SCOTTY: Welcome to magnificent Phillip Island
where five couples will build five stunning homes.
('MMMBOP' BY HANSON PLAYS)
Yoo-hoo!
(NERVOUS YELP)
(SQUEALS AND LAUGHTER)
Why are you laughing?
# Oh so hold on the ones who really care
# In the end they'll be the only ones there. #
And, wowee, it's been a monster first week for our Blockheads.
Were we supposed to bring luggage?
Hi!
It started on a high.
Welcome to... Welcome to The Block!
(LAUGHTER)
But the Block roller-coaster ride
went off the tracks right out the gate.
(STORMY MUSIC)
I have been trying to make this work.
Yeah. (WHOOSHING)
We're missing our sheets for our flooring.
That's great, don't talk over me.
And don't talk to me like that.
And I amped up the thrills with a Block-buster prize.
The winner of this week's room... No way.
..will get $30,000 worth of Wolf barbeque.
And 100,000 bucks' worth of Camerich furniture.
That means this week
just became $140,000 week.
Love you, brother.
Plus, Hayden flew off for the birth of his baby girl.
Party on. I'm gonna be an uncle.
# I want to rock n' roll all night. #
What you doing, little girl?
Hey?
The best feeling in my life ever.
Tonight, Mimi and Kristian's tiling is on the go-slow.
It's like watching paint dry.
Hurry up, dude!
Broken safety rules leaves House 2 in hot water.
We trusted you were gonna do that and you went behind our back.
And the shower screen debacle
could mean curtains for Jesse and Paige's room reveal.
You have to re-waterproof a new one in.
So, I think we just forfeit the room.
(TENSE MUSIC)
This is a disaster.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(PENGUINS CHIRP)
Last night, the Blockheads pulled a late one,
leaving them just a couple of hours to snooze in their tents
before the 7am pre-start.
Morning, guys.
We'll just jump into this.
Let's all maintain hi-vis.
You're on the site, you need to have your hi-vis on.
Deliveries, please see Zoe at the front gate.
I know we've got glass comin' and some other bits and pieces.
Obviously, gonna be about 24 today.
Make sure we've got our sunscreen on.
Other than that, have a great day.
But sunscreen is the least of their worries right now
because four of the five houses
only finished waterproofing late yesterday, aka, Thursday.
And why is that a big deal?
For the answer, let's dive into the Block archives.
OLD-TIME VOICEOVER: Renovating can be a right pain in the neck,
but you'll soon be the envy of your street
with a gleaming new bathroom complete in just one week.
In the first couple of days,
the floor framing is laid and the sub-floor inspected.
The wall frames are erected, and pipes and electrics are roughed in.
Then, insulation and gyprocking, all ready for waterproofing.
After the waterproofing is signed off,
there's still floor and wall tiles to be added.
Then, taps, lights, a bath, shower and vanity need to be installed.
And if you don't hit Waterproof Wednesday,
your plans to show off a finished bathroom to the Joneses on Sunday
could go down your shiny new ceramic toilet.
SCOTTY: Hence why there's only one word on most teams' lips.
Waterproofing. Waterproofing.
Waterproofing and then...
Waterproofing.
Yeah.
Kristian and Mimi from South Australia,
who have the largest bathroom in House 5,
had their waterproofing approved on Wednesday
and have managed to lay down their floor tiles.
Dan!
Now, this morning, foreman Dan is the busiest boss on site.
Hey, Dan.
Everyone else is lining up to have their waterproofing signed off...
Daniel.
I'm going to 1.
They got in first.
..starting with WA couple Paige and Jesse.
So, Dan comes in Friday morning
and gives it the all-green, like, yep, good.
But...
Actually, I've just noticed that.
That might need to be a repair.
Bubble. Right.
There was a bubble in the waterproofing in the shower,
which can't be.
They need to cut it back, reseal it and do it all again.
And this is Friday.
This is Friday so we're two days behind already.
So, what, am I supposed to try and get a waterproofer back?
Is he not close?
Um, they don't live local.
Cheers, mate. Thanks, mate, bye.
See ya, mate, bye.
PRODUCER: So, is he able to sort that out for you?
Nuh. He's six hours away.
Like, six hours away is, like, three days in Block time.
Yeah, it's a bit frustrating.
Good morning, Daniel! Hello.
How are you? I'm well.
Yourself? We're great.
Luckily for the other Blockheads, Dan's visit is mostly good news.
Was it a late night?
We finished waterproofing at 1am on Friday morning
so Thursday night, essentially.
It's good to go, guys.
Thanks, Dan. Well done.
We're waterproofed.
Ricky from Victoria
has had to do a quick touch-up to repair some boot holes.
Looks like you've had the whole site in here with shoes on already.
We've gotta do a couple of minor touch-ups
but he said, "Pretty good."
And Queensland couple Kylie and Brad are still waiting
for their waterproofing to dry in the shower area.
But they're good to go with the rest of the bathroom.
So, I'll do a round then come back.
Amazing. Thank you, mate.
Today will be a good day, I've got a good feeling about it.
I do.
And back at House 1, it's 10:00 and things are looking up there, too.
I had to call a waterproofer.
They don't live local.
But the waterproofer actually hooked us up with another guy
who was an hour and a half away, and he got down and fixed it.
Just like that.
Jesse. Dan. How are we?
That was quick. Yeah.
You were tellin' me he was six hours away.
I know, I've managed to get another guy
close by for me to come by quickly and get it done.
Friday morning about 10am.
Tick of approval for waterproofing.
(PAIGE SIGHS) Yeah.
# I live my day as if it was the last. #
Week 1 has always been a steep learning curve for our Blockheads.
# Doing it all night all summer. #
But, luckily, there's always one ray of sunshine full of good advice.
Here we go. Come on, where's your dad?
Of course, I'm talking about me.
G'day, mate. Oh, Shell.
Hey!
And Shelley's here, also.
How are you?
Season 20, you did it.
Season 20 coffee. Ooh, thank you.
There you go. This is a nice way to start.
And I'm telling you, Shell,
this is appropriate for Season 20, this joint here.
It is incredible.
I would like to take you on a tour.
Island Cove Villas.
It's an island paradise.
I doubt that very much.
I doubt this looks like paradise right now.
Not yet but it will be.
# I'm alright I'm alright. #
McCafe. Team!
Morning!
Can I get a bit more?
There's foreman Dan. G'day, Scotty!
Well, good morning!
How's this, hey? That's awesome.
Love a new season.
Look at the size of it.
And each house has 1,000 square metres of land.
Oh, I love everything about this.
We are going to have a great season. We are.
Thank you for the lift.
House 1. Yes.
Jesse and Paige, WA. Mm.
Recently engaged. Aw.
Beautiful couple. Yeah.
We love, sort of, mid-century modern and then with, like, a kind of vibe
of, like, an elevated, like, coastal grandma sort of vibe, you know?
Like, very...
PRODUCER: Coastal grandma?
OK then. Tell me more.
Fresh, kind of classic, understated, very chic.
Undone, easy breezy coastal vibe.
You know what I mean? (WRONG ANSWER BUZZER BLARES)
That grandma chic aesthetic
is proving to be a bit of a challenge spatially.
In fact, their big bath and shower screen will be a hair width apart,
but they're banking on their feature wall tiles to win them the week.
Oh, gang, meet my friend, Shelley Craft.
Come in. Hello!
Lovely to meet you.
It's so good to meet you.
How are you? Lovely to meet you.
Well, I'm good because I love this. Yeah.
And I've done it before.
How are you?
Because you haven't done this before.
It's been, like, tough at times but we've had such a good time.
I'm actually loving and thriving this week.
I really... Yeah, you are.
I'm enjoying everything I'm doing.
Newlyweds, is this right?
Uh, engaged so married at the end of the year.
Oh, how wonderful. Alright, this is a big year for you.
Life's crazy.
Before you plan your wedding...
You need to finish your bathroom. ..it's Friday.
Yeah!
Fishscale tiles, I like.
Yeah! Yes!
Do we love them?
I'm so excited now that they're up. Super cute.
How much of those fishscales are going on?
From there to just to here to the top.
So, we're gonna get out of your way.
Yeah, and you gotta fit out, as well.
And let you keep going. You know.
Carpenter, construction.
Yep. Yeah.
Take a deep breath. Yeah.
You know the job, you know what you gotta do.
Yes, yes. See ya.
Thanks so much, guys. We are here for you.
Thank you, Shelley.
Thanks, Shelley. Anything you need.
They noticed we had a lot of tiling left to do.
I'm pushing hard to get this week done.
I want to finish and it's a big push.
We'll get it done. Yeah.
House 2, Courtney and Grant. Yes.
Young couple, Sydney. Right.
They're ambitious. Yes.
I'm not saying we're gonna win every room for 12 weeks,
but I think we can really make a real go of it.
I honestly think we'd be winners. Yeah.
How are you? Lovely to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Great to meet you, too.
Heard a lot about you. Well, you too, welcome.
How long have you guys been together?
Eight wonderful years. Eight, I'd say seven.
Coming up to nine in May, coming up to nine.
Married for three?
Married for three. OK, alright.
And how does this dynamic work?
What's your love language?
What do we need to be aware of?
We're very fiery people. Arguments.
This fiery couple are actually hoping to deliver
a calming and warm 'modernterranean' bathroom
featuring light colours throughout and a very luxe marble-top vanity.
All their tiling will be done by the infamous Imperial twins,
Tony and George,
who made a splash last year on The Block.
Oh, look at this.
This looks incredible.
It looks amazing. Wow.
It's got, like, that nice shine to it.
It looks incredible.
It's a piece of art. I love it.
It's Tony and George, the twins. We've got the best.
Now, I just want to point out,
Leah and Ash's pool was the best tiling job I've ever seen.
Thank you. Amazing, guys.
Better than the Cursio brothers? Well, equal.
Equal.
How did they get these guys? How did this happen?
We've got some contacts through our builder.
'Cause we look pretty similar,
they said, "Why don't we partner with Grant?"
The main part for the bathroom is our marble.
How much did you spend on that?
Uh, the slab was... 3,800.
Well, that was a slab
but then we're gonna split that up across three of the bathrooms.
And where's that going, sorry, the slab?
So, we've got a American oak vanity and then the marble will go on top.
$140,000 week, Shell.
I heard about this. Don't make me nervous.
Yeah, it's a massive week.
It's yours to lose here.
Thanks, Scotty.
(LAUGHTER)
Filling me with confidence here. Oh...
Anyway, we've gotta go, we've gotta move on,
but, before we go, George, Tony, come in here.
Let's get a family photo for Mum.
Oh, yeah!
Go on...
You're out of this. Oh, I'm out of this?
We're triplets. We're doing the boys?
Alright, I'm out.
You've got another one over here. Hey, come in.
The boys.
(LAUGHTER)
Little bromance.
This is how I pick my trades.
What's the most European man I can find who can work on my house?
That's how I do this.
(SHUTTER CLICKS)
This is Ricky. There's our mate, Ricky.
He's on his own at the moment. Oh.
Where's his teammate?
I'll let him explain all that to you.
OK, alright. OK?
I love everything about this.
Well, good morning.
I had a bit of a surprise visitor.
For the first time, I got to meet Shelley.
And she may have been a bit of...
maybe, like, my childhood crush a little bit.
First time I saw Shelley
was probably 'Saturday Disney', young fella.
I think, if you ask anyone who's had a first crush,
it's a special thing, right?
For any guy, especially, you know?
You start feeling feelings that you'd never even felt before.
# Everything you need you better rock your body now. #
How are you? Nice to meet you.
Sunnies off. I need to see your eyes.
You could've been here half an hour ago.
You could've given us a chop out.
I've said to Shell that you're on your own at the moment.
I am.
Who are you partnered up with this year?
I'm here with my best mate, H, Hayden.
Right.
There was a bit of an incident.
Is he alright?
He's doing alright now,
but waterproofing Wednesday
quite quickly became water-breaking Wednesday.
He was a dad. Oh, you're joking!
I'm an uncle, I'm an uncle. Oh, shut up.
And I'm a godfather.
Oh, great, well, congratulations to you.
I know, right, congratulations, but now I'm left with this by myself.
Oh, my goodness. I know, I know, I know.
Well, what are we here for? We're here to see your bathroom.
Ricky and Hayden are going full modern coastal theme
in their bathroom, taking cues from the ocean and nature
with their sage tiles, timber vanity and rustic wooden stool.
Despite the tight squeeze,
they're keeping their bath and shower separate.
This is bathroom number one. Right.
Oh, underfloor heating, love it. Underfloor heating.
So, what's the overall plan for this gorgeous island home?
Just wing it.
Absolutely just wing it. Yeah.
H is generally our planner and I'm sorta, like,
your go and get that plan executed,
so I'm waiting for my planner to come back.
OK, I do need to see what's going on under this ridiculous hat.
Underneath it? Yeah.
There's just a wild set of hat hair. Do you really wanna see it?
Yeah, I do. Alright.
'Cause the hat's bad but I'm imagining the hair's worse.
No, no, no. Oh, jeez.
There might be a bit of a party at the back, Shell.
God, yeah. Yeah, 100%, so...
That is rad.
Got a party on top, party at the back,
there's a lot of party up there.
Shell, she can come back anytime.
Can't help but still be
maybe a little bit in love with her, I don't know.
# That's the power of love. #
(PENGUINS CHIRP)
It's a super busy Friday on Phillip Island.
# From now on. #
Our crew from Nine in Six
are installing the TRUECORE steel frames for all the houses.
In House 2,
Courtney's 'modernterranean' vanity has arrived from Reece.
Easy. Too easy.
The vanity's beautiful.
Oh, and look at the handles!
They're nice, right?
# I can't stop the. #
And the boys from Complete Home Filtration are here to install
a purifying water filtration system to quench the Blockheads' thirst.
Rightio, so this is where we want to put it?
# I can't stop the feeling. #
So, it's a Complete Home filtration system.
Filters all the water coming in through the mains,
through the whole house, all your kitchen, all your bathrooms,
all sorted, filtered water.
Contestants are gonna be able to drink the water and love it.
That's the most important part.
In House 4...
I'm Nadia. I'm from The Block Shop.
..Kylie's ordered something soft and silky
that will complement her black bathroom.
Black toilet paper. Don't.
You see, Kylie, you see, The Block Shop delivered.
Now, Shell.
I love everything about this.
I love this already. I know, it's fantastic.
This is House 4. (SHELL GASPS)
We've got Brad and Kylie.
Ah, yes, yes. They're from Cairns. Four kids.
Four kids. Four kids.
(BOY SQUEALS)
Go grab 'em.
(CHILD SINGING)
So, they've given up a lot to be here.
No, they just wanted a holiday.
Oh, it's been far from a holiday.
More like a bathroom layout nightmare.
Do you know how many arguments we've had
just over getting the (BLEEP) bath?
Yes.
After Kylie picked their big-ticket items for their bathroom...
It's the matte black with the white...
The Marietta. Marietta.
..Brad realised they were all too big for the space.
It's too much.
It doesn't fit.
I'm not happy about it, either.
Just delete the bath.
And, like, I'm gonna let you be the judge,
not everything is black and white with this two or is it?
(VAMPIRIC PIANO CHORDS)
What I mean, Shell, is Kylie and Brad's bathroom is black.
Black toilet, black floor tiles,
black walls, black vanity but no black bath.
To counter the 'Addam's Family' vibe,
they're throwing in a white herringbone splashback,
timber panelling and some hot pink flourishes in the artwork and decor.
(PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES)
Ooh, good morning. Oh, good morning!
Hi! Meet Shelley Craft.
It's lovely to meet you. Ooh!
I love your colour palette.
Yeah, do you like?
Yeah, I do.
What colour grout are you doing...? Yeah, dark.
It's funny, I have set the whole theme around black
but I'm actually flipping it.
The next bathroom, I'm wanting to do
a full white with little black accents.
I say back yourself, 100%.
Oh, good work, Shell.
I would say, if you've got a theme
and you've got a vision, stick to it, that's my advice.
So, what budget did you give 'em for this, 20 grand?
20 grand. 20, OK.
Obviously, your Dekton is not coming out of your Beaumont's vouchers,
so you've spent your 20 grand already.
Yeah.
And you haven't even paid your trades yet.
Yeah, this is not Beaumont, no. Yeah, not Beaumont.
It'd cost a fortune. How much did that cost?
Um...
I'm still waiting for the invoice.
So, you're already behind is what I'm saying.
Yeah...yeah.
I can't believe that you spent cash off your budget on this.
I didn't know this until now. Yeah.
If you go over budget, you gotta catch up on the next room.
Or win. Or win.
Thank you. Thank you.
Good luck.
Shelley was concerned that my budget was blown in just my tile choice,
so I felt very silly that I didn't know where my budget was at.
(UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
I love the fact there's all these established trees already.
That really sets the scene. Beautiful.
Barbeque area. Sweet!
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Last stop on the island, Kristian and Mimi in House 5.
Mimi and Kristian, newlyweds from SA.
# Great state I'm in
# In all states I'm in
# In my final form in my melanin. #
The only 2-storey house on The Block,
and directly above the existing bathroom they're doing
is another bathroom.
So, they had to plumb all that in before they put the ceiling up.
OK, but it does give 'em a headstart.
Hey, gang. Hey!
Meet my friend, Shelley Craft.
Hi, Shelley! How are you?
Hello. Lovely to meet you.
G'day, mate, how are you? How are you?
Very, very well. Don't worry about me.
Hello, mate. How you going?
Very good. You really good?
I'm feeling very, I don't know, calm.
Are you? Cool, calm and collected.
Can we look at the bathroom, please? Of course you can.
What's gonna win, what's gonna win? Oh, gosh.
This is good, this is...
You got your floor down already.
That's a plus, isn't it?
That is a huge plus.
With a space this size, you're powering.
And this is the biggest bathroom here.
Yeah.
And you've got your floor down.
How much tiling has gotta be done?
Are we doing floor to ceiling? Yes.
We are doing a floor-to-ceiling feature.
It's funny, I thought I heard him saying
we're doing a floor-to-ceiling feature tile
in the largest bathroom on The Block.
And small feature tiles need to be painstakingly laid one at a time.
The rest, they're all 600 by 600 so they should go up pretty quickly.
OK, so you've just got this beautiful blue feature tile
on this wall and then, this one, you're doing the same as the floor?
The same as the floor. OK, alright.
I was about to say pull the pin now, don't do it!
Kristian and Mimi's ginormous coastal soothing zen bathroom
will hopefully have the judges floating on cloud nine.
They're using large-format grey tiles on the floor and walls
contrasted with glossy light blue feature tiles.
Above their double vanity
will be a Porta Timber panelling to create warmth.
Um, alright. It's Friday.
BOTH: Yes. You know what comes after Friday?
BOTH: Saturday.
And then Sunday 9:00.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tools down.
To get to 9am Sunday, they'll need a crack tiling team,
like, three or four people, and some really, really big tiles.
Or there's this approach.
(RELAXING LOUNGE MUSIC)
PRODUCER: Your slow tiler still going slow?
Yeah. Yeah.
And...because he had to do our feature wall this day,
and our feature wall was, like, single subway tiles
on the length of the wall.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) It's like watching paint dry.
Hurry up, dude!
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Hello. Hey, mate.
Hey, bud. How are you? Good.
Yeah?
Yeah.
He's been by himself for the last two days
so it's just doing my head in.
I told him to at least have two people.
Let me just...
'Cause I need to make sure
that Ali's, like, happy for someone to work in with him.
I've...
So, the plasterer called someone
and he's said that he can come and do this wall and this wall.
That's OK?
Just 'cause, if it's not done, we can't finish the room,
so, whatever that quote was, we'll take from yours.
What do you mean, "Nah, sorry"?
I told him before he got to the job, "Just bring a team."
No...no disrespect to you whatsoever,
it's just we have to get this bathroom done
and, if you can't do it by yourself by 8:00 tonight, we're in trouble.
Nn-nn. Ali?
Alright.
He better bring someone else tomorrow, otherwise we are (BLEEP).
(THUNDER PEALS, PENGUINS CHIRP)
SHELL: Why don't you tell us which contestants
you think are creating a winning bathroom this week?
To cast your vote, all you have to do is head to the Block website now.
And don't forget to get social with our Blockheads.
# Hey keep it in cut it out
# Kick it out. #
It's less than two days until tools down for main bathroom week.
And, on Friday, teams should be well and truly into their tiling by now.
# Your skin flies off and the teardrops flow
# Oh onion skin
# You might see the trap but you still fall in. #
But not everyone's on track.
# Your skin flies off and the teardrops flow. #
In House 5,
even though they were the only ones to meet Waterproof Wednesday,
their tiler is on the go-slow with their feature wall.
And House 1 still has a long way to go on their tiling,
so Jesse wants to get his hands on some fast-drying adhesive
for his floor tiles.
We actually need an additive which is just an accelerator
that you put with your glue to really help get us over the line.
And where do you get that product on Friday before reveal?
A place about an hour and a half away.
So, Jesse is on a desperate dash to the city to get the glue accelerant.
We need the additive
so tomorrow morning he can come back in and finish the shower, otherwise
it's a 24-hour waiting time and we're not presenting a room Sunday.
See you later. See ya, boys.
And House 2's Grant is hitching a ride
to pick up a very luxe marble slab for their vanity top.
Stone's incredible. Beautiful.
It's a Calacatta marble, and it has a... What?
It's chewing into your budget straight out of the hills, really.
This was the only thing that we spent
outside of our sponsorship dollars.
It's really nice. It's beautiful.
It's beautiful. It's classic.
It's something that we can continue throughout the house.
# You make me feel. #
Neither of us have left the Block yet.
We have not left...
Legit have not left site.
It feels good to be out in... out in the real world.
And that leaves Paige and Courtney in charge of Block world
and, within minutes, there's a problem in House 2.
We had a little issue with our guy who was installing a shower screen.
(RINGSIDE BELL DINGS)
So, our site policy is,
if any trade comes on site, they need all their insurances in place.
Now, unfortunately, House 2, they've got their glazier to come on site.
They haven't quite organised to get all that sent to us.
So, we cannot let them install until we've seen their papers.
OK, Courtney and Doug. Hello.
So, we've just got a slight technical issue
with the insurances not getting sent over in time.
So, we can't let these guys install.
But they can deliver the glass to you, and then you can install it
with their guidance, but you're just gonna watch today and guide.
Just watching. Deliver only. Thank you.
We can't give any favours out to anyone
'cause, if something goes wrong...
Do you mind if we head through here?
..then it's the builders who are gonna have to wear
the WorkCover claim, so, we have to do things by the book.
Well, Dan, I don't think these guys have read that book.
Yeah. Deliver it into position.
If they had read it, they would know the difference between deliver,
like delivering a pizza...
Just come down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
..and install.
Come on, come down, that's it.
Well, like they're doing right now with that shower screen.
Now I'm thinking about pizza.
Anyway, just like House 2,
House 1 have some shower screen issues of their own.
Is this, like, the worst start of The Block ever for anyone?
(JOVIAL MUSIC)
Their custom-made frameless shower screen Jesse ordered days ago
has not shown up, nor has the glazier to install said screen.
I made an order for a shower screen.
A compliant shower screen. A compliant...
A frameless shower screen and he's gave me a thumbs up.
To me, that means it's confirmed.
We're, like, 'cause you were planning
to install the shower today or shower screens today, weren't you?
(CRUNCHING)
He'd sent me through photos saying, "This is what it's gonna look like.
"Does this sound all good?"
And through the phone, on the phone or through text messages,
through replying to him, I said, "Yes, mate, that sounds amazing.
"Can we please confirm that and lock it in?"
I just thought, because of our conversation on the phone
in the text message, that it was all go?
OK, thank you, Jason, I appreciate it.
(UNNERVING MUSIC)
That's (BLEEP). Yeah.
Not ideal, right? Nuh.
I saw the email.
But there's no...
There was no thing to, like, click here to confirm ordering.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
On The Block, communication is absolute key
to keeping all the balls in the air.
Now, Jesse just has to explain to Paige
why they could be missing a shower screen for Sunday's bathroom reveal.
Oh, my God. (PHONE RINGS)
My mood plummeted, plummeted through the floor.
This idiot, we've texted each other and he's like,
"Oh, I sent you an email and you didn't reply to it
"so I haven't ordered anything."
He can't do it?
Well, he says he could possibly do it
but it might be two metres high, not 2,100 high.
He was still gonna make it work.
He'd found a semi-frameless shower screen of two metres.
Will it cover our top shower?
The only way to know
if an off-the-shelf shower screen will be tall enough,
from the floor to the showerhead, is to pull out the old tape measure.
I'm so short.
I can't get up to the shower thing.
I don't know how you do this.
(WHIMSICAL MUSIC)
Ooh, I think I got it.
It just keeps on falling over.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
I'm too short to get a tape measure that high.
You're not that short.
Can you talk me through
how you would measure this with a tape measure?
You push...you kinda want to push
down on the ground and then grab your edge...
Are you holding the tape with your right hand?
Bear with me one second, honey.
(TENSE MUSIC)
I obviously have used a tape measure before.
Don't know what's gotten into me.
I'm not giving you exact measurements,
but right now it's saying 2.4.
(BLEEP). That's so high.
So, he can't do anything higher than 2.1?
I'll have to speak to him.
Leave it with me, alright?
So, our shower screen fits, it's just not the right height,
and that's what's going to kill us.
(THUNDER PEALS, PENGUINS CHIRP)
# You're so golden. #
It's Friday mid-arvo on the Block,
and the tiling among the houses is really moving ahead.
Black.
House 4 seem to be back in the black with their time.
Their black toilet has arrived.
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
Need some of that black toilet paper.
And their expensive black Dekton are being laid.
Well, except this one.
(TILE SMASHES)
That's one of your amazing Dekton tiles.
Oh, I know.
What happened?
Apparently, something was under it.
Dekton, I love it, great stuff.
Do you know how much it's worth?
Um, $700 per square metre.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's 700 bucks in the bin. Like, what...?
What are you gonna do
'cause the tilers... that's just money down the drain.
I'll definitely go have a word with Adam
and let him know how much is in the bin right now.
I would be.
Tell him he can take it off his price.
Now we're talkin'.
While Kylie gives her tiler a good talking to, Ricky has hit the road.
His bestie, Hayden, is usually the styler in the duo,
but he's on a brief paternity leave with his wife, Chelsea,
and their newborn daughter, Matilda, so Ricky has to dig deep.
Mighty good at mitey 10.
Good to go.
Ricky may be a walking neon sign
but he's nervous about choosing paint colours.
Yeah, so, look, I can avoid it as much as I want
but, at the end of the day, with no Hayden on site
and with a room we've gotta reveal by Sunday morning,
I have to go get the rest of our things for styling the room.
For their modern coastal-style bathroom,
Ricky needs to pick paint colours for their VJ panelling and door
that will complement their light sage feature tiles.
I don't think I've ever been to this wall before in a hardware store.
I had a pretty good idea of the colour scheme
that me and Hayden would go down.
Yeah, that's almost...
That's almost there.
But I didn't want to choose a shade of our colour
without getting Hayden on the phone.
Yep, when a man wearing fish-flops is making design choices,
it's a good idea he gets a second opinion.
I called Hayden and he was in the middle of a photoshoot.
Oh, mate, are you serious?
So, he's had the baby for 30 seconds,
already got professionals in there taking photos of it.
I think this Block thing's gone to Hayden's head.
Like, the first phone call I've probably had with him
since finding out about Matilda and he says,
"Hang on, dude, I'm in the middle of a shoot."
Yeah, look, I won't hold you up for too long, mate,
I know you've got a loaded schedule.
So, I was thinkin' Bubbly Sea or Starboard.
Definitely the bottom one for the panels, yep.
And then, for door, I chose, like, an orange.
No? No.
No, OK, sorry.
No, no, you're right, I didn't choose that.
For the bathroom door, blue.
Yeah, man, yeah.
Alright, have a good day.
You too. Love you.
While Ricky continues his styling odyssey,
back at House 2, there seems to be an issue that can't be glazed over.
(GLASS SMASHES)
(DESTRUCTIVE BANG)
Our guy who was installing a shower screen,
he didn't have the right paperwork, that was a big issue.
The guys at Nine in Six were kind enough to say,
"He can come in and deliver the glass,
"he can explain to our builders how to install it
"but he's not to touch it and not to pick it up."
Deliver only, deliver only.
Let's just get this one in and we'll get that one in.
Yeah, done.
I went and had, like, a quick bite to eat and I, yeah, I think,
basically, he did a bit more guiding and installing...
Than what was instructed. ..than what was instructed.
Alright, now, you put that back down.
You install that again.
I mean, deliver it.
So, the deal was, with House 2,
we were gonna let the glaziers deliver the glass only.
Now, we just found out that the actual glaziers
literally put it into place and maybe did more.
Right, so, the deal was these guys were gonna do delivery.
And only the delivery.
And that's it.
So, that's a breach of trust right there.
It's not good, is it, Deano? You boys can go.
Doug. Yeah?
What happened? We...
We explained exactly what had to happen.
We trusted you were gonna do that. Yep.
And you went behind our back. I apologise.
All I wanted to do is, when they were carrying this,
just lean it up here so it's out of the way,
and then we were gonna do this
and he was gonna explain to us what we were gonna do.
Because if he puts it down there, they're working there.
No, he was delivering.
That was the...
Delivery, install, two different things.
In here or out there?
Delivery, install is two different things.
Installation is what he was doing.
Yep, sorry. Delivery is delivery.
Yep, I...
I was clear...yes.
I would cork it, I would do everything else.
But that's the install.
I...
Yeah, but, if they put it down there,
it's safer just to put it in where it goes.
Deliv...
But that's the install.
Yeah, it's...I agree.
It's very ambi...I agree with you.
The reasons why the glaziers couldn't install
is 'cause they don't have their insurances up to date.
But it's serious.
Like, if he were to injure himself
or, you know, anything could happen and he doesn't have any cover.
Did you read your SWMS?
Yeah 'cause we... What'd your SWMS say?
It's, like, installing glass...
So, tell me what your SWMS said.
To be honest, I can't remember, I can't recall it.
'Cause you didn't read 'em.
Yeah. They're pretty...
No, no, no, they weren't.
It was this big. Yeah.
And it talked about the storage of glass.
Yeah, handling glass, installation of glass.
It talked about storage of glass,
that was one of your SWMS, was storage of glass.
Yep.
Then installation. Yep.
Yeah, I'm not arguing with you.
That's fine.
This is very, very cheeky by House 2's builders, Doug, here.
Now, they knew the rules.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
So, they've gone behind our back here.
I don't like that.
So, that's strike one for House 2's builder.
Three strikes and you're gone and it's only Week 1.
(THUNDER PEALS, PENGUINS CHIRP)
It's Friday arvo and it's all go at House 3
as the tilers are making progress in the bathroom.
Ricky is still on the road with some more hot-shoe shopping to do.
In and out, back to site.
With teammate Hayden doing the hard yards at home...
(NASAL SNORING)
..novice styler Ricky is feeling the pressure to deliver some, well...
Ooh! ..style.
Alright, just don't stuff this up.
(SHOES SQUEAK)
So, I went to Tyde. Tyde was fantastic.
It smelled amazing when I walked in there.
Oh, this isn't the fishing tackle store.
When you're presenting a room, whether it's on The Block or not,
the styling is your finisher, it's the icing on your cake, right?
So, without your zhoosh, you could potentially lose a room.
PRODUCER: What's that?
Zhoosh.
Alright, what am I doin'?
Oh, look, I don't speak the language in which it comes from.
I believe it could be French for style.
Zhoosh.
We do sell a lot of these, too, just a small one.
Think you definitely need to have something to put your beer on.
Do you know what I mean?
The zhoosh is massive, right?
Like, if it's coming down between two rooms,
gonna come down to potentially who's styled it better, right,
so it's a massive responsibility, like, the zhoosh.
Oh, that's cool.
Isn't it cool?
Yeah, that's awesome.
These are beautiful. Yes. These are awesome.
I'm nailing this.
Zhoosh.
(MYSTICAL MUSIC)
I got some, like, diffusers, some shampoos.
I dropped all our Block Bucks in there.
I've got this bathroom in the bag.
In the bag.
Looks like Ricky's nailing it,
but House 1 has no zhoosh and no shower screen.
Shower screen thing's just all (BLEEP).
# 'Cause I'm so caught up. #
It went wrong with our original glazier.
That's where it went wrong.
He didn't order...
..what we requested.
Paige's builder, Zac, and Jesse
are making frantic calls to local glaziers
to find a replacement shower screen.
Yep.
There's no, like, higher screen, is there?
(BLEEP).
At 2,100 high,
the shower screen will be much shorter than their showerhead,
which will sit at Paige's guess of around 2,400.
We all know how much the judges love showerheads above shower screens,
so we're in for a real treat.
2,100's gonna make that smaller than our mixer,
which will look so (BLEEP).
Do we just do it just to finish the room?
So, our best option of today
was that we have a semi-frameless 2,100 shower screen.
The different between a frameless and semi-frameless shower screen
is the metal frame surround used to give support to the glass.
The next issue was finding a glazier somewhere on the island
to fit the shower screen tomorrow.
Hang on, let me make a phone call,
I might be able to get someone in to do it.
Zac, our builder, hooked us up with this number.
He really helped me because Jesse was offsite at this point,
and this was a problem that I was dealing with.
If they've got time, 100%.
Thanks, Mark.
See ya. Bye-bye.
(BLEEP), it's OK.
We're happy using local, baby! Yes!
OK!
Perfect, we're away, we're on, so we can get this in.
(SINISTER MUSIC)
But, within a hot minute,
detective Dan has gotten wind of the new plan
and, when foreman Dan comes a-knockin',
guaranteed he ain't swingin' by for a cup of sugar.
You know how it was originally gonna be frameless?
Mm-hm.
And now I've just heard you're gonna go semi-framed?
Yeah, that's our only option.
I just need to check exactly what that is because the regulations
for waterproofing changes the waterstop.
OK, OK.
Whether it's frameless, semi-framed, framed.
Yep.
So, it's gonna be looking like this.
Judging by that, I think the waterstop's gonna have to change.
Yeah.
The waterstop in a shower
is the metal strip around the perimeter
that stops water seeping out.
It needs to be 5mm above the tile for a semi-frameless shower.
But House 1 have allowed, for the original custom frameless shower,
a waterstop of only 3mm.
Not good.
No.
The frameless shower, that's what we waterproofed for,
so the semi-frameless is, thus, non-compliant.
So, what do you need us to do to get around that?
That waterstop has to be above the tile by 5mm.
(FRAUGHT ORCHESTRAL MUSIC)
And that means we have to waterproof.
And we have to re-waterproof a new one in.
So, I think we just forfeit the room.
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Coming up...
So, we're gonna put the semi-frameless in.
Mm-hm.
Even though it's non-compliant.
Hey, Jesse.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Jesse, we're gonna be wasting about 1,700 to 1,800 bucks.
Are we happy to cop it?
I'm not starting The Block on a fail.
(THUNDER PEALS, PENGUINS CHIRP)
##
It's late Friday arvo and Jesse and Grant have arrived back onsite.
Despite their shower screen woes, Jesse is putting on a brave face.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Don't smile.
(MUSIC FADES)
There's no need to smile, honey.
(SCREAMING, GLASS SMASHES)
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
Paige has already broken the news
that their shower screen is non-compliant.
Pretty disheartening news which we're weighing up is, like,
do we put it in and have a non-compliant shower screen
or do we just leave it out and have an unfinished bathroom?
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Fingers crossed we may have
another last-minute, like, idea up our sleeve.
So, we're gonna put the semi-frameless in.
Mm-hm.
Even though it's non-compliant.
Pull it out Monday and just put a new shower screen in.
I'm happy to cop the cost.
It's gonna look good, it's just not gonna be compliant.
OK.
Hey, Jesse.
We're gonna be wasting about 1,700 to 1,800 bucks.
Are we happy to cop it?
Make it up somewhere else?
I am.
Jesse? Yep.
Yep, we'll do it.
We're not delivering a room without a shower screen
because that really feels like a fail,
and I'm not starting The Block on a fail.
I hold myself partially to blame
for a lot of communication issues this week.
PRODUCER: He emailed you a quote and you didn't respond to that.
Is that what happened? Yeah.
Yeah, OK. He emailed you a quote?
Well, you said he emailed you... yeah.
Oh! Yeah.
Mm, that changes things a bit.
There was a bit of a miscommunication
between maybe myself and him but...
Yeah, I didn't know he emailed a quote.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Yeah.
In House 5, Ali the tiler is still working alone on their feature wall,
so, while they wait for Ali to continue solo, Mimi and Kristian
have decided to throw a barbie for their fellow Blockheads.
I went to ALDI, did a massive shop,
bought a heap of barbeque essentials for a burger night.
BOTH: Dinner's ready!
I think it was really good for everyone to get away from the site.
And yours truly has delivered a few extra cold ones
in a schmick EvaKool esky to wet their parched whistles.
I really like this esky.
We need it for home.
While most of the Blockheads are enjoying the barbie,
in House 2, Grant's got bigger fish to fry.
Just keep your cool.
Hm? Keep your cool.
He's not happy with a series of building boo-boos this week.
This bloody curve, mate.
It's gonna be under tension and, if someone kicks it, it breaks.
(FROSTY MUSIC)
The way this channel's installed,
it has to be all re... taken off and redone.
Delivery, install is two different things.
Installation's what you were doing. Yep, sorry.
Delivery is delivery. Yep.
The builders have made mistakes. There's no doubt.
There's been a lot of mistakes.
So, Grant wants to nip it in the bud now
so there's no other major issues moving forward.
With the things like the compliance that they want to see, like today,
no more of that (BLEEP).
You can't say, you know, something to their face
but we'll do it different when they're not looking.
Even though that's the first time, it makes us all look like (BLEEP).
Installing the shower.
All that does is it begins to paint us with a bad brush,
"They're gonna try and cut corners."
So, now we'll be looked at even more heavily.
It was a conversation that needed to be had,
and I'm not gonna pretend like I know everything in building
but, when things happen that can be controlled,
well, that's not gonna... that's not gonna fly, basically.
At no point throughout this whole week
did we have any less builders onsite than everybody else,
and we waterproofed last.
But, if this is the competition that we're in,
that's the game, build a room in a week,
I want all those things in the room.
And that's my...
Like I said, and that's my concern because, with the other builders
that have less builders, they're in a better position.
They've gotta know our expectations as the ones paying them.
This is not personal,
this is just like work but in a tighter timeframe.
Moral of the story is we work on scheduling
and we just ask lots of questions.
If we can't communicate, well, then, you know, we'll crumble.
Are we all good? We're fine.
You can't...
You can't go through 12 weeks...
I know that.
Don't take it out on me, your anger.
I'm not taking it out on you. You need to go for a walk.
I don't need to go for a walk. I don't go for walks.
I want to make it very clear that they're very good builders
and we trust them to build the rest of my house and I want them,
I have no intention of changing
'cause they've done so, so well this week,
but, if the rules are there, they gotta be followed.
This is Week 1. I'm gonna...
We're gonna be in a brawl by the end of it.
I'll be the... No, we're not.
This is actually what'll make us not brawl.
'Cause I won't get to three or four weeks in and change the builders
'cause I committed to these guys from the start
and that's what I wanna do.
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(WHISTLES) Tools down!
I've waited my whole life to hear Scotty Cam
tell me to put my tools down.
And it's this muppet.
(INDISTINCT).
Sunday bathroom glamour...
Balance of tone and texture is incredible.
..that will dazzle...
She has hit it out of the ball park!
and divide.
I don't want to come to Phillip Island and be in Melbourne.
I disagree. What?
Oh, horns are going to lock on this one.
(DING) It's got me buggered to.
Will the first ever black bathroom blow them away?
Whoa! This is going to go one of two ways.
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