This Old House

Exploring what has been preserved and altered over the years; the plans for the second and third floors; how the homeowners envision using the outdoor space; the inefficient boiler; plans for future mechanical and plumbing systems; outdated kitchen.

Jill Goldberg sorts through colors and wallpaper ideas for the living room; old plaster walls are demolished; Kim Turner presents her first landscape plan; a certified arborist removes the old Silver Maple; the exterior back wall is taken down.

Tommy and Kevin replace a 100-year-old wooden beam with a new steel beam to provide support for the new addition; local examples of Arts & Crafts style houses; the old oil tank gets drained and removed; digging for the new foundation begins.

The new concrete foundation is poured; Emily, Roger and Kim try to find mature specimen trees for the yard; a precast concrete bulkhead is installed; Mark erects a concrete wall; the old foundation gets waterproofed with a synthetic rubber spray.

Tommy and Kevin see how the steel beams are fabricated; Kevin finds Tommy supervising erection on the back of the house; the third floor has been demo'ed and Richard starts an HVAC plan for the second floor; the porch is demo'ed.

Starting the new chimney; seeing how bricks are mixed, formed, cut, and baked at a 100-year-old factory; the homeowners' dream kitchen; changing the pitch of the two back dormers to match the pitch of the new gable.

A custom range hood; the original chimney is demo'ed and a new one is built; Jill Goldberg discusses options for the fireplace; other decisions to make are tile for the first floor powder room and whether to paint the wood panels in the living room.

Demo of old walls reveal a hidden doorway; the design plan for the new master bath presents a classic plumbing problem; creating elaborate cuts with computerized cutting machines; Scott Caron installs a ceiling fan; new double-hung windows.

Framing the new Arts and Crafts front porch using custom-cut and assembled rafters; marble from Vermont for the countertops; discovering how marble makes its way from inside the mountain to inside the kitchen; color selection; the lost art of stucco.

The guys build an outdoor Yoga shed; on the main house, a standing-seam copper roof is installed over the front porch; Tommy trims a window using a PVC product with a rabbet joint; plumber Kevin Bilo installs a state-of-the-art boiler.

Removing a service pole at the front of the property; Norm helps Charlie build the flared porch columns; a new brick patio; the kitchen cabinets are delivered; the architect calls for decorative half timbers and stucco to accent the front gables.

Using pre-primed red cedar to shingle the house; a stylist helps figure out window treatments; radiant floor tubing is installed in the tracks under the existing old basement floor; repairing the grand living-room fireplace; repointing loose bricks.

Assembling the roof on the ground; a lift helps raise the roof into place; the technique of Lazure painting, a watercolor style of painting interior walls; refinishing oak veneer; installing wood paneling in the living room; screening trees.

Tommy installs the shiplap; using reclaimed granite, Kevin helps Roger's crew lay a second set of steps for the walkway; Roberto finds and cuts a marble slab for the kitchen island; Mark builds the cast stone mantel surrounding for the new fireplace.

Installing the marble in the kitchen island; laying the first giant stones for the fieldstone wall; hanging wallpaper over a secret door; how the radiant floor heating, air conditioning and supplemental heating system work; extra-large dog door.

The Arts and Crafts house in Arlington is near completion and the guys come to take a last look and celebrate with the homeowners; touring the yard; Tommy and Norm check out the addition at the back of the house; touring the updated first floor.

Kevin introduces the city of Detroit; Kevin meets the homeowners for a tour of the first and second floor; Tommy is in the back yard, assessing some of the repairs needed; plumbing issues in the basement; suggestions for upgrading the electricity.

Kevin meets Detroit's Mayor to learn about the city's efforts to revitalize neighborhoods; Wes Kasperski installs an alarm system to keep the house protected during renovation; Frank works with Tommy and Kevin to blow in new insulation from the roof.

Richard checks the plumbing stack and Tommy investigates a leaky parapet; Kevin and Tommy work with Frank and his friends to demo the kitchen walls and investigate whether a beam is needed; a tree with a large root system threatens the foundation.

Tommy teaches techniques to remove peeling paint in the living room while Richard and Frank begin rough plumbing repairs in the basement; Tommy shows Kevin the issues with the leaded stained-glass windows before restoration.

Repairing crumbling decorative molding with a replica created by a 3D printer; looking at plumbing fixtures; repairing some compromised joists in the upstairs bathroom; how to install kitchen ceiling strapping; repairs made to the foundation.

A new exterior wall goes up, from the inside; new kitchen wiring; installing a new HVAC system; Flint, Mich., water crisis; installing more substantial fascia in preparation for new gutters.

At the Russell Woods project, Tommy uses a clever fix for some damaged oak flooring in the living room; Frank and Tamiko meet with Jerusha Kaffine, a local kitchen designer, to see her plan; repairing the front steps before new gutters go up.

New cabinets and kitchen tiles at the Grandmont Rosedale project; reinstall leaded glass bay windows at Russell Woods; wood grain tile; a decoupling membrane underlayment that supports electric wire heating; urban farming in Detroit; a drywell.