Season 16 poster

Season 16

(1994)

Overview

The Acton House; The Napa Valley House

Cast

Richard Trethewey as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
Richard Trethewey

as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert

Norm Abram as Self - Master Carpenter
Norm Abram

as Self - Master Carpenter

Tom Silva as Self - General Contractor
Tom Silva

as Self - General Contractor

Roger Cook as Self - Landscape Contractor
Roger Cook

as Self - Landscape Contractor

Episodes

The Acton House - 1 poster

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January 1, 1994

The season begins with a tour of the country's oldest wood-frame house: the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, b…

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January 15, 1994

The day begins with the crew moving the old milk shed to another spot on the property. Inside, Richard Trethewey has do…

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January 28, 1994

Homeowner Terry Maitland cuts down a tree to make way for the new foundation, while the crew lays out the excavation li…

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February 1, 1994

We tour the newly demolished back areas of the house, and see how woefully underframed they are. In preparation for the…

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February 15, 1994

At the site, lumber - conventional and engineered - has arrived, and the crew begins to attach the sill to the foundati…

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February 28, 1994

The framing crew continues working on the addition; a large steel beam to carry out the upper floor is lowered into pla…

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March 1, 1994

With the addtion weatherweight, its massing is apparement and seems to make a successful match with the old building. I…

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March 15, 1994

Redwood clapboards - finger-jointed and preprimed - start to go on the addition; our general contractor shows us a tric…

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March 28, 1994

As he contemplates installing replacement windows in the original building, our master carpenter explains that it might…

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April 1, 1994

Tom Silva shows us his reroofing progress - stripping of old shingles, plywooding sheathing, new shingles, redge vent. …

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April 15, 1994

Homeowners Terry and Sima Maitland puzzle over exterior paint colors, settling on a pumpkin for the field and cream for…

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April 28, 1994

Tom Silva tests out the old-fashioned v-shaped gutter he made for the front porch, then takes us on a tour of the house…

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May 1, 1994

We see Terry busily caulking the battered clapboards of the west gable in preparation for the top coat of paint. Painte…

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May 15, 1994

At in-ground propane tank is installed for cooking and drying. Inside, the wallbaord is up, plaster is going on the cei…

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May 28, 1994

We arrive to find Jeff Hosking installing the salvaged floorboards he found in a New Hampshire yard. Jeff discusses the…

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June 1, 1994

The crew installs the new front entryway. Kitchen designer Glenn Berger leads a tour of the new kitchen, and our host t…

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June 15, 1994

Our host arrives to find installer Michael Griffiths laying out a carpet for the master suite. It's made of recycled so…

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June 28, 1994

The final days. We arrive to find the telephone company burying a new multipair line into the house, leaving the west g…

The Napa Valley House - 1 poster

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February 1, 1995

The crew heads west to California's Napa Valley and Dennis Duffy's circa 1906 farmhouse. Essentially untouched in the l…

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February 8, 1995

Work begins on the Duffy residence, with Jim Nolan's crew tearing off the back porch with a backhoe. We visit architect…

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February 15, 1995

After a period of heavy rains and flooding, Napa Valley - and the jobsite - are a soggy mess. The show opens in sandbag…

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February 22, 1995

The show start with a visit to Napa Valley's oldest wooden, gravity-fed winery, home of Trefethen Vineyards. At the sit…

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March 1, 1995

We check out the mustard plants in a vineyard near the farmhouse before heading over to a very busy jobsite. There, con…

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March 8, 1995

With remarkable progress at the site, we tour the exterior with Jim Nolan, seeing fir decking, trim details, traditiona…

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March 15, 1995

The show opens at Clos Pegase, a winery designed by noted architect Michael Graves. At the site, the rains continue, an…

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March 22, 1995

The final day opens at a scenic overlook on the first clear day in a week. On site, the painters are applying the exter…