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About
Your House with Bob Yapp
WQUB began broadcasting About Your House with Bob Yapp on
April 5th 2009.This show is
a home improvement and home preservation self help program.Bob is an expert that has been preserving
historic homes for his entire life, his show takes questions from callers every
week.
Bob's
experience as a carpenter began at a young age.As a teenager he helped his Dad with the many renovations of their
family's Craftsman Era home in Des
Moines, Iowa.. In the
mid-1970s he spent several years as an apprentice to a German furniture and
cabinetmaker. Soon afterward, he opened a business designing and building
custom furniture and also bought his first house--a craftsman bungalow--to
renovate. In the 1980s he continued to restore homes and build furniture for
clients from California to Chicago.Bob, his wife Pat and their dog Betty live in Hannibal, Missouri.
Bob has written and co-written many woodworking and
preservation articles in national magazines including; Meredith Publishing's
Wood Magazine and Renovation Style Magazine. Currently Bob writes a monthly
feature story on historic house restoration for the News-Gazette in ChampaignIllinois.
Soon after the Register column premiered he began a syndicated radio
show also called The House Doctor.
In 1994 Bob
produced a pilot video called, The House Doctor, Top Ten Tips For a Healthy
Home. It was originally intended for the listeners of his radio program but
was picked up and nationally distributed as a fund raising special for PBS in
1995 and 1996. The special aired successfully around the country, ultimately
resulting in a commitment by PBS and the National Trust for Historic
Preservation to air 52 programs as an ongoing series called About Your House
with Bob Yapp.Since leaving PBS Bob
has dedicated himself to preservation education.
In September 2002
Bob partnered with the Kentucky Heritage Council and the PineMountainSettlementSchool
to found a hands-on training school to teach practical, cost effective
restoration methodology. He has helped establish and taught at numerous
preservation trades programs around the country in high schools and colleges.
In addition to teaching at The Belvedere School in Hannibal, he teaches
and helped found the Preservation Trades Program for at-risk
students at HannibalHigh School.
About
Your House with Bob Yapp airs on WQUB Sunday's at 11:00am.
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