Season 9 - Accessible Home
Roxbury, MA
The Roxbury project is an urban renewal story, on a more grass-roots, affordable housing scale. The season previews nine new three-bedroom homes along the avenue, including one unit with accessibility for people with disabilities.
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| Bob introduces the nine-unit Roxbury affordable housing project by taking a tour of this neighborhood in transition with the community-based developers from Nuestra Comunidad CDC.
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| A visit to the Nuestra Comunidad in the Roxbury section of Boston. Director Evelyn Friedman Vargas and project manger Robert Vargas descibe the rebuilding efforts of this low income area.
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| Bob inspects progress on the Roxbury house in Boston with builders Arnold Johnson and George Chin of Crosswinds Enterprises.
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| Bob confers with contractor Arnold Johnson of Crosswinds Enterprises, as he installs siding on the Roxbury House in Boston.
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| Bob meets with Gerry Folan, the plumbing contractor, who demonstrates how all the waste lines come together in a residence and how they exit the house. The PVC waste lines ...
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| Bob visits Cliff Electric, a three man team, that will performing all the "rough in" wiring in a residence. Bob Owens, the lead electrician, shows a switched receptacle which is ...
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| Bob takes a tour with the architect for the Roxbury project, Fernando Domenech, to understand the difference between "adaptability" and "accessibility" when it comes to designing homes with wheelchairs in ...
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| Bob confers with carpenter Bob Ryley as he lays out and constructs a corner bracket for the Roxbury House in Boston.
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| Ryley helps build a porch railing on the Roxbury project. Bob discusses the building codes that pertain to the rail and materials used.
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| Bob takes a tour of some of the grand old houses still left from Roxbury's heyday at the turn of the century. After a period of serious urban blight, this ...
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| Bob talks with Janet Cox landscape contractor about plant installation. Janet discusses the unique problems of urban landscaping and the plant choices for this project.
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| Installer Juan Gonsalves shows Bob how to install steel stair stringers. Simplifying the stairbuilding process, these stringers mount directly to the foundation's concrete wall.
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| Bob Ryley builds a handicapped access ramp to this house. The concrete portion is poured at a pitch of 1in 20. The ramp transitions to a wooden ramp and railing ...
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| Bob meets with Ed House the electrician from Cliff Electrical Contractors who is installing recessed lighting or sometimes called "high hats." They are called high hats because the metal light ...
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| Bob visits the Lightolier manufacturing plant which covers 6 acres or 700,000 square feet. Bob Wetikin the director of design gives Bob a tour. The ultra modern plant makes lighting ...
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| Bob meets with Craig Rinaldi a plumbing contractor and Mary Moffroid from Controlled Energy who are installing the Aquastar Water Heater. The tankless water heater doesn't store any water, but ...
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| Bob meets Brad Owen the electrician who is installing exterior wall sconces in series. What is unique about the lights is they are fluorescent fixtures with a ballast, and fluorescent ...
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| Bob interviews Gwen Noyes about the Cambridge Cohousing development constructed with environmentally friendly materials.
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| Bob visits a Roxbury, Massachusetts home where a Kohler shower stall in being installed. The unit is called a free will shower. It is meant for someone who is bound ...
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| Bob meets Mike Vogt from Access Industries in Kansas and some carpenters from the Whitaker Company who are installing a elevator in an accessible house in Roxbury, Massachusetts. They had ...
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| Bob meets Gerry Folan a plumber who is installing a specialized toilet. Phil Boggs from Kohler discusses the unique features of the toilet. It is a high line toilet that ...
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| Bob and Ryley put the finishing touches on in the bathroom. They install a grab bar to help a person in a wheelchair to maneuver. The grab bar has a ...
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| A high-efficiency Buderus boiler is installed in the Roxbury, Mass., house. Steve Offutt from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency describes the Energy Star Program for high-efficiency heating and cooling equipment, ...
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| The German-made Buderus boiler contains a stainless-steel burner tube. Also in this segment, Bob tours the Buderus factory in Wetzlar, Germany, with Herr Schulte, vice president of research and development. ...
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| Bob talks with factory representative Chris Hoff and heating contractor Peter Lydon during the installation of a Buderus high-efficiency boiler. They note several features that improve the unit's efficiency, including ...
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| Electrician Brad Owens installs an accessible Honeywell thermostat with Bob. Termed an "Easy Read" thermostat, the device has large lettering and pronounced clicks when dialed.
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| Bob meets with Dave Gordon from Cantarten Forest Products to discuss the design and installation of a northern white cedar picket fence. Larry Goddard, from Security Fencing, shows how the ...
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| Bob meets with Ryley and installs a Schlage interior lever lockset for the accessibility house, because lever locks are easier for differently abled folks to operate.
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| Bob and Ryley install a Maytag Neptune washer-dryer set. Manufacturer's representative Jay Klosterman describes the product's energy saving features. The Neptune is a horizontal-axis (also called front-loading) washer that uses ...
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| Kevin King gives Bob the features of the newly installed security system. This model includes several wireless sensors and a "pet immune" motion detector.
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| Kim Beasley from the Paralyzed Veterans of America, joins Bob on a tour of the house to look at the special accessible features built in to the home.
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