This Old House | Designing Their Dream Home (S40 E9) | FULL EPISODE

Dana and Don show Kevin interior design choices at their architecture studio. Richard demonstrates how a heat pump works. Mark watches as stone veneer is applied at the Idea House. The plumber installs a wall hung toilet tank inside the wall. Don builds his powder room vanity with Tom.

 

Kevin opens the show in Providence, RI to meet the homeowners at their architecture office. Donald and Dana drew the plans for their renovation and they also worked out the design decisions, as they often do with their clients. Back at the house, Richard meets up with the plumber who is about to install a toilet tank. Wall hung toilets, which are commonly found in Europe, are the new trend. At the Idea House in Narragansett, Mark McCullough watches as a stone veneer goes around the fireplace in the living room. Using a cyclical mock up, Richard explains how heat pumps work. Compression makes the air hotter and expansion makes the air colder. Back in Rhode Island, Tommy works with Donald to build a sink console for the powder room. They meet in Jeff’s shop where Donald shows Tommy the steel frame he designed and had welded. For the top, they cut reclaimed oak and form an arc where the sink will sit. They cut out the holes for the sink drain and faucet and place the fixtures in to see how it all comes together.

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This Old House | Designing Their Dream Home (S40 E9) | FULL EPISODE

[TERRORoftheLORD]

The best explanation of a heat pump that I've ever seen!
Great information!

[MisterTee]

So what Richard explained about heating and cooling I believe works the same way in nature. High pressure system, clear skies warmer temperatures. Low pressure system. Atmosphere cools down and clouds form. And temperature usually drops. So Mother Nature more than likely provided engineers with the idea of this concept for the home. Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[kateboyd]

My literal job is thermo-fluid dynamics and the next time some asks me how an AC system works I'm just going to point them to this episode. Like wow, Richard, that was legit.

[martendschrage]

Loved the HVAC explanation. Can't wait to see the next episode.

[matthewgoetz]

19:10 “We love it when the homeowner gets involved with their renovation.”
-No Contractor, ever

[byganza]

another for the heat pump segment could be a rubber band. If you stretch a rubberband, making the rubber taught; it gets hot. then let it cool down to ambient temperature and quickly decompress it; it gets cold. let it get back to ambient temperature and repeat.

[puwazatza]

8:35 watch from here and see how often that guy says 'Buck'...this is hilarious.

[oblio]

8:18 "So Buck...you don't seem like you're much of a talker..."

[kronk]

What happened to the spray paint markings for the studs they put on the bathroom floor in the last episode?

[karkasgid]

Hello! I love your videos, thank you! Can I take parts of your videos, translate them for a Russian-speaking audience and post on my YouTube channel about frame houses?

[thinktoomuchb]

Great explanation of heat pumps! Hope to have one someday. I've heard they do need some maintenance and more involved cleaning than just the filter. Would love to see something on that.

[Gensisdragonvideos]

Can you make a video on soldering caution pipes

[Nill]

Replacing a floor mount toilet requires removing a couple of bolts. What's involved with replacing a wall mount unit? Does tile or wall board have to be removed and replaced?

[sttigertiger]

At 7:01 while screwing the fastener for the wall-mounred toilet to the wooden floor plate, I think the screw did not grip wood. It did not squeeze the wood, nor was there resistance as it was turning. I prefer if TOH shows us these problems . They always make things look perfect.

[mitchellconant]

Alright Buck, Buck Buck Buck, Buck Buck.

[cjimmer]

I didn't know Robert Redford was moonlighting as an architect

[oelschlegel]

that skinny bathroom counter would look so much better without the radius cut and just the basin sticking out proud.

[Mike-bhsh]

I've heard from a lot of people that the heat pumps simply do not work. Nice in theory - but reality no so much.
So what you are explaining is that the heat pump has to run all the time basically to "work".
Wouldn't we being using the same or less energy to just heat the home with either electric, oil, or gas. In fact, oil and gas are much more efficient than electric... and the reality is the electricity is usually going to be produced using oil, gas, or coal.

So in reality you are just shifting the carbon emissions off site. Which is the same for electric vehicles. They are just shifting emissions off site. Not to mention the huge waste in energy by all the conversions needed to go from power production to finally get to the point of torque.

[fireace]

5:50 great toilets, I put 2 in my house and plan 2 more upstairs.

[watchthe]

I love the net zero, but I hate that those solar panels will not pay back the carbon it took to make them. That array is HUGE compared to what is needed in sunnier states. just the bottom 2 rows on that barn works fine south of Mason-Dixon line.