Asheville Episodes

11 episodes tagged with "Asheville"

AI illustration of an antique chest vanity with a curing concrete top embedded with river sand in a half-renovated bathroom, tools and dust in warm window light
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E11

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.

AI illustration of a kitchen island with a butcher block countertop partly installed, a router, clamps, and fine sawdust in warm daylight
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E10

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.

AI illustration of a freshly cast concrete vanity top with an integral sink on sawhorses in a workshop, surrounded by sand, cement, glass fiber, and a hopper gun
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E09

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.

AI illustration of a living room fireplace with a wood-burning insert, coiled stainless steel liner, and masonry tools on a drop cloth amid soot and brick dust
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E08

James Beard award-winning restaurants are reopening, the mountain water that flooded everything also makes great beer, and the North Asheville chimney finally gets resolved — spoiler: they went with an insert.

AI illustration of a fiberglass door slab on padded sawhorses in a sunlit garage, half-stained with amber gel stain beside a brush, rag, and small dishes of stain and spar urethane
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E07

Landscape architects wrestle multi-ton boulders into retaining walls, Paula gets a door-staining lesson, and Kevin explores how Biltmore Village is bouncing back from the storm.

AI illustration of an antique wood chest being converted into a bathroom vanity, with cut openings, a cardboard plumbing template, and tools left on the floor in warm daylight
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E06

A carpentry teacher's students are building actual houses for storm victims, new electrical codes demand bigger meters, and Tom Silva helps turn an antique chest into a bathroom vanity — and somehow makes it look easy.

AI illustration of a half-finished kitchen with stock cabinets, filler strips, shims, and a level resting on a drop cloth in warm daylight
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E05

Building science experts seal a house with pressurized mist (yes, really), FEMA tackles the hazardous trees still looming overhead, and Mark gets a history lesson at one of Asheville's most iconic hotels.

AI illustration of a gutted bathroom shower wall with gray waterproof membrane, thin-set mortar, a notched trowel, porcelain tiles, and a small window in warm daylight
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E04

Jim's brother drives down from Jersey to tile a bathroom, a father-son roofing duo explains why four nails aren't enough anymore, and Kevin sneaks in a field trip to the Biltmore Estate.

AI illustration of a gutted upstairs room with a cracked brick chimney, exposed lath, and chimney inspection tools on a drop cloth
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E03

Mark and a mason scope out chimney damage with a camera (it's not pretty), Kevin replaces siding in the mud, and the Army Corps of Engineers drops by to explain what 'relief efforts' actually looks like.

AI illustration of a flood-damaged bathroom stripped to studs, with a new window opening framed in fresh lumber and tools left amid plaster debris
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E02

A meteorologist explains how the Blue Ridge Mountains turned Hurricane Helene into a rain machine, while the crew starts ripping out walls, replacing panels, and prepping for the long road ahead.

AI illustration of an opened floor and shiplap wall in a century-old worker cottage, with exposed joists, cut nails, a brick pier, pry bar, and dusty drop cloth in warm daylight
THIS OLD HOUSES47 / E01

Season 47 kicks off in Western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene turned neighborhoods into rivers. But the real star of the premiere? Worker housing from the 1920s that Tom Silva can't stop admiring.