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SCOTT CAM: Previously...
Absolutely cannot come even close to finishing this bathroom.
..the girls from house four had everyone pitch in and help...
We have the Cursio brothers from house two,
the chippy from house three, Rosco from house three.
..and pulled off a miracle to deliver their bathroom.
(EXCLAIMS)
This might be the greatest comeback in history.
Two teams failed to finish - house five and house three.
MARTY: I wonder what's happened.
SHAYNNA: I think they had a tiler issue.
And in the end, the best bathroom went to the girls.
It's Courtney and Sev. (APPLAUSE)
The prize gives the girls a huge advantage.
It's taking home 10,000 bucks from Chery
and $250,000 worth of appliances from e&s.
And resentment is growing.
Everyone else did their work for them.
You know, they go, "Oh, we're struggling. We're so far behind."
Next minute, there's 100 trades in there.
Yeah, I'm pissed. Yeah.
Tonight, reality bites. TAYLA: Massive.
BOTH: Huge.
Our teams are taking on their biggest rooms yet.
I feel like stepping into main bedroom and walk-in robe
seems kind of impossible.
Um... I'm going a bit insane.
INTERVIEWER: What are we going to see in here?
I've got no idea.
Old mate here, he's no help.
TAYLA: I don't care what radius it is. We have to have a curve.
RICK: Yeah, this is what I'm saying.
We need to talk about this at night-time, not (BLEEP) on the day.
I just feel useless right now.
There's nothing to do until I have material, so...
I just have to sit here and wait.
(DOG WHINES AND YELPS) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(BIRDSONG)
WOMAN: Morning. WOMAN: Morning.
COURTNEY: Um... Monday morning.
It's a little bit awkward.
It's really awkward right now. We, um...
We can feel everyone's energy.
Far out. I'm not ready for today.
Yeah.
It's a little cold.
We can see some body language that...
We can. ..is directed at us.
At the end of the day, we are in a competition
and we don't expect them to parade and be, like, "Congrats!"
We haven't got to enjoy a win yet.
And today's no different. (LAUGHS) Yeah.
INTERVIEWER: After last night's judging,
what's...what's the tone like for you guys?
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
I'll leave that one to you.
You don't know if you want that answer.
So, after judging, I would say I was pretty salty.
Well, the girls can't sit there and (BLEEP) gloat
that they do all their (BLEEP)
because when it comes down to it,
every Tom, Dick and Harry is (BLEEP) helping them.
Yeah, just focus on what we're doing, though, this week now.
JOLENE: You know, missing out by one point was pretty rough.
I guess we'll see what the rooms look like today.
I guess going into Domain open houses, I was still salty,
so I am sitting on the floor in the main bedroom
drawing out a plan with the builders.
So... Bedhead? Bedhead.
Oh, yeah.
Like, I get it's a design show
but we're also supposed to be building luxury homes to hand over.
(BLEEP). I'm going to call it. (BLEEP).
INTERVIEWER: Is it a little bit about the $250,000 prize as well?
Oh, it's definitely... it's definitely the prize.
I mean, yeah, like, we're...we're going to be behind the eight ball.
Um... MAN: Be nice. No drama.
I'm being nice. This is... This is me being super nice.
Gloves are off.
You want to be portrayed as the lovely person you are.
Surely I'm not the only one who feels like this.
I mean, I get that I'm like... because we were second,
I feel like this,
but from what I'm hearing and bits and pieces,
like, other people are noticing the same thing.
Yeah.
Adam and Jolene literally just got robbed, in my opinion.
So we'll see what the walk-arounds...
I'm sure the girls' house is, like, really, really nice.
And I mean, I hope so, for 43 grand.
But, you know, if I was Adam and Jolene again,
I'd be, like, pretty filthy.
Well, let's see what our Blockheads think of each other's work
in the Domain open for inspections.
Last week, every house set out to solve
the three-door dilemma in their bathrooms
and last-place-getters
paramedic Lisa and her FIFO worker husband Rosco
decided to replace their exterior door with a window
and delete this door.
DARREN: Quarter of the points are for finish,
quarter of the points are for design,
quarter are for inclusions and a quarter are for marketability.
Is this well designed?
Yeah. Mmm.
Does it have great inclusions and materials? Yes, it does.
Will this be saleable to its market? Yes, it will.
Obviously, our score was the lowest out of five houses.
But what they did comment on obviously
was not our execution but more so our direction
and they did say that they liked our direction
and they liked some of our choices.
Holy bejesus.
Yikes.
Hooly dooley.
Something went down in here, Detective Wagner.
The room only had waterproofing done.
There was a vanity on the floor.
The judges really praised the vanity set.
It's very Mount Eliza.
But to me, I just didn't like it that much.
Like, I actually hate it. Sorry, Lisa.
That hurts, eh? They had such a beautiful...
I love the tile. JOLENE: Yeah, the tile's amazing.
The full shelf all the way around, I love that idea. Love it.
ADAM: Dammit, eh?
I feel for 'em.
I don't know how they scored 6.5, to be completely honest.
COURTNEY: Nothing's fitted off for Rick and Tayla.
To only get, like, half a point or a point behind them,
I just thought was a bit harsh. Yeah.
TAYLA: Hang on a minute. This got one point less than us.
Do you understand what I'm saying right this second?
RICK: Yeah. Dad...
This (BLEEP) room... I'm sorry. I'm swearing right now.
This room got one point less than our room.
Yep.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
One point less.
(LAUGHS) Yeah...
I need to speak to someone about this.
This is absolutely just a joke. It's actually laughable.
I'm not sure if serious.
Like, I'm gobsmacked. Absolute load...a crock of crap.
I'm fuming.
It's... It's hilarious... Yeah.
..that they can compare this to ours.
Alright, let's go. Alright.
Oh! Gotta love the judges.
How dare they compare us,
our bathroom, which actually had something in it...
Whereas theirs had... ..to theirs?
SCOTT: Well, let's see why developer Rick
and personal trainer Tayla came fourth.
MARTY: OK, 70% done.
Despite making the sensible decision to delete the hallway door and wall
to solve the three-door dilemma,
the judges thought our dad-and-daughter team
failed to create an opulent enough bathroom to attract buyers.
This is not high-end at all
and they're going to get scored for it.
Oh, Rick-dog.
COURTNEY: Cute.
I wonder what happened.
Where's the powder room?
Oh! Oh, what the heck?
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
This is beautiful.
I love the tiles.
Oh, they are awesome.
Yeah. Like, I get it. It's not quite there, but, like...
Once it's done, it'll look really nice.
Yeah. It's, like, cool.
COURTNEY: Tayla's definitely onto a good thing with her palette.
Like, I really like all her materials and that.
She's very good at styling. Yeah.
CHANTEL: Oh, they've got a little seat. What's that about?
Is that like a shaving... Yeah. Put your leg up.
Put a leg up, uh? I don't love that.
(LAUGHS) I think that's misplaced.
What do you think? I think I need to grow up.
Again, I think the direction was really good.
I love it.
What a shame they couldn't finish. Yeah.
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: Small-business owners Chantel and Wyatt came third
and dealt with the three-door dilemma by deleting the bathroom door
to maximise space,
but still copped criticism.
You can make minimalism really sexy. Not jailhouse Block.
INTERVIEWER: You didn't walk away with nothing.
What did you win?
Yeah, so we won the $10,000 budget estimate from CommBank.
I like the colour. Yeah.
I like the palette. Beautiful tiling. Beautiful tiling.
TAYLA: Someone's done a poo in there already.
Phew!
This is divine. Perfect.
WOMAN: Is there a funny smell? MAN: Yeah, it's the drains.
That... Like, that vignette there just looks so beautiful.
It is. Yeah.
TAYLA: Why didn't they win? RICK: Just painting.
The painting is so bad. Is it?
It felt calming. Their paintwork...
It feels calming. Yeah. ..needs a lot of work.
I think overall, as a palette, it's amazing.
Ahem.
Oops. (LAUGHS)
SCOTT: Next, our second-place station managers, Adam and Jolene,
whose solution to the three-door dilemma
was to oddly delete the door to the powder room
and add a cavity slider to the bathroom.
MARTY: Powder room and a bathroom.
Yes, but a free-for-all toilet?
Yeah.
Look, the only people it's going to work for
is the people that go to the nudist beach just down the road.
But Marty Fox thinks buyers will love this bathroom.
We just didn't quite jump over the line.
Oooh! Hoo-hoo!
Swish, baby!
MAN: Jeez. This is finished well. It's, like, ready for handover.
Look how much effort went into this.
This is very impressive.
Oh, so they've got the door there. You come in.
So then if you are in the toilet...
Yeah. You can't access the bathroom. Yeah.
Why did they do that?
I just see what they say about the no-door,
but it's, like, a beautiful-looking toilet room.
RICK: But they got fried for having glass wall by the ceiling.
Yeah. It feels like a steam room.
Look, they've even got a curved bench and everything.
It's nice. This is beautiful.
Ten out of ten. It is ten out of ten.
Nice work. I love it.
SCOTT: Finally, our winners,
construction site manager Courtney and commercial interior designer Sev,
their out-of-the-box floor plan
moved the powder room door to the hallway
and created extra storage solutions.
Wow!
SHAYNNA: It's just stunning.
How did they pay for all this?
If they keep spending money like this, even if they win...
They still run out of cash.
They're still going to run out of money.
We're really proud.
Yeah. We're like... We're really proud of that room.
It's a memorable space.
Finishings are absolute (BLEEP). (ADAM LAUGHS)
That is an absolute dog's breakfast.
LISA: It's stunning. Rough, but stunning.
So, hang on.
It's an unfinished room.
RICK: Oh, I think Adam... I think Adam and Jolene got robbed.
So then they're judging on only the direction you're heading in.
So, don't finish. And you don't have to finish.
You don't even have to get close.
It's just hard 'cause you make choices to make the time frame.
I know.
Part of the challenge is to actually finish it...
In the time frame. ..in the time frame.
Plus they've got, like, eight hours of extra time.
Plus we lent them our tilers for, like, four to six hours.
JOLENE: Anyway, I've seen enough.
ADAM: Oh...
JOLENE: There is no one-point difference there.
MAN: I feel like an unfinished room just should be not allowed to win.
WOMAN: Yeah. Agreed.
Feels like everyone thinks it was an incomplete room
that should have not won.
But the finishings are atrocious!
It's left a really sour taste in my mouth. I'll be honest.
INTERVIEWER: What house do the Cursio brothers work for?
Us. House two. House two.
Cursio brothers work for house two, baby. (LAUGHS)
Have they only been working for house two?
No. We lent the Cursio brothers to house four the other week...
We did.
..and it turned out that they ended up winning that week.
I'm like, I can't... I'm not going to be sharing trades anymore.
So I'm gonna have that conversation with them
because obviously, like, they're...
they're the biggest competition in the game.
And then we have Chantel and Wyatt approach us.
I feel like, at this point,
we're just, like, taking ourselves out of the race
just by, like, lending everyone our trades and stuff.
The direct conversation was
that they won't be lending their trades anymore.
So the Cursio are off bounds.
But it doesn't just go for you guys.
Like, we won't be lending our trades to anybody.
Yeah. Yeah, that's fair.
INTERVIEWER: What's your take on Chantel and Wyatt
lending the Cursios to help out?
That was 100% their call
to hand the Cursio brothers over to the girls.
And they probably learnt a big lesson by it.
What was the lesson they've learnt, Jolene?
Don't lend your trades
because you're going to get pimped at the post.
Isn't that what you call it?
You don't get pimped out at the post.
You get pipped at the post.
Pipped at the post. Whatever.
Not pimped, 'cause that's the wrong post.
You're standing next to the wrong post if you're getting pimped.
(LAUGHS) But, hey, I'd give it a go.
I'd stand next to a post.
# Oh, yeah... #
# Chicka-chicka... #
(GULL CRIES)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: This week, our teams are building their main bedroom
and walk-in robes,
the first big-ticket rooms of their house.
Come over. Come over. Yep. To the left.
To keep spending under control,
I've suggested 20 grand from their CommBank budget for this week.
DAN: Morning. COURTNEY: Oh, hello.
Well, we haven't wasted the morning on a Monday, which is good to see.
I know.
Boys have been putting all the black plastic down.
Yes, and we're making quick decisions.
Are we? Yes.
The main bedroom is a really big space
and we've got to be really tight with our money,
so it's going to be really hard to rein it in.
The downtown main bedrooms and walk-in robes
of houses four and five
are just over 30 square metres of space
and lead out to the backyard and pool area.
And after winning the house decider challenge,
the girls decided to move downtown and chose...
Sorry, Lisa and Rosco, but we're going for house four.
LISA: I didn't see that coming.
Everyone thinks that people would buy, like, one, two and three
because of the views.
But, you know, right before COVID,
I ended up buying a house that had the best views in Brisbane
but the floor plan was backwards.
Everything in the house was backwards,
but I thought the house will sell itself
just because of the views.
But people don't buy just for views.
Like, they...they would prefer a good floor plan.
This week is going to be really tough
because we do have much smaller spaces
than house one, two and three,
but we also can't have an end buyer spending millions of dollars
and having a wrong layout.
But it's this week's walk-in robe that has the best friends bothered.
We knew that by wanting house four
that we were going to inherit a wardrobe design
that we did not design.
Lisa locked in the walk-in robe design in week one
and with the tight turnaround and considerable costs,
it can't be changed,
so the girls are stuck with the wardrobe.
I think we're going to lock this in.
We're going to feature more of a minimalistic look.
We had to order our wardrobes week one,
therefore Lisa and Ross designed theirs for this one
and we designed house three's.
We asked the question if we could change, change it up
and we were told no from Freedom, which is fair
'cause they don't have the time.
I quickly clocked that she had used a front door panel
that was more on the pink blush side of things.
It was called Savannah Clay.
It's a beautiful colour that Freedom have,
but in a wardrobe context,
it just sort of translates a bit too feminine.
I'm calling it the blush box.
Like, it's...it's a bit pink.
The Brissie besties' main bedroom will have custom carpet inlay
as a centrepiece,
as well as a Grafico on the walls and many other design features.
COURTNEY: On the back wall we'll have the bedheads
and it's going to have a beautiful, like, curved joinery detail there.
For the bedhead, we'll have a bulkhead drop-down ceiling
and we're hoping...we just need to check with the Block Bucks
to see if we can put a fireplace in.
DAN: What fireplace is going in?
Oh, on the...on, you know where we were standing?
What kind of fireplace?
Um... An electric one.
Electric's fine. Yeah. Electric.
As long as I know it's electric, it's good.
Phew.
(LAUGHTER) MAN: We just need that frame.
But it's going to be a really soft and beautiful space
and we're going to try and complement
the colour of the walk-in wardrobe that was designed by Ross and Lisa.
(UPBEAT ELECTRONICA PLAYS)
Monday morning. Good morning.
We got the main bedroom. Main bedroom week.
So, yeah, as you can see, it's quite a big one.
Massive room, I think. Mass.
Yeah.
I'm talking mass this way that way.
Yeah. It's big. You name it. You name it.
Yeah. Massive.
BOTH: Huge.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Yeah. It's legit.
It's good.
Tayla wants a curved wall on here.
Yeah, this is a curved wall for sure.
But we're not doing that radius. It's just too hard.
What radius? On that wall.
Is that what you're saying? I don't care what radius it is.
We have to have a curve, that's all. Where does the curve stop?
Wherever you want it to.
It can stop here, as long as it's curved.
You can't do a curve like that. It's too sharp.
Well, then, show me the radius that you want.
It needs to probably come out to here.
Perfect.
Yeah. And then we lose all that.
Yeah, this is what I'm saying.
We need to talk about this at night-time, not (BLEEP) on the day.
It's got to be curved.
I love a curve.
Yeah. Tayla wants curves everywhere.
And curves are in.
And Dad's seeing it now in all the other people's houses...
They're not... They're not cheap to do.
It takes up a lot of time. But it's worth it.
But the end result is magnificent. Truly.
So if we...if we are allowed to get that wall in
and the curve wall,
that's going to be probably that little thing
that might tick us over the line... I agree.
..with a curved.
Really softens it, softens the room and that's what the judges want.
Soft touches.
And I'll figure out the bedhead today too.
For our main bedroom walk-in robe,
we're thinking full Venetian walls, off-white.
We're going to have a beautiful curved wall, huge headboard,
king, extra king, extended headboard.
Mm-hm. And then walk-in robe's...
Pretty... It's going to be pretty chill.
I'm gonna add the curve and we're gonna win.
Everyone has started doing something except for house two.
My care factor right now is zero.
(DOG WHINES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(DOG YELPS)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS)
# Boom, boom, boom... #
So today's Monday, start of a fresh week.
(LAUGHS) Thank... Thank you.
So that's a good start. (LAUGHS)
This week is master bedroom and walk-in robe week.
Today we've got subfloor install. We need to be putting insulation in.
So, chat to sparky to see about that.
See where he's going to be running his cables
so we can get all that in.
All happening today.
SCOTT: The houses on top of the block,
houses one, two and three,
all have their main bedrooms and walk-in robes on the top level
and each are a massive 40 square metres,
ten square metres larger than houses four and five.
While we failed so miserably last week...
I think the attitude coming in today
was, like, to hit the ground running.
So we were really, really adamant
we needed to have a really firm plan.
We needed to stick to it.
ROSCO: So everything was ordered on time last week,
ready for this week.
You know, our Bunnings, our CSR, all our chipboard,
everything was pre-ordered, so we were ready to go.
And to help house three and every team reframe and refine their design
is Peter, the man of steel from Truecore.
Yeah. She wants something like just a built out, probably...
Yes. ..a 140.
140, yeah. Yeah.
And then comes down like that.
And then to there.
The design of our main bedroom
was to give, like, a really overall calming,
grounding sort of environment,
so we decided we were going to introduce curve
going down the wall to act as a lighting source and a bedhead.
And then we introduced some curves into the bulkhead.
We had a really neutral tonal colour palette this week
and really focused on just making interest
through textural differences.
Directly...
Good to see action first thing on a Monday morning.
Yeah. That's what we want.
Bit of a start than last... Better start than last week.
Yeah, we're learning.
But not every house is full of action this morning.
Um...
(CLEARS THROAT)
(DOWNTEMPO COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS)
(TOOL WHINES NEARBY)
I don't know.
I'm feeling very overwhelmed today.
I feel like stepping into main bedroom and walk-in robe
seems kind of impossible to complete.
Oh...
It is a massive space
and I do realise there is a lot of painting
that we're going to have to do at the end of the day.
But I don't really know where to start.
Is there another house you can go to before me?
Yeah. Yeah? Can you do that?
And then I can have a minute to think. And then I will...
Then we can reassess.
INTERVIEWER: After last night's judging,
what's the tone like for you guys?
(WHISTLES) Thank god that's over!
We can reset. It's a big button. Big...reset.
INTERVIEWER: Talk me through. What are we going to see in here?
I've got no idea.
Right. You seem overwhelmed, Adam.
Yeah.
It was all... You sounded like a frog, then.
It was all a bit much.
(LAUGHS)
Can you say that again without scratching your crutch, please?
(LAUGHS) I don't care. (LAUGHS)
I'm scratching me leg, actually, you (BLEEP).
(LAUGHS)
Have another lick of the ice cream. What are we doing again?
The way I'm leaning to
is that we need to have more of a design element,
a bit more bolder, take a few more risks.
JOLENE: We definitely wanted a nice feature wall above the bedhead,
so a recessed wall.
SCOTT: And the South Aussies also plan to add a curved wall
as an added luxury feature.
Chippies, they were, like,
"Oooh, we're not going to have the time to do that."
And both of us really stuck to our guns.
And once we got it in our heads, we were like,
"No, no, it is going in."
INTERVIEWER: It's a big room. So what's sort of going in this area?
Yeah, I don't know.
Uh...
Sculpture, maybe.
I'm thinking a Rome... a Roman sculpture,
maybe like the holding the torch sort of sculpture.
Old mate here, who...who has the styling ability of two dead rocks,
is no help.
You're carrying a lot. You're carrying a lot.
And it's hard.
It's hard to work out whether or not I'm on the right track.
Come down to the design stuff out here.
Yeah, I reckon Jolene's on it.
So her idea of the layout is spot-on.
Yeah, what are we doing? OK.
So... Sorry, I have a headache.
Yes. Um... OK.
I kind of go with the flow. That's kind of my vibe.
And, yeah, I don't know if that's the best way to do it,
but it seems to work out for me.
And I'm kind of out of the loop, so I don't know what's going on.
So I kind of just float around, trying to assist.
CHANTEL: I've decided for the main bedroom
I'm wanting to do a lot more curves in this room,
try to bring in that quiet luxury that they've been asking for.
I'm thinking to do, like, a beautiful arch behind the bedhead.
I'm wanting to do some white wall lights
that kind of shoot light up and down
and it'll be like a beautiful Venetian plaster behind
and a really light colour.
Marble bedside tables, beautiful rug to cosy it up a bit.
So I'm trying to go more quiet luxury.
I'm trying really hard this week to implement new ideas
and curves and things that are really going to wow the judges.
There is definitely a lot on my shoulders, for sure.
It gets a little easier towards the end of the week,
but Monday's always chaos.
SCOTT: Adding to the chaos for Chantel
is the feeling that she might be a one-person team at he moment,
with Wyatt struck down with an injury.
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS)
# Wyatt said
# His tooth has gone bad... #
WYATT: I have a sore tooth.
I don't really give a (BLEEP) about anything else
'cause my tooth hurts and it's giving me a headache.
# Chantel is not fooled
# It's an excuse for no tools... #
So my tooth has been hurting since last Friday night
and I haven't been able to sleep.
But there's nothing we can do about it right now,
so I'll just keep trying to work and complain.
Yeah.
# Will his pain ever cease?
# Lord, give him release... #
My teeth hurt. I don't feel like doing anything.
Like, (BLEEP), this whole side of my head's just throbbing.
My care factor right now is zero.
# Wyatt's teeth... # (DOG WHINES)
# Are causing him grief... # (THUNDER CRACKS)
(DOG YELPS)
(SPIDERBAIT PLAYS)
# Hey, you, you never should have ran
# You want to make something that can take you...
# Spin you round again Spin you round again... #
ROSCO: Oh, my god.
INTERVIEWER: Rosco. Busy little beaver, aren't you?
Yeah. Today we're hoping to achieve insulation.
Oh, sorry. Hi, Stevo.
Today we're hoping to achieve getting these walls insulated.
And then also, boys have started on our subfloor.
Just had another glue delivery.
Good vibes in house three.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. We've got to start fresh.
We've got to start quick as well.
Walk-in robe and main bedroom, although it sounds fairly simple,
there's a lot of trades that need to get in there.
Today sets us up for the rest of the week.
So, on a Monday, when we're not doing a wet room,
you want to get your floors sorted out ASAP.
So that's getting your plywood down.
House three, they're leading the charge.
And this week the contestants have actually learnt
from the previous week.
Everyone has started doing something,
which is great to see, except for house two.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
I've been up there a few times.
I haven't even seen the guys up there,
so I'm not sure what's going on there.
My teeth just hurt, eh? I just don't want to do anything.
# Wyatt said his tooth has gone bad... #
I'm just complaining about my tooth all day today, to be honest.
I'm not doing a whole lot and there's not much I can do.
I'm sort of just walking around, miserable.
# Now he can't insulate
# Or lock in the design brief
# Feelings heading south
# And pains in the mouth... #
I just feel useless right now. I feel like just wasting time.
But, I mean, it's just one of those things.
Monday's a slow day, so we got to wait for our deliveries to come
and we got to wait for our Truecore frames to come.
And we can't insulate until, you know, our frame's signed off.
My ear hurts. It's been, like, since Friday. (BLEEP).
Monday... It's been four days. I'm over it.
# Wyatt's teeth
# Are causing him grief... #
INTERVIEWER: You know, we've been telling you
to go to the dentist since Saturday.
Yeah, I think the dentist is a waste of money.
Why? What do you mean?
Because they charge you, like...
It's like taking your car to a mechanic.
They'll say, "You need to do all this," but, you know,
they just want to take, like, a couple of grand off you
to fix some things that aren't that important.
I'll be downstairs if you need me.
Chantel's got an ensuite appointment,
I believe it is today, for the ensuite next week,
I think it is.
There is a lot on my plate this week,
more than the other weeks, for sure.
But, you know, I feel like having the two weeks practice run
has kind of set me up for this week.
Lucky you got a big plate. Lucky I have a big plate.
(LAID-BACK MUSIC PLAYS) I like this...this bench top.
Yeah, I definitely want to pick very similar pieces
that we did for the main bathroom.
We're having to plan our ensuite for next week
because we have one less day that we can work.
So we're having to do main bedroom, walk-in robe
and also plan everything for the ensuite as well, so...
Yay, me. I'm going a bit insane.
This is the colour palette so we can go with the blonde oak.
Yep.
I have to make fast choices so I can get back on the road
so I can get back to the Block so I can make more decisions.
SCOTT: Chantel is not alone.
Everyone is at Reece...
planning their ensuites ahead of next week.
Does this come in a sectional? It does.
So, in the 1500... Yep.
..you'll have two centre doors... OK.
..and then two internal doors. OK. Awesome.
How's the stress pimple!
Damn Block. (LAUGHS)
How'd you go last week? Yeah, not good.
OK.
The other thing I do want to talk about
is the smart toilet.
Going into the Reece consult this time,
I am a little bit more... uh, I guess onto it
and I knew I wanted the new smart toilet.
It cleans your tush? It does clean your tush.
(LAUGHS)
Heated? Heated.
Great. Heated seat.
Yeah, I just jumped on the toilet straight away. Locked it in.
Awesome. Good on you.
Thank you.
What does it do?
Water temperature control for your tush and for the seat.
Oooh. Yeah.
I can feel it now. Yeah. And then it blow-dries...
It blow-dries your... (LAUGHS)
(BLOW DRYER WHINES)
Ah.
(EXCLAIMS)
(WONDROUS MUSIC PLAYS)
Does it take you there?
Oh, I suppose it could if you were desperate.
TAYLA: I think I'm gonna lock in this and this and this.
WOMAN: Yep. OK.
Reece, the best place ever. Sylvie, my best consultant ever.
Love it.
Hang on a minute. I have to get this.
(PHONE RINGS)
Hello? Oh, Dad.
Now? Back there? Alright.
(SIGHS)
(EXHALES)
(POP MUSIC PLAYS)
Quick update is we've got all our sheet going down for this room,
so moving alright.
SCOTT: Yep, Rick and Tayla in house five
and Lisa and Rosco in house three are leading the pack.
The plywood flooring in their main bedroom and walk-in robe
is down
because they got their Bunnings order in on time.
But the girls in house four
are still waiting for their plywood flooring to arrive.
COURTNEY: Just a few things that we had planned on doing
that we literally just can't do until our deliveries come.
But Adam in house one has grabbed the plywood bull by the horns.
The problem is... Boom, boom.
The problem is the ply is going to be a couple of hours away yet,
so we're going to go down to Bunnings, hire a ute,
pick the ply up ourselves and get started.
Back. INTERVIEWER: How'd you go?
How do you think I went? Have a look at that.
We'll smash it now.
Got a good crew. So, yeah, happy.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
WYATT: Yeah. No, there's nothing to do until I have material, so...
Just have to sit here and wait.
With no tiling to do this week,
house two's super tilers, the Cursio brothers,
are outside laying the PGH brick cladding.
But while working, the brothers have noticed the lack of progress inside.
Yeah, I think the general morale of the team
is a bit down at the moment.
I think Wyatt's got a toothache
and the builder's gone to pick up some plywood.
I think they've missed some stuff off their order.
So, yeah, hopefully they can pick up and get going
because I'm not sure how much is happening in there.
But, yeah, usually contestants on The Block,
they're always forward-thinking, they're planning,
they're doing every minute they can to get in front.
Absolutely.
I don't... I don't feel myself personally at the moment
that they're...they're doing that.
(DOG WHINES) (THUNDER CRACKS)
(DOG YELPS)
(LAID-BACK POP MUSIC PLAYS)
INTERVIEWER: So, what has been done in your main bedroom
and walk-in robe?
Not much.
We've got some ply down
and, no, definitely not anywhere near as much inso
as we should have got in the walls.
But with two big rooms, we just got to keep going.
We're going to have a fair old crack
to get the rest of our floor in today.
Do the best we can.
Got to get back to two-stroke mode.
Ah, guess what time of the week it is.
Hey, Dan. Oh... Our first one.
We've got to give someone an award for the hardest worker.
OK. Who are we thinking?
I reckon Adam and Jolene. OK. Perfect.
What do you think?
That's exactly what I was gonna say. OK. Great. This is great.
I might go get him and send him down.
OK. Beautiful. Perfect.
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
INTERVIEWER: Adam, you go into McCafe and you find Tina and Shayla there.
The person that we wanted to see. Oh...
I thought it was a little bit fishy. Something was going on.
I thought they were going to try to get me to drink...
I don't know, something not real nice.
I thought they were trying to set me up.
We have a special something from McCafe.
Mm-hm. We want you to taste it.
Taste it.
Tie me kangaroo down, sport. Here we go.
I look in the cup. (CASH REGISTER DINGS)
Guess what's in there. What?
5,000 smackeroonies.
$5,000 from McCafe for the hardest worker on site.
Yeah, girls.
We see you. Don't you worry about that.
You've come so close last week and...
Your work doesn't come unnoticed.
Smells like victory to me, girls. (WOMEN LAUGH)
So they said it was for the hardest worker that week.
I went pretty hard.
I deserved that $5,000, thank you very much.
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYS)
I still have a toothache from Friday night,
which is, like, giving me a headache.
Now that it's still hurting after four days, I'll go get it looked at.
So I'm trying to organise a dentist appointment for this afternoon.
SCOTT: Lucky there's more than just pain relief on site.
Thank you.
I stopped at Chemist Warehouse to get some supplies for my teeth.
We got this to floss. Apparently you're supposed to floss.
And then I got these to make my yellow teeth white.
But flossing and teeth whitening
is not on top of Foreman Dan's priority list for house two.
Yeah. So you can start insulating.
Do we have to get this signed off, though?
No, we've already signed... We've already signed this frame.
Yeah. OK.
Any frame that's here, we've signed it off.
I wish we could have known that sooner, you know.
Yes, you could have.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
(LAUGHS)
I believe I could be putting insulation in,
but it just kind of feels pointless.
I'm just sort of hanging out for my dentist appointment
because I have a really, really, really big headache
and the whole side of my head is pumping.
So, in theory, we could have started insulating that earlier today.
I'm not going to start to do 20 minutes now
and then be itching the whole time trying to get my tooth fixed.
So, yeah, I'm sort of just waiting out at the moment.
I'll let Chantel know when she gets back that it can be done.
I gotta leave in 20 minutes.
I come back to the Block after my consults
and Wyatt is kind of out for the count.
So he's needing to go to the dentist.
And while he is at the dentist, I am starting to insulate.
I haven't done a lot of physical work up until now
but, yeah, I think a lot of people underestimate me, for sure.
MAN: I believe in you, Chantel. (LAUGHS) Thanks.
As you said, people underestimate you.
They do.
Yeah, look, I've done a lot of things in my life
way worse than insulating.
Childbirth would be one of them. Three times.
No gaps as well. No gaps.
Yes, that's the Block standard.
INTERVIEWER: You go to the dentist.
What have they told you? What's wrong?
I've cracked it.
CHANTEL: (ON PHONE) You've cracked it?
Yeah, all the way down inside.
The tooth fractured vertically down into my gum.
And there's nothing they can do to fix it
and I need to go see a specialist.
I don't really want to come back, though.
I kind of want to go home and eat and go to the gym or something.
OK, so just do that.
# Tooth fairy, tooth fairy
# Please come save our man
# And give Wyatt a chance
# To finally lend a hand. #
SEV: And cleaning's just up here.
Yeah. So we've got two cleaning ones now, I think.
INTERVIEWER: You guys are super organised.
(LAUGHS) We're trying.
After the chaos of yesterday and the previous week,
you know, we just haven't been keeping up with our cleaning.
We're getting all our Bunnings cabinetry set up.
We also need to keep a safe space for our trades and for ourselves
and we need to follow the rules. Yeah.
So it's important.
We couldn't find it.
I reckon we spent about ten hours trying to find stuff last week.
So I'm trying to hustle and clean
and I'm looking at my clock and I'm going,
"Oh, gosh, if I don't leave now,
"I'm going to be late for dinner with Scotty Cam."
We're about to go... leave and get ready to celebrate.
(SQUEALS) Can't wait.
MAN: Alright. See you, guys. Have a good one.
Thank you! MAN: Enjoy the fashion capital.
(LAID-BACK MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: Wow.
But before last week's room winners arrive at Chadstone
for the Chery getaway,
I'm buying them a few prezzies.
I hope they like 'em.
Here we are. Hotel Chadstone.
So fancy. Oh, my god, it looks amazing.
This is so good. Courtney! Hurry up!
Hurry up! Let's go! It's so exciting!
Oh, my god! Oh, my gosh.
Isn't it gorgeous? It's such a stunning hotel.
This is such an impressive foyer.
I've actually used it as a reference point
in a lot of my hotel designs
and to sort of see it in situ was so special.
Oh, this is so sweet!
This is so good. And champagne. Bravo!
I can't believe we got $250,000 worth of appliances.
I know, I know. It's wild. (LAUGHS)
Yeah, it was just absolutely amazing.
(POP!) WOMEN: Whoo!
Good job. Cheers, baby.
And we popped some champagne. We did.
Oh, my goodness. (SQUEALS) What is that?
And we got presents. I got some Prada.
Yeah. That was... Absolutely spoilt.
Oh, this is amazing!
And I got three Ralph Lauren shirts.
Oh, you got, like, a whole wardrobe capsule.
Oh-ho-ho!
It's so cute.
Second Monday in a row. Cheers.
I can't wait to see where we go next week.
# What's happening? #
Hello! G'day, g'day.
Ben and Emma are at our house.
The whole experience is once in a lifetime.
And it was beautiful getting to have a chat with them
and share our news with them.
(GULL CRIES)
# I walked into the room dripping in gold
# Yeah, dripping in gold... #
So today we smashed out the part. We got all our subfloor down.
Everything that we set out to achieve today, we achieved.
This is exactly where I wanted everyone to be.
Floors down. Done. Tick. Yep.
Walls insulated.
It just felt really nice to know
that while we failed so miserably last week,
we've got it in us, obviously.
And thank you for... Thanks, Dan. Thank you.
..doing what needed to be done today.
I'm knackered. Like, I was... I'm knackered today.
(BLUES MUSIC PLAYS)
INTERVIEWER: So, tell me, guys,
by the end of today, where are you at?
(SQUEAKING)
That well?
Yep. Yeah. Bad.
SCOTT: If house one's progress is bad,
next door's progress, you might say, is badder.
Our motto this week definitely is slow and steady wins the race.
Trying to make sure that everything is exactly how we want it to be
and, yeah, the style and the design is there.
In house four, the girls left earlier with not too much done.
But next door, house five are flying.
RICK: End of Monday's great.
We've got all flooring down and inso down as well.
So we smashed it.
So, feeling confident moving forward to tomorrow.
As the site closes
on the first day of main bedroom and walk-in robe week...
See you, guys. Goodnight. Goodnight.
..back in Chadstone,
last week's winners are grinning and ready to dine.
Oh, Scotty! (SQUEALS) Hey, Scotty!
Oh, how are you?
Great to see you. Great to see you.
Hello! How are you?
The best pop-up restaurant in Victoria.
Oh, my god.
And you're going to be dining with royalty.
Remember? You said that.
Come on, let's go. I wonder who this royalty is.
Meet the king of appliances, Rob Sinclair, from e&s
and his chef Chris.
ROB: Guys! Hello!
And we had the royal visit from Rob from e&s and it was just...
Yeah, it was so nice.
So we have a very special evening planned for you guys tonight.
We popped open a special restaurant to just dedicate to you
and your incredible win tonight.
We have no doubt one of Melbourne's best chefs in Chris,
who's e&s's chef, cooking in one of the best ovens available,
which is the one you won, the Unox.
So, what could be better than any other restaurant than...
I can't think of anything. ..Chef Chris, the Unox...
CHRIS: We'll have a little bit of fun and a bit of a cook-up.
Absolutely. I can't wait.
He's cooking... He's cooking...
..in the ovens that we won.
(RESOUNDING MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT: You have won the biggest prizes in The Block, right?
We have.
Because last year, Rob, it was 180 grand, I think.
About that, yeah. And this year, 250.
Many thanks for the top-up. Oh, my god.
Many thanks. Pleasure.
It makes a bit of a difference, doesn't it?
Well, you know, there's not hundreds of buyers
at the end on auction day
and history has shown
that if you've got two buyers in the room that really want your house,
you're going great. WOMEN: Yeah.
And so, if you've got something that can crack them over the line,
like the Unox, the Sub-Zero, the Wolf,
well, then, you're going to get it.
Oh, wow. Oh, my god! OK.
(LAUGHS)
I think we'll be serving this on our auction day just to make a point.
I don't know if I can finish this, Chris.
CHRIS: You'll be alright. You'll be alright.
I can do it. ROB: Go on, Chef.
I see you've got bigger plates to fit the steak on.
CHRIS: Well, that's... I thought I had to go big, right?
It's a grand prize. So why not go big?
Congratulations. Thanks to e&s. Yes.
Thanks to Rob. And well done, girls. Thank you.
You are on a run. Congratulations again.
Cheers, mate. Cheers, mate.
Ripper. Thank you.
# I don't like the music on the radio... #
Oh...
Big day today.
Like, it's a great feeling going home.
Like, we're, like, this week's going to be a good week.
Yeah... It's not...
It's not Chumps. It's not Chumps. It's family dinner.
Yeah, we get home Monday night
and Ben and Emma are at our house, which is their house...
Landlord. ..and cooking a barbecue for us.
Whoa! # What is happening? #
(LAUGHS) How are you going?
EMMA: Hi there. How are you?
SCOTT: Victorians Emma and Ben
were quick to become fan favourites on last year's series.
Oh, my god!
After The Block, they returned to renovating a house
on the Mornington Peninsula.
And this year, they're renting it out to our current Blockheads,
as well as serving up tonight's feed.
BEN: (LAUGHS) That's good.
(COOS)
And Emma was pregnant when she did The Block.
I couldn't imagine. What an overachiever.
And they bring their little baby Bailey.
And he's so cute. I want to squish him.
Oh, but I'm covered in insulation, so I couldn't touch the baby.
Yeah. Hi there.
Hey. How you going? Hey.
How are you? These are my friends.
Thanks for staying at home. (WOMEN LAUGH)
Welcome home. Yeah.
They've got their beautiful baby, Bailey.
He's six months old and he was just so chunky and delicious.
And it was really nice seeing Em as a mum.
Hello!
These are my friends. Emma. (LAUGHS)
I watched her on TV,
but now seeing her in the flesh with her baby as a new mum,
she's, like, taking it all in her stride.
She looks so healthy and well and...
It's so good to see you guys in real life.
BEN: Yeah. EMMA: Yeah.
We're crashing your house.
Well, we're excited to hear all about...
Yeah, we'll fill you in. ..the first two weeks.
Yeah. There's plenty of goss.
Yeah, it was really beautiful
and it just took me back to when I had my little...my little man
at that age.
It was a really special time.
They're a beautiful couple. Beautiful family.
Yeah. We have a lot of time for them.
How did you go being pregnant on The Block?
Like, was it full on? It was full on.
But to be honest, I wasn't sure if I was, like, Block tired
or pregnant tired.
Like, everyone was tired. Yeah, yeah.
So you didn't know... And being your first time.
And obviously being my first time, yeah.
You're like, "I'm tired, but am I tired..." Yeah.
There was one time where no-one knew.
Like, no-one in production knew that I was pregnant yet.
Oh, yeah.
And I was, like...I snuck off to the vans and I was, like,
"I'm just gonna have a nap." Mm-hm.
And I remember the audio team were, like,
"Did you have a big night last night, Em?"
And I was, like... Yeah.
.."Yeah, really big night." (LAUGHS)
And then I said, "I'll just be 15 minutes."
And then, like, I came out, like, an hour and a half later
and they were, like, "Oh, massive night, Em"
and I was like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."
And then a week later, I was like...
came out and told everyone I was pregnant.
Yeah, we just had a really good chat,
you know, life after The Block,
you know, "What are you guys doing?"
And they're enjoying life.
Thank you so much for the dinner.
And is it an Aldi cook-up? Aldi.
Oh, it's an Aldi family... An Aldi family meal.
TAYLA: I knew it. Magnificent.
I love it. Much appreciated.
Oh, cheers. Thank you!
Cheers. Cheers, guys.
Cheers to not trashing your house.
Cheers, cheers. (LAUGHTER)
We love Chumps dinner, don't we?
Well, it's tasty. There's a lot of food, so...
And honestly, it's really fun.
Yeah, and then we took them in and showed them the Domain room.
Matterport. Matterport screen.
Went to... Got to go through each one's room.
And it was good to get some feedback from them.
Let's do house three. We had to rip all ours up.
OK, sure. I love that blue.
Hey, that... (LAUGHTER)
That blue... It's coastal vibes.
..it's trending. It's actually...
We actually got a 6.5. They got a 6.5.
Can you believe we got a 6.5? Yeah. Good waterproofing.
Yeah.
It's some of our best work. Seen enough.
Like, she was the last person I was expecting to see.
But obviously it just was like really timely.
And it was beautiful getting to have a chat with them
and share our news with them.
And I'm really happy that they were there.
It was really, like, surreal walking out
and seeing you guys on the deck today.
Obviously, we knew this was your house
and I can relate to you guys a lot.
We found out on Friday that we're...
Pregnant? Oh, congratulations, you guys!
That's huge.
Em was pregnant on The Block. I'm now pregnant on The Block.
And we are relatively similar
in, like, where we are in our pregnancies on The Block also.
We didn't talk about the baby with everyone.
We just talked with Emma and Ben privately.
Yeah. No-one knows here. So I thought about you... No.
So I thought about you guys a lot
because you obviously went through it.
Yeah. You were pregnant.
Like, you would have had scans. You would have...
So funny, you literally asked, "How did you do it?"
Yeah. I'm like "How was The Block pregnant?" (LAUGHS)
So, yeah, we found out today we're, like, seven weeks.
Oh, congrats, you two. That is super exciting.
Yeah, yeah. You'll be fine. You'll be fine.
Yeah. Congratulations.
We're very excited. Cheers. Thank you. Thanks, Ben.
Yeah, but it was so surreal.
Like, when we walked out and saw you guys,
I was, like, "Wow, of all the people that could be standing here."
Thanks. Aw! That is so exciting.
Yeah, good on you, guys. How do you feel?
Do you feel OK?
Well, so we started getting an inkling, like,
because I started feeling nauseous...
It's a little bit bittersweet in that I feel really nice
that I have, like, one of our little babies with us now.
So we're a team of three.
But on another note, there's a huge part of us missing.
Um... Here we go.
There's a huge part of us missing.
Um... We're not whole right now.
We have Lando. He's two. He's the best.
There's three... Where there's only...
Three quarters... There's 75%.
Three quarters of us here. We're 75% here.
You wait. It gets more surreal.
The whole experience is once in a lifetime.
Yeah. And it's going so quick.
SCOTT: Tomorrow night...
We're coming in with a bang already.
..secret plans... Shh.
Dad, how are you going with that? ..copycats...
Oh, I thought I was the only person who came up with that idea!
..and great minds think alike.
I'm thinking to do, like, a beautiful arch.
A nice arch feature wall.
Now I'm, like, do I even want an arch anymore? Hmm.
House three's lead disappears...
Done nothing today.
So all that time we spent getting ahead yesterday...
Completely out the window. ..essentially was undone.
And the hunt is on. Yeah, g'day, mate.
Absolutely desperate for plasterers right now.
$150 an hour?! Jog on!
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