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Junk Raiders
Developed by Proper Television
Starring Geoff Woodmansey
Gordie Wornoff
Anthony D'Arcy
Cam Pikul
Michelle Mawby
Jean-Marc Haddad
Ross Werry
Ron Smith
Narrated by Craig Smith
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 6
Production
Executive producer(s) Guy O'Sullivan
Running time 60 minutes (including commercials)
Release
Original network Discovery Channel Canada (Canada)
ION Television (United States)
Original release September 14, 2009 – October 19, 2009
Chronology
Followed by Junk Raiders 2

In the first season of Junk Raiders is a 2009 Canadian reality television series that airs on The Discovery Channel and ION Life. The series follows the titular Junk Raiders, a team of seven professionals as they attempt to renovate an old steel factory in downtown Toronto and turn it into a high-end loft in one month with only a C$5500 budget. Because of the extremely limited budget (quoted at $300,000 if done conventionally), many of the materials needed must be found by freecycling: finding something unwanted for free and reusing it.

For the production of the series, the team had commissioned a "junk hot-line", urging Torontonians to donate any garbage that they could use. In addition, as looking through other peoples' trash is illegal in Toronto, the show also has a special exemption that allows the team to do just that.

The Team

The team consists of seven people, for which there are two freecyclers and five "wasters":

The team must also answer to Ron Smith, the landlord of their building site. At the end of each episode, Ron arrives and has a face-to-face meeting with Geoff and Geoff alone, and, as the client, may order the removal of anything that does not meet his standards, up to and including stopping the freecycling experiment entirely.

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