Chuck Thoits
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I don't know if it's true Jim. But I have heard that with most of those shows that get it done in 3 days. Some one spends the next week or so off camera fixing up the mess.
I don't know if it's true Jim. But I have heard that with most of those shows that get it done in 3 days. Some one spends the next week or so fixing up the mess.
I also notice that these shows "pour concrete" and then lay tile on it the next day or two days later...not an expert, but doesn't concrete need 3-5 days to cure, before you walk on it and lay tile on it.
Another one that gets me is the "Desparate Landscape" show where they do a complete makeover on a yard that's been totally ignored and neglected by the homeowner. Will the homeowner treat it any differently after the show leaves? I'd sure like to see some 'one year later' follow-ups on those.
None of these shows are intended for real educational use.
They are strictly motivational shows.
They help promote products, and most of them, if not every single one of them, are supported by the people who make the commercials on the show and usually get their products supported during the actual show.
Ofcourse a craftsman/carpenter or contractor knows better.
These shows are purely entertainment.
They serve little purpose other than entertainment just like soap operas, or any regular shows on weekly television.
They are like renting a movie.
A movie can cover time spans of years in 2 hours, and you get entertained and lose all concept of time other than what you see on the screen.
When a DIY show shows people repairing lets say, a wall, they just cram the repair, the replastering, priming, painting, taping, putting up some molding, taping, repainting, touching up, all in a 30 or 60 minute segment.
There is no sense of real time, because it isnt real, other than the work certainly got done, but must have been done by magic genie workers.
The only value any of these shows have, and I mean any of them, because they are ALL backed by some product or products, is to motivate people to think about hey, why dont we do that, or hey, we might be able to do that.
And that is why so many contractors see the botched up work so many people thought after watching a 30 minute show they could do.
They didnt understand it was entertainment. They thought it was a educational experience.
I watched ER once, but I never thought Id walk into a hospital and be able to treat heart attack and car accident victims because they did it on a TV show that I watched.
Pure entertainment, and nothing else.
I saw trailers for Vanilla Ice's new show... he says he's a contractor and also has one of a top selling rap albumns... didn't he lip sync on his albumn...
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Are you saying we're not really carpenters, but we play one on TV?
They dont go looking for quotes they go looking for someone that will tell them what they want to hear.