This Old House (1979)

Episode Overview

Upon arrival, our host discovers a bustling site filled with trucks unloading drywall, cement board, and wooden interior doors. Inside the barn, he encounters electrician Allen Gallant, who is busy installing a $25 lightning arrestor on the workshop panel to safeguard all outlets from potential power surges. Adjacent to the exercise room, a prefabricated cedar sauna is being set up, while arborist Matt Foti carefully prunes and supports the aging apple tree outside the workshop. Down by the road, stonewall builder David Nyren and his team construct a farmer's wall at the old driveway entrance and a riprap retaining wall for the new drive. Meanwhile, landscaper Roger Cook and his crew are laying a brick patio in the shade garden. Landscape architect Tom Wirth presents options for the garden's latticework and shares details about the specimen trees he has ordered: a lacebark Chinese elm, two American hollies, and a cornelian cherry. Plumber Ronald Coldwell assesses the current