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Hellway Week lived up to its reputation...
I'm dead. (LAUGHS)
This week was insane.
No sleep. No sleep at all.
Mud everywhere!
What is it? Your tiler's needed, pack up and go.
That'll (BLEEP) do me!
Give me the chance to fix the problem, mate!
You just explain to me how you're going to resolve it...
You said to me there's a problem, and I've hidden them, Dan!
Come on, man! I'm over this (BLEEP)! Hey. Are you gonna let me speak?
..with all our Blockheads struggling
to deliver finished hallways, mudrooms, and laundries.
So, has anybody here actually completely finished?
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
Nah.
But Dylan and Jenny finally took out their first win of the series.
By half a point, Dylan and Jenny!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
(MOMENTOUS MUSIC SWELLS)
(CHEERING)
But it was another blow for Ankur and Sharon in House Three.
This is horrible! (GASPS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
(BIRDSONG)
Tonight, the boys confront Dan...
The things that you've been saying
that have come across, like, pretty hurtful to both Oz and I.
Sharon reaches breaking point.
I feel like I made a mistake coming here.
And Keith and Dan discover a huge problem in House One.
DAN: We got floor heights 15mm different.
Mate, we've discovered a few issues.
I've never seen a hallway this bad on The Block before.
No more shonkiness, boys.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
(THUNDER RUMBLES, DOG WHINES)
(MAGPIES WARBLE)
(ELECTRONIC BEATS)
It's Guest Bedroom Week on The Block Tree Change,
and this morning in House Four,
Dylan and Jenny are on top of the world.
Oh, feels amazing to be a winner!
I forgot for a while. Did you?
Eight weeks.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Nah, we're stoked. It feels so good, like, oh...
Just gives you another little, like, boost, I reckon.
Yeah, it gives you... we needed a bit of a boost up.
We were feeling a bit flat.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
(INDICATOR CLICKS)
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
I feel like we've done ours all wrong.
It's just you.
Well, that's how I feel.
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
I wanna go home.
(INDICATOR CLICKS)
(BIRDSONG, COW MOOS)
It's a public holiday today,
which means no power tools,
but for our regular Domain open for inspections,
it's business as usual,
starting with the winners in House Four.
We're feeling awesome.
We won Hell Week, which is incredible,
because we weren't expecting it, to be honest.
We always try our best, but you just never know.
Judges are on point this week. (BOTH LAUGH)
Wow! Wow!
(NEALE LAUGHS)
The never-ending house.
# What if I told you that I... #
The judges were wowed by all 40 metres of Dylan and Jenny's hallway,
and it's safe to say love was in the air.
# Lo-lo-lo-love you... #
That rug is heaven. Yeah.
I love these pendant lights.
I love their art choice. I love this hallway!
Winner's hallway.
Oh, yeah, I love that runner. That's beautiful!
This is the runner that I tried to get, and it was taken.
Now I know who took it.
I don't think this area looks as luxe as our area.
Like, it looks cheaper, but then, they've had a cheaper budget.
SHARON: Oh, wow!
The winners - holy crap!
This is a big hallway.
Omar, how wide?
I don't know. It's wide.
(FUNKY ELECTRONIC BEATS)
Yeah, 1.42.
Love the lighting. Love the wainscoting. Love the size.
RYAN: Yeah, it's a nice big, wide hallway. Beautiful.
Love the art.
Oh, I don't love that the lights are hanging lower than the picture.
Yeah, they just need to be a little bit higher.
I don't like how the wall sconces have changed now.
We've got different wall sconces as we go down here.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
RACHEL: I like these little hidden spots in houses.
You know, where you can sit, have a cup of tea.
RYAN: Yeah. Read a book, and look out.
I actually really like that.
Next stop is Dylan and Jenny's mudroom and adjoining laundry.
Neale was a fan of the tiles...
I have them on my veranda.
..and despite some missing skirting and architraves...
DARREN: They got bloody close to the finish line,
but everything that they've delivered is spot on.
I completely concur.
We were gonna choose these tiles, weren't we?
SHARON: We were! It's cool.
It's actually similar to ours. Yeah.
I love this!
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
I reckon their splashback makes this.
Yeah. And their butler's.
Oh, wow, this is massive!
And it goes straight into their pantry.
Smart, guys. Nice.
Well deserved, Dylan, and Jen.
They nailed it.
Yeah, they nailed their plan beautifully.
Look at that dado rail. (WHISTLES)
Far out! Why is the dado rail bowed like that?
Not too sure.
Must have been out in the rain.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Well, it was judged off the planning of the hallway,
not the execution.
And...yeah, the judges loved it more. So, good on them.
Not to be salty, but I feel like we were...totally robbed of judging.
Yes.
We were finished, 99%, in my opinion.
And, like, I genuinely am happy for them,
but they literally were missing skirts and arcs, and...
And painting and filling and... And painting and filling.
So, it was... Mmm, it was...
..I was really cool and then I saw that and I was like,
"Wow, that's really lame, judges. That's really (BLEEP) lame."
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
That sounds a bit salty to me, which is understandable,
considering Tom and Sarah-Jane missed out on the win by just half a point.
Shaynna liked the distinction they made
between the old and the new parts of the build.
You know what I loved what they've done?
That we've got all the beautiful cornicing
and the roof goes down,
so it gives that beautiful break of the old and the new,
but carrying through the colours and the feeling.
Wow!
But she wasn't sure about
the placement of the chairs and the fireplace.
I don't think I'd sit here a lot. I wouldn't read a book here.
Why wouldn't you hang out here? Yeah. Don't know.
I would 100% hang out here.
I feel like you'd definitely use that fireplace.
Like, sit here.
Like, you feel like this is how you enter a hotel.
(JENNY LAUGHS) Like, not in a bad way!
Like, with that pendant, yeah, it feels cool.
Um, alright, so, they beat us, which I get -
they are much more finished than us.
Then this is the other hallway, of the new part.
Yeah, nice.
Oooh, I love that art!
It's absolutely boring. It's just white walls, white top.
Normal floors. Like, it is boring.
You just put two pieces of art, put light on it.
Maybe that's what we should have done,
but if the judges are telling us every week to take risks
when I tried to do the boring, same as everybody else,
like, basic stuff,
they were like, "Where's the drama?
"Bring the drama. Why is there no drama?"
Brought the drama - they marked us down for it.
Yeah.
So, it's just... that's why judging is a joke,
You're good! You always bring it.
I know, but that's why it's a joke. Yeah.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Ankur and Sharon came in fourth place, with a score of 23 points.
The judges were impressed with House Three's laundry and mudroom...
Oooh!
Wow! Look at this! (GASPS)
How much do you want that?
My dogs would love that.
..but it was the hallway that brought their scores down.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
This is horrible. (GASPS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
I'm sorry, this makes it feel like a cheap film set!
We were proud of the effort we put in,
but we also...like, we...yeah.
We liked the... We loved it.
And we thought it tied into the drama of the other rooms.
And they specifically asked for more drama from us,
which is what we presented in the first couple of weeks.
So, we went back to that, and it just was a kick in the guts.
(CLEARS THROAT)
(JAUNTY PIANO MUSIC)
Not a fan of... Anything.
..the pressed tin - is that what it's called?
It doesn't even feel like tin. It feels like plastic on your walls.
They have to get this out. How hard is it to remove this?
(LAUGHS) That's so bad and so Shaz.
I'll have to tell her. This is their redo room.
I feel like I... I'm somewhere in Europe...
..and I'm in a hostel,
and I've just paid 20 bucks for the night, and I'm going here.
I don't know, I haven't been to a brothel before, but, um...
You've never been to a brothel before?
Oh...
Swear on Cleo's life you've never been...
No, I have. Yeah.
Honestly, it looks like a brothel... that I've never been to.
(LAUGHTER)
What - like, the ones you see on movies.
Cheap movies.
Check the downlights.
(JAUNTY PIANO MUSIC CONTINUES)
Jesus!
That's a (BLEEP)!
Yeah, why would those lights be like that and then like that?
Is there a reason for that?
Is it meant to be for the paintings?
I actually think it's done purposely.
Yeah, I know, it's stupidly, though.
That mirror's gotta go too.
Oh, my god, yeah, look. It's too high.
I can't see my head. Look - I'm not in it.
Look at the lamps! It's a panther.
I reckon get rid of it all. start again.
It's like you're going in to, like, a Chinese restaurant or something.
(LAUGHS)
That door to Fat Noodle needs to change.
I love you, Sharon and Anks, but this is...this is pretty fugly.
I don't know, I feel so bad for Shaz.
I feel like she's so overwhelmed.
We took a big risk and it didn't pay off,
and it's disappointing,
because sometimes you see other teams
potentially making bold moves that are awarded.
Ours wasn't, and we really needed the win.
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
They won't record you doing it, but just to go see the house?
Nah. You don't want to?
Nah.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
Yeah, I broke down, I broke down and I was crying in the car,
and I was just like, "I've had enough."
(CRIES)
Shaz is not great. She's not in a great place.
She has taken a beating, and her mind has taken a beating,
the whole time we've been here.
(SOMBRE MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CRIES)
You're confused, and I can see it, and I can feel it,
and I feel like you're so overwhelmed.
She's getting information from so many different people
and taking it as gospel.
So, she's taking,
"This person told me to do this, so I'll put that there.
"This person's told me to do this, so I'll do that there,"
but none of it's flowing.
The rooms were you have done what YOU love are incredible!
I...it's so (BLEEP) hard.
And then the girls came, and the boys came.
We got four weeks to go. Let's just smash it and move forward.
Honestly, it is what it is.
I just feel like I made a mistake coming here, I really do.
No. No, you didn't.
I'm gonna come across as a massive (BLEEP) the whole way through,
because they control the edit!
OK. Four weeks to go. You can do anything in that four weeks.
That's exactly right. Come on, Sharon. Please!
I think the judges' feedback, it definitely gets in your head,
and then you get confused,
and, like, that's what's happening with her.
She's just getting confused on... what to do
in this kind of situation.
(BLEEP) everyone else. (BLEEP) what anyone's told you.
Now I don't even know how to fix it!
Like, I don't know how to fix my house.
You can paint that hallway white. Stop going black.
You don't need black. I think black's too harsh.
If you're gonna go black, just go white.
'Cause white...everyone loves white. Not everyone loves black.
See, that's the opposite advice I got all week.
They're going back to the old house this week
to do one of the guest bedrooms.
This is the reset. Yep.
This is where they need to go back,
build their confidence back up to then finish the house.
You know what you're doing. Like, the judges have just confused you.
You're overwhelmed and confused.
Just do what you think, because at the end of the day,
if it doesn't work, at lease YOU love it.
MAN: Do you reckon you got another three weeks in you, Shaz?
Uh...I don't know if I have another three weeks in me,
but I don't give up.
So, like, I can't see myself not finishing, um...
..I don't know if I can be more broken, to be honest,
in this process.
So, maybe there'll come a point where I just become numb.
(THUNDER RUMBLES, DOG WHINES)
# 100 bad days made 100 good stories
# 100 good stories make me interesting at parties... #
SCOTTY: Welcome back to The Block Tree Change,
where we've been experiencing a particularly cold and wet winter.
SARAH-JANE: The mud is just everywhere.
It's been everywhere for two weeks.
The mud has me at breaking point.
Not The Block, the mud.
I'm cleaning it this week. I'm putting childproof bloody doors up.
TOM: Where are you getting them?
I'm bringing those plastic pink ones from home. I'm putting it up.
That's it. You're not going past.
I'm just gonna... No-one's coming.
(CHILLED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
It's Guest Bedroom Week, but being a public holiday today,
there's not a tradie in sight.
How nice does it feel with no cars, no 9:00 and 6:00, no nothing?
I know, I know. It's tight.
You know why I'm happy? 'Cause Keith and Dan are not here today.
(LAUGHTER)
(RECORD SCRATCHES)
I hate to break it to you, Oz, but Keith is on site,
and he wants to make sure
everyone takes this rare opportunity to clean up...
MAN: Some of the houses are starting to look a little bit tip-esque.
Yeah, all the houses look like tips.
Time to clean up!
..starting at House One.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS)
I'm just popping around site, just seeing what everyone is doing,
and as usual, you are cleaning up.
Yep. You aren't wasting any time.
No.
You haven't got any demo to do this week either, have you?
Yeah, here.
Oh, you're in here? Yep.
That would be this guest bedroom at the front of the house.
Mate, I was gonna do a sneaky today, but I didn't wanna piss you off.
What were you gonna do?
I was gonna get up there with a recipro
and cut one row of nails out and just drop that whole wall.
What - just let it collapse? BOTH: Yeah.
You can't do that, mate! (LAUGHTER)
Well, it's a perfect day to do it. It's dangerous!
Nobody's around.
No. You need to pull it down piece by piece.
(CHILLED MUSIC)
After Keith already told me no,
I said, "I want this wall down. I'm gonna ask Dan."
Got permission off Dan. Yeah, you can.
It's like when your mum says no, so you go ask your dad.
That's exactly what we did, and Dad says yes.
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Mate, I cut it, and that whole wall just went boom!
Timber! It was so good.
(GLASS SMASHES)
How good's that?
Nice, mate!
I love doing demo.
It's so...you just...you feel like you're accomplishing something.
It's really good.
MAN: It was so good, you did it again.
Oh, yeah, I did it twice, didn't I?
(GLASS SMASHES)
That was...awesome!
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
This is the best public holiday I've ever had.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Go on, roll your eyes again.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
Today is an absolute clean-a-thon.
Everybody's getting stuck in,
removing the ridiculous amount of leftover rubbish
they've accumulated on their properties.
Well, almost everybody.
(WIND WHISTLES)
(CROW CAWS)
(WIND WHISTLES)
Oz! Omar!
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Oh!
MAN: So, today's been a good day?
Today's been, yeah, one of the best days on The Block that we've had.
Fantastic day.
Last week the boys had a shocker.
They didn't finish Hallway Week and they came last at judging.
Get in the hole!
Hellway Week, upset about how things went down last week.
Why not?
Omar's like, "Golf, Oz?"
I'm like, "Omar, golf. We've got the time. Let's do it."
(LAUGHTER)
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Back at The Block,
everyone's guest bedroom is located in the existing house.
This week, Scotty gave us 15 grand.
House Four's guest bedroom is located at the front of the house,
opposite the master.
It's the House Decider Challenge room
that Ankur and Sharon renovated back in week one.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Ta-da!
It does feel country. Yeah.
But I'm not sure which continent that country is on.
(NEALE LAUGHS)
So, this week we're doing a kids room.
I'm so excited.
How cute is that little rocking chair?
DYLAN: Oh, that's sick. Do you like that?
The hat stand?
That could be next to the desk.
Then you can put a schoolbag on it, a hat.
Yeah, yep. It's kind of cute, hey?
Grafico wallpaper there. Mm-hm.
Hanging chair in the corner over there.
Today I just got everything organised.
I ordered my bunk beds,
all the sheeting, all the accessories, all the kids' stuff.
I just got everything organised
so I could just be on the tools and help Dyl for the rest of the week.
We built a whole house together from scratch.
So, we're in our element when we're working together.
We work well together too.
Yeah, we actually work so well together.
Dylan and Jenny's bedroom will have wainscoting,
a feature wall of wallpaper behind bunk beds,
a hanging chair, study desk, and white cabinetry.
Yeah, we just want it to be a fun zone for the kids to play.
(GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Over in House Two,
Ryan and Rachel are also doing a kids' bedroom,
which is located on the northern side of the old house.
We have been so excited for this kids' room.
This is a room that we have been thinking about
for weeks and weeks and weeks.
Been talking to our kids about it, you know, we're making them a room.
What do you want in your room?
If you could have anything in your room, what do you want?
We wanted it to be magical, whimsical.
We had a design consultation with our five-year-old
at the start of the week.
CHILD: I want...we want... I want it to have a slide.
BOTH: A slide?
And ladder.
And...a ladder?
And if we can't climb down, we can use the slide.
Oh, so...hang on.
So, you want beds that you have a ladder that goes up one way
and a slide that comes down the other?
That's actually very good! That's a great idea.
That's actually a great idea.
OK, what if we have a wall
and you can actually colour in on the wall?
No!
OK. OK.
Well, then, we'll scrap that. That's gone.
Evy, what colour should we do the room?
I want the wall blue!
Blue! Yeah!
Good...spot on, bub! Good choice.
And, Evy, do you want gold or silver?
Silver! Yes, Evy Jude!
Good girl. Well done, bub!
'Cause those things are already in production.
We luckily already had a blue wardrobe.
We luckily already had designed silver on our wallpaper.
Thank goodness,
because Blockheads aren't allowed to get design help from their rooms.
I'd hate to have another cheating scandal on my hands.
House Two's kids' bedroom will have a wall of blue cabinetry,
tree canopy and silver constellation wallpaper,
bunkbeds, and several activity stations.
We can finally start to put it together
to show them when we FaceTime them.
They're so excited. Mmm.
Next door in House Three, wallpaper is also on the agenda.
Sharon's original idea was to go with a classic paisley design,
but today she's not so sure.
SHARON: As you can tell, I'm all over the shop,
because I keep second-guessing myself,
because Shaynna hated my hallway.
MAN: Oh, no.
So, this is the room. Oh, fantastic!
House Three's guest bedroom is located next to the master suite,
and Sharon's aiming for a versatile space.
How are you gonna appeal to the buyer?
So, it's about trying to be universally cute, I think.
So...to give the intention that it could be for anybody.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
OK, so, the colour of the cabinetry, I would say, is closest to that.
Yeah, correct. So, that's what you said this morning.
Yeah. Yep. So, I threw that one in.
Yeah, thank you.
But then your original...you were all about the lilac this morning.
Yeah. Yep. So, I've put those in there.
Whatever we do on the walls, even if it is a beautiful pattern,
I think we need to pull it back a bit.
So, I am leaning towards a grey.
Do you think it's OK to do grey in a kids' room, though?
Yeah, totally. This does pigeonhole it a little bit.
Yeah.
But then, once I saw this printed, I actually like this one.
I know. (LAUGHS)
I do like this, but what era do you think that is?
It's a very old, traditional pattern.
Don't hold me to it,
but I think Sharon and Ankur's guest bedroom
will be wrapped in some type of wallpaper pattern and wainscoting,
teal blue cabinetry with open shelving,
a queen size bed, and rattan furniture.
Kind of, like, an enveloped room
that's really nice, cosy, calming space
for kids, teenagers, toddlers.
Yeah, just a functional space for, like, just not, like, babies.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Coming up...
The word 'dodgy' is coming out a fair bit,
which is completely against what Oz and I do.
If you say it to, like, a Lebo, or an Afghan,
or someone of a complete different colour and culture,
it's...it's very different.
('DRINKEE' BY SOFI TUKKER PLAYS)
SCOTTY: Welcome back to Guest Bedroom Week,
where everyone's working in the existing house.
A guest bedroom involves nothing! It's amazing!
It's a walk in the park compared to the last three weeks.
Tom and Sarah-Jane's guest bedroom
is located at the front of the house, next to the bathroom.
I've got, um...wardrobe, wardrobe, wardrobe, wardrobe.
So, four of the wardrobes like that, open shelf, OK?
(YAWNS) Yep.
'Cause I wanna display some toys, 'cause this is gonna be a nursery.
Cool. Thoughts on that?
Cool. Whatever's cheapest.
White walls. Grafico wallpaper on the roof.
Well, they're gonna love you this week.
Why? Why don't you do that big wall?
Well, I just mean Grafico are gonna love you this week, installing it.
Ahh.
Bed here. Happy days.
No, there's no bed. It's a Moses basket.
There is no bed. This is a nursery.
Oh.
House One's nursery has a wall of cabinetry with open shelving,
wainscoting on the walls, a comfy feeding chair,
a Moses basket, and wallpaper on the ceiling.
Who's Moses?
(SIGHS)
Anyway, enough about Moses.
(UPBEAT GUITAR RHYTHMS)
Omar and Oz have returned from the golf course...
Morning, lads!
..and they're keen for a catch-up with Foreman Dan.
What's happening? Just wanted to have a chat, man.
It was very important to speak with Dan.
We didn't see eye to eye last week.
So, on Saturday night last week,
I had a bit of a discussion with Oz
around the laundry that they were delivering...
..and it just wasn't quite up to their standard from previous weeks.
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.
We're not hid...so, you're saying we're hiding it now?
You are. We're hiding it?
You are trying to hide mistakes.
So, you're telling me now we're trying to hide mistakes?
Yes. Well, you're (BLEEP)!
I'm telling you, you're (BLEEP), because how could you sit there,
looking me in the eye, telling me that we're 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 - is that what you're trying to say?
Yes, exactly what I'm saying. (BLEEP)!
Exactly. (BLEEP)!
Keith's done it once or twice,
and then you probably have done it a couple of times as well.
It's just the things that you've been saying
that have come across, like, pretty hurtful to both Oz and I.
What's that?
You pretty much saying that,
"Oh, you're covering up a problem with a problem."
Yeah, I did say that - I admit I said...and that's how I kind of...
..I probably shouldn't have articulated in that way.
Yeah.
There are problems in there
that I thought we couldn't solve that night.
Yeah.
That's probably the way I should have said it. I apologise for that.
The word 'dodgy' is coming out a fair bit,
which is completely against what Oz and I do.
That's the last thing we want is people to see us, we are dodgy.
I don't even think I said 'dodgy' on Saturday night.
We're saying this across the board. It's not just your house.
So, that word could have been used in four other houses.
It's very easy to go to House Two,
where Matty from Elevate is building, and you say he's dodgy,
and it probably won't trigger anyone watching it from home,
but if you say it to, like, a Lebo, or an Afghan,
or someone of a complete different colour and culture,
it's...it's very different.
So, like, we were extremely thankful for us to get on the show
and actually express ourselves,
and just the fact that you guys keep mentioning that,
which is most likely gonna be played on TV,
and it's just gonna look like,
"Oh, yeah, two wogs again doing dodgy (BLEEP) on TV,"
and that part is the most hurtful for us.
I'm telling you, the things that were said to me -
I don't know, Oz would be the exact same - growing up, as kids,
like, the racism that we felt...
Oh, it's ridiculous!
Like, even when I was on the footy field,
I would be standing on the footy field, and I would be getting...
..I can't even say it on TV, the stuff that we were getting called,
and I don't want that, honestly.
We genuinely don't wanna sit down on TV,
and our family and friends are watching this,
and another million or so people,
and they sit down and be like,
"Oh, those two (BLEEP) wogs on the show being dodgy all season."
We've both got kids.
We honestly don't want our boys to watch the show and to be like,
"Oh, yeah, my dad was on that show,
"but they made him look like one, two, three,"
or, "They talked one, two, three about him."
And then anyone that's potentially watching it
comes to auction and be like,
"Oh, why the (BLEEP) would we buy that? It's a piece of (BLEEP)."
It couldn't be further from the truth, thinking that way,
what you're thinking, OK?
Like, that's not who I am, as a person.
Like, I don't care who you are, where you're from,
what you believe in, or whatever it is.
It's got... like, I take all that away.
I respect you guys. I respect your culture and everything about it.
We know so many kids that get literally put aside
because of where they're from.
Nine out of ten kids in the area -
like, they don't feel like Australia is fair, honestly,
and that's coming from...
Which...which it is.
..the multiple school visits that we've done,
the multiple times we've actually interacted with these kids.
They do not feel like Australia is fair.
They feel like Australia is full racist,
and everything that happens is against them.
We wanna change people's perspective of two young Muslim kids
that are just, pretty much,
trying to, like, lead a pathway for other kids
that probably just don't see it that this could ever happen.
I want you guys to finish an amazing room -
an amazing house, to be honest with you.
And I believe that, and I say that to everybody,
that these guys are here, on our side.
And you...like, you've had a week
where youse didn't get quite over the line
and you probably thought we were coming...
..everyone was coming like that,
but that happens everywhere else as well.
Yeah.
So, it's just the nature of... of The Block, to be honest.
So, please don't feel like we're just...
..it's all coming towards you guys.
It's probably great that Oz and Omar and I, we had that chat.
It's a difficult chat to have,
especially about culture and religion, but it clears the air.
Things have been said,
and it's just about forgiving each other and just letting that out.
It's always good to speak out. Never hold things in.
And that's it - we did that today. He's happy, we're happy.
I'm just here to make sure you deliver the best product possible.
And we're honestly here to change people's perspective
of how they see people like us.
('HOLY GRAIL' BY HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS PLAYS)
Oh!
SCOTTY: It's Guest Bedroom Week,
and Ryan and Rachel have woken up with a spring in their step.
Recharged.
MAN: Recharged? Ready to go.
I got up this morning. I had a lemon water.
I had a muffin.
We cleaned up yesterday.
Fresh sheets on the bed.
We cleaned up inside, man.
Inside was almost as bad as this.
I'm good! I feel, like... I don't know.
Normal.
While contestants continue working in the existing houses this week,
The Block bullet train keeps moving forward.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
I know there's a crew coming around to start doing our floor,
our veranda floors.
Correct - 25 chippies will be on site today,
building verandas around all five houses.
(WHOOPING)
Over in House Four,
they're saving on trades by demoing themselves.
(JAUNTY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
No trades today, just me and Jen.
So, yesterday being the public holiday,
Jen, and no-one here,
Jen could have a bit of quiet time and order everything,
and so, therefore, she's nail bag on today.
JENNY: What the hell?
Someone's taken my nail bag off the straps and...
What? What happened?
Pinched!
This morning I found out that my nail bag had been taken.
I'm not sure by who,
but, yeah, someone took my nail bag.
It's so annoying.
That's not easy to take those straps off. Like, that's an effort.
Someone...like, whoever it was, would have known what they...
Like, why would you do that?
So frustrating.
My second nail bag gone.
Why do my nail bags always get stolen? Yours don't.
(BIRDSONG)
(DOG BARKS)
KEITH: Hey, Dan. Do you know where the boys are?
The boys? I think they've just gone to McCafe...I think.
They should have been at prestart. So, I came here at 7:15.
DAN: Keithy, look at this.
(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
OMAR: The outside of this house is disgusting.
Like, we probably have had no time to do any cleaning last week,
and even then, before that,
we've had the kitchen and living, which have been massive.
So, the timing of being able to, like,
step away and clean a full site outside is very tough.
We put two big Bingo bins here for you guys to fill.
That didn't happen, big fella.
No, it didn't. What happened?
No, we needed a day off, to be honest. We gave ourselves a strike.
(LAUGHS) You went on strike? Yeah, man.
After Hellway Week, (BLEEP). Hell Week.
That was a...that was a big week.
We've had a massive week.
It took it out of both of us,
and it was just a very, very hard week, it was.
So, you needed a restart, a refresh, is that what you needed?
We needed a refresh.
Yeah. OK.
Needed a refresh, just to balance
the physical and mental health, mate.
So, it was very important to have that.
That's fair enough.
Now, we don't wanna shut you down,
but we've just asked the guys to clean up before they start.
That's a good call. That's a fair call.
Yeah?
It needs to be clean. It does.
We get that.
New week, mate. New start. Let's get into it.
# Do it right
Do it right
# Uh... # Yeah, baby!
# Ohhh... #
So, the boys can go back to work, mate.
Done. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
The boys are doing something different this week.
This week was a guest bedroom.
Omar and I decided from week two
that we wanted to add another living area.
So, we are not presenting a bedroom.
You know, the buyer may, you know, open it as a bedroom later on,
but we are selling the house it being a living room.
House Five's second living room is located in the existing house,
next to the main bathroom.
Oz and Omar's living room
will feature a wall of exposed cabinetry and shelving,
a fireplace and television, wallpaper, and a sofa.
It's just a really, really cosy room.
Sometimes you just wanna chill in small areas.
While the boys hope having extra living pays off on auction day...
..over in House Two, they're sticking with a bedroom,
and Ryan is cracking on with demo...
That's it.
Alright, drag to me.
..while Rachel hits the shops.
RACHEL: So, I'm doing a kids room,
but I'm not having built-in bunks,
I'm not having built-in anything.
I'm keeping it so that if the people who buy the house
don't have, want, like kids,
it can be easily transformed.
So, this is what I've got in mind.
I've got some beautiful Grafico wallpaper,
and it's stars and trees,
and I had a look, and I'm thinking - the moon.
Magical, whimsical.
That's exactly what I'm going for.
Me and SJ just decided to go shopping together again.
By "deciding to go shopping together",
I mean I go to a shop and she rocks up ten minutes later,
sniffs around, and just sees what I'm picking.
Do you want me to show you one thing that I got?
Yeah, what's one thing that you got?
I got this.
Oh, I feel like a kid would love that!
Mmm. Ohh, that's cool!
Don't go upping your game now.
You really love balls. (LAUGHS)
You know, I just like balls hanging from the roof.
You do. You had those balls... on the...in the kitchen.
I had the balls in the kitchen. Yeah.
No. No! (LAUGHS)
No! OK? No.
It's OK, 'cause I see a whole other ones
with love hearts and stars and everything.
Where? Just joking! (LAUGHS)
Gotcha! (LAUGHTER)
Bitch, you made me run! Alright. (LAUGHS)
Coming up, a huge problem has been discovered in House One's hallway.
Every room coming off that Hollywood
is either 15mm high or 15mm low.
Tommy, mate, we have discovered some major issues here.
TOM: Yep.
KEITH: Problem is, there's a lot more.
It gets worse here. (CHUCKLES)
I've never seen a hallway this bad on The Block before.
(DOOR SLAMS)
(BIRDSONG, DOG BARKS)
# Here we go So, good job
# Best face on, everybody
# Pretend you know this song, everybody... #
SCOTTY: It's Guest Bedroom Week on The Block,
and over in House Four,
Dylan and Jenny are designing a kids' bedroom
that definitely won't be for their own future family.
(LAUGHTER)
Speaking of up late, eat your heart out, Magic Mike.
# Around here Nothing ever happens
# We spend our days in a permanent haze
# Lie back and... #
Ready? This is the old favourite.
(RECORD SCRATCHES)
Ready? Here it goes.
(YODELLING)
Now, that's a victory dance, if I've ever seen one.
(LAUGHS)
(DRIVING ROCK RHYTHMS)
So, Jenny's doing the honours
and taking delivery of their first tree...
JENNY: Whoo!
..thanks to last week's room win.
Got a tree!
We got a beast of a car, a beast of a tree,
a beast of a trailer.
# Pack and ready to go... #
We got an elm tree for our winning.
They grow 31 metres high.
So, you've got a beautiful big Dutch elm.
Yep? Wow!
She's a big one.
Oh, how pretty!
Hello, tree!
So, Inge, have you got an idea of where you'd like to put it?
I would love to make it the centrepiece
when you come up the driveway.
Yeah. What do you think, Jen?
Yeah, I think so too, for sure.
Yeah. So, I literally think just there.
Yep, there. Yeah.
Cool. Let's do it.
I think it'll be beautiful autumn foliage
when you come out in the morning.
It's big, hey?
Yeah.
Cool!
We put it right out the front of our house.
It has to be ten metres away for safety.
(MOMENTOUS MUSIC SWELLS)
Love that tree! So cute!
I'm so excited to see it when it's fully grown.
I don't know when that will be.
We'll have to be back with the grandkids.
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
Remember, I'm renovating my own house this season,
and today my builder, Duncan,
is overseeing the screed on the alfresco area.
When you hear the word 'screed', you shudder,
because it's a long, slow, painful process
that everyone in the building industry hates doing.
They do a dry mix, very little water,
and they have to get the bed perfectly level
for the tiles to go on.
But now you just gotta call this truck.
It brings the containers dry.
ScreedPro bring it all,
and they pump it through, dry mix.
Can you believe they pump a dry mix?
And these guys, all they have to do is level it, walk away.
They'll do this in a day
what would normally take eight, ten guys three days to do.
So, we're absolutely pumping at the moment.
The Cursio brothers can then tile the outside
and we're really... we're on the home stretch now.
Meanwhile, I'm in my happy place,
and I wanna put a smile back on Jenny's face
by replacing her stolen nail bag.
Filling up a nail bag.
I do like these. One of those and one of those.
Just the two electrical - Phillips and slothead.
I reckon that's gonna do us nicely.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
OK, that's Jenny covered.
What about these? The heated jackets!
It's minus two up at Gisborne! (LAUGHS)
Hey, boys, retaining wall, I'm knocking up.
I'm gonna need maybe a couple of ton of blue metal,
some ag line, and things like that.
Have you got a retaining wall kit?
We've got the retaining wall sections.
So, you can buy them individually,
and then whatever you sort of need to work.
If you need to do your 'H's, your 'C's, your corners...
Yeah, OK, really good.
Well, I'll get back to site, I'll do a measurement,
and I'll give you a buzz as soon as I get there.
Beauty. Easy done.
Meanwhile, back at The Block,
Keith and Dan have discovered a major problem
in House One's newly completed hallway.
Dan and I just come to actually see Tom
and see how his progress was going with his landscape.
We walked through the house,
and we noticed a number of problems,
and problems that are gonna be very, very hard to fix.
Tommy, mate, we have discovered some major issues here.
Yep.
(KEITH SCOFFS) Oh, everywhere!
We got floor heights 15mm different.
This is a brand-new build.
Every threshold should be dead level.
We got steps everywhere.
We noticed it the other night when we were putting these infills in.
So, I spoke about it with the builder.
So, Mick knew about this?
Oh, mate, it was... yeah, early morning.
We only discovered it on Saturday night
when we were doing these borders...
Does he work to an RL on his job?
Uh, yeah, we did.
We set one up when we had Screed... when we had ScreedPro here.
What you normally do in a build
is you'll have a line around the whole house.
We call it an RL line.
So, when you're doing your subfloor or whatever, you just measure down.
Right, OK, there's my finished floor height.
I've got 10mm carpet.
Then you'll put your Yellow Tongue or subfloor under that.
So, you can never make a mistake.
We're just trying to understand how he's made this mistake, I guess,
'cause it's not a... it's not a small one.
No. No.
Problem is, there's a lot more.
Gets worse here. (CHUCKLES)
We found a surface-mounted sliding door
which is literally falling off the wall.
Look at this track.
We're thinking there's no back-blocking at all.
No, we put Yellow Tongue, a whole row, through there.
I think what needed to happen -
you should have put a bit of dressed timber on the face of this wall
and then fixed the track to the dressed timber.
Yeah, OK.
It's really...the weight of it or something's
really got that on an angle.
Yeah, OK. I'd never seen that.
It's causing cracking and... all sorts of things.
Tommy's been producing an amazing house,
but we're just starting to discover some really bad defects.
Mate, we've discovered a few issues.
There's no issues, Keith. There's only solutions.
(LAUGHS MIRTHLESSLY)
I think there is. There's many issues, mate.
There's always solutions.
How do you reckon this is going?
That's not fixed to it properly yet.
No.
Well, we're just confused why it's actually doing that.
I reckon you need to put a bit of dressed timber
along the face of this, and then hang your track to that.
Yeah, like, a bit of 18mm solid? Yep.
Sort of jam. Yep.
If Tom's happy to do that, we'll bring it off a bit more. That's fine.
I don't know what's happened here with your floor heights,
but we've got, like, a 15mm step.
Yeah, well, we ran out of time the other night,
so we're gonna chamfer down that hallway board.
I've never seen a hallway this bad on The Block before.
We have a hallway with floorboards,
and every room coming off that hallway
is either 15mm high or 15mm low.
Why have we got this step going into the laundry?
Where?
Here, from a finished floor to a finished floor.
That should be flush.
They're a 25mm tile. They're a 25mm tile.
Yeah, so, why didn't we set this down lower?
We put the batons down as low as we could, down to the concrete.
None of this is making sense.
So, it's not sort of obviously a kick hazard, but otherwise...
But I'm spending four to five mil, whatever they're going for,
on a house,
I don't want little foot stutters everywhere.
You want zero... You want zero threshold.
Zero.
So, we just gotta come up with solutions.
We've shown Mick, the builder, all these issues,
and as he said, there's no issues, there's only solutions.
I don't like that saying. No.
I'm sorry, mate. I'm looking at problems everywhere.
No more shonkiness, boys.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS)
Quite an easy fix.
Just gotta pull one...the first row of tiles up and ramp it up,
which will create a threshold, which is all still aboveboard.
So, it's gonna take quite a lot to fix this house up.
It's actually quite worrying -
Tommy's been probably one of the best contestants -
that we're finding these problems.
What are we gonna discover elsewhere?
That's what's worrying right now.
(THUNDER RUMBLES, DOG WHINES)
(UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC)
SCOTTY: It's Guest Bedroom Week on The Block,
and it's also Landscaping Week.
On Sunday nights in HQ, I'm like a broken record
when it comes to reminding the contestants about landscaping.
Don't forget... don't forget...don't forget...
to save some money for landscaping!
Don't spend it all, please... please...please.
Think about Landscape Week.
I know you don't think it now,
but believe me when I say time is literally running out...running out.
(WIND BLOWS)
Now we're nine weeks in and it looks like time has run out.
Today I'm worried,
and Foreman Dan is so worried,
he's put a call into my landscaper, Dave Franklin,
who's been keeping a watchful eye on everyone's progress.
DAN: 3.5 weeks till we sort of finish here.
I'm looking at the landscaping, mate.
I'm getting worried. What are your thoughts here?
DAVE: (PHONE) Mate, I'm as worried as what you are at the moment, mate,
but, you know, we have spoken to all of them
and said, "Listen, you gotta cut your landscapes down."
But I don't know if anyone's listened to me.
I don't think we got enough time.
Mate, there's not a hope in hell they're gonna finish, mate.
I can tell you that right now. Wow!
Because as I said, mate,
even if they have an army of 50 guys there...
Yeah.
..there's still at least two months of work up there, mate.
They should have been thinking about this from the very start,
and now we're at a point where there's 3.5 weeks to go.
A lot of this isn't achievable. It's not gonna happen.
From the beginning, everyone had grand plans for their property.
OMAR: A beautiful gym.
Tennis court, but not only just for tennis -
soccer, basketball.
Sunken lounge that walks on to a path through.
Helipad. Yeah.
We've got a dam - someone could have a wedding there -
and then this could be, like, the wedding house,
and maybe do a few, like, outhouses.
A horse stable. 40 or 50 trees.
MAN: We're doing a market garden.
In-ground trampoline
and a quarter basketball court.
SARAH-JANE: Lots of trees.
Vegie patch near the kitchen area.
Horse stables.
In-ground fire pit.
A shipping container pool is a pool made out of a shipping container!
We have an acre of pinot going in.
Yeah!
Grand plans indeed,
but right now, everyone's house is a mud pit.
We actually think we're making good progress,
even though, when you look out there,
it's just still big piles of dirt.
It's all gonna start coming together.
(WIND BLOWS)
Things aren't going that well
if you ask Ryan and Rachel's landscaper, Matt.
We haven't... taken anything off just yet,
but by the end of this week,
we will have to have a sit-down and go over our plans and whatnot,
and, yeah, I guess make some hard decisions.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
House Two's landscape plans include a shipping container-style pool,
a timber deck for al fresco dining,
and the star of the show -
their 20-grand Suncorp Game Changer vineyard.
I met with Tom,
the actual guy that's gonna build our Game Changer vineyard.
I'm looking forward to seeing where the vineyard's going.
Oh, no, this is our most excited part of the project, to be honest.
We really wanna try and nail...
We walked around the site with him and Matty,
and basically nutted out where it's all going.
North-south.
Which will look nice from the house too.
And it all comes down to the dollar factor, of course.
You know, it's crunch time on the landscaping.
You have to be concerned about your budget,
and you have to be concerned about the time.
It's hard to try and work out,
"OK, boys, get in there and get things done,
"but also don't spend any money."
In House Three,
Ankur and Sharon's landscaping consists of...
(MOURNFUL TROMBONE MUSIC)
For the first time ever in The Block,
we've been allowed to start landscaping from the start,
which is awesome,
but then we don't really know what the budget for landscaping is.
House Three's landscaping wish list
includes a plunge pool, a vineyard,
an olive grove, a basketball court, an in-ground trampoline,
and their Game Changer market garden.
Our landscapers have been asking for mater...
..they can't actually start certain things
until payment's made for materials that they need,
and obviously we have no money.
So, we are probably gonna end up
with that one winning tree out the back of my house, currently.
MAN: Just try and straighten it up a bit.
Yeah, I know. (SHARON LAUGHS) Yes. It's symbolism.
So, just to confirm, no money fairy is coming?
No money fairy's coming.
(LAUGHTER) Are you sure?
Why are you laughing? I don't know.
Next door in House Four,
Dylan and Jenny have been working towards their landscaping goals
from the beginning.
Scotty pretty much said from day one,
"You have to start your landscaping."
So, we've been paying our landscaper a lump sum each week.
House Four's wish list includes a pool,
a half-court basketball court,
a vegie garden, an orchard,
and 45 trees will be planted along the driveway and fence line,
but with all the mud,
it's hard to see what progress has actually been made.
So, Dan's approached landscaper Inge for an update.
How do you think you're going here?
I think I'm fine. You do?
Yeah. I think I'm fine. You think it's still achievable?
I think we will have to revise quite a number of elements of the design.
The only thing that I'm actually seriously worried about
is the weather side of things.
I definitely think we'll finish.
Inge's been going for five weeks.
I don't see how these guys are gonna have a change in three weeks.
Yeah.
We might get the Ranger here.
Might get the Ranger! (LAUGHS) That's what we want.
The Ford Ranger prize for landscaping is a massive incentive,
as House Five's landscaper knows well.
Award-winning designer Christian Jenkins
won Front Yard Week and the Ford for Mitch and Mark last year.
Can he do it again, with less than four weeks to go?
MAN: You're coming off at a Block winner...
Yeah.
There's a lot of risk for you, isn't there?
There is, and I'm sensing that, you know,
'cause I can't deliver something extraordinary.
I'm gonna have to present something really nice.
Back in week three,
with a couple of bathroom wins under their belt,
the boys had extravagant landscaping plans
that even included a helipad.
(OMAR MIMICS SCHWARZENEGGER) Get down! Get down to the chopper!
(LAUGHTER)
(SIGHS) Due to budget, um, coming down very hard on us,
we had to remove our slab for our sauna and gym.
But the boys are still dreaming big.
('PLEASE' BY JESSIE WARE PLAYS)
As well as the helipad,
they're hoping to have a 40-foot swimming pool,
a multipurpose tennis and basketball court,
and a par three golf hole.
We wish we started earlier,
but I reckon, with Christian Jenkins on our side,
we'll definitely get it done.
Yep.
It's risque!
This could just be turned around with...before judging,
and it's, um... (LAUGHS)
Who knows what it's gonna be like?
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
But as usual, it's House One that's ahead of the pack.
Tom and Sarah-Jane have won 70 grand in prize money alone,
and they hired their landscape designer Troy Lovett in week one.
Here we are at House One, and I'll be honest -
we're gonna finish The Block in under four weeks -
this is the only house I think is gonna actually finish proper,
because you look at the landscaping -
they've achieved so much already.
We got the fire pit wall going in here.
We got the little walkway with pavers going down.
In the background, the basketball court's gonna be laid today,
and then they've got all rock retainers at the back done.
These guys are miles ahead of everyone else.
Mate, you are smashing landscaping. Yeah, it's going well.
Yeah! Yeah.
I'm impressed, buddy! Yeah, cool.
As well as the basketball court,
Tom and Sarah-Jane are also adding a veggie garden, a pool,
plenty of lawn and trees, and even a horse paddock.
(HORSE NEIGHS)
But despite being ahead,
Tom and Sarah-Jane are still worried about budget.
SARAH-JANE: We're nowhere near as bad as other people.
Like, we've been really, really blessed.
I've still got, like, some money in the landscaping account.
That's not empty either. I've got some savings in there.
MAN: Is anyone else having issues with budgets?
I've done the maths myself,
and this isn't from them telling me,
because everyone is sometimes a bit coy about their...
They'll be like, "Oh, yeah, we're in the red.
"We're in the red, like, five grand."
And I'm, like, to myself... I don't know about that,
because me and Tom are getting close,
really close, on the borderline,
and we've won over $70,000.
Some people would have to be 40, 50 grand in the red, full stop.
There's two things at play here.
We're running out of time, we're running out of money.
That's a deadly combination.
(DRAMATIC STRINGS PLAY)
SCOTT CAIN: Tom and Sarah-Jane asked for an audit of everybody
to see how we're going with our budget.
We discovered... (ESCALATING OPERATIC MUSIC)
The money's now gone.
VOICEOVER: The budget's blown.
After that news, it's devastating. We want to do well.
Now, they're turning on Scotty.
How did we pay for our landscaping if most of us are now in the red?
It's not fair, we need to be able to pay people.
How are we going to finish?
It's mutiny on The Block.
Pull back - you're going to have to pull back on everything.
It's an absolute kick in the (BLEEP)!