angie's list is a proud sponsor of "ask this old house."evin: santa fe, new mexico, was founded over 400 years ago by spanish colonists, and it's one of the oldest cities in the united states. today the city is a vibrant center of arts and culture, where painters and authors, musicians and craftspeople create unique works of art. and when it comes to architecture, santa fe has a style all its own. about a hundred years ago, urban planners imposed strict building codes throughout the city to preserve the area's unique architectural heritage. this revival became known as the santa fe style of architecture, and it combines traditional pueblo building methods with some spanish influences. it's easy to spot a santa fe style home if you know what you're looking for. they've got flat roofs with these full-size, large beams called vigas that extend through the exterior walls. instead of gutters, channels known as canales divert rainwater to the ground. inside, thick plaster covers the walls, and every corner is rounded over to create a smooth bulln

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lumber liquidators is proud to sponsor "this old house." here on the jersey shore, one of the images that people saw over and over after superstorm sandy was of that roller coaster in the atlantic ocean. locally they called it the jet star, and six months later, it is still in the water, and the pier that it used to sit on is still destroyed. this pier and that boardwalk right there define the borough of seaside heights, and right now, they are racing to rebuild it, and the man leading that charge is the local mayor. mayor akers, this is a huge construction site. how bad was the damage from sandy? we were totally wiped out. our entire boardwalk was destroyed. so we had to start from the ground up. and so everything was gone. how far in either direction? 'cause i'm looking at a lot of boardwalk here. akers: this is a one-mile boardwalk, and every single block was totally destroyed. kevin: unbelievable. so this is essentially the artery for your town here. i mean, this has to be here. akers: this is how we balance our budget, through tourism.

lumber liquidators is proud to sponsor "this old house." jersey shore is a long barrier island, with the bay on this side and the ocean on this side. it's only about a quarter mile wide, generally, and when the storm came, the ocean came with a vengeance from this direction and broke through in two places -- right here and just up the road in mantoloking, and when it did, it brought all the sand from the ocean side through the breach and dumped it to here, and it also brought a lot of other things. buddy young, you're a part of the team that's in charge of trying to clean up a bit. -that's correct, yes. -take me through it. when you first got here, there was a lot of stuff in this bay that shouldn't have been, right? buddy: we were contracted to clean up debris out of the bay from the storm about three months ago. we've removed about 45,000 cubic yards. -what's in it? -it was houses, docks, cars. -just about everything. -when the wave came across the island, it washed all the stuff out into the bay. so you've got most of the debris out arou

lumber liquidators is proud to sponsor "this old house." here on the jersey shore, one of the images that people saw over and over after superstorm sandy was of that roller coaster in the atlantic ocean. locally they called it the jet star, and six months later, it is still in the water, and the pier that it used to sit on is still destroyed. this pier and that boardwalk right there define the borough of seaside heights, and right now, they are racing to rebuild it, and the man leading that charge is the local mayor. mayor akers, this is a huge construction site. how bad was the damage from sandy? we were totally wiped out. our entire boardwalk was destroyed. so we had to start from the ground up. and so everything was gone. how far in either direction? 'cause i'm looking at a lot of boardwalk here. akers: this is a one-mile boardwalk, and every single block was totally destroyed. kevin: unbelievable. so this is essentially the artery for your town here. i mean, this has to be here. akers: this is how we balance our budget, through tourism.

lumber liquidators is proud to sponsor "this old house."he jersey shore is a long barrier island, with the bay on this side and the ocean on this side. it's only about a quarter mile wide, generally, and when the storm came, the ocean came with a vengeance from this direction and broke through in two places -- right here and just up the road in mantoloking, and when it did, it brought all the sand from the ocean side through the breach and dumped it to here, and it also brought a lot of other things. buddy young, you're a part of the team that's in charge of trying to clean up a bit. -that's correct, yes. -take me through it. when you first got here, there was a lot of stuff in this bay that shouldn't have been, right? buddy: we were contracted to clean up debris out of the bay from the storm about three months ago. we've removed about 45,000 cubic yards. -what's in it? -it was houses, docks, cars. -just about everything. -when the wave came across the island, it washed all the stuff out into the bay. so you've got most of the debris out ar

kevin: today on "ask this old house"... i'll show you a high-tech kitchen faucet with a user-friendly installation. have water coming down this way, and then this side is pitched, so it helps wrap the water around here, and it all gets concentrated and goes into the backyard. if you don't have good drainage, a little rain can do a lot of damage. i'm going to show you how to fix it. it's yellow, it's flexible, and it has two steel hooks. what is it? well, let's say i got to get in the corner... [laughter] kevin: that's next on "ask this old house." or, on the wall.

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people in san francisco that have to deal with on a daily basis as you heard er early er we have old houses houses that are always going to be on hills and including a set of stairs before you even get to the first floor one of the calls i get the most is about stair lifts and the availability of having the financial resources to access them. it is not covered under medical or medicare to some degree it is if the providers want to work with them but it's still not enough to be able to allow or grant enough access so that's an issue i think can be explored more as far as the vendors their availability to have it covered through medical and also working to see about trying to diversify to make it more accessible. second in the picture in the middle i have a picture of one of our co-workers peter mendoza who's using his electric power chair but more importantly he has a setup of 2 smart tablets being held up in front of him by a coil type of clamp. hey peter, thank you. [laughter]. >> for those who are here peter is approaching and he's showing off his setup system. by having these thin but st

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

a spot for tourists what maurice many beautiful old thatched house. i started building its cool cache was a pretty name for the steep the slumping groups that resembled two terms joined in prayer. i a. a stretch to be as much as sixty eight. get some useful information. this week's design allows who went to the smooth slide of peace in the next to me. more grueling new stories to my car. the villages themselves to work making such groups no nails screws and metal parts accused of these teams bring everything together which broke his wrist extra flexibility to adjust to the loads of snow. francis since the rope is made from easily available in format to me. mm mm. sixty of these traditional houses remaining go cram. they not just reserved for sure. this is a good thing working. it's also a world heritage site inscribed on unesco's list in nineteen ninety five i together with the invites you to come up. this is just too since the beach became a world heritage. some of the farmhouse is a big to fit into what you see the nationals and local music and new

that is worthy of consideration and i've often mentioned in comments i think we have to encourage old housing that is substandard to be sold and renovated priflg and used to build new housing for the same people in the same places. we're not seeking nearly enough and that might be the situation where people who are victims of crime coming from outside of san francisco. a good article to read and an article on the open forum by a woman who's a daughter of a fellow named william garf was a builder privately in the past and her contention is that inclusionary housing adds to the cost of low-cost housing being built and she points to the housing bill allergy governor jerry brown as appointed. and you know by state law you can satisfy all housing of protection levels will you not by inclusionary housing but it's a subject of many points. she says that it raises the cost of normal market rate lower or middle income housing that could be built if the costs for not only inclusionary housing but having to build in san francisco. it's it's a chronicle and they ran the same story on friday by another th

on my house i have a 5 and 7 year old everything was baby safe. that's the same for earthquake proofing you don't want the glass to fall and come out. the way they do it in new york. these are different types. hook the hooks. put safety latches you can put the magnetic ones. any heard of [inaudible] wax. she this expensive vase if it's earthquaked it will not fall because we use this. a silly puddy you put on if you have things of value you don't want breaking in an earthquake, grab this. all hardware stores have them. anybody have this at home? >> this is, why is this a hazard aside from it being in an earthquake? most of the home it is built in the city before the 1850's was meant for one socket not for a stereo and everything plugged into it it was meant for one item. hazardous material. this draino and different things, read the labels. it's important to know what you have in the home in case somebody injest it. make sure you know what you have so you don't cross contaminate. you don't want to put bleach next to ammonia. in a disaster if /taeu

then he goes home to his old house and starts digging up through the boxes of his deceased mother and came up with this document. he had never seen it before. he didn't know what it was. it was the kind of thing that seemed to maybe put this thing to rest. he brought it to washington, proud of having found it. immediately his lawyer said that's not a birth certificate but it restarted the discussion in the white house about whether to go back to hawaii and seek the actual long form brt certificate which they did put out just about two weeks later. >> lets talk about the romney campaign. they were considering a number of possible vp candidates and had some names for awful them. i think we have a graphic of some of the names. puffer fish for chris christie. as you point out the romney campaign had serious concerns with chris christie's background. one of the reasons they didn't pick him. were you surprised christie has gotten such a big part of the buzz surrounding this book particularly as he heads to the polls tomorrow or folks head to the polls to potentially vote for him? >> look, h

house in thy area... but it could get you a whole town in plumas county. sin-nah-cah old gold-miningn .. is for >>> $225,000 probably won't get you a house in the bay area but it could get you a whole town in plumas county. >> what a town it is! seneca old gold mining town is for sale on craigslist. its about 4.5 hours northeast of san francisco. here it is. a quarter million bucks gets you 12 acres of privately owned land complete with a gold mine, three cabins, some scenic grounds along the feather river. the deal also includes a working gin distillery and a liquor license of all things. the drawbacks, there are no utilities, the buildings are pretty rundown. they need work and the property is basically impossible to get to if the weather is bad. >> always a catch. >> details. >>> well, one bay area community is about to do its own take on the burning man. something that's never been done before and as kpix 5's kiet do shows us, the idea came from two curious kids. >>> reporter: it all started when julia and sam herschman, now 9 and 11, saw photos of aurora the tree taken at burning man

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

and new shoes are one of these old farm houses you read around a traditional some in house. regional speciality sink into the fridge mountain vegetables and tofu made from locally grown so if the us ay ay ay ay ay ay. all materials come from these mountains graham is also its officials from making wash or japanese prop eight. each sheet making money by hand. graham oh one she is known for its fine cost i watched it years ago graham is also used in the village to micah was brought to the crops. you'll just moved to korea mismatched from houses is important to me. maria is finding something this time of four hundred years ago just be designated to the porch and took off. a rule. then some. these cashews recruiting stretched from houses and businesses cultural assets. obviously no way of life has changed considerably over the centuries. living in one of these houses today gives us an incredible insight into how people lived in a way to the old days. i think it's very important to cost go graham is also renowned for its rich tradition of dollars in music. this song. he told her

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five the demonstrators from the far right british national party have protested outside the old bailey court house in london with a murder trial of two men accused of butchering a british soldier on the streets of london is due to begin this week i love the pretence of nigerian descent. michael a deadline you and michael at demo while they are expected to plead not guilty to the murder of me reading the conspiracy to murder a police officer and the attempted murder of a police officer. however at the time of the killing them and were quoted as saying the attack treat me as revenge for killing muslims in afghanistan. bnp leader nick griffin said

. >> hey, when you mouf, you get mail sent to your old house and the new resident either forwarsd thatl or disposes of it. >> when you move you know you moved. when they take your e-mail address and recycle it, it's because you usually didn't know anything about it. >> the old rose bud clearly wasn't aware her e-mail address was recycled as she was still using it for password recovery. >> i don't have to reset it. it just gave it to me. >> but realized she wouldn't need a password. simply into her new e-mail address, click fort my pass ward and facebook would allow her to log into someone else's account. >> and while she wouldn't, she says this demonstrates why web sites should rethink using e-mail for password authentication. as for leslie, she's rethinking her decision. julie wauts, kpix 5. >> leslie says she will never use that e-mail address ever again >>> electronic cigarettes are catching more heat after another e-cig exploded inside a car. take a look at this. melted plastic and big black hole is what's left of an oregon couple's backseat. they left the device charging in a truc

mother and the speaker would go off to see some old house in virginia on the weekends. daddy would sometimes go grudgingly along. he wanted to be of the speaker and the speaker wanted to be a mother. it all worked out. i learned a lot about what to do in politics from my mother. i was raised with it. i knew when she walked into a room and introduced herself to everybody, she did not necessarily stand back in a corner and wait. she went out and establish that friendship on behalf of her husband. i hope in the future that you can be a very helpful person. that is what mother did for daddy. particularly in things like the lady bird special. >> talk about the lady bird special. it seems like a unique jumping off my. do you go out on any of those? >> i did. our parents told us they really needed us to help them win this election. you and i know that they didn't really need us. but i think people like the family members. if they could not get daddy and they couldn't get mother, maybe at least they could get lynda or lucy. we took turns. one weekend lucy would go, the next wee

thomas william ward was in the land office heard someone shout blow the old house to peace. angelina fired is the canon off. long story short, the austin ice came back. they realize what was going on. i caught up with her that i'd taken the records of in round rock. of course, there was no ground rock in those days and forced them to come back. it's a funny story but if it hadn't played out the day in government had not come back, we could be sitting in the middle of a prairie right now. >> or i guess would all be sitting -- the texas book festival would be in houston. houston. [laughter] >> so yes, first question. >> i'm kind of relating to both stories because i was born and raised in the '50s in a small town in central ohio, and i kind of relate it to george packer's presentation yesterday on where we went wrong. and i've now lived in texas or 15 years, so i can live in this contrast that i'm listening to, okay? i would like to address my question to you, mark. it's kind of two-pronged. one, your title of your book is detroit city, a good place to be, or you know, and i w

want to get thirty and i was kicking and screaming i actually have a photo from in front of our old house and i have to say it's back back back and i'm just like. it was i was really bad and i had these patches and stuff and nobody had patches when i moved in and so we had this backpack i had i had you know gained all this puffy op had sappho so many as an in there like. perhaps you're back and you didn't adapt quickly i was i mean it was so strange i feel like a lot of people have made that move now but when i moved i was like the only american present my school was one of the kid from chicago brandon coats and he was it tough to adjust it was really it was a real tough age yeah i mean you going into a new school we were in school uniform is a totally different system and. your brothers and sisters had five five i now younger you and i mean the fast and then the next one is a is younger than me and then they go down from there have an easier time they had a much easier time they were coming over kind of the top where you grew up steve i grew up in troy michigan. in the suburbs of detroit

. >> for example the hundreds of old houses in the old city is totally unprotected by the law in that reporter: the patch the security guard patrols gets smaller everyday without a big conservation effort and the city may crumble around him or go to the development drive, al jazeera new deli. >> reporter: and they rejected a proposal to cut the salaries of corporate ceos and it be illegal and 65% of voters oppose this. and they found bone fragments in a cemetery in the mid 20st century. >> the mass is not unusual but this is, the bones of the first ever pope blessed here by the man who took the role on 2000 years later and this contains water believed to be the remains of st. peter said to have been crucified in 64 ad and found in a tomb 72 years ago and wrapped in gold and purple clothe a sign of something very important and the feet are missing and there is some skepticism. >> we are nearly sure that the tomb is under the bacilica but can say nothing about the bones because they are theological and missing. >> translator: if the science can't confirm it then it's a matter of faith f

i'm finishing up getting out of the shower. >> 37-year-old todd west has no problem following our decoy right into the house. he's here to meet a girl who online told him she was a 14-year-old virgin. using a screen name we can't show on tv, he chats on and off with the decoy named mystic roses for a week. then he decides to turn on his webcam and send the girl a live picture of his penis. >> come on in. >> after they set up a plan for him to come over, the decoy asks if he'll bring condoms and jack daniels. >> nice digs. >> did you bring the jack daniels? >> yep. >> you did? >> uh-huh. >> yeah! did you pick up the condoms? >> uh-huh. >> he seems at ease with her. even though he's in a strange house talking to someone he's never met in person before. >> do you have any special ideas for tonight or anything -- >> nothing special. >> what are some of your ideas? >> ah, i don't know. you tell me. >> more about him, a little later. this next man heading into a house made a stop at a gas station down the road. as you can see from this security camera video, he bought condoms before coming over to meet a girl he

richmond is a low income, high crime city with lots of old housing.le the link between led and criminallality is controversial and disputed by criminallologists, the person who runs the led abatement program says she sees the connection on the street every y day. richmond has the highest incidence of violence and july juvenile de delinquency and poverty. it's hard to imagine this is a connection to early exposure to led hazards and the degraded life degraded mumma humanity. >> today the toxic threat is not only concentrated in inner cities. pediatricians are seeing more cases in middle and upper income families. >> much of the older housing is in afluent areas now. and most of them were painted in the 20s and 30s and 40s and when you renovate the homes you expose the led underneath. >> that is exactly what happened to amount ub -- aubi rubin. she is now making a documentary. >> it's sad to me that it happened to my baby. what is sad to me that was eight years ago. this is still happening to families all the time. >> a silent danger robbing children of

mother and the speaker would go off to see some old house in virginia on the weekends.gody would sometimes grudgingly along. speakerd to be of the and the speaker wanted to be a mother. it all worked out. about what to do in politics from my mother. i was raised with it. aknew when she walked into room and introduced herself to everybody, she did not necessarily stand back in a corner and wait. she went out and establish that friendship on behalf of her husband. that you the future can be a very helpful person. that is what mother did for daddy. particularly in things like the lady bird special. the lady bird special. it seems like a unique jumping off my. do you go out on any of those? >> i did. our parents told us they really needed us to help them win this election. you and i know that they didn't really need us. but i think people like the family members. if they could not get daddy and they couldn't get mother, maybe at least they could get lynda or lucy. we took turns. one weekend lucy would go, the next weekend i would go. campaign, we both went to happy states.

here pretending to be a 12-year-old alone in our undercover house. n who's coming to visit her is 29-year-old james cisneros. his screen name is too graphic to say on television. almost right off the bat cisneros asks an apparent 12-year-old online -- >> do you like sex? >> who doesn't? >> me, too. you want to hang out tonight? if you're not busy. >> she tells cisneros that he can't come over now because her mother is home. >> oh, can you sneak off late tonight and we can get a hotel and i will drop you off and you sneak back in? >> what for? >> sex. >> you heard that right. he wants to take someone he thinks is a 12-year-old to a hotel for sex. but the decoy won't budge. so cisneros gives in and shows up at the house. >> so i made a drink. i don't know if you want to try it or not. it's kool-aid. >> is this regular kool-aid? >> yes. >> and he comes prepared. >> what are you doing? did you bring condoms? >> yeah. you want them -- anywhere? >> it doesn't matter. >> take a taste of the drink there. please, have a seat. >> why? >> have a seat. >> no. >>

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in el salvador, a bulldozer digging a foundation for a grain silo stumbled upon an old house. could this be the evidence that sheets was looking for ? people in the area had seen well-preserved floor, good artifacts on the inside, thatched roof collapsed down onto the floor but perfectly preserved. they all thought it's a recent house under a recent volcanic eruption. when i came here, i thought exactly the same thing. but being curious about things, i decided i'd like to know what it dated to. so pulling out my trusty trowel and scraping along the floor, right along here, i found some pieces of pottery. but the pieces of pottery were all prehistoric, classic period pottery. i was looking for a coke bottle, a piece of plastic, some tin foil, something to give me an idea of what the date of the structure was -- only prehistoric pottery. so immediately i perceived a powerful opportunity to really embarrass myself professionally by saying, "whoa ! it's prehistoric ! "it's fantastic ! total preservation !" decided, eh, little bit of caution here before doing that, and submitted a