Previously on The Block,
it was a race to complete the kitchens...
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
It pushed some to breaking point.
MAN: Do you want me to get Ryan or do you want to just go?
(TEARFULLY) I just want to go.
There were big scores. WOMAN: Oh!
The winner of week six on The Block: Tree Change,
it's Tom and Sarah-Jane, with a perfect score of 30 out of 30!
But Tom was in big trouble.
Scotty. Yo.
We want to pull the lever. Did you know about this, Sarah-Jane?
MAN: You didn't know that Tom was pulling the lever? No.
Yeah, let's just really get a target on our backs even more.
Tonight, we take on the massive living and dining rooms.
This is the biggest room The Block has ever tackled.
It's Ryan's turn to be in big trouble.
Oh... So, where are we at?
Well, you know what, let's throw the budget out again this week.
No, no, where are we at?
Just calm down, instead of you flapping your wings...
See you.
And we have a big problem.
Now, we've struck a major problem with living and dining room week
because these guys here, the PIR boards, we've got none.
JENNY: Oh, no. Basically, you're gonna be two days behind.
Oh, my god. SARAH-JANE: It ruins everything.
But on top of all this big stuff,
the Blockheads work on a challenge that'll have a big impact.
None of us were even thinking about our own houses at that point.
We were just thinking about Tim and Tyler's house.
At the end of the day, this is for Tim and Tyler.
Can I get an amen? OTHERS: Amen!
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
(SHEEP BLEATS)
Morning. Morning.
Are we happy? Yeah.
Why are we happy?
We've got a wow, wow, wow... (BLEEP) wow.
Yeah. How good is that!
Neale hasn't done a (BLEEP) wow.
Woke up this morning feeling pretty...
Chuffed. Chuffed. That's a good word.
Yeah. We felt chuffed this morning. But worthy.
Worthy of our 30 out of 30. Oh, yeah.
That kitchen was amazing.
So, yeah, feeling pretty good. Mmm.
Can you just look at how I wake up every morning?
I have a mullet every morning.
(YAWNS) Hot, babe.
MAN: You pretty excited to look at everybody else's rooms, kitchens?
Yeah, pretty excited to look at everyone's. Yeah.
I love kitchens. I'm pretty excited. Yeah, me too.
Like, I've always said kitchens are so important.
I think it sells the home, so I want to see what other people did.
SCOTT: Domain is the only app
that has all this year's Block property listings.
Let's kick off the open for inspections
with Rachel and Ryan in house two...
who had the lowest score of 24.
SHAYNNA: I was expecting to see some sort of drama.
I hate saying this. It is a kitchen without a soul.
NEALE: Mmm.
They're saying it's bland 'cause it's too white.
SHARON: But it goes with what they do. Yeah.
Like, the handles and stuff like that, I think it's cool.
(TAKES PHOTOS)
OMAR: The lights look like we're in a disco.
It's nice, though. I like it.
TOM: I like that panel. Oh, look at that!
I'd just sit here and drink wine and play with that.
Oi! I like it.
(JENNY SCREAMS) (DYLAN LAUGHS)
Oh, my god. This butler's is huge!
Yeah. Heaps of storage.
It goes with the aesthetic of the house. It may be bland.
Feels like you're in a dentist.
Nice job. A bit boring. But... Kitchen...
Overhead scared the living hell out of me.
Yeah. (LAUGHS) Anyway, ain't going back to that.
(LAUGHS)
Coming in fourth position was Ankur and Sharon,
with a score of 24.5 points.
I was expecting a bigger statement.
What? Than this? Yes.
Not saying there's anything wrong. It's just not what I was imagining.
RACHEL: OK. By myself.
Domain open for inspection solo.
So I went to open for inspection solo this morning
because Ryan needed to just rest and catch up.
I love this.
JENNY: Oh! This is cool, eh?
It's cool. It's different.
SARAH-JANE: This house has bipolar.
Every room is just so different.
You never know what you're gonna get, depending on their mood.
JENNY: I don't think I 100% love.
Oh... What's that?
Chocolate?
Oh...
No! You can't keep stealing the food.
Why? No, because it's for show!
It's out to eat.
TOM: Sarah-Jane, pie?
Mmm. That's the best part of their kitchen.
Shanks, yeah, they delivered
my favourite room of their house thus far.
There was nothing kooky, freaky, weird.
It was just a normal kitchen.
Dylan and Jenny's kitchen, on the other hand,
was not just a normal kitchen, according to the judges
and tied for second place with 28.5 points.
It's another one of those kitchens
that reaches out and tugs at the heartstrings.
SHAYNNA: Mmm. It's got that emotional connection.
RACHEL: Wow.
This is incredible!
SARAH-JANE: You can't put your thighs in there.
I get what they said about that. Look how high that stool is.
OZ: The reason why they said this was too high...
OMAR: Because your legs can't fit under it.
With all due respect, have you seen Dylan?
He's very... He's a small man. He's got really skinny thighs.
His thighs would fit under that.
I do think our kitchen is probably better.
I don't think Jenny and Dyl should've got three 9.5s
if that's what we got.
I thought they were a little bit probably off the race with us.
Omar and Oz tied for second place with Dylan and Jenny
with a kitchen that was decked out
with $250,000 worth of appliances from Winnings.
This is nuts.
Wow! This...
Well, we are standing in the, what, $250,000-plus kitchen.
JENNY: Oooh. Wow. Look at the room.
DYLAN: That's sick. That's pretty cool, hey?
SHARON: Very, very not country.
TOM: How good is that sink!
Oh, it's gone stale.
DYLAN: This would be the full-time, like, 'batch pad'.
This feels like a boys' kitchen, eh? ANKUR: Yeah.
I need like, a week course demo course how to run all this gear.
It's an amazing catalogue for Winning Appliances.
I love the boys' kitchen.
That's what $250,000 of kitchen appliances gets you.
And the last stop is, of course, house one
to check out Tom and Sarah-Jane's perfectly scored
30 out of 30 winning kitchen.
If somebody said design the ultimate contemporary country kitchen,
wouldn't it be like this?
SHARON: Very, very shiny, brassy.
This is an incredible kitchen. Like, for sure, ten, ten, ten, ten.
For sure.
JENNY: Oooh. Love the doors. Oh, my god.
DYLAN: That is sick. Done well.
Worth a ten. Jeez, look at all these.
Yeah, definitely worth a ten. The styling.
I know. Half a day doing that.
OMAR: Three tens. A big score.
I think there's no difference, really,
in what you can do at our kitchen and what you can do in theirs.
Tom and Sarah's kitchen was very, very nice
but you have two completely different styles,
the new modern the old American-style farmhouse.
Both those kitchens, I think, deserve tens.
But let's think about it, honestly.
If somebody wanted to buy a house, these areas, right,
do you really want a farmy-looking kitchen?
A farmy-looking bedroom? No. Not necessarily.
Not all people. Come on. It is what it is.
People back home are literally watching this and going...
They're gonna love our kitchen. .."Oz and Omar have done it."
With the kitchens done and dusted,
it's time to get cracking on the living and dining rooms,
which are located in the new pavilion of each house.
And to say these spaces are big is an understatement.
This is the biggest room The Block has ever tackled.
I don't know TV will do justice... No.
..to how big this room is.
When people watch this, they won't really even comprehend.
Maybe a few stats will help convey the enormity of these rooms
to you folks back home.
The living and dining floor spaces
range from 67 to 107 square metres each
and the ceiling heights range from 6m to 7m high.
The sheer size of it, it was like building a house.
It is. It is actually the size of some people's houses.
It would 100% be the size of our house.
OMAR: It's a two-bedroom unit block, I reckon, the whole thing.
In a few moments, you'll meet four couples.
They're about to take on the biggest renovation
ever attempted on television.
That's not the biggest renovation on television, mate.
This is the biggest renovation on television.
In fact, if you were to add
our teams' living and dining spaces together,
it would be bigger than the entire building
from the very first season of The Block.
Much bigger.
And it's just one room this year.
With so much space to transform, there's not a moment to spare.
Sounds like a big job, eh? (LAUGHS)
(ALL EXCLAIM)
On your marks.
I think our living room's gonna be the best, man.
Get set.
This is... The competition's really started...
MAN: Yeah. 100%.
..right now, bro, so let's just finish it hard, boys.
Go.
OK, so, living and dining room, mate. We're on this week.
Are you ready for us?
We were the only ones on Sunday night after kitchen reveal going,
"Come on, living and dining. Come on..." Like, we wanted it.
So this week was huge for us.
Yeah.
Rachel and Ryan haven't had it easy on The Block.
They're yet to win anything.
And it's fair to say, the judging week in and week out
has been getting them down.
The room doesn't do much justice to the heritage of the home.
NEALE: They're obviously doing this modern take on country
but don't take it any more contemporary than it is.
DARREN: It's beige. It just makes it look a little cheap.
When I look around, there are some things that don't work.
This room doesn't have a hero.
SHAYNNA: I hate saying this. It is a kitchen without a soul.
Yep, they've been a bit down in the dumps, until now.
# Save up all your tears
# I will be your rainbow when they disappear... #
MAN: Right, so it's Monday morning, living and dining week
and your whole tune has changed.
For me, this has been an unbelievable rollercoaster
and there was a point where I felt like it was never gonna end.
I think I realised this week I can just enjoy it
and let all the stuff that was weighing me down just roll off me.
This is our week. Ten, ten, ten.
OK, so, obviously, we're having a huge entrance come in here
from the old part of the house.
This is going to be a floor to ceiling stacked stone fireplace.
And here's what the fireplace is going to look like.
The room will also feature a massive lounge, ten-seater dining table
and to cap it all off, timber flooring on the ceiling.
Can I just say very, very, very quickly...
Yes.
..we need to win this week but we also need three tens.
We need 25K, like... But we legitimately need 25K.
So, whatever we need to do this week, we do.
If it means that we need to sacrifice someone,
I'll sacrifice them...
(MEN LAUGH) ..you know.
This is our week. This is our week.
No-one can beat us this week. No-one can beat us this week.
And if anyone does beat us, they're dead.
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
SCOTT: It's day one of living and dining room week
and our three-in-a-row winners, Tom and Sarah-Jane,
are feeling confident for another week ahead.
Our living-dining area is gonna be off its tits.
It is gonna be the best living room The Block has ever seen in 18 years,
mark my words.
We've just got a lot of painting to pull off.
We've got big 400-year-old recycled Canadian Oregon beams.
We're creating trusses to replicate the pitch of the roof.
Our Cheminees Philippe fireplace, bang, centre of the room
and big glass floor-to-ceiling, 6.5m.
It's gonna be unbelievable.
It's literally our dream home, like we said on day one.
I just don't want to get too excited.
Just, like, you know...
I don't want to let you down in the styling
if you're bragging like it's gonna be the best.
Like, I don't know. It's gonna be unbelievable...
I said our kitchen will be too. Yeah. We'll see.
And look at it. Yeah.
To create their best ever living and dining room,
Sarah-Jane is hitting the shops,
while Tom has some important business to attend to
after his clanger at last night's HQ.
Scotty. Yo.
We want to pull the lever.
You want to pull the lever? Yeah. You don't even know what's coming.
Hipages. Rightio.
Yeah. Copy that.
I will see you in the morning. Yeah.
Did you know about this, Sarah-Jane?
MAN: Why didn't you tell Sarah Jane that you were pulling the lever?
Well, it doesn't affect her.
(LAUGHS)
But you're married to her.
Yeah, but it's just a Hipages lever. (LAUGHS)
Like, I just needed to get the ball rolling.
Yeah, but you talked to everyone else about it. You just didn't tell her.
Well, no, I didn't talk to everyone else about it.
Well, you told me. Yeah, but you're production.
(LAUGHS) That's your wife.
She was shopping.
True.
Anyway... My life.
(SMASHES GLASS)
Oooh.
Time to pull this lever.
Here we go.
(ALARM BLARES)
Make her rain tradies, baby!
Oh, what's that?
Someone's pulled the Hipages lever.
It wasn't me.
I probably should because we haven't done anything
and we need to get this done in six days.
Sirens went off.
SARAH-JANE: Really? Yeah.
Scheissen.
Mate, literally within, like, two minutes, Scotty Cam rocked up.
Look at that, how quick that is.
Oh!
Mate, you rang. I did. I rang, mate.
I need some help. See how quickly I turn up here?
Unbelievable. I hear that in the distance...
Unbelievable. Just turn up. Bomb!
What do we need, buddy? Mate, I need some Hipages help.
Yes.
I've got a lot of weatherboards to get done.
Smart. You're doing your facade. I need them done.
Yeah, that's brilliant. The rain's coming.
No-one's even thought of this, have they?
No. No. And you just whacked your hand up.
You weren't thinking about what room was coming up.
No. It was all for the facade.
Alright, mate, terrific.
I'll get it going for you, champion. Awesome. Thanks, Scotty.
Well done, mate. Very clever. Just like that.
Break some glass and you get some help.
Might smash all these windows.
Scotty came round, took a couple of photos,
posted them on Hipages and, mate, he's all systems go.
And I'm pumped.
Boys, let's just smash it. Another week.
Let's do it, boys.
For Oz and I, kitchen and living room, 'cause it's one big space,
is the most important part of our house
and we want to give that first impression, like, "Wow,"
so they don't look back after that.
Eating side, chill, feature side.
Oz and Omar's plans for their living and dining include a brick fireplace,
exposed timber beams on the ceiling
and they're hoping a secret weapon
will secure them with a win this week.
Oz and I, we're really, really trying hard
to get a baby grand piano in this week.
If we can get that,
I think it's gonna really make this room look amazing.
Thanks for coming out... No problem.
..and coming to see the place.
John Martin, who's an absolute legend, he came out.
We had a conversation.
That's exactly where I'd want one of the baby grand pianos to go.
I think it would just make the room look very, very nice.
It's a big space.
If we do get it in, me and Omar are going to practise
because when it comes to auction day...
Yeah, we're gonna be playing.
..I am going to be playing when they come in.
Bang. Bang. Mmm.
OK, mate, well, this piano... Yeah.
..it's got the works. Is that what it looks like?
Yeah. Oh, that's amazing, man.
Yeah, it's an amazing piano. Seriously. That's beautiful.
It's got the self-playing system.
It's also got the Pro Record,
which means that the piano player can play it
and what he just played will play back on the piano...
Oh, wow. ..as well.
And this piano, it sells for $36,000.
$36,000?
MAN: John mentioned that the piano was 36,000.
$36,000 is what they sell it for.
What's Omar and Oz's price zone?
He's gonna sort something out. He did say he'd look after us.
Baby grand piano is actually a $36,000 piano.
Us and John are in discussion now to see how much we can skim off the top
and I think he last told us that he would do around the $8,000 mark.
$8,000 for a $5 million, $6 million home, it's not much, is it?
I don't know.
You gotta hustle to get what you want, to be honest.
You have to be a hustler. You've gotta hustle.
MAN: And you guys are the kings.
We have to be.
(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)
SCOTT: It's Monday of living and dining room week
and Ankur and Sharon have ducked off site
to check the progress of their hero pieces.
ANKUR: Look at this place. SHARON: Yay! (LAUGHS)
This is so amazing.
We really wanted our hero piece
to be a massive, you know, 12-seater table made out of wood,
in addition to these beams.
We're here. (MEN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY)
You guys are our piece de resistance.
(MAN LAUGHS) The tables... Yes. ..and the beams.
Ankur and Sharon's living and dining room
will feature a stacked stone fireplace, a generous lounge
and today they're checking out their hero pieces,
timber beams for the ceiling and a timber slab table.
Here we go. Over to the slab table...
Mate, that looks unreal. Fantastic.
Oh, I'm in love.
I don't think anybody else is gonna have anything like this
and it feels like the Last Supper table, doesn't it?
These are feature pieces that we want in a room.
You need something to pop and these are the ones that we're choosing.
So, these are the beams! Beautiful.
Yep. They came out of a marina. Fantastic.
And they've been pulled out at a good time in their life
before they get too rotten,
so they're all still in very good shape.
You can't have a country home without beams
and I'm so grateful we've been able to make it happen.
When you come to places like this, it gives you that reinvigoration
of just, like, what we're doing is amazing.
Yeah. I mean, let's not forget that.
And let's continue with that.
Yeah, it gives you motivation to go back
and, yeah, get through the hard times. Yeah.
Back on site, one team that hasn't had many hard times of late
is Tom and Sarah-Jane.
They just keep winning.
Monday morning. Ford money tree!
The handsome men from...
Plant Runner came. ..Plant Runner rocked up.
MAN: How many trees is this now?
Oh, I don't know. Oh, this is our third tree.
Tom and Sarah-Jane have done it again.
MAN: Did you remember your line? The line?
Yeah. Yeah, $10,000.
(MEN LAUGH)
TOM: These drivers of these Ford Wildtrax
have probably just got it in autopilot nowadays.
Monday morning, turn the car on and just drive here.
Oh, that's a beautiful tree.
Mate, back again. Well done.
We've got a birch for you today. Beautiful.
Another big one, up to 25m.
Hello, mate. Hey.
And how are you? Here's the winner.
What's happening? Yeah, congratulations.
Here's $10,000 from Ford. Oh, thanks, mate.
Yes. Just what I needed.
I'm feeling a bit poor.
(LAUGHS) Have a good day.
You should invest that in more trees, mate.
I think it's gonna be a botanical gardens here
by the time you finish, mate.
Alright, let's get this big birch in the ground, yeah?
Right here.
# Bare trees, grey light Oh, yeah... #
The tree's in. The silver birch is in.
It's beautiful. It's huge.
Made some money.
Bury it.
You come back in five years and you pick it and you buy bread.
(LAUGHS)
SCOTT: You might have noticed it looks bloody cold and you'd be right.
Not only is this the biggest week for our Blockheads,
it's also the coldest.
Yes, it's safe to say hell week has come early.
And today, hell has frozen over.
Right now, the priority is to get the walls up
so these rooms can be sealed off against the elements.
And for the teams to get a seven-star energy rating,
they need special insulation called PIR boards,
but they're proving hard to come by.
It all comes down to insulation. But everyone needs it yesterday.
It's a CSR product, it's 30mm thick.
It's foam and it's foiled either side
and it's to stop the thermal transfer from the metal rafters
through to the plaster, so to take any coldness out.
But that is really hard to get.
We knew it was gonna be an issue and it was a huge issue.
MAN: (ON PHONE) Regarding PIR, we're working on that at the moment,
so please understand it's across all houses that this is happening
and we are... Yep.
..pushing.
Trying to get answers off the builders,
trying to get answers off Keith and Dan, trying to get answers off CSR.
Finally, I've got some answers, so I've called a meeting.
Hello. Thanks for coming down.
Obviously, we've got some nasty weather coming in today
and the rest of the week.
It's gonna be a bit of a tough week in the mud,
but that's not our only problem.
JENNY: Oh, no. Behind the scenes...
It's been going on since we got here, really - supply chain issues.
MAN: Mm-hm.
Now, we've struck a major problem with living and dining room week
because these guys here, the PIR boards, they're Bradford from CSR.
Now, we've got none. Oh, no. You're kidding.
We've got some. But we haven't got enough.
SHARON: Yep. And they're being made.
Being made right now.
So they're currently being made in a factory in Melbourne.
They have to then pull and then they can be dispatched,
which, at this stage, we're hoping for tomorrow afternoon.
Basically, you're gonna be two days behind.
Yeah. And that's everyone.
That's me included. That's everyone. No fricken way.
When you hear all this stuff about this insulation storage,
my mind just automatically thinks about our schedule
that we had booked in.
Monday, we were gonna start this PIR board if we had it
and then you think, well, hang on, we're 6.5m ceilings.
We've got scaffold in there to plaster.
What about our flooring? Mmm.
What about the fireplace install? Mmm.
What about the brick hearth? Mmm.
And I'm, like, "Oh, my god."
If you can't insulate, you can't plaster.
If you can't plaster, you can't paint. There's no walls.
It ruins everything. It ruins everything. Yeah.
(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)
SCOTT: As the first day of living and dining room week comes to an end,
work is only just beginning at the challenge house for the evening.
We've got some puttying required here.
SHELLEY: Hello, everybody. Come on in.
For the last week, our Blockheads have been working on
a very special house makeover challenge.
RACHEL: Tim has Down syndrome and is severely autistic.
He lives with his beautiful best friend Tyler,
who, again, has autism.
The house just isn't suited to two men with Down syndrome and autism.
They've been divided into two teams
and have been given $15,000 to transform half of the home each.
You're team one, you're team two. Let's get renovating!
(CHEERING)
Despite the lack of supplies,
the cold and the mammoth size of the rooms this week,
this life-changing challenge is getting our Blockheads through.
This is something that we all just really, really, really want to do.
And tonight, team one, who are responsible for the kitchen,
front lounge and Tim's bedroom,
are getting to work.
I feel like if we didn't do that challenge this week,
Tyler and Tim's place,
I feel like I would've been in a worse mindset for the week.
Mmm. It puts so much in perspective. Yeah.
It was, like, First World problem in every aspect.
So, Duncs, Tom, Rach and Ryan, we all went down.
We have a plan and we're gonna prep.
Can I get an amen? OTHERS: Amen!
OK. This is our chance to putty and get the one coat.
Stayed till about 10:00 and it was actually good that we did it.
Yeah, we got some pizza... We got a lot done.
Yeah.
And we got to see where everything was, so we were, like,
"OK, well, this is where it is on Monday night.
"We have to deliver Thursday." So we got a little...
get back on the ball rolling after a long weekend.
# Kumbaya, my Lord
# Kumbaya... #
(OWL HOOTS)
(RAIN FALLS)
Tuesday morning is pissing down rain.
It's blowing an absolute gale.
(WIND BLOWS) (METAL CLANGS)
It's cold.
Pre-start meeting today, it said "Feels like minus four"
was the chill factor.
I haven't been changing my clothes for three days now.
Oh, god. It's too cold.
I was still in bed. I wasn't sure about that.
You know how I work from my office?
Welcome to my bed office. This is where I do all my work.
Everyone goes, "Sarah-Jane doesn't get out of bed till 9:00."
Mate, I've been up since 7:30.
Why go out there and get in everybody's way,
have to be around Tom?
I'll just stay here. I'll live my best life.
I do my best work in the mornings in our bed.
MAN: So, what website are you on right now?
Mattress Link.
I'm getting heaps of cool stuff.
Also made some other art choices last night in bed
from Art Lovers.
That's going on, like, opposite, like, the TV wall.
Quite often, we have smoko at the office.
So I'm just having an early smoko.
TOM: Yo. Hey, babe.
Babe, you've got to get up. The real estate agents are here.
Oh, the real estate agents.
Babe, can you just close my office door?
You're letting a lot of cool air in.
Babe, they're out the front.
Alright! Well, go out and meet them! Don't be rude!
They're asking for you. Can you please be...
Close the door!
You wouldn't just come into someone else's office
and not close the door!
KEITH: Ryan, how are you, mate? Yeah, good. How are you?
Got some good news. What's that?
I've got some PIR boards for you. Oh, excellent.
42 sheets, you can have. And they're for two, three and five.
Two houses were still getting flooring done
and then three houses were pretty much ready to start their ceiling,
so they nominated the three houses that could put it up
and then the two got it later in the week.
SCOTT: Houses two, three and five
have been given priority for the crucial PIR boards
because they're the first houses that are ready.
Keithy said "The PIR boards have arrived, so go pick them up."
It means that we can crack on with it.
So, as two, three and five crack on with their insulation,
houses one and four continue to wait.
So I thought we were pushing it doing kitchen with our area
but, no, let's swap in and do the living and dining rooms.
Because we only have a tarp. And I was, like, "Surely not."
We need to win this week. We need a win.
I'm so pumped.
Always second.
I'm, like, thinking "What can we do that is, like, extra, extra?"
We wanted to create different zones in that space,
so from every angle you're sitting, you're taking in the beautiful view.
That was, like, so important to us.
Dylan and Jenny's living and dining room
will be zoned into a relaxing zone, a dining zone and reading zone,
all taking in the Macedon Ranges view.
There'll also be a fireplace, a chandelier and a fan
and that's why Jenny's coming over.
How are you? Jenny from Big Ass Fans.
Jenny, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
Hello. I heard you're looking for some ceiling fans.
Yeah, in the living room.
Maybe a darker fan, if anything. A darker? OK.
You've got the Haiku in cocoa here. That's the one we've seen. Yeah.
Obviously you recognise... Yeah.
..Shelley Craft. (LAUGHS)
She looks good, doesn't she?
Yeah, I think the black one will look awesome.
I think so too. Yeah.
It'll go with the theme. (LAUGHS) Yeah. I'm always on that.
Yeah. (LAUGHS) Matchy-matchy.
RACHEL: Bye. Love you.
Ten, ten, ten.
I'm just gonna call randomly. I might just put her on repeat.
Ten, ten, ten.
Alright. I'll be back. I'm going to get a dining table.
Ten, ten, ten.
Oh... # Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten
# Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten... #
You know, we're going shopping for a ten.
We're not settling for a nine.
We're not settling for a 9.5.
We need a ten.
I'm on the hunt for a live edge timber dining table
that sits ten people comfortably.
I can find a lot of six-seaters, you know, eight-seaters.
I need ten. I need ten. It's ten, ten, ten, ten.
Everything's ten.
Ten-seater gets the tens.
I can't find it anywhere.
So we go to Macedon Ranges Homeware and I meet Jason there
and he has got exactly what I'm after but in a 2.4.
RYAN: Hmm.
It's not a ten, is it?
This is actually a 9.5 'cause it's 2.4m.
But a 3m is a ten. 3m's a ten.
So I found a beautiful live edge table. I've been searching for that.
But it's 2.4m.
I need 3m. I need to at least fit ten around my dining table.
So, Jason, being the legend that he is, is searching for that ten.
(MOBILE PHONE CHIMES)
Rachel speaking.
Rachel, Jason McKean from Macedon Ranges Home Furnishings.
How are you? I'm good, Jason. How are you?
I'm good, I'm good.
I've been able to turn your 9.5 into about a 12.
No!
Oh, my god!
And I can get it to you delivered by Friday.
(SQUEALS)
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
See you, mate.
..headed up by team leaders Jenny and Dylan.
They're doing the dining room, the patio and Tyler's bedroom.
The pergola is going in...
Veranda, mate, they're gonna love it. Yeah, that's right.
..new kitchen is being installed...
Kitchen is not in our schedule, so we're here helping team one.
But at the end of the day, it's not about a competition here.
It's to get the boys to have the best kitchen.
The garden landscaping is flying along too.
MAN: Vegie tubs are in. They're ready to be planted out.
And we've got a spot over here for the Vegepod.
Turf sorted for Wednesday.
And, yeah, we're just trying to move forward, mate.
Perfect.
ANKUR: I was just thinking, like, if you need any help right now.
I think everyone was pulling their weight.
Like, Sharon and Anks went and picked up all the furniture
for the room... Yeah.
..and the boys sorted out the backyard.
OZ: Paint fight, guys? (OTHERS LAUGH)
Argh!
Massive week this week to be doing the charity house.
It is tough, but we've made a promise to Tim and Tyler.
We'll make sure we get it done.
And one way Omar is getting it done
is by hitting the shops for some finishing touches.
That's pretty cool. You got two of these?
WOMAN: Two of the black ones. Yeah?
And I think Tyler likes trucks.
That one? We'll definitely grab one of those.
I might have something else for you.
They are just some shoes. Oh, wow.
(LAUGHS) Yep, these will be perfect.
Thank you.
Taking muddy boots off at the door
is a lesson Sarah-Jane could learn from
as she shops for a living room.
So I went to Globe West.
I was super excited 'cause I've never been to Globe West before.
And yeah... (GASPS) Oh, my god. Is that me?
Yeah. (LAUGHS)
Nothing we can't fix. (LAUGHS)
I walked in with my muddy boots all over her white rug.
(TOM LAUGHS)
Oh, my god. I'm so sorry. WOMAN: It's OK. (LAUGHS)
Oh, my god. It's OK. We'll fix it.
It's all good. You've just been in the mud all day, haven't you?
I was mortified. I was mortified.
Tracks this way, tracks that way, tracks back, tracks this way.
Oh, it was so bad.
And then I was, like, "Oh, my god. I'm so sorry."
And I'm, like, running off
and I'm just, like, running all over it again.
It was just horrific. Oh, I wish I saw that. It was horrific.
WOMAN: Once you stamp on it... I'm so sorry.
(LAUGHS) Don't worry about it. I'll just take my shoes off.
Yeah, I stuffed that one up.
But I got a really nice rug from there
and really nice vases and a little chain thingy
for, like, decorative purposes,
so, overall, it was a pretty good trip.
I was just, like, ready to get out of there.
Got my boots back on. God, how embarrassing.
Toodles.
The Blockheads aren't the only ones
creating living and dining rooms this week.
This year on The Block,
I'm renovating this original country property.
In the new pavilion, my living room plan
is to feature a huge Christian Cole dining table,
big plush couches, a massive brick fireplace
and some vintage pieces from Cabinex,
which are arriving now.
KEITH: G'day, guys. How you doing?
Well, Scotty isn't here... No worries.
..so, on behalf of Scotty, I will accept these.
What is this thing? It's a wind-up table.
Right. Yeah.
Wow.
SCOTT: Thanks for lugging that in, Keith.
Meanwhile, I'm busy picking out lounges for my living room.
Hello there.
And before you ask, my boots are clean.
So this is the Sydney Slip sofa. Three-seater.
Oh, yeah. Comes in three different colours.
Three different colours? Yeah.
You can take this off? Yeah, removable covers. Yeah.
Really easy. Wow.
So you can dryclean one while you've got the other one on.
Linen's really great. Natural fibres.
Good with pets. Mmm.
I might just sit here for five or six minutes... Yeah.
..and...maybe a half hour, maybe an hour.
I'll get you a glass of...a beer?
I would dead-set kill for a beer. (BOTH LAUGH)
No time to rest,
as I'm leading off to Beacon to check out their new moody lighting range.
So, Mandy, I hear you've got these mood lights...
We do. We have some beautiful globes with our Live Well range. Yeah.
They essentially use some beautiful technology
where it actually looks at the daylight
and kind of can sense it and gives you a colour temperature...
What, I don't change them? No.
It gives you the ability to have quite a nice warm light at night
and then it changes to have a cooler colour during the day.
Our whole Live Well range is very focused on
making sure that everybody can get the best that they can
when they're living and working at home.
Speaking of working from home, there's plenty of work going on here.
('CHELSEA DAGGER' BY THE FRATELLIS PLAYS)
And in house two, Rachel is crunching the figures.
We need to bring up... this budget down a little bit.
I'm trying really hard to keep our budget in play.
MAN: And you're trying this really hard because, in week one,
by the time you actually worked out you were on The Block,
you'd already spent $50,000. (ALL LAUGH)
We landed on The Block... We had all these people just come the next day.
You know, we had our builders, we had our plasterers,
we had our plumbers, we had our sparkies.
It wasn't till, like, Thursday or Friday
where I was, like, "Oh, my god.
"These 50 people have been here for four days.
"Like, who's paying them?" (CASH REGISTER DINGS)
We are.
Oh, then, before we knew it,
we had blown so much out in the first week
that we were constantly trying to claw ourselves back
but we could never get back how much we had blown week one.
And, you know, I finally got us to a point
where that even is just right there.
MAN: You guys had a little fight. We had a little tiff.
How much did the fireplace cost us?
Four-one, including installed.
It was three. How is it now four-one?
Yeah, it was three... it was three-one
and then it's 1,000 bucks to install.
Plus the stone.
Like, you've forgotten that we're already spending
three and a half grand on stone,
so now this fireplace is costing us $10,000.
Well, what are we... What should we have done?
I told Rob... Oooh...
So, where are we at?
Well, you know what, let's throw the budget out again...
No, no, where are we at? Where are we at?
Well, now, if that's four-one, we're already at 27 grand.
26... Yeah, 26 grand... We've got 19,000 to spend.
I'll leave that with you.
Plus, don't forget, we've got the timber from Neil.
We've still got to pay for those extra timbers.
I feel like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall
and I don't quite know what more to do at this point.
I thought we already had the timber.
What timber's this now that we're getting from Neil?
Just... See, this is why you're not on top of it.
What do you mean this is why I'm not on top of it?
You went to Neil last week to get the timber.
Not for the whole truss.
Well, you didn't tell me that, though.
It doesn't matter. I didn't need to tell you that.
Well, it does matter because I do the budget!
You're gonna sound like a goose, alright?
Just calm down, alright, and let's just talk about this
instead of you flapping your wings.
Let's just talk about it.
See you.
(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)
('2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY' THEME PLAYS)
SCOTT: Since the dawn of time, humankind has needed three things.
Warmth.
Shelter.
And television.
Alright, maybe four things. Add food to that list too.
The last one is something we can sort out right now.
Tonight is the winners-are-grinners dinner.
Kitchen winner Sarah-Jane is out for supplies.
Tonight, winners-are-grinners dinner, I'm gonna do some chicken,
some marinated lamb, vegies.
This is gonna be good.
Saw Rachel in house two there.
And he goes, "Yeah, but the fireplace was four-one"
or something.
WAGS at The Block. What's the goss on the Block phone?
Oh, the Block phone was ringing. It was ringing hot.
Then he says to me,
"Well, yeah, but we've also got to pay Neil for the timber."
Oh...
And I said, "We got the timber last week" and he goes...he goes,
"Not all of it."
I said, "You've got it all sitting there!"
"Ryan's being a pain in the arse." "Tell me about it, sister."
He's spending your money and he's not consulting with you.
Smother him. Yeah. Was not happy.
Oh, honey! And I'm, like...
Honey! And then he goes to me...
"Can you just calm down?"
He goes, "You're flapping around..."
And he points to the camera and he goes,
"You're flapping around and embarrassing yourself."
(EXCLAIMS)
(BLEEP)
I would've slapped him right there and then.
I would've said, "You want to see flapping? You want to see flapping?"
(LAUGHS) I would've lost it.
We could always switch teams. We could go together.
(GASPS) Yeah.
They could go together and we could just go together.
Do you want to do that?
Just live our best life for the next six weeks.
We would have so much fun. We'd have such a good time.
Partner swapping?
('LOVE ISLAND' THEME PLAYS)
No, no, no. Not that reality show.
My reality show. (DOG BARKS)
(BIRDSONG)
Day two of living and dining room week has come to an end
and I've offered to host the winners-are-grinners dinner
at my place.
And it's as warm as it's going to get here.
And that's not saying much.
Jesus! Hi!
Oh, my gosh! Look at that fireplace! Come on in!
It's also a chance to show off progress at my place.
Back in week two, I had a consult with Freedom Kitchens
and furniture designer Christian Cole
to design my island bench and deck out my kitchen.
This is a big island bench in the middle here
and this all gonna be, like, black cupboards.
That's gonna be beautiful.
I want this whole area to be a cutting board.
Love that you're going the whole length with the butcher's block.
Love the brass inlay.
And then we'll just give it a really light oil
and you can just wipe it down with all the scraps. Yeah.
Mate, what about door profiles and Caesarstone tops?
What have we got? This is a new Caesarstone.
I mean, Caesarstone does such an amazing job
for a man-made product.
It's amazing. It's amazing, isn't it?
And that'll soften up the timber too.
I think it'll complement each other. Yeah.
Go and have a look at the kitchen now. In you come.
# I got this feeling inside my bones
# It goes electric, baby, when I turn it on
# All through my city... #
Tom! Look at these!
Oh, wow!
Unbelievable.
This is gonna outlive us probably ten times.
Oh, wow! That's elite!
Here by myself tonight. Shaz is not feeling very well.
She's run down. It's pretty cold.
I love coming down here.
You're, like, guaranteed, like, a really good meal,
catching up with everybody,
checking out what Scotty's done to his house, which is unreal.
You'd think the girls had never seen TV before.
(WOMEN LAUGH)
Stop looking at the opening!
What's all this racket in my kitchen? We're watching 'The Kardashians'.
I cannot believe you're in my kitchen...
(LAUGHS)
..watching a reality TV show on my reality TV show.
(ALL LAUGH)
No more Disney+! (LAUGHS)
Now, you kids, sit at the table! It's dinnertime! Come on!
Served!
(LOW-LEVEL CONVERSATION)
Oh, how good this soup, guys! Honestly!
Scotty, well done, mate. OMAR: I'm nearly done, man.
I mean, wow!
Scotty Cam put on, like, I would say probably the best... Sorry.
..but best soup that I've ever eaten.
Sounds like I didn't miss out on anything, then.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think anything epitomises our show,
The Block, than this scene right here.
It's minus one outside. Everyone's got beanies on.
We're in my half-built living room having a dinner party!
(LOW-LEVEL CONVERSATION)
Now, to me, that is The Block, right? OTHERS: Yeah.
Special winners-are-grinners dinner tonight
because it's a 30-out-of-30 winners-are-grinners dinner...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
..which is amazing.
It hasn't happened, from memory, for about three years, I think.
Wow!
Sarah and George with landscape week at Brighton.
So... Wow.
..it's been a while.
And, of course, three tens means three fantastic little Catch Cows
from catch.com.au.
Alright!
MAN: Oh!
Yay! Good work, babe.
Oh, that's a better one. There you go.
(SMASH!) (CHEERING)
Five and five and five, so we walked out with 15 grand from the dinner.
Mmm. So we are very lucky.
Alright, Scotty, this was absolutely beautiful.
I'm gonna take the girls
and we're just gonna duck back into your kitchen...
Wait, wait, wait... Can we go watch more 'Kardashians'?
No, no, no. Girls, girls, take your plates in.
And have you done your homework? We have. Are we allowed to?
Are you sure? No, I promise.
I promise. I'll do everyone else's homework too if I get to watch it.
(LAUGHS)
Oh, my god!
I think this is the best winners-are-grinners
we've had so far, Scotty - this is great.
WOMAN: Today is gonna be absolutely huge.
VOICEOVER: A big week...
Whoa!
..straight from the heart.
To lend a hand to your neighbours.
On a life-changing Wednesday...
It's nice to give back to people that deserve it.
..the most heart-warming episode...
..of the year.
WOMAN: There's some people that unfortunately it rains on
all the time,
and they just deserve a little bit of sunshine.
An entire house is revealed.
We've got a whole new house!
(LAUGHING AND WEEPING)
I hope this brings them nothing but happiness.
(CHEERING) Thank you. Thank you.