Season 16
(1994)
Overview
The Acton House; The Napa Valley House
Cast
as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
as Self - Master Carpenter
as Self - General Contractor
as Host
as Self - Landscape Contractor
Episodes
The Acton House - 1 0.0
January 1, 1994
The season begins with a tour of the country's oldest wood-frame house: the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, b…
The Acton House - 2 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 3 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 4 0.0
February 1, 1994
We tour the newly demolished back areas of the house, and see how woefully underframed they are. In preparation for the…
The Acton House - 5 0.0
February 15, 1994
At the site, lumber - conventional and engineered - has arrived, and the crew begins to attach the sill to the foundati…
The Acton House - 6 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 7 0.0
March 1, 1994
With the addtion weatherweight, its massing is apparement and seems to make a successful match with the old building. I…
The Acton House - 8 0.0
March 15, 1994
Redwood clapboards - finger-jointed and preprimed - start to go on the addition; our general contractor shows us a tric…
The Acton House - 9 0.0
March 28, 1994
As he contemplates installing replacement windows in the original building, our master carpenter explains that it might…
The Acton House - 10 0.0
April 1, 1994
Tom Silva shows us his reroofing progress - stripping of old shingles, plywooding sheathing, new shingles, redge vent. …
The Acton House - 11 0.0
April 15, 1994
Homeowners Terry and Sima Maitland puzzle over exterior paint colors, settling on a pumpkin for the field and cream for…
The Acton House - 12 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 13 0.0
May 1, 1994
We see Terry busily caulking the battered clapboards of the west gable in preparation for the top coat of paint. Painte…
The Acton House - 14 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 15 0.0
May 28, 1994
We arrive to find Jeff Hosking installing the salvaged floorboards he found in a New Hampshire yard. Jeff discusses the…
The Acton House - 16 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 17 0.0
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…
The Acton House - 18 0.0
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 0.0
February 1, 1995
The crew heads west to California's Napa Valley and Dennis Duffy's circa 1906 farmhouse. Essentially untouched in the l…
The Napa Valley House - 2 0.0
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…
The Napa Valley House - 3 0.0
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…
The Napa Valley House - 4 0.0
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…
The Napa Valley House - 5 0.0
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…
The Napa Valley House - 6 0.0
March 8, 1995
With remarkable progress at the site, we tour the exterior with Jim Nolan, seeing fir decking, trim details, traditiona…
The Napa Valley House - 7 0.0
March 15, 1995
The show opens at Clos Pegase, a winery designed by noted architect Michael Graves. At the site, the rains continue, an…
The Napa Valley House - 8 0.0
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…