Staining the Exterior
Painting contractor Mike Suarez sprays water-based stain on the home’s exterior, while Bob, accompanied by paint consultant Sherry Hiller, tours the island with an eye toward local color schemes.
Painting contractor Mike Suarez sprays water-based stain on the home’s exterior, while Bob, accompanied by paint consultant Sherry Hiller, tours the island with an eye toward local color schemes.
Bob and contractor Bob Ryley confer about adding trim to the curvilinear top edge of an arched window. After sheet lead is installed as flashing, Ryley attaches scalloped shingles.
Bob reviews progress in the kitchen, which includes the installation of a pantry, and contractor Bob Ryley demonstrates how to build a door into a wood-paneled wall.
Bob visits a wallpaper factory, where the design, paper-milling, and printing aspects of the wallpaper fabrication process all take place.
The wallpaper installers, Jim and Tracy Matheson, show Bob how wallpaper is measured, cut, and applied.
Bob and the insulation contractor review how different types of insulation are used in different applications. Blown-in insulation is put into the existing house, rigid board into the turret, and high-density fiberglass into the cathedral ceiling.
After reviewing the final stages of the septic system installation, Bob helps contractor Bob Ryley install the decorative porch railings and balusters that Ryley has made by hand.
Bob joins electrician Greg Roulette as he works on the rough wiring. The circuit breaker panel, Greg explains, is a receptacle for ground, neutral, and hot wires, which are all “made up” within the box.
Bob meets with carpenter Ron Jackson, who is installing Atlantic white cedar shingles and sidewall flashing.
Bob and Tom Moran (from Pella) discuss the anatomy of the doors chosen for the Martha’s Vineyard Victorian project, and contractor Bob Ryley demonstrates the process of installing the windows.