Weston Project (Part 1)/Collapsing Garage Roof/Installing a Dry Well
In the first half of The "This Old House Hour", the new season begins when host Kevin O'Connor and master carpenter Norm Abram reveal that This Old House will be building a new prefab, eco-friendly home that will look and feel like an old barn. Homeowners Amy & Pete Favat love their land, but have outgrown their 1970s-era home, so they'll deconstruct the old house to make way for a new one that will meet the needs of their active family. Custom homebuilder Tedd Benson and his staff are designing and prefabricating the new state-of-the-art timberframe home, with general contractor Tom Silva pulling it all together on site. To see how Tedd's panelized system looks in the field, Norm and Tedd visit a recent project in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. Meanwhile, landscape contractor Roger Cook meets with conservation commissioner Brian Donahue to learn about the brook that flows through the property, while John Engwer and his crew install a new eco-friendly alternative to hay bales and silt fence to protect it's organic mulch and compost wrapped in hemp to form a protective barrier during construction. By the day's end, a truck's worth of salvaged building materials has been harvested, and the new project is well underway. In the second half of the Hour, the seventh season of Ask This Old House begins when Tom saves a homeowner from a collapsing garage roof by replacing a rotting support post. Later, Roger helps a pair of homeowners dry out a basement by installing a dry well to handle discharge from their sump pump.
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