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Renovation Realities
Anybody else catch any episodes of this show? It is definately a lot different than the other "staged" home renovation shows. If you haven't caught it yet...you should.
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Re: Renovation Realities
They have about 6 differant episodes. They all make me laugh.
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Re: Renovation Realities
Seen it. Very amusing.
Guess they had to come up with something new since the "flip a house and get rich quick" shows don't fly anymore.
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Trade: Home Improvement, Remodeling
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Re: Renovation Realities
I love it.. guy starts ripping into the wall, sees something weird, the goes to consult his Home Depot DIY book. I've got to get that book!!
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Re: Renovation Realities
I saw one where the mother goes to the store and buys her son (the nitwit) a countertop as a surprise and then it falls out of the truck on the way home!! Then he installs an upper cabinet before and only sinks the screws into the rock and it falls on him when he is hammering something down below!
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Trade: General Contractor
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Re: Renovation Realities
I really liked the one when the guy builds the deck and breaks the back window. Hilarious.
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Re: Renovation Realities
Do you think It was staged? sounds too hilarious to be true! what network is this playing on?
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Re: Renovation Realities
After re-reading my post I see I gave the impression I thought it was staged. No...I don't think it is staged. I think all DIY'ers should watch the show as well. They would have a little more respect...and some bigger purses as well...lol
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Re: Renovation Realities
Homeowners are just like engineers:
Everything looks good on paper.
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Re: Renovation Realities
Homeowners won't watch this show.
It doesn't offer them some false sense of hope that an entire kitchen renovation can be done in 1 hour with no mess and only cost $1,200 as long as they help for 15 minutes.
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Trade: Carpenter/General Contractor
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Re: Renovation Realities
I love this show! I want to buy it on DVD and make all my customers watch it before I give them a price... instead of them watching the other DIYer shows and think they can do everything themselves for under $1,000 and in one weekend....
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Re: Renovation RealitiesQuote:
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like I said, it won't happen. Who wants reality when they flick on the boob toob?
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Re: Renovation Realities
the one i watched the kid was renovating his kitchen and he couldnt find the gas shut off valve so he decides to cut out a gas line with his sawzall cuz he thinks it is a dead line.....He got lucky it was dead but man i was scared for him. He makes his wife haul in cabinets for him and she drops it and breaks it and he gets mad. Then when he is demoing he breaks the rear french doors.
Great show
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Re: Renovation RealitiesOK...most. Hell, I'll drop it down to "some". Some that I have worked with in the past. Book smart...yes. Real world smart...not so much.
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Her husband is an accountant in a partnership, for the most part he is book smart only. Both of them are extremely awesome people, however I can see how technical minds would be difficult to deal with when "unforseen" issues ruin their carefully planned out work protocol.
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Re: Renovation Realities
I told a guy that my niece
is an engineer (Purdue). He said, "Sorry about that." I said, "No, she's a good engineer." He said, "Oh, when did she die?"
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Re: Renovation Realities
I only wish they were filming on my site through the years. We had a guy one time that cut the stairway opening out while standing in the opening. It was like watching Wiley Coyote, the floor dropped out, the saw went up in the air, Ricky went into the basement followed by the cord then the saw. Thats prime time TV in my book.
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