepts delivery of a new one-piece toilet...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 21
Season 10 - Episode 21
When we arrive at the jobsite, we find homeowners Jim and Mary-Van outside painting clapboards. Inside, our host meets the Sinek children wh...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 22
Season 10 - Episode 22
The crew installs a new newel post on the main staircase. Then we tour the Morgan Door company, manufacturers of a true divided-light french...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 23
Season 10 - Episode 23
At the bed and breakfast's enterance, our host and flooring contractor Jeff Hosking discuss refinishing and patching the 80-year-old fir flo...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 24
Season 10 - Episode 24
Our host and Tom Silva are hard at work on the fireplace, mounting an new mantel and facing the surround with half-brick. We see constructio...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 25
Season 10 - Episode 25
The Corian countertops are installed in the kitchen. Our host discusses appliances with General Electric appliance designer Bob Mundt. Our h...
The Lexington Bed and Breakfast - 26
Season 10 - Episode 26
Our host and Joe Ruggiero, editor of Home magazine and an interior decorator, tour the finished house. Richard Trethewey shows us the air co...