
This Old House Season 27 Episode 7
Host Kevin O’Connor finds master carpenter Norm Abram and homeowner George Mabry discussing the recent water damage in the old kitchen, and George’s new inclination to renovate the entire space….

This Old House Season 27 Episode 6
Master carpenter Norm Abram and host Kevin O’Connor open the show at Cambridge Common — the city’s oldest public open space and a center of rebel activity in the early…

This Old House Season 27 Episode 5
Master carpenter Norm Abram shows Host Kevin O’Connor the newly discovered problems at the project house, most of them caused by the poor workmanship of a previous contractor. In the…

This Old House Season 27 Episode 4
Host Kevin O’Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram visit the independently owned neighborhood shops of nearby Huron Village. Back at the house, Kevin lends Norm and general contractor Tom Silva…

This Old House Season 27 Episode 3
A week of rain from a springtime Nor’easter hasn’t stopped work on the house, nor on the lot. Landscape contractor Roger Cook shows host Kevin O’Connor the progress—the trees are…

This Old House Season 27 Episode 2
Host Kevin O’Connor arrives to find homeowner George Mabry moving out and general contractor Tom Silva moving in. With a building permit in hand, Tom starts with the carport, dismantling…

This Old House Season 27 Episode 1
The new season finds the experts at This Old House in historic Cambridge, Mass., working on a mid-century Modern house for biotech bachelor, George Mabry. At the project house near…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 26

This Old House Season 26 Episode 25
Kevin and senior design consultant Alexa Hampton continue to explore the designer show house through the work of designers Gracyn Whitman, Lisa Newman Paratore, and a company that produces furnishings…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 24
The designer show house begins as interior designer Mally Skok welcomes Norm to the dramatic entry hall. In the barn, senior design consultant Alexa Hampton discovers the decorated loft space…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 23
Norm meets lighting designer Susan Arnold for a look at the modern (but practical) cable lighting system in the kitchen. The limestone tub deck is installed in the master bath,…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 22
On the back porch, installer Steve Primack shows Norm the new motorized screen system. Closet designer Marcy Weisburgh shows Kevin the mudroom and master closet, and shares strategies for smart…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 21
In the barn, Norm meets up with chimney specialist Mark Schaub to determine if his oak lintel above the fireplace is truly safe, and if it will meet code. Kevin…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 20
Norm learns how the seamless, clog-less gutter system for the barn is fabricated and installed. Flooring contractor Patrick Hunt shows Kevin how to install a pre-finished engineered cherry floor throughout…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 19
Kevin finds Roger and his crew finishing up the bluestone terrace and retaining wall under the protection of a heated tent. Generator specialist John Barros shows Kevin the new standby…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 18
Despite freezing temperatures, Roger lays down sod in the front yard. Inside the Carlisle farmstead, plastering contractor Stephen Norton gives Kevin a lesson in the fine art of plastering. In…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 17
Nurseryman Peter Mezzit arrives on site with a truckload of plant material, and (with frost on the ground) it’s not a moment too soon. Roger unloads the plants while landscape…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 16
Richard shows Kevin how the utility company will make a new gas connection to the house. Roger brings in paving contractor Don Sloan to lay the basecoat of the lower…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 15
As part of our 25th anniversary season, Kevin returns to the show’s first timber frame barn project, the Concord Barn, to see how the building has held up over the…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 14
Tom reports that after two days of drilling, the well contractors finally found water – 700 feet down. Norm shows Kevin the progress in the future garage and how the…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 13
Kevin opens the show in Concord, Massachusetts, where dozens of stately elm trees once lined Main Street – until Dutch Elm disease nearly destroyed them all. At the project house,…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 12
With the house just about to go on the market, real estate agent Laura Baliestiero shows Kevin how she plans to present the renovated farmstead to potential buyers. Roofing contractor…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 11
Kevin finds Tom milling up exterior window castings that look like wood, but are actually made out of cellular PVC material that is resistant rot. Richard installs PEX water supply…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 10
Roger shows Kevin how he’s refusing the old foundation capstones as granite steps to connect the two driveways. Mason Mike Lapitsky explains to Kevin how he selects, chisels, and dry…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 9
Kevin drives up to find landscaping finally underway and the house is full of 100 newly arrived windows. Stone wall expert Nick O’Hara shows Kevin why he has to send…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 8
Kevin and Roger meet landscape architect Stephanie Hubbard to review her latest plan for the property, which features the rural simplicity of open spaces, low stone walls, hedges, and a…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 7
Detectorist Bob Phillips discovers a cannonball at the job site that may be a souvenir from the war of 1812. Norm shows Kevin the progress on the framing of the…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 6
Tom uses laminated veneer lumber to make up 40-foot beams that will support the first floor deck of the barn. Kevin meets panelized construction specialist Jim LeRoy to watch the…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 5
Kevin visits Great Brook Farm State Park, a 1,000-acre park and the last working dairy farm in Carlisle, Massachusetts. Tom shows Kevin how he created a custom crushed stone flooring…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 4
Tom brings in an excavator fitted with a hoe ram to jackhammer away the ledge standing in the way of our new basement. Using a 3D model, Richard explains the…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 3
Kevin finds Roger clearing land for a much-needed job site parking lot. Architect Jeremiah Eck walks Norm and Kevin through a 3-D model of his proposed design. Highlights include dramatic…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 2
Have house, will renovate! Thanks to an accepted bid, This Old House is now the proud owner of a classic New England farmstead in Carlisle, Massachusetts. To be sure that…

This Old House Season 26 Episode 1
This Old House celebrates 25 years of home renovation by going back to its roots. The season opens with Kevin and Norm taking a look at the first This Old…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 26
It’s the day before the wrap, and host Kevin O’Connor finds homeowner Delaey Robinson believing in miracles, standing in his new state-of-the-art kitchen, which was a water-damaged storage room only…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 25
After welcoming landscape contractor Roger Cook to Bermuda, host Kevin O’Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram meet with project manager Alex DeCouto in the North court to see the scaffolding…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 24
There are only three weeks left on the job, and any materials and products not already aboard a ship to Bermuda are not going to make it in time. So…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 23
Master carpenter Norm Abram welcomes general contractor Tom Silva to the island by getting him properly outfitted in the “full Bermuda.” Host Kevin O’Connor meets homeowners Delaey Robinson and Andrea…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 22
Master carpenter Norm Abram and host Kevin O’Connor open the show 120 feet below ground exploring the Crystal Caves of Bermuda. Back at Harbour View, Kevin finds project manager Alex…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 21
Host Kevin O’Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram welcome plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey to Bermuda in front of St. Peter’s Church in St. George. Next door at Aunt…

This Old House Season 25 Episode 20
Host Kevin O’Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram open the show in Southampton at Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the highest point in Bermuda. Back in St. George, Kevin meets architect Colin…