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Weston Project (Part 2)/Mature Tree/Noisy Heating System
In the first half of The "This Old House Hour", host Kevin O'Connor drives up to Weston to find the old house gone, and general contractor Tom Silva finishing the job by demolishing the chimney and foundation with an excavator. The old concrete and brick will be crushed, trucked away, and used as base material for new roads, while the rest of the house will eventually find new life as affordable housing, but for now it is being stored at the ReStore in Springfield, Massachusetts. At Bensonwood in Walpole, New Hampshire, Kevin meets architect Chris Adams and homeowner Amy Favat to see how she planned her family's dream home and to take a tour of the new house, via a 3-D software program that allows them to design and build the house virtually. Work gets underway as Tedd Benson shows Kevin how the main timbers for the house are sawn from massive salvaged Douglas fir derricks from a granite quarry in Vermont along with old live oak ship's ribs that will be used for dramatic effect in the dining area. In the second half of the Hour, on Ask This Old House, landscape contractor Roger Cook shows a pair of homeowners how to instantly have a large, mature tree in their front yard. Then Roger, along with Kevin, Tom and plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey ask, "What is it?" Later, Richard helps a pair of homeowners sleep better at night by quieting their noisy heating system.
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