This Old House - Season 21
Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Sat, 25 Sept 1999
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSThe Billerica House; The Santa Barbara House
26 Episodes
The Billerica House - 1
Season 21 - Episode 1
The new season starts with a visit to Chub Whitten's Colonial home in Ipswitch, Massachusetts, that we toured at the beginning of last seaso...
The Billerica House - 2
Season 21 - Episode 2
We visit the Billerica Fire Dept. to hear what it was like to fight the Silva fire, and how it might have been prevented or at least kept mo...
The Billerica House - 3
Season 21 - Episode 3
Tom recounts the day the machines came to tear down Dick and Sandra's old house. All that's left is a hole in the ground. Arborist Matt Foti...
The Billerica House - 4
Season 21 - Episode 4
A full month after our last time on site, the foundation is just being completed, the construction schedule having fallen victim to a three-...
The Billerica House - 5
Season 21 - Episode 5
Homeowner Dick Silva gives a tour of the newly framed up first floor, and Tom Silva shows some of the hallmarks of a good framing system. In...
The Billerica House - 6
Season 21 - Episode 6
Homeowner Dick Silva gives a tour of the framed and sheated house and reports that he and Sandra have recieved a very satisfactory insurance...
The Billerica House - 7
Season 21 - Episode 7
The new windows have arrived. They're made from an extruded composive of PVC and sawdust, and we visit Minnesota to see the factory. The cre...
The Billerica House - 8
Season 21 - Episode 8
Our master carpenter and general contractor take over Dick's Quonset hut to set up a woodorking shop, forcing Dick to take his restored 1931...
The Billerica House - 9
Season 21 - Episode 9
The local electric utility is on site to bring power across the street to a new pole positioned in a discrete spot along the front edge of t...
The Billerica House - 10
Season 21 - Episode 10
As our master carpenter sets up the table saw to make a sample raised-panel door for the Silvas to consider for their new kitchen, our host ...
The Billerica House - 11
Season 21 - Episode 11
The site is abuzz as subcontractors hurry to complete their in-wall work before the insulation truck arrives. Tom Silva gives a tour of the ...
The Billerica House - 12
Season 21 - Episode 12
We arrive at the house to find the last of the wallboard shipment being loaded into the basement. In the rest of the house, it's already hun...
The Billerica House - 13
Season 21 - Episode 13
Landscape contractor Roger Cook and his crew begin to install a stone wall along the driveway, using a split stome from North Carolina that ...
The Billerica House - 14
Season 21 - Episode 14
We arrive to find Rich in the basement, where the forced air unit for first-floor heating and cooling hangs; the main source of first-floor ...
The Billerica House - 15
Season 21 - Episode 15
Master electrician Allen Gallant shows us the workings of the new emergency power generator, a quiet natural-gas-powered unit that will supp...
The Billerica House - 16
Season 21 - Episode 16
Paving contractor Don Sloan shows Roger Cook a few different ways to pave the drive: plain black ashphalt with crushed stone rolled into a l...
The Billerica House - 17
Season 21 - Episode 17
Landscape designer Stephanie Hubbard oversees the placement of the new plants and trees with Roger Cook, while inisde our master carpenter t...
The Billerica House - 18
Season 21 - Episode 18
Our host arrives to see wooden shutter maker Peter Malone and crew installing shutters on the front facade, using traditional pintle hinges ...
The Billerica House - 19
Season 21 - Episode 19
The final two days in Billerica find Dick returning his beloved Model A truck to the new garage, which is nice and warm thanks to a natural-...
The Santa Barbara House - 1
Season 21 - Episode 20
Our host and master carpenter arrive in sytle, by sailboat, at This Old House's winter project location: Santa Barbara. Homeowner Jan Winfor...
The Santa Barbara House - 2
Season 21 - Episode 21
The guys revisit This Old House's winter 1988 Santa Barbara project: Dave and Susan Dickenson's bungalow. Upon arrival at This Old House's c...
The Santa Barbara House - 3
Season 21 - Episode 22
We review the progress the crew has made in reframing the expansion of the Santa Barbara bungalow. Then we check out the new garage, built t...
The Santa Barbara House - 4
Season 21 - Episode 23
We check out the framing of the Santa Barbara bungalow's new second-story master suite - and take in its stunning views of the Pacific. Then...
The Santa Barbara House - 5
Season 21 - Episode 24
We check out the new custom windows, which feature cherry, wood interiors and true divided lights. Then we meet landscape architect Susan Va...
The Santa Barbara House - 6
Season 21 - Episode 25
The countdown to completion of the Santa Barbara bungalow renovation begins. The elements of the new kitchen arrive, as does the magnificent...
The Santa Barbara House - 7
Season 21 - Episode 26
Homeowner Jan Winford finally realizes her dream of 25 years - the renovation of her 1907 bungalow - thanks in part to This Old House. The g...