Tv - Show Renovators

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Tillie

The new Tv show called 'Renovators' started in channel 10. They are looking for country's 'master renovator'. Similar concept than master chef. Did anyone watch it?

Many people who write here regularly could be in the show and probably have a good chance to win.

E.g. where is Nathan? He definitely should be in the show.
 
Nathan was going to apply actually but you had to commit 6 months.

Wonder how much they pay the contestants? That's a long time tyo be off work, or away from your business.
 
My wife made it thru to final stages of this show but got cut short at the last point. They put you up in a place sharing with 1 other and give you $500 a week to help cover costs back home.

She got a call back a few weeks later and offered a spot but turned it down due to starting a new management position for respectable company.
 
The constant bombardment of ad after ad after ad for the show over the last month put me off ever watching it long ago, and I don't think I could stand another show of:

"you've got X job to do, and only Y minutes/days to do it, or you're facing elimination and going home" with lots of nerve crunching tecno music at the exciting bits, and lots of little snippet interviews in between the action where the contestants keep stating the obvious....

"yeah; I have to get this wall painted as good as I ever have by the end of this challenge, or I will face elimination".

Did they do those recaps after each ad break of the last segment watched before the ad break....just in case you can't remember what happen 10 ads ago? :rolleyes:
 
I much prefer this show to the block. There wasn't the incessant repetition and agony of a slow moving show that they try to pass off as suspense.

To truly be Australia's best renovator though, you wouldn't be hands on, you would strictly be the project manager and leverage the time of others.

I think they will really struggle to see any kind of profit. A 1 bedder in Parramatta should never be worth more than the total budget they are planning to spend. Looks like they overpaid to start with.

It was interesting to see what they valued, with the winner being the person who saw what no-one else was doing and did it, rather than the person with the best room. I was surprised the guy who project managed to co-ordinate everyone didn't get a mention. It clearly shows they will favour those that are doers, over those who are great managers.
 
Early days but I agree - MUCH better than the Block. These guys are all very experienced & it shows. Quite an amzing job they did in the 48 hrs IMO - especially considering there were 26 different people with different opinions who'd never worked together before. Very impressed with the finished product.
 
Funny enough I did watch most of the show and when they brought the house in and gave them x time to do it. I thought then this will be interesting with 20 odd individuals all there to win who will manage the whole project.

Not sure who he that stepped up to the plate was but he managed to organise everyone into groups and set them loose, I think he did a great job (not sure what he did after that of course). I would not have approached it in the same manner but the end result was good. I was also amazed he never got a mention as I felt he was an important part of the group. So maybe hes just a speaker and not so much a hands on and get dirty type of person.

I can see plenty of clashes of personalities thats a no brainer.

Not sure why the women got to select the first place I thought the 3 blokes when called up one of them would have got first pick. Mind you I was away after they picked the 3 and only returned to see the lady make her selection, so missed what happened.

I hope the nailing of the door to the floor was a set up :eek: for the camera :eek:

Anyway what I watched was ok, I'm not a great one to watch any of these type shows however if I think of it next week I will tune in to watch them put a nail in the stud by hand should be a few laughs and I bet a few blokes will fall fowl of this and the girls will shine.

Brian
 
I occasionally get on the tools (like last week and yesterday, and perhaps tomorrow) no one has a more vested interest in your successess then you and when your tradies let you down you need to step in at times. I dont mind playing with tools, but having to do the a reno kills my life now and stuffs up everything else I do on a time front.

For me, these tv shows have their own agenda's and suck.

To have your own TV show, it costs about $100,000 per episode so a 12 week run is a lot of money...

I am in the process of setting up something online, obvioult managable and on ones own terms.
 
NBS said:
Not sure who he that stepped up to the plate was but he managed to organise everyone into groups and set them loose, I think he did a great job (not sure what he did after that of course). I would not have approached it in the same manner but the end result was good. I was also amazed he never got a mention as I felt he was an important part of the group. So maybe hes just a speaker and not so much a hands on and get dirty type of person.
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I totally agree. Without that bloke, all the others were just running around with no idea. He got some kind of organisation happening, which I think was essential.


Not sure why the women got to select the first place I thought the 3 blokes when called up one of them would have got first pick. Mind you I was away after they picked the 3 and only returned to see the lady make her selection, so missed what happened.
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I wasn't that impressed with the woman who got the first key. I'm sure they showed her earlier looking like she had no clue. I got the impression she helped with the gyprock because nobody else was helping, but she looked like a follower, not a leader. Yep, she did the kitchen floor, but so what? I thought there were other, more deserving individuals that really got in there and made it happen like....the guy who took on the gyprocking, the plumber, the landscaper, the original project manager and even the couple of girls who got together to furnish the place.
 
skater said:
I wasn't that impressed with the woman who got the first key. I'm sure they showed her earlier looking like she had no clue. I got the impression she helped with the gyprock because nobody else was helping, but she looked like a follower, not a leader. Yep, she did the kitchen floor, but so what? I thought there were other, more deserving individuals that really got in there and made it happen like....the guy who took on the gyprocking, the plumber, the landscaper, the original project manager and even the couple of girls who got together to furnish the place.
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Well that's the beauty of TV editing - you only see what they want you to see
 
Aside from all of that, as a serial renovator in my private life, I am wondering about the financial smarts of spending 20% of the purchase price on the Reno. The rule of thumb has always been to spend 10% to 15% max. for a 20 - 30% lift in end value. Add this to a bit of softening in some suburbs, and the possibility exists for a zero sum game.
 
Propertunity said:
Aside from all of that, as a serial renovator in my private life, I am wondering about the financial smarts of spending 20% of the purchase price on the Reno. The rule of thumb has always been to spend 10% to 15% max. for a 20 - 30% lift in end value. Add this to a bit of softening in some suburbs, and the possibility exists for a zero sum game.
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Well it is a budget, not necessarily the amount they will spend - since they have to factor in how much they actually spend to make that 'profit'. I think that's part of the overall strategy
 
Propertunity said:
Aside from all of that, as a serial renovator in my private life, I am wondering about the financial smarts of spending 20% of the purchase price on the Reno. The rule of thumb has always been to spend 10% to 15% max. for a 20 - 30% lift in end value. Add this to a bit of softening in some suburbs, and the possibility exists for a zero sum game.
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I thought the same thing. If you spend more than around 10% you'd have to look at adding square footage. It may well be that extensions etc will be part of it, though. At least they told the contestant what suburbs the houses were in. This would be the most important factor in the decision IMO. In some suburbs you wouldn't even get your 20% back.
 
yeah that's right. if you spending 20% it could possibly be adding an extension either outwards or inwards.

i like the show - they have a builder, a kitchen specialist and everyone has sufficient knowledge to renovate. That girl who won the challenge even had renovated 6 houses. that's a wealth of knowledge.

i prefer this show to the block.

As for doing renos - u need some skillset - like tiling requires some finesse as well as painting. a professional tiler and painter will have a finish different to a DIY. A only part where no finesse is required would be demolition where you could get a hammer and just trash everything.
 
Gee only $500 a week, not worth it unless you want the fifteen minutes of fame.

I am yet to watch it, taping it, more hours on my days off watching taped shows.
 

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