Masonry Episodes

Mark McCullough travels to New Mexico to learn adobe brick making and repair an earthen floor. Tom Silva shows Kevin a faster way to cut miters on imperfect corners. Jenn Nawada revisits a garden she helped transform a decade ago and sees how it inspired even more backyard projects.

Heath Eastman gives Joanna a real outdoor TV setup: a weatherproof enclosure with thermostat-controlled fans and a new receptacle on a dual-function AFCI/GFCI breaker. Kevin O'Connor, Tom Silva, and Zack Dettmore walk through renovation prep, and Mark McCullough swaps a crumbling fire pit for four granite slabs set dry on compacted crushed stone.

Mauro preps a porch ceiling with six color finalists, Jenn and Mark lay a running-bond brick paver patio on crusher run, Kevin tours a 200-year-old Tewksbury mill making rift-and-quartered white oak, and Charlie weaves salvaged Douglas fir into the second-floor hallway and linen closet.

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After eleven episodes of hurricane recovery, This Old House moves to Needham, MA, where the biggest crisis is an outdated kitchen.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.

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.

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.

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.

Tom Silva treats water rings with vinegar, baking soda, heat, and olive oil, Jenn Nawada sorts houseplant soil by epiphytes, aroids, and succulents, and Mark McCullough repairs a breezeway brick floor with spot pointing instead of a full repoint.

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.

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.

Mauro Henrique fixes a returning drywall crack with mesh tape, Tom Silva baffles the crew with an inflatable lifting tool, Mark McCullough walks through a thousand years of brick, and Richard Trethewey upgrades two baseboard covers without tearing out the old heating.

Ross Trethewey measures a howling return register in decibels, Lee Gilliam walks Valerie through core aeration and overseeding after a drought, and Mark McCullough patches cracked stucco over a concrete foundation in Austin by listening for hollow spots.

Jenn Nawada visits Detroit Hives and helps a Boston-Edison couple plant an elevated herb and pollinator garden, Tom Silva separates impact drivers from drill drivers, and Mark McCullough tears out a failing brick apron and sets Belgian cobblestone into fresh concrete.

Richard Trethewey shows what mini split upkeep actually involves: filters, cowl, coils, outdoor condenser. Mark McCullough and Jenn Nawada build a two-foot retaining wall for curb appeal. The wall is the visible win; the perforated pipe, gravel, fabric, and racked-back courses are the reason it should stay put.