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Previously on The Block... It's so much harder

in real life than what you see on TV.

..Hellway Week kicked off.

We've got laundries, we've got powder rooms,

mud rooms, we've got breezeways.

This house is huge.

And it's already living up to its name.

Hate it.

The problem is, we've put plastic over it, we haven't it

weighted it there with anything.

I can't be bothered. You weren't the other night

when it was hectic, so...

You've gotta laugh - if you don't laugh, you cry.

I'm so over it, babe. I wanna go home.

Five more minutes!

Tonight...

It's Wednesday and I don't even think we're halfway.

..the Blockheads scramble to get on top of the mammoth task

I've set them this week. There's a lot going on

in here at the moment.

Can you please grab me another liquid nails?

You're running out of time for painting.

You've got a lot of painting to do.

It's actually kind of overwhelming.

Also, House Three begged for forgiveness.

I really think that it's a true misunderstanding,

because we are really grateful for everything you did. We are.

And... Challenge day.

Let's win some money.

..teams get the chance to win some much-needed cash.

It's not as easy as it seems.

Which way do I turn, Tom? Turn right. Right.

Come to us, come to us.

(LAUGHTER)

(GROANING)

(LAUGHTER)

('COLD AS ICE' BY FOREIGNER)

It's freezing.

Absolutely freezing.

# You're as cold as ice

# You're willing to sacrifice our love

So cold.

Look at that. James Hardie wrap.

How good. # Cold as ice. #

The Blockheads are now into the eighth week of their builds,

and at this stage of the competition,

everything is amplified.

Budgets, or lack thereof, strategies and competitiveness.

From Week One, winning first bathroom,

literally we had a target on our backs.

We are a massive threat. Honestly.

Yeah.

Sunday night, I found out Omar and Oz

had broken one of the Block rules.

How are you affording this piano?

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

I know what they retail for.

$7500 is what we got it for.

That's impossible.

They retail for $36,000.

Can anyone tell me what the rule on The Block is?

I think it's rule number three. Does anyone know the rule?

CONTESTANTS: 50 percent. Of?

The retail price.

A grand piano.

Like, they were just taking the piss at that point.

So because they paid less than half of retail price for the piano,

I disqualified them from winning,

deducting three points, and told them

to pay back the $10k discount they received,

which they promptly did.

The boys have fronted up with the $10,000

that was missing for their piano,

so they're now even-steven and square.

The piano stays, happy days.

Good on you, boys. Yes.

But in the wake of PianoGate, last night at

the Winners Are Grinners dinner,

Sarah-Jane called a financial audit on all the houses.

I would like to call a financial audit.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

OZ: Ooh.

An audit. (LAUGHS)

I wonder who that was for.

(DISCHORDANT PIANO)

Honestly, it's just a baby grand. What are you picking on it for?

All it does is play itself.

(LAUGHTER)

She came from the position of, look, if House Five didn't know

that you've gotta pay 50 percent retail,

who else doesn't know?

(PIANO NOTES)

So that was her positioning, and we all agreed with her.

Is anyone else on board, if you are,

put your hand up. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's only fair.

OK, cool.

Alright.

So all the teams have agreed to open their books

and let me and Jo from Finance take a closer look.

TOM: I think House Five didn't seem too fond of it.

Don't know why. Nothing to hide, you shouldn't have any worries.

I think it's good that everyone now gets a financial audit,

see if everyone's been doing stuff on an even playing field,

so happy days. Do you expect anything to come up?

Yeah I think stuff might come out.

I believe

Omar and Oz may have a few things to hide.

A lot of what they have done and achieved doesn't make sense.

I think it'd be fair to say people are just wondering how invoices

are getting paid in general,

when people aren't really winning stuff.

And then when Scotty talks about PianoGate, I was just like,

this is an example of why people want a financial audit.

So I did it.

It's gotta be fair for everybody, and it's not...

It can be taken personally or whatever, but it's not personal.

It's just that at the end of the day, we're all here to win.

OZ: Sarah-Jane always has something to say. She's funny.

Sarah-Jane. She's cool.

She's cool but too extra.

(LAUGHS)

Nice to meet you. How are you doing?

Oz and I came on The Block as two funny guys that are

literally gonna have a laugh,

and then lo and behold, we're getting 9.5 every week,

and we're making rooms with judges turning around, saying,

'This is chic as (BLEEP).'

These guys are not only the Bathroom Kings,

they will be the Block Kings.

We need to win. There's only one spot at the first seat, mate,

so let's get it.

So we're more than happy

for a financial audit. There's nothing to hide.

With so many spaces to complete this week,

Omar and Oz don't have much time to focus on the audit.

In a little over four days, they need to reveal their hallways,

breezeway, laundry, mudroom, and powder room.

It's a big week. It's massive.

We should be starting already. I know.

Oh, well we got shut down yesterday, three times.

Hey. We're not meant to start until 9am.

It's only Wednesday.

We're still shut down. Literally, we cannot do anything.

House Five were in all sorts of trouble yesterday,

with their site getting shut down several times

by Foreman Dan.

No one's working this house until 9am tomorrow.

No one. 9am? Until 9am tomorrow?

Two-hour shutdown tomorrow.

So after losing a whole day of building, it's really important

for the boys to get back on track today.

Honestly, I'm not stressed, Omar. You know we are not stressed.

We've got this.

Today's gonna be the biggest day,

due to yesterday's delay of shutdown.

So as 9am rolls around and they can finally get back on the tools,

they've got their team together to come up with a plan of attack.

So our main aim, I need plasterers here at 12pm,

so we can plaster the laundry,

get it all ready.

We've got cladding in the ceiling going up,

we've got the hallway getting worked on,

floor getting worked on as well.

We've got a lot to get through today,

and it was very important to throw another

pre-start team meeting to make sure everybody knows their roles today,.

I think we should take two carpenters out,

literally start in that hallway, because that is a disaster.

That's got a lot of work to do, man. For sure.

So we need people to start on that ASAP.

We've got the two hallways, the breezeway,

mudroom, laundry and powder room, so,

that means a lot of work needs to be done today.

So James, you know what you're doing? Mark? Boys?

Yeah? Omar? Let's do it.

Hands in, boys. We'll do our thing. Let's do it.

House Five on three, boys.

One, two, three...

ALL: House Five!

OMAR AND OZ: Let's go! Come on, boys!

Over at House Three, with the biggest house

on The Block, Ankur and Sharon

are no strangers to delivering massive spaces.

So much to do.

(GROANS)

But this week, for the first time this season,

they have the least amount of floor space to deliver,

at 51 square metres.

Yeah, I'm a little bit stressed, but I think it's gonna be OK.

We're just trying to organise all the different elements,

because it is such a big space.

On Sunday, they'll need to present

their hallway, breezeway, laundry, mudroom and a powder room.

And with heaps of spaces, there's heaps to organise.

Getting rugs, getting art,

vanities, mirrors, as well as any items for the mudroom,

and also the fixtures and stuff, because we are doing

something different in our mudroom, which is a doggie wash.

House Three's dog wash will feature

in their combined laundry and mudroom space, which will also

include a built-in bench seat,

decorative floor tiles, and loads of storage.

Hello, Ahmed from Appliances Online.

Hey, Ahmed. It's Ankur from House Three, mate.

Just wondering where you guys are about

with all the dog wash showers, et cetera.

Mate, you're just in luck.

We're just pulling into your driveway, now,

so we'll see you shortly. That's unreal.

I just wanted to say a massive thanks.

Our dog wash is sort of

our game-changer for the week, so you guys made that happen

and come through, which is awesome.

While House Three were originally

the only team to include a dog wash in their plans, they've since

found out they aren't the only team planning to reveal one on Sunday.

House Five copied our idea.

That was my initial idea. I had my plan in

weeks and weeks ago, and I was the only one who had a dog wash.

They changed theirs this week.

Because of Sharon, obviously. Yep.

I tell you, it's a dog-eat-dog world

on The Block, and they're bloody big dogs,

and House Five aren't backing down.

We're so competitive.

Like, anything that me and this guy do,

no matter what, we wanna win.

See, look, Oz is - look at that!

Oz is switched on. Look, he's locked in.

Keep your eyes on the prize.

Early yesterday, we came up with the idea that we thought

a nice little dog bath would be awesome in our mud room.

It was just an idea, then we swung it by Keith.

He said that should be good,

so we just naturally just started working towards that.

The dog bath they're planning will be a generous size,

and the mud room will also include a built-in bench seat,

with space for hanging jackets and storing shoes.

And because including the dog bath makes the space a wet area,

their mudroom also needs to be waterproofed,

so they want to get it plastered as soon as possible.

But Keith has other ideas.

KEITH: Hey, mate. How are you?

Look, for the time being, let's not work in the mudroom.

Let's not work in the mudroom?

You've got plenty of other things to do.

Just stay away from the mudroom.

OK. There's quite a bit going on.

I'll be back.

(TERMINATOR THEME PLAYS)

Alright.

I don't understand.

What's going on?

I don't know.

Hey, we can't work in the mudroom for the time being.

How frustrating is that?

It's already been insulated, but we can't work in it.

Was there no explanation?

No explanation. That's all he said, and he walked off.

We need a new foreman. (MUSIC WARPS AND STOPS)

(LAUGHS)

While Keith initially gave the boys the OK to include their dog bath,

because it was a late addition to their plans, he didn't realise

it meant that The Block builders

would have to move some electrical boards.

Honestly, we just had a funny idea.

We'd love to have it. It's fun. Who wouldn't want a dog bath?

Just tell us yes or no.

We've already been delayed on Tuesday.

It's the hardest week, and you want to keep giving us problems.

He'll be back? 'I'll be back.

Don't work on the mudroom. I'll be back.'

Honestly, I'm fed up with this!

Hellway Week. Come on. Give me a break.

Back at the Block and the site is buzzing,

as all teams try and get on top of a huge amount of spaces

they need to deliver this week.

Coming along. Sweet.

(CLEARS THROAT) I'm just

not even thinking about

my phone or ordering today. Yep.

I'll just help you guys. Yep.

There's still so much to do this week.

It's actually kind of overwhelming.

It's starting to rain now. (MUMBLES)

House Four have a massive 40m hallway to tackle

that runs through both the old and the new parts of the house,

and they've also got to deliver their mudroom and laundry.

So, there's heaps to do to stay on track.

The mudroom, just get

the floor sheets down, ready for tiling.

The laundry, we need to get it waterproofed tonight.

And then outside in the breezeway, we'd like it to get sheeted.

Yesterday, Jenny didn't just pull the hipages lever...

Ooh! (ALARM SOUNDS)

..she ripped it out of its socket.

You broke my lever!

So the good news is that House Four

will have Jason Charles and his build team

on-site all week helping them out.

Oh, look at the McCafBe order! What's going on, mate?

You handle it, eh? Hell of a job, brother. (CHUCKLES)

It was good to get Jason and the hipages crew in,

just because they're upbeat, a few fresh faces raring to go.

Steven! Catch!

It was nice having a few more hands on deck.

Oh, look at that, Steven. Gee, they fit in nice.

Jason and his team are starting with Dylan and Jenny's breezeway,

which will connect the old and new parts of the build.

They're planning to style it with wooden floorboards,

large artwork, and a seating area to take in the view.

(BLEEP) Don't worry. Keith's not here.

(LAUGHTER)

And as well as working inside, House Four will make the most of

the hipages boys by getting them

to start cladding the exterior of their house

using linear weatherboards, which are dead-easy to install.

Even my place

has been clad in this stuff, thanks to my builder Duncan.

So we've got our display

over here, Duncan. Yes.

So you can really see

the sandy texture to it. Yeah.

So basically this is just

so much easier for builders to install.

Yeah, definitely. They can just nail it in.

It comes pre-primed.

Yep, absolutely. Termites won't touch it.

It won't rot. Exactly right.

And it has the required fire rating...

Exactly right. So that is BAL 40.

So no worries at all when it comes to your bushfire ratings.

That's fantastic.

Over at House Two, and Rachel and Ryan are still trying to

wrap their heads around the massive task

ahead of them this week.

It's Wednesday, and I don't even think we're halfway.

Keith should be here in a minute. The hallways

would have been enough, but then we're like, we'll just

throw in a laundry and a mud. You know?

Yeah, just throw in a bit of waterproofing there.

Rachel and Ryan have two hallways to deliver -

one in the old part of the house, and one in the new.

They're also planning a contemporary galley-style laundry,

with loads of practical storage.

The space will flow through into their mud room, which will feature

a built-in bench seat, and lots of space for storing shoes and jackets.

But their main focus at the moment

is getting Keith to sign off on their insulation,

so they can get their plaster up and their flooring down.

Ryan. Yes, mate?

You want your floor ticked off? Yes, please.

And inso.

And inso?

Um...

Floor's really good.

Inso, um...

I'd prefer these bats in,

because you're going to sheet both sides.

I'm in the process... Rather than having 20 inspections,

I'd rather do it all in one.

I'm doing that now. I can wait for that.

I'll tick off this area here, all that.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

And I'll wait for you to put the other pieces in.

Alright, mate. Sounds good.

A very, very big week this week.

Every week seems to be getting bigger.

While Ryan finishes the last bits of insulation,

Rachel heads off-site to pick up a very important tool

for their build. Hello!

How are we? Not too bad. How are you going?

I'm good, mate.

So I ducked out to Kennards to grab a floor-sander.

A floor-sander? A floor-sander.

That's easy done. What do you need it for?

Sanding floor.

(FANFARE)

I will show you our drum sander over here.

So they way these work, you'll have the bag over the back here.

Yep. You hook the bag up to collect

all of the sand dust. Yep.

And you'll have the drum here.

That's where you're gonna put your sandpaper.

And you're pretty much set to go

after that. Nice and easy. How good.

Yeah, very easy. I didn't even

know she went and got a sander.

Is that where you were for a couple of hours?

Perfect. Lovely.

Like a glove. Thanks, mate. Have a good one.

Good on you, darl. Thanks.

Yesterday, Keith had a run-in with Ankur and Sharon

when he found out they were questioning his motives,

after he stayed back late to help them last Saturday night.

He came to do his good deed. It (BLEEP) us.

From 5pm until 7:30pm, we couldn't do anything.

He actually stayed to do it on TV,

and then he's like, 'Yeah, I can't do it.

See ya.' He goes, 'I'm done.'

It sounds like House Three are whinging about you being there.

Apparently both of them were saying,

'Keith slowed us down, he only did it for camera,

and he left the scaffolding up.'

I've heard from about maybe 50 people

that I prevented you guys from finishing.

No! No?

Not prevented, no. I said that

it took some time to take the scaff down.

But I know that Keith was doing... It was all done

for camera, apparently.

I can't believe that, guys. I really can't.

Keith, either... I'm shattered.

Mate. I don't know how we're gonna go

moving on. I'm just disgusted.

And today he's back at House Three to check on their progress...

Scotty, how are you, mate? Not too bad, yourself?

Hey Keith, how are you going? Hey, Sharon. Good.

That's good. Keithy.

(MOODY MUSIC)

..and it's a little awkward.

Yep.

I'm road-testing Tom and Sarah-Jane's amazing kitchen.

It received the rare honour

of a perfect score from the Block judges.

30 out of 30!

(APPLAUSE) Wow.

Now our friends at Freedom Kitchens

are giving you the chance to win

a $50,000 dream kitchen.

It includes quality cabinets,

benchtops, and state-of-the-art appliances.

For your chance to win, simply head to The Block website and enter now.

(INHALES)

Perfection!

KEITH: I've heard from about maybe 50 people that I

prevented you guys from finishing.

No!

No? Not prevented, no.

I said that it took some time to take the scaff down.

But I know that Keith... It was all

done for camera, apparently.

I can't believe that, guys. I really can't.

Keith, either we're... I'm shattered.

Mate... I don't know how we're gonna go

moving on. I'm just disgusted.

After a run-in with Ankur and Sharon yesterday,

today Keith is back at House Three to check on their progress...

Scotty, how are you, mate?

Not too bad. Yourself? Hey Keith, how are you going?

Hey, Sharon. Good.

That's good. Keithy.

(MOODY MUSIC)

..and it's a little uncomfortable.

Yep.

I don't want Keith to be hurt by any words that we've said.

He's like our boss. Everyone vents our their boss.

It's not personal, it's not you, it's the role you're doing.

How's your day been, anyway? Busy.

Busy? (LAUGHS)

As usual. Yep. Just another day

on The Block. Ah, mate.

I didn't get to see you this morning at pre-start,

and I wanted to check in and make sure everything's OK.

Are you still mad at us?

(LAUGHTER)

We didn't mean to hurt your feelings at all, and honestly, I really think

that it's a true misunderstanding,

because we are really grateful for everything you did.

So, we don't want you to be mad at us,

and we don't want you to be hurt or upset.

Look, I just don't want to hear any more whinging,

swearing at people, you know, I just want you guys to be happy.

Yeah. You know, and everything

will be fine. Yeah.

I honestly think Keith is a great bloke.

I think he's there to help us, not to hinder us.

He's got a really good heart.

He's got a really good heart. He's a good man,

and he is sensitive. So am I. So am I.

So, if I had heard he'd said something about me,

I would feel exactly the same way.

Look, I like you guys, seriously...

We really like you too. ..and we had a few bad moments.

Let's just enjoy the rest of The Block, alright?

Put 'er there. Thanks, Keithy. Thanks, mate.

('CANNONBALL' BY THE BREEDERS)

While Ankur and Sharon make amends,

the rest of the Blockheads are busy getting stuck into their builds.

Could you please - Jase?

Yeah? Could you please grab me

another liquid nails? Yep.

Yew! Good work, darling. Good work.

And over at House One, things seem to be running

pretty smoothly for Tom and Sarah-Jane.

# Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. #

# Ooh, baby, baby, it's a wild world. #

Yeah, tracking well. House One have the largest amount

of space to complete this week, their hallways, laundry and mudroom

adding up to a whopping 82 square metres.

The breezeway connects the old and new parts of their build,

and will feature Herringbone floorboards,

lots of artwork, and a lounge area with a fireplace.

Their mudroom will include navy blue cabinetry,

and a built-in dog bed, and their laundry will continue

the navy blue theme, with a tiled splashback,

marble benchtop and lots of storage.

So, at the moment,

I'm doing the most important thing for the laundry week,

which is purchasing dryer,

washing machine and a drying cabinet.

I'm on Appliances Online,

and if you order tonight, they will drop off your washing machine,

your dryer, tomorrow morning. Guaranteed.

Like, that blows my mind. It is made for The Block.

And while Sarah-Jane decks out the laundry,

Tom's insulation has been approved,

so they can start plastering all their spaces.

We need to waterproof our laundry today,

and I think we'll be right to get it waterproofed.

And then Kinsman cabinetry installed tomorrow.

Yeah, everything's on track.

(UPBEAT POP MUSIC)

With auction day now just over a month away,

Rachel is getting on the front foot.

So, I've just seen

the 'forthcoming auction' sign out the front

of our house, and now I need to suss out the competition

in the area, because I need to know what we're up against.

I know what we're up against here, and I'm not concerned.

I need to know what we're up against elsewhere in the Macedon Ranges.

So I'm just having a little look on the Domain app.

Ooh, what's this? $4m,

four bedrooms, three bathrooms,

14-car garage. OK. Alright. I see your flex.

I'm kind of thinking we're probably going to go for between, say,

$4m to $5m, with a reserve of $3m.

Ooh, this is really cute. Very country.

You know what? I'm actually feeling quite confident.

I don't think...

I'm quite confident with that competition. I'm good.

('JUST A GIRL' BY NO DOUBT)

# I'm just a girl

Over at House Four, Jenny has spent the day

on the tools, helping out wherever she can.

Driving the bobcat.

(CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHS) Yeah, I jumped in the bobcat.

My landscaper wanted me to move some rocks,

and I've got my excavator licence.

Where do you want me to go? These ones?

# Oh, I'm just a girl. #

I love that kind of stuff.

I love excavators and getting amongst it, so I had

a heaps good time. It was fun.

Because of the size of the site this year,

Keith is flat-out ticking off inspections in other houses.

So, Omar and Oz have called in the big dog,

foreman of the entire site, Simmo, as they have now moved

the power board in their mud room as per Keith's instructions.

Just in regards to the dog bath,

are we literally finalised with that?

Good to go with the dog bath. Perfect.

Yep. We'll treat this as a wet room.

Of course. That's why we've pushed our main board

outside of the wet area. Yep.

We've done extra drainage for the overflow.

Yep. Not only in the mud room,

in the wet area, also in the laundry.

For the washing machine. Beautiful.

Thank you, Simmo.

You're not just a good-looking bloke, man. Honestly.

We need more builders like you. A lot of brains up there too.

The only guy that got it done

for us. What a legend you are.

Too easy. It's always easy

with the Bathroom Kings, eh?

We changed our mudroom into our bathroom.

We've been doing so well with our bathrooms,

we wanted to change this one.

Just to make sure. Just to make sure.

It is hallway week, and the fact that all of this happens

two days into the week and we literally lose a day,

and then probably lose another three or four hours this morning, yeah,

it's gonna be tough to come back from,

but I'm confident that we'll get it done.

(EPIC MUSIC)

(ROOSTER CROWS)

What are the main challenges, do you reckon? Working on The Block?

Probably the weather.

You've got a few elements to deal with.

Yep. Bloody oath. It's tricky.

Yep, while many aspire to move to the picturesque surrounds

of the country and build their dream homes,

the reality of that dream may be a little more wet and hellish.

Thought I'd give you an update on how we're living.

Full of mud. This is our site.

It's freezing cold. Hell Week is hard enough,

but with these conditions, it's more than Hell Week.

It's nearly impossible because we've got mud everywhere,

you've got freezing temperatures, so things aren't drying.

In 15 seasons in The Block,

I've never experienced anything like this.

# Today is greatest

As it gets muddier and wetter, I just feel like

it's almost impossible - how are we

gonna get this done in four weeks How do you plant stuff in sludge?

This weather is out of control.

It is just mud city.

Yes, we're in the country, but how are you meant to walk into the home

to finish rooms, winning rooms?

Honestly, it's just out of control.

Madness. It is madness.

This is hectic.

It's just on. Mud.

There is just mud for days. I'll probably chuck out

all of my clothes after this.

Just trudging.

# Today is the greatest day. #

But you can either let the harsh conditions get to you,

or you can roll with the punches.

No one should take anything personally. Honestly.

Look at it. It's a muddy site. It's a muddy day.

TOM: Hopefully the Gisborne sun shines,

and the roof dries up, and then we can work.

# Might as well jump, jump. #

At least it's all drying out now.

The flooring can start going down soon.

Come on, admit it. You still love it.

Oh, I'm still loving it, bloody oath.

It could be worse.

You could be the person at home who wants to be here.

True? I want to be here. And I'm here. So I'm loving it.

Just over 72 hours left of Hellway week,

and the weather working against them,

all teams are pushing hard

to get everything done ahead of Sunday's reveal.

So those sheets will be down here now for the mudroom.

They all need to get waterproofed.

JENNY: I think the build is coming along alright.

I think we're in a pretty good position,

but I don't know. Like...

Yeah, you don't know until you get it done, to be honest.

Alright, we've got lots happening, but we're good.

We're good. I feel good. I feel good.

We're on track for our hallway, our laundry, our mudroom,

to have everything completed.

That's our front door. How great.

The breezeway entranceway is really coming along.

My second favourite part of the house so far.

Rachel and Ryan are keeping their breezeway simple.

It'll feature timber floorboards, a contemporary chandelier,

and a massive artwork to greet their guests.

I think it's an unbelievable entrance.

This is our front door.

Turn left and that's into our old part of the house.

Then you turn right, come down the stairs,

and that's the new pavilion.

And to prepare for styling all her spaces this week,

Rachel is making a quick trip to the shops.

I went to Provincial. It was really great.

I just got lots of

little bits and pieces for the rest of the house.

Come with me.

I'm gonna get a few of these. Perfect.

Yeah, they're lovely. Just for my laundry mud.

I bought

baskets, hooks, towels. Lovely.

A lot of little bits and pieces.

Love these. They're great, yep.

Got somewhere to put these? No, I don't. But I can

get some pillows. Great.

Alright, I'll take that. Oh, this has been so successful.

Back at the block, and over at House One, Tom's standing tall.

Tom, are you standing up?

These guys are currently tracking well

and their site is pumping with trades.

Welcome back. Today, there is the Rinnai heater install,

plastering, carpentry,

electrical, ProctorWrapping, window install.

Everything's volume this week.

Big amounts of plaster. Big amounts of carpentry.

Big amounts of flooring. Flooring.

Thursday, we're standing in mud. Sunday, we'll be on floorboards.

House One are the only team

who waterproofed their laundry last night,

and Keith has stopped by this morning to inspect it.

How are you, Keithy? Good, mate.

Yeah, Keith inspected the waterproof

before all the cabinetry went in.

And it passed. All clear.

I'll tick off the floor.

It's all good. Yeah.

Kinsman can start putting the cabinets in.

OK. But how are you today, mate?

Yeah, yeah, another day in paradise, mate.

You gonna finish this week?

Yeah we'll finish this week. I reckon you will, too.

One team that might not finish are the boys over in House Five.

While big boss foreman Simmo

gave them the OK to include the dog bath yesterday,

they still need to pass a framing inspection from Keith

before they can start plastering their mudroom.

G'day, lads. How are you, Keith?

Here it is.

That's the dog bath. Here's the bath!

Wow. So you've catered for big dogs

and small dogs. Yes, sir.

What do you reckon? What do I reckon? Mate,

you've gone to a lot of trouble to put this in.

It'll be interesting.

(LAUGHS) We can't have

bad timber, so it's gotta be covered.

Yeah, all good. Well done. A lot of work in this.

Lot of work.

Hope it's all worth it. It will be.

TRADIE: Floor got passed. The boys are plastering

in the laundry mudroom,

and then straight after that floor's done,

I want to get the walls sorted, and then put the ceiling joints in.

We're doing a Hellway Week in four and a half days.

Literally. And guess what?

We're gonna get it done.

SCOTT: Coming up...

Woo!

Let's win some money! Yeah!

..a driving challenge with $10k up for grabs.

Just let me do it, because you're giving me the wrong directions.

Which way do I turn, Tom? Turn right!

I was jackknifing left, right and centre.

(GROANING)

And later... There's always something to do.

I don't know why they don't see that.

But then always at the end of the week it's, 'Oh, we

didn't have enough time to paint.'

..House Three continue to battle their builders.

Then we got these builders who are (BLEEP) idiots...

They're arseholes. So basically

they're lazy, they don't want to work past 5pm.

# I won't stop running down that road. #

We're eight weeks into the build,

and most of our Blockheads are flat-broke.

I need some money. Give me the money!

It's very, very hard to keep up with the budget.

With over four weeks still to go, teams are desperate for cash,

and that desperation means

I can come up with any old crazy challenge I want,

and I know they'll all be in.

It's challenge day!

Country driving school.

It's challenge day! Your favourite time of the week!

(LAUGHS) Let's win some money!

Yeah!

Meet us int he carpark, ten minutes.

Country driving school. This is gonna be fun.

Challenge day!

Sarah-Jane, out of bed!

Can you hear that? Come on, guys!

Can you hear that? It's challenge day!

There's money to be won.

Alright, let's go win some money.

If it's driving... If it's driving,

we got it. We got it.

I'm gonna have to put a bra on.

(DIAL TONE) God. I mean, who leaves the office

on the Thursday?

(ACTION MUSIC)

Oh, no.

Oh, what? G'day.

(EXCHANGE OF GREETINGS)

Welcome to The Block Country Driving School.

What do you think is the difference between a country driving school,

and a normal driving school?

Trailers.

Trailers! Correct!

And trailers are a big part of Block life here at Gisborne.

We should be all getting used to them.

Today is a crash course in trailer driving.

Well hopefully not a crash - let's not crash them.

(LAUGHTER)

Each of you will be driving the course today

with a trailer attached to this 4WD right here.

Ooh. Pretty straightforward.

Course. It's not that straightforward.

You guys have gotta reverse your trailers through the bollards,

and it's not as easy as it seems.

It's not.

So I have to physically back out a trailer

Yes. It took me

three times to get my license and I was driving forwards,

with no trailer!

Never backed a trailer out in my life.

I'm scared for everybody's safety. I'm scared for the trailer's safety.

(LAUGHTER) The team

combined that has the fastest score

is going to win a mammoth $10,000.

(CONTESTANTS REACT WITH SURPRISE)

Coming to you from our friends at Bensons Property Group.

They are the sister company to Levantine Hill Estate.

That's a lot of money.

It's a room win! $10,000... A room win.

All you have to do is reverse a trailer

around a few witches hats. It's massive.

$10k.

House One, get in the car. Let's go, love.

Start your engine, guys.

To complete today's challenge,

drivers will have to back their trailer

from the first checkpoint into the second,

then drive to third checkpoint, and reverse all the way back.

The aim is to stay between the bollards, and they'll each have

a time limit of eight minutes to finish the course.

I'll do my best.

Here we go.

(AIR HORN) Oh, wow.

Oh, he's quick off the mark.

Here we go. He's very good.

With a lot of confidence. Look at him go.

Wow, look at that. All the way in.

Very nice. All the way in!

Tom's the biggest threat always, especially when he goes first

and then he comes through, like he does something really good.

It's kind of like, oh (BLEEP). We've gotta try and beat Tom again.

(LAUGHS)

Oh, my God, Tom! Good work, Tommy.

Slow it down!

(ROCK MUSIC)

Tell you what, he's not

mucking around. Nah, he's nailed it.

Go, Tommy.

# Take a long ride. #

Ooh.

Very good time.

2:03.

(BELL RINGS)

I had my turn. I didn't think I had it in the bag,

because unfortunately, it's a combined time.

Way to throw me under the bus like that!

Come on, SJ.

I've gotta move the seat so I can touch the pedals!

(AIR HORN)

Not that slow. (LAUGHS)

She's doing alright. Oh, she's doing alright.

Turn. Other way. Other way.

Well done, Sarah-Jane. ALL: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

I don't know what I'm doing. Go forward,

come to us. Come to us. Go straight! Go straight.

Stop! (LAUGHTER)

How'd you go? Oh, I (BLEEP) it.

It was so funny. I was jackknifing

left, right and centre.

Which way do I turn, Tom? Turn right, right!

Stop! (GROANING)

(LAUGHTER) (AIR HORN)

Just call it a day!

I damaged the car and the trailer. Bent the trailer, bent the car.

Yeah.

That was not fun.

We did alright. We did better than I thought we would

with our scores combined.

With Sarah-Jane unable to complete

the course within eight minutes,

let's see if House Two can have

a better crack, starting with Ryan.

(AIR HORN) (ROCK MUSIC)

Oh, nice work Ryan.

Ooh.

Good work.

Oh, go Ryan! Good work!

Good wide start. Doing well.

(LAUGHTER) Oh, no!

Oh, no! Stop!

(LAUGHTER)

(AIR HORN) Oh, Ryan!

2:45.

Good work, bub!

2:45? Well done!

(BELL RINGS)

So I completed the course in 2:45.

I needed Rach to either finish,

or we were going to come second to Tom.

With Rach not having ever driven a trailer before,

I wasn't overly confident

she was going to do it in the eight minutes,

but there was hope.

Don't doubt me.

(AIR HORN) Go, darl.

Go, Rachy.

That's it. Good girl. Keep going.

I'm thinking, eight minutes is a very long time.

I'll be able to smash this.

Straighten up, straighten it up.

Nup, nup, nup.

I did not smash it.

You're gonna jackknife it.

Keep going slowly but lock the wheel.

Which way? The same way you were just turning.

Nah, wrong way. Sorry. Well, tell me to go that way.

It's too hard to sort of... Just let me do it,

because you're giving me the wrong direction.

You can't see it, so...

And you can't see it

until you fish hook it. Or what is it called?

Gaslight it, or forknight it or whatever it's called.

Jackknife it. Jackknife it.

How do you gaslight a trailer?

You're not a trailer. (LAUGHS)

Now just go straight and hog it - go to your right a little bit.

Nah, nah. That's my right.

I know. So go to my left.

Just maybe let me do it.

All good.

(AIR HORN)

(LAUGHS)

I got about two-thirds of the way. I did my best.

So with Rachel also not finishing,

that means House One remains in the lead,

and next up is Ankur. Well done.

My tactic driving was to go slow...

He's pretty good for an accountant.

Good job. Very hands-on now.

Well done. I'm scared.

Well done, honey. That seemed like a lot less

than four minutes. (AIR HORN)

Yeah, I agree.

Well done.

4:12.

(BELL RINGS) All Sharon needs to do is finish

the course in under eight minutes, and House Three will take the lead.

(AIR HORN)

Just go slowly. Keep going.

Keep going. Yeah, now stop. Now go straight a little bit.

Turn it now. Go straight a little bit.

Keep going. Yep, stop. Yep, now reverse.

There's a trick when you back in a trailer.

If you see it in the mirror...

You turn towards that mirror if you want it to go the other way.

It's called opposite lock.

Now which way, left or right? Can you see it in that mirror?

Yeah. Yeah, so go towards that mirror.

Go towards it. Because you want to straighten it.

Go towards that mirror. That's this way, yeah?

(FAST FORWARD NOISES)

Keep going. See if you can come out here now.

(FAST FORWARD NOISES)

When it got to the point when I was ahead of

the other two women who had gone before me,

it was really stressful, because really, we're desperate.

We're the poorest people here. We need the money.

KEITH: One minute to go, Shaz. One minute to go.

Oh, yeah.

(WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE PLAYS)

Quick.

Which way? Keep - just come back.

Keep coming. Just check the front. Keep coming.

Just do this?

To the left a little bit.

That is the left!

(AIR HORN)

Good job. Well done.

Good job.

It looks like House One are still out in front,

but if any team are in with a good shot,

it's tradie couple Dylan and Jenny.

(AIR HORN) Go, Dylo!

Go.

Strategy. That's smart.

I like it. Yep.

(ROCK MUSIC)

Yep. He's gone wide. He's taken the right track.

Hey!

You've got a witches hat under... He's killed a few people.

Oh, it's going. There we go. (LAUGHTER)

I tell you what. He's good.

(AIR HORN)

Nice. That was quick. 2:20.

(BELL RINGS)

Now it's Jenny's turn to take the wheel, and she needs to

bring it in under eight minutes to snatch first place

from House One.

I know I can reverse a trailer.

I'm like, we'll be fine, this will be easy.

(AIR HORN) Easy.

Left hand down. Left hand down. Left hand down.

I had a strong start, and then I thought I'd be fine

because it was easy to reverse into the first one.

Right hand down. Stay there.

Keep going, keep going on that.

Good job, Jenny.

And I just couldn't see where I was going.

I can't see. It's so hard to see, honestly.

Oh, oh, oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Go, babe, go!

There's grandmothers everywhere! Forward!

(GROANING) (AIR HORN)

(LAUGHTER)

She got close. She did a jackknife.

That's what I did, I think. So hard.

While Jenny put in a stellar effort,

she still couldn't finish within the time limit.

So it's down to House One

versus House Five.

And to take the win, all Oz needs to do is beat Tom's time.

The pressure was up. I was feeling the nerves, to be honest.

Two, one. (AIR HORN)

('KASHMIR' BY LED ZEPPELIN)

OMAR: $10,000 up for grabs,

and it's a massive $10k that we do need.

We've just paid $10k out of our pockets for a piano

that we got a lot cheaper than it was.

Oz, use your mirrors. Turn it, turn it, turn it!

Use your mirrors. Wow. Impressive.

I'm excited to see what Ozzy can do.

And what can you do, Oz? Drive it like you stole it.

(LAUGHS) ('BLACK DOG' BY LED ZEPPELIN)

Oh, wow! God, look at him go!

That is ridiculous. The trailer went sideways!

That's it. That's the quickest.

Bro, that is - I'm actually so surprised

he's doing this that well. I'm not even gonna do it.

(AIR HORN) Whoa!

Well done. Well done.

1:55.

(CHEERING AND AWE-STRUCK REACTIONS)

He doesn't even need to do it.

That's quick.

Yeah, Oz was better than Tom by three and a half seconds.

Very good, very impressive. Mate, that was brilliant. Well done.

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC) (CHEERING)

And Omar didn't even have to drive.

Even if Omar got

the maximum eight minutes, they still would have won.

How good is that? $10,000,

and I didn't even have to do anything.

Boys, congratulations, Omar and Oz. You have won the challenge.

(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)

Incredible reversing, Oz.

There you go, boys.

Thank you, sir. $10,000.

How good is that? Congratulations.

(CONTESTANTS EXTENT CONGRATULATIONS)

Cha-ching. And that would

really hurt the other contestants.

Sarah should probably just try to audit our car, to see if it's...

Is it a Wildtrack or was it a Raptor?

(LAUGHS) What is under the hood?

Alright, good on you.

Sorry to keep you up here. Back to work.

(CONTESTANTS RESPOND WARMLY)

(DANCE MUSIC)

I find Tom really good-looking.

That shocks people,

but I actually find Tom super-sexy.

Yeah. I think he's really good-looking.

Why would that shock anyone? Look at him.

# Girl, look at that body

# Girl, look at that body

# I work out

Hi, Tom. You look so strong there.

Thanks, darl.

# I'm sexy and I know it

# I'm sexy and I know it. #

SCOTT: With the challenge over,

all teams are back to work.

Alright, let's go, let's go. A lot going on

in here at the moment. But it's looking good, and it looks like

we could be painting tomorrow night, possibly.

Where do you want this? Down there? Yeah, in that pile.

You've just gotta get it done. I feel like the winner of this week

is gonna be who finishes.

# He's going the distance. #

And over in House Five, the boys are finally making some progress.

We're 20 minutes from getting this ceiling frame inspection.

As soon as that's done, we'll insulate that,

and then we're ready to go for it.

Plaster is also going up in their laundry and mud room.

But Keith is still a little worried.

You're falling behind a little bit now, aren't you?

We are.

Keith did come in.

He's still worried about our progress in plastering.

Because you're running out of time for painting.

You've got a lot of painting to do,

and if I were do, I'd be getting the gyprockers out here.

I'd be putting another top coat. Top coat on that, yep.

Get it sanded so then you can start painting.

Yeah, done. No, that's good advice.

It's all about you guys painting. That's the key this week.

It really is. We've had

the biggest kitchen in Block history,

the biggest living room in Block history, and now we're doing

the biggest hallway in Block history,

so everything that we do on this block

is bigger than ever before, and it's just harder and harder every week.

You've got a lot of painting here. We'll get it done.

This might be the biggest Hellway Week that The Block

has ever seen, but that challenge alone

wasn't enough for Tom.

He's set out to break his own record.

TOM: Everyone harps on about Hallway Hell Week,

so I thought let's see if we can get to the pub

every single day during Hell Week...

And still finish. ..and still try to finish the room.

Sarah-Jane's gonna come with me this time.

Isn't it great? Yeah.

And even though House One has the biggest space

to present on Sunday,

they're currently way ahead of the pack.

So with everything under control on-site,

Tom can keep his dream alive. # And I say

# I think I'll have myself a beer

# I think I'll have myself a whoah-oh. #

Thursday. Thursday.

So as long as Tom and I can get here

on two more days, Friday and Saturday...

You've done it. No,

only if we complete a whole week.

Taking a big risk here. Because if we don't finish,

you'll look like the biggest dick. Yeah.

Cheers. Good luck, guys.

SCOTT: Ankur and Sharon are also off-site,

but it's a very different story back at their place.

Having been off shopping together for almost five hours now,

their build team are getting more and more frustrated.

I have no idea where Anks and Shaz are.

They're not here. There's always something to do.

I don't know why they don't see that.

But then it's always at the end of the week, it's, 'Oh,

'We didn't have enough time to paint.'

There's little things that just add up

that obviously you can understand

makes the experience not as enjoyable.

Because there has been, I think, a substantial amount of drama

with our team, we've had to pick our battles with what we do

and how we actually survive, and get through

and create really good rooms. For those of you

who might have missed it,

here's a quick recap of some of that drama.

I know that you said to Anks yesterday as well, that

when I get back from doing things, I don't lift a finger,

and I am offended by that.

I think you think I'm attacking you with everything.

If I bring something up,

I'm not having a go and attacking you.

There is no reason why you should not be winning every week.

We tried our best. We didn't sleep one second. We're not superhuman.

I don't know how to make it better.

We're trying. We're not sitting on our arses.

There's a narrative they've created

that we don't do the work that we need to do,

and I'm like, we do. But it's projection though,

because they're the only builders that go to Gisborne for lunch

for an hour every day.

They're the only workers who refuse to work on a Saturday.

SCOTT: And on Monday, Scotty was the only builder

who was being accused of taking materials from site

for personal use.

Did you make an order for tiles for yourself

to be picked up for yourself?

I ordered them just in case, but... I'm just saying, you can't make

orders like that without talking to me.

Same decision that you made with the plaster thing, without...

That is a couple of grand

right there. That's alright.

That's gonna get sorted, so... And also, the sinks that were in

the bathroom, where are they?

I took the money off my invoices for them. I took...

But they're sitting at home...

Yeah, we need to... ..so I can easily

bring them back. We need to return them.

It's not a good relationship. We have

these full-on conversations and it resets.

But it happens every week.

So there's no real genuine reset.

What are you trying to put on the wall, Liam?

I'm just trying to hang a mirror.

So who would be handy to have on-site then, Liam?

How have you been left up to design choices?

Are you trying to get a producer gig, are you?

Well, I'm not coming back as a chippy or a builder again, so...

(LAUGHS) We'll finish it.

We don't want to leave,

unless they want us gone, but I think we're gonna just

stick it out, and obviously there's gonna be some headbutt moments,

but I think we'll get through it.

I am due for a holiday. Yeah, exactly!

(LAUGHS) So...

Because I really think it would be much cruisier

than my normal life.

Heck, you guys can keep the prize money.

(LAUGHTER)

Having that negative vibe has affected

my whole experience on The Block.

I feel like if we had more positive,

great energy around us, this whole thing would be different.

Anks has lost nearly 11kg here.

(LAUGHTER)

He looks malnourished and anorexic, like...

I'm not stressing, I just work my arse off.

Yeah, he works his arse off. Then we got these builders

who are (BLEEP) idiots... They're arseholes.

So basically, they're lazy. They don't want to (BLEEP) work

past 5pm, and they just want to leave,

one of them doesn't want to work on Saturdays or whatever,

and what happens is on the build, you've got a couple of days

to get your (BLEEP) together. Builders and the plasterers leave

on Saturday, and then they expect us

to paint an 8m high ceiling... You should have seen this.

It was 8m high. 8m high ceiling, 20m across room.

They expect us to do that.

In one night. And then when it's not

painted properly, they're like, 'We're disappointed in the results.'

And I was like, go get (BLEEP).

I came from a serial, Neighbours.

I didn't think this was gonna be more dramatic than that show.

I know.

Tomorrow night...

You haven't even waterproofed? No, no, last night...

..Omar and Oz have their own tradie issues.

Your tilers need to pack up and go.

Really? Yep.

They've presented us with a dodgy Certificate of Currency

for their WorkCover. Fraudulent.

It's been doctored.

You're kidding? Nup.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(SIGHS)

Some familiar faces drop by.

(SCREAMS)

Those judges get it right every time,

and I'm saying that for nothing, OK?

But between the tradie shortage...

I've called another hundred people. Holy moly,

we actually don't have a tiler this week.

..and the weather...

It's a mud pit out there.

Dry mud, wet mud, sloppy mud. The mud!

..Hellway Week is not for the faint-hearted.

Oh, whoa! Oh!

We're absolutely struggling.

Look at what we're in. We've never had conditions like this, ever.

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