Ask This Old House - Season 8 - Eps 23: Using String Trimmers; Stripping Dangerous Lead Paint
Roger Cook shows a homeowner how to use and maintain string trimmers for a variety of landscaping chores. Tom Silva and Kevin O'Connor discuss different types of woodworking clamps and their uses. Tom also shows how rubber surgical tubing and rubber bands can be used as clamps when only light pressure is needed. In the Ask This Old House loft, Tom, Richard, Roger and Kevin examine an unfamiliar object and try to guess how it is used. Kevin and a remediation team help a homeowner remove lead paint from her old house by using hand scrapers and chemical strippers.
About Ask This Old House

Title: Ask This Old House
First Air Date: 2002-10-10
Last Air Date: 2025-04-03
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 4/10 (from 16 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 23
Total Episodes: 615
Network: PBS
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: This Old House Productions, GBH, WETA
Synopsis
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 This Old House 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!
Cast

Richard Trethewey
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Norm Abram
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Roger Cook
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Kevin O'Connor
Host

Tom Silva
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Steve Thomas Rooney
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