How did the TV series Extreme Makeover Home Edition ‘build’ a new house in a week?

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I know enough about construction to know that a foundation needs at least 2 weeks to cure enough to be built on, yet in the show, they manage to tear down and rebuild an entire house in 7 days? How did they do this? Most of the framing would be modular/prefab so that would be easy to build inside of a wee,.but how do they overcome the obvious issues such as the concrete needing at least two weeks to cure, plus having the city/county/state inspectors inspect each aspect of the build? Or is it more likely that the house takes a month or two to build and with the magic of editing they make it appear that it only took one week.

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Worked on one. They used the same slab. And people were working 24/7. That basically it. From my experience. Multiple guys doing the same thing but one for pretty much every room. Me and my team did the low voltage stuff. We had set times to be in and out by. Get in. Be quick. Get out. Fox whatever doesn’t work later.

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