This Old House - Season 28

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006
Average Rating: ⭐ 5.6 (35 votes)
PBSEast Boston; Austin
26 Episodes

East Boston | A Tale of Two Homes
Season 28 - Episode 1
For the first time ever, the experts at This Old House gathered house proposals via www.thisoldhouse.com, and now find themselves working wi...

East Boston | Stucco and Sewer Problems
Season 28 - Episode 2

East Boston | Design and Demolition
Season 28 - Episode 3
Landscape contractor Roger Cook puts homeowner Liz Bagley to work removing the dead privets on her property. Architect Craig Buttner walks L...

East Boston | Urban Garden, Asbestos, City Sewer
Season 28 - Episode 4
Landscape architect Stephanie Hubbard shares her strategies for creating a "bold and simple" urban landscape in East Boston. Abatement contr...

East Boston | Refrigerator, Hot Plate, and Bad Larry
Season 28 - Episode 5
Despite both of their kitchens being gutted, aunt Chris Flynn and her niece Liz Bagley are still bunking in together in the upstairs unit, g...

East Boston | Salvage, Chimney, Attic, and the ICA
Season 28 - Episode 6
Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey and homeowner Chris Flynn haggle with salvage expert Harry James as he prepares to remove anti...

East Boston | Ivy Be Gone
Season 28 - Episode 7
Homeowner Chris Flynn takes host Kevin O'Connor to the highest point in East Boston to see the spectacular view of downtown, and a national ...

East Boston | Progress, Patching and Packing Up
Season 28 - Episode 8
Host Kevin O'Connor opens the show at Piers Park, a waterfront park in East Boston that gives its residents access to the water and free sai...

East Boston | Local Heroes
Season 28 - Episode 9
Master carpenter Norm Abram and host Kevin O'Connor open the show steps away from the project house at a little-known monument to a local pi...

East Boston | On The Waterfront
Season 28 - Episode 10
Out front, the porch story continues as general contractor Tom Silva shows host Kevin O'Connor how he is replacing the old rotting wood trim...

East Boston | Renovating in Eastie
Season 28 - Episode 11
Homeowner Chris Flynn shows master carpenter Norm Abram how she is making do with the makeshift bathroom on the third floor. General contrac...

East Boston | Roofing, Shower Pan, Surge Suppression
Season 28 - Episode 12
The ninety-year-old slate roof could not be saved, so roofing contractor Sean Green and his crew strip off the old slate, and lay down new a...

East Boston | Patching Walls, Inside and Out
Season 28 - Episode 13
Work begins on the exterior of the building, first by cleaning any old cracks, and then by applying a flexible polyurethane caulking that is...

East Boston | Floors in Eastie and at the BSO
Season 28 - Episode 14
While homeowner Liz Bagley works to strip paint off the front door trim, general contractor Tom Silva creates a wood inlay to patch her kitc...

East Boston | Modern, Traditional, and Boston Light
Season 28 - Episode 15
Landscape contractor Roger Cook removes the rest of the old plants and dead lawn to make way for the new, while homeowner Liz Bagley and int...

East Boston | Off To The Races
Season 28 - Episode 16
Host Kevin O'Connor visits Suffolk Downs ? the oldest horseracing track in Massachusetts. Landscape architect Stephanie Hubbard fills Kevin ...

East Boston | The House With the White Picket Fence
Season 28 - Episode 17
Host Kevin O'Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram arrive to find the landscape coming together with a new fence, sod, and plants. General ...

East Boston | Upstairs, Downstairs–Complete!
Season 28 - Episode 18
It's a wrap for the This Old House East Boston project! After a short ride on the Blue Line - the first subway in the world to run underneat...

Austin; Where Green Building Was Born
Season 28 - Episode 19
Custom cafe shutters; finishing the grout on the glass tile backsplash; boutique look; cottage kitchen and bath.

Austin; Chasing Five Stars
Season 28 - Episode 20
For the first time ever, the experts at This Old House travel to Austin, Texas, to transform an historic bungalow into an expanded, eco-frie...

Austin; The Great State of Texas
Season 28 - Episode 21
Host Kevin O'Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram arrive back in Austin, Texas, with a visit to the spring fed pool at Barton Springs, a f...

Austin; Trethewey in Texas
Season 28 - Episode 22
After a visit to the Texas State Capitol building, master carpenter Norm Abram sees the standing seam metal roof going on our green building...

Austin; Keeping Austin Weird
Season 28 - Episode 23
Host Kevin O'Connor welcomes plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey to the "Live Music Capital of the World" with a visit to the lege...

Austin; Harvesting Water and Wind
Season 28 - Episode 24
Host Kevin O'Connor shows landscape contractor Roger Cook some local color on Austin's Town Lake, while back at the project house, green bui...

Austin; Green is Good
Season 28 - Episode 25
Despite a crippling ice storm in Texas, work continues at the project house. Builder Bill Moore shows master carpenter Norm Abram how he's u...

Austin; Finished House and Five Stars!
Season 28 - Episode 26
Using locally abundant natural materials is considered "green", so we're using local limestone on the front porch wall caps, the first floor...