This Old House | A House for the Next Generation (S39 E1) | FULL EPISODE

today on this old house we start an entirely new project we're renovating a house for three generations but they have a limited budget so we have to watch every penny we'll salvage what we can and we have a team of apprentices to help what happened to all this plumbing here i've never seen anything like this before there's already rot going on in that trunk so what have you found up here well a bit of a surprise it's really the classic plumber's lament nice all right here is right on family paints together stays together nice job guys where will a slab like this be used the money's in the detail oh look at that fit that is beautiful hi there i'm kevin o'connor and welcome to a brand new season of this old house we are in the boston suburb of newton massachusetts and this season is very special hey tommy so we are back in newton yeah we've done several projects here in newton the last one was seven years ago this year's project is a young couple with two small children and they want their house to be able to handle three generations well generations is the reason this this season of this old house is so special and we are dedicating our project to a new initiative that we're calling generation next we're going to try to bridge the skills gap in the building trades for decades people haven't been going into the trades like carpentry plumbing and electrical and we're working to fix that we're going to be working with some schools manufacturers and some non-profits and we are going to promote the building trades and we're going to teach people to learn them we've hired some apprentices to work on the job site silver brothers and all the subs will have apprentices working for them and later on this season we are going to have three special interns working with us on the project that's gonna be cool it's gonna be great and here's our house love the neighborhood tommy and look at this corner a lot huh that's a bonus and we've got some celebrity firepower to help us out mike rowe from deadliest catch and dirty jobs [Music] hey norm hey noam hey mike welcome how are you all right great to meet you tom yeah well you know mike's foundation has been a great inspiration for us and it's really helping us this year absolutely well you guys are helping me as well you know microworks has been around now for about nine years and when we heard you guys were doing generation next uh there was so much there was so much shared real estate you know and what you guys do and we've been trying to close the skills gap in our own way um and we do that really just by calling attention to good jobs that actually exist and so many of those jobs exist in this industry exactly so the fact that you guys now and you're what thirty ninth ninth year unbelievable the fact that you guys are still at it uh i know you must understand how critical the skills gap is and how and how difficult it is to recruit very hard anyway we focus on uh kids like kelly klein who got a scholarship not long ago kelly uh was going down one direction like so many people do and decided the opportunities were better in heating and air conditioning so he gets a certification and he's off to the races absolutely alexa harder a young woman who was a waitress and this is really typical of what's going on in this generation right now you know people have jobs but they're not skilled jobs and so they don't see a real career they don't see a real future they don't like them they don't like the jobs right so alexa learns how to weld and then she learns how to weld really well and now she's off to the races yeah i heard she's in the union yeah right so our our goal is really simple we want to give people a skill that's in demand and with the help of your show we want america to see just what those skills look like when they're properly applied same thing you guys have been doing for 39 seasons yeah well this project is going to be beneficial to the building trades and to your foundation as well we did a national casting call got three apprentices they're going to come up here and work on the project with all the guys and learn the skills of how you how you renovate a house not only that but we have all the contractors and subcontractors bringing in apprentices of their own of course they're from the local area but we're going to use the magazine the tv show the web we're going to tell people all about skill trades and how interesting these jobs can be so the short version is together we're going to close the skills gap i hope so why it's as good as done there you go and we're going to get to work right now so we're going to take a tour with the homeowners and check out this house and i'm meeting richard in the basement oh nice knowing you michael yeah it's a big day for all of us want to tackle all your home improvement projects with confidence join this old house insider a new streaming service from this old house the iconic emmy-winning series that inspired a generation of home enthusiasts stream over 1 000 episodes of this old house and ask this old house commercial free watch it all in the this old house app and join live online q and a's with our experts best of all you can try insider free for seven days to join go to this old housemembership.com hey guys hey how are you good wow we got the whole family here yeah who's this this is arya she's two and a half weeks old congrats that's awesome thank you who's this beautiful little girl this is i'm here turning two a few months ago she did that's awesome so this is uh this is the new house it's a special house for you right yes it is this is a house that i grew up in um i moved here when i was two right about when i was mirror's age which is kind of funny but um yeah i grew up here i've been here uh till i was 18 went off to college and then in 2015 we unexpectedly lost my mom who lived here um and we inherited the house so we're back and she says was her dream for us to live in this house so i understand this third generation yeah yeah so there's my parents i grew up in new jersey and they still live down there and they'll be retiring in a few years and they're planning on summering or wintering down south somewhere and then summering up here hopefully with us so we'd like to have a nice comfortable space for them to stay in when they're up here nice idea yeah kind of like an in-law suite or something something like that you know something you know that's separate but still part of the house so we can be together but everybody has their own space they have their own space that's that's a great idea on top of each other all right so it sounds like you guys are making a list you've got some ideas of what you want to do right yeah yeah and do you guys have a budget oh yes real quick what are you doing about that um we are we're going to focus on some of the condition things and making a little more space for ourselves and then um maybe doing some things in phases well that's a smart way to do it you know not everybody has a big budget and to do it in phases is a smart way yeah and how about sweat equity you guys thought about maybe throwing in a little bit oh yeah oh great that's good we love it when the homeowners come we can find stuff so we should probably hear more about the list although we should probably do it while we're taking a tour you guys are giving us one definitely tommy let me show you out back i'd love to see let's go all right he gets the kids you get stuck with me come on you want to come with us so let's start right here in the front room what have you got for me you want to see the weirdest fireplace that ever was i like weird yeah it is a weird place to have a fireplace come in the front door and then bam there's a fireplace right here brick big mantel oh is this you guys you guys sticks um insulation yeah it's kind of a wind tunnel we have some condition issues insulation issues what do you want to do with the fireplace ideally we would like to take it out but it may not be in the budget so we just need to address these things first well you've got a chimney on the outside so that is a big job but we can you know tell you how much that would cost you got some cool details though the diamond windows are beautiful you can imagine a coat rack or a closet back in that corner yep and then we have this stairwell which i used to do this as a kid just years of coming down this staircase i love this stairwell i'm glad to hear that this is beautiful detail so keep this keep that and we'd love to replicate some of the balusters here but again this is a functional wall and we may not be able to do it we'll see it's in the budget or not staircase down to the basement i presume yeah all right good windows lots of light the floors are good condition so not too much in yeah not too much and this is the dining room right here nice all right china cabinet this is our china cabinet with china three generations of china in there yep will this stay it will so keep the cabinet and the memories nice and then over here we're gonna take out this wall and open it up to the kitchen but keep this as a dining room yes all right well let's see what you got going on in the kitchen all right let's see the kitchen oh yeah yeah so this is a little dated obviously not original to the house right right my parents um put this in about 25 years ago okay yep we have um some condition issues here you can see the cabinets are pulling out of the wall yes they are so that really needs to be addressed okay and then what do you want to do you want to just sort of pull the stuff here and replace it or do you want to expand we'd like to expand um i think we're going to try to push this wall out about six feet nice and then put in uh three windows and then a window facing the street with one of those diamond pane windows like in the front and one story bump out yes nice and that'll leave you a lot more space in here and what are you gonna do with that we're gonna put an island um with enough seating for everybody to eat breakfast so informal meals here formal meals in the dining room yep and then we're going to put a pantry in over there between the kitchen and the family room everybody loves their pantries yes all right it's a good plan i like it cool thanks so how long has the addition been on the house joe this was built about 20 years ago 20 years ago so liz was here yep they have pictures of her sitting on the new foundation oh that's cool so i know that this room right here this wall is gonna go out about four feet yeah it's going down about four feet a little less in the kitchen and right around here we're going to put in a powder room and then a mud room all along here for an entryway and the bathroom that's behind this wall is going to come out so this is all going to go it's really going to open up this space nice yeah and then over here we're going to take this wall out to open up between the kitchen and the living area right and this will be a half wall and have a couple of columns on it i know that one of those columns are going to have a is going to actually be a bearing post for the new beam that has to go into that wall that we're going to take down between the kitchen and the dining room we need that to support it yeah exactly and then over here in the corner we're going to put in a wood-burning stove i grew up with wood-burning stove in my house yeah i love them me too i love them too but i don't like a wood-burning stove when it's on a raised hearth step there so i like to try to make it as flush to the floor as we can and when we deal with that issue i want to solve this little thing right here that drives me crazy every time i see it this step from the floor into the new space from the dining room look if they're over here they made it flush and over there they didn't so we definitely have to fix that yeah definitely the other thing is this ceiling that goes up on a hip like this we're gonna flatten it out yeah so we're actually putting a second story above this this addition back here we're just gonna have the master bathroom and the master bedroom right and you're going to enter that from the front stairway so it's key that when we enter that room we enter at the same elevation and don't have a step yep exactly okay so now what's going on out back uh we're going to have the garage and the in-law suite out back all right let's take a look so the first thing that we're going to do out here is take out this old one car garage right and the other thing is this deck is going to come down because the deck is actually going to start from here and it's going to go out about 12 feet by 16 feet a much better user-friendly deck yeah a much better shape yeah now also once we get the second floor built we're going to put a first story addition on which starts about here all the way out to about the railing yep and the new garage is going to attach to that and it's going to come out to about the edge of the existing garage right perfect and then on top of that is going to be where the new living space is so we're going to have a bedroom up there a sitting area and a full bathroom so all its own space one thing that we have to think about is how we're going to heat and cool that second floor so we have to think about the hvac and keep it separate from the house yep i think it's a great plan all we got to do is start some demo all right great all right i want to see that garage come down i think it's richard yes sir i was told you'd be in the basement always always in the basement that's right nice to see you nice to see you welcome to my world thank you your world is old man this is late 1800s when uh central heating was first coming inside the building back in that era it would have been a coal-fired furnace would have been they would have shovel called in through this window probably right here there was a big old round thing here somebody came every morning these that's how these registers got established and then uh it would just heated the first little small part of the building right but now we got all kinds of opportunity you know this is not original obviously so we start looking at what do you do what do you do and you start saying well i could tie right onto this but i no longer have to think about leaving it right here because i no longer need the chimney right because now modern equipment can be direct vented so this can actually go away so you say all right if this goes away we go with something smaller wait a minute now we can start thinking about this all right get rid of that what is any of this right well we need we do need plumbing but we get this over here and then once you do you say hey wait a minute look what i found now you found a basement playroom here what in this town that's three to four hundred square feet that's big money you know those kids are going to be teenagers sometimes they want to get away from their parents well it's a total game changer though in this neighborhood that's another 400 square feet there's a totally different yeah so when you when you come into the basement for the first time as you always do is it is it still exciting after however many seasons you've been doing this because you're i would think at a glance you're getting the first sense of what your next six months are going to be like right it's our chance to sort of think about the next hundred years when i come to these old houses i think about the ghosts of my father and grandfather who would have done this i think about all the people who worked so hard on these things now we're looking forward to actually getting a new generation here these kids that are going to come in i got an apprentice coming with me this year yeah thanks to your whole idea about getting kids into the trades it's great well look what's my idea but the people who who make all this happen obviously are in short supply and when i'm looking at this i mean you really get a sense at i mean this is the circulatory system for the home that's right and the amount of qualified people who are standing by to install these it just every single person i've talked to over the last decade is wondering where the people went it drives just crazy because as the equipment is getting more and more complex getting smarter we have fewer and fewer people coming in and we've got homeowners that are demanding more comfort they're they're saying i'm a half a degree off people are used to they want to be so comfortable and we got no people to do it i've been half a degree that's right more than half a degree off half a bubble off plum all right so if it all goes as planned when the dust settles these guys get another three four hundred squares this is all gone away and now you've got a here's the stairs right here and there is a 20 by 20 room that is heaven and they're comfortable heaven really are we overstating it just a little i mean it's a very nice basement but i'm not sure it's celestial but it's very nice this is him [Music] i would like an apprentice actually you need a little mic several i want a team micro micros micro micros hey liz hey norm so what's going on up here in the second floor oh a lot of things as you see here we have a sleeping porch um we're gonna keep it the way it is and use it for storage during construction it has a shed roof but ideally we'd like to make that match our hip roof but not in the budget so phase two probably left for later yeah okay um here we have my childhood bedroom oh this is great complete with glow-in-the-dark stickers on the ceiling fan that i put up maybe those should stay one thing that's going is these closets that my dad built many years ago unfortunately that creates a problem because if you look in this closet you can't even fit a hanger perpendicular to the wall in there look at this only 12 or 14 inches for a proper closet you need about 24. exactly let's go away you got to do something about this so we are thinking that we're going to pull this wall out this way or in the adjacent bedroom we'll push it the other direction to make a bigger closet well let me see what's going on in the adjacent bedroom and maybe i can help you with that decision that'd be great this wall is a common wall between the two bedrooms and when i come in here i see that the closet is down this end closer to the outside wall and it's shallow just like the other one and you could build out this wall but when i look back in that direction the door is right up against the wall so that means you're going to have to take this door unit out build a little stud wall over here remove part of the wall here reset the door and patch the floor that's a lot of labor and it's expensive so the better choice is to move the wall on the other side because there's no issue with the door that makes sense save a little money that way so what else is going on in this room again we're going to take out the built-ins and then this window is coming out because the master bedroom is going to be built over the first floor family room right that's going to be a good size addition yeah so let me show you how we get there over here we have our existing bathroom it was done about five years ago and that's gonna stay exactly the same all right good choice save some money there's nothing wrong with that place yeah and another shallow closet now luckily it's gonna be a hallway into the master and then over here we're gonna have the laundry room which i'm very excited about on the second floor and then through there we're going to have the master bathroom or the addition right right well it seems like a very practical plan you're not doing too much in those rooms cleaning them up making them a little bit better and you'll save money by doing that but out here you're going to spend a little bit more yep it's going to be exciting yeah roger you look like a man trying to come up with a plan well trying to work it out what's going to happen back here kevin we're going to have a new garage this is going away we're going gonna have a parking area that comes out into here so we need to create a flat pallet for that parking area so this material here is going away in order to get enough room we're gonna have to dig in this ban banking they're showing a wall coming maybe two feet off the fence line straight down to give us a big parking area so when you're building a wall like this what are you thinking about because you've got a lot of material you're gonna have to hold back right you gotta hold back this whole hill so you need something that's gonna stay put and be solid so you're probably gonna dig a deep footing in here fill it with stone and that's what you're going to build the wall on and then where you go to the homeowners and ask them what material they want what are your options for materials well you know you can do pressure treated wood six by sixes you could do individual stones concrete block or you could even do a stone wall all right sounds good so we've got sort of an older lot here a lot of plants that have been around for a while anything gets saved yeah we like to save what we can out of this lilac they're hard to move sometimes but we've also got a real pretty the white flowers are just starting to come out on this one and this is an old purple we're going to salvage as much as we can all right and so when you take it out of there what do you do with it where does it go it's going to end up going to my house so i can babysit it oh you're good papa there yeah all right what else we got back here looks kind of scraggly yeah but we have some sentimental plants back here these roses have been in the family for a long long time so we're going to come in they'll they're a scraggly root system too we're going to pull them out put them in a pot with compost and soil water them in and they're going to my house also well that doesn't look like much though so you're saying the family's saving that because they just they just have an emotional attachment to them yeah but they'll be a pretty little rose oh i love this right you're gonna protect this thing oh yeah paper birch one of the first things i'm gonna do is put a fence around this to keep everyone from treading on it and i mean a big area i love to hear that all right so that tree has saved problems with any of the other trees are they all staying well we got one problem tree up here in front it's one of my old friends it's a norway maple you know how much i like those norway maples yeah take a look at this oh yeah this tree has had an injury see it's all rotted right in this area right in here yeah i think there was a branch here and it peeled off at one time and that caused that never to heal it's you know pretty rotted all the way through rotted so much that this one's coming down this one's coming down it's either gonna hit the house hit the wires or any one of the three poles here get it out now before it causes damage take it down sounds like you've got a plan we do [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] hey guys how you doing doing good what'd you guys think of the house great i think it's awesome actually you know what it is it's it's a classroom which i guess is the case season after season but this year in particular the apprentices will learn under your instruction the skills gap will close a little bit more and and we have a lot of lessons to learn in there you get a lot of lessons to teach we'll try speaking of which uh where my manners uh i need to officially thank you guys because so far the partners of this old house have kicked in over half a million dollars for the microworks work ethic scholarship program and i just wanted to say uh officially that's all going to be used for work ethic scholarships more apprentices so great thanks so much for that fantastic and our apprentices are going to show up next week when work gets underway we're going to start demolition roger you're going to be moving some plants right we're going gonna start digging all right well until then i'm kevin o'connor i'm tom silva i'm mike rowe i'm norma abram i'm rich trithui and i'm roger cook for this old house all right you're a microwave you guys have done this before for sure next time on this old house say hi to michael he's our intern he's going to be working with us now oh terrific welcome aboard thank you hey you and i should talk so that i can tell you what it's like working for these silvas here we go don't pay any attention we're ready to start demo but there's a few things we have to do first our homeowners want to save these roses and i'll show you how to do it and we found this the sleepers are just coated with this mold oh man that's next time on this old house thanks for watching this whole house has got a video for just about every home improvement project so be sure to check out the others 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Channel: This Old House

Views: 164,281

Rating: 4.9139299 out of 5

Keywords: This Old House, Ask This Old House, DIY, Home Improvement, DIY Ideas, Renovation, Renovation Ideas, How To Fix, How To Install, How To Build, mike rowe, Kevin O'Connor, Tom Silva, Norm Abram

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Length: 23min 58sec (1438 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020