Making A Mark – This Old House: The Weston House (Season 28) Episode 11
#11 #28 #making #a #mark #this #old #house #weston #season #episode
#MakingAMark #ThisOldHouse #WestonHouse #Season28 #Episode11
At the project house in Weston, host Kevin O’Connor finds solar energy specialist Jeff Wolfe installing eighteen solar panels that can provide up to 75 percent of the home’s power needs. Later, in Alstead, New Hampshire, builder Tedd Benson shows Kevin a modest prefabricated Habitat for Humanity house that a group of 450 volunteers assembled in 8 days. Back in Weston, general contractor Tom Silva installs the red distressed vertical boards that will adorn the walls of the second floor hall. At the Bensonwood shop, master carpenter Norm Abram meets timberframer CJ Brehio to see how he is laying out and carving “2008″ in Roman numerals into a reclaimed Douglas fir timber for the first floor. Back at the project house, Tom shows Kevin the new custom half-round copper gutters and decorative brackets going in on the street side of the house.
Kevin I want to put them in random with and random late
0:09I don’t want to create a pattern on this wall Tommy talks read the theory and
0:14norm carves out a little time for the decorative arts well you know this is
0:17the header right over the staircase to the second floor so everyone is going to
0:21see your work as they go up the stairs
0:24yeah be very proud I am
0:28don’t ask this old house
0:31as I look at the deck i can actually see that it’s going down it’s actually
0:35dropping can see where it was it was up here probably to these shingles
0:40who’s down a good two and a half three inches and look at this I can put my
0:43hand in there you get a space of about one inch
0:46Tommy is all jacked up about this deck
0:52good morning i’m kevin o’connor and welcome back to this old house where
0:57we’re building ourselves a beautiful timber frame home and we have made a
1:01remarkable amount of progress after just three months of sight work now a lot of
1:05that is possible because we have prefabricated 75-percent of her home in
1:09a workshop up in New Hampshire but now that has been trucked to the site we are
1:12starting to put on some of the finish materials and we have got a lot of them
1:16right here we’ve got some reclaimed barn board that comes from an old barn up in
1:20Maine you put that on the back of the house here we’ve got some stone veneer
1:24that comes to us from pennsylvania and we’re using that to wrap these series of
1:28pillars all across the back of the house as well as a foundation and our chimney
1:32some copper flashing and then lots of white cedar shingles that wraps the bulk
1:37of the rest of the house and then of course we have our Timbers reclaimed
1:42Douglas fir and there are over 300 these Timbers all throughout the house today
1:47no one’s going to head back up to the job site is going to show us the fine
1:50art of woodcarving because we’re going to decorate one of the main Timbers that
1:53runs through the center of the house out back
1:56the Timbers hold up the signature feature of this side of the house and
1:59that is a two-story hi bump out yet another material western red cedar run
2:04vertically from the bottom all the way to the top and it is designed to look
2:08like an old barn silo completing the feeling of an old barn
2:12but of course that’s just the way this house feels it is also got a lot of
2:16state-of-the-art technology and today we’re going to be installing 18 solar
2:20panels they’re gonna go on the front roof
2:22i’m going to use those to create the electricity for the house
2:25also on the front of the house and on the roof we’re going to have a custom
2:28copper gutter
2:29it’s going to look great but more importantly it is going to capture
2:32rainwater
2:33so that we can use it to feed our irrigation system so we’ve got beautiful
2:36timber is the fine art of hand carving as well as state of the art technology
2:39and it all starts as soon as we come back
2:47we are using the south-facing side of our roof as a power plant last week
2:54Richard installed solar evacuated tubes that will make about 75% of the hot
2:58water for a house now we have pulled the tubes out to protect them while
3:01construction continues but those are go back in a few days and on either side of
3:06those we were actually going to be making solar electricity here using
3:10these photovoltaic panels they come to us compliments of jeff Wolfe and his
3:13company
3:14hey Jeff good to see you I Kevin how are you all right so tell me about the
3:17system that we’re installing here
3:19well we’ve got nine panels on this summer and nine pounds of that drama 18
3:23total making how much electricity 3.2 kilowatt system
3:26all right so can you walk me through the physics of making electricity with
3:30photovoltaic sure each panel is made up of a series of silicon solar cells you
Post time: Feb-09-2017