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So there are clear rules about where you can vent in relation to operable windows. So here in the front of the house, right behind this wall and down below is where the boiler is. Now, the only place to put a boiler in this building, it turns out, was right underneath my feet. You know, there's no real lateral way to run ductwork, and there's windows everywhere. And then we're able to pass the cost savings on to the customer.
Concord: Race to the Finish
The gambrel portion of the home was built in 1720, but the ell is believed to have evolved into two stories over the centuries. The homeowners want to return the ell back to a single-story structure using the original timber frame members. Well, that's next for today, but next week, our original roof boards from the original building -- well, they get a second life.
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Plans include reconstructing the additions and creating an open floor plan. The timber frame structure in the ell is carefully dismantled; a new fireplace for the original gambrel is considered, and landscape and hardscape ideas are explored. New framing replaces the once termite eaten studs. Having an HVAC plan in place, the homeowner begins installing ductwork at the house.
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Ah, you know, to get it about where it is now but sheathed, probably three days. ♪♪ This is the part I was waiting for, when you start putting this roof structure up. And the next step is to start setting the other three wall panels and get all of them in place and then straightened out. You can see all the headers over the doors and windows, all premium lumber. We haven't ate up any space except for the thickness of the wallboard. When you open the door to the left, you can have a clothes pole up here and another one down here.
Concord: Fix the Foundation
The timber frame is carefully dismantled to be rebuilt later. A Rumford style fireplace is proposed to replace a larger Ben Franklin style. The team applies the finishing touches to the formerly modest 19th-century Cape Cod home. They installed new windows and flooring on the first floor, as well as new kitchen cabinets. Pauline Curtiss applies an ancient limestone treatment to the second-floor main bathroom to protect surfaces from mold and mildew. Work on the exterior of the home is almost complete.
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So these are going to stay, but for all of the new space, he's convinced the homeowners to go back to white-pine clapboards. The plumbing contractor talks about using coffered ceilings to run plumbing. The porch gets a drain plain and the roof a diffusion vent. The homeowner walks Jenn Nawada through the ice rink construction. Wide plank floorboards mimic the look of the original flooring. With demo complete, the new foundations are poured, and a winding staircase replaces the old steep set.
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Kevin, the homeowners and the materials coordinator select tile. The crew starts one of their oldest projects yet, a first period home in the town of Ipswich, MA. The homeowners give them a tour of the property and the proposed changes. Tom Silva shows them how to salvage the old floorboards before demo begins. Roof shingles are installed on a challenging roof line.
The original timber frame structure is assessed, and the original floorboards and roof sheathing are salvaged for later use. The newly restored timber frame structure is reassembled on site. A Rumford fireplace is installed where the old was demolished.
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The vinyl siding is removed to reveal the original clapboards. A medicinal herb garden is planted, and custom shelves are built from reclaimed lumber. And today is the day that it all comes together and the house is complete. Especially at night, just having a nice indirect soft light, let you enough to see, you can get back and forth, not in your face. This helps soften that up and make it a nice, smooth, even light.
They fixed the chimney and they even installed new clay liners going right up through here and the chimney, which runs through the second floor guest bedroom where Tommy's working. This time the glass will extend past where the wall was and have a mitered corner of glass right down to the floor where the curb is. The exterior walls are getting a closed cell foam insulation. ♪♪ Everybody in town knows our house, and a lot of them know it as "the red house," although, Helen, maybe that might be changing. So he's piling this up in the dry kiln, Kevin, and we're going to heat this building using the steam from our biomass boiler.
A tub and radiant floor heating are installed in the upstairs bathrooms. The homeowner and his son install drywall in their new mancave. The front porch gets a new set of granite stairs and a brick walkway. A cable rail system is installed on the back stairs. Renovation on the 1902 house is done and the homeowners are ready to move in, but first, they've invited the crew to join them in their town's annual bed race. After, they meet up at the house to tour the transformed space.
And then it allows you to run a piece of tape from that fin to the face of the sheathing. And homeowners just said, "Let's do the whole house in wood." Back here, we've got two double-hung windows to bring in a lot of natural light. ThisOldHouse.com – The current season and three most recent seasons of This Old House (seasons 42-45) and Ask This Old House (seasons 19-22). An old porch is saved and is tied into the new construction.
The Silva crew transitions from old to new floor and hide the evidence. Kevin finds Charlie and the kitchen designer laying out the kitchen. The foundation is waterproofed and Mauro and homeowners discuss exterior paint colors. Kevin O’Connor visits a 5th generation lumber mill in Maine that manufactures eastern white pine clapboards from stump to finish product. Mauro Henrique, Tom Silva, and architect Jay Mason restore the old chalkboards. The house gets pantry cabinets, a soaker tub and kitchen lighting.
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