Each week the NZ Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's the strategies for getting through a housing renovation. Hosted by Frances Cook.
Listen to "Cooking the Books: Have your own The Block without going broke" on Spreaker.
It's easy to look at a TV show on housing renovation, and start to feel the itch yourself.
Maybe you start to see the improvements you could make to your own home. Or you fancy yourself a house flipper, doing up a house to sell on for monster profits.
The problem is that behind the TV editing lies hours and hours of hard work.