You’ve seen the show. Can these guys really tear a house down, pour a slab, put up walls & roof, paint and decorate, landscape….all in 1 week?
You get out of life what you put into it……minus taxes.
Marv
You’ve seen the show. Can these guys really tear a house down, pour a slab, put up walls & roof, paint and decorate, landscape….all in 1 week?
You get out of life what you put into it……minus taxes.
Marv
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With burning up 10,000 man hours in one week I don't see why not. I don't think that even counts for all the offsite prep time put into the project. Seems like a very expensive way to build a house.
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As long as cost is not a factor it is not that hard to do. Look at what is done during shutdowns in manufacturing. Whole assembly lines are replaced in a week. As long as you can keep all of the trades playing nicely together things tend to fall into place. Scheduling is everything!
Personally I like the show a lot better than TOH. I feel that they are helping families that actually deserve the help. Sure some things are over the top, but it is TV. In the end they make someone's life a little better and you cant say that about most of the shows on the tube.
I saw on the news a couple of nights ago that the local building association did something a lot like EHM last week. The rebuilt a house and spent about $200,000 on it so far, They are coming back once the frost is out of the ground to do the landscaping.
TOH is helping some multimillionaire build their next investment.
"TOH is helping some multimillionaire build their next investment."So true... good point.
I've always suspected there are some loose ends at the end of the show that they just don't show the viewing audience...after all, it is television. That's not to say they don't come back and finish everything, it just may not be done when they tape the show.
I've noticed this on some of the other home improvement shows, if you look closely in the background there may be things not quite done or just sort of propped into place. Same thing with Overhaulin', the show where they rebuild someone's car in a week - you can tell some of the parts may not be totally bolted in place when they bring in the owner at the end.
I saw a little of While You Were Out this weekend; they re-did the back yard of a rowhouse somewhere in New York City. The yard was totally barren, and the dirt was so beat down and hard and slick it looked like blacktop, but they rolled down sod over the top of it without one bit of soil preparation. I'll bet that sod was dead in a week.
I think the record for building a conventional home more or less from scratch is something like 7 hours. Fast setting concrete, build the wall framing off to the side while the concrete sets, use quick setting drywall mud, fast drying paint, etc.
From a practical standpoint, building a house quickly has some advantages, especially in a tract home situation where everything can be scheduled and organized. Shorter term construction loan (assuming the house can be sold quickly), less exposure to the elements, less exposure to theft, permits continuous on-site supervision, etc. Certainly a lot of less expensive homes go up in a matter of 3-4 weeks.
Even in less compelling circumstances I've seen half a house (an addition to repair a tornado-damaged home) go up in four days. I would imagine a lot of folks here could do a straight-forward home in a week, with a little planning and enough able (and knolwedgeable) hands.
7 hours to build a house!
Most of my clients spend more than that selecting each faucet.
I believe it's possible to accomplish what they do. They have a boatload of people working 24 hours on those projects.
What I don't get is the permits and inspections. Their is no way ABC can show up on Monday morning, evaluate the property, design the new building and have all the permits ready to go by Monday afternoon. Then the local inspectors would have to basically be on immediate call ready to sign off as each trade finishes so the next operation can be started to stay on schedule. Scott R.
Yeah, the inspectors have to be on-board for it to work. The ones I've seen (on TV) were building trade promotions of a sort, and the BI's office was in on the planning to make everything go smoothly.
on term of concrete, On one of my projects,we are pouring concrete daily that will get to 5000psi in 18 hours.
"Their is no way ABC can show up on Monday morning, evaluate the property, design the new building and have all the permits ready to go by Monday afternoon. Then the local inspectors would have to basically be on immediate call ready to sign off as each trade finishes so the next operation can be started to stay on schedule."The first year that the did the show that was what they implied.They made it look like the family did not know what was going on until the bus arived on Monday morning. Which means that they had know way of planning ahead.Now they show the people contacting them asking for help. So it is clear that the show knows what is going on, but they still don'w give any hints of what the preplaning is.I have also heard some comments that apply that they hire inspectors, probably private, to be on site 24*7.They have shown a couple of "behind the scenese" shows on the follow Monday. But they realy did not show much, but in one case the show the basement that they did not get done in magic 7 days.They also showed about 2 blocks of streets where they had storage containers parked and many service trucks.
I thought that some crew built a Habitat house in less time than that. I did see it in fast motion, it was cool.
Not real sure about the time, just thought I seen that it was faster than 7 hrs.
Doug