The Living Room's resident builder Baz Du Bois used to be able to dodge handyman work at home - that was until he started appearing on the Network Ten series.
Once he he exposed some of the tricks of the trade and how cheap DIY projects could be, he was forced to stop dodging jobs suggested by his wife.
"I always had an excuse why I couldn't do things at home, but now I show how easy and inexpensive it is on The Living Room and there aren't many excuses left," Du Bois told AAP.
Du Bois, along with host Amanda Keller, vet Chris Brown and chef Miguel Maestre, return for the third season of Ten's popular lifestyle show on Friday night.
The Living Room is clearly one of the most successful shows on Ten and Du Bois said he will be going back to the very basics of DIY to make it more appealing to amateurs.
That means breaking the jobs down to the point where he teaches how to select the correct nails or screws for a specific job which is usually the starting point for any DIY project.
"We are trying to break it down this year into bite size pieces of information," he said.
"With DIY, people need to break things down into as many little jobs as they can and take on the easy ones first.
"Once you get confidence you will be able to achieve anything you want."
Du Bois said no DIY project was a failure and he lives by that rule.
He said the sooner home renovators realise you can't fail at DIY, the sooner they will launch into their first or next project.
"There's a couple of things I've learnt and that's I've never made a mistake in my life, there's just a whole stack of things I will never do the same way again.
"There's no such thing as failure with DIY either."
Du Bois, who once ran as an independent councillor in Bondi about a decade ago, said people need to have trust in their local hardware store.
He said the knowledge of hardware store staff is far greater than people may give them credit for, he said.
"You do have to trust the people you buy off and most of the people who work in the hardware stores are really helpful," Du Bois.
"First and foremost, confidence and common sense is everything."
* The Living Room season three returns on Friday, February 14 at 7.30pm on Network Ten.
