Restoring Charleston

First of all , S1E1 he starts resorting a house by doing the Bathroom first , then I think the hallway, then some other rooms . WHEN does he think to check the foundation. ? I'm the LAST EPISODE. He doesn't stay period appropriate , he uses a metal outside home roof for inside the bathroom , I saw some gaps , and the exterior not only has no period appropriate detailing. , but the color is a brilliant blue . Just AWFUL. Do yourself a favor and just go watch Restored with Brett Waterman. This guy has zero clue what he's doing . Who doesn't start out with the foundation first , then walls ? Find a new job buddy. You SUCK.

No one puts new appliances and drywall in a home with no windows or roof. Then try to level it. I really want to know how they restored the refrigerator and made it taller and a different band? 15 minute episode stretched to an hour with repeat clips and phases. This series isn't about restoring homes to the original glory. Water resistant industrial strength coating for bathroom floor tile, never a good idea. Lots of sales adds labeled as material acquisitions for the remodeling project. These finished houses remind of of rental properties thrown together with random reclaimed materials. Rename this one caulking remodeling.

Absolutely ridiculous builder. I'm just 25 mins into the first episode and spotted 9 things he did incorrectly, NINE! He should not be restoring anything, let alone on TV!

Please, Discovery +, have a professional watch before committing to producing a show of this low quality.

Even, the couple, who admit they started knowing nothing, on Restoring Galveston, know more then this dude.

Please don't waste your time on watching this show, unless it's for laughs or a drinking game, every time he does something stupid.. believe me you'll be drunk before you've finished one episode.

Too many other great options to watch and learn from.

If you hate restoration and love watching a guy with more money than sense change things just for the sake of changing things, then this show is for you! There's very little restoration here, it's more DIY on the cheap. S1E1, I can't believe he's using those bargain basement chinese cabinets in the kitchen with the home depot backsplash and bellacor lighting. Raising the windows? Why?

The opening line alone, "most people would tear this house down" displays a complete lack of respect for these important historic places that are irreplaceable. A true historic preservationist would have no thoughts or discussion whatsoever about destruction or tear downs. Stand up for your "beliefs" and act like a true preservationist.

Sir, you are a giant fustercluck. I'm not a professional, but I have restored from the ground up an 1840s ordinary-person Victorian (ie no fancy turrets, gingerbread, stained glass etc.) Let's roll with my irritation:

In your intro, you lead with some before and after shots or footage. We can see in the before shot some very modern cheater beadboard (plywood with the grooves added, to give the illusion of 4 individual strips of beadboard. An affordable alternative to real beadboard which wouldn't have appeared in an authentic, never previously restored "pig's ear," as you call them. Ok fine, maybe you're restoring a restoration.

But then another before shot of another house shows the wood siding on the exterior. Anyone who has done any restoration on an old house knows that duplicating the spacing, angle, width, thickness etc of authentic siding is tough and expensive, but a quality restoration is tough and expensive. What did you do? It sure looks like you slapped aluminum siding on her. Anathema. Doesn't breathe, lets moisture and bugs accumulate. Next...

Built in 1895, you describe your project as a "Queen Anne Craftsman style house." There's no such thing as a Queen Anne Craftsman style, you doofus! Queen Anne is a subset of Victorian. Craftsman is totally different. And anyone who ever dipped a toe into historical architecture styles would look at this and say it's all Queen Anne, zero Craftsman.

You're in a dark house pointing out things with your flashlight beam while you describe them. Within about a 15 -second span, you're looking at peeling PAINT and in other areas, BEADBOARD coming apart, and you describe both as PLASTER coming apart. No plaster visible!!

Then you complain about a stink and turns out it's coming from a completely dry, almost no soft tissue or skin, cat skeleton laying on its side. Conveniently, there is a fresh teddy bear hamster corpse (doesn't look like a rat and wrong color pattern) laying on the floor in the center of the cat skeleton abdomen. Did you guys decide to do a little pre-staging?

One more thing and I'm going to throw up and find something else to watch. You commented that it was really well preserved by the prior owners, as you fondle a hideous stained and varnished piece of plywood in a very 1980s style fireplace surround.

I see there's just this one season, filmed back in 2016, so I imagine you gave up on this gig or maybe decided to go back and get some learning on. As many have commented, you could follow the footsteps of Brett Waterman in Restored. He's pretty solid.