Season 3 - Beach House
Malibu, CA
Bob takes on a worn out California ranch house on stilts on Malibu Beach and converts it into an elegant Spanish-style villa worthy of its glamorous location. Projects include an elegant winder staircase, a state of the art sprinkler system, environmentally friendly blown-in cellulose insulation, and seismic code compliance.
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| Bob kicks off his California project with a helicopter tour of the sunny Los Angeles area. Passing over famous landmarks like the Hollywood Bowl, the Dorothy Chandler pavilion and the ...
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| Lois Bostic, Bob’s real estate agent shows Bob some interesting properties in the area featuring the cottage, Spanish, contemporary and ranch style homes. Lois shows Bob around a small Spanish ...
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| Bob winds up on Malibu Beach on a forty by approximately one hundred and fifty foot lot in a house built in the mid 50’s. It maintains most of its ...
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| Bob tours the Adamson Estate Museum, a classic Spanish colonial revival, to inspire the architect in the Malibu Beach project. Including recessed windows and exterior exposed beams and a five ...
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| Bob and Joe cover the best ways to choose a general contractor. Joe feels the number one way is by referrals. Start with your architect, if you don’t have one ...
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| Bob Vila and Joe Fitzgerald discuss the roof types of surrounding homes and the possibilities for our house. They show the beginning of the demolition process on the roof ...
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| Bob checks out the progress on the seismic frame. We see the installation of tubular steal columns to support the header and a steel reinforced concrete base that is ...
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| Bob Vila visits Max Gail’s home. Max has lived on the property for over fifteen years and started with just a teepee. His home follows the same pattern of circles ...
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| Insulation contractor Rick Davenport shows Bob how they install wet-spray cellulose insulation into open walls. The material is typical cellulose insulation, simply recycled newspaper. It's the installation system that is ...
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| Bob confers with Joe from the framing crew as they cut and stack the hip roof over the master bedroom of the Malibu Beach House. They are using exposed ...
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| Bob and Joe install a unique custom built casement window. It is extra wide with an arched top and painted peacock blue. Before installation Joe added additional depth to the ...
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| John Picard, an environmental specialist, explains some of the features that make the Malibu house more environmentally friendly. Oriented strand board (OSB) used for structural wall sheathing is made from ...
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| Tim the Tool Man Taylor shows Bob Vila his Home Improvements at his home near Detroit. Including the demo to make room for his mother in law in the ...
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| Bob talks about the "Smart House" system that will be installed in a house. He first looks at some light fixtures. The recessed light fixtures being used allow insulation to ...
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| Bob goes over the roof installation including the 90-pound rolled roof to seal the roof from moisture and the boards laid out over the hips. The clay barrel tile ...
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| Juan Santos, at the Malibu beach house, explains to Bob how to distress the new Douglas Fir ceiling beams so that they look like they're hundreds of years old. He ...
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| At the Malibu beach house, Bob meets with Jack and Kent Colstead to hang the new arched top, vertical grain, Douglas fir front door. This door must be hung from ...
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| Bob visits with Mike Bennet, who is floating mortar bed walls in a bathroom. Starting with 15# felt paper then expanded diamond metal lathe held on by galvanized nails. In ...
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| Bob goes to Tecate, Mexico, to meet tilemaker Javier Ramirez. Javier shows bob the different kinds of clays endemic to the Baja region of Mexico and shows how they are ...
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| Bob tours the house with Robyn Peterson, our interior designer. She points out the built in cabinets around the bar in the den, then takes him shopping for fabrics to ...
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| Bob discusses planting palm trees in the courtyard of house. The landscaper brings in five large fully-grown Queen Palms. The plan is to hide some of the structural features of ...
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| In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob take us on a tour of the tiled courtyard with palms and fountain. We get a surprise visit from "Home Improvement's" ...
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| In his grand finale here in Malibu Beach, Bob and our designer, Robyn, take us on a tour of the finished California-Spanish dream house. We look at the media room, ...
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| Bob and our designer, Robyn, take us on a tour of the master bedroom and Bath. Starting in Bath Bob points out the simple extravagant Mexican tile peacocks on ...
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