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Season 20

(1998)

Overview

The Watertown House; The Key West 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

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September 26, 1998

Our 20th year on public television began with the renovation of a circa 1886 Victorian with a large circa 1915 rear add…

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October 3, 1998

Our host opens the show with a visit to the Watertown Arsenal, now decommissioned and slated for redevelopment into off…

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October 10, 1998

The crew begins to dismantle the grand oak staircase as the house's new floorplan comes into focus - seen in a vitural-…

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October 17, 1998

As a professionally installed scaffolding system rises up to the roof ridge, landscape archtect Clarissa Rowe walks aro…

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October 24, 1998

The landscape work begins with landscaper Roger Cook and arborist Matt Foti marking trees slated for pruning or renoval…

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October 31, 1998

The team's work to complete the reframing of the second floor starts with the use of engineered lumber, which makes for…

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November 7, 1998

The show opens with a walk along a newly restored natural corridor lining the banks of the Charles River in Watertown. …

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November 14, 1998

A Dig Safe representative is on site to explain the nonprofit organization's function: to notify all utilities of impen…

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November 21, 1998

Entomologist and pest control contractor Steve Marken takes us on a termite-damage tour of the house, pointed out the c…

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November 28, 1998

Roger Cook and Christian Bilodeau plant 30-foot evergreens as a screen in the backyard, using Christian's tree spade. T…

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December 5, 1998

The This Old House team installs a zero-clearance fireplace with a handsome cast-iron firebox. Window rehabilitation sp…

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December 12, 1998

A busy day on site: the back decking is coming along with a new undermount system. The insulation crew is hard at work …

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December 19, 1998

Exterior painting by Steve Kiernan and crew is underway out back, as is the erection of a white cedar combination fence…

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December 26, 1998

The show opens with a plumbing and heating tour of the basement, with stops at: a pressure-reducing valve that steps do…

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January 2, 1999

A huge drywall goes in under the front lawn to handle water pumped out of the basement slump, and chimney specialist Ma…

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January 9, 1999

The This Old House team shop for lunch supplies at Eastern Lamejun Bakery, one of the oldest Middle Eastern grocery sto…

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January 16, 1999

Our host arrives on site to find the building's exterior nearly complete: the new paint scheme is on, the copper gutter…

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January 23, 1999

Our host arrives to find Roger Cook and crew installing sod on the front lawn, while inside painting contractor Steve K…

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January 30, 1999

The final days of the Watertown project start with Richard Trethewey's tour of the completed kitchen, complete with sta…

The Key West House - 1 poster

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February 6, 1999

Our host and master carpenter find paradise at the end of the famed U.S. Route 1 - Key West, Florida. Along the island'…

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February 13, 1999

After catching the famous Mallory Square sunset the evening before, the This Old House team gets to work, first checkin…

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February 20, 1999

The show opens at one of Key West's most popular destinations, Harry Truman's ""Little White House,"" where the Preside…

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February 27, 1999

The show opens at Truman Annex, a planned community on land that was formerly Key West's naval station. Later in the sh…

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March 6, 1999

The show opens at Key West's biggest industries - cruise ships. The This Old House team takes a tour of Carnival's Ecst…

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March 13, 1999

Just as they're getting used to all the sunshine, the crew realizes it's almost time to wrap up the Key West project. T…

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March 20, 1999

On our last day in Key West, viewers get a look at the new pool, its cleaning system and the heat pump that both heats …