This Old House - Season 11

This Old House - Season 11

Season 11

The Concord House; The Santa Fe House
Network
DatesJan 1, 1989 - Aug 15, 1989
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Episodes

The Concord House - 1
Season 11Episode 130 min

The Concord House - 1

This Old House returns for its eleventh season with our master carpenter, who introduces the series' new host. The guys survey the project: an 1835 barn in Concord, Massachusetts, and talk to the homeowners, Lynn and Barbara, who want to dismantle and rebuild the barn and live in it.
Jan 1, 1989
The Concord House - 2
Season 11Episode 230 min

The Concord House - 2

The guys send homeowners Lynn and Barbara to Nantucket, while they visit a bar that has been remodeled into a home, and take a look at a timber-frame house designed by Jock Gifford. In Concord, the farm's old gas tank is removed.
Jan 15, 1989
The Concord House - 3
Season 11Episode 330 min

The Concord House - 3

Timber-frame expert Tedd Benson and the crew dismantle the barn. Homeowners Barbara and Lynn meet with designer Jock Gifford to plan their new home, and visit a nearby carriage house that had been converted to a residence.
Jan 28, 1989
The Concord House - 4
Season 11Episode 430 min

The Concord House - 4

Down the hill from the building site in Concord, well-driller Dave Haynes prepares to fill a well. The guys work on the foundation, and a septic tank is installed.
Feb 1, 1989
The Concord House - 5
Season 11Episode 530 min

The Concord House - 5

We travel to Brattleboro, Vermont to take a look at a factory where stress-skin panels are made. After openings for doors and windows are cut, these panels will be applied to the barn's post-and-beam frame. In his Alstead, New Hampsire, workshop, timber-framer Tedd Benson shows us how traditional post-and-beam buildings are designed using computer-aided-design technology.
Feb 15, 1989
The Concord House - 6
Season 11Episode 630 min

The Concord House - 6

At the Concord site, Tedd Benson and other members of the Timber Framers Guild of North America lead a workshop where students learn how to measure, cut and join timbers for the barn's post-and-beam frame. We then go to Wiscassett, Maine, to visit a sawmill and watch as a tree is transformed into timbers ready for use in the barn's frame.
Feb 28, 1989
The Concord House - 7
Season 11Episode 730 min

The Concord House - 7

The barn's massive frame is put up by hand at an old-fashioned barn-raising, and topped off with a tree for good fortune.
Mar 1, 1989
The Concord House - 8
Season 11Episode 830 min

The Concord House - 8

Stress-skin panels are installed over the barn's finished frame, and work on the well is completed.
Mar 15, 1989
The Concord House - 9
Season 11Episode 930 min

The Concord House - 9

Custom-made windows are installed in the Concord barn, and deluxe sklights are that feature one-step installation bring light into the great space and bedrooms. The crew hangs clapboards that the homeowners have stained on both sides, and landscape architect Tom Wirth discusses landscaping possibilities.
Mar 28, 1989
The Concord House - 10
Season 11Episode 1030 min

The Concord House - 10

A concrete slab is poured in the basement. The crew reviews the progress on the barn renovation.
Apr 1, 1989
The Concord House - 11
Season 11Episode 1130 min

The Concord House - 11

The well is connected to the house, and our host discusses the barn's new plumbing system with Richard Trethewey. Mason Roger Hopkins builds a stone wall on the barn's fromt exposure.
Apr 15, 1989
The Concord House - 12
Season 11Episode 1230 min

The Concord House - 12

Tom Wirh reviews the progress of the landscaping work. Barbara visits a kitchen design center.
Apr 28, 1989
The Concord House - 13
Season 11Episode 1330 min

The Concord House - 13

Richard Trethewey explains the barn's new heating system. Drywalling begins, and an air-exchanger is installed, and landscaping work continues.
May 1, 1989
The Concord House - 14
Season 11Episode 1430 min

The Concord House - 14

Richard Trethewey takes viewers on a tour of a boiler factory in Battenberg, West Germany, where parts of the barn's high-tech heating system were manufactured.
May 15, 1989
The Concord House - 15
Season 11Episode 1530 min

The Concord House - 15

A custom stairway is installed in the Concord barn, an we visit Neenah, Wisconsin, to see how the structure was manufactured.
May 28, 1989
The Concord House - 16
Season 11Episode 1630 min

The Concord House - 16

Our host takes a side trip to a futuristic show house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where plastic is used in novel ways. After Richard Trethewey shows how plastic piping has been laid for the barn's radiant heating system, lightweight concrete is poured on the first floor.
Jun 1, 1989
The Concord House - 17
Season 11Episode 1730 min

The Concord House - 17

Terra-cotta tiling begins. The crew cases and frames the doors the doors and windows. We then visit a plant in Western Massachusetts where shingles and other asphalt products are recycled to make paving material that will be used on the driveway of the Concord barn.
Jun 15, 1989
The Concord House - 18
Season 11Episode 1830 min

The Concord House - 18

Tiling continues in the in the guest bathroom, while lighting fixtures are installed along the beams in the great space. At the workshop, the guys build library doors.
Jun 28, 1989
The Concord House - 19
Season 11Episode 1930 min

The Concord House - 19

The barn nears completion as wide pine flooring is laid and the kitchen appliances are installed. Richard Trethewey shows us a West German Plumbing fixture factory.
Jul 1, 1989
The Concord House - 20
Season 11Episode 2030 min

The Concord House - 20

The project draws to a close as Jean Lemmon, editor-in-chief of Country Home magazine, tours the finished barn.
Jul 15, 1989
The Santa Fe House - 1
Season 11Episode 2130 min

The Santa Fe House - 1

The show travels to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for its newest project: the renovation of a traditional Southwestern adobe home. The homeowners - both artists - shows us around their four-room home. Our host confers with local architect John Midyette and tours a new house in Santa Fe.
Jul 28, 1989
The Santa Fe House - 2
Season 11Episode 2230 min

The Santa Fe House - 2

Sharon Woods, co-author of Santa Fe Style, takes viewers on a tour of some notable local houses. At the site, adobe walls are laid and vigas (roof rafters) are set.
Aug 1, 1989
The Santa Fe House - 3
Season 11Episode 2330 min

The Santa Fe House - 3

Traditional kiva (beehive) fireplaces are constructed. Windows and doors are installed.
Aug 15, 1989

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