This Old House - Season 15
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Thu, 2 Sept 1993
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Belmont House; The Honolulu House
26 Episodes
The Belmont House - 1
Season 15 - Episode 1
The season starts in front of a magnificent example of Victorian architecture, then we visit the Society for the Preservation of New England...
The Belmont House - 2
Season 15 - Episode 2
The asbestos removal crew begins to strip the house of shingles, under the watchful eye of a state official. As a prelude, our master carpen...
The Belmont House - 3
Season 15 - Episode 3
Our host visits a landfill engineered to accept hazardous waste, such as the asbestos off the side of the Gallants' house. Back at the house...
The Belmont House - 4
Season 15 - Episode 4
The guys meet Dean as he's removing damaged wood shingles, which have been revealed now that the asbsetos siding is off. Earlier, our master...
The Belmont House - 5
Season 15 - Episode 5
While the guys use a new airgun and lightweight nylon hose to shingle the base of one of the turrets, Dean reviews some options for rehabbin...
The Belmont House - 6
Season 15 - Episode 6
Dean tries out various ways of removing paint from the window castings - heat gun, heat plane, and chemical strippers. Upstairs, our master ...
The Belmont House - 7
Season 15 - Episode 7
Our host arrives to find the crew getting ready to frame up the gutted kitchen. First, though, the plumbing stack had to be moved; Richard T...
The Belmont House - 8
Season 15 - Episode 8
Our master carpenter rides a horse into the Washakie Wilderness in northwestern Wyoming, where US Forest Service carpenters are repairing, w...
The Belmont House - 9
Season 15 - Episode 9
Our host visits an eight-color historically accurate paint job west of Boston, under the supervision of SPNEA's Andrea Gilmore. Andrea comes...
The Belmont House - 10
Season 15 - Episode 10
Our master carpenter gives us a tip on hiding nails when shingling, while our general contractor builds a cedar and fir deck for the new bac...
The Belmont House - 11
Season 15 - Episode 11
In a big day at the jobsite, arborist Matt Foti and his crew cut down four conifers that had been hiding the house and keeping it damp. In t...
The Belmont House - 12
Season 15 - Episode 12
Our host Russell, who is completing the rough wiring in the kitchen. Lighting designer Melissa Guenet reveals her plan for lighting the kitc...
The Belmont House - 13
Season 15 - Episode 13
We arrive to see the new paint colors going up, while Tom Silva continues to re-detail the porch trim with proper fascia and wood gutters. M...
The Belmont House - 14
Season 15 - Episode 14
Our host meets landscape contractor Roger Cook as he and his crew install a plastic drywell in the cramped space next to the garage. Homeown...
The Belmont House - 15
Season 15 - Episode 15
Our host arrives to find the crew putting down rubber membrane roof on the garage, while homeowner Dean Gallant helps Roger Cook lay a concr...
The Belmont House - 16
Season 15 - Episode 16
Our master carpenter checks out the new retractable awnings, while our host meets storm window installers who are protecting the leaded glas...
The Belmont House - 17
Season 15 - Episode 17
Our host arrives to find the crew fishing off the last of the porch's historic details, which is was able to duplicate thanks to a home movi...
The Belmont House - 18
Season 15 - Episode 18
The final days. Our host arrives to find Don Franklin of DeAngelis Iron Work installing a new railing on the front stairs, while inside ligh...
The Honolulu House - 1
Season 15 - Episode 19
The guys padde into Honolulu, Hawaii, to begin an eight show series on the renovation and expansion of homeowner Christiane Bintliff's ocean...
The Honolulu House - 2
Season 15 - Episode 20
The guys start the workday by climbing Diamond Head for a view over the city of Honolulu. At the jobsite, our host meets contract supervisor...
The Honolulu House - 3
Season 15 - Episode 21
The show opens at the Punchbowl, an extinct volcano crater that is the site of the National Memorial Cementry of the Pacific, burial place o...
The Honolulu House - 4
Season 15 - Episode 22
The show opens at Hanauma Bay, a sea-filled crater whose marine life attracts thousands of visitors a day, creating a conservation dilemma. ...
The Honolulu House - 5
Season 15 - Episode 23
The show begins at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, a 1927 beauty known as the Pink Palace, one of the first two luxury hotels on the beach ar Waik...
The Honolulu House - 6
Season 15 - Episode 24
The show opens at Aloha Tower, built in 1921 and now part of a redevelopment effort by the same gorup that built Baltimore's Harborplace and...
The Honolulu House - 7
Season 15 - Episode 25
Our host opens the show at Halekii heiau, an ancient Hawaiian temple on the island of Maui. Surrounded by an industrial park and tract housi...
The Honolulu House - 8
Season 15 - Episode 26
The final days in Hawaii. Our host starts the show in Kalapana on the Big Island, where a 1992 lava flow from Kilauea volcano obliterated mu...