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Fabricating Stainless Steel Kitchen Countertops

Project: Loft Conversion, Episode 8, Part 1

The men of steel are here! Stainless steel countertops get welded together on site for the restaurant style kitchen. Bob tours the fabrication shop in Weymouth, MA, where all the countertops were custom-made from sheet steel and tubing. Back on-site, Bob helps contractor Joel Scanlon attach a heavy-duty butcher block table top to its custom-made steel base.

Part 1: Fabricating Stainless Steel Kitchen Countertops: Bob visits a stainless steel fabrication shop to see how the kitchen counters for the loft project unit are made.
Part 2: Installing the Stainless Steel Kitchen Countertops
Part 3: Butcher Block Installation and Care

Bob Vila highlights the world of stylish city living by chronicling the conversion of a loft apartment in Boston's Leather District. This unit is getting a top-of-the-line treatment: cutting edge design, custom-made furniture and casework, sleek modern fixtures, and up-to-date appliances.

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Episode 1 - Loft Conversion Initial Tour
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Bob takes a walking tour of some of Boston's best-preserved antique commercial buildings in the Leather District with architectural historian Brian Pfeiffer, ultimately winding up at the gracious brick front of the project building on Atlantic Avenue.<br> <br> The developers, Neal and Ron Gold, have gotten started converting this old fur storage building to residential loft space. Architect Greg Rochlin and carpenter Bob Ryley are on-site to consult about the possibilities for this unit.
Episode 2 - Plumbing, Heating, and the "Big Dig"
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Window installation gets underway in the project apartment, six stories above Atlantic Avenue, after Bob inspects the basement to see how the plumbing and heating installations are coming along. Also, Dan McNichol takes Bob down into the bowels of the earth to see how Boston's famous highway project, the "Big Dig", is progressing.
Episode 3 - Plastering the Loft
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The plastering crew is hard at work on stilts, while Bob goes on a field trip to Cambridge, where world-renowned landscape architect Martha Schwartz has made a spacious, and imaginative, home and office out of an industrial building on the railroad tracks. Back at our site, the architect and designer have modeled some intriguing ideas for Bob.
Episode 4 - Elevating the Kitchen and Bedroom
Episode 5 - Paint and Plate Glass Windows
Episode 6 - Framing a Wall With Built-In Cabinets
Episode 7 - Installing Plumbing Fixtures
Episode 9 - Drywall and Plastering Tips
Episode 10 - Installing Track Lighting
Episode 11 - Building a Closet System
Episode 12 - Kitchen Work and Shutters
Episode 13 - Loft Conversion Final Tour

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