This Old House - Season 19
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 27 Sept 1997
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Milton House; The San Francisco House
26 Episodes
The Milton House - 1
Season 19 - Episode 1
The show opens in the historic town of Milton, Massachusetts, founded in 1662 and the site of the c. 1725 Colonial home the show purchased f...
The Milton House - 2
Season 19 - Episode 2
Our host arrives to find excavator Herb Brockert preparing to knock down the rotting ell off the barn. The crew salvage a few valuable bits ...
The Milton House - 3
Season 19 - Episode 3
The show opens with a visit to the top of Great Blue Hill and its historic weather observatory (built in 1885) to view the sights: the town ...
The Milton House - 4
Season 19 - Episode 4
Our master carpenter lays out lines for subslab ductwork in his workshop, and the crew strips off the barn's old shingles. They will use a s...
The Milton House - 5
Season 19 - Episode 5
Our master carpenter's workshop continues to take shape, as Richard Trethewey lays out radiant floor heating tubes over a layer of rigid ins...
The Milton House - 6
Season 19 - Episode 6
A big day on the site: the structural insulated panels for the new workshop are hoisted into place - they, along with a massive ridge beam o...
The Milton House - 7
Season 19 - Episode 7
The house's new spaces are framed and sheated, giving us a chance to tour the new kitchen and media room. The front facade is now completely...
The Milton House - 8
Season 19 - Episode 8
Victory Garden chef Marian Morash and kitchen designer Phil Mossgraber work to refine a plan for the new kitchen, with special attention to ...
The Milton House - 9
Season 19 - Episode 9
Our host arrives to find our master carpenter unpacking the new stationary woodworking tools for the workshop; they admire the newly shingle...
The Milton House - 10
Season 19 - Episode 10
Richard Trethewey is on site to see the new gas line being laid and the old oil tanks removed, courtesy of a gas company program. Coppersmit...
The Milton House - 11
Season 19 - Episode 11
Our master carpenter inspects the new garage doors, made of redwood to look like old-fashioned outswing carriage doors but operated like mod...
The Milton House - 12
Season 19 - Episode 12
A busy day at the site, as several weather-sensitive jobs are brought to completion. The crew puts in the final touches on the cedar clapboa...
The Milton House - 13
Season 19 - Episode 13
Our host arrives to find the site thick with trucks delivering drywall, cement board, and interior wooden doors. In a rapidly filling barn, ...
The Milton House - 14
Season 19 - Episode 14
The show opens at the Milton gravesite of Captain John Crehore (born 1694), the builder of the Milton house. At the house, our host checks o...
The Milton House - 15
Season 19 - Episode 15
The finishes have begun at the Milton project. We see the shellac and wax work painter John Dee is applying to the stripped old-growth white...
The Milton House - 16
Season 19 - Episode 16
The show opens to find landscaper Roger Cook and crew putting in a granite block curb around the driveway island to protect it from wayward ...
The Milton House - 17
Season 19 - Episode 17
Interior designers begin their work as the construction crew scurries to finish up the job. Painter John Dee uses a wood fillerto repair the...
The Milton House - 18
Season 19 - Episode 18
The show opens to find Roger Cook and crew laying down a sod lawn and we recieve a one-button key-fob controller demo from security expert S...
The Milton House - 19
Season 19 - Episode 19
The grand finale in Milton, with the house completed furnished with the work of 10 separate decorating teams. We tour the house, the barn an...
The San Francisco House - 1
Season 19 - Episode 20
This Old House's team goes to San Francisco to take on a unique project: the conversion of a 1906 church (lately a synagogue) into a home fo...
The San Francisco House - 2
Season 19 - Episode 21
The crew start the workday at the Powell Street cable car turntable, where cars are spun around by hand for the return trip over the Fisherm...
The San Francisco House - 3
Season 19 - Episode 22
The show opens at a spectacular spot: the top of the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, 48 stories above the Bay. At the site, Richard T...
The San Francisco House - 4
Season 19 - Episode 23
The show opens with a walk through the magnificent Muir Woods, home of the coast redwood, the world's tallest tree. At the house, where gene...
The San Francisco House - 5
Season 19 - Episode 24
The crew visits Coloma, California, where the Gold Rush began in 1848, to see Sutter's Mill and try their hands at panning for pay dirt. At ...
The San Francisco House - 6
Season 19 - Episode 25
Our host visits Alcatraz before heading off to the jobsite, where our master carpenter is hard at work installing the new front doors. First...
The San Francisco House - 7
Season 19 - Episode 26
The final episode on the San Francisco project begins with a visit to the Marin County Civic Center, Frank Lloyd Wright's only government bu...