Tuesday of main bedroom and walk-in robe week opened exactly where Monday left off: silent. “Good morning, House One, Two, and Three,” got nothing back but crickets, and the street’s verdict on Sunday’s reveal hadn’t softened overnight. “It’s an unfinished room, and it should have not won,” summed up the general mood, and the number behind it finally came out: Courtney and Sev’s bathroom scored an 8.5, unfinished tiles and all.
Key Moments This Episode
- ARGUMENTThe street is still fuming that an unfinished bathroom scored an 8.5 and won: “What’s the point in finishing our room perfectly if a room that’s essentially unfinished is going to take out the win?”
- DISASTERAdam and Jolene lose their plasterer to a pre-booked holiday and spend the day cold-calling every gyprock plasterer in Mount Eliza with nothing but message banks to show for it.
- DRAMAThe arch trend spreads across the street, Rick and Tayla discover Adam and Jolene are secretly building the same curved bedhead feature: “Now I’m like, do I even want an arch anymore?”
- DRAMAAdam and Jolene second-guess their entire design direction on camera, unsure whether the judges reward finish or ambition after Sunday’s scoring shake-up.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEAfter two days empty-handed, Adam and Jolene land a crew of 70 plasterers in one phone call: “From nothing to everything.”
- DRAMAWyatt gets his four-day toothache pulled out entirely and returns to site already planning to keep the tooth as a souvenir.
The cold shoulder wasn’t just body language today, it was a genuine philosophical stoush about what “finished” should mean on a competition with a $250,000 prize attached. Several teams admitted they’d deliberately cut corners last week because they knew they’d lost the day regardless, only to watch an incomplete room take the win anyway. Nobody was pretending to be over it.
Over at House One, the day belonged entirely to a phone. Adam and Jolene’s plasterer Hayden had a holiday booked for weeks and left right on schedule, leaving the team to ring what felt like every tradesperson in Mount Eliza with nothing to show for it but automated voicemail greetings. Jolene, meanwhile, was quietly unravelling over the bigger picture, second-guessing the “naturarl” colour palette she’d been building around and wondering aloud whether the judges actually want ambition or just a finished room. The plasterer drought finally broke late in the day: one phone call, seventy blokes, problem solved.
The arch became this week’s word of the day. Adam and Jolene’s curved bedhead design turned out to be identical to one Rick and Tayla were quietly planning of their own, and once word got around the street, at least one team started reconsidering their whole feature wall out of sheer copycat anxiety. Over at House Two, Wyatt’s toothache finally got the professional treatment it needed, tooth out, headache gone, souvenir acquired.
Moment of the day
“Now I’m like, do I even want an arch anymore?”
Rick
Tomorrow’s episode is already teasing trouble: Tayla’s herringbone floor gets called out by a real estate agent as a potential Block-loser, Lisa and Rosco fall further behind after already having the worst week of the season, and Chantel and Wyatt, of all people, finally hit their stride as the first team to reach painting. Rick, apparently, ends the day flat on his back. Wednesday isn’t slowing down for anyone.
