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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Concrete doesn’t need to cure for 2 weeks to build on, unless you’re putting a LOT of weight on it immediately. Framing and siding and all that really doesn’t weigh all that much, considering how much it’s distributed.
Also, where I am, commercial builders can apply for something like pre-approval, where the inspector basically trusts the contractor to do it right, but if they notice an issue on a later inspection, they can force them to go backwards and fix it. So during the insulation inspection, they find that there aren’t enough bolts coming out of the foundation, they can pretty much make them tear it down.
They’ll only do it for GCs who have a good track record though, and they WILL hit back.
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