(RESOUNDING MUSIC PLAYS) SCOTT CAM: Previously on The Block...
They've completed bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens,
living rooms and dining rooms.
But this week, they have to do spaces that connect it all,
the hallways, laundries, mud rooms and powder rooms.
It's a big ask.
JENNY: I'm so over it, babe! I want to go home!
Some teams have faced monumental challenges trying to get it all done.
SHARON: I actually don't care anymore.
DAN: Here at house five, I think it's not gonna happen.
We have a head conditions like this ever.
This is the biggest Block ever.
Tonight...
Hey... Come on, man. I'm over this (BLEEP).
Are you gonna let me speak? No, I'm not.
..after the final 24 hours, when 'tools down' arrives,
who will head to HQ with finished rooms?
And what will the judges have to say about them?
DARREN: They got bloody close to the finish line
but everything that they've delivered is spot-on.
SHAYNNA: This is horrible!
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
(SHEEP BLEATS)
# I couldn't sleep at all last night # Do-do-do-do-do
# Got to thinking of you # Do-do-do-do-do
# Baby, things weren't right # Do-do-do-do-do
# Well, I was tossing and turning Turning... #
'Hell-way week' definitely lived up to its name.
(LAUGHS) I'm dead.
It's way worse than you think.
INTERVIEWER: Do you think you'll make it?
# Tossing and turning all night
# I kicked the blankets on the floor
# Do-do-do-do-do # Turned my pillow upside down... #
This week was insane. Yeah. (LAUGHS) I was just, like, remembering it.
SCOTT: Hell-way week got its name
because it's actually hallway, mud room and laundry week
and any powder rooms they have left to do.
Add to that, the hallways this year are super-sized
thanks to the breezeways
which connect the old houses to the new pavilions.
JENNY: Help! Help!
Can we pay a painter? (LAUGHS) I'll pay big money.
And there's always a longest hallway,
which has gone to house four this year.
They had 63 square metres of real estate to complete this week,
including a 40m hallway running from their front door
through a breezeway to their new pavilion,
to their mud room and laundry.
This morning, we'll wake up and we just have to paint all day
because we know if we stop painting...
Like, I didn't even go... I didn't even sit down for lunch.
I just had to keep rolling
because I knew we were just fighting against the clock.
People were, like, "You've got heaps of time.
"You're in such a good position." I'm, like, "You don't understand.
"It's that big."
40m!
INTERVIEWER: How much more do you have to do?
I've gotta do a whole 'nother coat and the laundry and the mud room.
Yeah, it's bigger than a footy field.
That's a joke, surely. (LAUGHS) But no.
Can't hear you down here. Call me.
We need a walkie-talkie.
We haven't won any rooms, so...
We need the money more than anyone and we want the win more than anyone
but we will always keep trying your best.
The aim of the game is to not stop
'cause if you stop, that's when you're (BLEEP).
House three has the smallest area to deliver this week,
a total of 51 square metres,
including the hallway in their original house,
the breezeway connecting to the new pavilion,
the powder room and interconnected laundry and mud room.
And while they have a smaller area,
the same can't be said for their problems.
Their mud room, laundry and powder room are yet to be tiled
and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Saturday, 24 hours to go,
I thought we were in a much better position somehow.
I was, like, "This is gonna be a good day anyway. It's fine."
Until it wasn't.
DAN: Come and have a look. KEITH: Let's have a look.
When you see Keith and Dan on Saturday morning,
like, you want it to be an uplifting experience, but it never is.
Keithy, look, we got bloody...
We've got bearers and joists I can see.
SCOTT: Keith and Dan have discovered a hole
at the end of Sharon and Ankur's hallway
under the door connecting the old house to the new pavilion.
It's not even completed here. KEITH: What's happened to your runs?
I don't know.
The plasterers were supposed to finalise it
and they just haven't done it, so...
Are they coming back today? They're not coming back today.
They've done everything. That's the whole thing.
Right. They're not coming back? No.
This is a bit of a dog's breakfast, this area, at the moment.
I don't know how the plasterers have missed the bottom of the stairs.
I don't know how you miss a gap like that.
Liam and Scotty have been the builders here all week. Yes.
But they're not here at the crucial stage
when everything's getting tied together.
Yep, to problem-solve this.
So, where's Liam today? Liam's in Bright.
Where? In Bright, I think.
He's just gone away with family.
Yeah.
He's sent Kane, so we're gonna have to figure it out with Kane.
Yeah, but for a chippy that hasn't been here all week, right,
he hasn't actually...
He doesn't really know what's going on.
He's gotta come in and he's got to rectify all these problems...
Yeah.
And a lot of them are iffy, you know. It's... Gee, he's gone away again?
He did, yeah. He's gone away for... Gee, that must be making you happy.
Yep. Delighted, especially when this stuff happens.
When you're a chippy, right... Yeah.
..and you're the builder... Yeah.
..and you've led the team of this all week,
you know what the best thing to do is?
Go on a holiday leave somebody else to deal with it. I know.
That's the smart thing to do, I reckon. Just go away and...
Who's on holiday? Liam. Liam's in Bright, mate.
(LAUGHS) And Scotty doesn't work Saturdays.
He's in Bright. (LAUGHS) Perfect.
Bring in some new guy, he can deal with it all.
He's got no idea what's going on. If I was Kane...
Kane's awesome but, yeah, it's not...
It's a (BLEEP)show for him. It's not fair.
I am upset by that 'cause, you know, like,
we have issues with our builders because they, you know,
have a go at Anks and I at the end of the week
when they kind of handball it to us.
I don't want to get emotional but it's, like, at the end,
they just kind of, like...
We have to kind of pick it up
but we're just, like, the blind leading the blind...
They're leaving you with all your issues. Yeah. And you've seen it.
I have. It was like last Saturday as well.
It's, like, how much can we take responsibility for?
You knew you were signing onto The Block...
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
You could've been here with us on Saturday.
That's someone who doesn't care. I know. I'm feeling for you.
Yeah. I really am.
And I think you've been let down by your team. I really do.
Big-time. Yep. Big-time. Mmm.
And it's annoying. I don't feel supported.
But anyway... Yep.
What can we do to solve this issue this week?
You need a plasterer. OK. So I've just gotta get...
That's the only way that's gonna look half-decent. OK.
In that moment, what happened was we had no plasterer
because Wilson said he couldn't come back to fix the hole
and we needed to fix the hole today.
Yeah, I'm trying to get onto any sort of plasterers
but, like, there's none on site and, like, I don't know what to do.
# It ain't what you do It's the way that you do it... #
SCOTT: At the other end of the spectrum
are house one's Tom and Sarah-Jane,
who have the biggest area to deliver this week -
a whopping 82 square metres.
That includes their hallway, a hallway sitting room, a breezeway,
second hallway, a laundry and a mud room.
And amazingly,
the high achievers are in a really good position with all that.
They just need paint, trimmings and styling.
Is this your artwork? It is, mate.
That's beautiful. Very nice.
How are you? Good, mate. How are you?
Doing well? Yeah, going alright, mate.
Just painting. Oh.
Ever sick of it? The fun part, mate.
You do it for a living, obviously. (LAUGHS) On a smaller scale.
On a smaller scale.
Is this Hanging Rock, Michael? Yeah, mate, this is Hanging Rock.
Oh, there you go. One of the views.
A bit of sunlight hitting the rocks there.
A lot to take in and I love it. Great. Hope you enjoy it.
Will do, mate. I've just gotta go find a spot to put it now.
Alright. All the best with it. Thanks, Michael.
Cheers, mate.
See you, mate. Bye.
In house two, even seasoned renovators Rachel and Ryan
have been scorched by 'hell-way week'.
At 71 square metres, they have the second-largest space to complete.
Their main entrance leads to an L-shaped hallway
in the old part of the house
with a connecting breezeway to the new pavilion
where there is a second hallway leading to the mud room and laundry.
And there's still 13 missing doors.
But the bench seat for their hallway nook is thankfully not missing.
Beautiful. The man himself.
That looks awesome.
Ready. Come out.
Oh, no, it's good. No, it's good, it's good, it's good.
Just freaked out for a second then.
I'm, like, "What measurements have I given him?"
In house five, Omar and Oz have the worst of all worlds.
Their 62 square metre space includes a hallway, a breezeway,
a second hallway in the pavilion, a mud room,
a laundry and a powder room
and they are still missing a few more major items,
namely tiles and cabinetry,
thanks to a difficult week
being topped off by a day from hell yesterday.
First, their tilers were kicked off site
before they could start waterproofing...
What is it? Your tilers need to pack up and go.
Really? Yep.
Tilers need to? Yep.
They've presented us with a dodgy certificate of currency
for their WorkCover.
It doesn't exist.
That'll (BLEEP) do me.
Sorry, man. On a day like today...
Then, because the laundry wasn't waterproofed,
Freedom were unable to install any of the cabinetry.
Everybody is literally seeing their beautiful hallways, breezeway,
mud room, laundry coming together.
With us, we barely have sheets on the wall.
But there is one tiny ray of hope for the boys...
Let me go and get my tiling tools, man, and I'll make my way down.
Are you serious? Yeah.
Oh, wow. Wow. I love you, Ben. Far out!
Literally the best tiler and he come through.
..after Ben the tiler came to their rescue late yesterday
and waterproofed the laundry.
This morning, the boys have managed to arrange
for cabinetry to be installed.
Once again, I reach out to my cousin Billy from MKR.
He has his boys, the installers, one of the best in town,
so they're coming in to actually fit it in.
It's hard to not make the cabinetry yourself and fit it in
but these boys are taking the heart to do it
and put it in, to be honest, to take us over the line.
Morning, Ozzie.
There is still one hoop to jump through, though.
Keith and Dan need to give the laundry waterproofing
their tick of approval.
Hopefully the waterproofing's good, mate.
We don't want to fail it.
Today, let it be happy news. Happy, happy thing, bro.
This thing here's quite interesting. How does this work?
What's happening? Is there a bath that goes in?
That's it. Correct. It's a dog bath.
KEITH: And this edge here's gonna be important, isn't it?
We don't want water seeping through here.
When you do baths, the Australian standard is
you actually need an upturn on your waterproofing.
That's what gets caulked. No, no, no, no, no.
That goes under the bath, then you caulk around the bath.
This needs to have an upturn.
So we put angles through...
Yeah, it's gotta be angled but then waterproofed.
When a dog gets out of the bath, he's gonna shake,
water's gonna be going everywhere,
so we have to make sure that the waterproofing is perfect.
We do no work here until we come back and really have a look at it.
I know it's going to be hard. It can be done.
But that's just expecting a lot from the boys.
But we just gotta push... push the best, to be honest.
(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)
('DIRTY' BY CHRISTINA AGUILERA PLAYS)
SCOTT: The thing about being in the country
is you're at the mercy of the elements
and rainy conditions have turned the entire block into a mudscape.
TOM: Where else would I rather be?
It wouldn't be somewhere warm, I will say that.
INTERVIEWER: It's like there's all sorts of different muds.
Dry mud, wet mud, sloppy mud. (LAUGHS) Mud. (LAUGHS)
See how it really... Oh, why is it dirty?
(LAUGHS) What the hell! What the hell!
Why is there mud on it?
RACHEL: Normally, you'd think in these kind of circumstances,
the painting that you've got to wrap your head around...
It's the cleaning.
There is just so much mud everywhere.
INTERVIEWER: Are we going to get all the painting finished tonight?
Yes, we are going to get all the painting finished tonight.
For sure. 100%.
It's the cleaning.
We have got floor protection on floor protection on floor protection
because there is just a million people walking just mounds of mud
through the area that we will be revealing in 16 hours.
That's the most anxiety-inducing part of this week so far,
is looking around and thinking "How are we gonna clean this?"
SCOTT: It's the clincher of hell-way week.
Muddy conditions have added hours of cleaning into everyone's workload...
I'm stress-eating.
..as they approach the home stretch.
# Everybody have fun tonight... #
In house three, Ankur and Sharon have found a local plasterer
to fix their hallway hole at the 11th hour.
Oh, great. We're plastering it. Yeah.
Good work, guys.
That's a win.
Did take up a chunk of our day but it's a big win.
INTERVIEWER: Hole in wall, plasterer - solved. Tick.
Tick. Fire out.
Yes. Another fire erupts.
Are we running out of tiles? MAN: What have we got?
That's the last thing we need, man.
Two and a half boxes.
There's not a pallet hiding somewhere?
No. All these were on a pallet and we brought them in this morning.
Yeah, but if no-one else has got them...
SHARON: We're halfway through and we can't find any more tiles.
Yeah, at the moment... Where are the tiles?
So you reckon, with the boxes we've got left...
Yeah. ..it'll get us to somewhere here.
About 3m from there.
So that's three, three and, then, yeah, probably literally here.
So, really, we're only missing, what, maybe two square metres?
Yeah.
SHARON: So we're looking everywhere for these tiles.
Like, that's weird. Why would we only get half a load?
We called the lovely Linda from Beaumont.
It's like we've got half the amount that we need, like, half of it...
With the floor tiles, it's only covered half the floor.
LINDA: (ON PHONE) The only thing I'm worried about...
Mm-hm. ..is that the warehouse is shut.
What are we gonna do if we can't get tiles?
Dunno.
Cry about it. I don't know.
Linda's amazing.
She tried to get these floor tiles from anywhere in the state.
Somehow, coincidentally, Linda goes,
"Oh, great, house five have got them"
and I was, like, "House five?"
And they were, like, "Oh, my god, house five used the same..."
Which we didn't even know. "..tile in week one."
LINDA: (ON PHONE) You might have to call in a favour to them
and see if they've got anything.
OK. I'll ask them.
I reckon you've got more luck with them
maybe having one or two boxes somewhere.
OK. Awesome. Thanks for that, Linda.
I just quickly grabbed, like, a sample,
drove down, talked to their lovely builder.
Exact same. Yes!
Thank you, dude! (BLEEP) Can I, like...
Because I'm, like, three short, though.
Like, I can obviously pay them... No, just take it.
But, like, I need three. Just take it.
Are you sure? Yeah.
And then I'll let the boys know and then...
Yeah, yeah. No stress. ..we'll suss it.
Man, you lifesaver.
It's exactly the same. Yeah, boy!
Yes! (LAUGHS)
Definitely sorting it out today. There's plenty coming at us.
But we are nailing that aspect of it, I think. Yeah.
'Cause we actually think this week we've got a chance.
It's achievable if we just stay focused and keep going.
SCOTT: Some advice Omar and Oz might be able to use over in house five.
They've just run out of paint.
What time does Mitre 10 close?
(BLEEP) MAN: 4:00.
(RINGING TONE)
(ON PHONE) Hello. Mitre 10. Vanessa speaking.
Oh, my goodness. I need an emergency, mate.
We need paint ASAP. What can I do?
Dylan is around. I will get him for you right now.
Please.
My Block partner is literally, like, an hour away.
He won't get there any time
and I'm trying to call guys to come and help out, to be honest.
MAN: (ON PHONE) We do shut at 4:00, just so you're aware.
Closed.
I could come, I could come, but on my GPS it's gonna be 20 minutes.
What do you reckon? Should I leave now and come to you straight away?
Alright, done. I'm on my way. I'm on my way. Alright. Bye.
Meanwhile... DAN: Where's Ozzie?
Ozzie here?
He's gone to Mitre 10 to pick up some paint.
Omar here? He's doing some shopping.
..Keith and Dan have returned to inspect the waterproofing
in their dog bath...
KEITH: We need the membrane running up.
That's tiler-trimmed too.
We like to have a solid angle acting as a water stop.
Well, it's not the angle... It's not perforated.
SCOTT: ..and, well, it's a bit of a dog's breakfast.
KEITH: What's going on here, guys? DAN: It's a bad detail, isn't it?
You'd want this benchtop going all the way through.
Now you've got two different materials.
Nice gap too.
Oz and Omar are in serious trouble.
Everywhere you look, you can just see something wrong.
And this is out of level too. All the cabinetry?
Quite a bit.
Things are out of square.
This wall here is out of square,
which is why this is causing this issue with the benchtop.
It's just a really bad room.
What's happening there? (LAUGHS)
Big hump. Yep.
Wow.
Caulking wouldn't even hide that.
Stop looking. I think we'd better.
Stop looking.
We better get out of here, mate.
This room is a disaster.
Mate, I'm gonna leave you to deal with Omar and Oz, mate.
You can just deal with them two big boys, mate.
I've got to wander away.
What's happening, mate?
It's not good, mate.
Nothing's good. But we make it good.
I don't think you can make this good.
The cabinetry's a bit out of level,
so it's not actually matching properly.
We've got this little detail here. I don't know how he...
Yeah, that's fine. Little details...
This could be raised up a bit, Dan, by a bit
and then whatever I have here, regardless, dropped or not dropped,
we could do a step... You can't. You can't.
It's a feature within a feature that we could do.
You can't raise it up that high.
Mate, these boys are willing to stay behind
to get this done to perfection, to be honest, so...
It can't be done to perfection, I'm telling you, mate.
In my 20-plus years in building, this can't be done perfect.
There's just too many little things that are wrong...
What? Like, things like this.
How do you fix all this now?
At the end of the day,
it's up to you how you guys try and finish it off
but, like, if it was me...
Like I said, mate, we won't give up until 9:00am, tools down.
Honestly... Honestly, like, this is the best we could do, Dan.
I'm fed up with this. No, mate, Ozzie, it's not...
No, honestly, we are trying our best here
and all we're doing is problem after problem after problem after problem
and we are doing nothing but pushing to get it done.
I know. And I'm showing you these problems...
I'm trying to help make your house better, mate.
No, I understand that. And what I'm trying to say to you right now...
And don't get me wrong, I understand, I guarantee you
and I say it and I keep saying it, you're here to help us, but...
You're at a point now.. Yeah.
..where if you keep going, there's gonna be more and more mistakes...
No... How could you... You can't hide these things, man.
So you're saying we're hiding it now? You are. We're hiding it?
So you're telling me now we are trying to hide mistakes? Yes.
You're bull(BLEEP).
I'm telling you now, you're bull(BLEEP),
because how could you sit there, look me in the eye,
telling me that we are hiding mistakes?
You are, mate, cause you're trying to do things to hide other mistakes.
So you're telling me now that there's a mistake
and I'm trying to hide a mistake?
But how are you fixing it? Answer my question.
You've given me a problem... Yeah.
Am I hiding that problem with something? Yes.
I'll give you an example.
Have I done anything to hide that problem?
I'll give you an example...
Have I given anything for you, Dan, right now
that I've hidden that problem so you can't see?
Well, you're going to. That's what you said to me...
But have I done it? It's a simple question. Have I hid it yet?
Not yet. That's it. So thank you very much.
I haven't hidden the problem. Ozzie, give me the chance...
Give me the chance to fix the problem, mate.
You just explained to me how you going to... Listen to me.
There's a problem and I've hidden them, Dan. Hey...
Come on, man. I'm over this (BLEEP).
Are you gonna let me speak or are you gonna walk off? No, I'm not...
You don't want to have a chat adult to adult?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(THUNDER CRACKS) (DOG WHINES)
SCOTT: At tools down on the night before reveal,
Keith and Dan discovered a multitude of unfixable defects
in Omar and Oz's mud room and laundry.
KEITH: Oz and Omar are in serious trouble.
Everywhere you look, you can just see something wrong.
And this is out of level too. DAN: All the cabinetry?
Quite a bit. Things are out of square.
This wall here is out of square,
which is why this is causing this issue with the benchtop.
It's just a really bad room.
You're at a point now... Yeah.
..where if you keep going, there's gonna be more and more mistakes...
No... How could you... You can't hide these things, man.
So you're saying we're hiding it now? You are.
Come on, man. I'm over this (BLEEP)!
Are you gonna let me speak or are you gonna walk off?
No, I'm not, because you had your chance to speak...
You don't want to have a chat adult to adult?
They've gotta make a decision now.
Do they pull up the white flag, slow down, try and rectify it next week
or do they try and get to the finish line
and do more damage to that room?
It's now an hour past tools down,
which means no more power tools and that means no more cutting tiles.
Ben was tired.
He absolutely worked 23 hours on waterproofing, back-to-back tiling.
Go home, Ben. You've done enough.
We'll see you on Tuesday. Monday's a public holiday.
Take it off so we can continue this room.
Me and Omar focused on the hallways and the breezeway
and literally we were gonna deliver it without a mud room and laundry.
It is what it is.
Next door in house four,
Dylan and Jenny have also been stung by tools down.
They weren't able to install some of the skirting boards
in their 40m hallway.
We'll get the painting done
but it's a matter of getting everything else done
and we've run out of time with the power tools for the skirts.
You can't use your tools on a Sunday morning,
so you're just gonna have to do it another day
and not have it for reveal, which is unfortunate.
This is annoying.
Well, I wouldn't be hell-way week
without a long, painful night before reveal.
(ROOSTER CROWS)
(PLAYFUL MUSIC)
I really don't know what the big deal is, though.
I've finished my hallway, laundry and Anna Blatman original powder room
with time to spare.
It's perfect.
And it's time.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
SARAH-JANE: Good job. Quicker.
It just makes the house smell so nice and clean.
Mud everywhere. Like, mud all over all our, like, skirting.
Just mud.
Come on. Come on.
Come here. (BARKS)
What's this pot plant doing?
Well, the black one's out there.
I'm putting it...putting it... It's in the black...
Alright, good. English as a second language.
Sharon runs around crying... I do.
I do 'run cries'. (MOCK-CRIES)
# Mopping the floors, pushing (BLEEP) around. #
JENNY: I just can't believe that it's nearly 9:00
and you still have so much to do.
OZ: Let's just push, finish as much as we can just here, boys,
'cause it's (BLEEP).
(BARKS)
Oh, babe, this... Oh, faster, faster...
See, look at this gap. Half the board's missing.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Gotta get some soap.
Yep. It's time.
(WHISTLES) Tools down!
Oh, well done, darl.
Oh, what a stressful night. (LAUGHS)
Oh...
(LAUGHS) Dead.
(SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) #dead.
ANKUR: Thank you very much, you legends.
Thank you. Thank you.
Welcome to The Block, boys! (LAUGHS) Yeah.
Welcome to The Block.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(EXHALES) Welcome back, boys.
Scotty. How you going, mate?
Hello there. CONTESTANTS: Hey, Scotty.
WOMEN: Hi.
Good evening, everybody. CONTESTANTS: Hey, Scotty.
Now, I have a question for you.
What is the best thing about hell week?
CONTESTANTS: It's over! Correct!
That it's over!
It doesn't get the name 'hell week' for nothing.
That comes from contestants that have gone before you
that are still trying to get over the nightmare right now.
Oh...
They're watching this right now with paint under their fingernails.
And Ankur, you are an advert for that right now.
(LAUGHTER) I am.
Look at you, mate. It's all rubbish.
(LAUGHTER)
But the great thing about when hell week is over
is that you can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
You can also start to see your houses come together
from the front door to the back door.
Generally, the team that actually finishes hell week
is the team that takes home the 10,000 bucks from Ford,
so has anybody here actually completely finished their spaces?
Nobody really fully finished their spaces.
So tonight's winner is really gonna be the team
that best designed their connecting spaces
and came up with the best and most cohesive plan
for their connecting spaces.
So let's find out who that's gonna be, shall we?
Tom and Sarah-Jane, house one.
I actually really liked this week.
I'm sick of you saying that every (BLEEP) week.
Tom and Sarah-Jane were tasked with renovating 82 square metres
of real estate this week,
including their hallway, connecting to a hallway sitting room,
following through to a breezeway linking the old with the new.
In the pavilion, their scope of works included a second hallway,
laundry and mud room.
Got a (BLEEP)load to plan, really.
All the plaster, the insulation,
the flooring, plumbing, Kinsman cabinetry... Mmm. Mmm.
There was a lot going on.
So I thought, "I'll duck out to the pub for a feed."
MAN: You could be the first person ever
to go to the pub every day on hell week.
Do you want to do it? I reckon you should try.
Alright, I'll do it. (LAUGHTER)
('LOCOMOTION' BY KYLIE MINOGUE PLAYS)
Don't have time for the pub. You don't?
But I'm making time.
DAN: It's hell week.
We've got laundries, we've got mud rooms, breezeways.
Not one contestant on site.
Another work meeting?
Just got a couple of on-site issues Duncan and I need to sort out.
It's Wednesday and we're living the dream of breaking the record so far.
Today, there is Rinnai heater install, plastering, carpentry,
electrical, ProctorWrapping, window install.
I'm taking a big risk here.
Because if we don't finish, you're gonna look like the biggest dick.
Like, just like a real arrogant (BLEEP).
Yeah, we've gotta get to the pub.
You can't start something and not finish it.
First contestant in Block history
to go to the pub every single day through hell week.
Well, here's to the fact you'll be painting tonight.
Part of it. Part of it.
I hope that the judges like the flow that we've gone with... Yeah.
..from the old into new... Yeah.
..and they meet in the breezeway and how there's... Yeah.
..that almost like the whole change, which is what we wanted.
SARAH-JANE: It feels nice.
Like, would I like to do a little bit more? Sure.
But with the time frame, I'm super proud of what we did.
SHAYNNA: Oh...
I love their style.
This is such a trip. Like...
This is a hallway?
I'm trying to mesh together this house now because we're old, new...
NEALE: Yeah. And this whole...
Wow.
..whole thing in between that didn't exist last week.
You know what I love what they've done,
that we've got all the beautiful cornicing, the roof goes down,
so it gives that beautiful break of the old and new
but carrying through the colours and the feeling.
Wow!
It's got a real sense of grandeur about it, hasn't it?
Darren really liked that you gave the breezeway some purpose
by including the fireplace and the chess set and chairs.
It's kooky that this is a breezeway
and there's such a massive amount of space.
It actually does seem useful. I don't think I'd sit here a lot.
You wouldn't read a book here
because you've got that gorgeous view. Yeah.
But I think having a fireplace here
is actually going to help heat this place
'cause there's a lot of air here.
Tom and Sarah-Jane are very good at understanding dimension.
Mmm.
The actual size of the pieces they've put in here
from the fireplace... Mmm.
..to the pendant light, they understand how to fill a space
and that is something we've seen other contestants on The Block
struggle with... Yeah.
..when they've had super enormous, huge spaces.
But the rugs aren't the ideal size for the space.
I would probably put two round rugs down, you know, around here...
Yeah. ..around there.
That repetition would be nice.
And I think it would be a better size.
The other issue for Darren this week was the ceiling in this area.
That's a bit of an issue for me.
Square set's unforgiving if it's not perfection.
Bingo. And that has a definite curve to it.
TOM: Yeah, it got wet. Did it?
Opened with the walls not been finished outside.
I mean, they think it needs to be redone,
especially because that area is square set.
Yep.
Considering the time frame, however, and the huge workload this week,
some defects are understandable, even for you guys,
and it didn't dampen the judges' enthusiasm for your rooms today.
SHAYNNA: Oh!
(LAUGHS) I love their artwork!
Beautiful, isn't it? It's like an art gallery.
It is. Beautifully displayed.
Beautiful pieces. And I love this long runner.
Yeah.
It really accentuates the length of this hallway.
It's gorgeous.
Entering the mud room, they were really impressed.
Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh, hello!
(GASPS) Look at that brick tile!
Oh, my goodness!
Oh, that's hot.
How perfect is that for a mud room, to come in on this!
You could almost get a hose and wash this down.
Oh, Shaynna, look at this dog bed! Oh, my god!
Leather dog bed. So cute!
Which matches the leather bench seat...
Mmm. Which is beautiful.
And then we've got the really cute little doggy bowls here.
Oh... It's so homely.
Gorgeous. I hadn't even noticed that.
Oh, it's beautiful. Oh! Ironing board in there.
It's such a luxurious layering of finishes,
this brass mesh and then... Yeah.
..and this really dark, beautiful monture profile.
Well, it's homely and it's luxe but it's also highly functional.
Really functional. Yeah.
I mean, I'm just standing here thinking,
"My god, I'd love this in my home." Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Well, you'd love this in your home too.
Oh, that's gorgeous. Love, love.
How clever to use different cabinetry...
Yeah.
..in opposite sides of the same space. Mmm.
That's a risk that a lot of people wouldn't take -
complementary but contrasting.
I love that. But they've linked it so well in...
Yes. ..stocking the tiles too.
Absolutely. So the tiles are the navy. Very clever.
Overall, the laundry is very well considered, beautiful to look at
and totally functional, or as Darren said...
It's as chic as (BLEEP).
(OTHERS LAUGH)
They've just hit that sweet spot aesthetically that...
Yeah. ..these houses need.
Mm-hm. And they're so consistent as well.
Yeah. Mm-hm.
For hell week, you have delivered heaven.
That's it. Oh, thank you.
Oh, thanks. MAN: Well done, guys.
Thank you. Good job.
I'm fine with all the comments. Yeah.
Like, I would never normally put a sitting area in a hallway but...
But what else do you do with it?
Just blank the hall off and put plaster? Yeah.
I honestly believe, if I didn't put anything in that section,
they would've commented that it was bare.
I believe that, so... I don't care.
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
This is by far hell-way week.
This week, Rachel and Ryan had to renovate their main entrance,
which connects to an L-shaped hallway in their old house,
then a breezeway into the new pavilion,
where they also had to do
a second long hallway,
mud room and laundry.
Where are we stopping this... basically hallway?
Oh, from there to your front door.
Two hallways, mud room and laundry. That's huge.
It is huge.
RACHEL: I like this. WOMAN: Yeah?
Perfect. Done. Breezeway.
Entrance. Entrance to the home.
You know, it's Wednesday and I don't even think we're halfway.
The hallways would've been enough
but then we'll just throw in a laundry and a mud, you know.
Yeah, just throw in a bit of waterproofing there.
We're on track for our hallway,
our laundry, our mud room, to have everything completed.
We're good. I feel good.
And that's our front door. How great.
Our tiler Mick was sick and his whole crew was sick.
We had a back-up tiler but he couldn't make it this week either.
We're about to come undone here.
We actually don't have a tiler this week.
So I decided to go down, have a meeting with Scotty
and ask him if we can borrow his tilers.
Good on you. Let's do it.
Let's go, boys. Let's go.
It saved the day for us.
Thanks, Scotty. You're welcome. Again.
I hope that the judges can see that the choices that we have made
are all flowing throughout the home.
# Bring it on home Bring it on home... #
The artwork that we have picked is reflective
of the rest of the house.
I'm hoping that they pick up on those things
and they see that we've really tried to get there.
SHAYNNA: Wow.
NEALE: Well, that's not gonna close, that's for sure.
Wow. You can just see what a hard week this is already.
There's a lot of doors to do.
It was clear that you had some execution issues.
It's palatial, though. It is.
I like the lighting layout.
I like how these spotlights highlight these artworks.
Mmm.
You know, I think it's great to treat hallways as gallery spaces
and, you know, it does rely heavily on the choice of art.
The Anna Blatman painting is an absolute...
Cracking piece. That's beautiful. I love that one.
Yes, it is. But it doesn't go with that.
Them together... No, you're right, actually.
It doesn't.
They cancel each other out, unfortunately, visually.
So you have to be careful when pairing and hanging artwork.
Shaynna really liked the nook with the seat.
I love the fact this is your front door,
they've got baskets underneath,
you can put shoes, you can put schoolbags there.
And I love that fluted panel that they've used there.
Mmm. That's the laminex MDF.
So it's just like big sheets, so really simple, put it on.
But it's a good contemporary mix of the rustic of the timber
and the hatstand and the hat hooks.
They work together. Yeah.
So we've got the old and the new. And this flooring is just beautiful.
It's lovely.
And they really all appreciated the effort that you put in.
Coming around the corner and they were majorly impressed.
Oooh. Oh, look at that skylight! It's amazing!
Wow.
I'm loving the practicality of a linen cupboard here. Yep.
You know, good functionality, good cupboard space.
I love it. That's a lot of storage in there.
And loving that fluted profile here too.
Visually, that's gorgeous. It is.
It almost creates the impression of an old-fashioned corrugated roof.
Iron, yeah.
And that's where the old and the new meet... Yeah.
So it's like, you know...
it's like the old-fashioned veranda of the old house.
I like that. It's a really nice reference. Yeah.
This entry area is really beautiful
and this will be the most-used entry as a front door.
Yep. Yep.
SHAYNNA: Oooh. Oooh-la-la!
This is... Wow.
..stunning!
I love this platform, because we've got another entry there.
(GASPS) Look at this! Yeah. Yum.
Oh, this is beautiful.
The artwork opposite that doorway is absolutely stunning.
Yeah. Gorgeous.
It's so clever... NEALE: Yeah.
..how they've played with the angles here too.
Mmm. You've got a raked ceiling here...
Yeah. ..that sort of draws you downwards this way. Yeah.
And then, as soon as you get here, it all opens back up again
with another raked ceiling the other way.
It's such a lovely flow visually.
It's heaven, this house.
This is a really, really cracking house.
It's becoming a cracking house.
It didn't necessarily feel like a cracking house to begin with. No.
You know, Rachel and Ryan arguably got off to a shaky start
but now they are really, really gaining strength.
It feels like they're gaining confidence.
I'm just so sorry for them that they weren't able to complete everything.
The judges think you are gaining in strength and confidence every week
and producing a house which feels like
it really belongs in the country.
Great.
Look at these tiles. Oh, heaven!
Look at the benchtop!
Beautiful.
The benchtop is just perfect.
Oh, wow. Good. Good choice.
We changed that. You changed that?
Yeah, we changed it. Yep.
It's so rustic and contemporary. Bingo.
It does make me wish that we'd seen this in kitchen week
because they could've won. Yeah.
They could've won that week... Mm-hm.
..with this level... Yeah.
..of warmth. Mmm.
Wow.
Shaynna loved the Samsung drying cabinet.
Excuse me! Oh, wow.
Oh, look at that one! Wow.
That's like a steam press. That's not cheap.
Like, this is an expensive laundry-mud room.
Buyers are going to love this stuff.
In fact, she really liked all of your choices of appliances.
Despite the issues you had finishing this week,
the judges think that your home is really unfolding as a contender
for one of the best houses on The Block.
Oh...
NEALE: They were the latecomers to the competition... Mmm.
..and it did feel at the beginning
that they were kind of trying to double-guess everyone else
and they didn't have a sense of themselves.
Yeah. But now they absolutely have.
Well, I like who Rachel and Ryan are.
Mmm. I really do.
There you go. That's it. Great. Thank you.
Well done.
There was one week where we gave in
and we tried to do what we thought the judges wanted
and we failed miserably.
That was our learning curve very quickly to stick to what we know,
stick to what we love.
It's gonna pay off in the end.
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
OK. Ankur and Sharon.
Those hands just don't go with that suit, mate, do they?
Oh, no. Here we go.
No, don't put them in your pocket. Put them out proud.
This week was the hell-est week ever.
Even more than last week. Yes.
This week, Ankur and Sharon had to do the hallway in their original house
and the breezeway connecting to the pavilion.
They also did a powder room and the interconnected laundry and mudroom.
And to make things even more challenging,
they're still not seeing eye to eye with their builders.
I feel like there's a level of arrogance there from Scotty,
who's been on The Block before.
"I know better. I know everything."
The thing that ends the pressed metal, what are we using as that?
Just the same as what you used there.
On top? Yeah.
Is it grand enough?
These guys aren't like the other builders.
I wanted to get rid of them weeks ago, to be honest, to do this
but Anks was hesitant,
so it's 'better the devil you know' conversations
type of thing now, which sucks.
# Cream-coloured ponies and... #
Ugh!
Yeah, I'm a little bit stressed but I think it's gonna be OK.
I'm just trying to organise all the different elements
'cause it is such a big space.
Anks and I tend to go for one shopping trip together
and just smash it out.
Here we go. Globewest. Amazing!
I have no idea where Anks and Shaz is.
So we're always available
but there's physically nothing we could do here,
so we pick and choose the times where we can go together.
So there's always something to do.
I don't know why they don't see that.
It's always at the end of the week.
It's, "Oh, we didn't have enough time to paint."
Just little things that just add up
that makes the experience not as enjoyable.
Then we've got these builders who are (BLEEP) idiots.
They're arseholes. So, basically, they're lazy.
# Oooh, heaven is a place on earth... #
We've taken constructive criticism. We've brought the drama.
We've taken a risk with the bold colour move, with the charcoal.
NEALE: Oh, something different.
Mmm. Beautiful door.
Beautiful. Heaven.
And our first dark rug of the day. Yeah.
Very practical.
Charcoal sheers. Drama.
Mm-hm. Yeah.
I like this. It's a nice entrance way.
And I like that choice of pendant. Really? OK.
Yeah, I do.
I mean, this house, for me, has always had
this slightly sort of Gothic, camp quality about it.
Yeah. (SHARON LAUGHS)
He believes it's quite in keeping with some of your other rooms.
Moving up into the hallway...
Oh, god. You're gonna want to see this.
Shaynna, that doesn't sound good.
(TENSE MUSIC)
OK, this is one of those moments
when you have to be careful what you wish for,
because I think I was the one that stood in this house last week
and said, "Give me back the old Ankur and Sharon.
"Give me that theatricality. Give me that sense of drama."
And so they did.
And while you were delivering a style Neale could love...
This is horrible.
(GASPS) I'm sorry.
This makes it feel like a cheap film set
and it brings down the quality of the drama in those other rooms.
The fact that they've got an art nouveau type of pressed metal,
the fact we're in a Victorian hallway,
the fact that they were gifted
the most divine detailed archways and corbels, where are they?
And what's that plant there?
Do you have a plant in the hallway like that?
What are those lamps? Like, come on!
Oh, they're cute, is what they are. They're disgusting.
No, they're cute! No.
And you say you love the mirror? Love the mirror.
Yeah, really? Yeah.
What's a mirror meant to do? 'Cause I can't see myself in there.
Like, this feels like the hallway of a bar
and you're going into a themed restaurant.
Wow.
Neale admitted there is a lot to unpack in this space
but he thinks there's a sense of fun about it.
NEALE: There is a part of me that is silently applauding Ankur and Sharon
for getting their mojo back.
I mean, we always knew that Ankur and Sharon were polarising.
I mean, it's a very specific buyer that's gonna fall in love with this.
I don't mind these. I hate... (LAUGHS)
I stood in the hallway just now and said 'camp Gothic'.
Well, it doesn't get much camper than that. No, it doesn't.
And it ain't Gothic. I mean, that's a bit sort of Deco.
Actually, you're not gonna believe I'm saying this...
Oh, god. They could've given me more.
(LAUGHS)
What do you do?
The question is, does it work?
The skirting is so beautiful. I love the cornicing.
I think the black on that panelling is very harsh.
It's the hardness in here that is working against the space for me.
What I would advise is to actually paint the walls in here.
Absolutely.
Give it a sort of beautiful biscuity, oaty colour...
Yeah. ..or something like that...
That's a lovely idea. ..that would immediately warm it up.
It was an idea that was quickly embraced by Darren and Shaynna too.
They need to do it to save the house.
Mmm. I promise you, this is just not right.
Take their advice on the paint colour and it will really elevate the space.
Oooh. Now, this is a different story!
Wow. Look at this!
How much do you want that? Very much.
My dogs would love that.
I'm loving the tiles too
'cause it gives that beautiful connection back to the bathrooms,
to the wet areas of the house.
I'm loving the benchtop. I'm loving the little bit of marble.
The styling in here is really good. I quite like it.
There's so many pieces that I would never, ever have
but in here, in this house, it works.
Ankur and Sharon got a kick in the teeth last week from us.
Yeah. Right? It was not pleasant.
No.
They very easily could've just went, "Pfft."
"Why bother?" But look.
It's beautiful. Look what they've done.
He reckons this is a damn good space. It feels warm and welcoming.
This is the balance of everything that we love about Ankur and Sharon.
Yeah.
This is them when they've made that sweet spot
of being courageous and adventurous but also saleable and broad.
Yeah.
And I think this is a very, very good, very practical,
really well-thought-out space and I'm very, very impressed.
Then Shaynna found the powder room.
Oh, this is gorgeous! I love this!
That is... Love, love, love!
That's a value-add. Yeah.
That is a really, really good placement of this space...
Yeah. Yeah.
..adjacent to this living space...
There's a really nice synergy now between these spaces. Mm-hm.
You won some points back with Shaynna.
While she thought the hallway was a dog's breakfast, this room is...
A dog's paradise.
(LAUGHS) It's gorgeous. Do you like that one?
I like that you've lightened your mood.
Let's go and see the next house... Honestly...
..while you're still in a good mood.
..they've saved themselves today by doing this,
'cause if that's all I was given, I would not be happy.
Mixed. But that's it.
Cheers. Thank you. (APPLAUSE)
MAN: Well done, guys.
I mean, you have to take a risk, obviously, to appeal to someone.
If you don't take a risk, you get caned.
If you take a risk, you get caned.
We've just got to focus on the house.
Focus for the sale of the house and creating a really good space
and not three randoms' subjective opinions.
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
OK. Dyl and Jen. House four.
This week was killer. Killer.
# Get up, get out, get, get... #
Dylan and Jenny had 40m of hallway to do this week,
connecting their original house and new pavilion via a breezeway.
They also had to complete a mud room and laundry.
You want to make sure you get everything ordered
and you know exactly what you're doing,
otherwise your head just spins out, really.
Well, the mud room's gonna be the same cabinetry as the kitchen.
Yeah. We've just gotta pick a nice floor tile to go down. Yep.
What's the point of sending pallets of plaster
where they're just gonna be left out in the weather and destroyed?
He's pretty much saying that we're doing it, like, on purpose.
We would always cover that kind of stuff up.
We know how important that is.
But he just doesn't listen, I don't think, sometimes.
What do we do? Where do we store it?
We have not had five seconds.
We're trying to go through a layout in there.
Yeah, they can do what they want, mate.
So, like, seriously.
I walked off on that one.
I'm just so over it, babe. I want to go home. (CRIES)
Yeah. We decided to pull the Hipages lever.
(SMASHES GLASS) Whoo!
There's still so much to do this week.
It was nice having a few more hands on deck,
a few fresh faces raring to go.
Catch!
Oh, it's just mud. Mud.
Like, there is just mud for days. I'm so...
I'll probably chuck out all of my clothes after this.
We know.
We know that we need to make a start painting somewhere today
because we have 40m of hallway to paint.
40m.
And then we've also gotta hop in and paint a laundry
and a mud room at some stage. Oh!
# Oh, it ain't what you do It's the way that you do it... #
They know that it's such a big hall.
I just hope that they can see past the skirting boards
and how much went into it.
# That's what gets results
Results. #
Wow. Wow.
(LAUGHS) The never-ending house.
I'm loving this.
This is so cool.
It's got all the period-esque details...
Yeah. Yeah. ..but it feels crisp and modern.
That rug is heaven. Yeah.
Absolutely. The flooring is gorgeous.
I love these pendant lights. I love their art choice.
I love this hallway. So do I.
Like, that's a weird thing to say. I love this hallway.
Yeah. But it's a lovable hallway.
Neale thinks that the hallway is so important
as it's what introduces you to the house.
It sends out a really strong message
and this does feel more like a traditional hallway
for the first time today.
Yeah. Yeah.
But, I mean, I'm standing here and looking all the way down there
to the far wall in the living area, it's so far away.
You could play Boxing Day cricket down here.
This is the longest hallway I think I've ever seen.
It's extraordinary!
Is that, like, 40m? JENNY: 40m. (LAUGHS)
NEALE: I love this mirror. I love it.
Mmm. It could've been bigger.
Yeah. Twice the size.
Do you know what I love about that?
You can actually see yourself properly. Yes, you can.
You can see yourself in the right height.
You know what I love about that,
is that we have a sense of entrance appeal
in what is otherwise a big long rectangle. Yeah.
That whole vignette, that whole set-up... Mmm.
..does give you that sense of entrance...
It does.
..you know, and it does sort of anchor you
but then it drags you this way. Yeah.
Moving along and Shaynna was really loving all of the art choices,
especially the Angie summer floral picture.
My god. Look at that artwork. That is so divine.
That was a stunning painting. I love that one.
I love Angie's work. It's so good.
Excuse me, I would sit here and have a cuppa,
I would sit here and read a book.
Yes.
I never thought I'd do that in a hallway, but this is hot!
This is the first hallway we've walked into today
that feels like one solid anchor point for the whole house.
Yeah. Absolutely.
And it's so elegant and it's got a real sophistication
and it feels very contemporary.
Now, last week, I thought Dylan and Jenny
had sunk into this slightly Hamptonsy vibe,
which just wasn't doing it for any of us.
This week, I'm completely confounded
because this is like a different Dylan and Jenny.
Like it had been presented
by a completely different couple to last week's room.
That's the style I wanted to go in the other room. (LAUGHS)
There you go.
Gotta stick to your guns. I know.
And, look, I know there's a couple of skirting missing here
but look at the execution.
Look at the painting. It's pretty phenomenal.
Into the laundry and mud room...
Oh, wow.
Oh... Look at this.
They are nice tiles, aren't they? NEALE: They are lovely tiles.
They're lovely, lovely tiles. I have them in my place.
I have them on my veranda. JENNY: Oooh!
Oh, surely that's a ten.
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, wow, we've got two sinks in here.
A sink in the mud room, a sink in the laundry over there. Wow.
DARREN: I love how it connects to the butler's too
and that colour scheme being consistent all the way through...
Mmm. ..it's really gorgeous.
It feels very coherent, really complete.
Yep. Mmm.
I completely concur. Stunning. It's just beautiful.
I love this beautiful sage-green cabinetry.
Yeah.
(GASPS) It's perfection.
This is a space that will appeal, like most of your spaces,
to a very broad demographic.
Even though it's obviously incomplete,
there's still work to be done, like... Wow.
..they got bloody close to the finish line.
But everything that they've delivered is spot-on.
The judges were feeling devastated that you didn't finish
because with those few skirts and architrave...in place,
all three of them said, today, they would've given you...
Oh. ..a perfect...
Ten for me. NEALE: Yes, it would.
Yeah. Me too. It would, definitely.
Me too. Yes. From all of us.
JENNY: Get there eff out of here.
I mean, they're that close.
And you know what the great thing is,
it's only an extra couple of hours for it to be perfect.
Well, you feel for them in advance
because they are gonna be crushed at the judging
but they should be happy in knowing how close they came.
Yeah. Bloody close to perfection.
Oh, so beautiful. Very, very close.
Close to perfection. I like that. Mmm.
That's it. JENNY: That's so annoying! (LAUGHS)
(APPLAUSE) MAN: Well done.
This morning, I thought we were done.
I had nothing. Yeah, we had nothing to give.
But we're back. We're back. Whoo!
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
Omar and Oz.
This week was shutdown week.
Omar and Oz had a long list of spaces to renovate this week,
two hallways, one in the old house and one in the new section,
a breezeway, a mud room, a laundry and a powder room.
(LAUGHS)
And despite that, they were amazingly optimistic at the start of the week.
Who wouldn't be scared of us, to be honest.
Look at the rooms. Eight 9.5s and one ten.
Was the bathroom kings and now we're the Block kings
and everyone's scared.
Tuesday was gonna be our big, big day
that we wanted to just nail everything.
Macho man Dan comes in...
Today is a disaster, seriously.
Everywhere you go, it feels like a junkyard.
Trip hazards everywhere, sharp objects everywhere.
You've been shut down.
We got shut down and while we were shut down, we got shut down again.
No-one's working in this house till 9:00am tomorrow.
Until 9:00am tomorrow? Yeah, two-hour shutdown tomorrow.
The fact that it's hallway week
and we pretty much have absolutely done nothing,
Tuesday just set us back so much for what we were meant to do.
Today's gonna be the biggest day.
We've got the two hallways, the breezeway,
mud room, laundry and powder room.
It's gonna be tough to come back from
but we're confident that we'll get it done.
Plasterers are coming in.
So you've done a whole ceiling of stain, so you don't have to do that.
Yep.
All these walls, the Venetian plaster,
you don't have to paint that? Nothing at all.
So you've only got one hallway to paint? That's all.
Everyone else has got two, some of them have even got more.
Yes, sir. Smart. Yes, sir.
Problem.
Your tilers need to pack up and go.
Really?
They've presented us with a dodgy certificate of currency
for their WorkCover.
Problem, problem, problem.
Unfortunately, I'm the bearer of bad news.
Freedom can't do your cabinetry. Yeah.
Of course it was gonna happen.
INTERVIEWER: What's the main thing you hope the judges take away
from what you delivered this week?
Just the potential, how good it would've looked,
especially that mud room and laundry.
# In my dreams you'd say you want me and my body... #
We did not stop. We didn't give up.
We were very close. Very, very close.
# In my dreams... #
Oooh. Wow.
Completely different. Yeah.
Different proportions here, right? Yeah.
Like, that is...
That's a much tighter than Dylan and Jenny's place.
Yeah. Yeah.
It still has that sort of imposing presence as a proper hallway.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a good old traditional old-fashioned hallway.
I do love the fretwork.
Beautiful details. Yeah.
This cornicing is heaven. The roses are heaven!
A word he used a lot today considering it was hell week.
(LAUGHS)
SHAYNNA: This is beautiful.
That window is magnificent, isn't it?
Yeah. It really is.
It's like a wall of glass. It's just beautiful.
Quite literally, it is a wall of glass.
It is a wall of glass. Yeah.
And then it makes sense with the kitchen,
walking up to here with the stairs.
It's actually beautiful.
Darren then wondered why the ornate skirting stops
at the end of the hallway.
The fact we've got an ornate skirting
and then we've got a simple skirting running through...
I mean, that just looks like a mistake.
It is a mistake.
That's not a deliberate sort of
this is the beginning of the new house and...
No. That is just a mistake. Yep.
It was definitely not the best transition from the old to the new
that they had seen today.
Oh, look at that ceiling! It's beautiful.
Oh, wow. Oh!
They've certainly created a house of really interesting contrasts...
Yeah. ..these guys.
Definitely. They really have.
Have a look in here, this little powder room.
It's so sweet - if it was finished. If it was grouted.
Yeah.
Beautiful tile choice in there. I love that blue...
Is it, like, blue-grey finger tile? Yeah.
It feels like luxury from that door all the way to that wall.
Well, it does. You walk from there, it's absolutely divine.
I mean, that is gonna photograph beautifully.
I'm just putting out last week's question again.
How are they affording this?
Because they're not carpenters or builders,
so they can't do any of this themselves.
There's an awful lot of Venetian plaster here, that's for sure.
There's a lot of money in here.
And an amazing timber ceiling.
Yes, it's money. Yeah.
It speaks money.
How are they paying their trades to do all this?
But Shaynna was mostly keen to see what the bathroom kings had delivered
in a mud room and laundry.
Oh...
SHAYNNA: Oooh, dear.
Oooh, dear. Oooh.
(LAUGHS) The curse.
Oh, dear. The curse of hell week.
Wow. Wow. That's full-on.
That's the cutest little bathtub I've ever seen.
Yes, it is. For a dog.
Yeah. It's brilliant.
Look at this.
This is a refreshed butler that Scotty Cam's got as well.
Wow! That's nuts.
That is a thing of beauty.
Look, if they'd finished, it'd be a pretty great space.
It would.
And when you are finished, it's going to be a real luxury space.
But they do do this modern luxe aesthetic.
(CLATTERING) Well, there you go.
That's just showing you how unfinished it is.
You're kicking the tiles. Yeah, sorry, guys. (LAUGHS)
I was gonna say, they do this modern luxe aesthetic really well.
Yeah. They do.
There's a lot to do in here. Yeah.
I mean... A lot.
..in a day of unfinished rooms,
this is the most unfinished of rooms. Yeah.
Bathroom kings, but not today.
We pretty much started our week on Friday.
Friday morning is pretty much when we started. Yeah.
And to what we've got done over the line to deliver,
we did a sensational job.
Today was a day that nobody finished completely, in the judges' opinion,
so the real winner is going to be the team
that has made the best connection
from the old part of the house to the new
and delivered the best design.
OK. That's it. Scores. Let's go.
(BIRDSONG) (DOG BARKS)
The judges have seen the good, the bad and the unfinished hallways,
laundries and mud rooms.
It's time to crunch the numbers.
OK. That's it. Scores. Let's go.
It's alright. Wow.
We got good results.
OK. Darren Palmer. Tom and Sarah-Jane.
DARREN: It's kooky that this is a breezeway
and it's such a massive amount of space.
It actually does seem useful.
Rachel and Ryan.
It's such a lovely flow visually. It's heaven, this house.
Ankur and Sharon.
I think this is a very, very good, very practical,
really well-thought-out space and I'm very, very impressed.
Dylan and Jenny.
This is the first hallway we've walked into today
that feels like one solid anchor point for the whole house.
Omar and Oz.
The fact we've got an ornate skirting
and we've got a simple skirting running through,
it is a mistake.
Bit harsh from Darren Palmer.
(MAN LAUGHS) Oh, I like Darren. He's cool.
Shaynna Blaze. Tom and Sarah-Jane.
SHAYNNA: Oh, my goodness!
How perfect is that for a mud room!
TOM: Oh.
Rachel and Ryan.
Oh, heaven!
It works perfectly and I think they should be so proud.
Ankur and Sharon.
This feels like the hallway of a bar
and you're going into a themed restaurant.
(BLOWS RASPBERRY)
Dylan and Jenny.
I would sit here and have a cuppa, I would sit here and read a book.
I never thought I'd do that in a hallway, but this is hot!
Oh... (BLEEP)
Omar and Oz.
Wow. Wow.
There's a lot to do in here. DARREN: Yeah.
See you in a sec. Won't be long.
OK. Neale Whitaker. Tom and Sarah-Jane.
NEALE: They've just hit that sweet spot aesthetically...
SHAYNNA: Yeah. ..that these houses need.
And they're so consistent as well.
Rachel and Ryan.
What they're presenting here does feel very fresh,
it feels very welcoming
and you can certainly get a sense of where they're going.
Ankur and Sharon.
"Give me back the old Ankur and Sharon.
"Give me that sense of drama."
And so, they did.
Dylan and Jenny.
There's a sophistication here that we certainly didn't see last week.
Close to perfection.
Omar and Oz.
They've opted for simplicity,
which is not something the boys do that often.
They normally opt for a bit of drama,
but this is very simple, very pared-back.
But it works.
OK. Totals.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
OK. She's a tight one.
Oh, god.
The winner of week eight on The Block: Tree Change
and taking home 10,000 bucks from Ford is, by half a point...
Nine and a half. Come on. Come on. Nine and a half.
..it's Dylan and Jenny!
WOMAN: Yay! (APPLAUSE)
MAN: Well done, guys.
Oh, we did it!
Dylan and Jenny won with 27 points...
Everyone's so stoked for us
because I feel like we've been so close for so long
and to finally get there, when we thought we had no hope today...
..with Tom and Sarah-Jane just half a point behind them.
I think it's 99.5% finished.
I think it was more like 96% finished.
OK. Yeah.
In third place were Rachel and Ryan with a score of 25.
The overall feedback of we're on track with our house
is kind of like the best thing to take away from that.
"One of the best houses on The Block."
Ankur and Sharon came fourth with 23 points.
Shaynna hated it. Like, that's full-on feedback.
She asked for the drama, asked for the darkness.
Give it to her and then they say, "Be careful what you wish for."
She flip-flops.
And Omar and Oz still managed to get just over 20 points.
It's just one of those things I think we did everything well,
they liked it but we just struggled with the timing of it.
Well, after eight weeks of hard slog...
Oh, shivers!
..you finally got the 10,000 bucks from Ford
and that's gonna be awesome in your budget.
Are you ready for this? I happen to have it on me.
Do you? Oh, I've got 10,000 bucks.
Oh, give it to me! No, stay there!
You've gotta catch it. You've gotta...
Alright, come on. You've run all this way.
Thank you. That's alright.
(LAUGHTER) Whoo!
Yes! Whoo!
I'm sure that 10,000 bucks is gonna go straight to your landscaper.
Yes. It will.
And she's gonna love that
because she's also gonna love a fantastic mature tree
from Ford coming up your driveway... Oh, yes!
..tomorrow. Whoo!
Yeah! Inge will love me.
Good effort. I'm actually so stoked.
I didn't think we'd get it. Yes.
Well, no, looking at it, I thought we would get it
but because we didn't finish everything we wanted to,
that's when I was, like, "Oh, my gosh."
So thank you, everyone, for not finishing. (LAUGHS)
After tonight's scores,
Tom and Sarah-Jane are still well in front
on the Superpower leader board
and Ankur and Sharon will need a very big win
to dig themselves out of last place.
We've only got four weeks to go
before I give away this next-generation Ford Ranger
and that's gonna be going to the team
that wins the final week of this competition.
Now, to next week. I reckon you all deserve a bit of a breather.
Oh, please, Scotty. Yes.
So, next week, I'd like you to deliver your guest bedroom and...
That's it. (CONTESTANTS CHEER AND APPLAUD)
Thank god. Finally. Far out.
Oh, that's an easy one, isn't it? Yeah!
Suncorp are gonna give you a budget of 15,000 bucks...
Oh!
..dropping into your accounts first thing tomorrow morning.
Four weeks to go.
And I'm telling you, the clock is dead-set ticking.
Well, I'm glad we won something. Yes.
(OTHERS LAUGH) Finally.
That would've been embarrassing. Good luck. Goodnight. See you.
(LOW-LEVEL CONVERSATION)
MAN: That's so good.
Well done, Dyl.
Well done, mate.
# Old McDonald had a farm # E-I-E-I-O...
VOICEOVER: It's the one thing Scotty always says.
Don't forget to save some money for landscaping.
Well, guess what? # An oink, oink here...#
They blow the budget.
Ohh... they never learn.
The block hits have got grand plans for kids rooms.
Timber.
How good's that.
Grafico wallpaper on the roof. Huge!
It's lovely, isn't it?
VOICEOVER: And resort style landscaping...
We're doing market gardens.
A shipping container pool.
Horse stables.
Soccer, basketball. Helipad.
Get down to the chopper.
VOICEOVER: But they've also got no money.
How did that happen?
Can we cancel their credit cards right now?
I can do that.
You have got an encyclopaedia of unpaid bills.
You've got no more money.
I don't understand where you think you're gonna pay for it?
I'm cutting you guys off.
You're gone.
The Block, tomorrow, 7:30pm on Nine.