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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Much of the structure was prefabricated ahead of time into walls that were already framed, and exterior panels already sheathed (oddly enough, this leads to straighter walls because they’re all put together on a jig instead of framed in place.
Concrete can also be made to cure considerably faster with calcium mix.
Then the installation is done using a massive crew (and a lot of coordination). We’re talking 10-20x the number of people that would normally be working on a house. Code inspectors are usually on hand to inspect immediately. As soon as a wall panel is up, electricians are already running wires, plumbers already running piping, etc, and as soon as code inspector signs off, drywall goes up. This also happens around the clock. There’s little to no cutting and sawing or any of that because everything is prepared ahead of time and it’s just like assembling an overly large piece of IKEA furniture.
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