[Music] North Shore Boulder is going place today to create a Level Playing Field I love it let's get another one pocket doors that sat inside these walls for 120 years today they get restored and a layout Mosaic time what happened to all this Plumbing here I've never seen anything like this before because it's already rot going on in that trunk well what have you found up here well a bit of a surprise it's classic Farmer's lament [Applause] it's five bathrooms it's a kitchen it's a full new mech
anical it's going to be sounds like you guys have a plan I think we do [Music] that's beautiful [Music] hi there I'm Kevin O'Connor and welcome back to This Old House here on Cape Ann Massachusetts up on the North Shore and this beautiful lot that we have just about a mile from the water nice wooded area with all of this ledge and granite that the original House was built around that shingle style right there originally a summer house built in 1890. now the only new space we have well it's this
garage right here two bays what I gotta say Charlie those guys did a nice job of making this fit in with the rest of the house lots of progress so let me show you around this is a two-bay garage and it's probably the way the homeowners will now enter the house Hey Kevin you can see that it is olated Kevin Milo's guys put radiant heat in the concrete slab thank you for that and then you'll enter through here into a new Monroe hey good morning here there is a full bath with a shower right in there
and this is the new mud room entry and as you walk back through here into the heart of the house you can go to the back kitchen off to this side and then this opening right here this was added so that you can see straight through to the front of the house and check that out entryway the beautiful Diamond leaded glass windows right there and then we've got the fireplace that's going to be restored and all fixed up Bill how are you John Tommy what's going on I'm trying to figure out what's going
on with these uh pocket doors you know they're over 100 years old and pocket doors are really sweet so original huh look at the size of that thing is still running good that is awesome but this one over here not so good it actually fell off the wheel air and we had to pull it out of the opening and I've never actually seen this Hardware before when I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to open it up above we've had to strip the plaster off of this wall here yep I'm going to take off this pie
ce up here in the top that capsules so I can reach them what have we got in there reach down get the wheel there it is oh cool look at that and it looks like some kind of an adjustment right there this goes into the door so we've got to get that into the door and see how it holds in place check this out Richard's Wilcox manufacturing from Illinois I would say these are definitely original to the house the service on one side yeah and there's the other one very cool very cool nice huh yeah so thi
s is the top of the door that came off right okay so now this this one will go this way and the other one will drop in the other way but this is interesting so if you look at these pins because of the angle that they're on they're on a diagonal because they're on a diagonal it's the adjustment for the height of the door so you can see how this wheel goes further away the dough when I move it back up or down yeah and then this one here that little opening there is so that you can get to this scre
w that locks it into place now these screws on both of them have fallen out I thought for sure would be able to find them inside the opening couldn't do it so we picked up a couple of screws and I'm going to have to probably modify this hole just a little bit so I can get the head of the screw to fit in there foreign fits in there yeah all right good get the other one to work now if I tighten this up does it stay there yeah holy smokes Rock Solid pretty cool I love it all right so now we have to
take the wheels off put them back inside the opening [Music] and it's going to be a trick to get these on the door wait know all right so I gotta get those two pins lined up with the holes [Music] oh my God [Music] give me one more second [Music] all right the thread's caught okay keep going a little tighter to pull this up snug it up all right let's see if that gets over there let's see how they meet so let's bring them together holy mackerel that really slides easy right in the middle there w
e used to very nice what do you think Tommy can I learn twice out of these well 100 anyway [Music] our homeowners have asked for a little bit of solar power on this house so up here from the third floor you can see the roof on it comes off the second floor Danny is our installer Danny good to meet you hey nice to meet you too Kevin so I'm told you're giving us a new type of panel sort of a low profile panel low profile panel it's a roof integrated panel or solar system so what does that mean so
it's going to be direct directly attached to the roof and when I say roof integrated there's not going to be shingles underneath the solar panels actually act as the roofing system really okay so I am seeing some shingles but perimeter yep yeah we'll step flash with the shingles underneath but other than that we just have our roofing underlayment directly underneath the panel so you can sort of see it here shingles which we're used to this is the and stick layer that's exactly right so under the
panels we'll have the peel and stick and then this layer right here yep the fireproofing layer that's uh that's what makes our system Class A fire rated nice where it allows it to be so close to the deck all right you're clipped in I appreciate you helping out um I know you would have anyway but you actually have to do this right we do so yeah in Massachusetts we're actually required to have a licensed electrician assist in the installation of solar panels Danny ever best man all right oh let m
e get out of the way panels coming in going in if you just don't famous so first of you said six panels daddy six pounds that's right what are we looking at here so we're looking at our uh our 360 watt solar cell UH 60 cells within this solar panel um like we mentioned earlier we've got our racking integrated into the panel on all sides um what's really special about this one is how each panel integrates with one another the next panel will sit on top and engage with this rubber gasket to preven
t any wind wind driven rain and the right here along the back so these feet are what attached to the deck itself yeah so we've got five feet on each panel these are adjustable too so if you've got a wavy deck we can actually adjust these to keep a straight level playing across the solar panels and then this guy so the brains behind the operation this is a micro inverter so this is actually what takes the DC power from the solar panel and converts it to the AC that's usable in the house take one
you're going to slower in and work your way back work our way back we've got three panels in one row and then we'll hop up to the second [Music] each one of our panels has a grounding lug this grounds the whole system to one another [Music] and this is where all our wires all our feeders are AC wires in or grounding is going to come through you joining my top questions [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] so what sort of an output are we going to get from this array so from this array we've
got six panels 2.16 kilowatts on the DC side any guess how much of their power load it's going to handle on average for this system size is going to feed about 20 percent of their usage cool all right well Danny thank you very much and you know feel free to keep our electrician [Music] so the last thing you would think is we needed more folders on site but we do because we needed to create a Level Playing space for their daughter everything was a steep slope before so these Bowlers are brought i
n so we could help retain that slope and it doesn't wash out so over here we have an assortmentable there's hey Fred hey Jen how you doing good how you doing good to see you so you want to tell us why you have them all laid out like this well when the truck comes when they dump them they're just in big pile so I like to spread them out take like a mental inventory do what we have take note of the size shape color so as I'm building the wall I can remember hey as well then Rock earlier go back gr
ab it put on the wall yeah it's like the memory game you have to figure out your space I don't always fit but yep that looks pretty good nice and tight now we're going to find another rock to fit and over these two rocks the uh one over two two over one love that all right so we'll fit one that fits like a puzzle piece right in yep all right all right let's go rock shopping I think I remember seeing a few over here that might work oh I like this one let's give it a shot even the colors line up I
love it let's get another one there you go that's nice and flat that was nice [Music] this wall is really coming out great yeah it started out nice thanks guys thanks for coming out in the snow today and uh good seeing you thank you thank you [Music] going back 120 years yeah I mean there was never an original heating system and they added one for their caretaker because it was just Summer Place but now we have a heating system for the next hundred years a nice one too every service in this bui
lding every horizontal service is really inflating in it all three floors awesome and so we've got to come in central board here that we've we've shown before but you know what it has is this so right here this mixing valve is for the tile and the concrete that needs one water temperature then the more r value you put on top of the floor like carpet this would be the highest water temperature going to need and then hardwood floors comes off here yeah so the way it works is it's gonna it's got a
mixing valve right here that puts out the right water temperature of totally smart pump this pump is so smart it sort of figures out what it needs all the time okay and changes the flow rate to everything and then through these boxes every single Loop see these manifolds these are all through the building about eight of them through the building will have a little power head like this that'll have a thermostat say yes or no to every single room so it's it's absolute Precision yeah that's all oka
y so now here's tile his carpet his wood and we've got we've got this two lines that are going to go over to our indirect but I want to show you something anytime you have a hydronic system that means you're heating the water you have to have stability you have to have the air eliminated from it so this is an air Eliminator it really is amazing inside anytime this is pumping through here any of the auction bubbles hit these little spindles and turns into micro Bubbles and comes out through here
so it means all the air comes out this way and so you get hydronic stability now you can start moving it all over the building is an issue if you didn't have this surface area right here the air would stay in the water yeah burp it out at different manifolds and you're chasing it all the time this thing scrubs it okay so this board is for heating which you simply an indirect for a hot water supply right here these to here come over to indirect tank now we've used these before but we've never sho
wn you one naked oh well you know anytime you can show me something naked so here is a stainless steel tank and inside it it has a coil like this and it's much longer the actual coil inside so boil the water pass through this coil it gives up its heat to the sword volume of water here that started cold and becomes hot never mixes nope it just gets up its heat no and then when it's done look at this the level of insulation right here six inches right and that'll be right here it'll be on every si
ngle surface so it becomes this super insulated Thermos bottle ready to go for plenty of hot water for all those bathrooms in this building indirect because the fire is over there and it only comes on when this cools down one flame and this boiler right here yep and this is our gas fired condensing boiler it's a floor mounted unit you know a lot has changed in these high efficiency boilers let me show you so again we've talked about this before you know the heat loss in any building changes all
went along according to how cold it is outside versus how warm you want it inside so if you have a typical house like we do with those three different floor conditions the tile the carpet and the wood the water wants to circulate and just gently modulate all winter long and just change a little as it gets colder now first went into Super efficient gas fire condensing those those boilers were all relatively small and the heat delivery system was looking for a gentle Supply to it and the boilers g
ot so hard so quick that they fired up and got quickly hot and then they shut off so they cycled too much so we really would like to have the burner stay on longer so the trend has been to go to larger water content heating device so that the burner has a chance to stay on longer at a lower input you can see that the temperature in the board doesn't get super hot it actually more closely matches what you're looking for out in the system that reduces cycling so this is a what a cutaway is of this
larger water content boiler and how and how to understand you know when these when these when these wall hung boilers used to first came out the heat exchanges had relatively small water content you know this was one and this was another and these would be stacked together and the flame would come through and that's the full volume of water that's right either of those and so with this you can see a burner right here the burner comes with this beautiful flame that will just modulate and change
according to how how cold it is outside but this is how much water content See It water water water water water everywhere wow so now that water is gently circulating you know through the build out through it so it'll actually take it'll actually take the uh the burner's input and just stay on it it seems backwards right because you're going to leave the burner on yeah we're going to leave the burner on but at the perfectly lowest amount versus having to come on and off also counterintuitive tha
t in this case bigger is better yeah but it really is we want to reduce cycling because we're inefficient we're recycling right beautiful love it thank you anyway so the ferranti van is out front which means it is time for tiling we're working up here on the second floor this is the master bedroom this a guest bedroom Mark how are you good guys how are you doing all right big layout table here and uh just off of the bedroom is a guest bathroom Eric how are you good coming so this is our little b
athroom in here what are we working with well today we're working with a marble Mosaic can I see that marble so are both of these uh light and dark marble yep we uh the white is the honed the gray is the polished let me see if I can pick that up in the window reflection oh yeah so the gray reflects and the white is pretty flat that's the honed all right check that out so this is on a little bit of a mesh backer exactly so there's a whole bunch of little pieces yep a whole bunch of pieces made in
to one 10 by 10 square cool design with this and that's sticking out all right so uh how are you thinking about layouts walk me through me through that process most important thing is um when you come in this door so this right here another important Place yep and right up to the top and then I presume you're less concerned about this side just with all the other things going on a little less concerned we have the vanity we have a toilet it's going to eat up a little bit of room but still at the
same time you know we'll be symmetrical [Music] left the right front to back and you get that Symmetry by picking your center lines which are already drawn on the floor so with big pieces your point is you don't want a little sliver of a piece like rare because you'll see it all about that appearance all right so what do you think for layout so if I crosshairs we have our our center lines and when we we're going to lay it out a few different ways we'll start on both sides of the line the back l
eft to right got it and uh we'll check to see what the piece is this is this is the thing that I think most people don't appreciate of what you guys do you know everyone thinks that you just cut tile and put it down with your craft lines with your uh thinset it's a lot of lamps a little bit to it a little bit to it so again back to left to right what we have is that's a big piece you like that yes so we're starting with a 10 by 10 square cabin I'll take it okay so that's a good line [Music] two
full pieces this would be your third full piece oh not too crazy about it so you'll have a little tiny stuff give me that again how many inches was that we're about two and three quarter inches so what do you do in that situation you blow people so this is where we'll make an adjustment [Music] uh so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to move these I'm going to split this Center Line okay the front to back Center Line we're going to stay where we are left to right we know this one we know that one w
orks I'm just gonna stick this back in there for us so we basically have adjusted half a tile our little two and three quarter inch stub piece is going to be what now looking a lot better so eight almost eight inches okay so with that eight inch piece there up against the tub we'll inch piece in front of the door exactly what we're looking for beautiful okay what next so we'll start cutting is along the wall we're gonna uh we'll cut one down see how it fits and then we'll take it from there dad
eight and three quarters okay we'll give that a look Mark see how you did and if that's the one okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] put a couple pieces down a quarter inch by quarter inch Notch trowel [Applause] full back butter no spacers for your separation there you're just gonna eyeball that we're gonna do it by eye [Music] [Applause] when you're working with a mosaic tile like this pretty complicated on the mesh you know more so than a single tile harder easier more time consumer one um definit
ely time consuming being a mosaic we have to be something pieces that make up a 10 by 10 so compare that to maybe just a regular ceramic yeah for homeless to know too I don't think that it's going to take yeah pay for two ways biggest thing is just time passing patients and then uh after this what are you going to let it set up yep we'll let it set up for the day and then now we'll come back the following day and get it grounded nice Mark Kevin what do you think how'd your son do looks great it
does doesn't it yes it does like the tile like a design and you definitely figured out the edges all right next time we are going to restore the original windows and Jen is going to start getting plants in the ground so until then I'm Kevin O'Connor I'm Mark Ferrante I'm Eric Ferrante for this little house here on Cape Ann [Music] foreign we're starting to work on some of the finished details painters are here electricians doing final and we've got to make some design decisions we're making this
bed a colorful transition to the forest most of the trim work in the house is installed and a lot of it is new except for this window right here when it was demoed the trim was damp let me show you how we're going to fix it this is the big moment that's awesome so right back to where it was 120 years ago yep foreign [Music]
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