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On the show Extreme Makeover are the renovations done to code and inspected ? How can so much major work be?

done in such a short time ,roughly a week I think.I always find it amazing how basically a new house is built in such a short time. I would imagine they have some sort of building plans.Does anyone know if building inspectors have approved the work?

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1. A lot
2. its inspected, because a majority of their houses are prefabricated ones.
3. They probably decide who's house there going to renovate, and get the paperwork started. I'm guessing that they spend a lot of time doing paperwork etc before the actual week of the show. Yeah there inspected. Muhammed is a idiot. Yes they build these houses in a week, my aunt had a renovation done in her neighborhood from that show. One of the people that had there house renovated on the show took out a loan against there house to start a business, business fell and the house got foreclosed on. How much does that suck?
4. not much really. because it is fake. they can not build a house in a day or not even a week.
5. haha thats funny im watching that show now... but anyway all these shows are fake.i mean im sure they really give these families the homes but i bet it takes way more than a week. they just make it seem like it takes only a week. and im sure they have inspectors and people working for them
6. I'm sure the producers work everything out ahead of time with the code inspectors. I always wonder how the people who move in are able to afford the property taxes. And for the special needs people, how they can afford repairs and to maintain all the fans, blowers, and other anti-disease and non-allergenic filters and that sort of thing. Or if it's really fancy, how they can afford the extra water, electricity, and gas usage.
7. Well they have lots of people who have perfected their work. I am sure the city code inspectors are working and inspecting regularly as the reach certain critical points.
8. It amazes me because it's taken us 8 months to get permits to build our house because plans are sent out to other cities and counties, after a fire and now that we FINALLY have a contractor and are ready to pour foundation it's raining. Our county has a 72 hour turn around time for inspections because of staff cutting and before it was a wait due to the booming construction. That said, there was a home in my sis-in-laws old neighborhood that was done by Extreme Makeover but after a few years it has a lot of problems, it went up to fast so my thought was the inspections get glossed over for the TV shows.
9. Several factors have to be taken into account. 1 - Plans are probably drawn up and approved as soon as a family is chosen and the land for the house is surveyed. 2 - Foundations: I was in a carpentry course, it took a class of about 20 students 4hours to build an 8' high by 10' long cement form. The contractors are pros, and there's a lot of them, they probably have the cement form for the entire house built in the same amount of time. 3 - Frame: It took me and 2 other people a week to construct a frame for a wooden shed 6' long, 4' wide, 8' high to code. It took the three of us 2 days to cover the outside in plywood. Again, pro contractors, many of them, and working 24 hours a day to boot. 4 - I learned how to drywall in two days. It's easy. All in all, it's the fact that you have at least a hundred professionals, working non-stop 24 hours a day, for seven days, makes it extremely difficult and expensive, but do-able. And I bet they have several home inspectors on the site at all hours to inspect things as they get done.