Ask This Old House

Net zero energy housing; wrenches; console table using a maple slab with a live edge on it.

Tom uses multiple techniques to make a drafty door weathertight; Mauro demonstrates the most effective way to clean a paintbrush; Roger and Jenn test out a variety of battery operated lawn tools.

Mark teaches apprentice Krysten how to reface a granite fireplace; Jenn gives some tips on starting an organic garden; Richard helps a homeowner replace her kitchen faucet when she realizes her shutoff valve is broken.

The safe way to strip paint; basic chiseling techniques; hooking up a refrigerator with an ice machine.

Installing an alternative to a traditional gutter; re-creating the desert on a landscape design.

Painting a metal door; matching mortar for repointing jobs; making a variety of wood joints.

Replacing a leaky shower valve; chainsaw safety; making a bucket stool with designer Ben Uyeda.

Solutions for a frozen air conditioner; fixing an end cap on a stair railing.

Richard demonstrates a solution for replacing a water main shutoff; Jenn travels to Tennessee to build a planter out of an animal feeding trough; Mark waterproofs brick; Kevin heads back to Jimmy DiResta’s shop to build a sign.

Mark installs a metal railing using anchoring cement; in Open House, Richard weighs the pros and cons of steam heat; Tom demonstrates the correct way to replace a cracked kitchen floor tile.

In this special episode of AskTOH, the guys head to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey to profile nonprofits working to tear down, clean out, and rebuild homes that were destroyed during the storm.

Richard diagnoses and repairs a water system with air in it; in Open House, Tom analyzes a staircase that is not to code; Mauro makes his first house call to teach a homeowner the basics of painting a room.

Roger tends to a lawn that was seeded in the summer and is not doing well; Richard goes over low-budget kitchen upgrades; Tom travels to a futuristic workshop in San Francisco to build a stool using computer-based tools.

Roger installs a downspout alternative; Mauro explains paintbrushes; Richard installs a vanity.

Richard shows Kevin the proper way to ventilate a sink; in Nashville, Tom converts a regular door into a Dutch door; Jenn updates a landscape by moving around, dividing, and pruning the current plants in the yard.

Instantaneous water heater; cutting straight edges with a circular saw; retaining wall.

Testing tools that collect silica dust; shimming a wobbly toilet; building a wooden slice table.

Repairing a damaged walkway; patching a chipped wood floor.

Roger teaches how to care for orchids; Tom fixes a window that was not hung properly and is now letting air in; Mark demonstrates how to clean brick with acid; in Future House, Ross finds a solar panel that can generate drinking water.

Building a toy box; preventing fires caused by holiday decorations.

Water filters; tree removal; locating studs in a wall; installing a smart garage door opener.

Replacing a small radiator; the importance of sunscreen on the jobsite; repointing brick.

Reseeding a lawn; the basics of changing a toilet; an off-grid home tests commercial HVAC equipment.

A homeowner has never tiled before, so Tom teaches her how using a simple technique; Richard demonstrates a wireless leak detector that prevents floods; Jenn installs a water feature that collects and reuses rainwater.