Our master carpenter boards the fishing boat of Capt. Tom Mleczko in search of the mighty striped bass and hooks one on his first cast. Fresh from his triumph, he…

We visit the Nantucket Marine Lab and its director, Rob Garrison, to see efforts of augment the islande’s scallop population. At the house, Bruce Killen tells us that the Historic…

After a ride out to the beach reservation known as Coatue with with Nantucket Conservation Foundation director Jim Lentowski to see both the natural beauty of the preserve and a…

Realtor Hammie Heard shows us around the Dreamland Theatre, a downtown Nantucket landmark. First a Quaker meeting house, then a straw hat factory, then a roller rink, then part of…

Dr. Tim Lepore, the island’s leading specialist in tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease and babeosis, tells us more about their prevalence here and what can be done to avoid them….

The show begins with a visit to the Wharf Rat Club, a collection of old-timers who gather to chat each morning in a former quahog-sorting shack on Old North Wharf….

A visit to Nantucket’s Life-Saving Museum teaches viewers about a key part of the island’s maritime past. Meanwhile, the site is a flurry of subcontractor activity. Mason Dan Kissell shows…

Before heading over to the job site, we visit the 1827 African Meeting House, a former school, church, and meeting house used by Nantucket’s black population until the 1920’s and…

The show opens at Nantucket’s Whaling Museum with curator Mike Jehle. At the site, we see the first of two wells being drilled for the Bentley’s ground-source heat pump; they…

The show begins at Nantucket’s Old North Wharf, much of which dates from the early 18th century and site of several small cottages available for rent. At the site, homeowner…

The show opens with a little clamming, looking for quahogs at a secret location. At the site, we meet designer Jock Gifford, who uses the model of the house to…

The show starts with a visit to Sankaty Head Light, a Coast Guard property of the exposed Eastern edge of the island. Built in 1850, it like the rest of…

Our master carpenter goes lobstering with contractor/lobsterman Pierre Garneau, who has a family license to put out 10 traps. At the house, mason Dan Kissell takes down the unneeded (and…

The show starts with a visit to Nantucket’s Unitarian Universalist church, a beautiful showcase of restrained New England architecture and trompe l’oeil painting built in 1809. At 3 Milk Street,…

The crew starts the work day surf casting with local expert David Goodman (and full-time tile contractor) – and even catch a striped bass and a bluefish. At the house,…

This Old House sets out for Nantucket the classic way, aboard a Streamship Authority vessel. On island, they tour one of our master carpenter’s first jobs, a clothing store. Linking…

The final days in Savannah. We visit a preservation expert in charge of saving Pulaski Monument in Monterey Square, which is falling victim to the ravages of acid rain, sulfur,…

The show opens with a visit to the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest container ports on the East Coast and a major employer for the region. He delivers…

The show opens at Congregation Mickve Israel, where Rabbi Belzer takes us on a tour around the 1876 building and shows us the congreation’s Torah, the oldest in America, brought…

The show opens at Fort Pulaski, a Federal fort taken over by Confederate forces early in the Civil War, only to fall to superior weaponry, rendering its masonry construction obsolete….

The show opens at an architectural salvage shop in downtown Savannah; the proprietress drops by the jobsite to buy some of the salvaged plumbing fixtures and woodwork. The strip oak…

The show opens at Wormsloe Plantation, ruins of a 1736 dwelling on the banks of the Inland Passage and the earliest remnant of those colonial times in Savannah. Back at…

The show begins with the TOH guys antiquing and then heading over to the jobsite on Monterey Square. With demolition of the rear porches complete, the Turner Construction team, led…

This Old House heads south to the historic splendor of Savannah, Georgia, where Mills and Marianne Fleming have purchased an 1884 Italianate Victorian townhouse on Monterey Square, one of the…

The final days. We arrive after a snowstorm to find the front hall floor finished with a faux marble treatment by decorative painter Julie Clay. In the kitchen, Tom Worthen…

A historically inspired Federal-style fence is installed to replace the rotting pickets in front of the house. Tom Silva installs a new mortice lock in the front door using an…

We meet artist Don McKillop, who is painting a portrait of the Guinees’ house, while across the street a brick sidewalk is installed in front of the house. Inside, floor…

Homeowner Kevin Guinee tells us that, for now, they have withdrawn their petition to build a carriageway, citing lack of time to build, lack of remaining funds, Deborah’s pregnancy and…

Our host arrives to see a wallboard delivery truck in action, while inside the wallboard/plaster crew works in the dining room. Upstairs, the guys address the out-of-square conditions in the…

Our host arrives with news from the latest Historical Commission meeting: a decision on the issue of the carriageway will be made in three weeks. The Guinees asked for a…

Lighting designer Josh Feinstein shows Deborah lighting treatments for the kitchen and living room, while electrician Jeff Perry works to fish wires for the spots that will highlight the mantelpiece….

The City of Salem’s tree-planting program puts in a Callery pear (pyrus calleryana ‘red spire’) in fornt of the Guinees’ house. In the kitchen, the guys examine the new windows…

Our host recounts the latest Historical Commission meeting, in which the original approval of the carriageway was sent aside and the whole issue reconsidered. Because of discrepancies between the drawings…

We arrive to hear some troubling news: Some of the neighbors – not pleased with the Historical Commission’s approval of the carriageway plan and worried about traffic flow, fumes, and…

The crew assesses the condition of the clapboards on the back of the building, patching presents a large investment of labor, while total replacement will be a big materials hit….

We arrive to find Mike McManus and his painting crew continuing their prep work, dry scraping and hand sanding, per Board of Health regulations. The new staging now has safety…

The crew insulates the exterior wall of the kids’ bath with blown cellulose. Tom Silva shows us a paint-on bathtub protector that peels off after construction is complete. We meet…

Tom Silva shows us the reframed bathrooms, with floors stiffened by flipping the original joists and sistering on reinforcing members. The bathtub arrives, and the crew horses it upstairs, where…

On a hot July day, the crew got the existing children’s bath and future master bath. They discover a flooring system that probably cna’t support the heavy load of two…

We visit the island of Nantucket, where architect Ann Beha’s firm is expanding and renovated the historic Atheneum, the town library. She agrees to help out in Salem. In Salem,…