This Old House - Season 20
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 26 Sept 1998
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Watertown House; The Key West House
26 Episodes
The Watertown House - 1
Season 20 - Episode 1
Our 20th year on public television began with the renovation of a circa 1886 Victorian with a large circa 1915 rear addition, in the Boston ...
The Watertown House - 2
Season 20 - Episode 2
Our host opens the show with a visit to the Watertown Arsenal, now decommissioned and slated for redevelopment into office space. The highli...
The Watertown House - 3
Season 20 - Episode 3
The crew begins to dismantle the grand oak staircase as the house's new floorplan comes into focus - seen in a vitural-reality walkthrough, ...
The Watertown House - 4
Season 20 - Episode 4
As a professionally installed scaffolding system rises up to the roof ridge, landscape archtect Clarissa Rowe walks around the lot, assessin...
The Watertown House - 5
Season 20 - Episode 5
The landscape work begins with landscaper Roger Cook and arborist Matt Foti marking trees slated for pruning or renoval and Matt's crew reli...
The Watertown House - 6
Season 20 - Episode 6
The team's work to complete the reframing of the second floor starts with the use of engineered lumber, which makes for wide clear spans in ...
The Watertown House - 7
Season 20 - Episode 7
The show opens with a walk along a newly restored natural corridor lining the banks of the Charles River in Watertown. The result of years o...
The Watertown House - 8
Season 20 - Episode 8
A Dig Safe representative is on site to explain the nonprofit organization's function: to notify all utilities of impending excavation so th...
The Watertown House - 9
Season 20 - Episode 9
Entomologist and pest control contractor Steve Marken takes us on a termite-damage tour of the house, pointed out the conditions that led to...
The Watertown House - 10
Season 20 - Episode 10
Roger Cook and Christian Bilodeau plant 30-foot evergreens as a screen in the backyard, using Christian's tree spade. Tom updates us on the ...
The Watertown House - 11
Season 20 - Episode 11
The This Old House team installs a zero-clearance fireplace with a handsome cast-iron firebox. Window rehabilitation specialist David Libert...
The Watertown House - 12
Season 20 - Episode 12
A busy day on site: the back decking is coming along with a new undermount system. The insulation crew is hard at work inside spraying on fo...
The Watertown House - 13
Season 20 - Episode 13
Exterior painting by Steve Kiernan and crew is underway out back, as is the erection of a white cedar combination fence and trellis along th...
The Watertown House - 14
Season 20 - Episode 14
The show opens with a plumbing and heating tour of the basement, with stops at: a pressure-reducing valve that steps down the incoming water...
The Watertown House - 15
Season 20 - Episode 15
A huge drywall goes in under the front lawn to handle water pumped out of the basement slump, and chimney specialist Mark Schaub and crew sh...
The Watertown House - 16
Season 20 - Episode 16
The This Old House team shop for lunch supplies at Eastern Lamejun Bakery, one of the oldest Middle Eastern grocery stores in the counrty. (...
The Watertown House - 17
Season 20 - Episode 17
Our host arrives on site to find the building's exterior nearly complete: the new paint scheme is on, the copper gutter system is complete, ...
The Watertown House - 18
Season 20 - Episode 18
Our host arrives to find Roger Cook and crew installing sod on the front lawn, while inside painting contractor Steve Kiernan gives him a le...
The Watertown House - 19
Season 20 - Episode 19
The final days of the Watertown project start with Richard Trethewey's tour of the completed kitchen, complete with stainless-steel cleanup ...
The Key West House - 1
Season 20 - Episode 20
Our host and master carpenter find paradise at the end of the famed U.S. Route 1 - Key West, Florida. Along the island's back streets they d...
The Key West House - 2
Season 20 - Episode 21
After catching the famous Mallory Square sunset the evening before, the This Old House team gets to work, first checking in with general con...
The Key West House - 3
Season 20 - Episode 22
The show opens at one of Key West's most popular destinations, Harry Truman's ""Little White House,"" where the President visited for many y...
The Key West House - 4
Season 20 - Episode 23
The show opens at Truman Annex, a planned community on land that was formerly Key West's naval station. Later in the show, we tour another p...
The Key West House - 5
Season 20 - Episode 24
The show opens at Key West's biggest industries - cruise ships. The This Old House team takes a tour of Carnival's Ecstasy, in port for the ...
The Key West House - 6
Season 20 - Episode 25
Just as they're getting used to all the sunshine, the crew realizes it's almost time to wrap up the Key West project. The activity on site i...
The Key West House - 7
Season 20 - Episode 26
On our last day in Key West, viewers get a look at the new pool, its cleaning system and the heat pump that both heats and cools it. (Key We...