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Drainage

Drainage recaps are the episodes tagged with moving water away from a house or through a drain. Drain maintenance, sink clogs, erosion control, and regrading are included as near-duplicate tags for that same work. A recap is listed only when it carries one of those tags.

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AI illustration of an open copper-lined wooden toilet tank with vintage plumbing parts and a screwdriver on a bathroom floor in daylight
ASK THIS OLD HOUSES24 / E20

Ask This Old House · S24 E20

Ask This Old House S24E20: Top-Down Shades for a Barking Dog, a Toilet Tank Autopsy, and a Steep Yard That Needed a Swale

Nathan Gilbert measures and installs top-down, bottom-up cellular shades so Cece the guard dog can't see the street; Richard Trethewey walks Kevin through 150 years of toilet tank parts and running-toilet fixes; Jenn Nawada and Frank reshape a steep front slope with a mini excavator, a swale, switchgrass, and hydrangeas.

AI illustration of a rusted window well beside a new galvanized steel well, drainage gravel, and tools at a basement foundation wall
ASK THIS OLD HOUSES24 / E10

Ask This Old House · S24 E10

Ask This Old House Season 24 Episode 10: An Idaho Backyard Makeover for Community Dinners, Plus Two Window Wells That Finally Fit

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.

AI illustration of a partially assembled white-cedar outdoor shower enclosure against a shingled wall, with bluestone pavers, tools, and wood shavings in warm daylight
ASK THIS OLD HOUSES23 / E17

Ask This Old House · S23 E17

Ask This Old House Season 23 Episode 17: Cape Cod Outdoor Shower, Cedar Enclosure, and the Drainage Trench That Makes It Work

Jenn Nawada and Mark McCullough lay out a Cape Cod outdoor shower between two windows, Mark runs a pitched drain line away from the foundation, Nathan Gilbert assembles a white-cedar kit, and Richard Trethewey taps hot water through a frost-proof hydrant. The cedar and bluestone are what you see. The grade, gravel, and pitch decide whether the house stays dry.

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