This Old House | Approaching Half Way (S39 E7) | FULL EPISODE

Flooring from the dining room is used to make a barn door. Roger teaches a horticulture class in the field. Tommy and Charlie break through the basement foundation wall to find uninsulated crawl space. Garage floor gets radiant heat. New columns on front porch.
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When the dining room floor was demoed the crew found a subfloor made of old growth timbers. The homeowners and Charlie Silva have an idea for reusing those timbers as a sliding barn type door for the new pantry. Kevin finds Charlie in his shop working on the door and gives him a hand. Training is a big part of the process for Generation Next. Roger is helping a horticulture class at Minuteman Tech as they restore a flower garden for the National Park Service in Concord, Massachusetts. As they divide lilies, the instructor and students talk about the benefits of hands-on work in programs such as horticulture and how this class will get them one step ahead in the job world. Back at the house, there has always been a cold spot in the corner of the living room. Tommy suspects it is because of an uninsulated crawl space. Kevin finds Tommy and Charlie breaking through a century old foundation to find out what surprises lurk behind the stone vault. Upstairs in the new garage Kevin finds Richard and the Bilo plumbing team laying out the heating system before the concrete floor is poured. With a living space above, the homeowners want to have heat in the new two-car garage, so they have opted for a sub-floor system. Outside, work by the apprentices to rebuild the front porch is almost complete. The old columns couldn’t be saved because they were rotting. Kevin finds Tommy showing Bailey, Austin and Nathan how to install new columns.
porch columns:
Chadsworth Incorporated
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radiant heating:
Viega
www.viega.us/en/homepage.html
Bilo Plumbing and Heating:
www.biloplumbingandheating.com
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This Old House | Approaching Half Way (S39 E7) | FULL EPISODE
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[@loreuniversechannel9984]

"This Old House" has been my not-so-guilty pleasure for decades... heh...

[@bubbletravel]

Great to see Roger in his element. Keep up the great work guys!

[@TheMisterGriswold]

This episode is two years old, unfortunately.

[@FranciscoRodriguez-be6ik]

Thanks to programs like this, I have become a much better person in my profession. Thank you very much, you guys build a very positive perspective on life.

[@PatrickPoet]

Oh!!! Charlie's on this episode! Suddenly it's a hundred times better:)

[@cavisco]

That's so cute when they find something for kevin to do.

[@ptoughneigh8671]

What do you mean, you mortal fool? How dare you question Kevin O'Connors will!!!

[@Undermeman]

Richard, "they never do"....lol

[@timothydalton8023]

Great seeing Roger

[@sharpshooter012345]

It's always nice to see Roger.

[@PatrickPoet]

Do y'all have footage of Charlie as a kid? It would be funny to pop it in once in awhile to show where he came from.

[@dlg5485]

It's unfortunate to see that the most experienced apprentice seems to be doing most of the more involved tasks, which is a disservice to the other students. As someone who did an apprenticeship in a past life, I can attest first hand to that this happens a lot in the field. The journeymen often lean on the more skilled students in order to save time, but it's extremely important to ensure that all students get experience learning and doing ALL tasks regularly. The quality of the apprentice's work at the end of their training depends of this.

[@kajem575]

Yep. I noticed that immediately when it 1st aired. And look who's a cast member now.

[@AdamS-lh2ug]

My entire electrical apprenticeship…

[@iIoveualways]

I love This Old House 😊

[@ptoughneigh8671]

amen

[@zachpel1923]

It would be really cool if Tom Silva came to the cape cod tech in harwich carpentry. My teacher, friends of mine and me would be very happy if he does.

[@CKPill]

Thanks guys, love the work

[@highdesertexplorer123]

I completely understand Tommy’s reasoning for leaving part of that rubble stone foundation wall open but I was so hoping they were going to say “now that everything is insulated we can rebuild and close up this wall but before we do we made a time capsule to place inside this wall.” Whenever I open a wall I will write short messages with my name and date on the studs with my sharpie.

[@Fazal828]

Great episode

[@dallasmandy]

Roger!

[@jamesblanton3744]

I like seeing the young lady in the FFA shirt it's a great organization

[@emilys9782]

Can we all agree to stop using barn doors?

[@nufcedkidyup8627]

Why?

[@SomeDudeQC]

I know it's so over done and kitch

[@Justin-ox2xn]

I love this show!!!

[@PatrickPoet]

Whenever I see jointers and planers used I think about the British names.

[@dennisd4452]

This New York 1900 Victorian home I'm looking is a half basement too. On another note other parts of the house fell apart. Sadly, for some reason the bank ordered a construction crew to clean out the original Kitchen cabinets. I'll never get to know what it looked like.

[@heroknaderi]

I enjoyed it 😁😁

[@johnny6071]

12:30 dead body underneath the dirt lmao, would never know.

[@edttt4491]

Ill never get over the term budget being used in this video.

[@mgjmiller1995]

In the first episode, I thought, "oh yeah, minimum new bump outs, new detached garage not too crazy." Halfway into episodes two and three, the whole dang thing is down to the studs 🤣

[@rkerby6375]

Well done!

[@ptoughneigh8671]

thanks

[@Cyranose1]

curious...how about modeling good use of PPE - banging a hardened punch against the cut nails and no safety glasses? Tom and Charlie no dust protection / mask / respirator? Please consider being a better safety model.

[@an04ker]

Man up

[@ptoughneigh8671]

thanks

[@kentblairl]

We see a lot of houses falling into disrepair and they get bulldozed and all materials are taken away. With current material shortages, Is there a better business case in 2022 to try and salvage brick, planking, windows etc?

[@durangodave]

I am curious who the new crew of This Old House for the next generation will be?

[@elefja1]

Do the columns really only need compression and 4 small screws in the caps to keep them in?

[@birdzz1]

Why did they not also glue the edges of the board when they put the boards together with the floating tenons?

[@KarlBunker]

I was wondering that too.

[@kentblairl]

One reason would be to allow contraction and expansion of the wood through the 4 seasons. And it does not need to be weather tight.

[@kajem575]

What floating tenons? First thing I noticed after that was said they glued them. No longer floating.

[@reywoods]

Since they want the rough unfinished side facing out, meaning they’re not going to sand or apply any new finish to it, my guess is they don’t want to deal with glue squeeze out. It’d be hard to clean up. Just gluing the floating tenons will be plenty for a light duty door like that.

[@christianalvarez7799]

Old mate Tommy and his plumb bob

[@MegaMatt3]

19:07 Ghost shoes

[@PoeCompany]

lmao that is actually reallly disturbing since it's Austin O_o

[@michaelcarroll991]

Old girl was looking at Roger like he was slow when he cut that plant. She was like what the hell!!

[@nufcedkidyup8627]

Wrong

[@michaelcarroll991]

@@nufcedkidyup8627 wrong? Lol buck up little boy.

[@lolaclemente2927]

hey thats me

[@madmonkey4u]

No... it's not

[@lolaclemente2927]

@@madmonkey4u he's... he's joking y'all

[@NorCalPhil]

What’s the difference between a floating tenon and a biscuit?

[@russlorenzini2492]

The floating tenon is only glued to one side and there is no glue on the faces of the boards.

[@KarlBunker]

@@russlorenzini2492 That's not correct, according to the sources I've looked at. The difference between a floating tenon (AKA a Domino) and a biscuit is the shape of the wooden insert. Dominoes fit into a deep slot with perpendicular walls, while biscuits fit into an arc-shaped slot. Dominoes are (or at least can be) stronger and ensure precise alignment of the two pieces of wood. The tool for making Domino slots is evidently patented by Festool, is only available from them and is hugely expensive.

[@williamskrainski8407]

1:45 gotta love how Kevin comes walking in with a suitcase full of new tools and Charlies using a hammer Tommy gave him thirty years ago...

[@rightlanehog3151]

Just think, in 50 years someone will pull up the Disoriented Strand Board sub-floor they just installed in the addition and make NOTHING useful out of it whatsoever. :-)

[@alonzojohnson7955]

Lego blocks......coollllllllll.....😆

[@aydenobrady4923]

Who’s here from woodshop😳

[@aquarius_70]

That's an old house. That cold area is just a ghost.

[@harveypost7799]

I got ur 40 years hanging,son, better than that ceiling ....old folks home ...old folks don't die we just fart away .beach time oh yea she looking good.

[@marcusmungeam241]

Might find some skeletons boys

[@mendonesiac]

@16:12 Lego for contractors!

[@donabele1243]

@ 2:55, power switch clearly says Delta, but that's a PowerMatic planer. Maybe he replaced the switch or maybe Delta is a sponsor and not PowerMatic! Looks like the switch on the jointer @3:20. No glue on the joints between the boards??? But then he fastens the top and bottom rails with glue spanning all the boards??? Norm would be ashamed!!!

[@t1n4444]

@@Kevin-mp5of Crikey, you really are a bit of a Sherlock on the quiet. Presume you under covid-19 lockdown too, then?

[@cantcurecancer]

Heated floor in the garage? Just get a mini-split.

[@benkeysor7576]

I like how they keep saying they're on a tight budget but first buy custom tiles and now getting probably a $3000-5000.00 Radiant heating flooring installed in a garage.

[@benkeysor7576]

@@Kevin-mp5of I don't think it was overly expensive to build BUT using those expensive fancy tools and doing it the way they did is what makes it more costly then it could have been. I think the Home Owners could have made their own project with that wood instead.

[@t1n4444]

"Budget" doesn't necessarily imply doing things on the cheap of course. Probably in this situation it was intended to mean try and keep the costs under a million ... With reference to a heated garage, and the additional cost reference the overall " budget", it couldn't have been that much as a percentage. Have to say (from my UK pov) having individually programmed AC in every room is a bit OTT (over the top) 😂. So why not a heated garage? Got to use up all that energy somehow as costs more to store it sometimes ... I suppose you might get the London mansion sized homes of Arab and Russian billionaire types kitted out with that sort of thing. Although mainly they are annoying their neighbours by excavating beneath their houses for the installation of underground garages, swimming pool/fitness suites, home cinema and bowling alleys, panic rooms and vaults ... and probably dungeons ... we see some funny folks about these days ... far too many shops flogging off (groan) all this black leather gear about for my liking. Evidently the "500" rooms on the above grounds four storeys isn't quite big enough ...

[@HelamansArmy]

I liked the door made from old subfloor but I was really disappointed in the use of construction glue instead of doing it with wood glue.

[@t1n4444]

@@Kevin-mp5of 😂 hmm, but if the owners were after the synthetic trendy retro look for that one, single, solitary pantry door in their kitchen surely they would have insisted that no-one under the age of ninety laid hands on the timber. Built using only hand cut nails, edges planed off and proper braced and ledged construction. All this stuff and nonsense using modern adhesives, domino jointed boards and modern round nails ... not quite the authenticity they were expecting perhaps. Dare I suggest the owners, who seem to have more money than they know what to do with, and spell budget .... "BUDGET", were "sold" the idea of a "period looking" door so as to allow the producers to crowbar in a scene where the trusty 5000💰💰💰 Festool domino jointer struts it's stuff, thus allowing Kevin to wallop in the dominoes with his plastic headed mallet? Did I forget the thicknesser? I had until now. However, despite all the irony, it was an interesting micro project and did tick the boxes on the recycling/upcycling thing, so not all bad.

[@t1n4444]

@@Kevin-mp5of 👍😂

[@MikeJones__Who]

"The budget is tight" as they proceed to spend $100,000+ in renovations......

[@2loco]

And 2 tradesmen to build a custom panrty door, when they could have put in a cheap new door instead.

[@t1n4444]

@@2loco Not to mention a few film crew and a video editor ... 😂.

[@tempesttube]

A budget is about planning, not the total dollar amount. If you want $100,000 of work but any overage would cause you to sacrifice something that was planned, then it’s a tight budget.

[@brucefullwood]

I wonder how much Festool pays for these product placements. I'd LOVE to have a Domino, but I'm not gonna pay that much for a joiner.

[@brucefullwood]

@@Kevin-mp5of Domino seems to disagree with you, Kevin: www.festool.com/products/domino-jointing-system/domino-joining-machines/574325---df-500-q-plus

[@brucefullwood]

@@Kevin-mp5of No, it's not a BISCUIT joiner, but it is a tenon joiner. But it is a joiner.

[@t1n4444]

@@brucefullwood Aha! I was under the impression they were known, for the moment anyway, as "domino" joiners. As in a natural(?) progession from cylindrical dowels to ellipsoidal "biscuits". From the blurb I read a while back these domino pieces offer a larger cross section and don't taper off as does a "biscuit" in the joint. It might be of interest to them as go for the history thing that boards used to be joined with a continuous metal strip. Most commonly found in floor boards, before they machined in the tongue and grooves ... before they got around to composite materials ... on the presumption "everyone but everyone" would have their floors covered in fitted carpets. Doubtless we shall see the return of real floorboards on the excuse that all this composite floorboarding is oozing poisonous vapours and we'll all die in our beds of a night. (Irony Alert) Composite material floorboards just not "green" enough! Do you want your children to grow up breathing poisonous vapours? Doubtless too we shall be banned from building on and with granite on the grounds (groan) that this deadly radioactive radon will rot our teeth and probably turn all our nice cotton clothes a nasty grey colour ... and make us go grey by the time we leave school.

[@ph044930]

Stop with Mary faking.

[@CreamyBone]

How about some safety glasses in the first segment? - You guys are back to teaching people bad habits again.

[@GrahamDIY]

No glue between boards, only on the dominos?? Why?

[@mrpiccolo23]

It allows the wood to move with the changes in humidity.

[@ptoughneigh8671]

yes

[@GrahamDIY]

mrpiccolo23 wood expands across the grain, not along it. If why you say is true, which it isn’t, then, for example, glulam timber would not be a thing. Or chopping boards. Or door panels Or...

[@GrahamDIY]

Kevin yep, spot on. 👍

[@ptoughneigh8671]

@@GrahamDIY thanks

[@bob88pct]

First comment & like

[@ptoughneigh8671]

thank you so much!

[@t1n4444]

Interesting stuff. And, excellentay to see those horticultural students getting your actual hands on work experience in a real world situation that other folks can appreciate and admire for years to come. Presumably the garden's custodian type folks will have them, or their fellows, back for other jobs. The college tutors must have been beside themselves for such an opportunity for their students. Sort of gives "ownership" for a project when these students show their parents or other halves what they do. Ditto the erection of the columns; hands on work experience in another real world situation. However, Tommy and compadre, hang your dusty heads in shame ... did my eyes deceive me? No, they did not, working in a dusty work area without dust masks! Not only dust but possiblity of mould spores, bug droppings and who knows what else? Seems at odds with the column cutters lads who definitely weren't taking chances. Lastly, it might have been an opportunity lost when building that door not to have used similar cut nails for a sort of faux authenticity perhaps. Plus would have been interesting to see how they measured and made up the brace for the door. Still, not a bad episode for all that.

[@lolaclemente2927]

wow

[@madmonkey4u]

@@lolaclemente2927 Ross is trying to educated and form constructive criticism for the show, despite this episode being filmed in 2016 and Ross' response being from 6 months ago... it's still rather poignant when you think about it

[@madmonkey4u]

@@lolaclemente2927 wolf

[@lolaclemente2927]

@@madmonkey4u you're so right...

[@johnperry5102]

is the show host a qulifide carpenter or is it all for the show

[@t1n4444]

@@Kevin-mp5of I only wish I was qualified to say. Oh well.

[@ptoughneigh8671]

@@HipsterDoofus100 consider yourself an enemy of the state

[@justinwoods240]

I was gonna say oh a barn door yea but no I seen this this is a old video ask this old house more like ask these old video

[@benkeysor7576]

ALL these episodes are a few years old that have just recently been released to be put on here. They can't release their shows right away to put on the internet for free even though it's public television.

[@justinwoods240]

Ben Keysor this is on KZbin already that’s the thing

[@scottreasoner6126]

I like this old house but had to stop watching it because of commercials. I pay not to have commercials.

[@t1n4444]

But KZbin is free to us. The advertisers stump up the cash to keep it free. Of course the adds are a nuisance but either ignore them or switch them off when you get the cue.

[@benkeysor7576]

Watch on a web browser instead of the KZbin App and use an adblock extension for your web browser. I always watch KZbin on my computer and haven't had any ads since I've used an adblock many years ago.

[@williamskrainski8407]

20:00 Nobody with the label "apprentice" uses a saw on anything that costs more than $10. on my jobs.

[@scallywag1716]

Waiting to see all the Beta males comment about using gloves when knocking out that portion of basement wall.....

[@t1n4444]

You know you won't get any comments now 😂😂😂. Oops, think of this as a meta comment!

[@JohnnyUmphress]

First let me preface by saying that I like This Old House. I have been watching it since it began many years ago. But, again, they have Kevin entering the sceen with a tool belt over his shoulder like he was actually showing up to a job site to perform actual work. We all know Kevin is an MC and will not be employed in any real work. Why can't they keep these shows real? After all, it's an advertising show for manufacturers and service companies. Not a how-to show.

[@JohnnyUmphress]

@@Kevin-mp5of He's not there to do actual work with his hands. He does a few things for the camera for appearances.. His job is just to lead the questioning. When the cameras are on, this whole jobsite becomes a production studio. But I get it. That's what the advertisers are paying for, is displaying the services and products. The whole purpose of this show is to advertise, not build. That being said, I do like the show and I have learned a lot from it. But most people know it's primary goal. And Kevin leads that role on the studio's behalf. He's not part of the construction crew.