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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I worked on an extreme makeover house in 2009 (I think, it was a while ago) in Connecticut. I worked for a local contractor who was hired to work in the house. We did floors and finish carpentry so it was closer to the end of the build. Most of the work I did was in the dead of night. I had to park about a mile away and take a shuttle to the house. The show had essentially paid for all the neighbors to go on vacation so they could set up catering and other production stuff in their yards.
The building itself seemed pretty traditional, but there were tons of people everywhere and we were being heavily managed by production crew. They wanted to know exactly when we’d be done in a particular room so more people could go in and do something else. Someone else mentioned pre-building all of the framing. This is probably how it worked, but I was closer to the end of the build so I didn’t see this part.
There were also tons of volunteers and production crew running around getting things for the skilled labor to keep us from having to stop working. Like if I needed a drink or more sandpaper or whatever, I could send a VERY enthusiastic volunteer to get it for me. Overall, kind of a weird experience, it was like doing my usual job with a ton of support, in the middle of the night.
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