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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Yes waiting a couple weeks is optimal but many times I’ve seen the framing crew to come in and start building after 3 days
there is also rapid set concrete which hardens in hours.
That being said, I have also seen many times people framing after 24 hours and just being real careful. It doesn’t compromise the concrete in any way, and not cranking the bolts 100% till a few days later.
Not saying it’s proper or good practice but it’s done
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