Season 17 poster

Season 17

(1995)

Overview

The Salem House; The Savannah 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 Salem House - 1 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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 poster

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…