Richard explains radiant floor heating 1987
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- Richard Trethewey proposes underfloor heating as a solution for the kitchen at the Westwood project. He shows how it all works at his own home where a system is being installed. With Bob Vila and Norm Abram. From "This Old House" Season 9 "The Westwood House" Episode 4 "The Westwood House Part 4". Originally aired Sun Feb 01, 1987.
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I really enjoy this old clips from TOH and seeing the “boys” when they were young. Now they are all well seasoned men that generations of people grew up learning from them. Thanks for the uploads!
Love how, when Norm walks in, he instantly started looking at the cabinets and drawers.
Draws?
@@ryanroberts1104 autocorrect was trying to do a Boston accent.
@@ryanroberts1104 My favorite Norm quote: "... measured and scaled set of drawrings for a colonial chest of draws."
I'm guilty of walking with my head down all the time, especially malls, not depressed, just checking out the floor tiles 👷
4:00 when he asks norm to bring his tool box... Lol 😂
That's sooo richard
It's interesting to see Richard talk about radiant heating at this point of the show. He is a big advocate for it because he uses it in his own home. Sure, new methods of installing it have come about, but to still keep advocating it for over 30 years tells us Richard is a huge fan of this type of heating system.
He's got a major buy-in: the hot water heater for the plumbing heats the water for the radiant floor heating.
Norm looks like a beast....
wow the show use to be so different Richard face kinda looks the same today
Wow Richard looks so young and just slight difference in the voice but after seeing the old Richard and Tommy and seeing their younger version is weird but really good
He looks exactly how his son Ross looks now including the facial expressions
I still watch but miss the older format. It used to be about smaller/starter homes and things any homeowner could do. Now it's these huge dream home builds that require an experienced contractor to pull off. Probably why ask this old house came about. The older show they would save windows, fixtures, and the like and find interesting ways to repurpose them.
I grew up watching this old house on pbs along with wood right shop and New Yankee workshop. Credit them for spiking my interest as a kid in the trades. Many weekends and evenings spent in the shop or around the farm tinkering with and building stuff. I asked for tools and equipment instead of video games.
Richard had a an awesome van. Bob won’t let anyone finish a sentence
Richard! Or as they nicknamed him then, Brow.
I wonder if Richard is still enjoying that radiant in floor heating system today.
The Pex radiant system is the only way to go. I installed one some 15 years ago in a new addition with Hepex plus transfer plates. They're aluminum, and screw into the sublfoor from underneath. The Pex then snaps into the tracks, increasing the efficiency by 20%. It's really different than conventional baseboard, in that you have warm floors, and it heats objects, not so much the air, so at 62F, the room is quite comfy.
@@quiteactually Just seems that plastic isn't the best heat conductor, but i guess as long as it lasts forever, that's all that counts.
These are treasures. I look forward to the day we can stream the complete library.
haha, these old clips are great!!
Richard was 31ish here.... in case you were curious.
Nice mini-van!!!
:-)
This is good, keep them coming.
I love these first appearances!
Glad you enjoy the clips. Richard's very first appearance will be posted in the coming days. Stay tuned!
I think this is what sold Norm and Russ on radiant heat, when they built the main section of the workshop in 1988 in preparation for launching The New Yankee Workshop series, they put radiant heat in the floor of the main shop. The old workshop became the finishing room of The New Yankee Workshop.
i can tell it's richard.
Straight gangster
A shark bite fittings debut. 6:28
Richard, the guy to keep a cutaway of the heating system in his kitchen
norms stomach is gone today and passed to richard today.
True. I noticed that Norm is a lot skinnier now compared to back and the opposite can be said about Richard.
I wonder if Richard still lives in that house
Would watch five ads in a row and use patreon in order to see an outtake of Bob tumbling down the stairs in the intro, thanks for these vids👍
Would like to see Richard do a followup to this episode to see how his radiant flooring held up, assuming it wasn't torn out in a later renovation.
Hair on his head and hair to create a unibrow. He must be young. Haha Much love ToH
Richard "One Brow" Trethewey
Richard looks like an office guy.
his unibrow is killing me! haha
Nowadays, copper is the preferred metal for radiant barriers. It's more expensive than aluminum, but it isn't subject to galvanic corrosion.
Should of saved those old cast iron radiators...
I was thinking the same thing. Now everyone is looking for them and restoring the ones they can find.
Aaron ... for all we know those radiators are still in the garage.
I seem to remember there was a fire in Richard's home...think it was in Billerica?
No it was Richard's Silva's house my mistake.
Repair couplings rule...
I think this was the first episode where Richard didn't have that cheesy mustache
Probably. He may have shaved it couple years before since that first appearance video was him in 1981 and this video was him in 1987.
@@aurvaroy6670 I have the this old house insider where you can watch all 40 seasons. I've seen pretty much all of the old episodes and I remember this one episode standing out where he first makes his appearance without a mustache. I'll have to double check
Lobstah
Easy norm! It’s the best!
I wonder if Richard still lives there...
...and drives that van
Im an HVAC contractor and I would love to see some of the retro technology they were experimenting with back then. Got any clips?
Absolutely, we will see what we can dig up in the collection! We currently have a playlist in our channel called "Retro Tech" but so far only has computer stuff in it. We will be expanding it in the near future to include tools, HVAC equipment, etc. Be sure to subscribe if not already and hit that bell for notifications so as not to miss it!
I second this. It would be great to see what HVAC and plumbing innovations back then made it and what didn't to present day.
Daaaaaaam..... Look at that unibrow!!!!
Richard looks a little bit like James Taylor here.
Plastic + Heat, Unlimited life expectancy.
Lmao
Should have saved those radiators
I love watching TOH especially the classics. I've watched so many of them I feel that I know these guys. That being said, look at how skinny Richard looks. Lolololol
Skinny? Didn't we all back then (I certainly did).
Rich 😎
bot 😎
His son just looks like him.
is that a uni-brow lol
Richard hasn’t changed since 1987, I bet he was born with male pattern baldness lol
Skinny Richard.
Why do the best contractors live in New England?
They all ride in an old dodge caravan!
1987....I was still in diapers, only 2 years old.
I wonder how well this system held up. This looks like polybutylene that everyone found out was total garbage 10 years later.
Go back and watch it again. Polybutylene and polyethylene may sound similar, but they aren’t the same thing.
Unibrow
Bob doesn’t know when to keep is mouth shut!
Every time he touches something or interrupts someone talking he should be smacked.
Geez hammering rich with nothing but negativity
Soooo, he's put on about a pound a year? And lost about a 1/16 off his hairline per year as well.
Lol, I guess so
I hate this, rip out beautiful original features and replace with plastic. 😢
Ellen Fisher
... The first home was probably built without any heat or plumbing, just based on seeing exposed pipes in the rooms. I feel the whole point here is to restore the original "clean look" by removing traces of the early heating system and cast iron radiators.