SCOTT CAM: Previously...
This week... The week from hell.
(THUNDER CRACKS)
..the toughest week on The Block...
There was the Domain challenge, the hallway week,
the rumpus week, the study week...
..resulted in the toughest judging for the rumpus room and office.
DARREN: This is functionally useless.
And while two houses rose to the challenge...
It's a tie between one and three!
..Kylie and Brad fell from grace...
I hate this place.
Got absolutely annihilated. I don't want to be here.
You're either with me or you're not with me.
BRAD: What do you mean?
You know exactly what I mean.
Tonight on The Block, it's the final week inside...
I'll just paint it all black.
All black.
MIMI: Lots to do, so little time.
..and a final chance to create the house
with the winning edge at auction.
We have grand plans.
I hope that the judges will walk in and be, like, "We love it."
But for the sisters...
I hope you have some good news for me.
..will ambitious plans...
I don't. ..end in tears?
MADDY: It's just all over the shop.
And dual dinner parties...
RICKY: Wowee.
To the bottom three!
(CHEERING)
..will see All-Stars arrive.
How good! RICKY: Yeah, man.
But tensions between teams continue...
It's been tough. A few of the teams don't like them.
MADDY: Yeah, it's been pretty tricky.
KYLIE: They're just young
and I just don't really have anything in common with them.
I can't have too many friends, OK?
And with just a month to go...
Home. We're going home.
..will one team throw it all away?
I guess there's only so much someone can take.
I don't know where that limit really is.
BRAD: (TEARFULLY) I can't do this without you.
KYLIE: (WHISPERS) Just come with me.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(ELECTRICS FIZZ, LIGHTNING CRACKS) (PENGUINS BRAY)
('NO SURPRISES' BY RADIOHEAD PLAYS)
After completing two rooms last week,
this morning, houses one and three are bathing in the afterglow
of last night's joint win.
DAN: Here he is. Mate... RICKY: How are you, mate?
I thought I'd hand-deliver... Mate...
..freshly made McCafe coffee...
Thank you, mate. I need one this morning.
..to celebrate. I know.
And you got a ten. I know, mate.
We loved the feedback last week.
Thoroughly enjoyed doing this room
and I think the judges could see that.
MARTY: This is so smart. Entertainment. Yeah.
This is what you call a league of your own.
To get that elusive win and a ten on the board
in a room we really wanted to do, it felt unreal.
MADDY: Good morning. INTERVIEWER: How are you both?
Good.
Very good, now that I'm $15,000 richer. (LAUGHS)
We're very happy to win and get a ten.
That was pretty cool.
CHARLOTTE: Marty Fox loved the idea of the external staircase
and... The guest retreat.
..the guest retreat.
This is a massive selling feature.
Changing that window to a door, it's genius.
"It's a game-changer."
I guess that was the first time that they would've heard of that,
so I think that was kind of exciting for them.
Yew-hoo! This is for the winners.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Knowing that you've won, it just, like, makes you feel, like,
"OK, I'm on the right track, the judges have liked what I'm doing,
"they've seen my vision,"
so, yeah, it kind of gave us a pep in our step.
MAN: Oh, hey, winner. Hey, winner.
Winner, winner, winner.
At the other end of the spectrum are house five,
who placed last after failing to complete the office
or impress the judges with their rumpus room.
MIMI: I feel deflated.
I woke up today really emotional because of the judging.
MARTY: I'm genuinely standing in a display suite.
It's so basic.
I think we deserved what we got, having not finished a space.
But now that I've woken up, I'm feeling all those judges' comments.
KRISTIAN: Hello.
Are you alright? Mmm.
What's wrong?
I don't know, it's just a tough start to the week
when that's the feedback that people are getting.
Hey. Come on.
Oh...
Down the road in house four...
Kylie's sleeping in after placing second-last.
INTERVIEWER: Monday morning, Kylie. What's your vibe?
Monday morning is I don't really want to be here.
The feedback was brutal.
MARTY: Why am I sitting 30cm off a glass balustrade
looking over the living area?
Savage.
SHAYNNA: This is... Weird.
I'm saying ridiculous.
BRAD: What was it? Worst room ever? KYLIE: Yeah.
MARTY: Ten out of ten for creating the most uncomfortable room
we've seen this season.
Ouch. That's bad.
BRAD: That was hard to hear.
Bloody oath it was.
And then there's house two,
who came third but felt they should've been first.
I'm gonna get a coffee. You want one?
GRANT: Yeah...
Do you want one? OK. I'll just getting out of bed.
(SIGHS) We were raging.
I think the most frustrating part is that we stuck to the brief.
We provided an office and a rumpus room
and I don't think they really wanted an office.
SHAYNNA: It feels caged in.
This ceiling is so close here.
It will actually boom and go down,
so your conversation will be heard at the lounge room.
GRANT: I don't know.
I'm looking forward to seeing the other rooms, though.
I'm keen to see what a ten looks like.
The first house being inspected is house one,
who secured the win and a ten,
thanks to the guest retreat concept,
with a rumpus room featuring a study desk
and a private entrance with seating area.
You could separately house people in here in privacy.
The judges think, from a buyer's perspective...
This is a massive selling feature. (WHISPERS) Nice.
# I don't want to talk anymore... #
So this is... Is this their rumpus room?
Yes. It would be, yeah, like a rumpus room.
Yeah.
I like this lounge. It's nice.
They've laid it out really well.
It's a good desk. Perfect desk for that space.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm the type of person that's happy to admit
if somebody's got a better room than we do
or they've got a more functional room or a better-looking room
and there's been times over the last ten weeks where I've said that,
but there are times, and this week being one of them,
where it's, like, "How did you place the winner on them?"
Just checking it's real.
KRISTIAN: Oh, this is nice.
Oh... I like it.
MIMI: Wait, they got ten?
Yeah, I didn't...
No, it's not a ten to me.
Yeah, I think that was a bit of a far-fetched ten.
RICKY: Jeez, this is nice.
HAYDN: That's firm. Wow.
Oh...
That's a ten from Marty.
(TOOLS WHINE)
For me, I'm better off not saying anything to anyone
because I'm either gonna say something that I completely regret
or you say it in the moment and then you look back and you're, like,
"Wow, that was really out of line."
BRAD: Yeah, right.
Is this what they expected?
The part that secured the win was the private entrance idea.
They have opened up a massive amount of possibilities
by changing that window to a door.
It's genius.
# It's a beautiful life... #
So, what, they've got another seating area?
OK. This is a bedroom.
So, the entry, I'm going to assume, is through there.
For the stairs? Through there.
That's actually really smart, what they've done there.
So you've got stairs, you've got your own bathroom, own sitting area,
own bedroom, own living.
Yeah, and they can shut that off. This could literally be, like...
Another Airbnb. Yeah, that's cool.
Well done.
BRAD: So that's where the stairs are going?
KYLIE: That annoys me.
KRISTIAN: Your face says it all.
I said nothing.
(LAUGHS) Oh, god.
We tried to get a door to our upstairs and we were told no...
Oh, really?
..and the fact that they got it and they come in
in, like, what, week five...
We were trying to get external stairs
so that way you could access the mezzanine
and have its own self-contained bedroom
but we would've been adding an entire door,
which means it would've been fully re-engineered.
Yep.
And there were decisions that we had to have locked in
in the first, what, four weeks?
Yeah, before the girls even got here,
so it's funny that they can change decisions
when ours were all locked and loaded.
But it makes it a lot easier for them
to see where something like that might go in
and then they have the freedom to change it at this point.
Yeah, we had that all approved as well, but just... (BLEEP) funds.
Well, that's the main reason we didn't.
Yeah. It's money.
How do you get money to do that? Well, they're getting tens.
And they said their style's vanilla every other room.
It looks exactly the same as all the others.
Like, I understand they've come in late,
so I guess they do need some kind of say.
WOMAN: Morning. WOMAN: Morning, guys.
MAN: Hey. WOMAN: Hello, hello.
KYLIE: I'm not going near the girls.
So, yeah, it's hard.
SCOTT: Sharing the win was house three
with their rumpus room adjoining a games room.
They had me at Street Fighter II.
# Video killed the radio star... #
SHAYNNA: The fact you've got Street Fighter,
you've got Pac-Man, you've got Phillip Island on the walls,
I reckon people would buy this for their family
and say "Bring all your friends."
INTERVIEWER: Your fellow winners, the girls,
Maddy and Charlotte at house one, what did you think of their space?
Well, put it this way - it wasn't as good as ours.
# Let's make this happen, girl
# We're gonna show the world that something good can work... #
Oh, wow!
Oh. Oh!
OK. Oh, it's not what I expected.
I don't know how that works. Plastic chairs.
KYLIE: You just want to play it, don't you?
MIMI: (BLEEP).
(SCREAMS)
Functionality... Like, things like that kind of...
You're gonna get a pole through the wall.
Yeah, that's gonna be definitely a pole through the wall.
But, yeah, look... Overall...
..good job, boys. ..I think it was good.
COURTNEY: Like, all this Grafico on the walls...
and ours was polarising?
# I never know... # GRANT: It makes no sense.
# What the judges are gonna say... # It makes no sense.
I'm not commenting 'cause I just don't know what to say.
You can make a games room really nice in a multi-million-dollar home.
You can do a beautiful pool table and a bar and whatnot
but that wasn't that.
In third place was house two's Moderterranean take on a rumpus room
and office.
MARTY: This will shoot better than house one.
Beyond.
But it won't inspect better than house one
and it comes down to the inspection.
# Raining glitter down on us tonight
# Everybody put your hands up to the sky... #
Whoo!
Ah.
Oh, yeah. It's nice.
Oooh, that's a lounge.
Oh, mate, green's in. Oh...
How good's that! Mate!
Hey?
MADDY: Classic Courtney. She's created a beautiful room.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah. No, this is cute.
I'm a fan. I don't really have anything negative to say about this.
We loved it. It was beautiful.
KYLIE: Why has everyone got the same style?
KRISTIAN: They need to stop with their voting.
This is way better than the two rooms that we've seen so far.
This is worth a bloody ten. Like...
I feel like a lot of their rooms have been worth a ten.
I feel like we're creating really nice spaces
and everyone's coming into our rooms saying, you know,
"How aren't you guys winning more?"
And it just seems odd, to be honest.
I just don't know how we've gotten this far without...
What, we've had two wins?
Kristian and Mimi have actually had the most wins,
followed by house one after last night,
who are now equal to house two and house four.
And at the bottom of the ladder is house three,
so two wins so far is actually not a bad result,
considering the judges felt their office needed a refit.
It's like walking into a possible therapy session.
(LAUGHS)
I've been living with Ricky for a little while now.
Mm-hm.
Obviously getting to know him a little bit more.
Mmm. Living with him the past few months.
Mm-hm. And...
Mm-hm. ..he just leaves at random times.
(MOCK-SNORES) I don't know when he's coming home.
CHARLOTTE: I think it's great for a house
but holiday house, I don't think it's necessary.
Maybe if you were, like, a boss, like...
I understand you'd want glass or something there.
It's not like you're gonna work or do a phone call here
when the kids are running around.
House five only completed one space on the ground floor, the rumpus room,
which was intended as a kind of pool house
but fell short, according to the judges.
If you've got a plunge pool there
and you want to come in and watch TV and play games,
don't you want to have surfaces that kids can be in their bathers
and have a good time?
Isn't that what they're trying to sell?
Alright. Oooh!
So, the ship.
Jeez, that's fancy, isn't it?
COURTNEY: This is very nice.
GRANT: I love it.
Yeah, I understand what they're saying.
It's almost, like, too perfect.
But the rooms everyone is dying to see are in house four,
who crashed and burned in judging
thanks to their confusing office and living space.
MARTY: I don't understand why there is a couch
up against a glass balustrade.
COURTNEY: Wait, they got slammed for this, sitting up here?
GRANT: Yeah. Why?
I don't know.
(LAUGHS) I like it.
I love it.
HAYDN: It's cute. RICKY: Yeah, right.
Oh! OK.
RICKY: I'll always agree with the judges' feedback.
The judges' feedback is their personal opinion
based on their expertise,
so I'd never, never argue with the judges.
Sometimes they're harsh but that's because they're judges.
(SHOUTS) Hear ye, hear ye!
That is odd.
Why would you sit there watching everyone?
That's kind of creepy.
Kylie and Brad's house, it just...
The judges didn't love it. We didn't love it.
I feel like the space didn't function as well as it could have.
That's like a handbag. Looks like a dress or a handbag.
Oooh!
Adjoining the office is the rumpus room,
which didn't impress the judges either.
Oh, wow. I don't get this.
From a couple that understood scale, this is blowing my mind.
CHARLOTTE: I feel like they could've done, like, a big...
BOTH: A dressing table there.
That's a bit random.
And I don't really like that track lighting.
It's a bit random.
Shocking.
Hmm. Interesting.
Coming up...
So, what I was thinking...
..it's the last week inside the houses...
It's bittersweet knowing that we're finishing the inside.
I don't know, I feel like I'm gonna cry. (LAUGHS)
..and guards are down.
We all had the exact same opinions on everything, basically -
that the winners were undeserving.
MIMI: Yeah, that was weird.
(LAUGHTER)
But is the island about to lose another team?
INTERVIEWER: Surely you wouldn't walk away with from this
with four weeks to go.
I don't know. I'm, like, "What are we doing?"
BRAD: I know you want to leave.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ELECTRICS FIZZ, LIGHTNING CRACKS) (PENGUINS BRAY)
# Call me now... #
SCOTT: By this coming Sunday,
the interiors of the houses will be complete,
as all that's left to do are two final rooms.
We jumped on the Domain In the Know Hub.
It was the laundry and remaining bedroom week.
"It's time to put your..." It's bedroom and laundry week!
# Oh, girl, I like you... #
The laundries are located behind the kitchens in houses one to four
and house five's is in the ground-floor bedroom zone.
And for houses one to four,
the guest bedrooms are the final piece of the mezzanine puzzle,
so this week will determine
whether the top level is a masterpiece or a mistake.
And in house one, the sisters are feeling the pressure
to complete their highly anticipated guest retreat.
It's not like a standard bunkbed that you just put a bunkbed in.
It's like an elevated bunkbed.
It was really important for us to have a space
that obviously had a bathroom, a chill area, a bar
with, like, you know, your sink, a microwave...
Fridge. ..fridge, coffee machine...
all those things
and was able to sleep four people,
so we had a lot of things to put into a relatively small space.
Completed so far are the sitting areas
at the top of the external staircase, a rumpus room and the ensuite.
What's left to do is the bedroom.
And in order to fit everything they want in,
the girls are planning to put two beds on one wall,
with one elevated 2.4m above a wardrobe.
On the other wall will be a kitchenette,
enabling the guest retreat to be fully self-contained.
All they need is the sign-off from Foreman Dan
that the bunkbed is compliant.
Morning. How are we? Good.
How are you, Dan? Good. Good.
Hope you've got some good news for me.
I don't. Oh, really?
Are you actually?
The bunkbed, the height of it is the main issue.
OK. So a normal bunk's, like, 1.6.
It's already at 2.4. Plus a mattress, it's 2.7.
Something that tall, it actually needs a proper staircase to it...
OK.
..actual balustrading, which is not gonna happen.
So, essentially, you're not gonna get your design underneath
that you want with the wardrobes.
OK. Drawing board.
MADDY: Who knows where we'll actually end up?
We have grand plans
but not everyone loves our grand plans.
SCOTT: In house two this week,
Courtney and Grant will produce a second main bedroom
to go with the oversized ensuite they built a few weeks ago.
COURTNEY: Alright, second main.
GRANT: I feel like that will create enough of a main suite
with our large bathroom
so we'll have the landing area outside
that can be used as a rumpus room/addition to the bedroom.
So, what I was thinking, when you walk in, bed will be here.
Along this back wall here, we'll do maybe, like, a linen...
They've actually got a textured linen fabric that we can use.
The linen wallpaper will act as a bedhead,
paired with a green feature wall.
They'll only be able to fit a queen bed into the space
because they need to squeeze a wardrobe into the room,
something the judges picked up on during the rumpus room reveal.
The judges all wondered,
if you were to put some joinery in this space for wardrobe storage,
you could still make this area into a private second main bedroom suite.
I actually want a king bed. Bingo.
I don't want to overdo it, to be honest.
MAN: Feature wall's gonna, I think, add a lot.
MAN: Yeah.
Look, every time you've kept it, like, simple but elegant,
I think that's where you guys are getting good points.
Alright. Awesome. Thanks, guys.
GRANT: Thank you, mate. Thanks, Andy.
RICKY: For this bed, we'll bring some Grafico through there,
palm trees or some (BLEEP).
Done. Which wall?
See if we can do a couple.
The same thing too.
The boys are maximising the number of beds
by adding a pull-out trundle underneath the bunks,
a smart move when it comes to marketing the house
in the Domain listing.
You want to have, like, two big families
being able to sleep comfortably in a holiday house,
so obviously this is gonna be a second bunk room
and obviously having a bunk room too next to that rumpus area too
so the kids can obviously play in the rumpus room...
and then sleep next door in the rumpus room sort of makes sense.
Things are a bit different for Kristian and Mimi in house five,
whose rooms are both downstairs.
Their bedroom is at the front of the house
after they swapped the position of the rumpus room and bedroom last week
so that the rumpus was near the pool.
And the judges did not approve of the floor plan tweak.
If you are going to change the floor plan to your advantage,
you have to blow us away.
But they are running with their floor plan swap,
putting this week's bedroom where the rumpus room was meant to be.
KRISTIAN: So we've got Kinsman robes going here
and then what we're gonna do is we're building, like,
a little nib wall for the bed to sit on.
We've got lots of natural light coming in with the two windows.
By building the nib wall,
which will be finished in their signature Porta timber,
there will be no going back to the original floor plan
of this being the rumpus room.
But Kristian and Mimi are sticking to their guns.
Alright. Lots to do.
Let's go. So little time.
We switched the rumpus and the guest bedroom
and I hope that the judges will walk into our guest bedroom
and be, like, "OK, I get it. We love it."
But I don't know. I'm not gonna get my hopes up.
Next door in four,
not only are Kylie and Brad not taking the judges' advice
for their plans in the laundry and bedroom,
the Queenslanders currently have no plans at all.
KYLIE: We would've been better off just presenting a painted room.
MAN: It's ridiculous, man.
(BLEEP) over it, eh? I know you are.
INTERVIEWER: Where are you guys off to?
We're going... Home.
We're going home.
We'll go get Beaumont's out of the way and now...
Drop Kylie to the airport?
Oh, she wants to.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
Surely you wouldn't walk away from this with four weeks to go.
Who says I'm walking away? I just want to see my family.
Simple.
We're really missing you guys and it's hard being away from you guys.
CHILD: Miss you too.
KYLIE: Are you OK?
Yeah.
We didn't ring to make you sad, buddy. I'm sorry.
(SOLEMN MUSIC CONTINUES)
Yeah, I guess we were sort of hopeful
that we would see them earlier in the show than this and...
I don't know, especially after hearing feedback like that,
it sort of makes you question... Why you're here.
..what's more valuable. I mean...
My family's more valuable, not this (BLEEP)hole.
(BLEEP) me.
So, it's even...
Yeah, it's hard.
I guess there's only so much someone can take
and this isn't a situation where we've ever been in before,
so I don't know where that limit really is.
KYLIE: Don't!
(TOOLS WHINE)
(KYLIE CRIES)
BRAD: I know you want to leave and I know you deserve to.
(TEARFULLY) I can't do this without you.
Just come with me.
We've worked so hard for this.
Do we not deserve a chance to win money?
That's the whole reason we came here.
(CRYING)
It's the only thing that makes any of this worth any of it.
(CRYING)
All I wanted was my family. I just want to see the kids.
And then when you're told all this negative feedback
and I'm, like, "What are we doing?"
(CRYING)
MAN: See you, mate.
Thanks, mate. No worries.
All the best.
(SOLEMN MUSIC)
(ELECTRICS FIZZ, LIGHTNING CRACKS) (PENGUINS BRAY)
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# I don't know
# Where it all just fell apart
# Staring out
# Search for answers in the dark... #
INTERVIEWER: Is it hard seeing him that upset?
# Come on, let it out Come on, let it out... #
KYLIE: Yeah.
It was really hard seeing Brad upset.
I think that's the only thing that helped me change my mind.
How's it going? You're over halfway.
We are definitely over halfway. That's exciting.
We're over it. No!
You can strive to the and. You guys will be fine.
I then had to make a decision
of what we were gonna be tiling the laundry with.
Yep. Pick the black ones. We'll just do VJ panelling.
I'll just paint it all black. All black.
Do you want to do all black? Like I care.
Like, no-one (BLEEP) cares.
I get in trouble no matter what I (BLEEP) do, anyway.
You pick. I'm gonna go sit in the car.
(TENSE MUSIC)
COURTNEY: Grant, automatic sink mixer in the laundry?
GRANT: Yeah.
Yeah, let's do one of them.
We don't have a lot to do here today.
Yeah. Bradley.
It'll be short and sweet. Jesus, Bradley! Where did you come from?
Inside. No Kylie today?
No. She's in the car.
I can see her green hair. Is she? Oh.
She's sleeping.
Hi, Michelle. Hello, Michelle.
The Pompeii.
Yes, one of your favourites. I love it. It's so nice.
So we've got this one in stock
if you wanted to put this in the laundry floor.
It's a beautiful tile anyway,
so it will just tone in nicely with everything else.
SCOTT: Courtney and Grant's laundry
will fit into the space under the stairs.
The Pompeii floor tiles will contrast
with a bold stone bench and splashback
and they'll include a drying cabinet in walnut cabinetry.
Also tile shopping for their laundry are Kristian and Mimi.
Is that the finish for the skirt...tile?
Yep. Alright. Done. Beautiful.
They will have the most spacious laundry,
with long bench and overhead cabinets finished in Porta timber.
They'll also feature a steam cabinet and hanging space.
We were selecting tiles and whilst we were making these selections...
MIMI: (ANXIOUSLY) Mmm. Mmm. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
..a frightening clown...
KRISTIAN: A creepy dude. ..enters.
You hate clowns. I don't like.
I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like...
I don't like creepy clowns.
He was holding a bunch of balloons and just being weird.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
(HONKING)
(WHIMPERS)
COURTNEY: There was a random clown.
Let's take a selfie.
(LAUGHTER) GRANT: How are you?
Isn't that Dan? (LAUGHS) Oh, is it Dan?
It's Dan. (LAUGHS)
That is Daniel, our foreman.
DAN: It's me.
It's me. This is my other job.
(LAUGHTER) (BLEEP).
She's still freaking out. Yeah.
MIMI: (BLEEP).
COURTNEY: And I was, like, "Selfie!"
Oh, my god. Is that a movie ticket?
No. MIMI: No. "Roll up, roll up.
"It's time to put on a show for our Phillip Island friends.
"This week's challenge
"is to plan and host a carnival stall of your choice."
COURTNEY: So, he announced
that there's a challenge on Thursday at the fun fair
and we have to create a stall.
Alright, see you, guys. Good luck, Dan.
I've got people to scare. Are you actually driving like this?
No, I need a lift.
(KRISTIAN WHISTLES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) (EVIL CACKLING)
(EXCLAIMS)
(HOOTER PARPS) Jesus!
Jesus Christ!
What's going on? Wow. Whoo!
I don't like clowns.
"This week's challenge is to plan and host
"a carnival stall of your choice."
You beauty!
Just don't scare the kiddies like you just did, mate, rolling in here.
(LAUGHTER)
A bit traumatised.
(TOOLS WHINE)
I just don't know how I want this.
We were in the midst of planning...
Ta-dah!
(LAUGHS)
..then all of a sudden a clown jumps out of nowhere...
Is that some money? CHARLOTTE: Is that five grand?
Oh, it's actually Dan. (LAUGHS)
I thought it was... Oh, my god!
SCOTT: Before Maddy and Charlotte can think about the challenge...
AIDAN: No, we have been talking about the bunkbed scenario, though.
Yeah. DAN: I'll leave it to you, mate.
AIDAN: OK.
..they need to lock in the design for their bunkbeds,
which was knocked back this morning due to the top bunk being too high.
The new version is just lower and it has a wardrobe behind still.
Yeah, not gonna get knocked down.
We're just gonna keep rolling with the punches
and hopefully it'll pull through.
In order to lock in the new lower bunk idea,
Charlotte needs sign-off from Kinsman
that they can make a shorter wardrobe to fit under the bed.
MAN: (ON PHONE) I've got your plans.
What height do you want to try and reduce them to?
We're gonna try and go for 1.8
but it might have to go down to 1.6, so under that.
From our perspective, it's not gonna happen.
If you reduce that hanging space,
then you can't physically hang anything in there.
You haven't got another wall you can put them on?
No. (LAUGHS) That's our problem.
Alright. Sorry. OK. Thanks.
Bye. No worries.
MADDY: There were just a million things that were, like,
"You can't do this." (BUZZ!)
"You can't do that." (BUZZ!)
So then we were, like, "OK, what can we do?"
(ELECTRICS FIZZ, LIGHTNING CRACKS) (PENGUINS BRAY)
SCOTT: In house one...
They can't cut down the wardrobes. What?
..the sisters are yet to lock in a room design
for their mezzanine bedroom...
We can't work in the room... I really need to go.
..but they have to drive to Melbourne,
as tonight is their joint winners' dinner...
Jeez, we got snoozed, mate. We didn't bring any daks, though.
..leaving the builders without a signed-off plan for the bedroom.
Oooh, 'X-Men'. Let's go.
If you can sort the climate out, I'd appreciate that.
Yeah, I'll do that. You just focus on the road.
Yeah, that's what I focus on best.
Ricky and I had some bonding time.
So, have you got a partner in Sydney back home?
No, I do not have a partner. Single little Pringle.
Single Pringle. Single Pringle.
Right. Have you got a partner back at home?
Oh... No, not really.
Not really? That's... That's not convincing.
(LAUGHS)
Drive was good on the way there.
I drove our Everest and had a good chat with Maddy.
MADDY: No-one has asked us anything about us.
Yeah. Nothing.
And I find it actually very interesting.
Haven't spent a lot of time with her,
so trying to break down those barriers.
Everyone was, like, "Oh, who are these people coming on the show?"
Oh, I'm sure they were.
"Who are these people coming into, like, you know..."
Which was a hard position for us... It would've been hard for you.
Oh, it's so hard. We're still, like, suffering the consequences of that.
Like, in terms of, like, you know,
you guys have that close connection...
Yeah, that would be tough. ..and that friendship...
Yeah. ..and, you know, you've bonded.
Maddy and Charlotte came on the show and said that they were accountants.
They've obviously got a little bit more experience
than just being an accountant.
Like, I'm not gonna walk into a competition and go,
"Hey, everyone, I'm new here.
"I know you've all been working for, like, four weeks
"and you must be exhausted but just letting..."
"Letting you know..."
.."letting you know, I actually have an investment property.
"So does Charlotte and we've actually also both sold a property."
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. "Like, hi, everyone!"
Like, we're also very young, so we haven't, like...
Yeah. I know, you've done a lot. ..I've just left uni, you know.
You've done a lot for how many years you've been on the Earth for.
Yeah. (LAUGHS) Seriously.
We had a good chat.
MIMI: Because we came last, we had to host dinner again.
We hosted last week too 'cause we came last last week as well.
Cooking again.
KRISTIAN: No, we didn't. Yeah, we did.
It was living-dining. We came last. Did we?
Yes. Oh.
On the menu, we had pork and fennel meatballs with mash.
Where's pork?
# Feed the beast, feed the beast
# In the morning, in the evening, on the corner... #
Delicious.
# Feed the beast, feed the beast... #
RICKY: Oh, it's pretty fancy here.
SCOTT: Oh, ladies! MADDY: Scotty!
Come on in! CHARLOTTE: Hello.
Hello. Hello, hello!
RICKY: Here we go. This is a bit fancy.
How's the set-up?
This is the fanciest joint in Melbourne.
How have you guys been getting on, house one and three?
Pretty good. Good.
Opposite ends of the block, mate, so getting along well.
(LAUGHTER)
KYLIE: Knock-knock. KRISTIAN: Hello.
Welcome to another chumps dinner.
Oh, look, you've been hard-working.
We got beans!
And mash potato!
SCOTT: We're at a hatted restaurant. It's Middle Eastern.
Love that. Yum.
A little bit dry, but...
One of those ones.
(LAUGHS) It looks like I'm in prison.
(LAUGHS) We are in prison, sort of.
(LAUGHS)
..that this restaurant suits to a tee.
Block winners 2022! Block winners 2022, baby!
Omar and Oz. Let's go! Hoo-hoo!
Sold!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Here they are. (LAUGHTER)
Hello. What's happening, brother?
How are you, mate? I'm Ricky.
CHARLOTTE: Hey. Charlotte. Nice to meet you.
Charlotte.
We met Omar and Oz, so that was cool to see them.
What's happening, guys?
It's all happening, mate.
Fresh Prince. Yeah, man. Fresh Prince.
Yeah, we're bringing it back, brother.
(LAUGHS) How good! Yeah, man.
RICKY: We even compared ourselves to Oz and Omar coming onto The Block.
Best mates, here for a good time
and to enjoy the journey and also play the game.
COURTNEY: Hi. GRANT: Hello. How are you, guys?
Hey, guys. How are you, guys? Yeah, it was.
MIMI: Would you like a beer? Sorry we're late.
Yes, I'd love a beer, thank you. COURTNEY: We went to Schots.
BRAD: Yeah, what did you get? Everything.
GRANT: Everything.
I thought it was a really good dinner, to be honest.
KYLIE: Do a bit of that prison meal.
Thank you. Oh...
(LAUGHTER)
MADDY: Oh, wow! RICKY: Look out.
HAYDN: Look at this. Oh, my goodness!
Oh, here's Shane. Owner and chef, Shane Delia.
Talk us through it, buddy.
Well, look, there's a bunch of things on the menu.
Flatbreads with zaatar, with some roasted capsicums.
The kingfish on the other side's really beautiful.
It's got a spicy sauce on the bottom with a pineapple tabouli.
OZ: I feel like I'm at home. (LAUGHTER)
MADDY: Yum. That's good.
Boys, let's get some Block advice. That's what we want.
Well, firstly, you need a lot of this.
(CASH REGISTER DINGS) Oh!
Well, there you go.
Five grand each from Ford, splitting the winnings.
That's why you need to wear that, brother.
But ten grand each from Arnott's, our Big Bickies.
10,000 bucks.
(SQUEALS) (CASH REGISTER DINGS)
Look, I love Tim Tams. But I love this more.
Pass them down.
OZ: To you, brother. HAYDN: Thank you.
GRANT: Mmm.
It was a very interesting morning of walk-throughs.
That's it. That is all I will say. KYLIE: Yeah.
I don't know what the judges were doing before.
We all had the exact same opinions on everything, basically -
that the winners were undeserving. (COURTNEY LAUGHS)
MIMI: Everyone agreed that the judging was not fair.
Yeah, that was BS.
It is what it is. Who cares? KYLIE: Ridiculous.
KRISTIAN: (MOCK-AMERICAN ACCENT) It is what it is.
I see a bit of cheekiness in you guys.
Do you reckon? Yeah, man.
(LAUGHS) We started off pretty rough.
And then you just found your talents?
Then we found the groove, yeah.
Sisters - 22 and 24.
That's young, isn't it? Very young.
It's a tough experience.
How are you guys coping?
It's been tough. A few of the teams don't like them.
RICKY: Yeah, we still don't. MADDY: These boys...
No... Yeah, we still give them a hard time.
(LAUGHTER) Oh, that's alright, though.
Standard. But we get there.
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
KYLIE: They're just young
and I just don't really have anything in common with them.
You mean they don't drink. Exactly.
They don't drink alcohol, they don't drink coffee.
How do you socialise with people like that? You can't.
To the bottom three!
(ALL CHEER) (GLASSES CLINK)
MIMI: We're in the bottom together.
I'm nice enough to them.
I just... I can't have too many friends, OK?
(ELECTRICS FIZZ, LIGHTNING CRACKS) (PENGUINS BRAY)
# Jitterbug... #
SCOTT: The winners have woken up a world away
after a night in the city....
# Wake me up before you go-go... # (WOMAN LAUGHS)
RICKY: I'll tell you what,
steering is off when you're hanging off the side.
OK. I think we're making a fool of ourselves.
That's alright. I do that with ease.
..and they're hitting the road back to reality.
Do you want to order on the MyMacca's app
so it's nice and quick?
Yeah.
RICKY: I am starving too.
Need a coffee as well.
CHARLOTTE: Got our code?
CASHIER: What was the code? JS33.
Yeah, was that one for Ricky? I've been called worse. That'll do.
Yeah, just drive through, thank you.
Thank you so much. Cheers. Legend.
Have a good one. Thank you.
Back on the block,
house two have woken up with a new perspective
on their judges' feedback.
I think initially you get defensive
and you're just, like, "Well, that's not right."
But the judges are judges for a reason.
If we can take on bits and pieces of it, then I think it's fine.
Those bits and pieces are to create space for a king bed
in their mezzanine bedroom
by moving a wardrobe into the rumpus room
and closing it off with a full wall and door.
GRANT: The way it's sort of been presented to us
is that that room would actually form part of your bedroom
and you put your wardrobe out in there and you've created a suite.
House two's upstairs main suite
will now feature a sitting area with a wardrobe,
a spacious wardrobe with a king-size bed
and their already-completed oversized ensuite.
What we'll do is keep that door,
built-in cabinetry will go in here as the wardrobe...
Mm-hm.
..and we'll make that a big master bedroom.
While the girls have been away,
builder Dan has come up with a new plan
for the bunkbeds' pending sign-off.
OK, show us the plans.
What have you been working all this time, eh?
So we have settled with a more simpler version
and we hope it is, like, nice enough for, like, a guest retreat
but also practical.
The latest version has a double above a queen
and a ladder to the left and wardrobe to the right.
MADDY: We wanted to have, like, a beautiful retreat
where it felt really luxurious but also it's a holiday house.
You want beds, you want them to be practical,
so there's an element of luxe that you kind of miss out on
when you're putting a bunkbed in a room.
CHARLOTTE: We're still waiting for approval about our bunkbed. So...
So if that goes to plan, then I think we can catch up
but if not, then we may as well just put a bed in there.
Or a beanbag.
MIMI: I don't know what I'm doing this week.
We're feeling pretty down about our budget.
I can't even remember if we won
because the budget doesn't look like we won anything.
KYLIE: I've used everything that I've been provided,
except for rugs.
Maybe I could just put a room of rugs.
Completely annihilated our budget.
Used it, plus some. And some and some.
I think everyone's in the same boat.
With two very expensive landscaping weeks fast approaching,
one way to make some money is to win the upcoming fun fair challenge
with a standout stall idea.
MIMI: See if we can hire a dunk tank, 'cause that's within budget.
BRAD: Coloured balloons and then you have the five house colours.
You pop the balloons and whoever gets a certain amount,
that house wins.
We don't have to worry about prizes.
KYLIE: But then why would people come to us
unless we're offering prizes?
Mimi's doing a dunk tank. A what?
A dunk tank.
COURTNEY: A what?
Dunk tank.
But it's freezing! (LAUGHS)
You're gonna give the kids pneumonia!
Not the kids. They're throwing and then...
Oh. ..I'm getting people.
Like, would you like to participate? (LAUGHS)
Would it be hot water or cold water?
It'll be ice water. Ice water?
Definitely not.
KYLIE: What do you want me doing?
You want to bring bags of insulation up for me to put in our roof?
I guess the turnaround for me was you just have to snap out of it
and know the reason why we're here
and we're here because we're trying to make a better life for ourselves
and our kids.
So, with our bedroom upstairs,
we have a massive window that overlooks the community pool,
so I thought, build, like, a daybed
and we've got a long, tall cupboard next to it
and we're gonna do a really bold, striped Grafico wall.
Brad didn't like the idea of it
because we're limiting cupboard space.
Like, I like the idea of it
but we're gonna get hammered for no storage.
So then I came up with a brilliant idea
that I'll just find, like, a dresser
or something that you can put the rest of your stuff in.
What are we looking for? A chest of drawers, you reckon?
Chest of drawers.
Oh, you think I haven't googled it? Oh, no, you're on Facebook.
Alright. Here we go.
No!
Here we go. Oh, the purple one.
There we go. Perfect. (LAUGHS)
I will get to the end... Mmm.
..one way or another.
(PENGUINS BRAY)
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: In the history of The Block,
contestants have faced many worthy adversaries.
Right. Are we closer?
MAN: I don't think so.
But perhaps none as difficult to conquer
as the Australian standards for bunkbeds.
It's pretty stringent,
all the things it says you've gotta go through in there
to make that compliant.
Yeah, yeah.
I personally don't see how that can happen.
What's in the book is the testing that needs to be done, the physics.
How wide does the ladder have to be, what kind of ladder is it,
what kind of railing has to be on it.
AIDAN: It's pretty stringent, all the things it says
you've got to go through in there to make that comply.
I don't feel confident in putting my name to it.
I've got so much to do than sit here and read...
I know.
..42 pages of Australian standards on bunkbeds.
Yeah, I understand that. I build houses.
(LAUGHS) Not bunkbeds.
Yeah, yeah.
Aidan was pretty hesitant to put his name towards any kind of structure
that was built-in.
So there's no way, in any kind of orientation,
that you can really do a built-in bunk on the block because...
The way I'm reading...
I'm reading him is there's no way you're building a bed above...
Yeah. Right.
Yeah, that's a little bit stressful
and I think we begin to start feeling it
and be, like, "OK, like, maybe this is a bad idea.
"How far do you push this?"
SCOTT: But the girls' builder Dan has come up with a solution.
So, my father-in-law... is an engineer.
He can certify it. I've just gotta give him this book.
What, does that mean that his name goes on it forever
and if something happens he's...
Well, he'll certify the bunkbed, that it complies...
You can't actually certify bunkbeds.
Like, it's the hardest thing to find in Australia.
He needs to read this... Yeah.
..tonight and then... Some light reading for him.
Yeah, he'll love it.
Dan's favourite line was, like,
"We may have lost the battle but we will win the war."
Hello, it's your favourite people. Man of the hour.
Howdy. How you going?
Alright. Are you thrilled to see us?
It depends what you're gonna say,
whether I'm thrilled to see you or not.
We're not gonna say those words. No, we just want to ask...
We just want to ask a question.
If I can get an engineer... Yeah.
..to certify the construction of it...
Right.
Obviously you've got to approve of all this first.
Yeah. Yep.
So I've sent him a couple of pages...
I'll need a drink. Yeah. Can you have a cup of tea?
I need something stronger. Yeah.
I've sent him a couple of pages of it all...
Right. ..to read.
So he hasn't got his full context of the idea.
So if I can borrow this tonight, I'll be really grateful. Sure.
So we're pretty much saying we're gonna get a structural engineer
to certify that last design and tick off all the stuff...
So we don't have to go back to...
I think that will put us in a much better position.
OK. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate your time.
Thanks, guys.
# 'Cause, baby, tonight... #
SCOTT: It's tools down on another day on the block
and the mezzanine bedrooms are really starting to take shape...
except for house one, because they don't have a locked-off design yet.
We don't have a concrete plan at all and it's just messy
and I can't order my artwork unless I know what we're doing,
I can't order the bed, the bedside tables...
Like, the wardrobe people have been,
like, "Where are you putting your wardrobes?"
I'm, like, "I don't know." So it's just all over the shop.
In just over two and a half weeks, these five houses will be complete,
just so long as everyone can afford to finish them.
Budgets are running dangerously close to empty...
Oh, evening. CONTESTANTS: Evening.
..so I'm offering a life raft.
Sorry to take you away from the job
but an important announcement to make.
Over the last couple of months,
Jo from Finance here has been keeping a very tight eye on your budgets
and she's been tracking them by tracking your spending on Xero.
It's not about how much you spend, it's more about how well you spend
and whether you're paying your bills on time.
So, Jo, without naming names, how are they going?
Look, I'm happy to say that the majority of them
are actually pretty on top of it.
(CHEERING SOUND EFFECT)
It's your lucky day, because Jo and I,
we're gonna forget all your past mistakes
and we're gonna give you a fresh start
and this time next week,
Jo is gonna check out your budget and your spending
and see how well you're doing.
The team that does the best,
paying their bills and all that sort of thing, will win...
(EXCLAIMING SOUND EFFECT)
..their Xero Hero medal.
(GASPING SOUND EFFECT)
And they also come with something else, Jo.
Yes. $1,000 cash from Xero. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE SOUND EFFECT)
Oooh.
So, there's two Xero medallions up for grabs
as well as a $10,000 prize.
There you go. There's an incentive to do beautiful business for a week.
10,000 would be amazing for us right now,
considering we haven't won (BLEEP).
We need money.
OK, that's it. See you later. Thank you.
CONTESTANTS: Thank you. Thank you, thank you. See you later.
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I said from the start, $250,000 was not enough to do these houses.
MAN: CommBank's total budget? Yeah.
Need a lot more money than that. (LAUGHS)
The only way to finish is to win.
The thing is, this is not enough to build that beautiful house...
RICKY: No way. You know that.
We've got to win. Challenges...
Yep. ..room wins, all that sort of jazz.
And tomorrow night, that becomes oh-so-very-clear.
There's only that amount of money left
and when you're get to it, you're at it.
We need to win the challenge.
Your challenge today is to create your very own fun fair stall
because the team that does the best job will win $10,000.
Oh!
With some budgets running on empty...
We're ten grand behind. Front yard right now...
We've got no front yard. (LAUGHS)
..others are cashed up...
65K week last week, that's put us in a very, very good spot.
..so winning is no longer a bonus.
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
INTERVIEWER: So, a win this week is, like, imperative.
Yeah.