Monday morning after a reveal is always a little frosty, but this one had extra bite. Courtney and Sev walked back onto main bedroom and walk-in robe week as back-to-back winners, and the rest of the street made sure they knew exactly how that felt. “We can see some body language that’s directed at us,” Courtney admitted, before adding the understatement of the week: “We haven’t got to enjoy a win yet.”
Key Moments This Episode
- ARGUMENTRick and Tayla discover their bathroom scored just one point behind Lisa and Rosco’s unfinished room and lose it on the spot: “This is absolutely just a joke. It’s actually laughable.”
- DRAMACourtney and Sev cop the cold shoulder from the rest of the street on their first morning as two-time winners, “salty” being the word of the day.
- DRAMAMain bedroom and walk-in robe week kicks off with one unifying obsession: curves. “Tayla wants curves everywhere,” and by lunchtime, so does everyone else.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEAdam takes out the $5,000 McCafe Hardest Worker award, sweet redemption a day after Jolene called their reveal result a robbery.
- DISASTERWyatt’s four-day-old toothache finally wins, forcing an emergency dentist appointment mid-build.
- DISASTERLisa and Rosco’s early Monday head start disappears by the end of the day, their site lead “completely out the window” heading into Tuesday.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEPlasterers become the hottest trade on the street, with rates spiking to $150 an hour and teams openly bidding against each other for them.
The Domain open house walkthroughs gave everyone a chance to see (and relitigate) last week’s results in person, and the numbers didn’t calm anyone down. Lisa and Rosco’s unfinished bathroom scored a 6.5, last on the ladder, and Rick and Tayla couldn’t believe how close that landed to their own result. “Hang on a minute. This got one point less than us. Do you understand what I’m saying right this second?” Tayla asked Rick, who very much did.
Adam and Jolene, still smarting from missing out on the win by a single point, got a consolation prize instead: the $5,000 McCafe Hardest Worker award, sprung on Adam as a surprise cafe order gag. “I deserved that $5,000, thank you very much,” was the verdict once the shock wore off. Over at house two, Wyatt’s toothache finally became unmanageable enough to warrant an actual dentist appointment, a rare mid-build errand that nobody begrudged him.
By evening, Courtney and Sev’s prize run kept paying off in unexpected ways: last year’s winners Emma and Ben, now landlords renting their post-Block house back to this year’s cast, turned up to cook the girls a celebratory barbecue with the $250,000 worth of e&s appliances they’d just won. Two seasons, one very expensive kitchen, doing double duty.
Moment of the day
“Hang on a minute. This got one point less than us. Do you understand what I’m saying right this second?”
Tayla
Tomorrow’s episode is already teasing secret plans, at least one accidental copycat design between two houses running the same idea without knowing it, and Lisa and Rosco’s vanishing head start turning main bedroom week into a proper catch-up job. Add a $150-an-hour plasterer bidding war to the mix and Tuesday isn’t shaping up to be any calmer than today.
