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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Like others have said, EVERYTHING is planned, scheduled, and mostly pre-fabbed far in advance of the groundbreaking. The rest is just throwing several months’ worth of man-hours at it during that week. I know it’s reality TV, and made to look a certain way, but I can believe that it gets done in time. At least usually, but I haven’t seen them all.
I once sent (donated) materials to a project a couple weeks before a project started and then volunteered on the house for a few days. I was there at all different hours, and there were dozens of people working even at 3 AM. Most of the work quality was actually better than whoever the hell built our house because all of the project leads seemed to be top professionals who want to show off their work.
The first day I was there, people were doing plumbing, electrical, drywall, stone and tile work, siding, etc. It was well-orchestrated chaos. Second day, a lot of that was still going on while appliances were installed, painting, roofing, cabinets and countertops going in.
My third day was the last of the project, and tons of us were putting some the owner’s/kids’ personal stuff into closets and tidying up, while some construction (mostly painting, touch-ups and trim work) was still happening.
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