SCOTTY: All the teams have been working in the original house
this week.
And it's been a disaster for House Three.
I've got some bad news.
I am seeing daylight all the way down there.
You just don't know what's going to be in the existing house.
Real estate expert Marty Fox shattered Liberty's confidence.
I think the styling is so bad that
had it have been empty, I would have been happier.
LIBERTY: I'm so out of my depth, I don't know.
I'm just like, questioning everything I'm doing.
I know you've lost your confidence. I've just got no idea.
Shelley embraced her very own funniest home video...
(LAUGHS)
..as the Blockheads dived into their first challenge.
Whoa!
Ooh!
(LAUGHTER)
Leah and Ash celebrated a victory.
Oh, yay!
And a one point gnome.
We are on top.
Only ever had a plan to put them there.
Down low?
Another shock setback for the girls...
It's your room, should know what you're doing.
I know.
Very stressful, very stressful, very stressful.
Time runs out for Steph and Gian's spa.
GIAN: Do you want a spa?
Robbie, do you want a spa?
Can we start the bidding at $5,000?
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(SNIGGERS)
And Dan delivers some urgent news.
We have got 10 to 20mm of rain.
Don't want damage to that room
Ten to twenty mil.
That's not much.
We don't want rain coming through those ceilings.
I'm just at the point like,
if water comes in my roof, I don't care.
(WIND HOWLS)
(GULL SQUAWKS)
(THUNDER CRASHES)
('MORNING GOOD MORNING' BY LINCOLN GROUNDS & PAT REYFORD PLAYS)
# Morning, good morning rise and shine... #
Morning.
SCOTTY: It's a brand-new day on Charming Street
and the Blockheads are getting reno ready
for the final push towards Working-From-Home reveal.
PRODUCER: What's your vibe?
Stayin' alive. Stayin' alive vibe.
(LAUGHS)
(SQUEAKING)
Some of our Blockheads are feeling upbeat...
..but in House Three, the mood is a bit flat.
PRODUCER: Good morning. Good morning.
Did you sleep alright? I did, yeah. I had a good sleep.
But got a tough days few ahead
so better enjoy them while we can get 'em
'cause I don't know if we will sleep for the next couple.
House Three have been thrown some curve balls this week.
On Tuesday they discovered their entire house needs restumping,
including this week's Working-From-Home space.
So, unfortunately you guys have to rip the whole flooring system out,
including the stumps,
and put new concrete stumps in, new bearers, new joists.
Right.
And on Wednesday, Keith discovered structural cracks in the brickwork
which needed to be removed...
All the way down there, all the way there.
I'm seeing daylight all the way through that.
..resulting in a steel lintel and steel and timber bracing being
added to support the entire room.
Essentially we are where we usually are on a Monday,
on a Thursday.
In addition,
this morning Kristy has woken up crook.
PRODUCER: Is Kristy alright?
She's not feeling well so she'll just keep chilling.
PRODUCER: How are you feeling, darling? You don't look great.
No. I think I have what Eliza had last week.
So, I think it's just going around.
(ALARM SOUNDS)
And that about sums it up.
Maybe this is a dream that is my alarm.
Yeah. I dunno. (CHUCKLES)
(ALARM CONTINUES TO SOUND)
House Three's up against it here.
Not their fault but, you know, it's Friday morning.
Haven't even insulated yet.
And we are actually behind, above them.
We haven't even got a roof yet.
It's just setback after setback.
But we've got a few boys here this morning
to try and get this all done within the hour too
and then get the plasterers happening.
The morale is still there with the guys.
MAN: Yeah, good. You Been good?
Going well. Thanks for coming out, though.
(LAUGHTER)
So, what we have to do today is have the framing approved for the walls.
Insulate.
We need to have the ceiling battens and all that approved too
to have insulation in,
which again is another whole point to have that approved.
Plaster.
We need the plastering to all go up, flushing.
DAN: Everyone else has plastered, yeah?
A few more time constraints.
Oh, dear.
Don't give me that (INDISTINCT SPEECH)
There's still hope. Hey?
There's still hope. Yeah.
It's fading though.
(POWER TOOL WHIRS)
Oh, I'm not gonna sugar-coat it.
We're not finishing this room.
Yeah. It's not happening.
This may not be a finished room, which would suck.
(BIRDS CHIRP)
SCOTTY: House Two are enjoying a stress-free start.
(INDISTINCT SPEECH) today, mate.
Because last night, at what time did I change plans?
9:30pm.
Not too many changes. Let's not get crazy.
(LAUGHS)
SCOTTY: Previously, Leah was going to have floor-to-ceiling cabinetry
either side of the double doors.
She still plans to keep the false wall
but have low cabinetry and floating shelves instead.
We just need to bring a false wall down here
and hang it 900mm off floor height.
Right.
Yeah, just because I've changed the cabinetry from full cabinetry
to lower bench...
Ahh.
And then I'm gonna get the boys to do benchtop with timber shelves.
Right.
And I have to bring a false wall out to cover that.
So, I needed some cabinetry
and I needed a wall built and I needed some floating shelves.
I also needed to find a cabinetmaker.
(GARBLED VOICE) Hello?
(GARBLED VOICE) Oh, hey, hey. It's Leah.
(BREAKING UP GARBLED VOICE) Are you there?
Oh, you're breaking... Your phone's breaking up.
When you get to the factory give me a call back
and let's try and nut this out on the phone.
(GARBLED VOICE)
Definitely call me back in half an hour though.
OK. Thank you.
(GARBLED VOICE) Bye. Bye.
Mate, that it will be a miracle.
Later that day I called them again, I'm like, "Yo."
(GARBLED VOICE) It's...
(GARBLED VOICE) We've been messaging...
(GARBLED VOICE)
You reckon you can do it?
(GARBLED VOICE)
He's like, "Yeah, no, can't do it."
I was like... (GASPS)
But the boys have already built this wall.
Like, it's a half wall.
Like, a knee cabinetry underneath.
(OUTGOING CALL TONE)
Oh, my god! No-one wants to answer my phone call.
(BLEEP)
I'm so sick of people not answering their phone.
(TRADIE CHUCKLES) Why have we got them? Honestly.
Answer your frickin' phones!
I know.
Mmm.
('DREAMIN'' BY RAUN BURNHAM & JERRY BURNHAM PLAYS)
SCOTTY: In order to convert these charming 1950s cottages
into spacious three-bedroom houses,
The Block builders
have been constructing a second storey extension.
# Dreamin'...'
That means our Blockheads are open to the elements
working with no roofs above them
and only tarps and the original ceilings for protection.
# Dreamin', dreamin'... #
Last night the ceiling collapsed in House Four.
(SMASH)
Guys, what was that?
MAN: That was the ceiling going. GIAN: No way.
That's the ceiling that just caved in.
# Hopin' you'll be mine someday. #
(BOUNCY MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
SCOTTY: This is a major safety concern
which Nine in Six Block builder Simmo wants them to address ASAP.
We're expecting a fair bit of rain come Saturday...
Oh, yeah? ..arvo.
So, I want you go through the whole house.
With ever what existing ceilings you've got,
we need to tear 'em down.
OK. Yeah?
Just the gyprock? Yeah, just pull the gyprock down.
Yep.
All the other houses will need to do the same
so now foreman Dan is spreading the bad news.
Hello. Looking awesome, guys.
Thank you. Thanks.
Love this nice plaster ceiling. Looks great.
Is there a 'but'? But what?
Hey? Is there a 'but'?
But what? It's awesome in here..
But... But...
the old part of the house
where we've got all these old existing ceilings...
Yeah?
What we're noticing,
they've been sucking up a lot of water when we get rain.
And they're becoming loose and the potential of falling down.
OK.
So, what we're doing is making everyone get rid of them all today,
by the end of today.
Every house. So, our builders?
And by 'we,' we mean you? You guys.
Or no... Like...
I tell you... Can we do it ourselves?
You could potentially try but you've got to do it safely.
Tomorrow it looks like we're going to have a disaster of a day.
We're getting 10 to 20mm of rain.
Some of these rooms,
we have finished ceilings but above them we have no roof.
So, we're really worried about water penetrating.
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
We can't have the risk of it all getting wet and then falling on you.
We've got so much to do. So, for us it's like, yeah, make or break.
So, it's a lot of pressure.
We're really concerned about the existing plaster on the ceilings.
We need them down by the end of today if possible.
KYLE (SARCASTICALLY): Ripper. Yeah.
Just what you wanted to hear... So fun.
..on a Friday.
I guess, for me, the surprise means
how much time is this going to take to fix?
KYLE: Surprises cost time.
You don't have the flexibility of time
so that's where the stress comes in.
We need to drop all the old plaster throughout the house.
Yeah, we gotta do it though
because we just can't have ceilings dropping.
Yeah.
It's not just as easy as just dropping that.
I need to clear complete areas.
We have them for work areas
so, in amongst the chaos that we've already got and a hard deadline
it's just like...
Oh man, you've gotta roll with the punches, I guess.
No, a bit of a deflating one.
I was trying to be positive but now I'm a bit over it.
('INTO THE SKY' BY PNAU PLAYS)
SCOTTY: It's Friday on The Block so of course that means
it's time for Shelley and I to see how the teams are progressing.
And this week we're starting at House Five.
In their work-from-home space,
the girls are planning to showcase a guest bedroom
which can double as a study.
And they hope to receive better feedback this week
with their faux grasscloth wallpaper and faux timber panelling.
Hello, girls. Howdy.
Hello, Scotty. Hello.
We found some stuff in the hallway
which we thought we'd pick up on the way through.
We've got some deliveries for you. There's your grafico ready to go.
Thank you. That's your grafico.
Where's that going? This wall here? Up there.
Yep. And then this...
It's going here. Is going there. What is this?
Where did you get this from? Mmm.
So, there's a different product we wanted. What was it called?
I forget.
But there was a three to four week turnaround so then we frantically
searched for a different option
and our cabinetmaker sent that through.
You hate it? I... Well...
You know when you see reproduction furniture?
Yep.
And you go, that's a reproduction. Yep.
That's not a real antique? Yeah.
Well, I feel as though you're gonna walk in and go,
that's a plastic wall.
Yeah. OK.
It doesn't look like...
Timber doesn't look like timber unless it's timber.
Yeah, I know.
This worries me. Yep, OK.
What was your overall idea for the room?
What are you doing in this space?
This is what our kind of like mood board is for.
OK so, you're doing a bedroom. Yes.
Right. With a desk though.
OK. I love the vibe. Yeah.
The idea of what we're saying is if you've got sort of fake timber
and fake grasscloth,
it's all going to look a little bit fake.
BOTH: Yep. So...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not luxe, is it, Shelley?
No and look, I love the idea.
I love the fact that you're adding colour and texture.
Amazing. Yep.
And going for that level of maturity.
And you're having a go. Love it.
Yeah. Just got to get it right. Yeah, agreed.
Yep. This... Ahh...
OK, not good, not gonna cut it. No, no, no.
OK. Good call. Yep.
We had had several discussions about whether it was heinous and...
We got confirmation that in fact it is heinous.
So, we have to now quickly change it.
It's fine. It's fine.
SCOTTY: As life on The Block continues,
Shelley takes Liberty to Toorak for inspiration.
And I'm hoping she'll get some new ideas
and throw that fake timber out of her styling box for good.
I've been struggling a bit with my styling
and so Shelley took me to a wonderful house in Toorak
and I met Alice from Domain there as well...
Hello. Hello, hello.
Come on in, guys.
..just to have a look and I guess, get my Mojo back.
Oh, my goodness.
# Don't hold back... #
This is actually the home
of an interior designer called Zoe Murphy...
So, she is an expert.
It is one of my favourite houses,
but the reason I thought you might like to see it is
because it is a period home that has been modernised,
and I think it's a good example of a beautiful family home
that has had this sort of wow factor added to it.
There were just so many things that I took away from it,
that I just didn't think would work together.
Like, that heritage sort of mirror with the modern light
which, for me, I was like, oh, you can't mix those things.
You've gotta go one way or the other.
No, you can. Just interesting for me to see that.
Like, all this sort of stuff I absolutely love.
And it's simple but it's... Yeah, it's just cool.
And I love how it's that like, period home,
but there are so many modern twists on it as well
which I think is what we...
Like, we're quite modern in our styling and our vibe.
SHELLEY: But even the transition from the old part of the house
to the new section of the home
they've gone full modern, all out.
Wow.
You know, no excuses made for the fact that
this is a completely different style to the front couple of rooms.
Completely. This is amazing.
ELIZA: But I'm like, how do you...
Like, we got a passion pop level budget
and they've got a verve level champagne budget.
Absolutely. But it's just how things work together.
OK well, you can use...
She literally had like, five different shades of green,
in a couch, benchtop, chair,
and it actually really worked well together.
Never in a million years would I have like,
matched the things together in a house that she did.
So, the thoughts that I had before,
yeah, completely kind of changed now in terms of what I can do.
We're in Toorak today and it's a very sophisticated,
very affluent area of Melbourne,
and we know that in Hampton it's more a family area.
So, when you look in the Domain app you can see property insights
about the suburb profile that we're appealing to,
just to get a bit more intel about the buyers
who are looking in that area.
Yeah.
Oh, I wish I lived here.
SCOTTY: Back at The Block,
all the Blockheads are getting stuck in,
pulling down their old ceilings in the original house.
House Four is on track to have their old ceilings down
in the next few hours.
Hey, this is good, you're into it. Yeah.
It's good to see. Yeah, ripping away.
And mate, I just checked your tarps out there. It's pretty good.
Mm-hm.
'Cause we've got a lot of rain coming tomorrow.
SCOTTY: All the teams will have to make sure
that this week's room is protected from the predicted downpour.
DAN: We have got 10 to 20mm of rain tomorrow.
10 to 20 mm, apparently sideways.
The room we're doing now, we really
want to make sure it's fully covered.
SCOTTY: The Block builders Nine in Six
are providing the tarping for each house.
But it's up to every contestant
to check their own rooms are securely covered.
DAN: We've got the Nine in Six boys
but I reckon just doublecheck it
'cause we don't wanna...
we don't wanna damage that room.
No, we don't. OK?
SCOTTY: And as most teams are getting on the front foot,
in House Two, Ash and his trades
haven't even started to pull their old ceilings down.
DAN: Ash...
We need these ceilings down. Yeah.
We just had so many people in here
and we need to block it all off to do it properly.
Yeah. We need this. Yep.
You've seen how much is coming tomorrow, yeah, rain?
No. 10 to 20mm.
That's not much.
It is for us. Is it?
It is for Victorians. Yeah.
We get that in like, five minutes.
BOTH: Queensland!
No, I've got a bit to do.
'Cause all our suitcases and that are still in there.
Can't they go in there, in the studio?
Oh, yeah.
Wouldn't you want your suitcases where you're living?
Um...
Well, everything 's out of them, really.
Oh, so, there's nothing in the suitcases.
No. But we need them to get home.
And like to do this properly I need to block off, block off.
Well, if you have to do that, you have to do that.
It's so annoying.
So annoying.
There's plenty of tarps here so... Yep.
Beautiful, mate. Cool.
We've gone around, we've told all the contestants,
please check our work to make sure that we've covered up enough.
If you don't think we have, help us out and put more down
because we don't want rain coming through those ceilings
Saturday night before Reveal.
(SQUEAKING) (GULL SQUAWKS)
(WIND HOWLS AND THUNDER CRACKS)
SHELLEY: To be in the running for an incredible $30,000 each week
thanks to Disney Plus,
simply head online and vote for your favourite room.
And while you're there,
don't forget to check out all our amazing room galleries.
(GULLS SQUAWK)
SCOTTY: The Block is busy today with all teams in the thick of it.
# You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
# Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round... #
All the way up there? Yeah.
House One have been making strides.
They've got all their ceilings down and also have all their gyprock up.
I think we've caught up to where we needed to be,
to sand and paint tonight.
How did they get it up?
G-Mack from The Block builders Nine in Six is about to tell us.
You had a noise complaint last night.
Correct, yeah. Like, 9:30pm, 10pm.
We have tools down at 6pm.
Your builder's to leave.
If they're going to make noise then they should leave.
BOTH: OK. Alright?
PRODUCER: What were you actually doing Thursday night?
(SPURTS OF WHIRRING)
KYLE: We were screwing sheets in with a drill,
not a collated screw gun.
So, it wasn't loud.
(LITTLE BURSTS OF WHIRRING)
(LOUD CLATTER)
Ooh. God.
The only thing you can do is things like painting.
OK. And quiet things.
That's probably the negative of being House One
'cause we do have a neighbour right next to us.
But obviously it's something that we need to be
more conscious of than others.
Our neighbours are the most important people to us.
The complaints just aren't worth it. BOTH: Yeah.
It was made fairly clear that it was our first warning and only warning.
And conveniently our builders came in late that day.
(LAUGHS)
So, it was a stern talking to for... By ourselves.
..Leslie and I.
SCOTTY: And now Shell and I are dropping in.
Hello. Good morning. Good morning.
How are you? Good, thank you.
Morning. Hi.
Welcome to your...
Media room... Study.
Working-from-home space.
House one is creating a multipurpose working-from-home space
with desk and shelving,
wall-mounted TV,
and two lounge chairs.
This is really the only other room downstairs
other than your living, dining, kitchen.
Mm-hm.
So, if you're entertaining friends and they've got kids,
instead of sending them upstairs,
this a sort of a multipurpose... Second lounge room.
Yeah. Kids come down and watch a movie.
Kids can watch TV.
But this isn't your home office, so to speak.
Well, there is gonna be a desk and stuff in here.
But that's sort of the main function of the room,
and this is just yeah, sort of...
So, I need to discuss your budget.
It's all good... Yep.
You're spending too much money early on
and we want to nip it in the bud.
Yep. You need to focus on it.
You know how you've spent $57,000 so far?
(SCREAM AND DING FROM CASH REGISTER)
Oh, did I?
(LAUGHTER) $57,000 cash.
Did we? Cash.
BOTH: Yeah.
That's too much. Yep.
It's no dramas. Like, we just wanna look at the outcome in week 12.
We've seen it before where you do this magnificent stuff
and then you run out of coin at the end.
So, you've got all the great stuff at the beginning
and you run out of coin at the end, and we don't want that to happen.
So, therefore you've got to make decisions P can we do this
or can we do this?
Yeah. And we've done this in here. That was our thought this week.
No joinery.
Instead of going custom joinery
we got the desk from Freedom and stuff like that.
So, in terms of... Everything was sponsored in here.
Styling in this room, it's all from sponsors.
This is brilliant.
We love what you're doing, we think you're amazing.
You're very beautiful people.
Just stop spending money, would you?
See you later.
I think it's to be expected that we
would be sort of at the top of the spending
for that first couple of weeks,
just because of the sheer scale of the rooms that we had.
From day one I was like, I don't wanna be the budget person,
I do wanna be the person like hey, you're overspending.
SCOTTY: Over at House Two,
their budget is looking better after their challenge win
at Brighton Baths yesterday where they had to sculpt a sea creature
out of sand.
MAN: And the winner is...
the seahorse.
Oh, yay!
It was the (INDISTINCT SPEECH).
They won $5,000 and a gnome with their seahorse creation.
Challenge days are awesome. I feel like they're going to be our gem.
We're so competitive. We say that 'cause we won.
But if we didn't win we'd be like,
"Eugh, went to the stupid beach for the day, what a waste."
Oh, good morning, winners. Hello.
How are you? (LAUGHTER)
Thank god we got a win.
Not just a win, money and a gnome.
I know. That's a big win.
Right, what's your plan for this room?
OK, so, we are a work-from-home space
that easily can be converted into a fourth bedroom if needed.
SCOTTY: House Two plan to appeal to buyers with bold colours
and bold statement pieces,
cabinetry, and floating shelves,
a marble fireplace, and central desk.
So, we've made some 600-deep cavity spaces there...
Terrific.
..that if someone wanted to, they can just pop cabinetry straight in.
Oh, so, you're not putting the cabinetry in, you're just...
I just thought, full cabinetry loses all my styling.
Then you kind of walk in, it's just a bunch of furniture.
Yeah.
So, I really wanted to open those shelves up.
That was a decision we made at 10pm last night.
Righto. And then that's a fireplace that's going in.
Yes. Now, is a gas or a...
BOTH: Gas. Gas unit.
We had to save some money and get an ex demo.
Excellent idea. Yeah.
Great choice. Yes.
Now, just on that... Mmm.
We're having a bit of a budget chat. Yeah.
As it's week two. So, you guys are going well.
In my head, as long as I'm under 20 grand every single week...
Great. That's exactly right.
'Cause you know you've spent 40 grand.
Right? So that's exactly that.
You've spent 20 grand per week. Which is spot on.
Mmm.
Did you know, CommBank has a goal tracker?
So you can literally have subaccounts.
Put your 20 grand in each account for every single room
and then when you get a win, you can put two grand in there,
or you can put five grand in your landscaping account.
That's what we need.
5K yesterday, goal tracking accounts.
That's where that should go.
I like that idea. Your budget's fantastic.
Well done. BOTH: Thank you.
You're doing a great job.
It was such a positive visit. It felt really good.
Yeah.
You guys are running a good ship. Yeah.
I love it.
They were really happy with how we were managing the projects,
managing the budget.
We're not worried about these two, they're perfect.
Oh, wouldn't say that.
And they got a win under their belt.
You always bring in some jinx.
SCOTTY: It's been a hot topic for a few weeks,
but the gigantic spa which House Four inherited
is on notice to vacate the property.
We're thinking about potentially selling it.
Mate, well, I think selling it's a brilliant idea.
Awesome. You might get 20 grand or 25 grand.
That would be a 10th of your budget.
My pool will be gone tomorrow.
So, someone bought it? What did you get?
I think it's gonna be 15. 15 grand?
Grand.
Wow. I know.
I just wanna check in. How's it going with the sale of the...
Yeah, I put it up.
We were actually speaking to someone this morning
but she's ghosted us since then.
So, it's been a couple of hours.
They ghosted us. They ghosted us.
I'm just gonna drop the price
and keep dropping until someone picks it up.
Mate, any developments on this?
By midday, if it's not gone, we're craning it out.
Yeah, easy. Easy.
You want a spa?
Robbie, do you want a spa?
We're running a live auction today.
Want a spa, Dorian?
Do you want a spa? No?
Do you want to buy a spa?
Good. Buy a spa? 50 bucks, no worries.
We've got an auctioneer here
so yeah, we're looking forward to it, and seeing what we can get.
I think anywhere between like, $3,000-$4,000 would be awesome.
Some people told me I'm going to get $500 for it.
(SCOFFS)
It's a pretty good turnout.
We've got a little bit of interest, it seems.
We've got tradies, we've got some contestants,
we've got some crew, got some neighbours.
It's good. It's great.
So, we're just here waiting for the auction to begin for le spa.
Le spa?
SCOTTY: Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the auction of this magnificent 15 metre swim spa.
Some people might say it's 6m but to me it feels like 15m
(LAUGHTER)
It's magnificent.
There are two spa jet seats over there, two stand-up seats.
Seventy-eight jets in total.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we start the bidding at $100,000?
(LAUGHTER)
Can we start the bidding at $5,000?
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Let's start the bidding at $500.
(SCOFFS) Anybody? $500.
$10. We're talking 78 jets.
Have you got your hand up, sir?
Ahh, sure. 500 bucks. Hey!
Five hundred bucks from our series producer.
(LAUGHTER)
This is fantastic.
Five hundred dollars from our series producer.
What does it retail for, Scotty?
It retails for I think $45,000.
Ooh, my god, that's a bargain. Brand-new.
Five hundred bucks?
(EXPECTANT MUSIC)
Going once.
Going twice.
How lucky is Lucky? (LAUGHTER)
Very lucky.
Sold. (CHEERING)
Thanks, mate. Thank you.
Congratulations, Lucky!
Thank you very much. Thanks, Lucky.
STEPH: Five hundred bucks, it's a bargain.
It wasn't ours to begin with. Yeah.
We didn't lose anything, we just gained.
Anything was a bonus. So really, it's alright.
Humble. Humble pie. Humble, humble.
PRODUCER: It's very Oprah of you.
(GULL SQUAWKS)
('GET UP OFFA THAT THING' BY JAMES BROWN PLAYS)
SCOTTY: House Three have been working hard this morning,
the insulation going in and gyprock going up.
# I'm back, I'm back, I'm back... #
Kristy and Brett have made a huge effort
after having to re-stump their entire floor only a few days ago.
BRETT: So, currently we've just had all the sheeting done,
which is amazing to see.
We'll run a heater in there to try to dry it
so that can be sanded off ready for painting.
I did not expect to be painting on a Friday night.
Today has been a lot but looking in there now,
we've had a lot also done.
So, much more productive than yesterday, which is awesome.
Our team is actually ridiculously amazing.
Yeah. Honestly. They smashed it.
Hello. Hello, Scotty.
Hey, Shelley. Hello.
Jeez, this floor feels solid.
Finally. Now.
But earlier... Oh, my goodness.
We heard that you've had some stumping issues.
Yes. Yeah, we've had a few.
The whole house. Yes.
We've been told it'll be throughout
so something to look forward to every week.
Yes. But also something to plan for now.
Like the beauty of, I guess, the setup this year
is that you get your budgets, you get your plans.
Mm-hm.
So, whatever you'd put aside,
you now have to pinch from each of those rooms...
Yep. ..to make that happen.
BOTH: Yeah.
I'm going to speak to Scotty about the possibility that these guys
can all move ahead with the floor.
Yes, 100%. You can move ahead with the stumping.
You don't have to wait till each week.
Don't have to do that room by room? No.
Is that OK? Yeah, yeah.
Awesome.
It was great having Scotty come through
and say that we can, not work in advance,
but we can get our flooring done in advance,
which is a huge thing for us.
That is massive.
Because otherwise we're going to be in this position week after week
after week which we want to try and avoid as much as possible.
And look at you, you're crook as a dog,
and you're still smiling and working.
Oh, well... We love you.
The guys are doing the leg of it and Brett's doing demo,
as you can see his display.
There's a lot of progress today, especially.
The guys have been doing so much.
Yeah, we've been a bit deflated the last couple
but we'll keep on keeping on.
And... We want to get a finished room.
We found this whilst digging up, a lucky horseshoe so...
Oh, my god! Keep it upright. I know.
Don't let the luck fall out. It's up, right, not down?
Yes. Up.
SCOTTY: House Three are positive their new vision will come to life
with their centred black desk,
floating shelves,
and black painted panel wall.
This is your first room
where you'll actually be able to see it from the outside,
so we're trying to match the black panelling from our veranda
to be able to follow through.
So, it will look like it's merging down.
And painting with black I am very scared of.
Go for it. Are you gonna paint this black?
Some of the parts are black. The panelling.
I think it's a great idea. Really, Shell?
Yeah, go for it.
You evil woman. No!
Shelley was all for the black.
Scotty not too much.
And to be honest, I see where Scotty's coming from
because I am petrified of painting with black.
So, we'll see. It can either be a hit or a miss.
So, something I just wanted to show as well, Scotty,
you might have some interest in.
Got the Olympic style bricks here.
1956 Melbourne Olympics, is that what it is?
I think there's about... (EXCITEDLY) No!
We've got about a thousand of those floating around.
"Glen Iris 1956."
With the Olympic rings.
That's so cool!
Oh, you know I'm a brick collector. Are you?
Yes, I collect...
I've always collected bricks 'cause my theory was that
if you get enough bricks, you can build a house.
(LAUGHTER)
That is an absolute corker. Yeah.
That's gotta be worth some coin. have you looked this up?
Have you done any research on them? $135 a brick.
Is it?
And for you Scotty, $140.
(LAUGHTER)
But actually, you should these on...
Collect them up... Yeah.
Put them on eBay. Definitely.
Yeah.
'Cause there's blokes like me that are idiots, that collect bricks.
Yeah.
We have four pallets.
So, 1,600 bricks,
and even if you sold them at half price,
times that by say, 70 bucks.
SCOTTY: House Four are the only team this week
that have worked in the existing house before
so they understand what it takes to get a room ready.
And they're well ahead of the pack.
Their flooring's down,
feature beams are up,
and their gyprock is ready for painting.
Hello. Hi.
Hey, guys. Hi.
Are you right? Cashmere jacket. Oh, my goodness.
What's going on? That is not work attire.
I'm going shopping today.
In your cashmere jacket. Today? All day?
All day's a shopping day. Is it?
Because we've done so well. We've got to where we are.
Actually you have done very well. Look at this.
We've got out flooring down and... You've got the beams in there too.
The beams are in there. Everything is good.
So, today is purely shopping
'cause yeah, the challenge was yesterday
and there was no shopping done.
No. I'm feeling like you get a win under your belt,
it's given you a spring in your step, you are undefeatable.
It's just momentum. Is that how you're feeling?
I'm just following that momentum. Riding the wave.
We obviously came from a down to an up
and we want the up to continue.
Tell us, what are you planning for in here?
What's the idea for this space?
SCOTTY: House Four's multipurpose working-from-home space
will include wall cabinetry, with sliding doors for optional desk
or TV use.
A lounge and central desk.
They're also continuing their feature ceiling beams.
How close is this desk to this cabinetry?
I don't understand that.
So, you've got two work stations in the cabinetry...
BOTH: Yep. And then a desk as well.
It's for the option of having the desk.
So, we've got one, I don't know if I'm gonna use it yet.
The desk. Yeah.
Because it might be a bit too cluttered.
'Cause this is very close to that so I don't understand where...
'Cause it is quite a small space... Mm-hm.
..in here.
You're not feeling it's closing it in?
I just wanted to make it multipurpose.
That's why we do have the TV behind the bookcase.
I think what we're trying to do is visualise the room,
bring everything in, and then we'll make...
see if it's over-cluttered, that's what we don't want to do.
We don't want the judges walking in
and thinking there's too much happening.
Too much going on. Yeah.
So, maybe you...
'Cause if you've got the telly, do not have the couch?
I know.
But if you've got the telly you can't not have a...
And I want the judges to see that I've thought about both,
the layout works for both.
Yes.
It just depends on what the buyer wants to do with it.
Yeah. So, how do I display that?
That's why you're contestants and we're hosts.
That's your decision. Yeah, exactly.
(LAUGHTER)
It was valuable to hear that they
agree we shouldn't try to over-clutter the space.
STEPH: So, we made the decision to not use the desk.
Do we want to style it as a study sort of vibe
or do we really want to play on that media room?
So, it was how do we want to style it for the judges.
SCOTTY: With that in mind Steph is off shopping.
And if it's not on the socials, did it even happen?
Hello, this is what a day-in-the-life of a shopping trip
looks like for a Blockhead.
No.
Hi. Welcome.
It's a day in the life of a Blockhead shopping.
I'm going to do Satara and Schots.
Kristy and Leah are also off shopping.
It was a little bit lacklustre on the spa auction.
Yeah. I thought.
I knew it was not going to go for much.
I'm glad it only went for $500.
(LAUGHTER)
And they're wasting no time at Schots...
I am shocked at the size of Schots.
It's very overwhelming.
Ooh.
Beautiful.
..while Steph has made it to Satara.
I looked online and I loved so many products I was like,
I just need to go see it and feel it.
Ooh.
(GASPS) Oh, my god! I love this.
OK. Yep. (LAUGHS)
And is this for sale?
(LAUGHS)
And I ended up finding some chairs.
Yeah, this is amazing.
A chair, a little stool.
This is really beautiful.
And then some cushions. So, yeah.
So, I just left Sahara.
Sahara. Sahara?
I just left Satara.
We're gonna see if it fits in the room had then we'll go from there.
But super successful. A find.
G'day, gang. I just want to give you a heads up of what's happening next.
We've only ever had a plan to put them there.
MAN: Down low?
They got roughed into what we were told.
DAN: It's your room, you should know what you're doing.
I know. (CHUCKLES)
Now remember that communication is everything.
So, as if I would say to put them up there.
We were always going to put them in our wall panel.
Believe in the universe.
It's all gonna be OK.
It's just lighting.
And never give up.
Who's meant to be building the roof?
Well, not me.
I don't care.
Make sure you smash that Like button and share and subscribe.
See you later, gang. Bye.
# I wanna be with you everywhere. #
SCOTTY: It's that time of the week when the blockheads' deliveries
start pouring in.
('POPCORN' BY HOT BUTTER PLAYS)
Look, you're even wearing your number one. House One.
Thanks very much, guys.
Having a point of difference is crucial this week,
and Leah's excited about her feature artwork from Camerich.
I think my taste and my style is really different
to a lot of the other houses.
Eliza and Liberty have also chosen an exclusive artwork.
Oh, this is our artwork from Camerich.
It's stunning.
So, are we able to get you to just come pop it here? Is that OK?
The girls are presenting a guest bedroom this week
which they've designed around
their two-metre wide feature photographic print.
They're now going with VJ panelling behind the bed,
blue faux grasscloth wallpaper,
and low-mounted dimmable wall sconces.
But there may be a problem.
I've just realised, is this for the wall sconces?
DAN: Oh, don't touch!
It's alright. Is that a live wire?
No, it's not powered up but just...
'Cause that's one thing my dad said coming into this.
He's like, don't get electrocuted.
It's not powered up but you still never touch.
OK. Yeah, just leave it.
But is that for our wall sconces? Correct.
'Cause we were going to have it down there.
Maybe someone made a decision to put it up there instead.
Are you serious?
We wanted sconces here
and somehow they got roughed in here.
And we don't know where the miscommunication happened
'cause they were never here.
(SIGHS) Who liaising with the sparkies?
Well, I am always in here but I didn't...
I didn't notice what they were doing.
Did you speak to them about it?
How did they assume that? Although what's... OK.
But is it that bad if they're up there?
Is that a weird look? I don't know.
I just go off plans. I'm a builder.
I just look at the plans and build that.
It's your room, you should know what you're doing.
I know. You should...
(CHUCKLES)
(INDICATOR TICKS) (INCOMING PHONE TONE)
LIBERTY: Hi. Hey.
Did we change, without me knowing,
the wall sconces to be next to the artwork?
No. 'Cause there's holes in the wall.
One metre. They're about... LIBERTY: (BLEEP)
No. They were always going to be in the panelling, I thought.
They're 1.8 off the floor. They've cut through the wallpaper.
That doesn't even make sense 'cause you need them to read.
Something like that happens because there's no direction.
You'd like to think someone's in the room at cut-out stage,
all the time, with the electrician,
just to make sure things are getting cut out in the right spots.
That process has been missing here
and now we're left with what we've got P wires coming out
where they shouldn't.
Lib and I are confused because we only ever...
Yeah. ..had a plan to put them there.
Down low? Yeah, on the panelling.
You didn't want wall ones? No.
No. OK.
They got roughed into what we were told.
It was just a bit of a miscommunication.
Like, we don't speak build language.
Like, we're not blaming anyone.
We don't speak build language
so they very well could have said to us
something that we didn't quite understand and we've...
I don't know.
I don't really know where the miscommunication was
but we certainly never, ever...
That was never the plan for us to have them so high.
As if I would say to put them up there.
We were always going to put them in our wall panels.
I know. We bought the lights first. I know.
Grafico don't have enough to redo it.
So we're just gonna have to have them there?
Yeah.
SCOTTY: Due to miscommunication, the girls' bedside sconces
will now be illuminating their large artwork,
and it will be a tight fit.
So, they'll need to find new sconces
to light the feature piece correctly.
Either way we'll fix the problem
so we can maybe look at what lights are an option or...
We're just gonna try now and get some lights to go in there.
We didn't wanna do that.
PRODUCER: So, where are you going now?
Going to Beacon to get like... (CHUCKLES) 1,200 backup lights.
So... Alright. You go, darling.
Very stressful, very stressful, very stressful,
very stressful, very stressful.
NAVIGATOR (ELECTRONIC VOICE): At the next traffic lights
make a sharp left turn.
Make a sharp left turn.
(EXHALES)
It's all going to be OK.
It's just lighting. It's just lighting.
NAVIGATOR: Your destination is on your left.
Beacon Lighting, Moorabbin.
Arrived.
So, I was in Beacon Lighting getting some backup sconcies
and Leah was there as well and we started chatting.
In comes Eliza at 5pm at Beacon. What are the chances?
We're chatting, we're bouncing ideas off each other.
She shows me her mood board for this week
and I was like, "That art, have you got that art?"
And she's like, "Yes, that's our feature."
I pick up my mood board for this week
and I was like, "I have that too."
ELIZA: We had chosen the same artwork.
And Leah's mood board was very similar to ours.
And I was like, "Oh, that artwork looks familiar.
"Is that for a different week?"
And she said, "No, it's for this week."
And I said, "Oh-oh."
She and I were just devastated.
LEAH: It's not fair.
It's not like it's a $200 piece of art.
Correct. It's $3,500.
(INDISTINCT SPEECH) I know.
Like, it's what... (DOOR SHUTS)
It's what you guys have been looking forward to this week
and what I've been,
and I'm choosing lights to go either side of my artwork.
I know. Literally we're doing exactly the same thing.
It's so (BLEEP)
For once we felt like,
oh, we've got this great feature of art in our room,
and now someone else has got it.
(HARSH MUSIC)
(SIGHS)
So, we're probably going to have the room this week...
(SARCASTICALLY) which is awesome.
(GULL SQUAWKS)
(WIND HOWLS AND THUNDER CRASHES)
Here's another handy property hint from Domain.
Did you know that house hunters are prioritising working from home
with 'study' being the third most searched keyword across Australia.
# You better work... #
SCOTTY: Life on The Block is hectic.
Oi, can we order one of these?
You have to get everything delivered.
Beef, lentil, and walnut salad? Yum.
From Lite n'Easy...
Rice salad with chipotle ranch? Yeah, get that.
..to a barber.
Oh! Fix me up.
# You better work cover girl!
# Work it, girl give a twirl!
# Do your thing on the runway
Work... #
If they want good styling, it starts here.
Work from the top down.
We'll put some questions out later, I reckon.
('SUPERMODEL (YOU BETTER WORK)' BY RUPAUL CONTINUES)
A little level up. (LAUGHS)
Back, back, yes. That's sick.
Very, very happy with his fade work.
They did a really good job. He did.
# You better work. #
SCOTTY: After a stressful afternoon with their sconces...
Eugh! What have you done?
Holes in the wallpaper. I know.
Liberty has called in her grafico hero, Damien, for help.
I didn't put the holes in the wallpaper.
Special made wallpaper. I know!
This is literally all we have left so...
Damien from Grafico came and he was like,
"We'll just have a look at the wall, the holes in the walls
"where the sconces were going to go and see if we can patch it up."
I reckon Damo, show her what you just showed me before.
Pop that in. If we put that here.
This is just a rough one
and I'll obviously have to match up the grain.
Yep. Of course. But...
Oh, wow. Look at that.
Wow!
On a Friday afternoon, that's about the only way I can suggest.
You kind of can't even notice, can you?
And when Damo matches the grain, I don't even know if you'll see.
He stuck a piece over it
and you couldn't even tell where the hole was.
So, it's fixed!
This is a good temporary solution, I think.
To fix it properly it's got to come off and be reprinted.
Yep. So...
It's pretty impressive, Damo.
I can do that now. We'll give it a try.
Pray to the judging gods that no-one sees it.
Yep.
And we fix it up next week... I cannot believe how good that is!
That's like, blown my mind.
When he showed me before I was like, oh, wow.
So happy. Damien's our hero!
SCOTTY: So, House Five are finally able to enjoy some positivity today.
And it must be contagious because around the corner at House Three,
they're also enjoying a positive end to their day.
This morning we were pretty far behind.
I don't know how the guys have been able to recover since then.
Ooh!
In the morning we were just very flat
and trying to get it started.
It was actually jaw-drop
when I looked in there and seen what we have.
So, we have the plaster up, we have the flushing dry, ready for paint.
We've got cabinetry in.
That's ridiculous, Dan. That's actual ridiculous.
I don't know how you guys have pulled this off.
And like, Andrew, the fact that you've got this plastered
in that short amount of time is crazy.
That's ready for paint too.
Unreal. Unreal.
And the ball's in our court, we're painting tonight.
SCOTTY: It's tools down for another day
and our Blockheads continue to work on their working-from-home space.
House Four is painting.
# On a night like this... # Feeling good, feeling good.
House One is painting.
# Stay forever
# On a night like this... #
House Three are attempting to paint.
KRISTY: The black is really hard to paint
and it's just coming up with lines 'cause of the grainage on the wood.
It doesn't finish great. Like, you have to be an expert at painting.
I am a horrible, horrible painter.
What do we do here?
It was a waste of time.
House Five are also painting.
ELIZA: Midnight. Vibe check.
I'm actually going alright.
You're in the pits of hell.
I hate it. I hate it all.
But House Two are still stewing over their artwork debacle.
LEAH: The girls and I have got the same colour palette, same artwork.
So, Sunday will be really fun.
So upset about this (BLEEP) artwork.
And Ash is worried about their roof...
LEAH: Have you done the rafters? ASH: Nuh.
Who's meant to be building the roof?
Well, not me.
..or not.
Everyone was there today looking at it and they were like,
"We'll put a board over it, and then we'll put a tarp over it."
But... I'm like, cool.
I'm just at the point like, if water comes in my roof, I don't care.
(RAIN POURS, THUNDER CLAPS)
Oh, look at that roof.
You've got to be actually joking me!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
VOICEOVER: This...
It was bucketing down.
..is the night.
I thought, a bit of rain, but nothing like this.
A cyclone of drama.
Hundreds and hundreds of litres, just...phhh.
..hits the block.
You've got to be joking me.
On a super-soaked night of reveals...
It's just the sound of tears. Heartbreaking.
Their ceiling has fallen.
..who gets washed away?
That was brutal.
And...
Oh. This has emotionally got me.
Who pulls off...
Pour me a drink.
..a Block miracle?
The craftsmanship in here is superb. This is amazing.
Nothing can prepare you...
That's slick. This is glamazon.
I love everything about it.
..for the most magical...
As a functional workspace, brilliant.
..home office reveals...
That is superb. I love it.