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Originally Posted by AllenPetersen
You kidding? Maybe your just used to BC code. I dont see any problem with that show. If anything, they go way overboard especially with mold. I still think its great for noobs to watch. You can have a better understanding of the concept of how things get put together. Unless the show has changed. Been a while.
But you are right on the home owners. Home owners will always have messed up ideas because they just dont understand most of the concept. Not just the ones on the show but in general.
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It's like with any show of this type, people watch it but don't PAY ATTENTION to what the host is actually trying to get across... and then form their own screwy ideas from it. I don't know how many people I see who've watched The Dog Whisperer and think that his "PSSHHT" thing is a magical command that will cause a dog to do whatever they want... obviously not paying attention the many times he states outright that it's a sound HE uses to get the dog's attention, and that other people may find other sounds work better for them.
Holmes is the same thing - people who take his word as gospel obviously aren't paying attention. Look at the two-parter where he was on the Ellen show and helped a couple in California finish their home: he didn't waltz in and say, "it must be done this way because that's how I roll"; he listened AND LEARNED about different ways of doing things from the local contractors, who KNOW the different building codes that apply (earthquake-safe construction, for example) and KNOW the different designs and methods needed for the different environment and climate.
It's the same with the local contractors he uses even in Ontario: look at how often he has a contractor with a new technology or a new way of doing something, and how he learns something new from it.
His main thing is advocating better building codes, better code ENFORCEMENT, ensuring people use reputable contractors, and "doing it right the FIRST TIME." Nothing wrong with that.
You can't blame these guys for viewers who don't pay attention and form their own wacky ideas based on half-absorbed partial information. The same thing happens when people read books... or magazines... or web sites.