Do You Believe You Can Makeover A House In An Hour?
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They try to make us plebs believe this on the tv all the time on 60 minute makeover!! :eek:
I don't believe it for ONE minute - let alone 60!!
*ok, I know there's a lot of em - but seriously - they expect us to believe they can fit carpets, wallpaper - and Install A New Kitchen in an hour! Of course you can!!* :rolleyes:;)
I don't believe it for ONE minute - let alone 60!!
*ok, I know there's a lot of em - but seriously - they expect us to believe they can fit carpets, wallpaper - and Install A New Kitchen in an hour! Of course you can!!* :rolleyes:;)
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They dont seem to do any undercoating, or priming or finishing of any kind. I tell you, they must walk out the door at the end of the show and before they hit the end of the street the wallpaper would be peeling off the walls !!!
Mind you, they are welcome to come and show me in my house and I will be happy to be proved wrong
&sometimes they say 'Oh I think we'll KEEP THE FLOOR in here' - and I think Oh No, surely not - there's PLENTY of time to rip up wooden flooring and lay a new one!!
What a cop-out! Lazy so and so's and cowards......:D
Of course they can. They empty the house completely so that there is nothing in the way. Then they do all the prep work such as sanding and filling holes. They also pre-cut the wallpaper to size.
It's really just the actual sticking wallpaper on walls or painting that they have to do in the hour. As for the carpet fitting, if you have four blokes all trimming the carpet it doesn't take more than a couple of minutes to lay and trim it.
Similarly with the kitchen. Strip out all the old units, make up the new cabinets, and pre-cut the worktops and all you are really needing to do is to put them in place during the 60 minutes.
The 60 minutes is more than sufficient if you take into account the sheer number of workers and the fact that all the preparation work is done outside the 60 minute period.
Porcupine.
I don't know if you've noticed but all the woodwork is already covered with masking tape so that paint is kept on the walls and they don't have to be careful when painting, so it is blatantly obvious that all the prep is done long before the decorators start work.
Light fittings don't take much time to install, if you know what you are doing. And given there is only three rooms being done then you are only taking about installing three fittings and any electrician would be ashamed if they couldn't achieve that. Again the channelling for the wall lights is done before the 60 minutes begins.
Similarly my blinds fitter put up eight blinds for me in the space of 25 minutes and that included fitting a curved rail to a bay window.
The walls are not 'tacky'. Most paintwork is done in the first 30 minutes and they thenhave a break while the paint dries and they can move the furniture and decorative items into a dry room.
Experts work a hell of a lot faster than some amateur who needs to keep looking at the instructions.
*This is a lie
It is obvious, when watching the program that this is the way they work. The clearing and prep is all done before the makeover and is not included in the 60 minutes.
They don't do the whole house either, 3 rooms or 4 max.
I do agree that some of the finishing might not be that great, but it certainly beats what was there before.
How can you possibly know that?
It is an 8 hour makeover. We just see 60 minutes of it.
Surely to God with an election looming there are far more important topics than whether 60 minute makeover is actually done in 60 minutes?
Agreed - I can't watch these shows any more as I find myself getting vexed at what they're doing
I'm horrified by the way they now mix several patterns together, put patterns on the chimney breast instead of in the alcoves, sometimes disappear the television etc. etc. etc. In today's show, I thought that shallow recess in the bedroom was crying out to be filled with a mirror.
My family know that I'd murder anyone who arranged a makeover for my home.
There are a few tradesmen on it but the rest look like students whose work ethic and attention to detail is as good as their personal grooming.
I started emulsioning a bedroom today at 10.30 and just stopped at 4 pm. That's just the walls, not the ceiling, which was OK.
I have friends who say "it only takes me an hour to paint my room.":rolleyes: Then you see it ......... paint runs, skirting board & door frames spattered in paint and a very uneven finish.
They basically sent some notice round to uni students in the area..she got £100 for doing 2 makeovers one a day.
She said by the time they finished there was paint everywhere all on the carpets and some of the decorating was unfinished but they didnt show the unfinished parts on tv obviously!
I wouldn't let them anywher near my house.
It should be renamed 60 Minute Makeover (With 2 Weeks Prep Time Prior To Filming)
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Really? So we can't talk about anything else? Gonna be a bit boring for the next month
Oh so our topic of conversation should only revolve around politics, I'm sorry but I vote on the day and don't wish to discuss it continually until that day arrives sorry if that offends you..maybe you should refrain from reading threads that are so much more inferior to your own thought processes and stick to the politics forum.
Maybe this subject should be in the TV forums (where it belongs) rather than in General Discussion? Which was my point.
AND if there has to be an awful lot of prep work beforehand, whereby every room is planned, everything is bought and been put together. So just a case of moving things into rooms and painting/wall papering walls.
I remember the good ole days of 60 minute makeover, when they often didn't finish and then just left it like that..:eek: Obviously now they plan it a bit better/ lie about doing it in 60 minutes.