The Block AU Season 20 Episode 37
The Block AU S20 Episode 37 - Guest Bedroom & Laundry Week
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00:00Previously, this week, the week from hell, the toughest week on the block, it was the
00:09domain challenge, the hallway week, the rumpus week, the study week, resulted in the toughest
00:17judging for the rumpus room in office.
00:20This is functionally useless.
00:24And while two houses rose to the challenge, it's a tie between one and three.
00:30Carly and Brad fell from grace.
00:32I hate this place.
00:34I got absolutely annihilated.
00:36I don't want to be here.
00:38You're either with me or you're not with me.
00:40What do you mean?
00:42You know exactly what I mean.
00:48Tonight on the block, it's the final week inside.
00:52Tonight on the block.
00:54On the block.
00:55Lots to do, so little time.
00:57And the final chance to create the house with the winning edge at auction.
01:01We have grand plans.
01:03I hope that the judges will walk in and be like, we love it.
01:06But for the sisters.
01:07Hope you have some good news for me.
01:09Will ambitious plans.
01:10I don't.
01:11End in tears.
01:13It's just all over the shop.
01:15Cover week.
01:16Duel dinner parties.
01:17Wowee.
01:18To the bottom three.
01:22We'll see all stars arrive.
01:24How good.
01:25Yeah, man.
01:26Our tensions between teams continue.
01:28It's been tough.
01:29A few of the teams don't like them.
01:30Yeah, it's been pretty tricky.
01:32They're just young and I just don't really have anything in common with them.
01:35I can't have too many friends, okay?
01:37And with just a month to go.
01:39Where are you guys off to?
01:41Home.
01:42We'll go home.
01:43We'll go home.
01:44Will one team throw it all away?
01:46I guess there's only so much someone can take.
01:48I don't know where that limit really is.
01:50I can't do this without you.
01:52Just come with me.
02:09After completing two rooms last week,
02:11this morning houses one and three
02:13are bathing in the afterglow of last night's joint win.
02:17There he is.
02:19Mate.
02:20I'm here, mate.
02:21I'm here.
02:22I thought I'd hand deliver a freshly made McCafe coffee.
02:25Thank you, mate.
02:26I need one this morning.
02:27To celebrate.
02:28I know.
02:29And got a tent.
02:30I know, mate.
02:31We loved the feedback last week.
02:32Thoroughly enjoyed doing this room
02:33and I think the judges could see that.
02:35This is so smart.
02:36Entertainment.
02:38Yeah.
02:39This is what you call a leg of your own.
02:41To get that elusive win and a tent on the board
02:43in a room we really wanted to do
02:47Felt unreal.
02:49Good morning.
02:51How are you both?
02:52Good.
02:53Very good now that I'm $15,000 richer.
02:57We're very happy to win and get a tent.
03:01That was pretty cool.
03:03Marty Fox loved the idea of the external staircase
03:06and the guest retreat.
03:08This is a massive selling feature.
03:10Changing that window to a door, it's genius.
03:13It's a game changer.
03:16I guess that was the first time
03:17that they would have heard of that
03:18so I think that was kind of exciting for them.
03:20Yoo-hoo!
03:21This is a winner's.
03:23Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
03:25Knowing that you've won, it just makes you feel like,
03:28okay, I'm on the right track,
03:29the judges like what I'm doing, they see my vision.
03:32So yeah, it kind of gave us a pep in our step.
03:34Oh, hey, winner.
03:35Hey, winner.
03:36Winner, winner, winner.
03:37At the other end of the spectrum, a house five
03:40who placed last after failing to complete the office
03:44never impressed the judges with their rumpus room.
03:50I feel deflated.
03:52I woke up today really emotional because of the judging.
03:57I'm genuinely standing in a displacement.
03:59It's so basic.
04:03I think we deserved what we got, having not finished a space.
04:07And now that I've woken up,
04:09I'm feeling all those judges' comments.
04:14Hello.
04:16You all right?
04:17Mm.
04:18What's wrong?
04:21I don't know.
04:22It's a tough start to the week
04:24when that's the feedback that people are getting.
04:30Hey, come on.
04:37Down the road in house four,
04:42Kylie's slipping in after placing second last.
04:47Monday morning, Kylie, what's your vibe?
04:49Monday morning is I don't really want to be here.
04:54The feedback was brutal.
04:57Why am I sitting 30 centimetres off a glass balustrade
05:01looking over the living area?
05:03Savage.
05:04This is...
05:05Weird.
05:06I'm saying ridiculous.
05:08What was it?
05:09Worst room ever.
05:11Yeah.
05:1210 out of 10 for creating the most uncomfortable room
05:15we've seen this season.
05:16Ouch.
05:17That's bad.
05:18Well, that's hard to hear.
05:20Body odour-wise.
05:26And then there's house two,
05:28who came third but felt they should have been first.
05:32I'm going to get a coffee. You want one?
05:34Yeah, just order me one.
05:36Order you one? OK.
05:37I'll just get out of bed.
05:41We were raging.
05:42I think the most frustrating part is that we stuck to the brief.
05:45We provided an office and an office room
05:47and I don't think they really wanted an office.
05:50It feels caged in.
05:53This ceiling is so close here,
05:55it will actually boom and go down,
05:57so your conversation will be heard at the lounge room.
06:02I don't know.
06:03I'm looking forward to seeing the other rooms, though.
06:05I'm keen to see what a 10 looks like.
06:11The first house being inspected is house one,
06:14who secured the win, and a 10,
06:17thanks to the guest retreat concept,
06:19with a rubbish room featuring a study desk
06:22and a private entrance with seating areas.
06:24You could separately house people in here in privacy.
06:29The judges think, from a buyer's perspective...
06:31This is a massive selling feature.
06:33Nice.
06:36I just want to dance
06:37I don't want to die
06:38No more living in a battle
06:42Is this their rumpus room?
06:44This should be, yeah, like a rumpus room.
06:46Yeah.
06:47I like this lounge.
06:48It's nice.
06:49They laid it out really well.
06:50It's a good desk.
06:51Perfect desk for that space.
06:53Yeah.
06:54Yeah.
06:55I'm the type of person that's happy to admit
06:57if somebody's got a better room than we do
06:59or they've got a more functional room or a better-looking room,
07:02and there's been times over the last 10 weeks
07:04but there are times, and this week being one of them,
07:07where it's like, how did you place the winner on them?
07:13Just checking it's real.
07:15Oh, this is nice.
07:19I like it.
07:20Wait, they got a 10.
07:22Yeah.
07:23No, it's not a 10 to me.
07:25Yeah, I think that was a bit of a far-fetched 10.
07:30Jeez, this is nice.
07:32That's perfect.
07:34Oh.
07:35That's a 10 from Marty.
07:54For me, I'm better off not saying anything to anyone
07:56because I'm either going to say something that I completely regret
07:59or you say it in the moment and then you look back
08:01and you're like, wow, that was really out of line.
08:05Yeah, right.
08:08Is this what they expected?
08:18The part that secured the win was the private entrance idea.
08:22They have opened up a massive amount of possibilities
08:26by changing that window to a door.
08:28It's genius.
08:32So wait, they've got another sitting area.
08:35This is a bedroom.
08:37So the entry, I'm going to assume, is through there.
08:41For the stairs?
08:42Through there.
08:43That's actually really smart what they've done there.
08:45So you've got stairs, you've got your own bathroom,
08:47own sitting area, own bedroom, own living.
08:49And they can shut that off.
08:51This could literally be like a separate Airbnb.
08:53Another Airbnb.
08:54Yeah, that's cool.
08:55Well done.
09:01So that's where the stairs are going.
09:07That annoys me.
09:14Your face says it all.
09:16I said nothing.
09:17Oh, good.
09:19We tried to get a door to our upstairs and we were told no.
09:23Oh, really?
09:24And the fact that they got it and they come in in, like, what, week five?
09:27We were trying to get external stairs so that way you could access
09:31the mezzanine and have its own self-contained bedroom.
09:35But we would have been adding an entire door,
09:37which means it would have been fully re-engineered.
09:39Yep.
09:40And there were decisions that we had to have locked in
09:42in the first, what, four weeks?
09:44Yeah, before the girls even got here.
09:46So it's funny that they can change decisions
09:48when ours were all locked and loaded.
09:49But it makes it a lot easier for them to see
09:52where something like that might go in.
09:55And then they have the freedom to change it at this point.
09:59We had that all approved as well, but just f***ing funds.
10:03Well, that's the main reason we didn't.
10:05Yeah.
10:06It's money. How do you get money to do that?
10:07Well, they're getting tans.
10:09And they said their style's vanilla every other room.
10:12It looks exactly the same as all the others.
10:14Like, I understand they're coming late,
10:16so I guess they do need some kind of say.
10:18Morning.
10:19Morning, guys.
10:20Hello, hello.
10:21I'm not going near the girls.
10:22So, yeah, it's hard.
10:26MUSIC
10:28Sharing the win was House 3 with their rumpus room
10:30adjoining a games room.
10:33They had me at Street Fighter 2.
10:35MUSIC
10:38The fact you've got Street Fighter, you've got Pac-Man,
10:40you've got Phillip Island on the walls.
10:42I reckon people would buy this for their family
10:44and say, bring all your friends.
10:46Your fellow winners, the girls, Maddie and Charlotte at House 1.
10:49What did you think of their space?
10:51I'll put it this way, it wasn't as good as ours.
10:53MUSIC
10:56Oh, wow.
10:58Oh, OK.
11:00Well, it's not what I expected.
11:04I don't know how that works.
11:05They're plastic chairs.
11:08You just want to play it, don't you?
11:10MUSIC
11:13Ah!
11:14Functionality, like, things like that, kind of...
11:17You're going to get a pole through the wall.
11:19Yeah, that's going to be definitely a pole through the wall.
11:21But, yeah, look, overall... Good job, boys.
11:23..I think it was good.
11:25Like, all this graphic on the walls.
11:27And ours was polarising.
11:29I never know what the judges are going to say.
11:32It makes no sense. It makes no sense.
11:34I'm not commenting cos I just don't know what to say.
11:37You can make a games room really nice in a multimillion-dollar home.
11:41You could do a beautiful pool table and a bar and whatnot,
11:45but that wasn't that.
11:47In third place was House 2's
11:49Mediterranean take on a rumpus room and office.
11:52This will shoot better than House 1.
11:55Beyond.
11:56But it won't inspect better than House 1,
11:59and it comes down to the inspection.
12:01MUSIC
12:11Hmm.
12:13OK, that's nice.
12:15Oh, that's a lounge.
12:18Oh, mate, green's in.
12:19How good is that?
12:21Mate.
12:22Right?
12:23Classic Courtney. She's created a beautiful room.
12:25Yeah. No, this is cute.
12:27I'm a fan. I don't really have anything negative to say about this.
12:30We loved it. It was beautiful.
12:38Why's everyone got the same star?
12:40They get dissed up with their voting.
12:42This is way better than the two rooms that we've seen so far.
12:46This is worth a bloody 10.
12:48I feel like a lot of their rooms have been worth a 10.
12:52I feel like we're creating really nice spaces
12:55and everyone's coming into our room saying,
12:57you know, how aren't you guys winning more?
12:59It just seems odd, to be honest.
13:01I just don't know how we've gotten this far
13:03without what we've had, two wins.
13:06Christian and Mimi have actually had the most wins,
13:09followed by House 1 after last night,
13:11who are now equal to House 2 and House 4.
13:14And at the bottom of the ladder is House 3.
13:17So two wins so far is actually not a bad result,
13:21considering the judges felt their office needed a rethink.
13:25Love walking to a possible therapy session.
13:30I've been living with Rikki for a little while now.
13:32Mm-hm.
13:33Obviously getting to know him a little bit more.
13:35Mm-hm.
13:36Living with him for the past few months.
13:38Mm-hm.
13:39And, um...
13:41Mm-hm.
13:42He just leaves at random times.
13:44I don't know when he's coming home.
13:47I think it's great for a house,
13:49but a holiday house, I don't think it's necessary.
13:51Maybe if you were, like, a boss, like...
13:54But then I understand you'd want glass or something there,
13:57cos it's not like you're going to work or do a phone call here
13:59when the kids are running around.
14:02House 5 only completed one space on the ground floor,
14:05the Rumpus Room,
14:06which was intended as a kind of pool house,
14:09but fell short, according to the judges.
14:11If you've got a plunge pool there
14:14and you want to come in and watch TV and play games,
14:17don't you want to have surfaces
14:19that kids can be in their bathers and have a good time?
14:22Isn't that what they're trying to sell?
14:26All right.
14:27Ooh!
14:29Is that a ship?
14:30That's fancy, isn't it?
14:33This is very nice.
14:35I love it.
14:37Yeah, I understand what they're saying.
14:39It's almost, like, too perfect.
14:43Out the rooms everyone is dying to see are in House 4,
14:46who crashed and burned at judging
14:48thanks to their confusing office and living space.
14:52I don't understand why there is a couch
14:55up against a glass balustrade.
14:59Wait, they got slammed for this sitting up here?
15:03Why?
15:04I don't know.
15:07I like it.
15:08I love it.
15:10It's cute.
15:11Yeah, right.
15:12Oh, OK.
15:13I always agree with the judges' feedback.
15:15The judges' feedback is their personal opinion
15:18based on their expertise,
15:20so I'd never argue with the judges.
15:24Sometimes they're harsh, but that's because they're judges.
15:29Hear ye, hear ye!
15:31That is odd.
15:32That is odd.
15:33Why would you sit there watching everyone?
15:35That's kind of creepy.
15:36Kylie and Brad's house.
15:38The judges didn't love it.
15:40We didn't love it.
15:41I feel like the space didn't function as well as it could have.
15:46It looks like a handbag.
15:47It looks like a dress or a handbag.
15:52Adjoining the office is the Rumpus Room,
15:54which didn't impress the judges either.
15:57Oh, wow, I don't get this.
15:59From a couple that understood scale, this is blowing my mind.
16:04I feel like they could have done, like, a big dressing table there.
16:08That's a bit random.
16:10And I don't really like that track lighting.
16:12It's a bit random.
16:13Shocking.
16:15Hmm.
16:16Interesting.
16:19Coming up...
16:20It's what I was thinking.
16:21It's the last week inside the houses.
16:23It's bittersweet knowing that we're finishing the inside.
16:26I don't know, I feel like I'm going to cry.
16:29And guards are down.
16:31We all had the exact same opinions on everything, basically.
16:34That the winners were undeserving.
16:35Yeah, that was beer.
16:38But is the island about to lose another team?
16:41Are you sure you wouldn't walk away from this with four weeks to go?
16:44I don't know.
16:45I'm like, what are we doing?
16:46I know you want to leave.
16:48I don't know.
16:58By this coming Sunday, the interiors of the houses will be complete,
17:02as all that's left to do are two final rooms.
17:05So we jumped on the main Minnow Hub.
17:07It was the laundry and remaining bedroom week.
17:11It's time for your laundry week.
17:14The laundries are located behind the kitchens in houses one to four.
17:19And house fives is in the ground floor bedroom zone.
17:23And for houses one to four,
17:25the guest bedrooms are the final piece of the mezzanine puzzle.
17:29So this week will determine
17:31whether the top level is a masterpiece or a mistake.
17:36And in house one, the sisters are feeling the pressure
17:39to complete their highly anticipated guest retreat.
17:42It's not like a standard bunk bed that you just put a bunk bed in.
17:45It's like an elevated bunk bed.
17:47It was really important for us to have a space
17:49that obviously had a bathroom,
17:51a chill area,
17:53a bar with, like, you know, your sink,
17:56a microwave, fridge, coffee machine, all those things,
17:59and was able to sleep four people.
18:02So we had a lot of things to put into a relatively small space.
18:06Completed so far are the sitting area
18:08at the top of the external staircase,
18:10the rumpus room and the ensuite.
18:13What's left to do is the bedroom.
18:16And in order to fit everything they want in,
18:18the girls are planning to put two beds on one wall,
18:21one elevated 2.4 metres above a wardrobe.
18:25On the other wall will be a kitchenette,
18:27enabling the guest retreat to be fully self-contained.
18:32All they need is the sign-off from foreman Dan
18:35that the bunk bed is compliant.
18:37Morning. How are we?
18:38Good morning. How are you, Dan?
18:39Good, good.
18:40Hope you have some good news for me.
18:42I don't.
18:43Oh, really?
18:44Yeah, actually.
18:45Your bunk bed, the height of it is the main issue.
18:47OK.
18:48So a normal bunk's, like, 1.6.
18:50It's already at 2.4 plus a mattress, it's 2.7.
18:53Something that tall, it actually needs a proper staircase to it.
18:57OK.
18:58Actual balustrading, which is not going to happen.
19:00So essentially you're not going to get your design
19:02underneath that you want with the wardrobes.
19:06Drawing board.
19:08Who knows where we'll actually end up?
19:11We have grand plans.
19:13But not everyone loves our grand plans.
19:18In house two this week,
19:19Cook and Grant will produce a second main bedroom
19:22to go with the oversized ensuite they built a few weeks ago.
19:27All right, second main.
19:28I feel like that will create enough of a main suite
19:32with a large bathroom.
19:33And still have the landing area outside
19:35that can be used as a rumpus room slash addition to the bedroom.
19:39So what I was thinking, when we walk in, bed will be here.
19:44Along this back wall here, we'll do maybe, like, a linen...
19:47They've actually got a textured linen fabric that they can use.
19:50The linen wallpaper will act as a bedhead
19:53paired with a green feature wall.
19:55They'll only be able to fit a queen bed into the space
19:57because they need to squeeze a wardrobe into the room.
20:00Something the judges picked up on during the rumpus room reveal.
20:04The judges all wondered if you were to put some joinery in this space
20:08for wardrobe storage,
20:09you could still make this area into a private second main bedroom suite.
20:14I actually want a king bed.
20:16Bingo.
20:17I don't want to overdo it.
20:18Feature wall's going to, I think, add a lot.
20:20Yeah, look, every time you've kept it, like, simple but elegant,
20:23I think that's where you guys are getting good points.
20:26Awesome. Thanks, guys.
20:27Love it. Thanks, Andy.
20:30This bed will bring some graffico through there,
20:34palm trees or something.
20:36Done.
20:37Which wall?
20:38See if we can do a couple.
20:40The same thing, too.
20:42The boys are maximising the number of beds
20:44by adding a pull-out trundle underneath the bunks.
20:47A smart move when it comes to marketing the house in the domain listing.
20:51You want to have, like, two big families
20:53being able to sleep comfortably in a holiday house.
20:55So, obviously, this is going to be our second bunk room.
20:59And obviously having a bunk room, too, next to that rumpus area, too,
21:02so the kids can obviously be playing in the rumpus room
21:04and then sleeping next door into the rumpus room sort of makes sense.
21:09Things are a bit different for Christian and Mimi in House 5,
21:12whose rooms are both downstairs.
21:15Their bedroom is at the front of the house
21:17after they swapped the position of the rumpus room and bedroom last week
21:21so that the rumpus was near the pool.
21:23And the judges did not approve of the floor plan tweak.
21:27If you are going to change the floor plan to your advantage,
21:30you have to blow us away.
21:32But they are running with their floor plan swap,
21:35putting this week's bedroom where the rumpus room was meant to be.
21:39So we've got kids in robes going here
21:41and then what we're going to do is we're building, like,
21:43a little nib wall for the bed to sit on.
21:45We've got lots of natural light coming in with the two windows.
21:49By building the nib wall,
21:51which will be finished in their signature Porta Timber,
21:53there will be no going back to the original floor plan
21:56of this being the rumpus room.
21:59But Christian and Mimi are sticking to their guns.
22:02Lots to do.
22:04So little time.
22:05We switched the rumpus and the guest bedroom
22:08and I hope that the judges will walk into our guest bedroom
22:11and be like, OK, I get it.
22:14We love it.
22:15But I don't know.
22:17I'm not going to get my hopes up.
22:21Next door in 4,
22:23not only are Kylie and Brad not taking the judges' advice
22:26for their plans in the laundry and bedroom,
22:28the Queenslanders currently have no plans at all.
22:32It would have been better off just presenting a painted room.
22:35It's ridiculous, man.
22:43Where are you guys off to?
22:45Home.
22:47Right, home.
22:50We'll go get Beaumont out of the way and now...
22:54Drop Kylie to the airport?
22:58Well, she wants to.
23:05Surely you wouldn't walk away from this with four weeks to go.
23:08Who says I'm walking away? I just want to see my family.
23:11Simple.
23:13We're really missing you guys
23:15and it's hard being away from you guys.
23:19I miss you too.
23:21Are you OK?
23:23Yeah.
23:25We didn't ring to make you sad, buddy.
23:28I'm sorry.
23:36Yeah, I guess we were sort of hopeful
23:39that we would see them earlier in the show than this.
23:43I don't know.
23:46I don't know.
23:47Especially after hearing feedback like that,
23:49it sort of makes you question...
23:50Why are you here?
23:51..what's more valuable.
23:52My family's more valuable, not this **** hole.
23:55**** me.
23:57So, it's even...
23:59Yeah, it's hard.
24:04I guess there's only so much someone can take
24:06and this isn't a situation where we've ever been in before,
24:10so I don't know where that limit really is.
24:18Don't.
24:26I know you want to leave
24:28and I know you deserve to.
24:32I can't do this without you.
24:34Just come with me.
24:37We've worked so hard for this.
24:39Do we not deserve a chance to win money?
24:43It's the whole reason we came here.
24:47It's the only thing that makes any of this worth any of it.
24:53All I wanted was my family.
24:55I just want to see the kids.
24:57And then when you're told all this negative feedback
24:59and I'm like, what are we doing?
25:10See you, mate.
25:11Thanks, mate.
25:12No worries.
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25:35contestants can find my tips
25:37plus all they need to know for another big week of renovations.
26:02Is it hard seeing him that upset?
26:08Come on, let it out.
26:10Come on, let it out.
26:13Yeah, it was really hard seeing Brad upset.
26:20I guess the only thing that helped me change my mind.
26:29How's it going?
26:31You're over halfway.
26:33We are definitely over halfway.
26:34That's exciting.
26:35We're over it.
26:36No.
26:37You can strive to the end.
26:39You guys will be fine.
26:41I then had to make a decision
26:44of what we're going to be tiling the laundry with.
26:47Yeah, pick the black ones.
26:49We'll just do VJ paneling.
26:50I'll just paint it all black.
26:52All black.
26:53You want it all black?
26:54Like I care.
26:56Like, no one f***ing cares.
26:58I get in trouble no matter what I f***ing do anyway.
27:01You pick.
27:02I'm going to go send the car.
27:07Yeah.
27:14Grant, automatic sink mixer in the laundry?
27:17Yeah.
27:18Yeah, let's do one of them.
27:22We don't have a lot to do today.
27:23Yeah, it'll be short and sweet.
27:25Jesus, Brad, where'd you come from?
27:27Inside.
27:28No Kylie today?
27:30No.
27:31She's in the car.
27:32I can see her green hair.
27:33Is she?
27:34She's sleeping.
27:37Hi, Michelle.
27:39Hello, Michelle.
27:40The Pompeii.
27:41Yes, one of your favourites.
27:43I love it.
27:44It's so nice.
27:45So we've got this one in stock
27:46if you wanted to put this in the laundry floor.
27:48It's a beautiful tile anyway,
27:49so it will just tone in nicely with everything else.
27:51Courtney and Grant's laundry
27:53will fit into the space under the stairs.
27:55The Pompeii floor tiles
27:57will contrast with a bold stone bench and splashback,
28:00and they'll include a drying cabinet in walnut cabinetry.
28:05Also tile shopping for their laundry are Christian and Mimi.
28:09Is that the finish for the skirt?
28:11Tiles?
28:12Yep.
28:13All right, done.
28:14Beautiful.
28:15They will have the most spacious laundry,
28:17a long bench and overhead cabinets
28:19finished in ported timber.
28:21It'll also feature a steam cabinet and hanging space.
28:26We're selecting tiles.
28:27And whilst we're making these selections...
28:31Mm-mm, mm-mm.
28:33Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm.
28:37A frightening clown...
28:38Creepy dude.
28:39...enters.
28:40You hate clowns.
28:41I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like,
28:43I don't like, I don't like, I don't like.
28:45I don't like creepy clowns.
28:47He's holding a bunch of balloons and just being weird.
28:56There's a random clown.
28:58There's a random clown.
29:00Let's take a selfie.
29:05Is it a dad?
29:07Oh, it's a dad.
29:09It's dad.
29:10That is Daniel, our foreman.
29:12It's me.
29:13It's me.
29:14It's me.
29:15It's me.
29:16It's me.
29:17It's me.
29:18It's me.
29:19It's me.
29:20It's me.
29:21It's me.
29:22It's me.
29:23It's me.
29:24It's me.
29:25It's me.
29:26It's me.
29:27Our Phillip Island friends.
29:28This week's challenge is to plan and host a carnival stall of your choice.
29:32So he announced that there's a challenge on Thursday at the fun fair, and we have to
29:36create a stall.
29:37Alright, see you guys.
29:38That's it?
29:39I'm scared.
29:40Are you actually driving like this?
29:41No, I need a lift.
29:58Jesus Christ!
30:01What is going on?
30:05I don't like clowns.
30:10This week's challenge is to plan and host a carnival stall of your choice.
30:15Your beauty!
30:17Just don't scare the kiddies like you just did mate, rolling in ears.
30:22Be traumatized.
30:27I just don't know how I want this.
30:29We were in the midst of planning.
30:35And then all of a sudden a clown jumps out of nowhere.
30:37Is that some money?
30:39Is that 5 grand?
30:41Oh, you're actually dead!
30:43Oh my god!
30:45Before Maddie and Charlotte can think about the challenge.
30:47No, we have been talking about
30:49the bunk bed scenario though.
30:51I'll leave it to you mate.
30:53They need to lock in the design for their bunk beds.
30:55Which was knocked back this morning
30:57due to the top bunk being too high.
30:59The new version is just lower
31:01and it has
31:03a wardrobe behind still.
31:05Yeah, not going to get knocked down.
31:07We're just going to keep rolling with the punches
31:09and hopefully
31:11it will pull through.
31:13In order to lock in the new lower bunk idea
31:15Charlotte needs sign off from Kingsman
31:17that they can make a shorter wardrobe
31:19to fit under the bed.
31:21I've got your plans.
31:23What height do you want to try
31:25and reduce them to?
31:27We're going to try and go for 1.8
31:29but it might have to go down to 1.6
31:31so under that.
31:33From our perspective, it's not going to happen.
31:37If you reduce that hanging space
31:39then you can't physically hang anything in there.
31:41Have you got another wall
31:43you can put them on?
31:45No.
31:47That's our problem.
31:49Sorry.
31:51Thanks, bye.
31:53There was just a million
31:55things that were like,
31:57you can't do this,
31:59you can't do that.
32:01So then we were like,
32:03what can we do?
32:05In House 1
32:07They can't cut down the wardrobes.
32:09What?
32:11The sisters are yet to lock in a room design
32:13for their mezzanine bedroom.
32:15I really need to go.
32:17They have to drive to Melbourne
32:19as tonight is their joint winner's dinner.
32:21We didn't bring any duck soap.
32:23Leaving the builders
32:25without a signed off plan
32:27for the bedroom.
32:29We're going to have to do it again.
32:31We're going to have to do it again.
32:33A signed off plan for the bedroom.
32:35Ooh, X-Men.
32:37Let's go.
32:39If you can sort the climate out, I'd appreciate that.
32:41Yeah, I'll do that.
32:43You just focus on the road.
32:45Yeah, that's what I focus on best.
32:47Ricky and I had some bonding time.
32:49So have you got a partner
32:51in Sydney, back home?
32:53No, I don't have another partner.
32:55Single little Pringle.
32:57Single Pringle?
32:59Single Pringle. Have you got a little partner back at home?
33:01Uh,
33:03no, not really.
33:05Not really? That's not convincing.
33:07Drive was good on the way there.
33:09I drove our Everest and
33:11had a good chat with Maddie.
33:13No one has asked us anything
33:15about us. Yeah. Nothing.
33:17And I find it actually very interesting.
33:19I haven't spent a lot of time with her, so
33:21trying to break down those barriers.
33:23Everyone was like, who are these people coming
33:25into the show? Oh, I'm sure they were.
33:27Which was a hard position for us.
33:29It's been hard for you. Oh, so hard.
33:31And I still like suffering the consequences of that.
33:33Like, in terms of like,
33:35you know, you guys have that close connection
33:37and you have that friendship.
33:39And you know, you've bonded. Maddie and Charlotte
33:41came on the show and said that
33:43they're accountants. They've obviously got a little bit more
33:45experience than just being an accountant.
33:47Like, I'm not going to walk into a competition
33:49and go, hey everyone, I'm new here.
33:51I know you've all been working for like four weeks
33:53and you must be exhausted, but just let me know.
33:55I actually have an investment property.
33:57And we've actually also both sold
33:59the property. Like,
34:01hi everyone.
34:03We're also very dumb, so we haven't like
34:05I just left uni.
34:07You've done a lot for what you've
34:09how many years you've been on the air for.
34:11Yeah. Seriously.
34:13We had a good chat.
34:17Because we came last,
34:19we had to host dinner again.
34:21Because we hosted last week too, because we came last last week
34:23as well. Cooking again.
34:25No we didn't. Yeah we did.
34:29It was living dining, we came last.
34:33Did we? Yes.
34:35Oh wow.
34:37On the menu we had pork and fennel meatballs
34:39with mash. Where's pork?
34:49Delicious.
34:55Oh it's pretty fancy here.
35:01Oh ladies, come on in.
35:03Hello.
35:05Here we go.
35:07Is this a bit fancy?
35:09This is the fanciest joint in Melbourne.
35:11How have you guys been getting on
35:13house one and three? Pretty good.
35:15Opposite ends of the block mates are getting along well.
35:19Knock knock.
35:21Hello.
35:23Hello.
35:25Welcome to another Chumps dinner.
35:27You've been hard working.
35:29We've got beans
35:31and mashed potatoes.
35:33We're at a hatted restaurant.
35:35It's Middle Eastern.
35:37A bit dry but
35:39one of those ones.
35:41It's like I'm in prison.
35:45We are in prison sort of.
35:47That this restaurant
35:49suits to a tee.
35:51Block winners 2022
35:53baby, Omar and Oz.
35:55Let's go.
35:59Here they are.
36:11We met Omar and Oz
36:13so that was cool to see them.
36:15What's happening guys?
36:17It's all happening mate.
36:19Fresh prints.
36:21We're bringing it back brother.
36:23How good.
36:25We even compared ourselves
36:27to guys like Omar coming onto the block.
36:29Best mates here for a good time
36:31and to enjoy the journey
36:33and also play the game.
36:35Hi.
36:37Hello.
36:39How are you guys?
36:41How are you guys?
36:43Would you like a beer?
36:45Yes I would love a beer.
36:47What did you get?
36:49Everything.
36:51I thought it was a really good dinner to be honest.
36:53Do a bit of that prison meal.
36:57Oh wow.
36:59Oh my goodness.
37:01It's Shane.
37:03Owner and chef Shane D'Elia.
37:05Talk us through it buddy.
37:07There's a bunch of things on the menu.
37:09Flatbread with za'atar, some roasted capsicums.
37:11The fish on the other side is really beautiful.
37:13It's got a spicy sauce on the bottom with a pineapple tabbouleh.
37:15I feel like I'm at home.
37:19Yum that's good.
37:21Boys let's get some block advice.
37:23That's what we want.
37:25Well firstly you need a lot of this.
37:27Oi.
37:29Well there you go.
37:31Five grand each from Ford.
37:33Splitting the winnings.
37:35That's what you need to win.
37:37But ten grand each from Arnott's and Big Bicky's.
37:39Look I love Tim Tams but I love this more.
37:49It was a very interesting morning of walkers.
37:51That's it.
37:53That is all I will say.
37:57I don't know what the judges were doing before.
38:01We all had the exact same opinions on everything basically.
38:03That the winners were undeserving.
38:05Everyone agreed that the judging was not fair.
38:07Yeah that was BS.
38:09It is what it is really.
38:11It's ridiculous.
38:13It is what it is.
38:15I see a bit of cheekiness coming out of you guys.
38:17You reckon?
38:19Yeah man.
38:21We started off pretty rough.
38:23And then you just found your...
38:25Sisters 22 and 24.
38:27That's young isn't it?
38:29Very young.
38:31It's a tough experience.
38:33How are you guys coping?
38:35It's been tough.
38:37A few of the tubes don't like them.
38:39Yeah we still don't.
38:41We still give it a hard time.
38:43It's been pretty easy.
38:45But we'll get there.
38:47They're just young.
38:49And I just don't really have anything in common with them.
38:51You mean they don't drink?
38:53Exactly.
38:55They don't drink alcohol and they don't drink coffee.
38:57How do you socialise with people like that?
38:59You can't.
39:01Woo!
39:03We're in the bottom together.
39:05I'm nice enough to them.
39:07I just...
39:09I can't have too many friends okay.
39:19The winners have
39:21woken up a world away after a night
39:23in the city.
39:25What steering is off
39:27if you're hanging off the side?
39:29Okay.
39:31I think we're making a fool of ourselves in a fancy place.
39:33It's alright. I can't do that with ease.
39:35And they're hitting the road
39:37back to reality.
39:39Do you want to order on the MyMackers app
39:41so it's nice and quick?
39:43I am starving too.
39:45Need a coffee as well.
39:47Got our code?
39:49What was the code?
39:51JS33.
39:53Ah, I've been called worse. That'll do.
39:55Here's your coffee. Thank you.
39:57Thanks so much.
39:59Cheers.
40:01Back on the block,
40:03House 2 have woken up
40:05with a new perspective on their judges'
40:07feedback.
40:09I think initially you get defensive and you're just like
40:11well that's not right.
40:13But the judges are judges for a reason.
40:15If we can take on bits and pieces of it
40:17then I think it's fine.
40:19Those bits and pieces
40:21will allow them to create space for a king bed
40:23in their mezzanine bedroom
40:25by moving the wardrobe into the rumpus room
40:27and closing it off with a full wall
40:29and door.
40:31The way it's sort of been presented to us is that
40:33that room would actually form part of your bedroom.
40:35You put your wardrobe out in there
40:37and you've created a suite.
40:39House 2's upstairs main suite
40:41will now feature a sitting area with a wardrobe,
40:43a spacious bedroom with a king size bed
40:45and their already completed
40:47oversized ensuite.
40:49What we'll do is keep that door
40:51built in cabinetry will go in here
40:53as the wardrobe and make that
40:55a bigger master bedroom.
40:57While the girls have been away,
40:59Builder Dan has
41:01come up with a new plan for the bunk beds
41:03pending sign off.
41:05Okay, show us the plans.
41:07What have you been working on in all this time?
41:09So we have
41:11settled with a more
41:13simpler version
41:15and we hope it is like
41:17just enough for like a guest retreat
41:19but also practical.
41:21The latest version has a double above a queen
41:23with a ladder to the left
41:25and wardrobe to the right.
41:27We wanted to have like a beautiful retreat where it felt really luxurious
41:29but also it's a holiday house
41:31you want beds, you want it to be practical
41:33so there's an element of luxe that you kind of
41:35miss out on when you're putting a bunk bed
41:37in a room. We're still waiting
41:39for approval about our bunk beds.
41:41So if that goes to plan
41:43then I think we can catch up but if not then
41:45we may as well
41:47just put a bed in there or a bean bag.
41:51I don't know what I'm doing this week.
41:55We're feeling pretty down about our budget.
41:57Can't even remember
41:59if we won because the budget doesn't
42:01look like we've won anything.
42:03Used everything that I've been
42:05provided, except for rugs, maybe I could just
42:07put a room of rugs.
42:09Completely annihilated our budget.
42:11Used it plus some
42:13and some and some.
42:15I think everyone's in the same boat.
42:17With two very
42:19expensive landscaping weeks fast
42:21approaching, one way to make some money
42:23is to win the upcoming funfair
42:25challenge with a standout stall
42:27idea. See if we can hire
42:29a dunk tank because that's
42:31within budget. Coloured balloons
42:33and then you have the five
42:35house colours. You pop the balloons
42:37and whoever gets a certain amount
42:39that house wins.
42:41We don't have to worry about prizes.
42:43Then why would people come to us unless they're offering prizes?
42:45Mimi's doing
42:47a dunk tank. A what?
42:49A dunk tank. A what?
42:51Dunk tank.
42:53But it's freezing!
42:55You're going to give the kids pneumonia!
42:57Not the kids, they're throwing and then
42:59I'm getting people.
43:01Would you like to participate?
43:03Would it be hot water or
43:05cold water? It would be ice water.
43:07Ice water? Definitely not.
43:11What are you doing?
43:13You want to bring bags of insulation up for me
43:15to put in the roof?
43:17I guess the turnaround for me
43:19was you just have to
43:21snap out of it and know the reason
43:23why we're here. And we're here
43:25because we're trying to make a better
43:27life for ourselves and our kids.
43:29So with our
43:31bedroom upstairs, we have
43:33a massive window that overlooks the
43:35community pool.
43:37So I thought we'd build like a
43:39So I thought we'd build like a
43:41day bed. And we've got a long, tall
43:43cupboard next to it. And we're
43:45going to do a really bold, striped
43:47Grafico wall.
43:49Brad didn't like
43:51the idea of it because we're limiting cupboard space.
43:53Like, I like the idea of it
43:55but we're going to get hammered
43:57for no storage.
43:59So then I came up with the brilliant idea that I'll
44:01just find like a dresser or something
44:03that you can put the rest of your stuff in.
44:05What are we looking for?
44:07Chester drawers, you reckon? Chester drawers.
44:11Oh, you think I haven't googled it?
44:13Oh no, you're on Facebook.
44:15Here we go. No!
44:17Here we go. Oh, the purple one!
44:19Here we go. Perfect!
44:21I will
44:23get to the end.
44:25One way or another.
44:37In the history of the block,
44:39contestants have faced
44:41many worthy adversaries.
44:43Are we close, Art?
44:45I don't think so.
44:47Art, perhaps not as difficult to conquer
44:49as the Australian standards
44:51for bunk beds. It's pretty
44:53stringent, all the things it says you've got to go
44:55through in there to make that compliant.
44:57Yeah, yeah.
44:59I personally don't see how
45:01that can happen. What's in the book
45:03is the testing
45:05that needs to be done. The physics,
45:07how wide does the ladder have to be,
45:09what kind of ladder is it, what kind of railing
45:11has to be on it? It's pretty stringent,
45:13all the things it says you've got to go through in there
45:15to make that compliant.
45:17I don't feel confident in putting
45:19my name to it. I've got so much to do than
45:21sit here and read 42 pages
45:23of Australian standards on bunk beds. Yeah, I understand that.
45:25I've built houses.
45:27On bunk beds. Yeah, yeah.
45:29Aidan was pretty hesitant to put his name
45:31towards any kind of structure
45:33that was built him. So there's no
45:35way in any kind of orientation that you could
45:37really do a built-in bunk on the block because
45:39the way I'm reading him
45:41is there's no way you're building
45:43a bed above you.
45:45Right. Yeah, that's
45:47a little bit stressful
45:49and I think we begin
45:51to start feeling it and be like, okay,
45:53maybe this is a bad idea. How far do you
45:55push this? Out the girls
45:57builder, Dan, has come up with
45:59a solution. So my
46:01father-in-law
46:03is an engineer. He can certify it.
46:05I've just got to give him this book.
46:07Does that mean that his name goes on it forever if something
46:09happens? Well, he'll certify the bunk bed
46:11that it complies.
46:13You can't actually certify bunk beds.
46:15It's the hardest thing to find in Australia.
46:17He needs to read this tonight.
46:19Some light reading proof. Yeah, he'll love it.
46:21Dan's favourite line was like,
46:23we may have lost the battle, but we
46:25will win the war.
46:27Hello to your favourite people.
46:29Howdy. How you going?
46:31Are you thrilled to see us?
46:33It depends what you're going to say.
46:35We're not going to say those words.
46:37No, we just want to ask
46:39a question.
46:41I can get an engineer
46:43to certify the construction of it.
46:45Right. Obviously, you've got to approve of
46:47all this stuff. Yeah.
46:49So I've sent him a couple of pages.
46:51Can we have a cup of tea?
46:53I've sent him a couple of pages.
46:55I've sent him a couple of pages of it all.
46:57He hasn't got the full context of this either yet.
46:59So if I can borrow this tonight, that would be really great.
47:01So I'm pretty much saying we're going to get
47:03a structural engineer to certify
47:05that last design and tick off all the stuff.
47:07We don't have to go back to...
47:09I think that will put us in a much better position.
47:11Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
47:13I appreciate your time. Thanks, guys.
47:17It's tools down on another day on the block.
47:19The mezzanine bedrooms
47:21are really starting to take shape.
47:23Except for house one,
47:25because they don't have a locked-off design yet.
47:27We don't have a concrete plan at all,
47:29and it's just messy.
47:31And, like, I can't order my artwork
47:33unless I know what we're doing.
47:35I can't order the beds, the bedside tables.
47:37Like, the wardrobe people are being like,
47:39where are you putting your wardrobes?
47:41I'm like, I don't know.
47:43So it's just all over the shop.
47:45In just over two and a half weeks,
47:47these five houses will be complete,
47:49just so long as everyone can afford
47:51to finish them.
47:53Budgets are running dangerously close to empty.
47:55Ah, evening.
47:57Evening.
47:59So I'm offering a life raft.
48:01Sorry to take you away from the job,
48:03but an important announcement to make.
48:05Over the last couple of months,
48:07Jo from finance here
48:09has been keeping a very tight eye
48:11on your budget.
48:13And she's been tracking them
48:15by tracking your spending on Xero.
48:17It's not about how much you spend,
48:19it's more about how well you spend
48:21and whether you're paying your bills on time.
48:23So Jo,
48:25without naming names,
48:27how are they going?
48:29I'm happy to say that the majority of them
48:31are actually pretty on top of it.
48:35It's your lucky day.
48:37Because Jo and I,
48:39we're going to forget all your past mistakes
48:41and we're going to give you a fresh start.
48:43And this time next week,
48:45Jo is going to check out your budget
48:47and see how well you're doing.
48:49The team that does the best,
48:51paying their bills and all that sort of thing,
48:53will win...
48:57their Xero Hero medal.
48:59And they also come
49:01with something else, Jo.
49:03$10,000 cash from Xero.
49:07So there's two Xero medallions
49:09up for grabs,
49:11as well as a $10,000 prize.
49:13There you go, there's an incentive
49:15for business for a week.
49:17$10,000 would be amazing for us right now,
49:19considering we haven't won.
49:21We need money.
49:23Okay, that's it. See you later. Thank you.
49:33I said from the start, $250,000
49:35was not enough to do these houses.
49:37Pond Bank's total budget.
49:39Yeah, they've got more money than that.
49:42The only way to finish is to win.
49:44The thing is, this is not enough
49:46to build that beautiful house. No way, Jo.
49:48You know that. We're going to win.
49:50Challenges, room wins, all that sort of jazz.
49:52And tomorrow night, that becomes
49:54oh so very clear.
49:56There's only that amount of money left,
49:58and when you get to it, you're at it.
50:00We need to win the challenge.
50:02Your challenge today is to create
50:04your very own funfair stall.
50:06Of course, the team that does the best job
50:08will win $10,000.
50:12With some budgets running on empty.
50:14We're 10 grand behind.
50:16Front yard right now.
50:18Others are cashed up.
50:2065k last week,
50:22that's put us
50:24in a very, very good spot.
50:26So winning is no longer a bonus.
50:28Yeah.
50:30So a win this week is imperative.
50:32Yeah.