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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They did one in KC like 18 or 20 years ago. I think there was a foreclosed home across the street and they set up an area where people could park and watch. We went a few times. They work around the clock. I didn’t know about the prefabricated stuff though

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