I'm a remodeling contractor and I hate those shows. I hate the house flipping shows too. You know the ones where they have 12 hours left until the open house and they're still setting tile, painting, and another hundred details to finish, and low and behold they get everything finished, cleaned up and the house staged before the open house. Oh yeah, then they sell the house for $70,000 profit with it only being on the market for 2 hours.
A few years ago I was working on a house in an exclusive neighborhood. My client asked me to give the next door neighbor woman some advice. She was trying to paint the brick on the front of her house with watered down paint and made a real mess of things. She asked my client to ask if I'd give her some advice. So I went over and introduced myself and asked what she was trying to accomplish. She said she was tired of the dark brick and was using watered down paint and then rinsing some off, but the result was a splotchy mess. She asked what she should do. I said, "since you asked......the most important thing you should do is stop watching those renovation shows on TV". She wasn't amused. She said I sounded like her husband, who as it turned out was a remodeling contractor! Apparently he was not in favor of the project be she assured him the house would look better with the white washed (for lack of a better term) bricks. She said he was going to be furious when he saw the splotchy paint job on the bricks. I told her to get a bucket of hot water and put a lot of dish washing soap in it and get a course scrub brush and scrub like her marriage depended on it, then use the garden hose and run water over it (not use a high pressure spray which could force the paint further into the bricks) to rinse it. I looked over there later in the day and she was scrubbing away like crazy. When she was done it actually looked ok but I'm sure it was far more work than she thought she was getting into.
Enough ranting. As for the OP's question. No, that's not how demo is done. I just shake my head when they have the obligatory shot of someone using a sledge on kitchen cabinets.
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