This Old House | Upgrading Old School (S42 E9) | FULL EPISODE

Original house details such as the yankee gutters and corbels are installed. Kevin O'Connor catches up with the electrician’s apprentice. Richard Trethewey looks at the new tankless hot water system.
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New England might be Red Sox country but when it comes to old school gutters, Yankee Gutters are a home run in the Northeast. The original Seaside Victorian project had Yankee Gutters and the Historic District Committee wants the restored house to have them as well. Kevin O'Connor finds lead carpenter Chris Manchester installing them in the back.
The Generation Next initiative continues with an apprentice learning the ropes with Jeff Sweenor’s electrician Ben Giles.
Kevin finds Ben and Zach at another one of Jeff’s projects for a rough plumbing lesson. The homeowners want a tankless hot water system for the house. Richard Trethewey and plumber Josh Jordan show how the system they are installing will never run out of hot water.
Tom Silva and Jeff Sweenor install corbels on the porch.
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This Old House | Upgrading Old School (S42 E9) | FULL EPISODE
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[@patirvin-bz9pg]

Tom Silva continues to impress. His knowledge is endless.

[@patirvin-bz9pg]

Thankless water heaters have a problem with mineral buildup. You need to check your water first to avoid headaches. Expensive ones.

[@joshchase370]

Tommy is a true master! Always a joy to watch his jigs and helpful tips

[@eddievenuto1862]

This Old House has a lot of ideas to help people that need to know things and that's why I enjoy it to learn more how to fix things fix my house

[@PJJ196]

After all these years still learning so much from Tom

[@scundoorsup5342]

Tommy need to retire. Kevin don’t seem to enthused anymore

[@michaelmerck7576]

Tom is doing more training than on hand but his expertise is so valuable ​@scundoorsup5342

[@KJF-ny]

I love that attention to detail with the corbels. That kind of craftmanship really sets this work apart!

[@papasquat355]

Thank goodness for historic associations. We (American's) have a terrible habit of destroying our pasts. Restoring this house to the original look is wonderful.

[@joshuaskirvin]

When I wired houses, all 5 of us on the crew used a Klein hammer. No need for a height stick when everyone just used the same hammer to mark the box height.

[@Stjonnypopo]

The guy doing the gutters with Kevin was a real talker, maybe he can be the next host of the show. I feel bad for Kevin having to prod the guy into one word answers.

[@billybulmer7386]

You’d certainly invite him to a dinner party wouldn’t you?🤣

[@brianfong5711]

it was hilarious

[@BlueStreak706]

He’s a good worker, not a good talker. We need more of those folks at work.

[@lydiaross2554]

I love your videos.

[@diverdave4056]

yes sir it is always best to wear safety glasses on top of your head to help protect your hair do while driving nails !

[@jacksonbennett6151]

And tie off to the end of your life line so you hit the ground before it comes tight!

[@TurboDaveT]

The water flow through the heater goes the opposite direction than displayed in this video. It has a counter-flow pattern through the heat exchanger. The cold water enters the condensation chamber at the bottom to extract the most remaining heat from the flue gases, then increases in temperature until it exits at the top, closest to the burner. I let it slide the first time he said it, but had to mention it on the second. Regardless, it's always a pleasure water these episodes.

[@jacobosgood3513]

@6:53 That was my first thought too!

[@Nill757]

On the ext post trim, what’s the difference painted “Spanish cedar”, and painted PT whatever from the rack at the home store?

[@prozack1312]

Price.

[@stich1960]

Long term durability and pt has a long dry time before you can completely seal it. I imagine the thing here is you wouldn't put a Walmart tire on a high end car the cost is fairly small in comparison to the rest of this place.

[@Nill757]

@@stich1960 yes dry time makes sense, and maybe cedar paints better, I dunno, or is more dimensionally stable than PT pine, again I dunno. The thing is, the industry is loaded w sources pushing their junk as “high end”, or pushing their actual high end gold plated product as the only answer when in fact for a given job others are just as effective, ie ‘only top grade 1 lumber is acceptable … for this temp scaffolding or blocking’. Some contractors happy to repeat the line to justify their high prices.

[@stich1960]

So anyone know why they are using tiny trim routers on the corbels? Brand deal maybe? That sounded awfully considering it's a softish wood.

[@middy774]

So many fingers near that router bit, yikes. Made me nervous.

[@peep39]

"this is my favorite impact driver because it always strips everything"

[@kevinandrewmedina]

anyone know where to find the backdraft part they talk about @ 15:30?

[@Nill757]

Richard on why *three* tankless water heaters: “Body sprays … shower …100 gallons hot water” Richard next week: ‘Net zero is really important’ No, a tankless doesn’t magically work with no energy.

[@nscaledelights]

What about that giant propane tank?

[@davidgagnon2849]

I'd sure hate to have to pay to get it filled!

[@scundoorsup5342]

A lot of bung holes

[@scundoorsup5342]

Copper ! Your most affordable option , ya yankee

[@MikeyPipesUncensored]

VENTING???? UNAPPROVED METHOD 😊

[@scundoorsup5342]

You need to focus on lobstahs ya perbert

[@michaelburkmier488]

That is awful to waste that beautiful wood on those corbles

[@MikeyPipesUncensored]

Why are you promoting garbage from Navien? Haven’t you heard of all the failures they have costing homeowners double or triple over the life of a unit?

[@BlueStreak706]

Average person use 25-100 gallons of water per shower, wow think about that for a second.

[@danielkennedy8530]

A house from the 1880s built in the historic district. There must be some really old houses from the 1600s then

[@krockpotbroccoli65]

That area was a hotbed of activity during king Phillips war in the late 1600s when Indians were raiding and destroying/ burning any and all colonial settlements they could find. I doubt than any structures from prior to that conflict still exist. As with most old places in New England, you could probably expect to see structures dating back to the mid 18th century and no earlier. Keep in mind too that the redcoats had a nasty habit of torching entire patriot towns during the revolution. Add to that the fact that everyone heated with wood up until the mid 20th century, meaning a lot of the old buildings burned down in peace time.

[@leskobrandon6950]

@@krockpotbroccoli65 A house from the 1600s would not be feasible to live in today. Not unless you live like they did back then or totally renovate and it wouldnt be an actual 1600 house. I own a home from the 1890s. It was updated from knob and tube wiring in the 1950s. The central heat was in the 70s. Today I am updating the electrical and data delivery. My home is hard enough to upgrade. The 1600s is beyond livable.

[@rickjohnson1632]

👍👍

[@xjAlbert]

We know Kevin was aware of the complete gutter plan before Step 1 got started, so his doubts and epiphany feel inauthentic. Doubt at 2:00 Epiphany at 5:36

[@aaqilian5.085]

Hoo, nothing gets by you, eh al?

[@mitchdenner9743]

Nice coppa tommy.

[@johnlebzelter4208]

Let’s go Brandon!….go troll elsewhere

[@gurban333]

navien are poopppp

[@MikeyPipesUncensored]

Complete garbage. Guess Navien paid them enough cash.

[@45jets]

I wish I had their budget. Never wrong, no clips of things not fitting the first time. Such bull crap. Can we have workers without that fricking Boston accent?

[@johnritchie3889]

Well, they are from Boston, sooooo…….

[@michaelmerck7576]

Not when they all are from there

[@straight_to_finish]

Hopefully that Navien boiler isn’t one of the ones that have issues, as whistleblown by @pipedoctorny