Main bedroom and walk-in robe week hit its make-or-break stretch this episode, and nobody felt it harder than Tayla, who spent Friday morning being told by her own real estate agent that the flooring she’d already ordered could cost her the show. Across the street, budgets blew out further, one plinth of tiling went badly wrong, and somebody announced they’re expecting a second Block baby mid-tennis-match.
Key Moments This Episode
- ARGUMENTTayla’s real estate agent tells her to ditch the herringbone floor hours before delivery: “It’s going to lose me The Block. I’m going to lose.” She keeps it anyway.
- DRAMALisa announces she’s expecting a second baby, live at the tennis challenge: “We actually have three members in our team, so we’ve been cheating the last three weeks.”
- DRAMASev opens up for the first time on camera about wearing wigs due to alopecia and hair thinning, and reveals she’s matched today’s pink one to her wardrobe colour.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASECourtney and Sev’s budget blowout hits $38,000 over, after spending $52,000 on the main bedroom alone.
- DISASTERSev’s DIY marble mosaic tiling on the fireplace plinth goes sideways: “It looks like it’s on the piss,” and the fireplace’s internal framework needs to be torn out entirely.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEThe Cursio brothers charge Courtney and Sev three boxes of cannoli for a five-minute tiling tutorial: “Everything comes with a cannoli price.”
- DRAMALisa and Rosco win the $5,000 tennis challenge purely by accident, after Rick gets belted by the ball and falls over trying to return it.
Thursday belonged to the plasterers. Days after fielding somewhere near 5,500 phone calls trying to find one, Adam and Jolene finally had nine of them crawling over their main bedroom at once, Adam handing round a fresh round of McCafe drinks and grinning like a man back in the game. The budget did not survive the celebration. “Our budget is totally out the window,” Adam admitted, “because the house was on fire.” Down the road, Lisa and Rosco leaned on Scott’s three-hour site extension to keep their lime plaster specialist moving, banking everything on him finishing the main bedroom, ceiling and hallway wall by Saturday.
Over at House Five, Tayla’s morning fell apart the moment her real estate agent, Mark Nunn from Buxton Real Estate, took one look at the oak herringbone floor she’d already ordered and told her it wasn’t going to win her The Block, suggesting chevron or parquetry instead. Cue a genuine panic spiral: a call to her best friend for a second opinion, a dash to Flooring Xtra to compare samples in person, and, eventually, a decision to keep the herringbone exactly as planned. “No thanks, Mark,” she told him. “Just don’t tell me about your bloody floorboards anymore.” Scott and Shelley backed her in on the later walkaround anyway, calling the oak herringbone “magnificent” and telling her no one wasn’t going to like it.
That night, the whole street decamped to Mount Eliza Tennis Club for a one-point-slam knockout worth $5,000, sponsored by Nature’s Way, wearing rented tennis whites nobody was thrilled about. It somehow ended with Lisa and Rosco lifting the trophy, purely because Rick got clocked by the ball and toppled over trying to return it against them in the grand final. Before a ball was served, though, came the real headline: Lisa and Rosco told the group they’re expecting a second baby, due at roughly the same time as Adam and Jolene’s. “We actually have three members in our team,” Lisa said, “so we’ve been cheating the last three weeks. We’ve had six hands instead of four, and we still can’t finish.”
Back on-site, Sev decided her curved fireplace plinth needed marble mosaic tiling rather than something simple, rating her own skills “seven and a half out of ten” before getting a covert tutorial from the Cursio brothers, technically banned from helping rival houses after the tiling saga a fortnight ago, and paid this time in cannoli rather than cash. It didn’t hold. By Sunday, the plinth tiling had visibly gone wrong and the fireplace’s own framework needed tearing out entirely, a last-minute scramble as five main bedrooms head toward Sunday’s double reveal.
“We actually have three members in our team, so we’ve been cheating the last three weeks.”
Lisa
Five main bedrooms, one very stressed fireplace, and a floor Tayla’s own agent still isn’t sold on: Sunday’s double reveal has plenty riding on it. We’ll see you back here once the judges have had their say.
