The family bathrooms were revealed, and the thread’s verdict was blunt: a team blew their budget by tens of thousands of dollars and still nearly beat a finished room. Judging logic, budgets and patience all took a beating tonight.
Blowing the budget paid off, apparently
One team spent roughly $53,000 against a budget closer to $20,000, and still won the week by a single point. Fans did the maths in real time and were not impressed, with more than one person arguing the show is actively rewarding teams for ignoring their budget entirely rather than working within it.
An unfinished room scored almost as well as a finished one
The bigger flashpoint: a completely unfinished bathroom was marked down by just one point compared to a fully finished room elsewhere.
Good to know finishing a room is a whole 2 points higher than a dilapidated slum of a room.
u/Pessimas, r/TheBlock
The thread struggled to see the logic, with plenty asking what it would actually take to score a genuinely low mark if leaving a room half done barely moves the needle.
The AI robot cameo did not land
A robot appearance mid-episode reignited the season’s running AI fatigue, with the thread reaching for increasingly creative insults for the thing. The general mood: enough with the gimmicks, just show the renovations.
Judging nitpicks got petty
Fans zeroed in on a double standard in the critique: fake flowers flagged as a mould risk in one bathroom while visibly damp curtains in another went unmentioned, plus a judge dinging a bath mat as somehow off-brand for a luxury space. It didn’t do much for the judging panel’s credibility this week.
The verdict
Nine episodes in, and the thread’s patience is close to gone: budgets don’t seem to matter, finished and unfinished rooms are scored a point apart, and the AI extras keep landing flat. Several fans admitted they’re only still watching out of habit at this point. Whether the back half of the season can turn any of that around remains to be seen.
See you back here for the next one.
