"This Old House" PermEntry Basement Entrance Installation

Bilco PermEntry basement entrance system featured on the "This Old House" television series featuring Bob Villa in 1988. Bilco's Mike Toohey walks Bob through a Permentry installation.

[@keithlester9152]

I love the old shows I remember the funniest on ever was bob had gone to California to remodel a beach cabin that had foundation problems and had Norm tale a look. Bob asked Norm what he thought, Norm says "I think I want a ticket back to Boston" I have been laughing about that for 20 years.

[@Scrapla1]

I remember watching these in the afternoon with my dad. Good memories. I remember he would always mock Norm and his million dollars worth of equipment lol

[@ryoamora8655]

I enjoy the vintage feel and scenery of New England, like Cape Cod...gotta live here to actually know what I mean. Love the classic episodes of This Old House.

[@forestforthetrees7173]

I started watching and I just couldn't stop.

[@lesterawilson3]

When TOH wasn't doing million dollar renovations for doctors and corporate executives.

[@Mutlap]

Norm Abram Said it well, "if you have the money we'll consider the job" In the beginning TOH was glad to just have the property to work on.

[@lesterawilson3]

@Berry Harbour TOH = This Old House

[@kobelcofan]

Thanks for uploading, I love these old episodes! Please post more.

[@rexhargrove5172]

Love, love, love these old episodes! Thanks so much for uploading

[@jasonillingworth9006]

Great show. Bob seems to almost talk over the other person when they are talking. I still cannot get over Rich Trethewey's unibrow!! Classic stuff, thanks for upload.

[@bjr2379]

Oscar the Grouch

[@drewzuhosky6826]

Bob Vila and Norm Abram hated each other’s guts. They would not speak to each other unless and until the cameras were turned on.

[@RichardFallstich]

Interesting note: This episode is about 28 minutes run-time. Back when PBS only had a station ID and a quick promo for upcoming programs. Now the typical run-time for TOH is about 23 minutes, 5 minutes shorter. Need room for those sponsor "ads."

[@donbailey6600]

I've noticed that too but the quality of the programming is better now. You get what you pay for.

Vila- always asking the right questions that average homeowners would ask, and coaxing the answers from the experts who, after all, are not TV people. The show's never been anywhere near this good since he left

[@tonejames9272]

This was Vilas last season. After this Steve Thomas came in to host. Anybody remember his first project? Barbara and Lynn Wickwayer post and beam. I’d watch New Yankee, then TOH then Hometime. Every Saturday from 9-10:30 am.

[@stevenduncan1798]

This Old House has come a long way. Since the days of home owners listening to Bob Vila, the ineptness of both Bob Vila and Steve Thomas. It's nice to see a host actually being instructed as of now. Kevin O'Connor is a great host. I have watched every episode of This Old House from day one.

Inept? Bob Vila? You really are clueless.

[@bleachinuri]

yeah bob vila had never remodeled a house before the show, his degree was in writing, norm was the guy that really carried the show from start to present

[@chrischurch4551]

@@bleachinuri he won an award from the house he restored right before he was hired for TOH

[@bleachinuri]

@@chrischurch4551 yeah I've won awards for houses I've restored too, your point

[@johnnynbk]

@@bleachinuri point is you were wrong, bro.

[@chrisallen7911]

Historic homeowners would be horrified that someone would tear out double parlors and pocket doors today....lol

[@coololds85]

Every time I see these older episodes I miss the older show more and more better. They don't really do a lot of demonstrating when they are working anymore. It's just basically talking and telling you what is in store for the house next. You can tell when bob hosted this old house you learned more. When he left it wasn't the same anymore. I use to watch the show in the 90s along with the Yankee work shop with norm when I was a kid. But nobody can top bob as the host. Bob and norm looked cool. They both were smart and worked good together. The show was more interesting back when it first started. If anyone knows where to find the seasons with just him let me know. It would be great to see episode one. All of the earlier episodes with bob are rare to find these days because they won't air them.

[@charlescho]

I see tension between Bob and Norm. But then again, I can't stand that guy. Norm is my hero!

[@harryschultze6690]

coololds85 I could not agree with you more! Bob was the best host ever and part of the reason he left the show was that he did not like the direction it was going. The rumors about him leaving because of being greedy and endorsements were lies. It was Russ MoreAsh was the bad guy if you know the story. I can't tell you how much I miss these shows either. They should have left it the exact same way. You don't learn anything from it anymore. I stopped watching the show after Bob left.

[@ShakespeareCafe]

I never donated another dime to PBS after they fired Bob. PBS doesn’t allow comments on any KZbin videos either They are miserable AntiTrumpers and after 9/11 they played non stop cloying music without ever investigating or reporting on who the real enemy was and what we were up against. PBS SUCKS and their coverage of the Corona virus equally sensationalist and dismal

[@HipsterDoofus100]

You actually learned how to do things in this era of the show.

[@williamjackson5942]

@@harryschultze6690 LOL! Yah Bob was so great loved it when he was selling that cheap 1500 watt heater stuck inside a Amish made case as some sort of super science heating device!

[@ShakespeareCafe]

In the pantheon of construction gods you have Bob Vila, Larry Haun, Norm Abrams, Tom Silva and finish carpenter Gary Katz They built America

[@anthonym612]

Still hoping to see S1E1 of TOH one day.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

You can if you subscribe to This Old House Insider on the This Old House Website.

[@chriswebb810]

I never minded bob and i dont think he got enough credit. These early projects were much more realistic and approachable. Much mor dollars and cents oriented.

[@lennomenno]

"Then we run out the front door.." Hahaha !

[@rafehollister9123]

I used to watch every Saturday evening back in the day, but I just never warmed up to Steve Thomas as the host after Vila left.

[@sweatervestfest918]

Norm for President

[@ShakespeareCafe]

It’s Junior from the Sopranos!!!

[@ALCRAN2010]

3:10 when abdominal walls were as straight as plastered walls. These guys were in great shape!

[@bernarddoherty4014]

fantastic monobrow on Rich!

[@ethanedwards7557]

Electric wata heata.

[@bernarddoherty4014]

Watch Norm rip the walls down barehanded! No gloves back then!

[@miguelcadete2495]

I remember watching way back in the day when actually taught you about working on houses. Now it’s all about design, high tech items and remolds for the well off and not the little guy trying to save a buck.

[@karenyounger2314]

I believe everything evolved exactly as it should have...every stage having good and bad points!

[@richardcolon3025]

How do you get into the space from the ceiling to the roof?

[@ra5928]

Bob Villa was an award winning restorer of old homes and a developer before being hired to be the host of This Old House. The slickness of the newer shows makes even Norm Abrams look a little clumsy in the earlier shows. He was not inept as some suggest here.

[@bleachinuri]

bullshit he did a interview and he even said he had never had remodeled a house before the show, he redecorated a victorian right before the dorchester house, he learned by watching his father who built their house, it was scripted and norm Abram told him what to say, norm was the guy responsible for the show doing well

[@sunshinebright7492]

norm was a young man.

[@eduardouy223]

So was Richard.

[@MegaJohnhammond]

I'll bet he was even a baby at some point.

[@johnhanson6591]

It's kinda funny how much things cost back then. It's like 4 times the cost of today.

[@johnenright4969]

Shea concrete still raking it in Salisbury Ma!

[@Guardducks]

The intro music was so somber back then compared to today. Lol

[@drewzuhosky6826]

That was _Louisiana Fairy Tale,_ a jazz number by Fats Waller.

[@tcoradeschi]

Rich Trethewey recommending keeping the old boiler (and the asbestos pipe insulation) - something that would NEVER happen to day (and that's a good thing)>

[@agy234]

Safer to keep it in place

[@elgeneralxx]

This is the episode where Bob vila tells norm to go poop his pants!!

[@elgeneralxx]

Bob vila: hey Norm GET OUTTA THE SHITTA!!

[@HappyDiscoDeath]

LOL they aint wearing helmets for the process of booming the cellar stairs into place. It was a different era for sure.

[@The-Real-Term]

Which pixel is Bob Vila?

[@alan-sk7ky]

Rich Trethewey sort of has half timbered hair, is he taller too? or is Villa a bit of a runt :-)

[@jessyleppert2]

Too many Bob's on PBS at the time

[@kosankrazy4143]

Wat happened to Richard he put on some weight

[@u.s.paratroops4633]

Actual 2X4's "saved" for kindling.....Geez

[@davidcorbin6663]

Hope there's no asbestos in that plaster.

[@elgeneralxx]

There was aspestos and look at how fat Bob vila is today because of it!

[@zero1fifty8]

Bob's last name is actually pronounced Vija

[@u.s.paratroops4633]

It's actually pronounced Ve-lah....

[@joecas373]

at the end, Tim Allen showed up and blew up the house

[@appalachianmountains2748]

Not one Mexican to be found during all that!

[@williamjackson5942]

Not one laborer was shown either, your point?

[@romeliapolly2520]

Woodprix is nice for that.

[@elgeneralxx]

Look at those shirts tucked into those poopy pants

[@GaynNovi]

U notice that Bob doesn't do much work, in fact he talks more then he works.

[@coololds85]

And he left the show the year after after this season. He was a good host and he was smart.

Yeah. He did his job as 'host". Imagine that....

[@filipinainaforeignland3552]

He is the host of the show - what do you expect him to do?

[@threedoutdoors7930]

Vila talked too much.

[@MitchyP3]

More shit work...

[@KB_Grimweaver]

Tim Taylor made 14 accounts just to downvote Bob Vila clips Oh man, I now have an urge to binge-watch Home Improvement again.

[@johnathanhillman6862]

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