This Old House - Season 17
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 30 Sept 1995
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Salem House; The Savannah House
26 Episodes
The Salem House - 1
Season 17 - Episode 1
The show opens the season with a tour of Salem, Massachusets - the Witch Trials Memorial, the town's formerly bustling waterfront, the resid...
The Salem House - 2
Season 17 - Episode 2
Their bid of $205,000 accepted, the Guinees take possession of the house. Our host meets their banker, who explains some of the financing of...
The Salem House - 3
Season 17 - Episode 3
We visit the island of Nantucket, where architect Ann Beha's firm is expanding and renovated the historic Atheneum, the town library. She ag...
The Salem House - 4
Season 17 - Episode 4
On a hot July day, the crew got the existing children's bath and future master bath. They discover a flooring system that probably cna't sup...
The Salem House - 5
Season 17 - Episode 5
Tom Silva shows us the reframed bathrooms, with floors stiffened by flipping the original joists and sistering on reinforcing members. The b...
The Salem House - 6
Season 17 - Episode 6
The crew insulates the exterior wall of the kids' bath with blown cellulose. Tom Silva shows us a paint-on bathtub protector that peels off ...
The Salem House - 7
Season 17 - Episode 7
We arrive to find Mike McManus and his painting crew continuing their prep work, dry scraping and hand sanding, per Board of Health regulati...
The Salem House - 8
Season 17 - Episode 8
The crew assesses the condition of the clapboards on the back of the building, patching presents a large investment of labor, while total re...
The Salem House - 9
Season 17 - Episode 9
We arrive to hear some troubling news: Some of the neighbors - not pleased with the Historical Commission's approval of the carriageway plan...
The Salem House - 10
Season 17 - Episode 10
Our host recounts the latest Historical Commission meeting, in which the original approval of the carriageway was sent aside and the whole i...
The Salem House - 11
Season 17 - Episode 11
The City of Salem's tree-planting program puts in a Callery pear (pyrus calleryana 'red spire') in fornt of the Guinees' house. In the kitch...
The Salem House - 12
Season 17 - Episode 12
Lighting designer Josh Feinstein shows Deborah lighting treatments for the kitchen and living room, while electrician Jeff Perry works to fi...
The Salem House - 13
Season 17 - Episode 13
Our host arrives with news from the latest Historical Commission meeting: a decision on the issue of the carriageway will be made in three w...
The Salem House - 14
Season 17 - Episode 14
Our host arrives to see a wallboard delivery truck in action, while inside the wallboard/plaster crew works in the dining room. Upstairs, th...
The Salem House - 15
Season 17 - Episode 15
Homeowner Kevin Guinee tells us that, for now, they have withdrawn their petition to build a carriageway, citing lack of time to build, lack...
The Salem House - 16
Season 17 - Episode 16
We meet artist Don McKillop, who is painting a portrait of the Guinees' house, while across the street a brick sidewalk is installed in fron...
The Salem House - 17
Season 17 - Episode 17
A historically inspired Federal-style fence is installed to replace the rotting pickets in front of the house. Tom Silva installs a new mort...
The Salem House - 18
Season 17 - Episode 18
The final days. We arrive after a snowstorm to find the front hall floor finished with a faux marble treatment by decorative painter Julie C...
The Savannah House - 1
Season 17 - Episode 19
This Old House heads south to the historic splendor of Savannah, Georgia, where Mills and Marianne Fleming have purchased an 1884 Italianate...
The Savannah House - 2
Season 17 - Episode 20
The show begins with the TOH guys antiquing and then heading over to the jobsite on Monterey Square. With demolition of the rear porches com...
The Savannah House - 3
Season 17 - Episode 21
The show opens at Wormsloe Plantation, ruins of a 1736 dwelling on the banks of the Inland Passage and the earliest remnant of those colonia...
The Savannah House - 4
Season 17 - Episode 22
The show opens at an architectural salvage shop in downtown Savannah; the proprietress drops by the jobsite to buy some of the salvaged plum...
The Savannah House - 5
Season 17 - Episode 23
The show opens at Fort Pulaski, a Federal fort taken over by Confederate forces early in the Civil War, only to fall to superior weaponry, r...
The Savannah House - 6
Season 17 - Episode 24
The show opens at Congregation Mickve Israel, where Rabbi Belzer takes us on a tour around the 1876 building and shows us the congreation's ...
The Savannah House - 7
Season 17 - Episode 25
The show opens with a visit to the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest container ports on the East Coast and a major employer for the regio...
The Savannah House - 8
Season 17 - Episode 26
The final days in Savannah. We visit a preservation expert in charge of saving Pulaski Monument in Monterey Square, which is falling victim ...