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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It’s not quite the same thing, but I know with automotive “build” related shows like Monster Garage or Pimp My Ride, the vehicles aren’t actually built or modified over the short period of time as presented in the show, but over a time span of months. In the case of Pimp My Ride, this was detrimental because for many contestants, they only have one vehicle for a mode of transportation and this meant they were without a vehicle for months.
Most of the answers for these “Home” build shows seem to say most of the setup was completed before hand so all time consuming stuff was already done, but I can’t help but to think that they also stretch the build process and the timeline is much longer than what is presented on these shows. After all, most of these are not aired live so there is no real-time constraint at work.
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