This Old House Season 23 Episode 14 The Manchester House - 14

Our master carpenter sees how the faulty east chimney has been fixed by specialist Mark Schaub and his crew: the game room fireplace is bricked over, but the guest room above gets a new hearth, firebox and gas "coal grate." Richard Trethewey shows Steve how he's using a beat-up airhandler to provide dry, clean temporary jobsite heat and gives an overview on how he plans to heat and cool the house ' radiant floor heat on the first floor, flat-panel radiators for the second and third, and a/c only in select rooms on the second and third. Steve finds Roger Cook out back, where he's been denied Conservation Commission approval to cut down trees near the ocean, though he is allowed to limb them up for a better view. Out at the auto court, Roger shows Steve how he cuts 2" thick granite in a curve. Steve and homeowner Janet McCue visit a garden shop to see how various paving options look before she commits to buying materials for the hardscape. Back at the house, architect Steve Holt describes a mid-job design change ' a decision not to give the second-floor bays walkout decks ' and Tom and our master carpenter carefully pull up a hard-pine floor for use elsewhere in the building.