The winner of Week Four on The Block Bathroom week...
is Leah and Ash.
SCOTTY: Leah and Ash won Downstairs Bathroom week
after using that cheeky gnome.
BOTH: Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
(CHEERING)
Then Ash dropped a cheeky comment in the sisters' bathroom.
It's like Shrek's pubes. (LAUGHS)
I'm trying to like the pubes on the wall, though. Can't like 'em.
And the girls didn't like it.
They just never ever say anything positive.
After they've just won a room as well?
They're not good losers
but they're also not good winners, I don't think.
No. Yeah.
Our Blockheads fire up,
forging their living and dining rooms.
There are burning problems...
Have you looked at the drawings?
I can't read it.
Oh, my god, this is a one day setback.
..heated arguments...
Worst-case scenario, we've got no money left.
So Lib, we deliver empty (BLEEP) rooms!
That's it. I've had enough.
And later...
A red-hot challenge with five grand at stake.
STEPH: Gian, you keep moving every single time you do it.
If it's that easy, do you want to do it?
Are you doing anything, Steph,
or you just barking orders from the side?
(GASPS)
Ashley!
In the water, in the water tank.
(SEAGULL SQUAWKS)
(THUNDER CRACKS)
PRODUCER: Good morning, Kyle. Good morning.
SCOTTY: There are five days until Living and Dining Room Reveal.
Thank you so much, I'm sure.
Of all the houses,
Kristy and Brett's definitely looks the roughest.
Trevor boy.
Today's a massive day with a few multiple trades.
We've got plasterers and chippies and all sorts going on
in amongst a little bit of demo.
This week Kristy and Brett are only
presenting the living room as their dining is going next to the kitchen.
A living room will have a rendered feature wall around the TV,
comfy seating,
and a secret weapon P a three-sided fireplace
which they chose back in week one.
MAN: You've got three-sided, really nice high glass.
Lovely.
Beautiful fireplace. Easy. Amazing.
BRETT: The Stoke fireplace did arrive.
This is one thing that I said
I really wanted as a great feature piece.
It's cool to see the framework of that begin.
There'll be a little bit of a bench on top of that one
projecting in three different directions on the heat.
You've got your living room,
out front,
and to the side here so create a nice big flow.
The eagle has landed but now we need to create its nest.
I like that. Mmm.
PRODUCER: So, you gotta say,
the eagle has landed, now we have to set it on fire.
Yes.
SCOTTY: In House Two, the build team is hard at work
bringing Leah and Ash's colourful living and dining room to life.
Leah and Ash have swapped their
architect's living and dining position.
The Queenslanders are pushing the design envelope
with one of the most vibrant spaces in Block history,
featuring a multicoloured marble tiled step
connecting the living and dining.
So, this morning,
Leah and Ash are keen to get Keith's OK
on the transition from wooden floor to marble step.
LEAH: Keith was on one this morning.
This week I was like, we're going to be on top of it,
we're going to ask him every step of the way.
And I said to Keith,
"How are you feeling about the tile meeting the timber?"
He just goes...
Like, cracks it. And he goes...
That's got nothing to do with structure.
Yeah, I know.
So, you guys, what's happening at the moment, right,
Dan and myself are basically putting every piece in for every contestant.
It's not the way we do it.
On The Block, you go and build to regulation, right?
Yeah. Then we inspect.
Alright? We're holding every builder's hand
through every piece that goes in.
It's not fair.
You guys have got to start building,
then we're gonna start inspecting what you're building.
I asked him one question
and he just like, gave me so much chew.
Yeah.
KEITH: It's just a step. Simple.
What you've got here is what you work with.
It's up to your builders to come up with a method that we approve.
He threw all of his toys out of the cot.
Spat the dummy.
Yeah. Here, Keith, have a lolly, go and have a nap.
Oh.
I can't wait to be told that my... Yeah, that it's not right.
..thousands of dollars of tiles is not right.
Love that for me.
SCOTTY: Over in House Five, Eliza and Liberty's builder
is constructing the foundation for their fireplace.
The sisters' living and dining room is here,
and at 65 square metres, it's the biggest space this week.
LIBERTY: Because our space is so big,
we've decided to go with like,
a 360 fireplace in the middle of the room.
They're using the circular fireplace to
divide the space into a lounge room and a sitting area.
Styling will be minimal because
after five weeks with no wins, the girls are skint.
We've spent almost like, 150K,
which we're not even like, a third of the way through.
And with the seven rooms still to be built, that's a scary sum.
We essentially now move forward with very basic spaces.
That's the beginning and end of the conversation for me.
I can't. I'm done with it.
Eliza might be done with it but
Liberty has budget on her brain and it's getting heated.
So, we've got 100 grand left.
Yes, so Lib, we deliver empty (BLEEP) rooms.
How many times do I have to tell you I don't care?
But we're making these decisions to sell a house
but we're not going to sell a house when it's got like...
Lib, you sell it. We've got Block bucks.
That's just the beginning and the end of it.
We have to be OK with delivering empty rooms with Block buck stuff
but at least it's got stuff that people can work with.
Like, I'm not being negative but we're not, we're not,
we're not winning.
Alright well, call me if there's anything else.
Yep.
Don't worry, Liberty, there's always something else.
Same thing. It's on that LDL...
Foreman Keith is currently inspecting their house
and he's spotted some expensive building choices.
Mark just called me over to look through his floor.
Now, he's used 140 LVLs which are quite expensive.
And then what he's done,
he's checked out the bottom of them over the bearers.
They could have used 90 LVLs through there.
SCOTTY: Simply put, the builders are using expensive materials
and more of it than they need, to build the floor,
costing the reno rookies big bucks.
ELIZA: And he knows all this? Yes, he does.
I constantly keep reminding him.
Like, you're over-building but can you afford to overbuild?
Yep. Yep. No.
You've got to start... Yeah.
..toning down their budget.
You've got to start minimising the way you build.
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. (OUTGOING CALL TONE)
I'm annoyed.
(PHONE RINGS)
ELIZA: Hi. Keith just pulled me aside and was like,
what they've used today is all expensive again.
Like, they know how strapped we are for budget.
I don't understand why they're not taking this more seriously.
One thing we definitely can be doing is like, this
is how much we've got for this space and we just don't spend any more.
Why are they doing this? I don't know.
SCOTTY: Next door in House Four,
they are stoked as Steph and Gian's huge fireplace has arrived.
So, Corey brought the double-sided fireplace in
and on the palate it looked...
So huge.
The most important bits for living and dining
are probably the artwork, the couch, and the fireplace.
Steph and Gian have altered the original architect's plans,
putting the dining room where the kitchen was planned,
and placing the living room where the dining was going to be.
The rooms will be divided by a nib wall
containing a double-sided Stoke fireplace and a TV,
luxury seating, surrounded by stunning curtains from DIY Blinds.
But there's a problem just above their heads.
We had to run through what's happening upstairs for the bathroom
because that affects our ceiling heights for the living room.
This week's living room sits directly
below a yet-to-be-built upstairs bathroom.
There's two issues.
Bathrooms have underfloor plumbing
so they need to make enough space in the ceiling for this.
And bathrooms are very heavy so you need very strong structural support.
So, we need to think about the bathroom now
because it's above where we're going for this week.
But Keith gave them all the details for the rebuild on Monday.
So, you guys have got
a significant amount of work to do up here to get that subfloor on.
You got the detail? There it is. There's lots in it.
Right.
DAN: Do you reckon there's about a day's work there?
Yep.
SCOTTY: But this morning, the amount of detail and work needed
to complete the support for upstairs
is baffling the House Four team.
What does that say... That's what I have to work out.
But what's this?
Obviously... I can't read it.
Well, yes, we were given the plan on Monday but we were not even...
we didn't even have a floor.
So, remember the other day
when I said, "Have you looked at the drawings?"
Yep.
And you said you're not worrying about it?
Yeah. This is why.
'Cause I know there's a lot of detail in it.
When we actually got a chance to look at the detail,
we actually needed to rip out all the existing structure above us.
Literally rebuild the floor structure of our upstairs bathroom.
We knew oh, my god, this is a one day setback.
SCOTTY: But Keith is having none of it.
He's given them the details
and he wants all the teams to be on a level playing field.
KEITH: We've gotta stop helping them, mate. Seriously.
You guys have got the drawing. Right?
It's up to you as a team now to go and work this out.
Just don't understand...
Dan and I are holding your hands through this entire build.
It's got to be a competition. This is your engineering we provided you.
You guys have got to work together as a team
and go and provide this.
Yeah, but that's... Yeah.
I don't think... This isn't really...
It's not really like, a usual plan of engineering.
Alright. You guys have got to perform this.
We come and inspect it when you've built it.
We're not gonna keep holding your hands
through every piece of this build.
It's not fair.
There was that much more work involved in this
than we originally perceived,
and that was where we knew that
we were up the (BLEEP) creek without a paddle.
# Don't stop movin' find your own way to it
# Listen to the music yeah yeah yeah
# Don't stop movin' can you feel the music
# DJ's got us goin' around, round
# Don't stop... #
PRODUCER: After a slow start to the week, Wednesday,
it was like suddenly from nothing to like...
Wow!
There was just 101 things on the go.
Let's get them out, boys.
Just let it drop down.
KYLE: Early on we had seen Corey from Stoke
and chose our double-sided fireplace.
You tell me what you want, I'll tell you how to do it.
Yep. That sounds great. Sweet.
So, obviously before you know it, it's Living and Dining week
and Corey is there ready to install it.
DAN: Morning, team. What's happening?
We probably have the smallest living/dining space.
SCOTTY: Their L-shaped area is only 25 square metres,
and the roof is supported by an essential support pillar
in the middle of the room.
They've decided to cover it up with a wall to house a fireplace and TV.
So, your space this week, is it this here and then...
Correct.
This floor? This L-shape here.
OK.
PRODUCER: Alright, what did Dan say...
Sorry, did you say Dan or did you say 'Dennis the Menace'?
(CHUCKLES)
So, that room in there... Yeah?
Is that your living? BOTH: Yeah.
Yeah, right. It's not a big area?
No, it's not.
It wasn't until all the floor was down
and standing in the space, it's too small.
They've got to do something about that.
So, I started looking around and discovered,
if we added some extra steel beams,
they could have opened up the space and created nearly twice the size.
SCOTTY: Foreman Dan thinks with some extra ceiling beams
they could delete this wall and the pillar,
creating a much more open plan.
I'm just looking at other living spaces, they're quite grand.
Quite big.
I come into here and I see this and I'm like, mmm, (BLEEP) small.
We've got a monster kitchen.
If I'm thinking that, are buyers thinking that?
I think it's creating a lot of work.
It is. At the end of the day that's...
Do you want to sell your house? MAN: I agree.
Like, it's just all dead space.
It's bigger picture stuff.
It's not just about revealing this week,
it's about selling your house and trying to win this competition.
Don't mind the suggestion but it's the logistics of the suggestion.
Talk to me about how timeframe of moving this out.
Timeframe is we're not going to deliver it.
Like, on face value I'd say
we're not going be able to get all of these reinstalled.
I'm gonna say we're not going to finish.
It is a major structural alteration to reconfigure all of this.
I'm happy with how it is. Alright, done.
Cool. Done.
Keep it the way it is.
To do all this additional work
you're probably not going to present a room on Sunday
which means you're not in the running to win
and it just means that it's additional work that you're gonna
have to do further on to complete a room that wasn't finished.
Dad, where's the dining table gonna go?
KYLE: You're standing on it now.
Our Christian Cole dining table.
Did I tell you that we had a Christian Cole dining table?
Yeah. (ANGELIC VOICES)
It's a masterpiece and it's gonna be the first thing that you see
when you sort walk into that space.
(ANGELIC VOICES)
Got a phone call from Kyle and Leslie
about what they wanted and we were talking about a round table.
And we've gone for an 1,800 one that will fit in there.
SCOTTY: And Christian is pretty chuffed at his superb handiwork.
Yeah, so, this is a Lazy Susan mechanism.
There's a lot involved in this.
You can't just go and buy the mechanism off-the-shelf.
All sealed with an acrylic two pack
so they can put hot cups on here, red wine, it won't stain.
It's a piece of art, do you know what I mean?
Like, it's timber created into art.
Also didn't ask the cost.
You know, when you just say yes to things
and then you're like... (GIVES A NERVOUS GIGGLE)
I'm scared. How much does it cost?
This is a 16 grand table, mate.
Big bucks. A lot of work.
So much goes into it. You've got to get it right.
I mean, this is beautiful furniture.
You want to be able to feel it and look at it,
and have space around the piece to enjoy it.
Every dining table that we talk about with clients on the phone,
I always say, "You need about 1.2m each side of the table."
So, a round table like this,
you need about a 4.5 x 4.5 metre room to fit it in comfortably.
If you're in a tight room, you're not gonna see any of it.
Did you say it's a two, a three arrangement?
How is it, like... It's a three, yeah.
A three.
So, while we were doing the lights with the sparkies,
where I'd want to place them,
we started having the discussion about the table location.
SCOTTY: Kyle and Leslie are planning to put the Christian Cole table here
between the sliding doors to their backyard and the stairs.
This is the whole table. So, we keep spinning around, this is the table.
1,800 diameter, right?
The conversation followed on with maybe it's too big.
This is based off a 1,500 table.
That's with the chair tucked in.
That's with someone sitting down at a chair.
Relatively tight to the table.
And then that's comfortable room for someone to push their chair back,
get off the table,
get off their chair and tuck their chair back in.
And that's based off a 1,500 table.
Chairs, OK. Yeah.
Yeah, I think once everything's in there
and it's open on the sides that it needs to be...
PRODUCER: So, you think it's going to be fine.
I think so.
If the table's here, about 400 from where the table is to my back.
SCOTTY: Hang on.
The builder just said there are only 400mm around the table.
What did Christian just say?
You need about 1.2m each side of the table.
I thought the distance between that and that was 3.3 or something.
LESLIE: Yeah, I thought it was too.
That's why when we measured and we pulled the chairs out...
SCOTTY: Wait.
The dining room is only 3.3 metres square.
How big did Christian say the room needed to be?
A round table like this, you need about a 4.5 x 4.5 metre room.
(BUILDER DISCUSSING MEASUREMENTS)
SCOTTY: Oh, dear.
Is there no way we could change the table?
BOTH: No. This is a 16 grand table, mate.
It's not a Christian Cole, is it? It is.
Wow.
Well, it's a piece of art.
If you're in a tight room, you're not gonna see any of it.
I'm not going to ask Christian to make a smaller table.
I will make the table fit in my house.
Maybe you should have got it in a pill shape.
A pill?
Um... Anyway...
SCOTTY: Sparks fly as our Blockheads become 'Blocksmiths'.
Do I still have eyebrows?
SCOTTY: Hey, Block fans.
How would you like to win $35,000 in cold hard cash
to transform your place?
Just like our Blockheads.
Well, thanks to the blokes at Truecore and Colorbond,
this fabulous prize will take your home to a whole new level.
And to win, all you have to do is head to The Block website
and enter now.
# What's wrong with being confident? Uh, huh, huh... #
It's buzzing on site... Well done, boys.
..as our Blockheads go full throttle with their living and dining builds.
At House Five, Carpet Court are laying the floor
Liberty picked back in week two.
I've chosen this beautiful timeless oak engineered flooring
to put throughout the house.
That will go beautifully with the colour palette that we've picked.
With the floor down,
a circular hole is cut to allow for their fireplace hearth tiles.
Nice, mate.
We chose a beautiful 360 degree fireplace for our family room.
And as part of that you need a hearth
which is like, the thing that it sits on down the bottom.
It has to be non-combustible.
That's quite light.
Eliza's clever trades are using the cut floorboards as a stencil
to cut the fire proof tiles.
We ended up getting some beautiful tiles from Beaumont Tiles.
Are you happy with that, Bobby?
It's stunning.
Yeah, it made a beautiful circle hearth under our circular fireplace.
Meanwhile, Block besties Kristy and Leah,
are out shopping for living room furniture.
Instantly, Kristy spots an item,
and she wants it before her shopping nemesis Steph, gets in first.
I already had proposed a lounge, like, three weeks ago,
that Steph stole.
And then she had stolen a few paintings from me
and a few other things from another shop.
It was just like, I was going back to get them
but she got in and then got them and they were like,
I can't give it to you because Steph's bought it.
Would you do this as a three-seater?
MAN: Ahh, yes.
Someone else has got their eye on this one.
Do they? Mmm.
It'd be a little girl from House Four, I bet.
(MAN CHUCKLES)
I fell in love with this couch at Satara and the added bonus was
that Steph had also said that she wanted that couch in future weeks.
SCOTTY: But teams can only buy for the current week
so today it's 'First in, best dressed.'
It would be a shame if someone stole it, you know.
LEAH: Have you already ordered a couch?
I have but I can cancel it.
Yeah, do it. (LAUGHTER)
Right?
So, I made sure to put a deposit on it immediately
and have it delivered Friday.
Sold.
I'll just send a little sneaky snap to Steph.
SCOTTY: Rub it in, Kristy.
Done.
It's fun. I like playing those games with Steph.
You're very Steph today.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Look, it's pretty fun.
I might go home and yell at Gian, just for the (BLEEP) of it.
(LAUGHTER)
(BOTH IMITATE STEPH) Giani.
Giani! I need water.
Let's not forget that this is a game.
Well, she said... Am I the new Leah?
And if anyone doesn't think that it wasn't a game play to
be friendly at the beginning, they're underestimating us.
Yeah.
PRODUCER: So, you're not really friends with anyone.
Ash and Leah. Oh, Ash and Leah are genuine.
Yeah.
The rest of it's fake.
(LAUGHS)
LEAH: Oh, wow. I've walked away from my phone.
Ash has texted me. I'm like, oh, what now?
What's happening?
Where are they?
I don't even know.
(LAKME'S 'FLOWER DUET' PLAYS) (SEAGULLS SQUAWK)
SCOTTY: Surprise, Ash is at the local
enjoying a bevy with Block plumber Tom.
And yours truly is about to improve his day.
Mate. Scotty.
How are you? How are you, mate?
I've been looking everywhere for you.
I've been to seven pubs and you end up at the Brighton Baths.
I hope you're not driving.
ASH: Sitting there with Tommy, having a schooner.
When you see Scotty Cam, like, he's a pretty busy,
important guy, so something is happening.
I was doing my walk arounds today... Yeah?
Had a look at everyone's bathrooms from last week.
This year, Tom is awarding 10 grand from hipages
for rooms he reckons are best executed.
A bit rough.
Jeez!
Yours caught my eye.
I think the workmanship in your bathroom is really good.
Everything's bang on.
Show him what's in the bag. I like it.
(EXPECTANT MUSIC)
So, this is our hipages BOB Award.
Best On Block as judged by Tom, for workmanship.
You get to keep one of these... Yep.
..at your house.
And he whips out the BOBs, Best On Block awards,
so, one for me, one for our builder Rob.
It's a very prestigious award. Thanks, brother.
No worries, mate.
We have a really good team.
Everyone puts in 110% for us.
And mate, you get 10 grand. Ten big ones.
Courtesy of hipages. Far out.
(SCOTTY CHUCKLES) That's a real win.
He won on Sunday night. Yeah.
10k. Now you got another 10k. That's a 20K week.
20-grand week.
When it rains, it pours.
So, can I go now? (CHUCKLES)
I've got stuff to do, mate.
Thanks for dropping the bag off, mate.
OK. Have a good day. Thanks, Scotty. Will do.
Cheers, mate.
LEAH: Probably feel like we've got some targets on our back.
So, we're not allowed to win? Basically.
SCOTTY: Back on site, news of House Two's award has spread
and some of the other Blockheads are not impressed.
Ash and Leah were awarded the BOB Award which is the Best On Block.
I don't know why they got it.
I was disappointed that they were given it.
And like, it says Best On Block...
Correct.
And I'm like, they have (BLEEP) attitude.
Leah feels things maybe more than other people
and she expresses that verbally.
OK. Are you guys kind of aware that it's a Friday
and that we have got to be tiled?
Like, have you been on site ever?
And it even say, comes down to the sparkies
and I'm not gonna name names about sparkies who have said things to us
but they'll come to our house
and be like, oh, my god, you're so organised and you're so this and...
Because I value the boys' time when they come to our house for fit-offs.
It's not always valued across the Block.
People expect that someone's there,
you fit out, you do this, you do that, why don't I have this?
Can you just get our jobs done so we can stop wasting money?
That's how they speak to people.
And I'm mortified. I would never speak to people like that.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
SCOTTY: With five grand up for grabs...
It's really scary.
..our Blockheads face a baptism of fire...
Like a smouldering fire of death.
..in a blacksmithing challenge.
It's so ugly.
If it's that easy, do you want to do it?
KRISTY: Are you doing anything, Steph, or are you just...
you just barking orders from the side?
(BRETT LAUGHS)
# That's just the way you make me feel... #
And dreaming of the house? No.
Oh. I do.
Thursday morning, wake up, straight up text from Scotty Cam.
(INCOMING TEXT TONE)
ELIZA: Oh, no, here we go.
I got a text.
"Jump in your cars and start heading west towards...
"Maribyrnong River."
Oh, my god!
"I've left a note in your glove box with the plan for today.
"Read it once you're on the way. Sparks are going to fly.
"Cheers, Scotty."
Eugh!
Jack. Yes, mate?
Because it's a short week and I've got nothing to do,
they're sending us on a challenge today.
Perfect.
So, I'll leave you in charge. You know what the deal is.
When there's an early morning text
you always know it's going to be like, an all-day challenge.
So we just knew we were gonna be there all day.
We've got the biggest room by a country mile
which we're now not gonna finish.
Have fun, brother.
"Now, I know you all have many irons in the fire this week...
"But if there's one thing I've learnt on The Block,
"it's to strike while the iron is hot.
"Which is why today you are doing blacksmith challenge.
I told you it was going to be making something.
What does a blacksmith do?
Smashes mental up. Do you know how to do that?
Oh. No.
"Design and forge a metal sculpture to take pride of place...
"..in either your living room or your dining room."
The one thing I needed to do today was find a sculpture.
And now you have to make it.
ELIZA: Well, we'd better not cook it up.
Because otherwise it's gonna be a big fuggly eye-sore.
I'm going to be pissed if Ash and Leah win more money.
Same.
And I would love to know why people think the whole "bad winners".
Who decides if you're a bad winner?
Leah and Ash get insulted when they aren't at the top
but then when they, yeah, win, they seem agitated as well.
Mmm.
They just never, ever say anything positive.
It's like, week after week after week after week of just like,
not having overly positive comments to say.
I was keen to see how they would win.
They're not good losers
but they're also not good winners, I don't think.
No. Yeah.
We've had our fair share of loss in this competition.
And I have had some pretty extreme feelings about that.
Losers again. Losers again.
Congratulations.
(LEAH SOBS)
ASH: Are you alright, babe?
I actually don't know how to continue in this competition.
We've also won
and I've had some really like, good reactions of that as well.
BOTH: Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
(CHEERING)
If you are not reacting to a win or a loss, you simply just don't care.
SCOTTY: Today's challenge is happening at Waterside Metal Art,
a traditional blacksmith's studio
where metal is heated and beaten into all kinds of shapes.
Here come our motley crew.
Hello. Hi.
Wow.
Smells delicious. It does, doesn't it.
Well, hello, everybody. ALL: Hello.
How are you? Morning, Shell, how you?
Welcome, welcome. Good morning. Hello.
I tell you what, you're in for a treat today.
I'm really excited and so should you be.
It's going to be a fantastic day
'cause we get to do things on The Block that you wouldn't normally do.
Your challenge today is to make a magnificent sculpture out of metal
and it's gonna take pride of place in your living room or dining room.
It has to go in there for judging.
Now, we have blacksmith Steve right over here and...
Hi, Steve. ..forge-hound Harry is over there.
Harry Hieronymus. He's the helper.
And these guys are here to give you a big helping hand.
Oh, and, you're gonna need it. (LAUGHTER)
The team that does their best and impresses Steve over here,
and he judges it the best,
will take home a very handy 5,000 bucks.
Whoo! Wow, you beauty.
Alright, Shell, are we ready?
It's gonna be a hard day in the workshop, isn't it.
You have got five hours.
Steve, they're all yours.
I'm imagining safety first, crash course in execution, let's go.
You got it, Shelley. (CHUCKLES)
OK. I just wanted to go through a few rules, OK?
So, the most important rule is to play safe.
Steve, the main bloke in there, my god,
does he love a bit of blacksmithery.
He's a vibe.
If this was your steel in your fire today,
the alarm bells should be going off.
Because what's happening is it burns.
OK. Right.
So, you don't want to do that to your steel pieces today.
LIBERTY: If I love anything in life as much as he loves blacksmithing...
ELIZA: We're doing alright.
I was a bit nervous about the whole thing.
I'm using a hammer. I'm hitting the steel.
When he did the hammer for the time and sparks flew,
I was just like... Eugh!
Like a smouldering fire of death.
Good sculptures often have a meaning or a story behind them
and so, if you can imbue your sculpture with some meaning,
that will come out in the sculpture.
OK. Clear as mud? Yep.
(LAUGHTER)
Did you take all that in?
We didn't listen very well when they briefed us.
I was just looking at the fire
and all of the prongs and stuff like that.
I literally heard no voices.
Alright, you've got 20 minutes to design on paper your sculpture
and then we're getting stuck into the forging.
SCOTTY: Our very nervous Blocksmiths, as I like to call them,
will be using one of these metal tubes to make their sculpture.
What I thought I heard was
create a sculpture that's connected to your home.
Right?
I think it meant to just create a sculpture to go in your home.
It's a big difference.
What do you think about trying to get an Olympic style torch.
Ooh. Because we can use that sphere.
Belt it.
It's connected to the 1956 Olympic bricks that we got stitched up on.
$135 a brick. Is it?
Only for you, Scotty, $140. (LAUGHTER)
So, we've had a lot of attention
around the 1956 Glen Iris Olympic bricks,
so we've decided to go with an Olympic torch from that era.
SCOTTY: Possibly the ugliest Olympic torch ever. Just saying.
Do you want to use that as the thing?
With 20 minutes to design, the others aren't wasting any time.
So, essentially it'll be coming out like this.
Yeah.
Kyle and Leslie are planning a bottle-like wireframe vase.
That'll be see-through so you'll be able to see through that,
and then we're just gonna do some forging of some twig-like things
that are gonna sit in the vase.
I sketched something up quick.
Do we make as like a multipurpose like that
and then it can actually stand up that way well.
Oh! Done.
SCOTTY: Leah and Ash are making a rectangular vase
which, when turned on its side,
can also double as a TV remote holder.
Eliza and Liberty are trying to tell a story with their design.
Our sculpture represented our journey
from starting on The Block to now.
Their sculpture will have confused base
changing into a graceful, organised top.
Yeah, and then the mess at the bottom is where we started.
Like a mess and then... Yes.
..we come together and like, yeah.
Now we're a clean, well-oiled machine.
Steph and Gian know what they want.
I wanted to do a candelabra that had waves in it
but we're just struggling with the base.
In theory, it should look something like this.
But their biggest design challenge is each other.
Am I boring you? No. I said yes.
We're not OK. We're annoyed. We're aggravated.
We're taking it out on each other.
Is it going to be open? Yeah.
Is that a problem for you?
I'm saying, do you want it to be closed?
Why would I want it to be closed if I was opening it?
You weren't opening it, you were just opening it to shave
because you didn't want it as bulky.
So, we thought about cutting it
but then we thought maybe if we cut it, it would be too thin.
I personally don't think it'll be too thin
and that's where the tension is.
The base. We're fighting over a bloody base.
What do you think, Gian?
I don't know why we would want to cut it.
Why do we need to cut it?
Don't you think it's too thick? I don't think so.
I just thought they would want it to have a solid bottom.
Too much of an angle, Gian. Yeah but...
Yeah but what?
Like, I don't think it can be any more visual
than what I showed you before.
Yeah, no, it's not sitting on a foot, it's sitting on a plant.
Yeah, OK. I know.
Like, I haven't finished.
We can do that.
Do you want to do it yourself?
Yes, I will. I will.
Why can't I draw?
We definitely don't want to be doing this.
We want to be on site.
# You load sixteen tons, what do you get... #
SCOTTY: The fires and iron are red hot at the Blocksmith Challenge.
Our teams are forging sculptures for a five grand first prize.
# I owe my soul to the company store. #
I'm so scared of this.
ASH: See that, that's going out. KRISTY: It's scary, isn't it.
LEAH: It's really scary.
So scared of fire.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
I just didn't want to get burned.
Here, I'll hold this. But it's hot!
Oh! That's really hot.
OK. Ash... Yeah?
I'm feeling I burnt my bum.
Isn't everyone scared of fire?
SCOTTY: Leah and Ash are well along with their sculptural vase.
ASH: I think I need to get that in a bit more.
It's starting to take shape.
All we have right now from our design is like, the first...
We've just got the bar and we belt the (BLEEP) out of it.
STEVE: So, you've got to put it in there
and then knock it down a little bit.
Yeah. Yep, I'm gonna give it a good whack.
(GASPS) Ashley!
In the water. In the water tank when you burn yourself.
Ash, a bad one?
Oh, it's not great.
Where did you touch?
The hot bit. Which bit?
All of it's hot!
I got myself a nice little burn.
It's throbbing right now, actually.
This particular bit is at the point where the whole thing's hot.
You can't really touch anywhere.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
You have the hot bit just there... Yeah?
..and block it off and then that bit, you twist from here.
KYLE: So, you twist it like that. Yeah. That's looking good.
SCOTTY: Kyle and Leslie are creating a bottle-shaped sculpture.
KYLE: I think we're tracking alright.
We're sort of just taking our time and...
We want to get the few things we're doing correct.
You're untwisting it now. Oh, god.
Ooh, that's coming, Kristy. That's cool.
It's a workout, I tell you.
SCOTTY: Kristy and Brett are making an Olympic torch cup.
Alright. It's cooling down.
How's the energy on her!
Yeah, nice. You right?
I need to sit down for a sec. (SHELLEY CHUCKLES)
Ooh!
(STEEL RINGS)
LIBERTY: Good Lord, it's very heavy.
Why don't we have flames?
SCOTTY: Eliza and Liberty are going all out with an abstract sculpture.
LIBERTY: We desperately need this win
but that would pay for about one hour of our trades at the moment
so we need to keep getting the monies.
Five weeks of frustration.
See, haven't won a room!
I'm angry!
That's it!
We were exhausted. Oh, god.
I didn't even have the energy to hammer.
I just put the steel in the fire and stood there and stayed warm.
ELIZA: Do you wanna have a try? No.
Why not? Can't be bothered.
And you weren't even moving your hands
when I was throwing hammers close to them.
Holding wood with my hands
and she was hammering from like, a height of 200m down
and I just didn't care, I was like...
(DELICATE MUSIC)
STEPH: Gian, you keep moving every single time you do it.
Gian, try and hit it on the same point every single time.
Oh, yeah. OK.
If it's like, that easy, you wanna do it?
KRISTY: Are you doing anything, Steph,
or are you just barking orders from the side?
(BRETT LAUGHS)
This challenge and a lot of the challenges
require us to work together on the same thing at the same time.
That's what we don't, we don't function well in that space.
SCOTTY: Steph and Gian's candleholder is progressing slowly.
Move back.
Wait, wait.
I don't want it to... No, stop.
Or, my lord, what, you want to tap it?
We don't have 24 hours to build this thing.
STEPH: We work really well on a common goal.
Separate tasks, common goal.
We don't need to bang it.
It doesn't need to be...
Why do you need to do that? So we can...
It's like the smallest little, little thing.
It's supposed to be delicate. No but, you've gotta make the thing.
LIBERTY: Do guys need me to come in and mediate?
GIAN: You could do that. It's so ugly.
(FLAMES ROAR)
(STEEL RINGS)
(HISSING)
SCOTTY: Now, some parts of the build are being done by the experts P
drilling, welding, and cutting.
Like Steph's oversized candelabra base,
Oh, perfect. Voila.
BOTH: Thank you. They're OK to touch?
It's not hot. Beauty.
The only difference between Gian and my initial thoughts
was Gian wanted a bigger podium and I wanted a half podium.
Much happier with that.
The other one looked like a giant piece of blah.
OK. Awesome. Thank you.
It looks like a trophy for a soccer team.
(LAUGHTER)
It does feel a bit harsh, doesn't it?
But maybe it is even just some dimpling along the top like that?
You could smack the bejesus out of the top
and really just distress the top.
Hit that with a hammer
and you will put almost like a crinkle cut edge it on.
Do you wanna give it a try?
Yes. Yeah.
Ready? Oh!
One hit.
Stop.
That's better.
SHELLEY: Guess what? Fifteen minutes to go.
# Come on baby, light my fire
# Come on baby, light my fire... #
Do I still have eyebrows?
# Trying to set the night on fire... #
(WHISTLES)
Ooh!
You're done. You're finished. Congratulations.
(CHEERING)
Whoo!
We're actually OK with it.
It doesn't offend me.
I love the story it tells.
I'm just glad we finished it.
We produced something that we're not like, absolutely mortified by.
I think we did pretty good, execution wise.
BRETT: I think too.
It was a bit difficult. Like, everything's rounded on it.
So, I think we executed, you know, not too bad for a first time.
Great fun in their today and geez, time flew.
It was a bit of a tricky little design we were going with but...
Yeah.
It turned out all right.
Like, I'm super protective over every item
that goes into the house
so I'm lucky that we made something that suits the aesthetics somewhat.
Yeah.
I'm really happy with what we created.
It looks the most like our drawing.
Yeah. It came out as we envisioned.
SCOTTY: Well, time to see what our judge Steve thinks.
First up, Kyle and Leslie.
What have we got here?
SHELLEY: What HAVE we got here?
Well... I've got to say...
pretty true to their original design.
I thought that too.
They forged it, they've got the curves of what looks to me like
a little bit of a milk bottle.
They've got the little twigs coming out the top of the bottle.
They've executed and forged the rings quite well.
It looks a bit messy because you've got these sort of,
the bottom of the twigs come out.
You want to put a base in that?
I think I would have put a base in it, yeah.
OK. Leah and Ash. Here we go.
I don't mind this one either.
Well again, it's exactly what they set out to make in the first place.
Almost a perfect replica of what they designed.
Their level of difficulty, technically, in forging this,
because of the three-dimensional nature of the wrap was quite high.
It reminds me a little bit of the truss bridge out on the river here.
So, if you look at it and you tilt it over the other way,
which I know you can do that with this sculpture
because that was one of their considerations, that it could be
tilted on its side and you could put your mobile phone
or your remotes in it.
OK, so now we've got the Olympic torch,
which I quite like the concept of that
'cause they found some Olympic bricks at their home.
They've got the Olympic symbol on them.
Yeah. It tells a story is what I'm saying.
That's right. Yeah.
And in terms of execution,
they've put a nice textured ring around the base there
and they've flared out the top and textured it.
Any downsides to this one?
Yeah, there's not a lot there.
It's quite a small sculpture. For me it's quite static.
It looks a bit more Iron Age than 1956.
(LAUGHS) That's true.
Alright, the candelabra from Steph and Gian.
It's a candelabra. It's a candelabra.
So Steve, what are your thoughts on it?
OK, well, they're the only contestants
who actually cut their vessel apart.
They've trimmed it right down and they've used the vessel as a base.
It works as a functional candelabra.
Does it really speak to me? Mmm.
"Hello, Steve." I don't know.
(CHUCKLES)
Now, I was very impressed with the girls' effort.
This is a big call for them to do something like this
with the sledgy, on hot metal.
Well, they took it on. They did. That's what I'm saying.
Didn't they. They had a great day. They did.
Well, I think Eliza had a great day, I don't know how Liberty went.
Oh, look, I think it's a really great sculptural outcome
and for me it's come alive, this piece.
When they started bending these tendrils
and then when they distressed the top,
it all started to work together.
Righto, Steve, you've gotta make a decision.
I do, yes.
I'm gonna have to think about that, I think.
Alright. We'll leave it you to it.
Let us know when you're ready. Come on, let's go.
Congratulations, everybody.
I had my doubts, there's no doubt about it, this morning.
But you have done an incredible job.
I'm flabbergasted. Shell?
Well, that's why we set this challenge in the first place,
because we thought it would be impossible.
(CHUCKLING) But you were awesome again.
Thank you so much for taking it on with such gusto.
Steve, we were thrilled to be here today.
I know everyone had a ball.
So, just a round of applause for you and your team.
Thank you, Shelley. Great thing to be a part of.
Now Steve, as Shell said, 5,000 bucks up for grabs.
It's a tough decision, looking at these,
but there can only be one winner.
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SCOTTY: From fires hotter than the sun itself,
magnificent sculptures forged in the burning pits of hell.
But in this battle of the Titans there can only be one victor.
It's a tough decision, looking at these so...
STEVE: You're all winners in my mind
and I hope you've enjoyed yourselves.
But there's two pieces here that really speak to me.
Here we've got this sort of organic form Eliza and Liberty created.
And the other piece that really speaks to me as well
is the piece that Ash and Leah have made.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
So, for me I have to choose...
Leah and Ash.
Good work, guys. Magnificent work.
Congratulations, Leah and Ash. Wow.
Five thousand bucks coming your way.
Get back to The Block. See you.
Thank you, Steve.
PRODUCER: Yet another win for Leah and Ash.
We were obviously happy for Leah and Ash.
Yeah.
But, I dunno, potentially others are bitter on them
because they have said that they don't like how they win.
So good. Ahh.
We left the challenge with the win.
Bad winners we are, apparently.
I don't understand that comment.
So, I'm assuming House Five must have had a problem.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SILENCE)
And I'm sure Steph will find a problem with anything.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SILENCE)
Probably Leslie and Kyle.
I reckon they've got beef with House Two.
Just putting it out there.
Did you have fun?
Um...
Yeah, it was fun.
Everyone was pissed off, except us.
Maccas, Maccas, Maccas!
PRODUCER: Ash and Leah won.
Mmm. Yep.
They won.
(TIREDLY) Three in a week.
That's always gonna be good.
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
SCOTTY: While the blockheads were away at the challenge,
the build teams have worked some miracles on site.
# Ch-ch-change, change, change, change. #
MAN: Everyone's worked super hard today to get it done.
We got our floors down.
I'm just hoping to get wall approval now.
Tick, tick, tick. Thanks, Keith.
Start sheeting.
Right, let's give them sheets on the walls. Let's go.
PRODUCER: What would be your biggest worry with them returning?
Tornado Leah coming in and just wiping us all out.
Hopefully she's won some cash and they might be in a good mood.
We'll have to wait and see.
Wow.
We got back and like, the amount of work that they'd done was insane.
Guys, this is amazing! This is unreal.
A lot's happened in the last like, two hours.
Yeah.
So, how did you guys go?
It was winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Yeah! Well done.
Well, the flowers are a bit (BLEEP)
but if you take them out...
(LAUGHS)
We got back from the challenge
and everyone had obviously smashed out a pretty solid day.
Honey, I'm home.
The plasterers had started
and the room was starting to actually take shape.
What do you think of your bulkhead?
Or, is it a bulkhead?
Is it a bulkhead?
Yeah, we had our arch details in. Yeah.
It's looking good.
It doesn't look like your conventional bulkhead, does it?
No. That's spot on. That's insane.
We have the best plasterers for a reason.
The boys have done an awesome job in my tiny room,
making it look very impressive.
I don't care about the size of anything.
Like, to get home and actually see the room come together is insane.
What's left for tonight?
KYLE: Oh well, we can actually insulate this wall
from the reserve side.
LESLIE: Yes, we'll be insulating.
KRISTY: Once we got back from the challenge there was a room.
BRETT: Whoo!
Not bad.
We left and it was nothing and now it's a room.
That looks so good.
Yeah, I know but it already looks good.
(EXPECTANT, HAPPY MUSIC)
(MUSIC SLIDES GLUMLY DOWN)
I thought that they would have been sheeting by the time we got back.
Yeah, there was just a lot of details that needed to be done.
They were still working on that when we got back.
You looked defeated.
MAN: Do I?
How are you? Positive. I'm positive.
We're winning. Are we?
No.
Yeah, we're not (BLEEP) winning this week, are we?
I don't think anyone realised how much work was going to be involved
with what they had given us.
(INDISTINCT SPEECH)
This looks like a lot of work.
We're probably one day behind.
We're definitely one day behind.
But I think what we found happening,
it seems like each week we have something
that stops trades for a day
and end up delivering a room in three days.
SCOTTY: Next door, the girls are keen to see their secret weapon,
their fire place.
We came second so that's good. Second!
Yay!
Do you know what? They work better without us here.
OK, do you wanna see it? Unwrap it.
Yeah, it's a beauty.
I love it. Same.
Our fire place is excellent.
Our ceilings are very confronting pits of hell.
SCOTTY: Well, from a fiery hell to fibreglass hell,
the work never ends.
LIBERTY: I'm just doing some insulating
and so I have to wear a sperm suit.
Ready.
This is mainly just to sleep in so I don't have to smell Eliza.
Eugh!
It's hideous.
What a time to be alive.
Heaven.
# Life could be a dream. Da da da da da, sh-boom. #
SCOTTY: There's something very exciting happening today.
VOICEOVER: Make space for the $16,000
beautifully handcrafted extravagant,
show-stopping dining masterpiece...
That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
..that does not fit.
Wow. It's too wide.
(GROANS) Don't forget chairs.
Get the jigsaw out. What, you're taking off 100mls?
Oh my god!
Can they fix the dining disaster...
I don't even know if it's going to work.
I think the horse is bolded as they say.
..before it costs them...
Bit late now, isn't it?
..the block.
It's the Titanic for them, if they don't get this right.
(SHIP SOUND)