The Block is leaving a trail of financial heartbreak across Australia as homeowners try to emulate the show’s glitzy renovations – and fail spectacularly, industry insiders have claimed.

Tradies companies told The Daily Telegraph the show inspired new DIY renovations every year, but there had also been a more recent explosion in the popularity of reality TV-inspired renos.

This was due to the advent of AI resources such as a ChatGPT and others, which DIY renovators were often drawing on for a step-by-step guide on how to do works themselves.

The problem was that many of these renovators used what they saw on TV as a guide for how quickly jobs could be pulled off, which was not always realistic.

Renovators then started works with inaccurate budgets, lofty ideas of how long it would take

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