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Browse all 32 This Old House episode recaps with detailed project insights and expert tips. Showing episodes 10-18 of 32.

The inevitable asbestos discovery, a field trip to a recycling facility, and a 24-foot steel beam craned through a rear window — because sometimes the front door isn't an option.

Ross Trethewey installs a split heat pump water heater that puts the evaporator outside, making it a cold-climate winner. Jenn Nawada prescribes treatments for mealybugs, spider mites, and fungus gnats. Nathan Gilbert gives a Massachusetts homeowner safe attic access with a new pull-down ladder. Plus: why a frosty panel is actually a good sign.

Charlie and Mark dismantle the center chimney from roof to first floor, Tom salvages kitchen cabinets for a new pantry, and a rubble stone foundation reveals just how different 1896 construction really was.

After eleven episodes of hurricane recovery, This Old House moves to Needham, MA, where the biggest crisis is an outdated kitchen. Perspective recalibrated, the crew meets Liz and Patrick's 1896 Queen Anne Victorian.

One year after Hurricane Helene, all five families walk through the doors of their rebuilt homes. It's the finale we've been building toward for eleven episodes, and yes, you will cry.

Jenn Nawada heads to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to help Adam—whose weekly Monday Night Dinners now draw hundreds—redesign his backyard with an outdoor kitchen, a stone pathway, and fresh sod. Then Mark McCullough swaps out two rusted, off-kilter window wells, showing the proper demo, drainage, and galvanized steel install.

Kevin tours a Georgia carpet factory (it's more interesting than it sounds), Miah's kitchen island gets a butcher block top, and the North Asheville boulder wall gets planted with succulents.

A nonprofit workshop pours a vanity top with sand from the Swannanoa River, Jenn sends soil samples to the lab, and Kevin finds out that antiquing after a hurricane has a whole different vibe.

Nathan Gilbert helps an expectant mom tame garage chaos with a 600-pound-rated ceiling rack and heavy-duty shelving. Heath Eastman sorts out the traveler-wire puzzle behind three-way smart switches. Richard Trethewey opens up a neglected water heater and shows why the anode rod matters—and what happens when you ignore it for eight years.