The Best of Ask This Old House: 44 Common Household Projects: Episode list
Tile expert Joe Ferrante helps a homeowner who wants to install tile on a kitchen backsplash. The homeowner has selected a type of tile made up of 2x2 glass squares attached to a 12x12 mesh backing to make installation easier.
Tom helps a homeowner install a set of new kitchen cabinets. Before installing them, Tom takes all of the cabinets out of the boxes to inspect them. He finds a cracked panel in one cabinet, and also finds that the microwave cabinet is the wrong size.
Richard helps a pair of homeowners with a garbage disposer that has been jammed for more than a year.
Richard helps a homeowner replace her old, leaky kitchen faucet with a newer model that included a builtin sprayer.
Kevin and an electrician help a homeowner add lighting over their kitchen’s peninsula counter.
Kevin and painting expert Rich O’Neil shows a homeowner the proper way to paint her kitchen cabinets.
Tom and Kevin remove and replace an old laminate kitchen countertop.
Richard helps a homeowner with a wobbly toilet. With the toilet removed, he determines that it rocked back and forth because the cast-iron toilet fl nge sat up too high.
Richard helps a homeowner with a bathtub that wouldn’t hold water.
Richard helps a homeowner replace an existing three valve shower control with a single-handled mixing valve. In a three-valve control, one handle controls hot water, one handle controls cold, and the third handle diverts water from the spout up to the showerhead. The new single-handle valve prevents scalding, should there be a sudden drop in cold water pressure.
Richard replaces an old 3.5 gallons per flush (GPF) toilet with a new, state-of-the-art dual-flushing unit that uses 0.9 GPF for liquids and 1.6 GPF for solids.
Tom helps a homeowner re-grout a small tile floor in her master bathroom. The white-colored grout had become dirty and discolored and some of it had broken loose.
Kevin and electrician Brian Bergeron help a homeowner install a new fan in her bathroom. The fan exhausts the humid air created by the shower to the outside of the house.
Richard helps a homeowner replace an old, outdated looking vanity in her master bathroom.