SCOTT CAM: At one month into The Block,
everyone is fighting their own battles.
Not doing it.
Our room is 120,000% far more impressive
than that box.
Why are you always thrilled when I walk over?
You never, ever have a single good thing to say to me ever.
But then there's the more immediate challenge.
Downstairs bathroom week... This whole experience ain't right.
(LAUGHS) Ain't right.
It just ain't right. (LAUGHS)
..a worthy opponent.
The whole thing just ain't right, I'm telling you.
And tonight, everything needs to fall into place
if they want a shot at Sunday's prize.
This, right now, what's happening is an actual disaster.
Now, I've got three stonemasons out the front.
They haven't been told about anything about an online induction.
But not before the Block B-girls and B-boys
battle it out for some cold-hard cash.
Everyone was pumped. ASH: These guys don't care, though.
Oh... Like, it's clear.
Like, I'm thinking about it all now and...
ELIZA: Godawful. It was truly godawful.
(GULL CRIES)
LIBERTY: Eliza, hurry up!
(AFFECTED VOICE) Oh, hey, guys.
It's Eliza from The Block.
I'd love you to get ready with me.
Firstly, what I do
is ensure I have beautiful brushed, soft, luscious hair,
then I grab my front strands
and I run a straightener through them.
# In the jungle The quiet jungle... #
Sweep your head back in a low ponytail-type motion,
then I pull out those beautiful straight strands.
And there we are. All done.
Finishing touches.
My god. Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?
You too can look this stunning in mere moments.
(BLOWS KISS) Thank you for joining me.
Now, where were we?
Ah, yes, the second-last day
of downstairs bathroom week/ powder room week.
# Welcome to the jungle We got... #
The slash is because this week Blockheads could decide
whether to put a full bathroom
or just a powder room on the ground floor.
In house four, Steph and Gian are going for the powder room option.
We decided to do a powder room.
It fits our house better... Mm-hm.
..because our guest bathroom is opposite the hallway,
as opposed to everyone else's is in the outbuilding,
so because of that,
there is no need to have two showers on the ground floor,
so we decided to make a bougie...
BOTH: Powder room.
GIAN: Yeah, up early, just doing that second coat of waterproof now.
Dedication to the game.
Over in house one, Kyle and Leslie are also camp powder room this week.
KYLE: I think that you could say that we're playing the game
by paring back our rooms and trying to save on budget.
Like, that's part of what you have to do.
Houses two, three and five,
who coincidentally are yet to have a room win at HQ,
are going all out with full bathrooms,
while in house three,
Kristy and Brett are already tiling theirs.
In house two and five, Leah and Ash and sisters Eliza and Liberty
are looking a little behind for the end of the week
and that's because they've elected to put in underfloor heating.
We've been given the advice that,
you live in Melbourne, you have to have underfloor heating,
so we could've made the call the night before to not have it
so we could begin tiling, but we were, like, "Not an option."
The girls were supposed to get it installed last night
but the kit was the wrong size for their bathroom,
so the installers are coming back this morning.
Our underfloor heating people were supposed to be here at 6:00
and it's 6:20 and they're still not here.
He's just said they're on their way
but, like, the tilers have to start tiling at 7:00, so...
It sets us back again because our tiling was gonna start last night.
In house two, Leah is also supposed to be getting her underfloor heating
installed by the same contractor this morning.
LEAH: We've waterproofed.
We are waiting for the underfloor heating guys to arrive.
They have to start at 7:00 today
because my tilers are coming in at 9:00
and I know it takes a couple of hours.
It was 7:00 and no underfloor heating was happening at my house.
MAN: Lib, still not here? Nup.
7:06.
Just waiting around.
Our underfloor heaters are nowhere to be found.
This is the difference between us making the room
and not making the room.
GIAN: Is your floor heating in? No, not here still.
What?
I knew that the girls were also getting it done this morning,
so I whipped over to them and they were, like, in a panic.
I got up at 5:30. No.
This is setting us back. Like, our tiler's here.
Mmm. "So, like, what's the backup plan?
"What's the solution?" "Nothing I can do. Sorry."
The contractors were supposed to be there
installing at 6:00 on the dot.
They had their tilers there waiting. It should've been finished by now.
Our bathroom is so huge... Oh, I'm fuming. I'm fuming.
The underfloor heating.
ELIZA: The who? Quick, quick, quick. Go now.
LEAH: Yeah, well, they need to...
They need to send another team for me too!
MAN: House two?
Ross said you guys would be here at 6:00am on the dot getting started.
It's, like, 7:25.
Did they not tell you that you need...
We haven't been told about a 6:00 start.
This is, like... It's been a big mess.
Not to shoot the messenger... Yeah, yeah.
We probably won't finish our room 'cause of this.
Yeah. I'll let you get into it.
Yep. I'll follow up.
LEAH: Hey, just really quickly,
house two, we spoke yesterday, remember?
You were gonna come at 7:00 on the dot.
Yeah, did you call the office at all or...?
Yes, and I've sent them all the waterproofing pics.
Oh, really? Yep. Spoke to Ross himself.
Yeah... So, who's going to do my place?
My tilers are coming at 9:00.
Yeah, I'm not sure. You're not sure?
No. We haven't been told anything.
This is a joke.
Why am I not even booked?
So I called them.
Yeah, you're gonna have to call the office. I've got no idea.
David, where did you get to?
It is...
It's kind of a stress because they can't do two houses at once
and we literally are, like, drowning in money
with tilers just sitting around.
What's your name? Nick.
Nick's standing in front of me
saying he wasn't told to even come to my house and he...
But that's how we always send text messages for our waterproof crew.
8:00, waterproofing. That is early.
That is, like...
Because you can't book in till you've done your waterproof.
It's a whole thing.
And when will they do it?
And what time will that be?
How long do you reckon it's gonna take for this?
A couple of hours. Two hours.
So we are now at 9:30 and then what about...
Who gets to my house at nine... Well, we're gonna split up, so...
You're gonna split up?
So, someone's gonna come to me immediately?
Yeah, so the longer we stand here and talk, we waste more time...
They're, like, "Oh, it's totally fine you're not booked.
"The boys are there.
"When they've finished the girls, they'll go to you."
It was, like, "And how long's that gonna be?"
He said, "It'll probably take a couple of hours."
I was, like, "Absolutely not."
OK, are you guys kind of aware that it's a Friday
and that we have got to be tiled...
Like, we, on the Block, if we don't have trades rocking up at 5:00am,
6:00am, we literally can't finish.
'Cause this...
This, right now, what's happening
is an actual disaster for the girls and I.
Have you been on site ever?
And there was a good ten-second silence.
I was, like...
"I am deeply insulted by that statement."
(LAUGHS) He's, like...
"We've been doing The Block for nine years."
I was, like, "Well, you should be well and truly used to it by now."
(LAUGHS) # I'm the bad guy... #
We're just wasting more time standing here.
OK, no problem.
Can you just get our jobs done so we can stop wasting money?
# D'uh... #
They split up. One boy stayed at the girls', one boy came to us.
So, in future, they can double their productivity clearly
without a problem.
# I'm the bad guy... #
ELIZA: So you guys are the messengers and everyone yells at you
and it's nothing to do with you? Yeah.
Oh, my god. You poor things. Oh...
Melbourne sisters Eliza and Liberty
aren't just relying on the underfloor heating
to try and bag their first win.
About six months ago,
I saw an installation at a South Melbourne apartment,
like, really funky, cool, of this moss wall in a bathroom.
The features of it - purifies the air, you don't water it,
it lasts 15-plus years, dust-resistant, bacteria-resistant,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's polarising
but I think the average person can appreciate the excitement of it.
We won't do it in the master
just in case the owners absolutely despise it.
They can shut the door and ignore it.
But when people come over, they can be, like,
"Hey, have you seen our ugly moss wall?"
Or, like, "Have you seen our cool moss wall?" hopefully.
They're the only team including a bath and shower
and they're also the only team doing a moss wall.
The only problem with a moss wall is it needs to be waterproofed
in order to be guaranteed by the Block builders.
So, there's just a small issue at the moment of being on the MDF...
Yeah.
..being in a wet area that contains moisture in the air.
And from what the specs say,
this takes in moisture and releases moisture.
Yeah, it will. Yeah.
There's an issue with the moss in terms of, like,
normally it's put on marine ply board or something
but due to the tight turnaround
and the fact it's coming from Queensland,
it had to go on an MDF, right, which is not allowed in bathrooms.
So we're just worried, over time, what can happen to the MDF.
Because normally you have it on marine ply, you said.
Yeah, when it's for bathroom. Yeah.
What about if we guarantee the wall?
Oh, if they guarantee the wall... Oh, if you guarantee the product?
Yeah.
Well, that changes things.
How long for?
(LAUGHS) So, it would be for five years, maybe.
OK. I think we can guarantee...
Yeah, if you can guarantee it for five years,
I think that'll probably get it over the line, to be honest.
Five-year warranty. We can do that.
That's fine. Yeah, nice.
Yeah. Alright.
So, the installers need to know that they have to seal these edges...
Yeah. ..when they're installing.
Just installing it. Yeah. Yep.
Great. OK. Great.
Let's get the moss wall up. Thank you. Oh, my god.
I'm so excited. There we go.
Awesome news.
We finally got the tick for the moss wall,
so that's what we're looking at.
LIBERTY: The moss wall has never been done before on The Block.
In 19 seasons, there's very little that hasn't been done before.
ONYSSA: So we have to slide. Just... Slide.
LIBERTY: Regardless of what feedback we get for it, we back ourselves in
'cause it's something different.
We needed to take a risk and we're happy.
(GULL CRIES)
# There's something happening here but what it is... #
SCOTT: It's Friday morning before downstairs bathroom reveal...
# I think it's time we stop, children What's that sound?
# Everybody look, what's going down... #
Time for Shelley and I to make our weekly site visit.
And a few things have changed since last time.
Now, Shell, have a look at this.
Truecore steel frames gone up in about 48 hours.
SHELLEY: That's crazy. (LAUGHS)
First storeys are going up
and the director is much younger than I remember.
No. No, wait.
That's Shelley's daughter Eadie on work experience.
Big loud voice.
Three cameras walkarounds.
Yes. Yeah, well done.
Very good.
It's madness, isn't it, because last week this wasn't even here.
No. There was nothing up here. No.
In two weeks, they're gonna be doing this room. I know. I know.
It's going quickly, this series, isn't it?
Yeah, it is going quickly. You know what the beauty of it is?
There's so much living space up here.
Bedrooms, bathrooms, separate family areas. Yeah.
It kind of makes this week's rooms that we're looking at
a little bit boring.
It's like a week off. You've given them a week off.
Some of them are the smallest rooms we've ever done.
We're going there now. Come on.
In house one, Kyle and Leslie's downstairs bathroom
is positioned to the right of the front door.
Looking good, mate. Yeah, it is, mate.
We're having dinner.
A couple of days ago, Leslie went home to visit the kids...
We get to be all squishy together.
Not in Block land. Yeah.
..so Kyle is flying solo for the rest of today,
which is why it's lucky that this 2.2-square-metre room
is the smallest area a team has ever presented to judges on The Block.
Hello, mate. Hey, Scotty.
Wow. Shell, how are you?
G'day, Kyle. Good. How are you? This is massive. I know.
(LAUGHS) I don't know if we'll all fit.
That's alright. We can see it from here. It's OK.
(LAUGHS) I love the curve again.
Yes. That's beautiful. Thank you.
And I love the tile choice, I love the grout choice.
I love the tiler. Love you too, guys.
(ALL LAUGH)
Small bathroom. Yeah. Yeah.
If you didn't finish this on your own, you'd be a complete failure.
(MEN LAUGH) Absolutely.
The powder room will feature their signature curved walls,
a fancy toilet and vanity and no room for anything else.
You know what, I was thinking
there is no way that a powder room could win this week...
Mmm. ..just for the fact that...
Sheer size. Space. Yeah.
But it's beautiful. It's gonna be beautiful.
KYLE: They were quite positive on the design of our powder room.
They didn't really seem to have any issue for the decision
to reduce the size of the bathroom.
I think it doesn't matter about the size. Yeah.
Yeah. It's what you put in there.
This could be a Block first, the smallest room in the history...
And it is the smallest room. ..takes out the win.
OK. Well, there is a lot happening over the next three weeks.
In fact, it's chockers, isn't it? Absolutely.
So, for you... Mm-hm. Oooh.
..I have got an extra little gift. That'll do.
Here it is. 20,000 bucks of Block Shop bucks.
Yep. Not just for you. Everyone got it.
Oh! Amazing! Yes.
And there's so much gear on the Block Shop.
You can buy everything at the Block Shop.
I've already been sussing it out. Have you?
I've been waiting for this moment. (LAUGHS) Come on, let's go.
Thank you very much.
# Girls on the avenue... #
Yay. Are these our two toileys? Sure are.
Yew!
At the other end of the Block in house five,
sisters Eliza and Liberty's bathroom measures over ten square metres.
It's the biggest room being presented this week.
I'll tell you what, you've got a lot of work to do.
You've gotta get all that moss off the bloody wall.
(WOMEN LAUGH) Yeah. This is our feature.
(LAUGHS) ELIZA: Isn't it beautiful?
I don't know. I don't know if it is or not.
And is it real?
So it's, like, taxidermied, if you know what I mean.
Yes. Preserved.
So, it's dust-resistant, bacteria-resistant.
You don't need to water it. It endures a bathroom.
Oh... It lasts for 15 years.
But what does it do? It's just pretty.
It's a living feature. But it's not living.
It's preserved. Preserved.
You know, people, there's products like Exit Mould
that get rid of that stuff... (LAUGHTER)
..for bathrooms.
People scrub and scrub to get rid of that stuff.
We just thought it was a bit of a talking point
for the guest bathroom. Righto.
And the buyers don't have to have it in their master if they hate it
but they can be, like, "Check out our moss wall..." Moss wall.
"..that's never been done on The Block before."
Shelley's not sold at all. I'm not sold.
Shelley was, like, "I hate it."
What's behind it? Is it easy to remove if they don't like it?
It's just screwed on. Yeah. Yeah.
But then what's gonna be... There's gonna be tiles on the rest?
Correct. Yeah.
So you'd have to, like...
So you're not tiling underneath it to future-proof?
No. No? OK.
They just have to love it. They have to love it.
Yeah.
We can give them a couple of tiles...
Spare tiles. (LAUGHS)
..spare tiles with the sale of the house
for them to put behind it if they don't like the moss wall.
Righto. Yeah.
Jeez, they've got some guts, these two.
You do. I'm really excited to see how it goes.
I'm being as honest as possible. Thank you.
I think you're very brave.
We're either gonna come first or last with this moss wall, right?
We want first, we want the ten grand.
We had to do this. If we come last, that's fine.
Like, there was no point just doing a boring bathroom
and coming third again.
# Sonofabitch Get me a drink... #
Is that Shelley's? That's Shelley's.
And what milk do you want? Almond, please.
Almond? Yep.
I reckon we might be able to get hold of this.
We're good. Sweet.
Yeah. Thank you, mate.
We do it different at house three.
SCOTT: In house three,
Kristy and Brett are also putting in a full bathroom
rather than a powder room.
It's positioned opposite their living room.
Hello. Hello.
Nice big space.
It's a massive space. This is a great space.
I love a Scotty and Shelley walkaround.
I get a lot out of them, even more so than the judging.
What's that? Is that the finish? Yeah, we can't touch...
No, it's not the finish. Oh, we can't touch? Alright.
You can't touch that one. That's basecoat...
For Venetian plaster. Venetian plaster.
..for Venetian plaster in here.
These guys are going for opulence -
Venetian plaster on the walls and ceiling.
Is the Venetian... How much is that costing you?
Very expensive. Is it?
Yeah, it's a bit pricey. But... So why are you doing it?
Yes. And why are you doing...
You know what, why are you doing it on the ceiling?
I wouldn't do it on the ceiling, because the judges will go,
"That's too expensive and it's a waste of money."
It was the difference of $700 and I think the wow factor...
OK. ..of it... OK. ..was worth it.
And we're betting on the win. And we're betting on the win.
Yeah.
In my opinion, if you're downstairs and your friends are over,
that's a chance to maybe show off
and you have your big wow factor bathroom.
I think it's a good move.
This is yours to lose this week. You know that.
100%. It is. 100%.
If you don't win, you've stuffed up.
Yep. Yeah, thanks, guys. No pressure.
GIAN: Who's that? Is that Shelley's kids?
What's your name?
Eadie? Eadie.
That's a beautiful name.
Walkaround, house four.
Three cameras.
Oh!
So good.
In house four,
Steph and Gian are downsizing with a powder room this week
located next door to their working-from-home space.
Having less to do has been fortuitous for Steph,
as yesterday she was out of action
after falling in a hole and hurting her ribs.
I took a step back and fell into a hole.
Yeah.
Hey, Scotty. Hi!
Hey, Shelley. SHELLEY: Good morning.
Firstly, how are you? Feeling alright?
You've taken a fall? You've fallen down a hole?
So, how are the ribs?
Yeah, like, they're really sore
but I really want to be able to get...
I'm gonna just go through it. Go for the win. Mmm.
Yep. Yes.
Hey, they met in Year Eight. We know that.
I know. Unbelievable.
(OTHERS LAUGH) You're not gonna believe it.
We've got a comparison here for you today.
Oh, yeah? Shelley's daughter Milla is here.
Oh, Milla. There she is.
Wave. Hi, Milla.
Hey, Milla.
And guess what, she's in Year Eight!
And she's got a boyfriend? No!
We can't say on national television. (LAUGHTER) No. No.
But that scares the life out of me. Yes.
That he might be the one. He might be the one.
(LAUGHS) He might be. He might be.
I did have a bit of a look. Look, it's a generous-sized powder room.
Yeah. But it's still tiny.
Still tiny. Yeah. Yeah.
For architect Steph, it was never going to be just a powder room.
There will be a full-length stone bench running one side of the room,
with French patterned tiles on the floor and a Roman blind.
Very European.
I really do want to create a connection
between the kitchen and the powder room...
Mm-hm. ..so I'm using the natural stone.
So we're gonna put this Taj Mahal cladded around that.
There's, like, a box, per se, in there.
Is that from one of our sponsors? Yeah.
So, Constantino is providing the slab for the kitchen,
so it's the same cut.
Oh, so you buy a whole slab... We bought a whole slab.
..and you use are all leftovers. All the offcuts right now.
So it's gonna have a lot of punch, this little room. Yeah.
Like, I think what the judges are loving about us is the continuity.
Continuity is key and that's what I believe has set us apart,
so if we continue down that road, I think, yeah, the success...
You have been successful.
Speaking of that, I love our Ford getaways
and, you know, we do it every Monday, Shell.
Yeah. Just me and the kids.
Yeah? Yes.
And it's fantastic. (LAUGHS)
There's so much value in winning the rooms.
PRODUCER: This is the second week in a row for you guys.
Yeah. Can you get used to this?
Oh, absolutely. They've even asked us where we would like to go...
(LAUGHS) ..in the future.
Have you got any requests, where you'd like to go next Monday?
Oh, the Hot Springs. That would be awesome.
Yeah, Steph, obviously she's had a lot of success, a lot of wins,
a lot of nights away, you know, Scotty dinners, all of that.
She was chatting to Kristy and I
and I think she's even said it to the girls,
it was just, like, a little...
So patronising. .."I just really want you to win.
"I just really want you to experience it."
I was, like...
"Thanks." "Cool."
"Yeah, we do want to win." (LAUGHS) I was, like, "Yeah."
We want to sleep on a Monday.
(GULL CRIES)
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simply head online and vote for your favourite room.
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SCOTT: It's downstairs bathroom week
and our final around-the-grounds catch-up is with house two.
Their downstairs bathroom is located next to the laundry
and while it's tiny, they are still putting in a shower
to make it a full bathroom,
which they're hoping will finally bag them their first win in HQ.
Well, hello. Hello.
Hi.
You're very advanced. Yeah, look, we're steaming ahead...
Oooh. ..that's for sure.
Are you putting a shower in here too? COUPLE: We are.
We're doing a full bathroom.
We are going in really strong from a market's point of view.
This is a complete bathroom - tick. It's not just a powder room.
Our room is really small but we've pushed hard on the layout
to include a shower
and I think that's where our focus is for this week,
is hitting the market. Mmm.
House two's downstairs bathroom will continue the Art Deco style,
dramatic black, white and grey colour scheme and use of marble tiles.
The addition of an internal skylight to the first storey
will illuminate the landlocked room.
Four weeks in. We haven't had a win yet.
Yeah.
So, a win would really help you financially and mentally, I think.
Mmm. Yeah. Yep. Definitely.
So, hopefully the judges can see the concept of it.
The functionality of it. And also...
Yeah, I think we're going for functionality for this one.
Mm-hm. Yep.
SCOTT: Having not had a win yet,
I'm giving Leah and Ash the honour of being the very first team
to play a fun new game Mitre 10 and I invented.
It's called The Claw
and it's like a reno-themed lucky dip full of cash and booby prizes.
Righto. Come on, let's get some cashola.
What do you reckon, babe? The whale? Octopus?
I'm going the whale.
Oh, my god.
Come on, come on... Yay.
Yeah, good work. Good work.
Righto. Let's see what you've got. I can't believe it.
Like, we got something.
He's very good on the claw, isn't he? He's great.
Here we go.
500. Oh, that's awesome.
500 bucks. (LAUGHS) So we get to do this every week?
Once a week, you get to do it. That's awesome.
Everybody has a crack. OK. You're the first.
What a whale of a time. Oh!
(LAUGHS) Jeez, you're good.
# Some folks are born made to wave the flag... #
There's a certain scent in the air at house four...
# It ain't me, it ain't me... #
It's not fresh paint, No More Gaps or wet cement.
It's the smell of success.
Steph and Gian have won two weeks in a row
and planning on making it three with a super flash marble vanity unit
to rival the real Taj Mahal.
And their stonemasons have just arrived on site.
But they're half an hour late for the afternoon site induction.
Hey, boys. You're doing the stone, house four?
Yep. Have you done the online induction?
No. Did the contestant say anything?
No.
I was meant to be on site,
but what happened was the Mitre 10 delivery for everyone's doors came
and our door wasn't on the pallet, so I made the call myself to say,
"Hey, I'm gonna go out and pick up the door."
Now, that meant that I was going to not be there
when Andre was gonna be inducted at 1:00.
No-one.
I'll have to ring them.
(RINGING TONE)
GIAN: Oh, hi, Dan.
Now, I've got three stonemasons out the front of the job.
Yep.
They haven't been told about anything about an online induction
or anything
and they've rocked up half an hour late for our on-site induction.
Did you communicate about all the online stuff,
that that gets done before we come to site?
I was planning on doing that when they got there.
Well, what if they don't have it?
Yeah, OK. Like, that's...
And where are you, mate?
I had to go pick up a door from Hume.
Is Steph here?
No, she's just out at Clayton at the moment.
I'll give her a buzz now.
Mate, the number one rule
is we always want someone on site for this occasion,
where I'm walking around trying to find someone,
you've got three stonemasons here who don't know what to do...
Yep. ..or where to go, haven't been inducted... Yep.
..haven't sent their insurances and I've got two contestants off-site.
Yeah, no, I get you. I get you.
I'm ten minutes away now. Well...
So, yeah, Andre was meant to get there at 1:00.
He got there late because of traffic.
Maybe, like, 1:15. They were late.
I think he got there at 1:15, 1:20.
Point of story, he was late.
Just had three stonemasons just arrived now...
Yeah. ..for house four.
They want to be inducted. Mm-hm.
But they haven't done their online or anything.
No, we cannot do it now.
They have to come tomorrow. OK.
Tomorrow, 9:00am? Yes.
OK. Alright. Thanks, mate. No worries. Thank you.
OK. (LAUGHS)
So... So...
..what we need by close of business today is all your documents,
soft copies all sent over. Yeah.
No more inductions today. Yeah.
The first induction's 9:00am tomorrow.
Not your fault.
Your client should've been instructive on what you needed to do
and he hasn't, unfortunately.
So we cannot install today? No.
No problem. Yeah.
We won't be able to install tomorrow.
Alrighty. Cool. Thank you. Thank you.
See you, mate. No worries. That's all.
And it was at about that moment that house four's builder Jack,
currently on the phone to house four's architect Steph,
realised that his stonemasons were heading off.
Yo. Cannot install.
What do you mean you can't install?
They can't install your stone.
STEPH: (ON PHONE) You have to call the safety guy. Andre can't leave.
Alright. I'll call you.
What's the go, mate? (LAUGHS) Eh?
What's the go? Can they... They've rocked up late.
Yeah, I know. And Gian hasn't instructed...
They should've been here at 1:00. But not even that.
They didn't even do their online induction beforehand.
He just said strict rules. Help me out?
How are you? Good, mate. Can you help us out?
Like what?
They're stressing about the stonemason.
The stone needs to go in. Mate...
I know. ..it's 1:30.
I would've helped you if something...
I've got something. No, I understand.
I've got no WorkCover, I've got no public liability,
nothing's in the system, mate.
It's Gian... Like, he knows the rules.
Steph and Gian know the rules.
Yeah, I'm just trying to...
I know what you're trying to do, but strict rules are strict rules.
Sorry, mate.
Gian has returned to the block
and knows if he doesn't get the stonemasons inducted today,
it's unlikely his stone vanity will be installed before Sunday's reveal.
So, Andre, let's not make this bigger than it has to be.
We need to send these four bullet points
just to Aakash from Nine In Six.
OK. So I've gotta email it, yeah? Yep.
It was a tense moment for everyone.
I was working out, like, how to go about this
because Andre was then saying that he couldn't install on Saturday,
so that was just creating this hard deadline that we were working to.
Having gotten a firm no from Aakash the safety officer,
Sydneysider Gian's play is to go over his head to the head of OH&S, Deano.
So we didn't get the...
Yeah, he sent through the four things.
I'm just trying to think outside the box.
Yep.
Let me get clarification on that sort of side of things,
on how that's gonna...
gotta work.
OK.
Get back to us. Yeah, yeah, I'll come.
All good.
(BLEEP) day. What can you do? You can't really do anything.
You have to deal with it, right?
You've got to deal with it and roll with the punches,
work out what we can do before there's any emotion involved,
so, yeah.
(GULL CRIES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
('TEARDROP' BY MASSIVE ATTACK PLAYS)
SCOTT: As much as the Blockheads love to declare
that they don't care what the judges think,
those comments every Sunday can be hard to forget.
# Teardrop on the fire... #
And house two's Leah has had a couple of weeks of bad feedback now.
MARTY: It's a lot to take in.
There's a lot.
Like, a lot.
I don't feel the soul connection to the bathroom in here.
So she's getting a second opinion.
Hello. How are you? WOMAN: I'm good. How are you?
Yeah, good, thanks. Thanks for coming out.
So, what's going on? This is good.
Met with Deb from Freedom. She's an interior designer.
How can I help? Tell me, tell me, tell me.
Yeah.
So, with the facade of our house,
we're the super sexy with the curves.
Beautiful.
I think the buyer that's gonna be drawn to our house
is gonna have design as their forefront.
So I'm just trying to do, like, a bit of a modern Art Deco style.
OK. Yeah.
That's my jam. Cool.
I think where I've been placing each week has started to bring me down.
Mmm. Like, for instance, on Sunday...
Mmm. ..we placed last again.
Showed her what we had just done. She gave me so much confidence.
In here is work-from-home space.
Well, I love it. Thanks.
Your furniture, you've got it. You've aced it.
Concentrate on the styling. Yep.
Then there's just gonna be those little elements
that I would say "That's too quirky..."
Yeah. "..for that mid-century."
She was, like, "Keep going, if not go harder."
So I was, like, "That's awesome." ASH: "Thanks, Deb."
You've got this, my friend.
Thank you. It's amazing.
Great.
It was actually really lovely to meet with her
and get a perspective from a professional.
Mmm.
And that sounds like actually a bit of a dig at the judges,
which it's not.
It's been a big morning of underfloor heating and moss wall installation
in house five
and while Eliza mans the fort...
ELIZA: It's all go, go, go.
..sister Liberty is grabbing her lights.
Was it you I spoke to on the phone about the downlights?
Yes, it was. OK. Great.
# Alright... #
Also on the road is house one's Kyle,
who is a one-man-band while wife Leslie is in Perth.
('HOWLIN' FOR YOU' BY THE BLACK KEYS PLAYS)
He's picking up paint for their tiny powder room...
There's your paint for this week, mate.
Thanks. Good to see you, mate.
It's the same Piazza Marble colour
they've used throughout their other rooms.
But they're planning something a little different.
We decided that we were gonna try do, like, a textured paint,
so I did a little practice on an offcut of plaster and...
That's literally just, you know,
half a cup of paint with a teaspoon of sand.
Nice, eh? Something different. I like it.
Yeah. So that one there is this sand here, which is quite fine.
I want to get that textured look
but without it feeling too harsh when you rub your hand over it.
So we'll see how this dries and... But it looks good.
(HAMMERING)
House four's Gian has been waiting on the word from the head of OH&S, Deano
as to whether his stonemasons can still be inducted today
in order to install their stone vanity before reveal.
It's not gonna happen tonight.
Get your sub guys ready for tomorrow morning.
Hit it hard 9:00am. Yeah. I don't...
Yeah, look, they said it can't happen today.
I don't know... Obviously... I don't know what we're gonna do.
Looking back, I should've probably handled that better.
I should've made sure that he had a clear understanding
of what paperwork he needed to bring
so, yeah, like, I hold my hand up.
I probably should've done better there.
Andre the stonemason has already said he's unavailable tomorrow,
which means there's no way for the vanity to be installed before reveal.
But ever the persistent entrepreneur, Gian tries him one last time.
Alright. Guys, if we...
Can we try and make tomorrow work?
Or is it just a hard no?
If it's a hard no, then, like...
Yeah.
Yeah? 9:00?
But we have to be here at 9:00 'cause that's when the induction is.
So he provided all the necessary documentation
for a Saturday induction
and he actually moved things around
to make sure that he could install on Saturday.
# You've got me begging you for mercy... #
And just when Eliza and Liberty
thought it was going to be smooth sailing from here on in,
the moss wall is again the cause of a visit from Foreman Dan.
So the moss wall goes up and it looked absolutely beautiful
but then Foreman Dan comes in, as usual, concern, concern, concern.
The moss wall is positioned above the vanity,
which means the shaving cabinet will need to be mounted onto the moss,
a no-no from a waterproofing perspective.
We should've had the shaving cabinet in first...
They didn't arrive till this afternoon.
They literally only arrived an hour ago.
So we're putting shaving cabinets in.
They are quite big, but Shaynna's always about face-level storage,
face-level storage, face-level storage.
We've got two vanities,
so we need to have two mirrors with shaving cabinets.
One or two mirrors? Two mirrors? Mm-hm. We've got double vanity.
There's not gonna be much of this left. MAN: I know.
We are OK to do the shaving cabinets, though,
as long as they...
Yeah, where are they?
Yeah, I just think we have to cut the moss out the back of it... Yep.
..and we need proper fixings into actual stud.
It can't be squished up against moss.
Yeah. Got to cut that out.
Yep.
Yeah, OK. They'll be right.
So, the moss wall will live to fight another day.
Considering where we were yesterday,
we didn't have any underfloor heating, no tiling was started,
so, yeah, it's a miracle that we even got this far.
(GULL CRIES)
# It's the time of the season... #
SCOTT: The Block is a real-life timelapse.
In the space of a few hours, so much can change
and the change of the day is the first storeys going up,
as discovered by house three's Kristy and Brett.
Oh, man. What a spot, though.
Unreal. How exciting! Massive.
We've been scratching around in this little 1950s home on the bottom
and we went up there and we've gone, "Oh, wow.
"We're pretty much building a mansion here."
I'm so excited... Look how huge this is!
I already don't want to move out. Buy it, then, hon.
I really like living here. Buy it.
Just 'cause we're in the floors and subfloors and demo and all that,
didn't realise all the cool stuff that's going on up top as well so...
I'd say that master bedroom in our current house we're living in,
that would be bigger than our living space, yeah?
Yeah. And probably most.
And then there's another bathroom
and two more bedrooms all the way down that end, so... It's huge.
Yeah, the more you think about it, it is...
What an amazing experience.
After a whirlwind trip to WA to see her two boys and attend a wedding,
Leslie has returned to house one.
LESLIE: Your fearless leader has arrived.
I'm back!
She's back!
(BOTH LAUGH)
Oh, my god! Look at house four!
That went up in one day.
Jesus.
Don't worry about house four.
Just concentrate on what's happening here at house one.
Hello. Welcome back.
Thank you. MAN: How are you, boss?
Oh, my god. The basin's going in.
Oh, don't worry about the whole thing's tiled.
(OTHERS LAUGH) I quit. See you later.
(LAUGHS) Cool. See you.
KRISTY: Welcome back!
How was it being a normal person?
Oh, my god. Like, the weirdest thing ever.
Everyone's downed tools early today
because tonight is the highly anticipated 2023 breakdancing battle.
On Friday night, you guys are gonna do a Block breakdancing challenge.
(CONTESTANTS LAUGH)
Hell, yeah.
We have to go in, like, half an hour...
I know. ..and I'm freaking out.
Attendance is mandatory, with the exception of Steph,
who is currently getting some X-rays
to check she didn't do any serious damage when she fell yesterday.
Just about to do an X-ray just as a precaution,
so we'll see how it goes.
LESLIE: I don't know that she's gonna be able to dance tonight.
She's probably not. I don't know. She's gone for x-rays.
We do not want to go and do the breakdancing.
Lib's got diarrhoea. (LAUGHS)
So we did not feel great about going there
and we also didn't really have a routine down pat,
so we were, like... We knew we were gonna make fools of ourselves.
It was just quite horrific, the thought of everything.
('JUMP AROUND' BY HOUSE OF PAIN PLAYS)
LEAH: So we're all in the middle of the construction site,
all in our breakdancing gear...
ASH: Yeah. And it was so fun.
Everyone was pumped.
# Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin... #
WOMAN: Get it. Get it. Get it.
And it was a shame because Steph wasn't actually joining us.
She'd gone off for X-rays and she wasn't back,
so we'd taken Gian on as part of our couple.
Whoo!
We were a 'throuple'. Thr...
Go, Les. Oh, a luxury cruiser bus.
Oh, yeah.
So we start taking off...
I have never seen a bus like this.
STEPH: Wait for me, guys!
The bus comes to a screeching halt
and in pops Steph in her little Sporty Spice outfit.
She looked very cute and cool.
(ALL CHEER)
MAN: You made it! Oh, you guys look amazing!
Get a champagne.
Are you OK? Oh, yeah, I'm fine.
MAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So now everyone's got peace of mind. Like, there's X-rays...
Yeah, yeah. Yep, good call.
And I was, like, "Wow, you're cured. Damn." (LAUGHS)
I'm so glad you could make it. Yeah.
So, I was, like, "No, I need to still come."
Cheers. Cheers, guys.
Cheers, Steph!
I was really wanting to dance. I definitely didn't want to fall.
I definitely didn't want to, you know, be in pain
and I did the right thing by making sure it was not broken
or anything like that
and so I thought it was actually in the best interests of everyone
if I actually got X-rays to document there is no break.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
(SHELLEY LAUGHS)
There's my girls. Back it up! Back it up!
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, wow. Have a look at you!
Yes!
Ladies and gentlemen, B-boys, B-girls,
welcome to the Block breakdancing battle.
That's hard to say, Shell. (EXCLAIMS)
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) OK.
So, what we're gonna do, in keeping with the Olympic theme,
gold medallist wins 5,000 bucks, silver medallist wins $3,000,
bronze medal $2,000.
And for the two losers, you've got a participation certificate.
(LAUGHTER) Whoo!
That does not happen in the Olympics, Scotty.
No, but this Olympics, it will.
And judging the competition
is Australian Olympic hopeful B-Boy Sette.
# Please don't take my paper My melody, keeping it raw
# There's warm words and that's absurd
# Got me knocking like "Open the door" Yes, lord!
# My people with the hunch in your back
# Heavy chains and you've got it like that now
# Let me break it down for y'all... # (CHEERING)
# I'm gonna split the crown... #
(HIP-HOP SONG PLAYS) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
So what do we actually judge on, Sette,
when you're judging breakdancing?
I'm looking for musicality, creativity
and technique and execution.
Alright.
Alright, audience, let's hear it for house number one!
We've got LL and Kool K!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) LESLIE: I was surprised how...
It's not nervous.
I wasn't nervous
but just sort of all sense of whatever I thought I knew
or was going to put into practice left me
and I just strutted around and did some random (BLEEP).
(LAUGHS)
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS) (CHEERING)
House one brought the sass.
I think they did really well.
I was actually... Like, the attitude on Leslie, real good.
BRETT: Yeah.
(CHEERING)
LEAH: I was enjoying it but I was, like,
oh, yeah, they could be a little bit more, like...
# Let's get this party started on the floor... #
(CHEERING)
Come here, gang.
Mate, you guys were fantastic!
Leslie, you were, like, very, you know, intimidating there...
(LAUGHS) ..weren't you?
Was I? Yeah.
Oh, I didn't intend to be, but thank you.
We loved it. Congratulations. Go back up to the veranda.
Thank you. Up next is Big Boy Drizzle...
(CHEERING) ..and B-girl K-shizzle.
KRISTY: We went next.
Let's just skip us because that was horrific
and I just want to pretend like that never happened.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
ASH: These guys don't care, though.
(LEAH LAUGHS) Like, that's clear.
But it was funny. It was good.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS) (CHEERING)
After the failed head spin attempt one, they went again.
I thought Brett was gonna break his neck.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
(CHEERING AND LAUGHTER)
SHELLEY: Cut the music before someone gets hurt.
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, Schmizzle and Bedizzle, whatever your names are,
come on over.
Schmizzle and Bedizzle, it was a schmozzle.
(LAUGHS) It was a schmozzle.
I went the wrong way on the spin.
That's all good. It wasn't just on the spin, brother.
You're OK. (LAUGHTER)
Up you go. Thank you. Head to the balcony.
(APPLAUSE)
And we will welcome down our third team tonight.
We have B-girl Whip and B-boy Lash.
Together, they are Whiplash. Let's hear it for house number two!
(CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
LEAH: I was really, really nervous and all I kept thinking was,
I just hope, after three children, my body does not fail me on this
in front of the whole entire audience.
Australia.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
LIBERTY: Ash had some genuine legit breakdancing moves going
and Leah had a routine down pat, so I reckon they were actually...
Yeah, they were pretty good.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
(CHEERING)
KRISTY: Leah kills me. She's like a baby giraffe.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
SHELLEY: Oh, my god!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Let's hear it for Whiplash!
Eh, come here. Wow!
You guys were actually not bad.
(ASH LAUGHS) This is unbelievable.
How did you feel? I'm sore.
I'm a bit puffed. Yeah.
But it was fun. Well, congratulations.
You were fantastic. Up you go to the veranda.
(CHEERING) # Every day I'm shuffling... #
Coming up, the inaugural Block breakdancing battle ain't over yet.
And we save the best till last.
I think an out-of-body experience happened at the challenge.
ELIZA: There was, like, a few kids watching
and I think they might need therapy.
(GULL CRIES) # Every day I'm shuffling... #
SCOTT: Welcome back to the inaugural Block breakdancing battle.
# Baby, baby, baby
# You are my voodoo child, my voodoo child... #
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Next up is B-boy G-Money and Stephy from the Block.
Here we go.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
I think an out-of-body experience happened at the challenge.
I don't really remember even the music being on.
(LAUGHS) I don't really remember dancing.
It just sort of happened.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS) (CHEERING)
MAN: Nice, Gian!
(CHEERING)
(LAUGHS) Oh, she loved that.
MAN: Backflip.
(CONTESTANTS EXCLAIM)
Watch your rib! Watch your rib!
Steph and that rib situation, not a thing.
Conspiracy theory all you want.
She popped and locked it like it was her business.
I reckon she wrote the script out,
like, on the laptop the night before and was, like...
Such a dancer.
.."at 15 seconds, Gian, you've gotta be standing over there
"and you've gotta have this look."
(HIP-HOP MUSIC STOPS)
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Let's hear it for Stephy from the Block and G-Money!
(LAUGHTER) Oh, my god.
I now know what you guys do do on a Friday night.
(LAUGHS) That was very, very impressive.
Thank you. (LAUGHS) That definitely hurt, but anyway...
(BOTH LAUGH) We're moving on.
Fell down a hole, bruised your ribs.
Showed up. Showed up.
Thank you so much. Head back up to the balcony. Well done.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Bringing down our final house tonight,
we have from house number five Fliza Minnelli...
MAN: Oh, my godfather. ..and Liberty Splits!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) (LAUGHS)
Let's go.
I just had a big, like... (IMITATES INHALING)
Suck up your pride. Yep.
Breakdancing in, pride out.
Dancehall.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
PRODUCER: Did you come up with some of those moves, Eliza?
So, I really just slapped myself about like a...
Like, what's it called when a whale is, like, beach...
like a beached whale.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CHEERING)
(SONG ENDS) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Well, I tell you what... That was pretty awesome.
..some of those moves are definitely gonna get you husbands.
(LAUGHTER) How did you go?
That was fantastic, girls. How do you feel now?
Are you injured or...
Yeah, I've got a bit of a sore hammy under here.
I'm cooked tuna. I don't exercise.
(LAUGHTER) Don't exercise.
Well done, girls. Up to the veranda. And we're gonna find out.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
It should be noted that no Blockheads were harmed
during the filming of this scene.
The scars are only mental.
# Insane in the brain... #
But just in case, we did have St John's ambulance on standby.
# Crazy insane Got no brain... #
Well, Blockheads, that was very entertaining.
There was certainly some eye-watering moments in there.
Oh, my god.
Sette, I don't know how you gonna judge this,
but it's all down to you, my friend.
And, mate, I know that before we get into the medals,
you have got some participation awards to hand out.
(LAUGHS) Yes, I do. I do.
It's been a really, really tough choice.
And first participation award,
I really actually did like their dancing,
but I'm gonna have to give it to house one.
Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
Congratulations. Come and accept your award.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
Head up to the balcony, please, house number one.
Thank you very much. Yes. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
And our second participation award, Sette?
Second participation award, I'd like to give to house three.
Eh!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Well done, house three. Well done.
Up to the balcony, please. Up to the balcony.
OK, mate, we are now down to the pointy end of the competition.
The medals.
It's very exciting.
OK, let's kick off with bronze. And $2,000 cash.
Yes, for the bronze, for the $2,000 cash...
they were awesome, they did great teamwork.
I'm gonna have to give it to house four, Steph and Gian.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) (EXCLAIMS)
House four, head on up to the balcony, thank you.
We will have a podium finish later on.
Oh, my goodness. Look at this. Alright. Now, this is proper.
House two, house five.
This is the pointy end. This is it. OK.
Who has taken out the gold?
Guys, I have a really tough choice.
I really can't decide.
Does this mean... No, well, Shell, Shell...
..what I think it means? You know what we need?
A good old-fashioned dance-off. Dance-off!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Yes!
It's battle time, baby!
Dance-off.
I was, like, how are we gonna come up with some new gear
with no warning and music we'd never heard?
That was truly, truly mortifying. Truly, truly, truly awful.
WOMEN: Whoo!
(CHEERING) (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
ASH: And just for the record, once we finished that first dance,
I came out, ate three pieces of pizza and had a beer,
because I didn't know...
I was, like, "Thank god that's over"
and then everyone's, like, "We're going back out."
I was, like, "What?"
SHELLEY: Go, Liberty Splits!
(CHEERING) (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)
I taught myself how to do the splits during COVID times.
I haven't done it in a while. Brought it out again.
Now I strained my vagina. (LAUGHS) Yeah.
(GLASS SMASHING SOUND EFFECT)
Broken my vagina, but it was worth it. It was worth it.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES) (CHEERING)
LEAH: I had three moves and I used all of them in my first go.
ASH: We were actually...
Second time, I was, like, "What are we doing?"
The second thing, we actually had to really freestyle it.
(HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES) (LAUGHTER)
ELIZA: The slug was something that I joked that I was gonna do
and I was, like, "I know I can't do it
"but I actually think that could be funny,"
that I'm trying to do it and I can't do it.
So that's what I did. (LIBERTY LAUGHS)
I'm just, like... I'm thinking about it all now and...
It was godawful. It was truly godawful.
As I was doing it, I was just, like...
"This is mortifying.
"Like, this is truly godawful, mortifying."
There was, like, a few kids watching and I think they were, like...
(LAUGHS) I think they might need therapy.
This is the moment of truth, mate. You've had 30 seconds.
This is for 5,000 bucks.
And the winner is Eliza and Liberty.
(CHEERING) House five.
We won!
And thank god for that,
'cause we're not winning rooms, we're not winning much else.
SHELLEY: House number five!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
LEAH: Silver medal winners!
We've had a great time. Now, get back to the Block.
(LAUGHTER)
The Block breakdance battle gold medallists.
I've never won anything in my life
and there has been nothing sweeter than this moment.
PRODUCER: And what's on the other side?
Top-secret gnome.
Oh, yes. You know it. You know it, you know it.
You know it... What does that mean?
(WHISPERS) It means we get a gnome that no-one knows about.
Do we? Top-secret gnome. It means we get a point.
We also won a little secret Gnomey McGnomestrom.
So we won $5,000 and a secret gnome
that we're not allowed to tell anyone else about.
If we tell any of the other contestants about it,
it gets voided...
Voided? It gets... Null and voided.
..null and voided.
Have you told anyone yet? No, obviously not.
(CHEERING) # Talk to me, baby... #
So, after our big win, we just had to celebrate,
so we got back on our party bus, did we party it up,
and then we had a night out.
Honestly, it was the best thing we could've done.
Even though we were, like,
"Oh, we've got so much to do back on the Block," we had a reset.
We needed it. We had fun. We just needed that.
I've literally seen thousands of properties for sale
and I've never once seen anything like what I'm looking at right now.
In the most dramatic Sunday reveal...
Wowee.
five stunning bathrooms...
Woah!
Oolala!
will leave Australia speechless.
The mossive secret weapon...
It's genius. It looks that good.
will be unleashed.
It's like Shrek's pubes.
Genius?
A wall covered in parsley.
or big mosstake?
(SUMBLES ON WORDS)
All will be revealed.