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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Contrary to what you see on the show, everything has been decided upon *months* in advance. The building plan, the contractors, the materials, the permits, and the inspectors are all arranged *well* before a camera crew is even thought about being scheduled, and the homeowners are involved in the process quite a bit. The workers don’t just show up on site and start ripping shit apart.
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