TV one hour make overs a Con?
Do the TV stations come back after 1 hr make overs to do the job properly? If you watch these programs closely you will see paint over laps, nasty creases’ and huge bubbles in wall paper etc etc all glaring faults that no one would live with.
Plus you see some very obvious inconsistencies, in a recent episode they were putting decking down in the garden and it was absolutely chucking it down with rain. Yet when the house holder returned after the ‘hour’ had apparently just finished the garden area was bone dry, not a trace of moisture anywhere!
My brother in law who has an interior decorating company, specialising in office refurbishments, says the whole programs are a joke. You could NOT do these refurbishments in an hour and on most of the jobs there are so many tradesmen at work they would just be getting in each others way. One hour of ‘edited’ TV time maybe, that is all.
What do others think?
I suspect that some of the work takes place in the hour, but there is nothing to say over how long a period that hour is times. The prep work is done before the hour starts, so carpets covered/removed, fireplaces removed, kitchen cupboards removed or doors removed in readiness. They have a tea break after half an hour. It doesn’t say how long this is. Sometimes they do a second coat of paint afterwards, so I suspect that it is at least an hour long, if not longer. Occasionally when you see bubbles in the wallpaper, they have mysteriously disappeared by the time of the reveal, so there has to be a good amount of drying time. I would imagine that at the end of the hour they then clear up properly and the designer dresses the rooms properly. I have always wondered if people go to bed at night and find no sheets as they always seem to throw the bedding on the bed without making it properly underneath. I certainly wouldn’t want it done to my house, although some of the expensive furniture would be nice!
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