SCOTT CAM: Previously...
# Ohh, ohh, ohh... #
This is mental! Look where we are!
# Ohh, ohh, ohh... #
..our 20th season kicked off on Phillip Island...
(ENGINE ROARS)
(PENGUINS CALL)
..where our Blockheads will be renovating an old holiday retreat
into five luxury homes.
(DRAMATIC ROCK RHYTHMS)
Our five teams arrived.
Engaged couple from WA, Jesse and Paige.
Oh, my goodness. PAIGE: OK!
Newlyweds Kristian and Mimi from South Australia.
(SCREAMS)
(SHRIEKS) Hi! (LAUGHS) Hello.
Ricky and his best mate - and expectant dad - Haydn from Victoria.
Hi! Hey!
Have you got any luggage, or just barbecue and a...?
WOMAN: Yeah! No!
Married couple Courtney and Grant from NSW.
Hello! (SCREAMING)
MAN: Welcome! MAN: Welcome!
And married parents Kylie and Brad from Queensland.
G'day.
This is it. Like, we're actually doing this.
To determine their houses for the next 12 weeks,
they picked penguins.
Two, please. Number two, please, Scotty.
This one right here? Yep, that one.
I gave them 250 grand for the reno
and got straight down to business with this week's room.
No!
It's Bathroom Week!
(DRAMATIC ROCK RHYTHMS)
(LAUGHS) They're trying to kill us.
Where are we gonna sleep the next week?
Hey! (LAUGHS)
I'm gonna throw up.
Tonight, the rookies are blindsided by the build.
Oh, dear
We are a day behind.
MAN: I just feel like I'm failing. And...
WOMAN: (PHONE) Sophie thinks I'm in early labour.
(DRAMATIC IMPACT)
I'm gonna be an uncle!
(LAUGHTER)
Uncle Scotty!
The stakes have never been higher.
What?! What?!
It just became a $140,000 week.
If you win week one, like, you are pretty much set to win The Block.
And Paige puts her foot down.
Don't get me wrong, I...I definitely felt dramatic.
I...I felt the drama. I WAS the drama.
I actually can't accept that - I cannot accept it!
You need to find some sort of compromise for me!
I've been nothing but accommodating for you!
I'm not doing anything wrong... I know.
..and they're talking to me like arseholes!
I know that.
(THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALLS)
# Well, well
# Now, now, now, now, now
# Hey, what's that you say?
# It's a new day, yeah
# It's a new day, yeah, coming
# And a better day's coming... #
As the Blockheads wake to a new day,
House Two's Courtney and Grant are still adjusting to their new digs.
Hey.
WOMAN: How are you feeling?
I feel a little bit haggard today.
Yeah, camping is getting to me. (LAUGHS)
We started as happy campers, now we're sad campers,
and we really wanna build a room so we can get out of our camping phase.
The air bed needs a good pump as well.
Like, it's...we're slowly laying on the ground.
But the good thing is we're not really sleeping that much.
So, we're getting an hour a night, max.
So, it doesn't really make a difference.
Yep, there's not much time for sleep,
because I've well and truly chucked them in the deep end for week one.
In just five days,
they'll need to deliver their first bathroom to the judges,
and the way the rooms are looking at the moment,
they've all got a lot of work to do.
We got a big day today in the house.
Um...yeah, we got insulation to get in the floor.
We got flooring to get down, we got sheeting to go up,
and then we got Waterproof Wednesday.
Yeah, so, it's gonna be a big day.
(DRAMATIC IMPACT)
Bathrooms can be the smallest rooms in the house,
but the most complicated
to construct.
At least five inspections
are required.
(DRAMATIC CLASSICAL MUSIC)
First, teams need to build the floor framing
and get the subfloor inspected.
(CHIME SOUNDS)
Then they build the walls
and the plumbing and electrical is roughed in.
(CHIME SOUNDS)
Next, the insulation is installed.
(CHIME SOUNDS)
Then they'll sheet the walls and ceiling.
(CHIME SOUNDS)
After that, they can waterproof,
which also needs to be ticked off.
(CHIME SOUNDS)
So, Waterproof Wednesday is a good milestone
to hit on The Block,
as it leaves you with just over three days
to complete all your tiling,
install the fixtures and fittings,
and style your room.
And newlywed couple Kristian and Mimi in House Five
will be pushing hard to get it all done today.
Hello! Good morning!
We know that Waterproof Wednesdays is a huge thing,
and if you're able to make Waterproof Wednesdays,
it sets you up for, you know, success for the rest of the week.
The thing is, this wasn't, like,
"OK, let's make Waterproof Wednesday to get ahead."
No, this was,
"Let's make Waterproof Wednesday to just finish."
(UPBEAT POP MUSIC)
House Five is the only two-storey house on The Block,
and because this week's bathroom
sits directly below an upstairs bathroom,
they've had to plan both at the same time
to make sure all the plumbing and electrical
is in the right spot.
They've also got the biggest room to deliver this week.
At over ten square metres,
it's roughly double the size of everyone else's,
So, the pressure is on.
# Oooh, oooh... #
Their bathroom will feature a large wet area,
with a shower and bath.
They'll have a double vanity along a tiled feature wall,
a Porta timber accent on the ceiling,
and will style with a contemporary coastal theme.
(ELECTRONIC POP MUSIC)
Even though they've got the biggest space,
they're the first ones to get their framing inspected.
(SIGHS)
DAN: Probably 20 more minutes, maybe - just get your angles in.
Solid blocking. Yeah, we're on our way.
Yeah, you're on...yeah? On our way.
So, our builder, Daniel, he's told us,
"Call your plasterers to come in at 10:30,
"'cause we'll be done with the subfloor."
They can plaster,
and they said they'll take about three to four hours.
So, as soon as they're done, the waterproofer comes,
and I think we're gonna make Waterproof Wednesday...
..late afternoon.
Fingers crossed.
Neat.
Beautiful! Yeah, neat.
Thank you. MAN: That's what we like to hear!
Neat. Very neat, guys. (WHOOPING)
While House Five are tracking well,
over in House Four,
Queensland couple Kylie and Brad are way behind.
(WIND WHISTLES)
KYLIE: We still don't have a structure up.
We don't have walls, we don't have floors...
We have two bits of timber on the floor.
Two bits of timber are not walls or floor.
We are miles behind. Yep.
Hairdresser Kylie and electrician and plumber Brad
have so far struggled to lock in a layout for their bathroom.
I have been trying to make this work every step of the way,
and then something changes, and then the whole thing shifts.
(ELECTRONIC POP MUSIC)
So, we've come into Wednesday
after Tuesday being just what it was,
with all the changes,
and now I've gotta make another change.
Why are you not smiling, Dan? What's happening?
Just heard you've changed the whole layout.
Well, it's not the WHOLE layout, it's just the toilet.
Where's the bath going?
It's gone. It's not going.
House Four's room will no longer feature a bath.
Instead they'll have a large open shower.
They'll also include a big vanity with heaps of storage
and will style the space with a black toilet, black tiles,
and even black grout.
(ELECTRONIC MUSIC FADES)
The theme that I'm going for... Yeah.
..is dark, textural, modern.
Predominantly black.
MAN: Why is that?
Not many people do it,
and, like, I'm a bit quirky and a bit weird.
So, I feel like there's definitely a demographic for it.
I literally cannot be the only person that is like this,
and you know, doing a property on Phillip Island,
like, most people are just gonna get a coastal brief
and kind of go with it,
and I thought, "Well, why not look for a market
"that's chasing something a little bit different?"
And it's gonna stand out.
They'll certainly stand out if they don't finish the room this week,
so they'll need to hit the ground running today.
I can't afford for there to be anything that we put in
and then you go, "I wanna change that."
Well...there's a plan now, isn't there?
Yeah. I wanna make sure...
The plan's the plan?
(JAUNTY GUITAR RHYTHMS)
While House Four try and stick to their new plan,
next door in House Three,
best mates Ricky and Haydn are gearing up for a busy day.
It's gonna be a warm one again.
BOTH: Waterproofing Wednesdays!
The plan was to be waterproofing by Wednesday night.
Yep.
So, I've gotta have inspection done, sheeting done,
for my waterproofer to even start.
So, just got a very strict timeline that's gotta go all to plan
to make Waterproof Wednesday actually happen.
But we're on The Block. It's like Never Never Land, you know?
This is where miracles happen, so we'll just make it work.
Unlike House Four's little black bathroom,
Ricky and Haydn are embracing a coastal theme.
They'll include an enclosed shower and toilet on one side,
a large oak vanity on the other,
and the hero of the space will be their $12,000 fluted bath.
And plumber Ricky has been keeping the build on track.
We had to get an inspection for our flooring first thing in the morning.
DAN: How are you, mate? Good, Dan. Yourself, mate?
Well, G and I just had a look over it all.
It's pretty good, isn't it? Yeah.
Yep, really good. Happy? Yeah.
So, we're good to put some floor down?
Um...yeah, I think so.
All good. Legend, mate! Good on you.
Well done. First bathroom. Alright.
Let's do it.
Thanks, lads. Cheers. Keep it going. Alright.
See ya.
Alright, where are they? Get in here before he says...
(LAUGHS) Let's go!
Getting to Waterproofing Wednesday is gonna be tight,
but we think we can do it.
Whoo! Let's go. Let's do it.
House Three, baby. (BOTH WHOOP)
Over in House One,
engaged couple Jesse and Paige aren't happy with their progress so far.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
We finished Tuesday with subfloor still incomplete.
Um...walls weren't up,
and it was deflating - it was really deflating.
Chippie Jesse came into The Block filled with confidence.
I want to be the first ones to finish each week
and walk around to peoples' houses and be like,
"Do you guys want a hand? We've finished over there. Done."
(GLASSES CLINK) Whoo-hoo.
(DRAMATIC IMPACT)
But over the past two days,
he's learned that, even for an experienced chippie,
completing a bathroom in Week One of The Block
is a massive challenge.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
I've noticed everyone has their insulation but me.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
MAN: Timber should be here... He told me 8:00.
We've just lost three hours, not having the timber here.
We're missing our sheets for our flooring.
Just stop.
(PHONE) I'm going to call now...
Stop!
The pressure of Monday and Tuesday and everything that went wrong
really exploded in my head Wednesday,
and I think the thought of failing was really creeping into my mind.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
(FILM PROJECTOR WHIRRS)
PAIGE: So, what's the timeline right now?
So, timeline is... Where are we at?
Subfloor still. Yep.
How long is that gonna take, do you think?
Don't know. The boys are working hard to get that done.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
But it's a... not, like, a massive space.
At just over five square metres,
House One's bathroom is the smallest on The Block this week.
(SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC)
They're planning a coastal-inspired design
which will feature a closed-in shower
opposite a bath and vanity,
and the hero of the space will be their green marble feature tiles,
which will run floor to ceiling -
but there's a huge amount of work ahead of them
if they're going to pull it off for Sunday's reveal.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
Yeah, so, I was coming to the realisation
that Waterproof Wednesday - probably it wasn't gonna happen.
And I think you also started to spiral a bit as well,
which made the weight of everything happening so much more intense.
Yeah.
JESSE:
Do you need to re-evaluate if you wanna be here?
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
I think I've always been someone that holds emotions in,
because I had to,
because I had to support people around me.
Um, so, I've always been someone that would hold it in
until it came exploding out.
And I think that's what happened Wednesday.
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS)
(RINGING TONE)
WOMAN: (PHONE) Hello?
Hey, Mum. It's Jesse.
It just all came, like... (EXHALES)
..crashing down, yeah.
So, I went to go speak to Mum on the phone in the tent,
and, yeah, it kind of just kind of all crumbled.
(CRIES) I just feel like I'm not on top of anything right now.
I feel like it's just all, like... like, clouding my judgement
and everything's just, like,
creating, like, a big... like, ash around me.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
Just breathe. Get out of it. You're doing a good job!
But you don't actually understand
how much of a roller-coaster it is here.
I love...I'm loving it here,
but I hate it at the same time,
and it's such a weird emotion because, like...
..it's, like, I'm walking around
and I'm just so, like, stressed and, like, miserable,
but I'm also, like, loving it, and it's, like...
Yeah. ..the emotions are like...
I do understand, mate. I do understand!
It's just, like... Yeah.
..I don't know how to get out of this, like, hole that I'm in.
Bathrooms are the hardest, Jesse.
Everybody says that on The Block.
Just get through this week.
At the moment, I just don't even see
how we're gonna get anything finished.
There's still three days, mate. (SIGHS)
It's amazing what you can do in three days.
I already just had got stuck in my head
that we weren't gonna finish.
So, I felt massive failure
and, like, knowing that everyone I know back home was gonna see,
first week of The Block,
and Jesse, who does this for a job, fails.
(THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALL)
(SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS)
SCOTT CAM: It's day three of the first week on The Block
and the pressure of delivering their main bathroom by Sunday
has become overwhelming for House One's Jesse.
I already just had got stuck in my head
that we weren't gonna finish.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
Yeah. I'm alright.
First week of The Block,
and Jesse, who does this for a job, fails.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CRIES) Why are you crying?
PAIGE: Because I get upset when you're upset.
Whenever you cry, I cry.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
The Block is stressful. You feel that.
You feel it really hard, really fast.
It's like a punch in the face. Yeah.
But I think you just kept on
digging that hole for yourself in it as well.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
I didn't believe that I could get out of it
because I was just so far gone.
I just feel like I'm failing.
Honey...
..you're not failing, OK?
Yep.
You're not.
(LAUGHS) I cry, it's so (BLEEP) weak.
It... (SIGHS) Honey, look at me. Yeah.
I don't want you to say things like "it's weak"
because it's so important for other men to know
that people are allowed to cry
and they're allowed to have feelings, OK?
(SNIFFS) And you're such a wonderful person,
and you're just being hard on yourself.
Like, I know... I know it's, like, weak...
You're not weak.
I know it's three days in and, like, I get that,
but I can't get it out of my head that it's, like,
we're gonna present, like, a room with (BLEEP) nothing in it.
But do you know what,
and this is what I keep on saying throughout the day,
you just have to keep going.
You don't need to start thinking about Sunday yet.
Yeah.
You need to think about your next five minutes
and then you need to think about the next five minutes after that.
Yeah.
And I think you are doing... an amazing job,
and you're doing a better job than you even think you're doing.
I felt really down
and probably, like, legit,
probably the worst I've ever felt in my life,
but once I kind of exploded and got all those emotions out,
I felt better.
I felt like I could be myself again.
Just pick yourself up for right now...
Yep.
..and then just work on every minute.
Yeah. That's it.
# I'm doing it
# I'm hoping you... #
Putting the nail bag on and kind of helping out the guys,
it gave me a sense of, like, freedom
and accomplishment of, like, doing something that I love to do
and something that I feel good at.
So, it gave me, like, a purpose for the rest of the day,
which was really nice.
MAN: Alright, yep, cool. Alright.
We'll roll with that. Go, team, go.
Go, team, go. Good work, boys.
We had Scotty come around for a nice...
Little pep talk. ..pep talk.
Don't let it get... you know, get you down too much,
because number one, The Block is bloody hard, right?
Yeah. And you're out of your comfort zone.
You've obviously been building all your adult life,
but this is not the norm.
This is something else. It's something else.
Yeah, like... It's another level, right?
So, you're not gonna be the first person
that falls behind on week one on Bathroom Week.
Yep.
It's all about planning. Yep.
And then put your head down and get your nail gun out and start firing.
Yeah, and I already, like, feel so much better
just having the nail bag on.
Yeah. Yeah.
There is just so much support around The Block,
and you really feel it in those moments.
Yeah.
You know what you're doing. Yep.
You're gonna be fine, and I see that you got great potential.
Thank you very much. I see that too.
I know! I see it.
Yeah, see? Easily.
From your missus and me - mate, we love you.
That's all I need - I just need my missus and Scotty.
Exactly! (LAUGHS) And I'm set. (LAUGHS)
You'll be right. See you, honey. I love you.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Over at House Three, their floor is going down.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
So far, plumber Ricky and IT manager Haydn are embracing The Block chaos.
You're a long way from the keyboard now, mate.
That's what I said - these keyboard hands, mate...
(LAUGHTER)
..put them to good use.
Yeah, I was in the middle of organising the plasterer.
Cool. Alright. Yep, good to go.
But then my phone rang, and it was the wife, Chelsea.
(PHONE RINGS)
Oh, the wife. Perfect!
Hey, bubs!
CHELSEA: (PHONE) Hi, bubs.
How are you?
Um, good. I just have to go to the hospital for some monitoring.
Sophie thinks I'm in early labour.
(DRAMATIC IMPACT)
(EXHALES) Righto!
My head was absolutely spinning when I got that call,
'cause I had a million things running through my head
about what we were trying to do,
and I'm on The Block and I'm at Phillip Island.
I'm a million miles away - well, not a million miles away,
but a good couple... two, three hours,
and she's sitting in the hospital.
(GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Haydn and his wife, Chelsea,
have been trying to get pregnant for almost ten years with IVF.
Last year we decided to give it one more round.
Put the last embryo that we had in, and it failed.
We'd given up.
Ricky had his birthday, and...
Huge party. Huge party.
Big party. It was a good party.
Good party.
And then I think it was probably six weeks later.
Bang - pregnant.
Wow! Alright.
That's a bit sooner than we thought.
Yeah, little bit.
Well, it was Waterproofing Wednesday
and now it's Water-Breaking Wednesday.
It's all happening.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRS)
# It's driving me crazy
# But I'm into it... #
Scotty rocked up.
Scotty rocked up in the big Ford F-150 and said...
I'm gonna be an uncle!
(LAUGHTER)
Uncle Scotty!
Let's get you to the chopper!
Please, brother! I need to get there.
So, I had to leave Ricky on site.
Mate. Alright. Love you, brother.
Appreciate it, man. Look after the joint.
Let's go, mate! Alright, let's go, brother.
Fly safely, Scotty! Whoo!
Good luck, Haydn. We're going!
Good luck, Haydn! Whoo! Good luck, mate.
Actually, good luck, Ricky. Good luck to you too!
WOMAN: Is it actually happening?
Everybody clap. He's going to the hospital!
(SHRIEKS) Go, Haydn!
See ya, guys. I'll be back! (LAUGHS)
We're having a baby. Whoo!
(LAUGHS) Hey, Frankie.
So, Scotty took me to a helipad
and he's flying me direct back to Melbourne to get to Chelse ASAP.
Alright, get in there! See you later, champion.
Take it easy. Thanks, Scotty.
Alright. Got some sawdust in my eyes.
Appreciate it, mate. Get going.
Alright. I'm off.
I'm out. I gotta go have a baby.
('TO BUILD A HOME' BY THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA PLAYS)
Cheers, brother. Go get 'em, mate.
You got this, man. You got this. Breathe, brother.
You got this. You got it. Breathe! Breathe, man!
('TO BUILD A HOME' BY THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA PLAYS)
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Let's rock'n'roll, Jonathan. Whoo! Party on.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Yes! Whoo!
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
He's gone.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
I can barely even breathe on The Block.
Like, I can't even organise one thing before I'm losing my teammate.
Alright, let's go have a baby. Come on, let's go.
Alright. I'm pumped!
(SIGHS)
Like, that's a pretty wild thing to happen on Waterproofing Wednesday.
After the break, the competition heats up.
What?! What?!
It just became a $140,000 week.
I feel sick.
If you win week one, like, you are pretty much set to win The Block.
And later...
You need to find some sort of compromise for me!
I've been nothing but accommodating for you!
..Paige is on the warpath.
I can't. I actually can't accept it.
I cannot accept it!
(THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALL)
# Come on Sing on (THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALL)
# Defend your situation... #
(UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC)
SCOTT: It's less than five days to the Blockheads first bathroom reveal
and in House Four,
plumber and sparky Brad and hairdresser Kylie
are feeling the pressure.
I know that it's Waterproofing Wednesday
and we're nowhere near close to that.
So, we are a day behind.
Yeah, Brad feels like there's a lot of pressure on him
because he is a dual tradie.
So, literally, a bathroom is plumbing and electrical.
So, everyone would have been like, "Oooh, they're the threat,"
but we really dropped the ball.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
(BLEEP) on that one. Yep.
100%.
Hello?
BOTH: Scotty!
We got a visit from Scotty.
He definitely... had some things to say.
The hard truth. Hard truth.
How you going?
You tell us how we're going. Come on.
Not well. Not well at all.
No, look, we'd like to be a lot further ahead.
Definitely Monday was a disaster.
Yeah, I guess it comes down to planning.
It was the planning. And it wasn't there.
Yeah, yeah, so, that is a problem.
Now, I'm concerned for you guys.
I do not want you to not finish on the first week.
Oh... You've gotta go.
It would look pretty bad, wouldn't it?
You guys have gotta go 1,000 miles an hour.
You gotta go till you drop. Yep.
And then wake up tomorrow morning and do it again.
Do it all over again, yeah.
And that's literally The Block. The Block, yeah.
So, I pat you on the back, right? Mmm.
Because I know it's week one, but you just need to lift.
Do more. Do more.
Yeah. Like, heaps more.
So, that kind of gave us a bit of a boot up the bum...
Well, yeah, we already... ..to get cracking.
We already knew we had a lot to do. Yeah.
We just haven't had a chance to really crack into it.
In House Two, married couple Courtney and Grant
have a clear vision for the design of their bathroom this week.
(UPBEAT LATIN RHYTHMS)
Moditerranean, yeah. Moditerranean.
Modern Mediterranean.
You know, some curves, organic shapes.
Natural materials. Natural materials.
(UPBEAT LATIN RHYTHMS)
House Two's Moditerranean bathroom
will feature statement Travertine finger tiles.
On the left they'll have an closed shower and toilet,
and the hero of the space
will be the curved wall between their bath and vanity.
(UPBEAT LATIN RHYTHMS)
But when Foreman Dan and site manager GMac stop by
to inspect the framing for the curve,
there's an issue.
And it's gonna be under tension
and then it has no support in the bottom.
If someone kicks it, it breaks.
What G's saying is he wants solid blocking right to the edge.
Yeah, yeah, so, as soon as you start turning?
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
To get the wall approved,
House Two need to add more blocks of timber
to the Truecore framing on either side of the curve
to create a solid backing for the plasterboard to sit on.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
DAN: This bloody curve, mate. It's hurting you, isn't it?
Oh, it's...that's the first hiccup it's thrown.
Um, yeah, so, we're behind where I wanted to be.
It'll probably be waterproof Thursday afternoon.
Yeah.
Over in House Five,
sparky Kristian and restaurant manager Mimi are ahead of the game.
I feel great!
House Five has good vibes.
I'm competitive, so it does feel good to be in front of the pack.
We really tried to push to get Waterproof Wednesday.
So, for us to do that, we had our chippies doing this floor,
constantly getting Dan - "Hey, check, is this right?"
Where's Foreman Dan?
DAN: Yep, that's right. That's perfect.
It's probably the best floor we've seen, to be honest.
Well done, mate.
At this stage, we're trying to get the plasterers to finish
plastering all of our walls before tools down,
which was insane.
The plasterers were in. Our chippies were in.
They were all helping each other. It was chaos in there.
And you know, we went for that final check...
What's going on here?
..and there was something wrong with the plaster, right?
It wasn't, like, screwed down. Yeah. Screwed down properly.
I'm like, "Oh, no!" Quickly fix that.
(MOMENTOUS MUSIC BUILDS)
MAN: Alright.
And me and Kristian were just on the side, like,
"Is this gonna happen? Is this gonna happen?"
(MOMENTOUS MUSIC BUILDS)
AIDAN: Yeah, nice. Everything's good for waterproofing.
All good to go? All good.
Motor on. Thank you.
You'll be the only one waterproofed, I think.
(EXHALES) Thank you.
BOTH: We made Waterproof Wednesday.
Which is a massive achievement, with this massive bathroom.
(MOMENTOUS MUSIC SWELLS)
DAN: Righto, no more power tools!
With House Five the only team to make Waterproof Wednesday,
I decided now would be a good time to dangle an enormous carrot
in the hopes of spurring on a little healthy competition
and getting everyone to push a bit harder.
(UPBEAT ELECTRONIC BEATS)
Come on in! Come on in! Take a seat!
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Day three on The Block.
I bet you feel like you've been here for a month.
Yes! Three years! It feels like it's been three years.
Now, let's get down to business.
I would like you to meet a very great mate of mine, Rob Sinclair.
He is the owner of E&S Trading.
We are very lucky he is supplying all of you
with your appliances for your Kinsman kitchens and laundries.
Give him a round of applause. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Thank you! Yeah, Rob! Yeah, baby!
Now, Rob is just not here to say g'day.
He has a very big announcement to make as well.
Rob, would you like to do the honours, my friend?
ROB: Scotty, it'd be my pleasure.
Let's peel back the cover, eh? I'll give you a hand.
We're going backwards.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
That is a top-of-the-range Wolf barbecue.
The flashest barbecue I've ever seen.
I'm not really into barbecues... Yeah.
..but it was...
It's that big, it provides shade!
Wow!
This thing was intimidating, it was...it was beautiful.
It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
# At last
# My love has come along... #
ROB: So, guys, this particular barbecue
is 140cm of cooking pleasure on the surface.
You've got the infra-red rotisserie at the back.
Hey, Rob, how much does that rotisserie hold?
11kg, Scotty. Wow!
(LAUGHS) 11 kilos?
# Like a song... #
MAN: Oh, stop it!
It's an extraordinary product from the guys at Wolf.
Now, what is this barbie gonna set me back, mate?
Well, Scotty, for 30 grand, you'll be able to have this...
(EXHALES) WOMAN: Oh, jeez!
..beauty in your home.
Thanks to Rob and E&S Trading, the winner of this week's room...
Oh, no way!
..will get this barbecue to put in their backyard.
Oh, love it!
I'll be honest, I've never wanted to win something more in my life.
Now, are you enjoying the chairs that you're sitting on?
ALL: Yes! (CHEERING)
They are Camerich, one of the great furniture stores,
and guess what.
Camerich also have a prize for this week's room winner.
(DRAMATIC IMPACT)
100,000 bucks worth of Camerich furniture...
What?! What?!
MAN: What?! 100...?
WOMAN: Huh?!
So, that means, this week,
you're not only playing for 10,000 bucks from Ford.
It just became a $140,000 week.
I feel sick.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Let's just manifest winning this week.
Are you closing your eyes?
No. Oh, OK.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
If you win week one, like, you are pretty much set to win The Block.
(PENGUINS CALL)
(CHILLED ROCK RHYTHMS)
SCOTT CAM: It's the early hours of Thursday morning
and House Three's Ricky is still busy working in his bathroom.
As much as I tried my hardest
to make waterproofing happen on Wednesday,
it just didn't happen,
but what I'm learning on The Block is that I've gotta be able to adapt
and it's not always gonna go to plan.
# Time moves slow... #
Ricky certainly wasn't planning on teammate Haydn's wife, Chelsea,
going into labour yesterday,
leaving him alone on The Block, and with double the workload.
I was insulating, I was working by myself, trying to get ahead,
and H called me,
and he had news that his baby girl was born.
You just cut the cord?
HAYDN: (PHONE) Yeah.
Wow! So, you did the scissoring?
(LAUGHS)
Chelsea's doing great. Baby's doing fantastic.
Wow.
What's her name?
Matilda May Wise.
Matilda May Wise. Wow!
(UPLIFTING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
HAYDN: Wild experience, holding her for the first time.
# Ahh... #
Absolutely wild. Yeah.
Coming into my arms, and little bundle of joy,
and my life changed instantly at that moment.
What are you doing, little girl? Eh?
What are you doing?
You wanna say hello to the world?
# I wanna give you an extraordinary life... #
Been longing for this forever.
So, the best feeling in my life, ever.
You've done it all this week.
You've gone from IT guru to renovation expert
to designing specialist
to now you're helping deliver babies.
(LAUGHTER)
I'm so happy, dude. I'm so happy for you.
Yeah, love you, bro. We'll speak soon.
See ya.
Your best mates, you share that sort of emotion.
You ride the highs and the lows together, right?
So, yeah, I was rapt for him. I was really, really happy for him.
I'm a very proud godfather now.
So, now I gotta do little Tilly proud, and H proud,
and I gotta get this bathroom done.
And Ricky isn't the one
with an extra fire in his belly this morning
after I announced last night that there's 140 grand worth of prizes
up for grabs on Sunday.
(YELLS) What?!
Massive barbecue!
$30,000 Wolf barbecue for Landscape Week.
And then $100,000 worth of Camerich furniture!
That will furnish your entire house.
Plus $10,000 from Ford.
That's $140,000 week.
100...?
I've never seen a prize this big before - in week one!
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
MAN: How badly do you wanna win?
Pretty badly. I wanna win pretty badly.
We're pretty competitive.
You just wanna, like, do it for yourself
and win and just be like, "OK, we did that," you know?
And then we can be proud of it.
I'm sure everyone feels the same.
No-one's gonna say,
"Nah, I actually feel like losing this week."
You know what I mean?
And with their bathroom currently the furtherest along,
Kristian and Mimi are definitely in with a good chance this week.
DAN: The only team that waterproofed Wednesday has passed.
KRISTIAN: Yeah! You're the only team that did it.
Well done, team!
Ticking goals. Ticking...
Kicking goals.
Over in House Four,
and after a very slow start to the week,
Kylie and Brad have lifted their game
and their bathroom is now in much better shape.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
We finally got our sign-off on our sub frame.
The flooring has gone on.
The walls are up.
DAN: Beautiful.
It's all good. Just sheet it.
Let's sheet it! Come on, let's go.
Come on! Thanks, Dan.
So, we're looking now to start plastering the walls
so we can start waterproofing.
Waterproofing by two-ish?
By 1:30. 1:30?
Block's biggest comeback, this room.
KYLIE: Yeah, we've caught up.
We may not even have to do anything Sunday.
Saturday night, we'll just be like...
I love your optimism. (LAUGHS)
In House One, after a rocky day yesterday,
Jesse and Paige have also turned a corner
and are feeling much more confident.
I woke up and I said, "Today's gonna be a better day.
"Today is gonna be the day that I, like, do everything I can
"to step up and try and help this team get over the line,"
and I'm just hungry
to deliver a beautiful room each and every week, and win.
I just wanna win.
That's why I'm here - to win.
Things are going good! This is the best day ever.
This is so good!
The boys are (BLEEP) on.
Let's go!
MAN: Are you here to win, Paige?
I'm always out to win. Always.
Whether that's just beating him across the road.
I...I try to win.
(CHUCKLES) I do.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
I do. But win fairly.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
With their tradies going full steam ahead in their bathroom,
this morning Paige is feeling so confident
that she's decided to make some changes
to the floor plan of their house.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Yeah.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
I wanted to speak to Dan first thing
because Jesse and I were up planning all night.
Had some really good ideas
in regards to shaking up a few of the bedrooms,
moving the master around.
House One's main bedroom is currently located on the ground floor.
They want to split it in half to make two guest bedrooms,
then, in the mezzanine,
located on the other side of the house and upstairs,
they'll turn the guest bedroom and rumpus into their main suite.
So, you're not deleting a bedroom,
you're just shifting everything around?
No, we're just shifting. Yeah.
If you can draw the top as well, I'll get photos of both,
and then send that straight off to the architect.
OK. Thank you!
I think we've come up with a really, really good floor plan
and I am so hopeful, because I am so passionate about these changes.
(EXHALES)
If we can make it work, I will be your best friend.
I'll get you coffee every morning. Yeah, thank you.
Mate, whatever you want. Whatever you want.
It's not up to me, but I'll just... I'm the middle person.
OK. Yep.
I shouldn't actually get my hopes up too much,
but I'm gonna be positive.
I'm gonna ask the universe to let me change my floor plans!
Everyone... I'm actually changing them.
That's how I'm gonna speak.
I'm just waiting for approval because they're gonna be changed.
Coming up, the universe turns against Paige.
Can you imagine selling this house?
I know.
I respect him, obviously,
'cause he's a great accomplished architect...
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
..but I actually don't give a (BLEEP) about his opinion
because it's so different to mine.
(THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALL)
(UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC)
SCOTT CAM: With only four days until reveal,
the Blockheads are working hard in their main bathrooms.
Sweet!
And in House Three,
with teammate Haydn still off-site with his newborn baby,
Ricky is forging ahead solo.
Yeah, that's good now. Yep.
So, your plasterers will be in next.
Mate, you'll be waterproofing after midday.
1:00, I reckon.
I really wanna make sure that I do Haydn proud
and prove that I do have what it takes
to get this bathroom over the line,
but he's definitely left me for dead.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Uh, definitely could have maybe talked to the missus
to maybe put the baby off for one more week
'cause I would have liked to maybe not tackle this alone first week.
But, look, it's his family, it's his life,
and it's my Block, so...it is what it is.
(DYNAMIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
When you're building a house in just 12 weeks,
you need to start making big decisions from week one.
So, today our teams have met with Kinsman to finalise the design
for the wardrobes in all their upcoming bedrooms,
as they need to go into production tomorrow.
(ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
Hello?
Hi. How are you? Hi!
I'm Morgan from Kinsman. Mimi. Nice to meet you.
Lovely to meet you. Hi, Morgan!
Morgan and the whole Kinsman team, they were super helpful.
I think I might have a really good door for you to use.
It is brand-new. Oh, my god, it's new?
Yes. Lock it in!
I'm a quick decider, so it was like, "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes."
It is really nice, so... Oh, what?!
It's easy to clean,
it makes you feel like that there's texture in the room,
and we have this border as well.
Yeah, it was a good appointment.
They had all their samples there. Boom, boom, boom.
MAN: And the internal oak as well? I think so, yeah.
I wanna continue the American oak,
and then we also brought in, like, an ivory leather.
I think that's really nice.
Oh, it'll look beautiful.
As long as there's just one row of shelving
just perfectly designed for Jordan.
(BASKETBALL THUDS)
Um...yep.
You've got this nice new one that we've got as well,
which is nice and thin.
Had all these amazing accessories.
They have this really cool terrazzo-slash-marble
black and white handle, and I was like, "Done!"
Like, "Throw that in. Sorted."
Perfect. That handle? Easy. Yeah.
WOMAN: How beautiful do you think your wardrobes are gonna look?
They're gonna look amazing, absolutely...
Of course they are!
I selected them. (LAUGHS)
Hi!
Hi. How are you? I'm Morgan.
I'm Paige. Lovely to meet you.
It's so nice to meet you. I'm so excited.
Come sit down.
So, I went into the Kinsman consult
and we had a loose idea
that the floor plans were going to be changed.
Just less than an hour ago,
Jesse and Paige approached Foreman Dan
with the idea to change their floorplans.
So, they don't currently have the final measurements
for their proposed plan,
which is going to make it hard to complete their consult with Kinsman.
And so I was explaining that to Kinsman.
It was a...it was an icy response.
The floorplan is currently in works of changing.
Yep, and you are knowing that we're putting this into manufacturing,
so if those measurements are wrong, it's not gonna fit?
Yes, it will not. JESSE: Yeah, yeah.
I fully 100% understand that.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
House One's plan is to relocate their main bedroom
to the mezzanine level on the other side of the house,
where a guest bedroom and rumpus is currently planned.
Then they'll split the current main bedroom in half
to create two smaller bedrooms.
WOMAN: How badly do you wanna get
these floorplan changes over the line?
So badly.
Like, it's actually just (BLEEP) if we don't.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
It's just it doesn't make sense, the way that it's been constructed.
There were so many better options of a floorplan.
(TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES)
It's bizarre.
Uh, this is awkward,
because who should be stopping by McCafe,
but the man responsible for the floor plan?
International award-winning architect Julian Brenchley.
Hi! How you going?
I couldn't help overhearing a little design change.
Yes.
MAN: Um, and did you speak to Julian Brenchley?
Did he talk to you? We did.
Yeah. What did he say?
What's on...what's the plan? This is what the plan is.
We would love to put... Mm-hm?
..master upstairs.
Oooh, OK. So, um, have you guys got kids?
JESSE: No. OK.
So, um...planning to have kids at any one...?
Yeah. Yeah.
OK, so, how far do you think parents would wanna sleep from...
Honestly, it's always 50-50 when you think of a two-storey house.
You ask one person and they go,
"I would love to have a master upstairs,"
and then you ask maybe predominantly dads and they're like,
"No, I like to be downstairs, protect the household."
Maybe it's different over in Victoria,
but people in WA don't wanna be near their kids.
(LAUGHS)
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
They do, but not... Do they?
There's a number of reasons, but I mean...that I wouldn't do it,
and a number of reasons why we drew it.
Being upstairs-downstairs is one thing,
but being completely on the other side of the house...
Yeah. ..is one thing.
So, it's quite a big distance. Yep.
Like, in a house of this size,
you try and have the family, if you like, close together
and then your guests would be separate.
Yep.
So that they wouldn't be part of
the sort of private space of a house.
It's just complete opposites - opposite opinions...
(LAUGHS) He told me that he loves to be close to his family!
Can't relate. He...yeah.
He pretty much said he completely disagreed with our idea.
Yep.
If you're adamant on it, I...
I am 100% adamant, but I'd really like to...
I'm the other way around. OK. That's fine.
You know, so, I think that, you know...but good luck with it.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
You know, I think you're probably not on the right track.
No stress! OK. Cool. Alright.
Thank you for the advice, Julian. Good luck with it. OK.
Thank you. Ta. Cheers.
So, where does that leave us with plans, then?
Same.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
WOMAN: Are you still going with the changes?
Yes.
Just because I was anticipating someone to try and change my mind,
and I just...honestly, I just have different opinions, so, that's it.
Alright, can we...can we... I've gotta go.
So, can we, like, try and figure...
Like, where are you thinking of doing the robe?
Well... MORGAN: Along...
..it's just gonna go here, and here's the door.
While Paige remains steadfast in her decision,
Morgan from Kinsman begins working out the measurements
for the two bedrooms that will be created downstairs
in place of the main bedroom -
something Paige hadn't done yet.
Take the measurements of the stud wall out of there.
You got about 2.6.
A queen bed is about 1,600. Yeah?
So, there's 500mm, which is that,
each side of that bed if you put it on that,
and that's not enough to open those doors.
Everything has got a flow-on effect.
You've gotta make sure there's enough room for bedside tables.
This is what we did last night.
I'm just...yeah, but... There is enough room.
..what we didn't do is have proper sizes,
but I don't want to make this decision
and then our bedrooms are really small, do you know what I mean?
But I am not going to be hardballed!
Do we just stay up for four hours going through plans
and then throw it through the window
because someone else has an opinion?
No, I'm not doing it because of someone else.
I'm just trying to think, like, methodically,
because this could impact us.
I love your idea, I really love it.
No (BLEEP)!
And I agree with you, and I would love to do what you're going to do.
My only thought which, I think, will affect us
is we're gonna regret how small these rooms are.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Jesse is concerned that if they split the current main bedroom in two,
once wardrobes are in, and with two windows in each room,
there's not much space left for furniture.
So, House One's wardrobe consult is at a standstill.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
And there was a lot of pressure,
there was a lot of faces behind the camera.
It was eye rolls, it was huffing and puffing.
I'm just sick of the way everyone talks to me in meetings like this!
And it was just the energy was super off.
Mate, you make the call,
because I'm sick of being in these appointments.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
We're not content with this.
Can you just stay chill, please?
No. We're switching.
You can't...OK.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Alright.
I don't know what to do here. What am I choosing...
Don't get me wrong, I...I definitely felt dramatic.
I...I felt the drama. I WAS the drama. I was.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
That's how I felt and I stormed off.
Week one.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
Can you give us ten minutes, please?
Yeah, easy. Yeah, thank you.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
I love your plans, but I just don't think it's gonna work.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(BLEEP)! It's (BLEEP)...
This is actually (BLEEP)!
..that we can't (BLEEP) do what we wanna do.
But you're gonna have to, like, really...
I can't. I actually can't! You can!
I cannot accept it!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
You need to find some sort of compromise for me!
I've been nothing but accommodating for you!
I get that.
Find it for me! I've been nothing but accommodating for you!
I'm not doing anything wrong... I know you're not.
..and they're talking to me like arseholes!
I know that.
I don't know why people have to be rude!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
(THUNDER RUMBLES, PENGUINS CALL)
(CHILLED ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
SCOTT CAM: It's day four of The Block,
and though our teams are renovating an island resort,
they're quickly learning that this is no vacation.
(CHILLED ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
With 6:00 tools down approaching,
Foreman Dan has just noticed a big issue
in Courtney and Grant's bathroom.
Oh, dear!
Uh, basically we were on track to have
all the sheeting and plastering approved
and ready for waterproofing,
but there was a issue
regarding the installation of our shower screen channel.
So, that one threw a spanner in the works.
What's up? Sorry, I've just joined in.
Well, the way this channel's installed.
Yeah?
So, this is your shower. Yep.
And that's the rest of the world.
(SOMBRE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
House Two's builders installed the shower screen channel
before the Villaboard sheets went up,
so it's currently sitting between two sheets
with small gaps on either side.
Instead, they should have put the Villaboard up first
and then installed the channel on top of it
to make sure it's watertight.
That has to be all taken off and redone.
(SOMBRE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
I think you're gonna have to resheet it
so it's solid behind,
and then this goes over the top of the Villaboard.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
House Two now need to rip
the majority of the Villaboard off their walls
and then put it back up
with the shower channel in the correct position.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
And with it already close to tools down on Thursday afternoon,
they need to do it quickly
if they want any hope of waterproofing tonight.
We're gonna be further behind.
It is frustrating. (BLEEP) frustrating, definitely.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
We feel like every time we have had a bit of momentum,
we've had a bit of a step back.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
But that's The Block, right?
So, we've gotta just work with what we've got
with the timeframes we got.
Can't even get any more people in there. It's too tight.
Right now I'm like, "Wow, it's Friday tomorrow
"and the bathroom doesn't look like a bathroom."
That makes me nervous.
Yeah, there's just a lot to do. A lot to do.
(SIGHS) I'm gonna lose my (BLEEP).
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
Next door in House One, Paige is keeping busy
after storming out of her wardrobe consult with Kinsman.
It's better than sitting in that Kinsman stupid consultation.
This morning Paige was excited
about the prospect of changing the floor plan of her house,
but architect Julian Brenchley feels the changes are a bad idea.
Probably not on the right track.
Now, because there are no measurements,
Kinsman also can't lock off their wardrobe plans
and put them into production.
(HUFFS)
MAN: Paige, what's going on?
Just raging internally, and externally.
Just...just, like, you go into these consultations
and I have no idea why, like, no-one's polite.
So, it's not even, like, a...problem
of, like, the planning and everything.
You can have open discussions, you can have differing opinions,
but, like, just don't talk like an arsehole.
Paige has left fiance Jesse to continue the consult without her.
JESSE: My partner's feeling really disrespected.
I just think she's feel like she's being looked at like she's an idiot,
and she's not.
I just need to back up my partner
because she's feeling super disrespected and I can't...
And we're happy to support you in that.
Understand, from our perspective,
we've gotta try and pull everything together...
Yep.
..so we can provide it to you on time and completed accordingly.
It's not our intention to make it even harder.
If anything, it's to assist.
The problem is it's very hard to make decisions
when there's no set plan.
We need to know what's happening.
We need to know the spaces. Yep.
We need to know the sizes to be able to put something together.
Yeah, and I understand that.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
It's just, um... yeah, we're just a bit stuck.
Jesse needs to convince Paige to change her mind
and revert back to Julian Brenchley's original floor plan,
but she's still reeling from his earlier comments.
If you're adamant on it, I...
I'm 100% adamant, but I'd really like to...
I'm the other way around. OK. That's fine.
You know. No stress!
OK. Cool.
I respect him, obviously, 'cause he's a great accomplished architect,
but I actually don't give a (BLEEP) about his opinion
because it's so different to mine.
Well, it's not his house. Exactly!
We're the ones that...
Who the (BLEEP) wants to sleep next to their kids?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
I...I...I get that... Who?
I know. Who?
Like, he can think I'm backwards, but I think he's backwards.
I...I also kind of understand what he's saying...
I don't. ..but I agree with you more.
I like our idea. Yeah.
But unfortunately the rooms are gonna be 2.6 wide.
That's tiny, honey. We can't do that in a house like this.
It's just too small, my love. It's too small.
Fine!
Well, I actually don't wanna work on something...
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
We're gonna...I know...
Can you imagine (BLEEP) selling this house?!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
I know. I know.
I don't wanna (BLEEP) can it, because we actually have to sell it!
I know.
Once you include the robes
and you kind of break the master into two rooms,
the rooms just become quite small...
Mmm, I still don't agree. (LAUGHS)
I still don't agree, no.
She doesn't agree, but I just didn't wanna make that sacrifice.
Can we just...can you just come over for a bit
and just see if we can push on?
Fine!
Alright, let's just go be a carbon copy of every other house!
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
You wanna sit down?
No, I don't wanna be here too long.
Well, I need you...we kind of need to be in this together, honey.
Please? OK.
I really... I will just for you. Only for you.
MORGAN: Now, your master... Mm-hm?
You've got 1,100 inside,
which is actually bigger than what it would have been upstairs.
That doesn't make me any more happier.
We could have made it work.
We could have. (LAUGHS)
"Could have." I could have made it work.
Yeah, I don't believe so, but that's alright.
That's OK. You can think that. (LAUGHS)
(SOMBRE PIANO MUSIC)
I had a bit of a surprise visitor.
The childhood crush.
You start feeling feelings you've never felt before.
Maybe a little bit in love with her. (LAUGHS)
VOICEOVER: Tonight, time is of the essence.
Slow tiler's still going slow.
Hurry up, dude.
It's like watching paint dry.
And there's no room...
Are you holding the tape with the right hand?
..for mistakes.
I obviously have used a tape measure before.
Oh, wait, I think I've got it.
It's a race to the first sensational reveal.
It's not good, is it, Deano?
But will they reach the finish line?
Don't smile.
No need to smile, honey.