Masonry Episodes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After eleven episodes of hurricane recovery, This Old House moves to Needham, MA, where the biggest crisis is an outdated kitchen.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

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.