I think they've come in with a game plan.
We are such positive people.
Popcorn.
I'm finding it very hard to trust her.
SCOTTY: Tonight on The Block,
the battle of the Bathroom Week continues.
We just keep hitting roadblocks.
STEPH: I've gotta just back myself but I just don't.
And before the waterproof even dries...
Problem after problem.
..the cracks begin to show.
LIBERTY: So, we don't have any tilers now?
Nope.
No more power tools.
The Blockheads meet this ray sunshine...
Hi!
Lovely to meet you. Welcome to The Block.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
But a storm is beginning to roll in.
There's something brewing between Steph and Leah/Kristy.
Well, I'll take you down.
(BLEEP) snake! KRISTY: Yeah.
I'm finding it very hard to read her.
I'm just losing it a bit.
And trust her. Hey.
I think they've come in with a game plan
but I just think it's gonna unravel really quickly.
I have been struggling a lot internally.
She's gonna get caught out.
(WIND HOWLS)
(BIRDS SQUAWK)
(THUNDER CRASHES)
(UP-BEAT MUSIC)
It's getting cold.
SCOTTY: Yesterday only three of our five weary teams
made Waterproof Wednesday.
Oh, fancy seeing you here.
Yesterday was a good day.
So, we were the first team to get approval for waterproofing.
It was just like, Waterproof Wednesday on The Block
and the fact that we hit it, I would have been devo...
I know. ..if we didn't hit it.
I know. An iconic day not to hit.
Yep. (CHUCKLES)
So, we need to get our waterproof approved, hopefully.
As long as we get a nice tick.
Did you make it? Waterproof Wednesday.
We did make it. Our very first one. That was exciting.
SCOTTY: But our two most experienced teams did not make the deadline.
Architect Steph and hubby Gian in House Four
are nowhere near waterproofing.
They don't even have sheets on the walls yet.
STEPH: I wish we were at a better point but...
Five time renovators Leah and Ash in House Two
only sheeted their walls last night.
Morning.
Hello.
Mate, Ash has done an all-nighter.
Oh, you're delirious, you poor thing.
And you know what?
I've been like, seeing people because I look out there
and I've gone...
I've got like, a High Vis hung up there
and a High Vis hung up there, and I'm like...
Yeah.
Like, jeez, you guys are early.
SCOTTY: Ash, it looks like you could do with a bit of a rest, mate.
Over at House Five, sisters Eliza and Liberty
were the first team ready to waterproof yesterday.
So, we're so excited.
We're going into this day feeling so confident.
Tiler's coming. Tick a lot of stuff off.
Eliza and Liberty's bathroom has pendant lighting,
and a floating timber vanity,
with white wall tiles to the ceiling,
and a bold pattern tile on the floor and in the niche.
KEITH: Morning, girls. BOTH: Morning.
Are you guys after a waterproofing sign-off?
Yes, please. So you can tile.
Alright. Straightaway I just look at that and I go, it doesn't pass.
See that membrane there?
It's still very green.
You can see there, right? That's, that's no good.
Waterproof? Dry?
Dry.
MAN: Let's get some hairdryers. Yep.
KEITH: Blow-wave time.
And we sat with hairdryers, on the floor of our bathroom,
both of us, trying to dry said waterproofing.
MAN: It's for your hair. Huh?
That's for your hair. (HUMS)
(LAUGHS)
SCOTTY: Also seeking Keith's seal of approval this morning
are firefighter Kyle and education assistant Leslie in House One.
So, our tiler this season is Adrian Cursio.
The Cursio brothers
which, people, if they watch The Block, would be familiar with.
The Cursio's are not patient. That's not in their vocabulary.
No, they're not patient,
and they let everyone know that they're not patient.
MAN: We get it, mate. We get it.
Hopefully definitely getting in there.
He's thorough. KEITH: Beautiful.
Away you go. Great, thank you, mate.
Thank you, Keith. Thank you.
Alright, we're right to start tiling.
Your hand, buddy. Let's do it.
Yeah, I'm happy with that.
Get stuck in, Ades. Good job.
Tiling's passed. Waterproof, all clear.
SCOTTY: Kyle and Leslie have the largest bathroom this week
and they're planning to impress the judges
with an ambitious curved ceiling,
and neutral mosaic tile in the shower,
a vanity, and a toilet.
These are directional ties so you have to dry lay them
so you can see that they don't look fuddy-duddy on the wall.
Fuddy-duddy means
you're going to have some different colours on your wall
and it's gonna like a fruit salad.
And you don't want a fruit salad on your wall.
We've picked quite an intricate tile for our shower
and obviously we've got some...
..that need to be laid in the right direction.
Yeah.
'Cause if you turn it this way it looks one way
and if you turn it that way it looks a different way.
And that, my friend, is fuddy-duddy.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk on directional mosaic tiles.
SCOTTY: Project manager Kristy and safety advisor Brett,
in House Three,
are also keen to crack on with tiling.
KEITH: Gee, it's a nice application. Yeah.
Yeah, I like that.
Very thorough.
Beautiful.
Alright, so, waterproofing's approved.
Yep. Good, Keith. Good.
Thanks very much. Another one ticked off.
Love that. Good.
SCOTTY: Kristy and Brett's bathroom will be tiled from floor to ceiling.
A mosaic tile feature arch out will take pride of place in their shower.
And their design includes a toilet,
floating vanity,
and shaving cabinet.
All sounds good in theory
but just received some news that will throw a spanner in the works.
We just got a message just to say,
"Hey, heads up, the tiler's in hospital."
So, first and foremost, hope he's alright,
but we need to start sourcing tilers too, so...
Our P well, he was going to be our tiler,
he was waterproofing
and yeah, he just felt in himself that he wasn't quite 100%
so he ended up checking himself into hospital.
Our builder just said he's frantically looking for tilers...
LEAH: Yeah. ..and he can't find one.
And then he was just like, "'Cause the current tiler's in hospital."
But then again... Bugger.
..he's frantically looking with two minutes' notice
from this guy as well.
Dan's just overly prepared, that's all.
Like, it's hard to look for someone at this time.
Luckily enough we've got under-floor heating to go,
we've got things to dry, and we'll just start making calls.
Do you know what?
I came into it so stupid, if I'm being honest,
because I was like, a bathroom this week.
Look how small it is, it's gonna be fine.
Like, we're gonna be easy.
I was dumb to think it would be smooth sailing.
SCOTTY: Yep, it's a rough sea ahead without a tiler.
But luckily Brett IS one.
Straight out of school went into a tiling apprenticeship.
I did that four-year apprenticeship
and then continued tiling from then onward for a little while
before getting into safety.
So, do have the knowledge, do have the skills deep down in there.
Yeah, it was a bit of an advantage having a tiling background,
bit of tiler knowledge which I kept from everyone.
SCOTTY: Great. So, you can tile your bathroom to keep it on track.
Right?
I wouldn't want to bite off all of it.
I wanted to be able to utilise my tiling skills but to commit
to a whole bathroom after such a long time off
would probably be a silly move.
And the standard that they want,
and given that I haven't been doing it the longest time,
I think that would probably be a bigger risk.
Sourcing a tiler would be our key thing today
and me assisting them will be the incentive that
they've got a labourer/tiler with them to make it less to bite off.
SCOTTY: So, it's time for Plan B.
Yeah, I'm trying to put it on Hipages to see.
Hey, I'm trying every option at this moment.
So, I'm going to pull out all resources that I possibly can
and see how we go.
SCOTTY: As Kristy and Brett are discovering,
a bathroom is
one of the most challenging rooms to execute on The Block,
and one minor issue can cause a tsunami of problems.
In House Four,
high-school sweethearts Steph and Gian have been underwater all week.
Yeah, so, we just keep hitting roadblocks.
Again another issue came up about the shower screen.
OK.
I'm a bit overwhelmed right now, Ryan, because
I just don't know how we came up with the shower screen height.
When were looking at this detail,
I got the measuring tape out and worked out that in fact,
where I told the builders to put the, to start the shower screen from
was actually 200mm out of place.
So, when we were doing the 200 x 200 beam...
RYAN (ON PHONE): Yeah? ..but then we changed the beam.
As far as I'm aware,
I can't remember changing any glass when we changed the beam though.
Yeah.
The 200mm thing
is the communication breakdown between us and the builder.
We wanted the shower screen to be at a certain point
and the shower screen was in a different point.
GIAN: We're not changing any of these. That's an easier change.
The glass? Yes.
You want me to change the glass. The glass is an easy change.
We need to think about time.
Glass is the easiest fix and that's that.
Then the biggest issue after that was the drain.
SCOTTY: Earlier in the week,
Steph and Gian plumbed their drain
in the right-hand corner of their shower.
We were going for a strip grate detail
which is obviously a lineal grate
that goes across the width of the shower.
We had to get that custom-made because of where the waste was,
and we gave our builders the specs for that.
SCOTTY: The shower grate arrived today
and the waste outlet is in the wrong position.
It's in the middle, not the side.
KEITH: This is the shower grate.
Bit of an issue, huh? Yep.
So, the outlet's in the centre. Yep.
And your waste is at the end.
So, you need this being over here. Mmm.
Wow. And that's already finished, plumbed in.
Problem after problem.
KEITH: What happened here, guys?
Oh, I guess they didn't get the right specs on
where the waste needs to be in the grate.
That's how I see it.
And you're at least 24 hours behind everyone else.
Absolutely. This is a huge hiccup.
We're starting to think
and realising that we're not in the same rhythm...
Yep.
You probably need to start finishing off your plan before you start.
Yeah.
I don't think you guys are communicating that well
at the moment.
There's been quite a few mistakes in here so far.
Be very clear with what you want before the builders start because,
as you can see right now,
it's sort of too late to alter anything there.
I agree.
It's good to finalise your plan before you start,
then go implement that plan.
Yeah.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
From this point I was really upset. Yep.
I'm just losing it a bit.
('THE FLOWER DUET' BY LAKME PLAYS)
(THUMP)
SCOTTY: Building the perfect Block bathroom
is a highly choreographed affair,
a delicate dance from floor level and fall
to waterproofing, and finally tiling.
One misstep puts the whole sequence out of whack.
And each step must be approved by foreman Keith.
Oh, Keith! (LAUGHTER)
Morning, Keith. Morning.
Come on in.
So, in our bathroom this week we wanted it to be moody and sexy.
We wanted to do something super bold and risky,
and just something that hasn't been done before.
SCOTTY: Leah and Ash's bathroom will feature venetian plaster walls
leading to a curved ceiling,
a timber vanity with a natural stone top,
wall sconce lighting,
and a moody dark green design.
After a huge night priming their bathroom,
and very little sleep,
this morning Queenslanders Leah and Ash in House Two
are hoping to get approval to finally start their waterproofing.
How was your night? It was long. We...
Wow. So, you guys have done the primer.
Yeah, for the venetian.
It was the only way we could steal back some time today.
Yeah, well, that's good.
BOTH: Waterproof Thursday!
You can actually start waterproofing.
Thanks so much. Thanks, mate.
Thank you, Keith. I might go and have a coffee.
Grab a sleep, mate. Yeah.
Not a coffee. Go to bed.
We got it. And we got it.
Give us your best. Like...
we're going good, we're fine. Oh, mate.
Listen to the music. Feel the music.
Feel the beat.
I haven't actually listened to music in like...
I know. ..a week and a half.
Week and a half.
But I'm gonna say,
I think Thursday would probably be your last chance...
..to deliver a successful bathroom.
Anytime after that you're really pushing.
I guess what we're learning is like,
when we have an idea like,
and then it changes in the middle of like, the construction,
the flow on effect is problematic.
Like, we just need to go with it.
Like, go with our gut like we said.
I know, I know. I'm not... Yeah, I know.
I'm not just... But I've gotta just back myself but I just don't.
You're a great architect. Like, let's just go on with it.
Like, you know what you're doing.
Alright. Bye. KEITH: Steph? Sorry to interrupt.
Yeah, darling? I've got another idea.
What if I get some plumbers here and we move the waste?
SCOTTY: He is suggesting that Steph use his plumbers
to move the shower waste point.
No. No?
Because that involves lots of work, don't you think?
It does but it's doable.
SCOTTY: To move the waste point,
they need to pick up the flooring,
and Steph thinks that will take too much time.
(BUZZER)
This is Gian, I think. Yeah.
I'm just chatting with Keith who's just saying like, we can
move the drain in the middle so that it will accommodate that lineal.
Yeah but then we have to redo the flooring, don't we?
KEITH: It'll take a little while to get it done.
GIAN: Yeah.
But yeah, if you want,
I can get some plumbers back and we can move that drain.
And then we just lay new flooring. Yep.
OK, look, I'll leave it with you.
But maybe take ten minutes before you make the decision.
Don't just hastily make a decision. Think about it.
Yeah, no, I know.
Alright. OK. Thanks.
Yeah, I think we're just gonna leave it.
Bye. (LINE DISCONNECTS)
SCOTTY: Whilst Steph has decided to ignore Keith's advice,
Ash is about to be directed to follow her.
LEAH: You had to get forced to have a nap.
No. Everyone was like, go and have a rest.
And then Keith brought in the wheelbarrow.
Ash, it's time to go to bed, mate. (LAUGHS)
You haven't slept all night.
It's a dangerous building site. You need to go to bed, mate.
Just lay down.
Oh, that is so funny.
You right, mate? (LAUGHS)
Now, hopefully I don't crash.
How am I gonna get up there? Come on.
Why are you so heavy?
That must feel good, huh? Yeah.
(KEITH STRAINS)
Night, night.
Off to bed. Come on.
(SNORING SOUND)
(FART SOUND)
SCOTTY: Meanwhile, in House Three, it looks like the tiler dilemma
has been solved.
Could the tiler make the 1pm induction and just have to tape...
MAN (ON PHONE): I've already spoken to Dino.
The tiler can come any time.
Rough out against that wall?
260 with the 2mm? I think that will look good.
And then we'll have a nice little edge
up against this one here.
So, time pressure's on. (LAUGHS)
We'll just get that down today
and then that'll give us a good set up for tomorrow.
SCOTTY: So, with their tiling finally underway,
Kristy has the time to go shopping.
And she's bringing Liberty and Leah along for the ride.
This is 16 minutes away.
No, 16ks. Like, 40 minutes away.
Ooh, thank god we're going together.
There's places where you do hook turns.
Do you guys have hook turns in your state?
LEAH: Oh, no. I'm not ever doing a hook turn.
I will drive back to Queensland before turning.
We went all the way to Fitty, Fitzroy, to L&M.
I'm impressed.
# So they say "Dance for me, dance for me, dance for me, oh-oh... #
This is cool. This is cool.
Yeah, what have you got here?
Shampoo and conditioner? How nice are their cushions.
Oh, that's a bath mat.
Girls had all decided that they were gonna go to L&M Home,
and so I said, "I'll go out and I'll meet you out that way."
Leslie!
KRISTY: Do you mind if we just hang out?
We're just gonna hang.
The girls were having a little chinwag on the sofa but, you know,
time is money.
I'm happy to just keep travelling around.
Like, what are we gonna do at The Block?
Honestly, what are we gonna do?
Listen to a bunch of tradesmen and be like, "Oh, my god!"
Listen to one Ash's long, drawn-out stories.
(LAUGHTER)
And it was just nice to get out
and like, enjoy some downtime with the girls, to be honest.
I don't think Eliza realised
how much of a good time we actually had.
I kept that kind of quiet. It must be nice, yeah.
(OVERLAPPING SPEECH)
We got towels, some candles. I got shampoo.
Soaps. Some moisturiser. Body wash.
Yeah, I got a trio of vases. I just copied what Lib got.
We just got the exact same thing. We all copied each other.
We got heaps.
('JOHNNY B. GOODE' BY CHUCK BERRY PLAYS)
SCOTTY: This year on The Block,
although the contestants were given 1950s style blond brick houses,
that's not how they will look when they're finished.
They're gonna look like.
The houses will feature modern facades,
a second storey,
and extensions out the back.
That's why we're bringing in truckloads of Truecore frames
to transform these beauties.
Alright, now back to the bathrooms.
This morning there was an issue with...
They were going to use a strip drain.
The waste hole inside the strip drain was at the wrong end.
We said, OK, we can maybe get the plumber here, help you out,
move the waste point in the floor
so that you can use the strip drain and keep moving forward.
She didn't want to do that this morning.
Yeah, but I thought that would be too much work.
A whole lot less work than what has been done.
You would have had the sheet down.
You would have been water... You would have been sheeted.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
So, people are trying to give advice and help...
Yep. ..that we need to actually go OK...
But if that was the recommended thing then I would have done it.
I just thought we had no time.
If I knew it was gonna be like this I wouldn't have done it.
Then we had to order a custom drain...
Yep.
Which would still be lineal and it will be coming tomorrow morning.
SCOTTY: So, now Steph's solution is to order a new custom grate
with the waste point lining up with the drain.
Gian, come here. What's wrong? GIAN: I'm so stressed.
OK, tell me what. What's happening? No. What do you mean?
Look at what's happening. I know.
All this. I know what's happening.
Like... I know, I know.
I don't understand these details.
We're just dying here.
We are such positive, optimistic people
but we're starting to feel super deflated
and it's affecting, it's affecting us.
Yep.
Talk to me. What do you mean talk to you?
It's done, it's done, it's done. What's done?
As in getting the grate.
As in the work that needs to be done to get around it?
Talk to me. What do you mean?
They need to do the floor again?
They also need to do all that,
all the junctions to even start plastering.
Yeah, I know. That stuff clearly wasn't done.
At this point, tensions are starting to like, boil with us.
Like, we're saying like, we need to get this right.
Mate, I can't...
Let me speak to him. No. Leave.
Yeah, I definitely start questioning myself.
Yeah.
And that's like, really sad because I didn't realise...
Like, I didn't think that I was asking for too, too much.
All these details, you're trying to go extra.
I just put the drain in the corner.
That's not, that's not, that's not difficult.
Just, all this rework, Steph. I'm sorry. I am extremely sorry.
What you want me to do?
I'm not saying you did anything wrong, I'm just saying
I don't know why we were trying to put all these things off.
I obviously back your design. It's not about that.
This has been a first time that
we've ever renovated a bathroom, in a week,
let alone to have all these setbacks.
Gian, listen.
It sounds like there was other stuff that wasn't finished.
Yeah, little junctions and stuff.
Yeah, and isn't that what you're getting the material for?
Wait. Stop trying to shift blame. It's not about that.
But isn't that what you're getting the material for?
ASH: Youse good? Yeah.
Youse going alright? Yeah, beautiful.
Isn't that what you're getting the material for?
Do you wanna chat? No.
I think today's the day that we start to really crumble.
From the beginning I didn't know that I couldn't use the vent.
Why wouldn't we ask? Agreed.
I didn't know that that was something I could have asked.
Now I do.
I'm just never gonna make these mistakes again.
Are we even gonna finish?
Yeah, we're gonna finish. How do you know that?
You don't know that.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
SHELLEY: Thanks to our mates at Disney Plus,
you could be $30,000 richer.
Head to The Block website now
and vote for the couple you think is creating this week's best room.
It's that simple. So, good luck.
On The Block we're all about sustainable practices
and right now we're just taking all the roof tiles off House Three.
We've dump them down here.
The Kubota's been crushing them up.
We're gonna put them in the Bingo bin
and at the recycler's it' gonna come back as crushed rock.
We'll bring it back to site,
and put them under the driveway.
Great sustainable practices here.
Lite n' Easy.
LIBERTY: That was so delicious.
And I'm a real health freak.
So for me, having healthy but delicious food is...
And I'm not healthy and I still find it...
So, we are Lite n' Easy.
SCOTTY: What's not so easy is tiling a bathroom without a tiler.
We had like, 700 tilers who were inducted
and then they came in and looked
and were like, "We ain't doing that."
And then they left.
Look, the guys have walked off
so there's nothing that I could have done to have stopped that.
And I told you as well look, these guys I'm getting in
as subbies and if they're walking off, like, I can't really stop them.
The tile that we chose is quite patterned
and it involved a lot of cutting which they were like,
"This isn't for us."
Too hard basket.
So, we don't have any tilers now?
Nope. Yeah.
(SARCASTICALLY) Excellent.
Plan B.
It is so hard incredibly hard making a bathroom in a week.
Little did we know.
Like, this is the smallest room of our whole house
and it has been the most hell experience.
I do think it would have been hard for us
to make a bathroom in a year.
I'll have to run around and try to get one of our other tilers.
OK. Too easy. So sorry it's happened like that.
I just... Some people just don't get how things work here
and they just see something and they think it's too hard
and they just walk away.
ELIZA: I'm pissed. I am pissed. LIBERTY: Yeah.
I am too now. I'm getting riled up about it as well.
SCOTTY: Over in House Three, Kristy is having a dilemma of her own.
(CAT MEOWS)
Yeah, there's a cat living under my house.
(CAT YOWLS)
And I was like, Kyle is a fireman.
This is like his jam, right?
(SIRENS WAIL)
SCOTTY: That's right, Kyle is our heroic firefighter
from Western Australia.
I have a kitten under my house.
(CAT YOWLS)
Yeah? Where is it? You got it. You've got this.
You've gotta show me where it is. OK.
Stop trying to divert him from the work we have to do.
He got straight under the floor
in like, this little square thing, like, I couldn't even fit in.
Oh, my god! He's actually going in.
I'm not even (BLEEP) you. This was like, this big.
Like, no... Like, no bigger than an A4 piece of paper.
Kyle bent his body in half.
Like, it was actually unreal to watch.
Yeah, I can't even see him. Like, he's so far in.
Kyle!
Oh, my god! Kyle, are you alive?
And so, I spent the, I dunno, good part of 20 minutes
crawling underneath their house trying to find this cat.
Kyle? Yo.
Are you good? Yeah, mate.
Do you have kittens? No.
It might have just be one cat. One cat? And it's gone now?
Didn't find any kittens or didn't find any cats
but he said there was heaps of spaces where they could get out.
You're a true hero. I think you scared it off.
Probably.
All your plumbing looks good. Oh, thanks, man.
There wasn't one under there. There probably was but...
Did you here the cat? No, I didn't hear the cat.
The cat wasn't there anymore.
Did we lose valuable time in our day?
Yes, we did. No, not really.
SCOTTY: While nothing is lost in House One,
it's a different story in House Five
where Eliza has lost a team of tilers.
So, we were hoping to get another tiler
after our original tilers bailed on us
so I networked hard to get that over the line,
to keep surviving and remain on track to get the room finished.
Are you a tiler? I am, yeah.
Anyway, I'll cut to the chase. Yeah.
Do you have plans tonight? We do.
The boys are fully booked.
Like, what do I need to... Like, what do I need to do?
Buy... Like, bribes or like... (LAUGHS)
Call wives or like, beg...
or...
We just need to start on our tiling
and then we can get a whole team here tomorrow.
But that's not the thing. The thing is we're that busy at the moment.
OK.
Building a house sucks!
But we just try, don't we. We just try.
SCOTTY: You said it, Eliza. All you can do is try and try again.
Oh god, I hate doing this.
Can I ask you a question, please?
MAN: Yeah.
Um...
We just had our five tilers walk off the job
but if your tiler has access to an inducted tiler,
would we be able to borrow someone tonight to get started?
Look, we've got a couple of guys coming down now
but they've got to help us.
So, our builder Mark is heaven sent
and he said, "I'm going to step up to the plate.
"I'm gonna stay and tile your floor."
Because basically it needs to be in in order for us to stay on track.
I'll get two of our guys now. They're only ten minutes away.
Yeah, good.
I'll get them to come over, we'll start doing a layout.
Yeah, get them started. Yeah.
Is one of you available for maybe ten minutes,
just to confirm the cuts that you think would be best?
You know what? I can try and give my advice...
Yeah. Ten minutes.
I'm sure you'll allow me to take a break...
Max. ..for ten minutes.
Have a break. But I need prosciutto.
SCOTTY: That's right,
Kyle and Leslie's tilers will accept prosciutto for payment.
It's prosciutto currency at House One.
Yeah, when the Curs...
The Cursios are there they like their prosciutto.
Things get done when there's prosciutto in the fridge.
Ten minutes. Is that OK? Italian currency.
Ten minutes. See, he's great.
So, I've been corrupted by the Cursio brothers.
Is it possible for you to stop and get some prosciutto?
LIBERTY: What's prosciutto? What the (BLEEP) OK.
And, oh, my god, bless them, they just...
They've been on other Blocks, they know what they're doing.
They just rallied.
They're helping our builder.
Here, so, 155 say? Yeah, go 155.
Make a mark on the wall.
Then measure back to the front water stop you've got here.
And make sure that we're gonna have enough tile to carry through.
And the tilers in House One had given us all their stuff.
I don't know. Everyone's just so nice.
That's what makes me emotional 'cause I'm like, like,
everyone's so helpful.
Alright, give him the prosciutto, I'll take the beers.
Did you get prosciutto really? 'Cause we love you.
Oh, you didn't have to do that. We did.
You didn't have to help us.
Like, it's the bloody best of humanity here, I reckon.
You know what? That's what The Block family's all about.
You know what, he usually cries a lot too.
Yeah.
(INDISTINCT SPEECH) (LAUGHTER)
Have I got (BLEEP) all down my face? Yeah, you've got some.
Can you wipe it?
I've got Cheezel.
Yeah, so, Aidan and Keith stayed back
to make sure that we had framing inspection signed off.
I think at that point they knew that
we were staring down the barrel of an unfinished room.
You got your angles?
And they don't want that for anyone.
262.
So, cut those three and we'll screw it in.
We've just gotta go around and then put the flashing on
and then we're sweet.
Aren't we?
Don't know yet.
We've got like, ten minutes.
Keep going. Yeah. Almost there.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Put your angle across the top
then put your angle down in the base of the tray.
KEITH: Gee, it's getting close isn't it?
AIDAN: It's getting very close. KEITH: Getting very close.
AIDAN: You've also got no solid down here.
Yeah, no, he's cutting. Yeah, yeah, OK. Cutting them now?
You've got nine minutes, guys.
MAN: Quick, I need the other two yesterday.
Watching it was like, you know,
when someone hurt themselves and you don't wanna look,
that's what it felt like for me.
Yeah. So I was just like, outside, pacing.
(TOOLS RATTLE)
I can't breathe.
(DRILL WHIRS)
KEITH: Six minutes, lads.
Need two minutes to cut it then we can screw the rest down.
5:59pm. One piece, come on!
Come on. We got one minute.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Come on, come on, come on! I'm coming, mate.
KEITH: That's it, guys. 6pm. Stop. Stop.
No more power tools.
Come on, come on, come on! I'm coming, mate.
KEITH: That it, guys. It's 6pm.
Stop. No more power tools.
Stop, Kel.
SCOTTY: And just like that,
Steph and Gian's hopes of waterproofing have vanished.
But site manager Aidan doesn't want them to throw in the towel just yet.
'Cause we're at, you know, just at 6pm
but you're not making any noise.
Just stick them in.
Aidan and Keith allowed us to start sheeting the walls and the ceiling
at 'tools down,' Thursday afternoon.
AIDAN: I just want you to make sure you understand that
you're not dead in the water.
So, if we just do these couple of things,
then the next inspection is the pre-waterproof inspection.
And we wanna make sure that you can plaster, get all that done.
Yeah. Right?
And then you're in a position where
you're gonna pass that inspection at 7am tomorrow.
ALL: Yep.
And then you start waterproofing. Yep.
Yeah?
The main objective of tonight
is to get the room ready for waterproofing 7am tomorrow.
I don't like seeing contestants suffer.
And I was stressing about you.
I was stressing.
I know but I think now you've accepted it...
Yeah. So it's OK.
And you're still a chance. You still can't give up.
No. Yeah. You still can't give up.
No, we're still gonna, we're gonna push in, we're gonna get there...
Yep. ..at the end.
# I had a dream
# I got everything I wanted... #
SCOTTY: As the sun sets on another day,
two teams are rallying late into the night.
In House Five, Eliza and Liberty's chippy Mark is tiling their floor.
And in House Four, Steph and Gian's team are plastering.
We are plastering at 12am.
MAN: It's not worth it.
So it's officially waterproof Friday with Chris and...
Daniel. ..Daniel.
I'm just using this to heat up my food.
I was like this in the shower this morning.
(CHUCKLES)
Open plan living. It's the new age.
SCOTTY: There are 52 hours left to Reveal and it's time
to see how the sisters in House Five went with their tiling last night.
Our poor bloody builders.
Like, it's not even our main builder,
it's our like, head chippy,
took on the tiling task after ours walked out yesterday.
And they were here till like, just after...
They were here till about 2:40am.
Not something I wanna be doing again.
We've done a fair bit of tiling over the years so it's not an issue.
I haven't laid small tiles like that but...
A little bit tedious. It took some time but we got there.
We honestly couldn't ask for a better builder
or person to have in this experience with us.
We're so grateful for him.
Absolute trojans.
I laid a couple of tiles though, didn't I, Mark?
You did. Really?
Yeah. I'm a tiler now.
And we've managed to get a new tiling group in that are gonna
help us tile the rest of the walls today, which is a great result.
I have to go get...
I'm gonna get a (AMERICAN ENGLISH) plant later.
Are you on the plants not (BRITISH ENGLISH) plants anymore?
I dunno. I'm trying to think about it.
(AMERICAN ENGLISH) Plant?
I say (BRITISH ENGLISH) plant. Oh, do you?
I wouldn't have picked you to... How do you say...
No, no, this is Adelaide accent.
Like, Adelaide days accent.
How do you say C-A-S-T-L-E? Wait, say that again?
How do you say C-A-S-T-L-E?
Cascle?
Are you having (BLEEP) a laugh?
C-A-S-T-L-E.
I am so... C-A-S-C-L-E. Cas...
Are you... Oh, my lord.
C... Ca, Castle!
OK, you say castle. Some people say 'cassel'.
That's amazing. Oh, my dear lord.
Guys...
SCOTTY: Over a over at House Four,
Steph and Gian have a special visitor from home.
Hey, princess. Hi, Dad.
How are you?
It's so nice to see Dad. A breath of fresh air.
He's a builder himself.
How's it going?
Good? Yeah. Welcome.
Thank you.
What does it feel like? It feels like a building site.
Yeah, it does. It just feels like work for me.
No, it is, it is. (CHUCKLES)
PRODUCER: Good to see your dad? Yeah. Yep.
Tell me about it.
(EMOTIONALLY) It's nice.
Yep.
I have been struggling a lot,
internally,
and yes, you guys can't see that because I'm presenting so fine.
Probably not presenting fine
but I'm trying to present fine to cope.
That's not to put on a face.
I'm not trying to be better for anyone else.
I'm trying to cope mentally.
So, that's how I cope.
So...
And I don't ever want to be not relatable
because people are like, you're always smiling.
Yeah, because I have to otherwise I will crumble constantly,
and that's not going to be good for me
and I won't be able to survive.
So, it's gotta be...
You've gotta have a strong interior P exterior
because you talk to yourself better
and then I talk to Gian better,
and then we're both going through it.
But ultimately what I've learnt in so many days so far
is I have to be kind to myself,
'cause there's so much self-bashing that you don't even see.
For me, as you know, it's all very mental.
We're ready... We're ready to start waterproofing.
Really? Yes.
Are you serious?
Yeah. GIAN: Yes.
They're about to start waterproofing now.
Oh, my... (SOBS)
That's good.
(SOBS) We got there.
What's wrong? You right?
It's good. It's a little win.
We'll do it. It's a good little win.
It's fine. Oh.
Why are you crying? Oh, I don't know. Of happiness.
(UP-BEAT MUSIC)
(BICYCLE BELL DINGS)
SCOTTY: With only a couple of days left to shop before Reveal,
Leah has left The Block to visit a local homewares store.
I went to ikos,
a beautiful little homewares store in Hampton Street.
There were all these curves,
everything was organic or handmade.
I can't believe that's been 3-D printed.
WOMAN: 3-D printed.
That's so clever. It's quite extraordinary.
Everything was stunning. So, I was in heaven.
I was just frothing at everything.
Wow, wow, wow.
But Kristy called me while I was there
because something had happened to my daughter.
Hey, how are you going?
(GRIM MUSIC)
Marni had bumped her head.
She actually went face falling into a table
and made a huge, open gash.
Pretty bad.
And it needed stitches in the hospital.
Oh, OK, I probably shouldn't have opened that.
Eugh!
(EMOTIONALLY)
I'm just a little bit upset because
my kids have never had stitches before so I don't
even know what to really expect with them and I'm just not there for her.
I was very, very emotional because...
It's alright, bub. Um...
Because it's her first...
that my child's ever needed stitches.
And it was just the first time in this week and a bit
that we've been away that I thought, oh gosh, I'm not there for her.
Mmm.
She's a real daddy as well.
Like, if someone's hurt or... Yeah. Like, we're not there.
..it's like, Dad will make me feel better.
Yeah. And yeah...
So, it's just a very 'kick in the gut' moment
that we're here for them
but probably in their immediate little world
they might be thinking, where's Mum and Dad?
(POIGNANT MUSIC)
# Mad world made me crazy
# Might just turn around, do 180... #
SCOTTY: With week one of this year's Block well underway,
I think it's about time I invite my mate Shelley Craft
to come and see the houses and meet our new Blockheads.
(TYRE BANGS AND SCREECHES)
(CHUCKLES)
(SHELLEY LAUGHS)
Are you laughing at my park? No.
I was too busy waving at you.
It's just lovely to see you in your brand-new wheels.
I know, isn't it fantastic?
Well, they were brand-new wheels until I got the gutter,
but that's OK.
That's alright. That's fantastic. Welcome.
Thank you for the car.
Oh, well, thank you, Ford.
You wanna go see how it's going? Yeah, I do. Yeah, I do.
Down here, Shell.
What a lovely street. Yeah, a charming street.
Very charming street, isn't it?
Hey Kyle, Leslie!
Meet a friend of mine. Hello.
Shelley Craft! Hi!
Hi. Lovely to see you.
Welcome to The Block. BOTH: Thank you.
Although this is my first day
so that feels a bit odd, doesn't it.
Day Nine for us.
Yeah. Now, a little bit of an insight into our contestants, Shell.
Yeah? Kyle, this is his happy face.
This is his sad face.
This is his stressed face.
This is his worried face.
He's got the same face.
Well, I like his face. Thank you, Shell.
I'm happy with his face. This is good.
And this is Leslie's face, is giggling.
Right. She laughs the whole time.
And I'm happy with that too. Yeah, that's good.
It's great. I know.
Hello, gang.
Hey! Meet my friend Shelley Craft.
Hi! Well, hi.
Oh, my god! It's so nice to meet you.
Lovely to meet you. G'day, mate. How are you?
Lovely to meet you. Parents, Shell.
How are the kids coping without you?
(SOMBRE MUSIC) Um... We...
Oh, sorry. Yes.
You OK? No. So...
Oh, I know, I get it. No, it's not even that.
So, this morning, Marni's four and she's hit her head at school.
Oh! Right.
She's at the doctor. That's happening right now.
Oh, my gosh. Sorry.
No, no, it's fine. She's OK. She's in the best hands.
Mum and Dad are all over it. She's in good spirits.
Meet Shelley Craft. Hi!
Hi. Lovely to meet you.
It's lovely to meet you. Welcome to The Block.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
Quick secret. Yes?
He's a tiler.
Yes. Former tiler, by trade. Haven't done it in a long time.
Boom, brother. But did you do all this?
I haven't even had a chance to do this bit yet.
I'm tackling this piece we have in our hand.
Oh. Which is the arch.
Yes, it's gonna be in this archway.
There's gonna be a lot of minor cuts,
a lot of little slits and mosaic around that arch.
I have a friend. I have a friend I need you to meet.
He has a friend. Hello.
Hi, Shelley! How are you?
Good. Lovely to meet you.
We're so dirty and smelly.
Oh, I'm used to it.
And what's your name, buddy? Hadi.
Hadid. Hadi. H-A-D-I.
Very good tilers.
Hadi at work, he is. Hadi at work.
I like him a lot. He's seen me a lot.
Well, now you're on the telly too.
You're on the telly as well. (LAUGHTER)
You're at home right now watching you. Look.
Hey listen, Hadi, I'll tell you one thing,
we've just got to do a little bit of television
and so if you can go in there and I'll talk to the girls.
Yeah. Love you, Hadi. Champion.
Why would two sisters in the prime of their lives want to do The Block?
They're looking for husbands.
Yeah, well, that's my first and foremost,
looking for husbands.
But we... Like, here on site?
Anywhere. Yeah. Anyone.
Beggars can't be choosers. Or out there?
I really genuinely thought
we could just do a 50-50 dating show,
50-50 building scenario
but no, it's 110% building.
So I think we're just gonna have to let that one slide for a moment.
And just hope that Mr Right falls on our doorstep at some point.
Meet my friend Shelley Craft.
Hi, Shelley!
In the flesh. Oh, hello.
How are you? Lovely to meet you, Steph.
I'm good. How are you, Shelley.
Hi, Gian. I'm very well, thank you. Lovely to meet you.
Lovely to meet YOU.
Now, we've just got to do our traditional thing that we always do.
Come here. Yeah, we always hug.
You know why, Shell? You don't hug anybody.
I hug these guys every time I see them
because they've been together since they were 13.
(SHELLEY GASPS)
Come here! That's beautiful.
Oh, my gosh! OK.
We've been together for half our lives now because we're 27.
That's amazing.
Oh, so, this is going to be a breeze for you guys.
Look, I think from an us-coming-together point of view,
yes.
But there's challenges we've never faced before.
You've had a tough week. Yes.
We've had a tough week. OK.
And you have waterproofed now. Yeah.
Yes. But only just this morning.
Yeah, we started this morning.
You've got to take two steps forward, one step back...
Yeah. Thanks, Shelley.
All those things, 'cop it on the chin,'
'suck it up, Buttercup.'
You know. Yep.
In the spa this morning,
I was just thinking how Week One's so tough, you know.
(LAUGHS)
Boom! See ya.
He left you hanging. (LAUGHTER)
Oh, here you are. Sorry, brother. Boom.
(BIRDS SQUAWK)
(WATER LAPS)
SCOTTY: It's Friday afternoon
and all of our teams have finally waterproofed.
In House One, our quiet achievers lead the pack
as their grout goes on.
It's Friday. Yeah, really good day. Productive day.
House Two have clawed some time back
after missing Waterproof Wednesday.
All I really kind of need to do that's probably important
is painting a door
but I don't even feel like doing that today.
House Three have made up some time after losing their tiler yesterday.
On schedule. Happy days. Smiling.
A week of setbacks, Steph and Gian in House Four
are finally drying their waterproofing.
There was a lot to do but we got there.
And House Five fell behind after their tilers quit
but they are powering through it now.
We had hoped that we would have achieved more,
maybe started some painting.
But it turns out you can't paint when there's 100 tilers in your room
so we've got more tomorrow than we were hoping to do.
Looks like our Blockheads are cooking up some great bathrooms
but that's not the only thing brewing.
Earlier in the week, Leah sought out
her favourite real estate agent and set up a meeting.
I called Lana from Whitefox who I hustled, hustled, hustled to find.
I have followed Lana for years and years,
even before she was on The Block.
SCOTTY: And here she is,
with real estate agent and former Blockhead from The Oslo, Jesse.
How's it all going?
We're just finding our feet, I suppose.
They love the house.
Beautiful. I love the curves.
They really like our ideas and the design,
and everything we're trying to go for.
It's got so much impact, the Venetian plaster.
It is art on the walls.
It's just now, let's see what they say.
Any questions, give us a call, but we will chat ASAP.
Yep. Sounds good.
I'd only told Kristy
and I knew Kristy wasn't engaging with Whitefox.
And then it was only the night before that I told Steph
that I was using Lana from Whitefox.
Then Ash saw Lana meet with Gian and Steph, shook hands.
I don't know how that happened.
I don't know whether they were just like, looking at every single house
but it looked like a formal...
It looked like a form... They walk out, shake hands, come on in.
Sorry, Dan, we're gonna need you. Hopefully it's dry.
Oh, we're having a look? Yeah.
OK. Let's do it.
Waterproofing? Yeah.
Wow. You were there on a Friday.
Waterproof Friday. Yeah, no, you'll do it. You'll do it.
We had no meeting with them. No, no. No.
We just saw him as a previous Block contestant.
We were like, "Hey, Jesse."
What Leah doesn't know is that
Steph and Gian have already locked in their agents.
Steph, Ray White, Aaron.
They're the winning agents from last season, Ray White.
Nice to meet you.
The dots are not connecting and I'm finding it very hard to read her.
And also how to trust her.
(EDGY MUSIC)
I just... I'm honestly shocked about the real estate thing.
I'm not.
I feel like there's probably, not a divide as such,
but there's certainly couples that vibe together more than others
and that probably have a similar...
In a nutshell,
there's something brewing between Steph and Leah/Kristy.
Now that I think about it, we sat in
my room last night talking about Whitefox and not a blink of an eye.
She came over and said, "Oh, have you found a real estate agent?"
I was like, "Oh, you know, we've contacted one.
"We're in the talk.
"She's gonna come over on Friday."
She's like, "Oh, who is it?"
I said, it's Lana from Whitefox.
If you've already engaged in Whitefox and I've said,
"I've engaged with Whitefox," wouldn't you say, "Oh, my god!
"You're joking. Same."
Even though I'm like, popcorn, let's do this...
(BLEEP) snake! Yeah.
..I do worry that Steph's a little bit vulnerable
and I would like to have some facts.
Otherwise they look like arseholes.
If you're gonna do that...
SCOTTY: OK, so, what are the facts according to you guys?
Whitefox were just under our carport when were exiting and yeah,
we just had a quick chat with them, brief chat.
PRODUCER: But you hadn't organised to see them?
No. No, not at all.
We didn't see them.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
She's gone, "I'm gonna take Leah's agent."
Cool. I'll take you down.
Get it, girl. Get it! (LAUGHS)
Game on, moles.
I think they have come in with a game plan but I just think
it's gonna unravel really quickly 'cause she's gonna get caught out.
VOICEOVER: Television's incredible...
SHAYNNA: Oh, this is massive!
..Sunday night reveals...
DARREN: This will resonate with the buyers.
NEALE: Looks hot. I love it.
..are back.
Ooh-la-la.
Towering bathroom brilliance.
The feeling in here is divine.
The most curvalicious ceilings.
Oh! Fabulous. Woah!
The nightclub in the bathroom.
How fricking sexy is that.
And... # Money, money. #
..new judge, real estate whiz, Marty Fox...
Wow. It's bland.
..is unleashed...
'Cause I will leave...
..on the Blockheads.
..and not think too much of it.
Geez. Wasn't expecting that.
This is the night...
Nothing bugs me more than contestants that cheat.
..rule-bending drama is about to rock...
(IMITATES EXPLOSION)
That's cheating.