A television renovation team has taken on its biggest challenge yet, transforming an entire accommodation complex used by families receiving hospital care.
The Sunshine Coast project is part of the third season of Budget Battlers, a 9Network renovation program in which Jess Eva and her team overhaul homes and community spaces on tight budgets.
The team is renovating 18 bedrooms, four kitchen and living spaces and outdoor areas for local hospital charity Wishlist, which provides accommodation for patients, carers and families who need to stay close to hospital services.
The program gives the team five days and a $10,000 budget for each renovation.
Eva is joined this season by The Real Housewives of Sydney star Melissa Tkautz, renovation content creator Luke Moore, known as Reno Dad, and Brooke Triplett from She Sells.
Comedian and television presenter Dave Hughes also appears as a special guest contributor, including in the Sunshine Coast Wishlist episode.
Volunteer tradies including foreman Leigh, Moncur, Lawts and Glen have also returned.
The Sunshine Coast stop is one of six projects across Australia during the season.
The series began in Warracknabeal, Victoria, where the team helped a mother raising four children on her own, before travelling to Newcastle to assist a mother and carer.
Other projects are at Capel Sound on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and north of Toowoomba, while the season concludes at Uki in northern NSW.
There, the team works on a house relocated to higher ground after being destroyed by floods twice.
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The Sunshine Coast episode will screen on November 11 at 7.30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
