The competition is on for training organisations hoping to attract would-be tradies.
A huge skills shortage is plaguing the building and construction sector.
One industry group has found an unusual way to try to plug it with a nationwide roadshow dubbed, 'not your average tradie road trip' hoping to attract wannabe tradies.
During the roadshow tradies will conduct 30 jobs in 30 days.
"It's about promoting the trade of construction to New Zealand. It's about a month long, we're going to four or five locations around New Zealand," Building and Construction apprenticeships' (BCITO) Warwick Quinn says.
Cancer survivor Lisa Samuels is the first to get free home repairs.
"Probably my health will be a lot better because it won't be so drafty and wet," she says.
The building and construction industry needs more than 28,000 new qualified tradespeople in the next five to six years just to keep up with demand.
But there's a problem.
"We saw the lowest number of births per thousand in New Zealand's history happen between 1995 and 2005, so you add 20 years to that and those school leavers are coming out about now, so there's gonna be fewer school leavers and more of us fighting for that cohort," Mr Quinn says.
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