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Applying Exterior Trim to the Dormer Window
Applying Exterior Trim to the Dormer Window
Carpenter Ryley and Bob apply exterior trim to the ranch house roof dormer window. Ryley shows Bob how to avoid having a seem ...
Applying the Wood Moldings
Applying the Wood Moldings
After Bob and Ryley check out progress in the basement, they take a look at some of the finish carpentry techniques for ...
Building a Wooden Corner Bracket
Building a Wooden Corner Bracket
Bob confers with carpenter Bob Ryley as he lays out and constructs a corner bracket for the Roxbury House in Boston.
Carpentry Work on the Trim and Cupboard Restoration
Carpentry Work on the Trim and Cupboard Restoration
Bob Ryley installs a chair rail and replaces the glass in the doors of the dining room hutch. Ryley cuts the necessary pieces ...
Completing the Trim on the Oriel Windows
Completing the Trim on the Oriel Windows
The western red cedar decking is complete on one side of the house and Tim Berky, the general contractor, is completing trim ...
Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room
Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room
Bob helps Ryley create an elaborate five-piece cornice molding in the dining room. Ryley has created a raised working ...
Creating a Gingerbread Railing
Creating a Gingerbread Railing
Bob meets Ryley outside the Victorian style house in Massachusetts to help him with the railing. Ryley starts with two by six ...
Crown Molding Installation
Crown Molding Installation
Steve Roth from Style Solutions shows Bob the crown molding being used in the Modular Mountain Retreat project house. The EPS ...
Custom Trim, Windows, and Pocket Door
Custom Trim, Windows, and Pocket Door
New custom Pella windows give a view onto the yard from the dining room. The windows are trimmed out in custom millwork that ...
Cutting a Valance Pattern
Cutting a Valance Pattern
In Naples, Florida, Bob helps Al Stiles build a jig valence over a kitchen window to match the decorative stiles on the ...
Cutting and Installing Baseboard Trim
Cutting and Installing Baseboard Trim
In the master bedroom, Bob Ryley is installing the medium density fiberboard baseboard trim. Where two pieces of trim meet in ...
Cutting and Installing Door Trim
Cutting and Installing Door Trim
With the door to the master bath installed, Ryley conceals the rough carpentry work with door casings. Three boards make up ...
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Brent Hull, of Hull Historical Millwork, is on location to help with the installation of the dining room's crown molding. The ...
Engineered Wood for the Home's Exterior Trim
Engineered Wood for the Home's Exterior Trim
Bob meets with Dave Probst of Louisiana Pacific to learn about LP's Smart System Products being used as exterior trim.
Fabricating and Installing Colonial-Style Wood Wall Panels
Fabricating and Installing Colonial-Style Wood Wall Panels
Carpenter Bob Ryley is on location to begin work on a reproduction wood-paneled wall in the project home's formal dining area. ...
Finishes and Molding for the Rowley Victorian
Finishes and Molding for the Rowley Victorian
Bob walks through the interior noting the reproduction bed molding, door molding, and rosettes that match the original ...
Halfway Through the Project Home Tour
Halfway Through the Project Home Tour
Bob tours the ongoing remodeling project pointing out some of the trials and tribulations of such a large project. Rooms that ...
Hand Crafting Reproduction Moldings
Hand Crafting Reproduction Moldings
On location at the project house, Robert Adam from the North Bennet Street School demonstrates the tools and techniques used ...
Installing a Brick Walkway
Installing a Brick Walkway
House six of the Elmwood project. The brick walkway goes in and the railings are replicated by Forester Moulding.
Installing Baseboards and Making Moldings
Installing Baseboards and Making Moldings
Bob meets with Ryley to install baseboard and then goes on to Paul Morise's workshop to make the moldings.
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