The BEST episodes of Ask This Old House season 23
Every episode of Ask This Old House season 23, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Ask This Old House season 23!
The crew at This Old House take on some pretty big projects, which means they can only work on one or two houses a year. But homeowners have a virtual truckload of questions on smaller projects, and the TOH crew is ready to answer. Ask This Old House solves the steady stream of home improvement problems faced by viewers - and the crew even makes house calls!
#1 - Bath Accessibility, Wooden Gutter
Season 23 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/2024
Richard and Nathan assist a homeowner with a couple upgrades to make her bathroom better suited for aging in place; After being denied by gutter companies and local handymen, a homeowners last hope is to call Tom and Nathan to help replace her rotten wooden gutters.
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#2 - Medicine Cabinet, Chimney Crown
Season 23 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2024
Nathan Gilbert transforms a homeowner's hanging bathroom medicine cabinet into a recessed medicine cabinet; Mark McCullough replaces a chimney crown that is causing water damage to a homeowner's indoor charcoal grill; Mark shows Kevin O'Connor some of the little pieces of history he's found while doing masonry work over the years.
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#3 - Cracked Drywall, Radiator Baseboard Cover
Season 23 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2024
Mauro Henrique demonstrates how to repair cracked drywall; the team tries to guess the correct use of Tom Silva's black inflatable square; Mark McCullough walks through the evolution of bricks; Richard Trethewey shows a homeowner two different types of covers to upgrade his radiator baseboards.
#4 - Wallpaper Installation, Sump Pump
Season 23 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/2024
Kevin O'Connor teams up with wallpaper expert, Carmen Gonzalez, to help a Miami homeowner create a focal point wall with a grass cloth wallpaper; Lee Gilliam demonstrates a variety of common sprinkler heads and explains their different purposes; Richard Trethewey installs a submersible sump pump as a solution to a homeowner's flooded basement problem.
#5 - Florida Trees, Smart Lighting
Season 23 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/2024
Jenn Nawada travels to her home state of Florida to assist a homeowner in choosing tropical trees for his backyard with the help of a fruit tree specialist; Nathan Gilbert demonstrates a tool that makes asphalt roof work easier; Ross Trethewey shares some home smart light products on the market today, demonstrating uses with smart light switches, smart bulbs, and strip lights that react to sound.
#6 - Gutter Runoff, Replace Ceiling Fan
Season 23 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2024
Jenn Nawada demonstrates two different solutions to solve a homeowner's gutter runoff problem by installing a dry well and a popup emitter; Ask This Old House spotlights lead carpenter Lasana Harper, who shares his journey into carpentry and how it has shaped his love for teaching; Heath Eastman helps a homeowner replace her 80's-tastic ceiling fan with a more modern option.
#7 - Trash Insert, Arborvitae Removal
Season 23 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/9/2025
Nathan Gilbert replaces a homeowner's broken double trash can pull out with a new one that will smoothly slide in and out from the cabinet space; Heath Eastman gives a brief history of household light bulbs and explains why incandescent and fluorescent lights are being phased out; Lee Gilliam helps a homeowner's curb appeal by removing overgrown arborvitae trees.
#8 - Humidifier System, End Table
Season 23 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2024
Ross Trethewey investigates a homeowner's excessive winter dry air issue and solves it by installing a whole house humidifier system; Mauro Henrique often has to paint up to 80 shutters at a time on a job, so he shares his technique for quickly painting shutters in bulk; In Build It, Tom Silva and Kevin O'Connor create a triangular top outdoor end table out of teak wood.
#9 - Shed Foundation, Bifold Doors
Season 23 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/2025
Mark McCullough travels to Detroit to help a homeowner make a gravel foundation for a shed; Tom Silva and Nathan Gilbert walk through the anatomy of framing an interior non-load bearing wall with a door opening and share their tips on how to build one; then Nathan helps a homeowner hide their laundry area by installing a partition wall with bifold double doors.
#10 - Rusty Bulkhead, Granite Stairs
Season 23 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2024
Concrete, brick, and mortar are incredibly durable, but they’re no match for water. While on a house call, mason Mark McCullough realized the root of a homeowner's problems with their front steps was exactly that: water getting behind the stair tread, deteriorating the mortar and heaving the tread forward when it freezes. Luckily, Mark knew just what to do.
#11 - Uneven Paver Patio, EV Charger
Season 23 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/2/2025
Mark McCullough fixes an uneven paver patio that has lifted and shifted over time and demonstrates the proper techniques of creating a patio that will last; Nathan Gilbert and Kevin O'Connor talk all about common types of ladders including styles, accessories, and how to use them safely; Heath Eastman helps a homeowner cut her car charging time in half by installing a Level 2 EV charger.