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Love house fixer-upper T.V.

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I find myself binge watching many shows that deal with flipping houses, fixing up a neglected home or even those that are looking for homes.
I seem to learn a bit about fixing and design ideas, but mostly I just get "lost" in watching these shows.
Anyone else do this?
 
I don't, but appreciate the appeal for many watchers.

The ones I really dislike are where they do something to shock the owners or play to create 'drama'.

But we used to watch This Old House for years back in the 80's and 90's.
 
Real life house flipper here.

Used to watch those shows, too. But I would get too angry. Just very inaccurate ways to do things.

Case in point. When removing a wall, they always use sledge hammers and pulverize that wall. Over the years, I've found that the best way to remove a wall is to remove big sections of it. Less of a mess and you don't get fine dust all over the place. Also, there could be wires and pipes that you could damage by acting like Thor with it.

They do get one thing right, though. They don't want to show the owners the place during the demolition phase or half finished. I agree with this. On my experience, most people have a lot of trouble imagining what the space could be. Once they've seen it half finished or missing a wall or so, they just can't get that out of their heads.
 
Dominus said:
Real life house flipper here.

Used to watch those shows, too. But I would get too angry. Just very inaccurate ways to do things.

Case in point. When removing a wall, they always use sledge hammers and pulverize that wall. Over the years, I've found that the best way to remove a wall is to remove big sections of it. Less of a mess and you don't get fine dust all over the place. Also, there could be wires and pipes that you could damage by acting like Thor with it.

They do get one thing right, though. They don't want to show the owners the place during the demolition phase or half finished. I agree with this. On my experience, most people have a lot of trouble imagining what the space could be. Once they've seen it half finished or missing a wall or so, they just can't get that out of their heads.
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The sledge hammer thing seems to be all show to me as well, you'd be nuts to not check for the items you mentioned. Also, the dudes that wreck good cabinets, most can be unscrewed from the wall and either donated or reused.
 
^ This is the kind of thing that immediately makes me stop watching...I figure if that is how they start...it is likely that the end job will also be shoddy...just good enough for the cameras.

I also won't watch the ones where they are racing against some fake timetable in order to create fake drama.
 
We have Homes Under the Hammer here. I've watched it a few times, but it's very samey. Buy run down terraced house in northern industrial town, fix damp and roof, rewire, new boiler and heating, new kitchen and bathroom, knock down walls to make the ground floor open plan (a pet hate of mine) and redecorate. Sell on at a profit. Repeat. Yawn.
 
The first-time flippers programmes were entertaining, especially when one considers the new home-owners watching the programme on television and discovering all the crap hidden behind the drywall and realising how much it's going to cost to tear it all down again to fix it. Most times, the flippers don't even know the building codes let alone follow them.
 
The new shows do stunts where they make superficial changes on a dime and then bring back the delighted owners. Well, hell. They renovated a room for free, so who wouldn't want free labor?

On the This Old House series, there was a brief interim between Bob Villa and his irritable nature and the current shows that work on millionaire's homes, where they really did features on normal homeowners and their needs.

Today's series is just a thinly veiled fawning over the 1% and their "problems" rehabbing estates and mansions.
 
We haven't seen This Old House for years now...didn't even think it was still on air.
 
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