Season 17
(1995)
Overview
The Salem House; The Savannah House
Cast
as Self - Plumbing and Heating Expert
as Self - Master Carpenter
as Self - General Contractor
as Host
as Self - Landscape Contractor
Episodes
The Salem House - 1 0.0
September 30, 1995
The show opens the season with a tour of Salem, Massachusets - the Witch Trials Memorial, the town's formerly bustling …
The Salem House - 2 0.0
October 7, 1995
Their bid of $205,000 accepted, the Guinees take possession of the house. Our host meets their banker, who explains som…
The Salem House - 3 0.0
October 14, 1995
We visit the island of Nantucket, where architect Ann Beha's firm is expanding and renovated the historic Atheneum, the…
The Salem House - 4 0.0
October 21, 1995
On a hot July day, the crew got the existing children's bath and future master bath. They discover a flooring system th…
The Salem House - 5 0.0
October 28, 1995
Tom Silva shows us the reframed bathrooms, with floors stiffened by flipping the original joists and sistering on reinf…
The Salem House - 6 0.0
November 4, 1995
The crew insulates the exterior wall of the kids' bath with blown cellulose. Tom Silva shows us a paint-on bathtub prot…
The Salem House - 7 0.0
November 11, 1995
We arrive to find Mike McManus and his painting crew continuing their prep work, dry scraping and hand sanding, per Boa…
The Salem House - 8 0.0
November 18, 1995
The crew assesses the condition of the clapboards on the back of the building, patching presents a large investment of …
The Salem House - 9 0.0
November 25, 1995
We arrive to hear some troubling news: Some of the neighbors - not pleased with the Historical Commission's approval of…
The Salem House - 10 0.0
December 2, 1995
Our host recounts the latest Historical Commission meeting, in which the original approval of the carriageway was sent …
The Salem House - 11 0.0
December 9, 1995
The City of Salem's tree-planting program puts in a Callery pear (pyrus calleryana 'red spire') in fornt of the Guinees…
The Salem House - 12 0.0
December 16, 1995
Lighting designer Josh Feinstein shows Deborah lighting treatments for the kitchen and living room, while electrician J…
The Salem House - 13 0.0
December 23, 1995
Our host arrives with news from the latest Historical Commission meeting: a decision on the issue of the carriageway wi…
The Salem House - 14 0.0
December 30, 1995
Our host arrives to see a wallboard delivery truck in action, while inside the wallboard/plaster crew works in the dini…
The Salem House - 15 0.0
January 6, 1996
Homeowner Kevin Guinee tells us that, for now, they have withdrawn their petition to build a carriageway, citing lack o…
The Salem House - 16 0.0
January 13, 1996
We meet artist Don McKillop, who is painting a portrait of the Guinees' house, while across the street a brick sidewalk…
The Salem House - 17 0.0
January 20, 1996
A historically inspired Federal-style fence is installed to replace the rotting pickets in front of the house. Tom Silv…
The Salem House - 18 0.0
January 27, 1996
The final days. We arrive after a snowstorm to find the front hall floor finished with a faux marble treatment by decor…
The Savannah House - 1 0.0
February 3, 1996
This Old House heads south to the historic splendor of Savannah, Georgia, where Mills and Marianne Fleming have purchas…
The Savannah House - 2 0.0
February 10, 1996
The show begins with the TOH guys antiquing and then heading over to the jobsite on Monterey Square. With demolition of…
The Savannah House - 3 0.0
February 17, 1996
The show opens at Wormsloe Plantation, ruins of a 1736 dwelling on the banks of the Inland Passage and the earliest rem…
The Savannah House - 4 0.0
February 24, 1996
The show opens at an architectural salvage shop in downtown Savannah; the proprietress drops by the jobsite to buy some…
The Savannah House - 5 0.0
March 2, 1996
The show opens at Fort Pulaski, a Federal fort taken over by Confederate forces early in the Civil War, only to fall to…
The Savannah House - 6 0.0
March 9, 1996
The show opens at Congregation Mickve Israel, where Rabbi Belzer takes us on a tour around the 1876 building and shows …
The Savannah House - 7 0.0
March 16, 1996
The show opens with a visit to the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest container ports on the East Coast and a major e…
The Savannah House - 8 0.0
March 23, 1996
The final days in Savannah. We visit a preservation expert in charge of saving Pulaski Monument in Monterey Square, whi…