Project note · November 8, 2026
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This Old House New Orleans House Today: Season 29
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Smart Privacy Window Film, a Santa Fe Garden Walkway, and 25 Years of Smart Home
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FIELD GUIDE
8 min
How to Date an Old House by Its Nails
Hand-wrought, machine-cut, and wire nails mark rough eras. How to read the shank, head, and taper, and when a reused nail lies about the year.
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FIELD GUIDE
6 min
This Old House Newton House Today: Season 29
What the Season 29 West Newton house looks like today, how it differs from Newton Centre and the Bigelow House, and which later facts are still unverified.
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FIELD GUIDE
12 min
Bob Vila vs. Tom Silva vs. Zack Dettmore: A Tom Fan Scores Five Rounds
The original host, the general contractor since 1986, and the New Jersey builder everybody's talking about, compared over five rounds: on-camera presence, hands, teaching, running the job, and staying power. I'm a Tom guy, but Zack took a round fair and square.
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