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here is kevin o'connor, host of "this old house." and "ask this old house." are you ready?bring it on. >> let's see how well our folks do. >> a lovely lady from illinois. one of the most famous tv homes ever. name the tv family that lived in this home. the cosbys, the griffiths, bradys or the cunninghams? >> the bradys. >> yeah. >> that is such an iconic house. >> and it's a real house. >> is it? >> it absolutely is. that house was built in 1959. it's a split-level ranch, so it only has two bedrooms, clearly not big enough for the family and alice. so they did a little hollywood magic, but the interiors of course, were shot on a hollywood studio. >> back across to kath. >> this lovely lady is from new orleans. the white house is one of the most well-known homes in the world. how many bathrooms are in the house? hey, stop it. hold it down. is it 1, 15, 35, or doesn't everybody have 75? >> 35. >> you got it. >> she was right! and, of course, everyone from new orleans is always right in my eyes. so 35 restrooms. whoa. >> as we say in boston, she's pretty smart. 35 restrooms. s

kevin: today on "ask this old house"... i'm working on a small upgrade to make a family comfortable. here's your new sidelights. now, they're wood, and they need to be primed and painted. should be about 50% more efficient than your old windows. that sounds great. woman: this porcelain material is so hard to clean. it gets scratched so easily. the handles are so wobbly and loose, they come off sometimes, and you never know where water is going to come from. i think it's time for a new sink. kevin: that's next on "ask this old house." with a little neighborly advice and the right partner in doing,

kevin: today, on "ask this old house"... i'm going to replace this old boiler and water heater with a single unit that's much more efficient. and i'm headed to sunny florida to plant a palm tree. here you go. nice and easy. and it's big, it's round, and it's inflatable. what is it? kevin: that's next on "ask this old house." the real question is, what can't you do?

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hello james where are we going well this is our old village and very happy to see you here all of our houses were built in the nineteenth century. they were brought here from the are old the regions i live and work here in these very houses. i have my own weaving workroom and. a lot of people come to visit all the time and they can stay here for a while and rent a house take part in some handicraft masterclasses it's really interesting you can also try it. there are almost a hundred permanent residents in the village and many of them are all designs and craftsmen. a new pair of shoes or some homemade kitchen crockery is just a monster class away. of course many people come here just to enjoy the spectacular scenery and there's no better way to do that than on horseback. come on come on use your voice even. he doesn't get it don't let him drop his head. back harder like that let's go buddy my guides might only be fourteen but he's an expert horseman and he spent every summer he can remember here in the village. the horse is a unique animal it has its own personality its own special traits. an

we have a very old housing stock. we have the oldest housing stock this side of mississippi. and that's where our problems are most likely to be. >> i going to test the microphone and ask people how you expect your home to perform. >> anybody who wants to share. tell us, what kind of building. do you live in a wood frame >> yes >> after a major earthquake. what's your expectation. >> i am afraid from last year's earthquake class, you mentioned. the house might pop to the street because my garage is empty. >> is it in the middle of the block? >> middle. >> there's less chance. sir, what kind of building do you live in? >> i live in an apartment if ground floor parking. >> in the middle of the block, corner. >> corner. >> are there openings on both sides? >> yes. on both sides. >> it's a wood framed building? >> it seems to be a hybrid. with concrete and steel and wood frame on top of that. >> we don't often see that. modern buildings have a podium. >> what neighborhood are you in >> dolores park. >> you will hit the lake. if are in the dolores, you are in pretty good shape. >>

. >> across from one of the old fire houses. >> you folks chip in if you want to speak. >> and it's also used as a residence. >> the fire house. we will see another one in a second and not only do we have those in san francisco. here we have a hexagon building and truly a oddity and someone should have checked it in san francisco architectural digest and recently built. what do you think? in san francisco we have other shapes and there was the triangle cafe. it's on 17th -- >> (inaudible). >> 16th and it's right near the new mission bay. now one of the things that i found interesting is the value of the building is not so much in the building but the gigantic pipe and the base of a billboard which probably brings in an enormous income and the building is supplemental. >> because i work for people that rent in the range of 30 to $40,000 a month and i will take a guess that the net roug revenf the business is not that must have but the net revenue on the billboard is more than the business. >> and the business is a additional element. >> yes. >> and this is is the children's care sol play

around two hundred kilometers from st petersburg there's a holiday village that promises beautiful old houses a warm river and a complete break from city life it's called mundra and it's supposed to be a place to turn back time and leave the warnings of the twenty first century behind . although it turns out that trying to live the simple life isn't always quite as simple as it seems. just. you go into mundra gate. you can get a lift with the pope on. when you're heading deep into a forest a taxi can only take you so far you need a different kind of force power around these parts. but also to be as always delighted as possible and as my ferry pulled up onto the riverbank i had my first glimpse of my holiday home it could have come straight from a time capsule both outside and in. one so i dropped off my bags it was time to some exploring. ok. and you carrying two moves. the phone skids. this i didn't notice like. an old school chinese hat. pin on. this i have absolutely no idea whatsoever the kind of. old timey have russian. you know as. i see one of these before. an old. help grind it or bli

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. >> i was like bob villa, this old house, a whirling dervish. i succeed at all my projects, which usually doesn't happen. some times i come in heartbroken. i end up making it worse. >> you did all three projects. >> fixed three doors and my shower. i digress. >> four projects. >> three. two doors one shower. >> thought you said three doors. >> throw in an extra door. >> next week tell you it all fell apart. blew it. >> no more doors. >> the house blew up. >> god forbid. let's move on. >> get to serious stuff. beginning with the three major fires burning out of control in the western states. >> by far the largest of the fires forced evacuation of 2,300 homes in the central idaho towns of ketchum and sun valley near beaver creek. here's abc's aditi roy. >> reporter: wind whipped the flames as reinforcements arrived. five elite hot shot teams joining the fight on the ground with air support overhead. across the fire zone, residents are packing up and getting out. >> you never stop thinking about am i going to lose my house. >> now just kind of wait

like water when water flows in an old house any you shut it off quick you get the hammer effect? that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where does this end up? on the floor. it gets mixed together and becomes a hazardous soup and it's usually slippery. safeway, what do you think they

what 100 year old house has not leaks. >> just part of the price for living in a piece of american history. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight, later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by me after a week with her abduc a cali >>> a sense of relief for b.a.r.t riders. >>> after a week with her abductor a california girl is about to be reunited with her father. the chance encounter that likely saved her life. >>> golden gate park rocked out but not everyone enjoyed the music. the headache for people nearby caused by more than a steady beat. kpix-news is next ,,,,,,,, a lack of progress in the bt labor dispute won't mean the trains stop rolling. a judgs ordered the unions to keep rking while they >>> good evening. a lack of progress in the b.a.r.t labor disput will not mean the trains stop rolling, a judge ordered the unions

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the building department tell us and i hope that some day to improve the property and it is a very old house and i don't know what i would do if i actually got a building permit and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars improving my property, or perhaps even getting a construction loan to find out at the last minute that someone feels that perhaps that the permit was erroneously issue and they were going to revoke the permit and i would ask you to consider the equities of this case and it is grocery unfair and i would also ask you to consider the fact that a motive or a certificate of final completing, in itself is not evidence of the legality of the third unit it just means that someone was able to convince someone to sign-off on work done, but there is no evidence that has been presented that the unit was actually legally created and i think that the people from dbi and planning have actually said that there is no evidence and there is no permits or anything like this. so i would also suggest that the motion that the permit was erroneously issued is not correct. it was issued based on all

around two hundred kilometers from st petersburg there's a holiday village that promises beautiful old houses a warm river and a complete break from city life it's called mundra and it's supposed to be a place to turn back time and leave the warnings of the twenty first century behind . although it turns out that trying to live the simple life isn't always quite as simple as it seems. hello. are you going to mundra game i am going get a lift with the hope on. when you're heading deep into a forest a taxi can only take you so far you need a different kind of horsepower.

around two hundred kilometers from st petersburg there's a holiday village that promises beautiful old houses a warm river and a complete break from city life it's called mundra and it's supposed to be a place to turn back time and leave the warnings of the twenty first century behind . it turns out the trying to live the simple life isn't always quite as simple as it seems.