ASK This Old House | Sliding Barn Door, Dry Well (S18 E1) FULL EPISODE
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Nathan travels to Birmingham, Alabama to install a sliding barn door in an open-concept loft apartment; Tom compares the qualities of different types of roofing materials; Ross explains the culprit behind damaged solar panels and how to prevent future damage; Mark installs a drywell for a homeowner with drainage issues in his backyard.
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How to Hang a Sliding Barn Door
Nathan installed the Z-Bar Knotty Alder Wood Interior Sliding Barn Door Slab with Hardware Kit that can be found at The Home Depot. The kit comes with all the materials required to assemble and hang the door, though Nathan choose to add additional 3/4" stock in this application because the wall was not plumb and the door would have hit the baseboard otherwise.
For a finish, Nathan and Stephanie stained the door using a water based stain by Minwax. Both the stain and the rags and brushes needed to apply it can be found at home centers.
Comparing Roofing Materials
Tom compared a variety of roofing materials, including asphalt shingles, cedar shingles, metal, and clay tiles. These can all be found at a variety of home centers or from a roofing contractor and are more available in some regions of the country depending on the housing styles.
How to Troubleshoot Solar Panel Damage
Ross explained that squirrels will use solar panel wires as chew toys if they aren't properly protected. He suggested installing a solar panel critter guard to prevent squirrels and other critters from getting behind the solar panels.
How to Build a Simple Dry Well
Installing a simple dry well requires few tools and materials. Mark lined the trench with landscape fabric, which can be found at any home center. He then filled the trench and the hole with crushed stone, which can be found at masonry supply stores and some home centers. The pipe he installed was two sections of solid PVC pipe and one section of 4" perforated PVC pipe. The pipe and the PVC glue required to secure the connections, are found at home centers.
When installing a dry well in a small yard with little space for leeching, Mark also suggests installing a plastic basin in the hole to allow for more controlled drainage. This yard was massive and slightly sloped downhill away from the house, so the plastic basin wasn't necessary.
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ASK This Old House | Sliding Barn Door, Dry Well (S18 E1) FULL EPISODE
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i remember the very 1st episode - project house in Dorchester in 1979 Ive seen every episode of This Old House up to present and I still enjoy the show to this day :
I love how much you guys have grown since the 70's. This show is so soothing to the soul. I just wish my Dad was still here because he would have loved this show.
My first thought about the barn door was that it would cover up an outlet. And it did. I wish they'd shown how to relocate the outlet to maybe 4-5 feet further down the wall so that whether the door is open or closed, the homeowner has a fully-functional outlet on the wall. As-is, they can only use the outlet when the door is closed. That's a great way to get your phone charger destroyed when your spouse comes out of the bathroom.
Home owner: Hi, welcome to my home, my husband's gone and my problems in the bedroom. 😂🤣😂🤣
Troll!
This Old excuse to bang
@Corat lol.
Husbands just not there because he does smelly shits at night
Hhhhaaaahhahhhaaahh
Nice to see all these great videos. With all the rain during summer 2023, recently my dry well was so flooded that it backed up into my washer drain out. Consequently my basement flooded. What a mess. Would love to move the well away from under the back door deck and expand it out further into the yard. Perhaps bigger so this never happens again. Would love some help. Thanks! Spencer, Massachusetts
Barn Door: Please in a follow up to this great installation video I suggest mentioning the easily installed accessory hydraulic door stoppers/closers. You can slide the barn door at any reasonable force/speed and these units not only dampen/slow the speed, but additionally then finish closing the door flush in the open or closed position. PS - easily added and installed even on completed doors at a later date. Relatively inexpensive too.
Thanks for considering this useful extra.
Great balance between the TOH old timers and the new guys. It's nice to know the future of this show is being built. I hope Nathan sticks around.
Look forward to the new season. Always informative and interesting episodes. Thanks.
Miss Molly loves all the road trips that she is taking, she will stay incognito as she travels with TOH !
@@Kevin-mp5of Miss Molly said she had to snitch on you to keep you alive, she said that the same gangsters that put lead boots on Jimmy Hoffa was coming for you !
Did Miss Molly give it the old gundy?
@@fujow111 oh yeah mama, she’s a crusty one !
In the first segment that ladder/staircse to the office looks like an accident waiting to happen. In the drainage segment they did nothing to address getting the runoff from that downspout further from the house.
How I enjoy your segments Nathan
Next year on TOH, How to remove a sliding barn door and replace it with the latest trendy thing.
Thank god its pretty much on its way out. I dont care how cool your wife or GF is, we need a door on the freaking bathroom. That shuts and locks. Kids are also a huge issue. With these doors.
Wait, but how will they open the barn door from the other side? Or close it behind them, for that matter? It looks like it only has a handle on one side...
Welcome back. Great episode as always
Barn door looks nice.
I have a about a 100 plus year old dug well on my property I used for water the first two years. Now I use it for gray water and as a dry well. Works perfectly.
So...you basically ruined a good drinking source ?
@@augustreil that I no longer use yes. Also It stopped replenishing water after 2 years hence the reason I went with a drilled well. It was surface water and had to be filtered twice to be used.
@@WheresHerb, Got it, thanks.
"We can screw where ever we want" lol
Came here for this comment 😂
A classic pocket door would be much better than a sliding barn door.
And much more work to install
Good episode fellas!!
Be a days work just digging that trench/hole here in Delaware Co. in upstate NY...
Love this Show!
So, there’s no seal between the sliding barn door & perimeter of bathroom opening? I wouldn’t care for that situation!
I wouldn’t have wanted to go that long without a bathroom door in general 😂 why would that ever be a good idea!
2:11 Caught ya looking bicycle dude.
I have watch about 1000+ episodes and I still can't get a floating shelve to be level.
@@Kevin-mp5of a level would help too 😆
Insulation on those solar panels was made from delicious soy oil just like Romex electrical wire in your house.
Good stuff man
I've watched TOH since I was a kid and I've gotten so used to hosts having great charisma and the ability to make me believe they're genuinely invested in the projects, this new Nathan is nice but he's almost monotone and very quiet! :/
I agree, though I remember Kevin when he first started. his enthusiasm was very fake feeling, and it took him a little bit to grow as a host. I have a feeling they he will get better.
This was one of the first episodes he did about 2 years ago if I remember right. He’s gotten waaaaaay better recently
Required compliment but not always true 15:53
How do we permanently get rid of quack grass
Insurance Companies in our state only give homeowner 12 yr life on asphalt shingles, no matter what grade they are. Homeowner doesn't replace them after the 12 yr mark, insurance is canceled
State?
3:12 we need a little extra privacy; translation: we can’t take 💩💩 with eachother in the apartment
Residential steel are the best roofs.
There’s an outlet in the way of the sliding door. It should have been relocated.
Or... just don't use it ?
Technically speaking. . . The sliding door is in the way of the outlet. . . Not vice versa. But who gaf anyway? Need the outlet . . Close the door dummy.
@@Kevin-mp5of, Yup , lol !
14:38 Soo why not replace the damaged cables themselves ? Replacing entire panels doesn't seem eco and wallet-friendly.
That's what I was thinking. Maybe due to insurance?
The manufacturer probably says that it has to be replaced and cannot be just repaired at the wires. Possible liability and safety issues, also they probably want to make more money just selling the company or homeowner a new one
I would gladly be one of the new guys.
2nd generation this old houser
Where are you from
No stain primer huh? interesting...
Sorry guys, you missed a very big step on this one. You either just did not comment about CALLING BEFORE YOU DIG, or didn't call them. You certainly did not point out the importance of such a call. Even on private property, there can be hidden digging hazards, up to and including unmarked electrical utility crossings property, to gas lines crossing a property to get to the next property. ALWAYS call before you dig, NO EXCEPTIONS that I am aware of.
@@Kevin-mp5of COMMON SENSE DOES NOT EXIST EVERYWHERE. ALWAYS safety first.
THANK YOU
now days the insulation is made from organic materials (plant base) auto company's experience same problem under hood.
That kid's foot after kicking the shovel over and over had to hurt for a few days.
What about the downpipe from the roof directly onto the grass. And if all the roof water outlets are the same, surely that will create a waterlogged lawn? I am just a viewer, not an expert, so this is a question not a criticism.
Agree. That’s where the foundation water is coming from in the rainy season. I would have suggested to connect both in a “Y” joint then running into the well or further off down into the property.
When I brought my Dad's Weber gas gill up to my home, over the winter the
Ask This Old House = "Home Repairs for Dummies". JMO
I miss Roger
She claims that her husband and she did the renovations, yet they have to call TOH to install a sliding barn door kit. Highly unlikely they did any more than sign the checks for the renovation work.
Next how to videos will be removing all the ugly barn doors that nobody wants anymore.
Besides squirrels, pigeons are a nuisance with solar
Raccoons too!
That mesh stuff isn't gonna do jack against squirrels. They'll chew their way right through easily. We've had those rodents chew through sheetmetal.
I don’t understand American gutters, in the uk the water just goes into the sewer with all the other waste water
you still have gutters
These episodes are old, why post them as new?
"socket wrench"
TOH homeowner is pretty!
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Metal Clad Cable Should Be Used Here So The Roof Rats Cant Chew It
The team is all rested to look at all the dumb comments in the comment section lol.
Starting with yours...
@@Kevin-mp5of or you!
@@Kevin-mp5of At least you not at this time..
Dry well ???
Nathan: Let's get this door installed. You won't be able to use this outlet.
Tommy: Not the smottest place foan outlet thea - let's relocate it before we go any fatha.
RERUN
This old house is not ready here to answer's your question since they never emailed me back 😒
Cleaning your hands after you eat the fried chicken will keep the animal's from eating the wiring use alcohol wipes get the oil of your hands.
Thanks for the wonderful know how.
Get er done.
Plastic cage wire to keep the squirrels out that chew plastic?? Waymenut 😕🤷
@@Kevin-mp5of what he held up, that's metal mesh? With what around it again?
It’s stainless steel material. That mesh isn’t going anywhere.
@@Kevin-mp5of ur right, it’s only a matter that concerns Kevin.
@@Kevin-mp5of it’s really the classic plumbers lament....
@@Kevin-mp5of how is ur back going to handle that? Now That is a matter that concerns me!!!
Everyone gonna work except Kevin ..wtf
Sliding door cost $4,000. lol
A bathroom door for privacy?
It's more for blocking the smell.
I don’t trust this new guy Nathan
V cute girls in Alabama.
@@Kevin-mp5of if I was her man, be nowhere in this world you'd be safe.
New guys are overrated.
How do u not have a door to your bathroom. Wife drops a duece just what I wanna hear 😏
Another garbage job by Mark. No glue on his joints, he only puts the drywell another 20 feet away instead of further off into the huge lot, and then just ignores all the downspouts on the house that dump water against the foundation. The owner's problem will still exist and they may as well have just not done anything. Next time have it all run in pipes off the property or to a far edge in a passive system if you can do it or pumped if not.
He said they glued them up.They just didn't show it because it's a waste of time
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