This Old House - Season 16
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 1 Jan 1994
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Acton House; The Napa Valley House
26 Episodes
The Acton House - 1
Season 16 - Episode 1
The season begins with a tour of the country's oldest wood-frame house: the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, built in 1636. We then...
The Acton House - 2
Season 16 - Episode 2
The day begins with the crew moving the old milk shed to another spot on the property. Inside, Richard Trethewey has done an energy audit an...
The Acton House - 3
Season 16 - Episode 3
Homeowner Terry Maitland cuts down a tree to make way for the new foundation, while the crew lays out the excavation lines using a small las...
The Acton House - 4
Season 16 - Episode 4
We tour the newly demolished back areas of the house, and see how woefully underframed they are. In preparation for the new foundation, the ...
The Acton House - 5
Season 16 - Episode 5
At the site, lumber - conventional and engineered - has arrived, and the crew begins to attach the sill to the foundation. Terry Maitland la...
The Acton House - 6
Season 16 - Episode 6
The framing crew continues working on the addition; a large steel beam to carry out the upper floor is lowered into place. A framer demonstr...
The Acton House - 7
Season 16 - Episode 7
With the addtion weatherweight, its massing is apparement and seems to make a successful match with the old building. Inside, Tom Silva show...
The Acton House - 8
Season 16 - Episode 8
Redwood clapboards - finger-jointed and preprimed - start to go on the addition; our general contractor shows us a trick with a ""story pole...
The Acton House - 9
Season 16 - Episode 9
As he contemplates installing replacement windows in the original building, our master carpenter explains that it might make sense to replac...
The Acton House - 10
Season 16 - Episode 10
Tom Silva shows us his reroofing progress - stripping of old shingles, plywooding sheathing, new shingles, redge vent. Down at ground level,...
The Acton House - 11
Season 16 - Episode 11
Homeowners Terry and Sima Maitland puzzle over exterior paint colors, settling on a pumpkin for the field and cream for the trim. They discu...
The Acton House - 12
Season 16 - Episode 12
Tom Silva tests out the old-fashioned v-shaped gutter he made for the front porch, then takes us on a tour of the house, explaining his prep...
The Acton House - 13
Season 16 - Episode 13
We see Terry busily caulking the battered clapboards of the west gable in preparation for the top coat of paint. Painter George Hourihan app...
The Acton House - 14
Season 16 - Episode 14
At in-ground propane tank is installed for cooking and drying. Inside, the wallbaord is up, plaster is going on the ceiling, and Tom Silva d...
The Acton House - 15
Season 16 - Episode 15
We arrive to find Jeff Hosking installing the salvaged floorboards he found in a New Hampshire yard. Jeff discusses the challenges of workin...
The Acton House - 16
Season 16 - Episode 16
The crew installs the new front entryway. Kitchen designer Glenn Berger leads a tour of the new kitchen, and our host takes viewers to the B...
The Acton House - 17
Season 16 - Episode 17
Our host arrives to find installer Michael Griffiths laying out a carpet for the master suite. It's made of recycled soda bottles. Inside, h...
The Acton House - 18
Season 16 - Episode 18
The final days. We arrive to find the telephone company burying a new multipair line into the house, leaving the west gable free of overhead...
The Napa Valley House - 1
Season 16 - Episode 19
The crew heads west to California's Napa Valley and Dennis Duffy's circa 1906 farmhouse. Essentially untouched in the last few decades, the ...
The Napa Valley House - 2
Season 16 - Episode 20
Work begins on the Duffy residence, with Jim Nolan's crew tearing off the back porch with a backhoe. We visit architect Jon Lail's office to...
The Napa Valley House - 3
Season 16 - Episode 21
After a period of heavy rains and flooding, Napa Valley - and the jobsite - are a soggy mess. The show opens in sandbagged downtown Napa, th...
The Napa Valley House - 4
Season 16 - Episode 22
The show start with a visit to Napa Valley's oldest wooden, gravity-fed winery, home of Trefethen Vineyards. At the site, our master carpent...
The Napa Valley House - 5
Season 16 - Episode 23
We check out the mustard plants in a vineyard near the farmhouse before heading over to a very busy jobsite. There, contractor Jim Nolan sho...
The Napa Valley House - 6
Season 16 - Episode 24
With remarkable progress at the site, we tour the exterior with Jim Nolan, seeing fir decking, trim details, traditional redwood siding and ...
The Napa Valley House - 7
Season 16 - Episode 25
The show opens at Clos Pegase, a winery designed by noted architect Michael Graves. At the site, the rains continue, and so does progress. O...
The Napa Valley House - 8
Season 16 - Episode 26
The final day opens at a scenic overlook on the first clear day in a week. On site, the painters are applying the exterior topcoat, carpente...