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The Block Season 21 Episode 42
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00:00Three previous block backyards into one of these places.
00:04Big space, big space means a lot of things that need to be done,
00:06which means a lot of money.
00:07Hustle is going to be our motto for this season.
00:09Hustle, hustle, hustle.
00:10We were talking about landscaping plans from day job.
00:13Gardens are so important to us.
00:15I've got all this crazy paving coming in for here.
00:18That's going to be our point of difference.
00:20They keep just saying, any money you win is going to go into your landscape.
00:24Tonight, backyard week officially begins.
00:28Best week of the block there.
00:30We can't wait, we can't wait.
00:31Full on week.
00:31It is going to be epic, providing we can pull it off.
00:35Being outside, it's a whole new playing field.
00:37It's just the scale of this week is ginormous.
00:40There's so many things.
00:41I just don't know how we're going to pull it off.
00:44Nearly unrealistic to think that you could landscape this whole backyard in a week.
00:48Keep calm and drink tea.
00:50We had poured a little bit of the concrete.
00:53Other than that, we've done no landscaping.
00:54Yeah, we have a lot to do.
00:55Let's make this look ridiculous.
00:57We have this huge seven and a half ton fireplace and then an 18 by eight big bullcourt.
01:02No other house has got that.
01:03And as we reach the end of the competition, it seems all is fair in love and landscaping.
01:09Our point of difference to the landscape is these rocks and now they're in your landscape.
01:14It's on our land.
01:15Finders keepers.
01:16Yeah.
01:17Loseers weepers.
01:17It's week 11 and it is the biggest week of them all.
01:31It's landscaping week.
01:32Garden says so much to a house.
01:35Like, it sells a house.
01:37We love landscaping.
01:39And driving through Daylesford, you see all these amazing back and front yards.
01:41You see the work that people put into them.
01:49So to sell this house, yes, the interior needs to be great.
01:52But your outdoors just needs to be next level.
01:55Yep, in just seven days, our blockheads need to turn these piles of dirt
02:06into backyards worthy of their Daylesford surroundings.
02:10Needless to say, it's going to be a very busy week.
02:14So we've got the entire backyard, the pool cabana, everything around the pool, all the
02:21landscaping, the earth moving, the excavation.
02:25There's a lot.
02:27Busy stuff.
02:28Concrete pours in one, two, three and five today.
02:31We've already got two pumps here.
02:32There's going to be a lot happening.
02:34Last week's going to look like kids playing in the sandpit compared to the next two weeks.
02:38All right.
02:40That's it for today.
02:41Be nice to each other.
02:42Have a coffee.
02:43Did you enjoy last night, Shayla?
02:48Yeah.
02:49What was shown?
02:50The first episode.
02:51So funny.
02:53Sunday night after judging, we watched the first episode.
02:56Welcome to our 21st season of the block.
03:04It's weird seeing yourself on TV.
03:05Yeah.
03:06I loved it.
03:07Yeah, we thought it was cool.
03:08I loved watching that.
03:08They captured our backstory so well.
03:10Deirdre always has to take us to the shops.
03:13Which we loved all because she sings her songs in the back of the car.
03:19We're just like first mates.
03:22Close to getting the age where we're looking to start families and all that.
03:27Surprise!
03:27It was awesome.
03:31Nice surprise.
03:31Really nice.
03:32Yeah.
03:33Because I will not cop back.
03:34I did nothing towards you and nor have I done anything towards you this entire time.
03:39Not one thing.
03:40We walked out of the town.
03:42Sweet.
03:43That's it.
03:43We loved it.
03:44Yeah.
03:45We are who we are.
03:46We all saw ourselves on TV and it was like wow.
03:58We had a good laugh but we were enjoying ourselves and we have ever since.
04:03She was not happy with how they were portrayed.
04:07Not portrayed but was anyone not happy?
04:11We're trying to get a million things done really quickly.
04:14So now I've lost us here.
04:16She's like a skirt to her from a period.
04:18Just watching myself be like disgusted with house two.
04:46To me it came across like I was ungrateful.
04:50This is a problem to me.
04:52This retaining wall.
04:54It's so ugly.
04:57I hate it.
04:58I hate it.
05:00I just look like a spoiled brat.
05:03That's how it felt watching it and that's why I was like, that's why I was like oh gross.
05:09Like I feel gross about myself.
05:11I feel gross about the situation.
05:12This is the world that we live in.
05:19I feel myself get tired.
05:22This is the world that we live in.
05:27Watching the first episode was a little cringe.
05:30The first couple weeks for us, like we didn't know what we were in for.
05:34We were like, I don't know, like birds who had just let them nest and were struggling to fly.
05:41The next two weeks just want to have a bit of fun.
05:43We used to have so much fun together.
05:45We used to get along so well.
05:47We never argued before we started on the block.
05:50Now we're enemies.
05:51Can you believe it?
05:52We're enemies.
05:54It's okay.
05:55We'll see what happens after the block.
05:56Monday morning, we...
06:03We're feeling good.
06:04We're feeling 40 grand richer.
06:06With a perfect score.
06:0930 out of 30.
06:11We did it.
06:12We got a perfect score.
06:14We won the week and we got a 10 from every judge.
06:18Congratulations, boys.
06:22Last night, the boys revealed their highly anticipated wine cellar.
06:27That's been 10 weeks in the making.
06:29And the judges absolutely loved it.
06:32Oh, look at this.
06:40This is the perfect wine cellar.
06:43This is a home run.
06:45They now don't have the same houses.
06:48Yeah.
06:48And put themselves in a totally new bracket because of what they've added.
06:55While all the teams delivered their alfresco area and sheds last night,
06:59this morning at the Domain Open for Inspections,
07:02everyone's focus is on the boys' wine cellar.
07:05Oh, my gosh.
07:08Wow.
07:09I love it.
07:11Wow.
07:12So cool.
07:13The boys just smashed it out of the park.
07:15Three 10s.
07:16Incredible.
07:17That's f***ing c***y.
07:19Wow.
07:20Language.
07:23I tried so hard to fault it, but it honestly was freaking epic.
07:29Wow.
07:29Look at the floor.
07:30How amazing about them?
07:34Far out.
07:36Very cool.
07:37They nailed it.
07:38They nailed it.
07:3910 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10 out of 10.
07:42Oh, my God.
07:43I feel sorry for anybody else who's doing a cellar because this is just like, you can't compete.
07:48You guys have a cellar coming up.
07:51We do.
07:51We do have a cellar coming up.
07:52I feel like we've got, like, big boots to fill.
07:55Yeah.
07:56I need to take a photo so we can copy the whole thing.
07:58Wow, wow, this is cool.
08:05Look at the amount of wine.
08:07You would find me down here all day.
08:09Imagine how much, how litty, titty, mick, nitty we would get down here, Hans.
08:13Very well deserved.
08:15And if I had my time again, I would come here with Robbie.
08:18Thanks, babe.
08:29The other space everyone is keen to check out this morning is in House 3.
08:34They came third last night with a score of 27 points.
08:38We wanted to be up there with the boys.
08:39We wanted to really test them.
08:41So that's why we threw so much at it.
08:43We created a speakeasy in the shed.
08:46Is this a shed?
08:47This does not feel like a shed.
08:51Is this compliant?
08:55I don't know if this is going to get signed off.
08:57This is such a gamble.
09:04Oh, nice.
09:07Not compliant.
09:09Wow.
09:10This is a bar.
09:13You're not allowed to produce a room
09:16that you're going to spend longer than 40 minutes in.
09:20Like, if you're not supposed to encourage people to spend time in it,
09:22this is about as encouraging as it gets.
09:28I'm going out there and I'm getting drunk.
09:31That'll only take 20 minutes.
09:33Yeah, true.
09:33Oh, my goodness.
09:39Wow.
09:40The shed was...
09:43Illegal.
09:45Not allowed.
09:46That's what the shed was.
09:47The shed was the most gorgeous tasting room.
09:50Which I loved.
09:51Don't get me wrong.
09:53But not allowed.
09:54That was my plan.
09:59And I got declined on multiple occasions.
10:02So, I was pissed off.
10:07For me, it was like, how do you have what?
10:10It's okay.
10:12I know it's okay,
10:13but I'm allowed to be, like, pissed off about it being unfair.
10:18I ask all those questions, right?
10:20And we get told no.
10:21So, like, I'm like,
10:22how is it okay for one and not the other?
10:26I don't know.
10:26Don't worry about it.
10:27I'm worried about it.
10:28It is what it is.
10:29Who cares, Hannah?
10:30I can't care, can't it?
10:31We move on.
10:32Two weeks to go.
10:33Just embrace it.
10:34It's fine.
10:35So, Ken, you were becoming frustrated as well.
10:37You seemed to get a bit upset.
10:38So, it's just Hans' attitude was so negative.
10:44Like, literally, if anything is to learn off watching the episode last night,
10:48it's you and I need to have more fun.
10:50It would take it way too seriously.
10:52It's a TV show, Hannah.
10:53It's not life or death.
10:57I definitely want to enjoy the last couple of weeks.
10:59It's just, um...
11:02It's hard.
11:04Body's sore.
11:06Mind's gassed.
11:07Yeah, fatigue's setting in.
11:10I don't know.
11:10It's just like watching that s*** last night.
11:12It's just...
11:14I look like such a s*** kid.
11:17No, you don't, babe.
11:18No, you don't.
11:19You look like someone who's passionate about what they do.
11:22Yeah, it was a very hard, emotional morning for me.
11:30It's okay.
11:30I've had a lot.
11:31Yeah.
11:33We all got you.
11:34We got you, guys.
11:35We got you.
11:36Thanks.
11:36I've had this day.
11:38While Han composes herself,
11:40the teams head to the green room
11:42to see the domain listings go live.
11:45Good to see the pictures on the domain board.
11:48Stunning.
11:49Oh, wow.
11:50Stunning.
11:51The pics on the domain board looked incredible.
11:53You deserve all the tens.
11:55Thank you very much.
11:56It was interesting to watch last night's first episode and I forgot how fast it all started
12:04to happen from week one.
12:06Talk to me.
12:07I want to dig a cellar.
12:10You want to dig a cellar?
12:11I want to put a cellar in.
12:12And then for last night for it to be, yeah, it was special.
12:17After watching the episode last time, they were like, we're going in and we're going to
12:20have some fun for the next two weeks.
12:22Yeah.
12:23We are going out with a bang and we're going to enjoy every last second.
12:27I just think it's important for Han and Ken that they know that we're all here for them.
12:32Homestretch though, guys.
12:33Homestretch two weeks to go and then we're going home.
12:35We'll be alright.
12:36We're surrounded by like the most incredible neighbours here on the block.
12:41We will carry you through.
12:43We will hug you.
12:43We will love on you guys.
12:46Han and I are on this ride together and we both get frustrated together and we feel together
12:50and we get disappointed together.
12:52But I love you to bits.
12:53I love you to bits too.
12:54And you're doing amazing.
12:56You've done amazing.
13:01Thanks.
13:03It's too beautiful.
13:19It's the first day of backyard and pool week, the busiest week on the block.
13:23And the stakes are high as every team wants to claim they have the best backyard come option.
13:31Landscaping week is probably one of the most important weeks.
13:35And if you win landscaping week, you've got a really good crack at taking home the competition.
13:39Our blockheads have been working hard with their landscapers over the past few weeks to get their plans for their backyards approved so they can hit the ground running this morning.
13:49They're going to need to make the most of every minute because come Sunday, they'll deliver some of the biggest backyards we've ever seen, with each one measuring more than a thousand square metres.
14:01From day one we said kitchen and backyard landscaping is our number one priority.
14:08Best week of the block, we can't wait, we can't wait.
14:10Full on week.
14:12Budget is 50k, which is not.
14:15Not enough.
14:17At all.
14:17What does 50k get you in the landscaping world?
14:19Three trees.
14:22Pretty much.
14:23This is why Scotty's from Taiwan said start your landscape now and you need more money.
14:28Yep.
14:29From the beginning of the competition, I encourage teams to save as much money as they could for landscaping.
14:36This week they'll need to complete their entire backyard, pool area and pool cabana.
14:41And they'll also need to make sure they have enough money left in their budgets to finish next week's front yard.
14:49Because it was always going to be a hard task, last week Combank stepped in and offered some help.
14:56Combank are giving each team a budget boost of $50,000.
15:02Oh, no!
15:05Oh, my God!
15:07Who has the most amount of money at this point?
15:09Who's doing okay with the budget?
15:11I think House 3 Britain has.
15:13House 3's probably got the most money, I would think.
15:16They've won a lot.
15:16They won 50 grand in a week.
15:18But then Sonny and Lucia don't really tend to spend much money.
15:21Ben and Emma, you know, they won the 50k for the domain.
15:24$50,000 in cash thanks to domain.
15:28Well, I've done the math and I can tell you exactly how much each team is spending on their backyards.
15:35Em and Ben have allocated the most at $130,000.
15:39Which also needs to pay for the wine cellar they want to present this week.
15:45Britt and Taz plan to spend $100,000.
15:48Sonny and Alicia, $90,000.
15:51Robbie and Matt are spending $70,000.
15:54But they've also won a $50,000 fireplace and a $50,000 pickleball court to include in their backyard.
16:02So that leaves Han and Can, who have the least amount to spend, just $50,000.
16:09Which, according to Taz, should get them three trees.
16:14It's hard this week.
16:15Dive straight to House 2.
16:17Because the backyards this year are so big, I'd also suggest that the blockheads start their landscaping early.
16:24To give them the best chance of finishing on time.
16:28House 3 and House 5 are the only ones who took me up on this advice.
16:32They've both had landscapers here for weeks already.
16:36Giving them a clear advantage heading into this week.
16:39So we started landscaping three weeks ago.
16:41All the levels have been done.
16:42All the concrete that we needed to be poured is poured.
16:46It's going really well.
16:46We're in a really, really good spot.
16:48Quite happy where we're at.
16:50Britton Taz's landscaper, Troy, is no stranger to the block.
16:54Having been on board for the past three seasons.
16:58He's known for his modern contemporary style.
17:01And has produced some beautiful backyards.
17:04Including Tom and Sarah James' winning landscape back in Gisborne.
17:09It's good to have Troy on board.
17:11Because he's so meticulous with everything he needs to get done.
17:13So not only does he do the landscaping side, the render side of things and everything like that.
17:18But he'll also get on the tools.
17:19He's a very good project manager.
17:22I reckon we're in a good shape.
17:25Best spot.
17:25And once you put all these trees in, the creek through here, mate, it's next level.
17:29So how we're trying to set ourselves apart is being very on brief with Dalesford.
17:34So people here love landscapes.
17:37It's all about natural beauty, sustainability, wellness.
17:40So our house is a wellness house.
17:42So incorporating that into the landscapes as well.
17:44Our plan is to walk out from your back door through your refresco.
17:48You've got your seating area.
17:49Around a beautiful stone cladded fireplace.
17:52You've got a nice little runway of grass.
17:54You turn left and you go to the wellness area.
17:57Which is your sauna, your ice bar, spa.
18:00And then from there you've got a pool cabana.
18:02And we have beautiful timber arbors from trees that have fallen down in the area.
18:06A natural creek runoff.
18:08We have a greenhouse, chicken coop, veggie gardens.
18:11And it is going to be epic.
18:13The plans are there.
18:15Let's hope we pull it off.
18:17House 3's epic plans also include an epic amount of plants.
18:21With more than 2,000 trees and shrubs going into their backyard.
18:25So this morning Troy is meeting with Julie from Pope to talk about irrigation.
18:30As you can see the plants are going in this morning.
18:33Yeah, it all looks fantastic.
18:34So we are supplying a lot of the irrigation kits here for the block.
18:38Amazing.
18:38We are doing the Pope PC drip line.
18:41Which is perfect for all this heavy planting through here.
18:44Yep.
18:44So it's just really easy to use.
18:47You just need to roll it out.
18:48It's got little emitters every 30 centimetres long.
18:51Which will just emit an even flow of water.
18:53All the houses this year will also have a rainbird controller system.
18:58That can be accessed via an app.
19:00So the owners will be able to control the flow of water with a touch of a button.
19:03So you can control your irrigation if you're on the couch, if you're on holidays, even overseas.
19:09And you're looking at like 30% water savings by using a system like this.
19:19Aidan turns up.
19:20Can we go over to your shed?
19:25Yeah, of course.
19:28I love Aidan.
19:30I think he's a great dude.
19:31I just don't like him when he comes to my house.
19:35The brief for the sheds that were delivered last night was that they couldn't be a habitable room.
19:41Meaning you wouldn't spend more than an hour at a time in them.
19:45But what Britton Taz delivered has raised some concerns.
19:49This morning we've been having a look around with our Britton surveyor at all the sheds.
19:55And he's not terribly happy in here.
19:56And not every this one, no.
19:58Why?
19:59It's the fact that it's not really what we were talking about what it was going to be, really.
20:04That's what's in the plan.
20:05We spoke about the plastering.
20:07We spoke about cabinets, insulation, water racks.
20:10Yep, yep, yep.
20:10We spoke about all those things, yeah.
20:11And we also spoke about, you know, how the whole thing's presented in the end.
20:16And, you know, a block of storage on a plan compared to a nice stone bench.
20:23And, you know, there's a bit of a difference between having a wine cellar with a bench you can have a glass of wine at and having a flat out bar.
20:32Yeah, I thought it was a bar area.
20:33Why would you think that?
20:34Describe this place to me, please.
20:35This place is like a shed as a shed can be.
20:38It's got skylights.
20:39It's got floor, a half-foot floor.
20:43It's got floor-to-ceiling wine.
20:45So it's a bar.
20:47Well, it's not a bar.
20:48It's sort of a cellar, but not a cellar.
20:50If we had have seen a drawing with this big kitchen bench in here, I would have said, you've got no way.
20:57The basic bit is, for us to finish these builds and get an occupancy permit, for you to be able to sell it at auction.
21:04We currently don't have our surveyor's approval for this room as it is, so we've got to change it.
21:15What the hell?
21:16Like, we've sacrificed three months, you know, of our lives to be here, at the end of the day, to try and sell the house, to set our young family up.
21:24And then for him to say, well, you can't sell your house, you're like, well, that's why we're here.
21:31So a wine cellar's not habitable space, right?
21:33Correct.
21:34So like, same with the boys, as an example.
21:36But they've got a wine cellar with a bench there, yeah?
21:40Yeah.
21:40They've got a large amount of wine being stored.
21:43We're sitting in an area with a nice, big, open kitchen bench with skylights.
21:47That's not kitchen.
21:48That's not, that's just, they've got the exact same stone as us.
21:50Exact same thing.
21:51It's just, we're getting double standards here.
21:53Yeah, it's just not bad.
21:54I don't think you're getting double standards here.
21:55Yeah, Regan?
21:56I don't think you are at all.
21:57Most of that room is dominated by it being a wine cellar.
22:01Very little of this room is about it being a wine cellar.
22:05It's, it's not a wine cellar.
22:07So if I add more wine, essentially, is what you're saying, I can get some more custom
22:11work made up in there to put more wine.
22:13So what is it?
22:13It's like, you're telling us a problem.
22:15Yep.
22:15Okay, we're obviously not builders.
22:16You're the one who's going to take off on this.
22:18So what's the solution?
22:19I'm not here to try and tell you what to do or how to do it, right?
22:23We're trying to get it.
22:23That's your job, right?
22:24You're not telling us we can't sell it out.
22:26But for me, for me, it's more of a bar than it is a wine cellar, yeah?
22:31If you make it more of a wine cellar and not a bar, then the building's going to go,
22:36okay, cool, that's a wine cellar.
22:40Why don't you sketch something up and we'll get this available to prove it, but put more
22:44detail in it.
22:46Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
22:48Oh, something cut.
22:50It just dampens what is meant to be one of our most exciting weeks in landscaping week.
22:56Like, we've been looking forward to this since we started.
23:01It's just so frustrating because...
23:03Yeah, because you try and do the right thing, right?
23:05And get everything ticked off, and it was.
23:07And then for them now to say, oh, actually...
23:09Actually, we won't sell you out.
23:10Like, it's just so rubbish.
23:13It doesn't make any sense and we're just getting to give it.
23:17I can't wait to go home.
23:19Couldn't agree more.
23:20Yes.
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23:50So, mid-morning backyard week, and it's quite interesting to see the teams that had their
23:54landscapers here weeks ago.
23:55They're coasting.
23:57So, house three and house five, they're in a good spot.
23:59But houses one, two, and house four, they're way behind.
24:07Walking into this week, we're feeling confident.
24:10Obviously, we have all this land, but we're so lucky because we have this huge seven-and-a-half-ton fireplace
24:16and then an 18-by-eight pickleball court.
24:19No other house has got that.
24:21Robby and Matt's landscape of Paul is located in Dalesburg.
24:25He's been on the block once before.
24:28In 2018, he delivered a winning terrace for Norm and Jess at the Gatwick.
24:32Paul wants perfection, and he's got a really good team of local guys, and they work really
24:40well together.
24:42These guys are incredible.
24:43As soon as they walk out, because that's the shot, isn't it?
24:46Yeah.
24:46Let's make this, like, ridiculous.
24:48So, the vision for this week, we have a seated lounge area with the incredible Trends fireplace.
24:57Behind that, we have two pools.
25:00We have a pool cabana.
25:02Behind that, we have our dream court, a pickleball court.
25:06The backyard is an entertainer and family dream.
25:10Like, the kids will be running around on the grass.
25:13There's the play pickleball, jump in the pool.
25:16It's amazing.
25:18As part of Backyards this week, each team will also present a pool cabana that's already
25:26been printed by Contour 3D.
25:30Each cabana includes a powder room with space for a toilet and sink, and can be styled however
25:35teams choose.
25:36Oh, yeah, we're going to do a cabana this week.
25:38What should we do?
25:39In Adelaide, a cabana is a meat stick.
25:44And for those who know Matt...
25:46No.
25:46So, our issue is this room here, we've got to get that sorted, so that's going to be
25:50Matt and I, or my biggest focus this week, and that will probably be in the garden with
25:53you.
25:53Yeah.
25:54I just grabbed the pool cabana and was like, I'll take charge of this.
25:58It's a very awkward room.
25:59It's a very awkward room, so we're just trying to work out how we can get at least a three-person
26:04sauna in here.
26:05I think it'll be the icing on the cake for the whole house.
26:08If he can secure the sauna, Robbie's plan is to include it on the left-hand side of the
26:13cabana, with a bench seat in the middle, and separate powder room on the right.
26:17I just spoke to the electricians and they said, yeah, we can get some power to a sauna.
26:24The only other person I have to get approval from is Matt, because he won't pull the trigger
26:30on anything risky.
26:31So, Matt's the head of finance, the keeper of funds, and I have to run everything past
26:39Matt, because I have an idea, a spending habit, which was taken off me after a couple of weeks,
26:47and Matt's been in charge of budget ever since.
26:50Oh, hello.
26:50Oh, hello.
26:52I just want to speak to you about the cabana.
26:57Yeah.
26:57Um, I've spoken to the sauna people.
27:01Best price they can do is $3,000.
27:04Yeah.
27:04I think I hold off on saying yes just now until we work out how much we can actually afford.
27:13We had to rein it in this week, because after we paid all of our invoices for the wine cellar,
27:20we don't have as much to put into the backyard.
27:24Well, what's the other option if we don't do a sauna?
27:26Furniture, or cabinetry, or something like that.
27:32Wellness.
27:33Yeah, it's wellness.
27:33You need a sauna.
27:34You're also going to pay for the sauna.
27:37That's the thing.
27:38That's your problem.
27:39See, that's...
27:40I think we do it, because if we keep delaying it, we're just going to run out of ideas,
27:44and it's just going to be a lounge area.
27:47All right, cool.
27:47Let's do it.
27:49Cool.
27:49A lot of our saying is like, oh, that's future Robbie and Matt's problem.
27:57No, that's how you operate, mate.
27:59He didn't want to do the cellar.
28:00Now it's always like, oh, it's the best idea in the world.
28:05Head in the clouds, feet on the ground.
28:07Just like the cellar idea.
28:11Let's see what the result is this week.
28:12Let's see.
28:17This is the landscape team.
28:18What is this, Adrian?
28:19Tyler?
28:20Wow.
28:20How you doing, right?
28:22Yeah, sweet.
28:23Our landscape has arrived Sunday from Queensland and started Monday.
28:26We had poured a little bit of the concrete for it.
28:29Concrete, yeah.
28:29Other than that, we've done no landscaping.
28:31Yeah.
28:31So, yeah, we have a lot to do.
28:35House Falls landscaper Dylan has some previous experience on the block.
28:39He's the brother of ex-contestant Josh and was on-site helping him and Elise back in Elstonwick.
28:46Dylan from Jadebilt, he has organised all our trees, all the soil.
28:50Dylan knows his stuff.
28:51Yeah.
28:52As well as their landscaper Dylan, Sonny and Alicia also work with landscape designer Paul Pritchard
28:58to come up with a plan for their backyard.
29:02We step off the back of our alfresco.
29:04We have a hard paved path all the way down to the pool.
29:08On the right-hand side, we have an open-air harbour.
29:10Straight ahead, you'll have the pool.
29:11Down over to the right, in our lower section, we have a veggie garden.
29:15Then off to the left, we have a bocce court, the pool house, fire pit, and then a big grass
29:19area at the back.
29:21So, what element of that is going to set your backyard apart from the rest?
29:24I think the openness of ours.
29:27I don't like the idea of filling the entire space.
29:30Just because you have it doesn't mean that there has to be something going on in every
29:35nook and groany.
29:36We'll start swinging around.
29:37Yep.
29:39There it goes.
29:41We know the task at hand.
29:42This week's going to be busy.
29:44The aim today is to get as many pavers down as we can possibly.
29:47We're slow to start, but hopefully quick to finish.
29:50Being outside, it's a whole new playing field, and just the scale of this week's room reveal
30:03is ginormous.
30:05The plan is...
30:07We've got to do this whole backyard.
30:09This week, we've got a pretty incredible design that's been created by our landscaper,
30:14Colin.
30:16Colin draws on his artistic background to create his landscape designs, and he's never been
30:21on the block before.
30:22There's so many trees, Colin.
30:27And this is a little job.
30:28We're replanting Baleford.
30:30As you are standing on the alfresco, you will look down, and there'll be some little steps
30:37on the right with some bigger landing steps on the left there.
30:40In the middle of the landing steps, we're going to have a massive planter with a beautiful
30:44tree in the middle of it.
30:45So then when you step off the steps, you'll go straight onto pavers.
30:49The pavers will follow down onto the pool area, where you'll find the pool cabana.
30:55Fire pit to the right of that, with veggie gardens around there.
30:59So this backyard's point of difference will probably be the tree selection.
31:03Yeah.
31:04Plant selection's like 90% natives.
31:06We're going to have a lot of trees as well.
31:08Yeah.
31:08Our landscaper prides himself on selecting trees that suit the area.
31:13You really do want to be looking out over your garden that seamlessly blends into the
31:18hills behind.
31:19Yeah.
31:20And the other thing, with our house being so elevated, I definitely think that that's
31:25a real advantage for us.
31:27It's our main point of difference.
31:28Yeah.
31:28And it's our main point of difference to show this week, in particular.
31:31Yeah.
31:33Em and Ben are hoping to make the most of this point of difference by building a wine cellar
31:37underneath the right wing of their house.
31:41But with the way the space is looking at the moment, they've got a lot of work ahead of
31:45them, in order to pull it off by Sunday.
31:47The cellar is currently a concrete slab.
31:52Yeah, it's just the footings.
31:53Nothing that we can even give dimensions for to start doing some cabinetry takeoffs or
32:01furniture or anything.
32:02Designs.
32:03Designs.
32:03Designs.
32:03Yeah.
32:03Yeah, we won't be able to deliver the cellar to the level of...
32:07We won't be able to do it.
32:08I want to finish the cellar to the same standards as the boys.
32:12As in joinery and things like that.
32:13Yeah.
32:14The boys delivered such an incredible cellar and at the moment I'm looking around at our
32:18cellar and it looks like a mess.
32:21But they started building their cellar week one.
32:24They did.
32:27So I've just got to get on the phone and try and find some more carpenters, I reckon.
32:30You need labour.
32:31Find some more help, yeah.
32:32You've got the cash, you just need labour.
32:33Yeah.
32:34It just seems a little bit unachievable at the moment.
32:37I just don't know how we're going to pull it off.
32:49It's the first day of backyard and pool week and the block site is buzzing with more than
32:54a hundred tradies working across all five houses.
33:01And over in house two, after an emotional morning for Han, Canna's bringing the positivity.
33:12I'm feeling excited to have some fun with my number one.
33:18And yeah, it's landscape week.
33:20Huge week ahead of us.
33:22Massive two weeks.
33:23We're going to polish our food.
33:24We're going to come home strong.
33:25We're going to make the most ideally beautiful Japanese Zen garden.
33:29I can see some rocks.
33:30I can see some dirt.
33:31And I'm liking what I'm seeing.
33:34So before we even came to the block, we decided we were going to do a Japanese-inspired garden
33:39with Christian Jenkins, who's an absolute legend at doing Japanese Zen gardens.
33:43That's the vibe we're going for.
33:45That's the vibe we're going for.
33:47Christian has been on the block twice before.
33:49He was Omar and Oz's landscaper back in Gisborne.
33:52And he designed Mitch and Mark's winning front yard in Hampton.
33:57But despite his experience, he's a little worried about the task ahead.
34:02Landscape this whole backyard in one week.
34:04Now, I'm just really nervous.
34:10I feel it's nearly unrealistic to think that you could landscape this whole backyard in
34:17a week.
34:18Anyway, keep calm and drink tea.
34:24Keep calm and drink tea.
34:27House 2's Japanese-inspired backyard includes sandstone paving to connect their custom-built
34:33fireplace, pool area, and pool cabana.
34:36They'll have grass around the perimeter and several large rocks scattered throughout.
34:42And to finish the space, they're going to build custom wooden arbors inspired by traditional
34:48Japanese torii gates.
34:49So, torii gates are used in Japan as an entry to a sacred place or a spiritual place.
34:57They're used to separate zones as well.
35:02So, we intend to use them in our garden to separate out different zones and entryways.
35:09Of course, the girls are so low on budget, they're planning to make the torii gates themselves
35:14from timber available in my sawmill.
35:16They've also had to pull back on some other plans.
35:20They're no longer able to have a water feature, and they'll be the only team without a sauna.
35:25Not having budget, it's hard.
35:27We all know I'm a perfectionist, so it's been really hard for me to accept that we can't
35:32have the champagne on the beer budget.
35:36I think, yeah, we're quite disappointed with the fact that we haven't been able to give Christian
35:42a bit more money to be more creative.
35:45Anyway, it is what it is.
35:47Sometimes miracles happen on a tight budget.
35:49More money, more problems.
35:51As we reach the end of the competition, Han and Ken are the only ones with money problems.
35:59Most of our teams are running very low on block bucks, and with a backyard, pool area, and
36:04pool cabana to style this week, last night I had a surprise for everyone.
36:10Freedom Furniture have decided to give all of you $10,000 to spend in store in your backyard.
36:16I absolutely love freedom.
36:23So when Scotty announced last night that we were getting an extra $10,000, I was wasting
36:26no time.
36:28Do you want this?
36:32I had seen some pool furniture that I would absolutely love.
36:39Do you need it?
36:41I think I need two of them.
36:42Two.
36:43Perfect.
36:43I got two sun lounges.
36:46Got a large umbrella, a couple of side tables.
36:49I got some lanterns.
36:51Basically everything that was left in freedom that I hadn't bought in previous weeks.
36:55Are you gonna, are you gonna, are you gonna buy it?
37:03Yeah, you've done well.
37:04Thank you so much.
37:06Didn't take me long to spend my money at all.
37:08I've still got some actually.
37:10Keeping it in the, uh, keeping it in my back pocket just in case.
37:14And how's lunch going for you?
37:16I'm, I'm absolutely starving.
37:18So, it's great.
37:20Love chats.
37:20Who doesn't love chats?
37:21Back at the block, Alicia's tradies are also breaking for lunch.
37:33I'm on smoke out.
37:35Leave me alone.
37:36I'm hungry with sausages, please.
37:38Leave me alone.
37:39With so many hungry tradies on site today, Bunnings are keeping them fuelled with a barbecue fundraiser
37:44for a local primary school.
37:47I'm so hungry.
37:48I'm on smoke out.
37:51There's a tree.
38:03How sick is that?
38:05Wow.
38:06In house one with their first tree now planted, Emmer and Ben are meeting with freedom stylist
38:11Serena to discuss furniture options for this week's spaces.
38:14I popped together a couple of mood boards that we can kind of use as inspiration.
38:22I had a consult with freedom and I went crazy.
38:25I picked some, uh, sun lounges.
38:27Um, a beautiful bar.
38:29I picked some chairs to go in the backyard and I set a few styling options as well.
38:35Two, do you reckon two sun lounges?
38:37Two sun lounges.
38:38But after my meeting with Serena, I could see that the concrete was all getting set up ready
38:43to be poured and it was, it just looked like a lot of concrete.
38:47Um, so I mentioned it to Ben really quickly.
38:49It's all just going to be paving, that whole thing.
38:52What are we going to throw it?
38:56A bit late now.
38:59House one's current landscaping plans include a large area of pavers that will flow down
39:04from the deck to the pool.
39:05The boys had just spent all morning forming all this area up.
39:11The truck was, like, on its way, ready to pour all the concrete, but it was killing me.
39:14I was like, there's, there's too much concrete here.
39:16Yeah.
39:16It looks like a skate car.
39:18I know we're pressed for time.
39:19Can we potentially just put a little patch of not concrete in there?
39:25Sam suggested putting just, like, a big circle in the middle of it to soften it with a bit of grass,
39:31a bit of greenery.
39:32If we're going to do it, we would need to do it now.
39:34It just needs a big circle there.
39:35It's just somewhere there.
39:37Everybody jumped on it and marked it out, cut it all out.
39:40I'm really sorry.
39:41I know, you're cutting it for time.
39:46I think it'll look better.
39:48Yeah.
39:48Thank you, everyone.
39:49Love, everyone.
39:50Love, everyone.
40:05It's Monday afternoon at Backyard and Pool Week and concrete has been poured, bathing is going
40:13down and fridges are being stopped.
40:15And over at house four, Alicia is escaping the chaos.
40:22What are you doing in there, Alicia?
40:23You've probably been shopping online, are we?
40:25Yes, I'm block shopping.
40:27I need a couch and some furniture for outdoors.
40:29Sunny and Alicia are yet to win a room.
40:33However, last night they did score a perfect ten from Darren.
40:38Love Darren.
40:38Which means they get a ten grand cash injection to their budget.
40:45We've never seen the big bickies before.
40:47This is new to us.
40:48And to be personally delivered our big bickies, that was pretty cool.
40:50Look at those bickies.
40:53Big bickies.
40:54That's cash.
40:55Wow.
40:57Thank you, Arnett.
40:59Let's start for a moment about the lack of a win.
41:01Is it hurting or is it just something you're rolling with?
41:04We want to win.
41:05Yeah.
41:06We would love a win.
41:07But at this point in the game, we just...
41:10If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
41:11There's no point setting your heart on it.
41:12No.
41:13Yeah.
41:14This week is your week.
41:15You're trying my hardest.
41:16Come on.
41:17Trying my hardest.
41:18All right, I see you.
41:18See you, mate.
41:19Thanks, Scotty.
41:21Has anyone gone through the block and not won a run?
41:25Yep.
41:30Season 21.
41:32Sunny and Alicia.
41:35We're losers.
41:36We're big, fat losers.
41:40It's landscape week.
41:41We've got lots to do.
41:43So, my best mate from Adelaide, Jordan.
41:48Second best mate.
41:50He's an excavator.
41:52He owns premium excavations in Adelaide.
41:54And we have a lot of soil to move.
41:57So, we called him up and brought in the big dog.
41:59Oh.
42:00Yeah.
42:01G'day, mate.
42:03How you going?
42:04Oh.
42:06I can't breathe.
42:07That's all.
42:08He's a laugh.
42:09He's another version to us.
42:10We're pretty much like a tripod.
42:11Don't do some work.
42:15Nah.
42:15Do some digging.
42:16You are, though.
42:16Yeah, absolutely.
42:17That's what I'm here for.
42:18It was just that sense of home and relief and, you know, another face, chameleon face that
42:24we could use.
42:25And he in a machine.
42:27On the machine.
42:28Yeah.
42:28He makes me dirt.
42:29Very good.
42:30Dirt.
42:30Dirt daddy.
42:31Well, I've got to get him into induction at one o'clock, but then once he's done, he's
42:34all yours.
42:35Unreal.
42:35Loving it, man.
42:36Yeah.
42:40Of course, it's the beginning of Backyard Week.
42:42The facades of the houses are now starting to take shape.
42:54This series of the block, we've got three houses where we've included James Hardy clothing.
42:59You know, they're sort of sweet, our products, allowed us to create individual looks.
43:04What I've got in the background behind me, we've got the matrix board in the darker colour,
43:10and then we've got the linear weather board.
43:13House five is Boredom Batten.
43:16You know, it's the fourth time we've done Boredom Batten.
43:19There are so many benefits and reasons why we've done it.
43:23You know, it's about the longevity of the house, plays into our sustainability and resilience
43:27theme for this year.
43:29Stephen John won the series of the block with a similar look.
43:34Fireproof, wetterproof, termiteproof, and it's going to last a million years.
43:40House four, we've used the stria cladding.
43:43Like, it really sets off the whole sort of box modern style, which is what this house is.
43:49Yeah, can't wait to see this done.
43:51We're so excited that we ended up with this house compared to others, because I think it stands out on the block.
43:55Oh, so talk to me about the rocks.
44:07Oh, the old rock saga.
44:09So, house two, landscaper, asked us to store their rocks for them, and we said, no worries.
44:21They just need to be gone by the end of today.
44:25That was last Thursday.
44:27That was last Thursday.
44:28It's now Monday.
44:30And now the fences are up.
44:36Last week, the fences by modular walls started going up, which means teams no longer have easy access between each other's backyards.
44:46You know how I got those rocks delivered next door?
44:49Yeah.
44:50And I still had a few to get around here.
44:53Yeah, you still had like four or five.
44:54You used them in the garden.
44:56I've just seen them then.
44:57They're just, they're boxed up on the other side right in the concrete.
45:00I just think that's unbelievably devilish.
45:03When the rocks were there laying next to each other, you couldn't really tell which was which.
45:08When the digger operator moved ours, I think he picked up a couple of Christians and put them in our garden.
45:16Actually, I reckon it's really cheeky.
45:18I don't think there was two big ones of mine that went in there too.
45:20No, no, there's not.
45:21No, no.
45:21I haven't got none of your rocks.
45:23I've got natural field granite.
45:24Yours are blue.
45:26They're mine at Hillview.
45:27Yeah.
45:27I've got no Hillview.
45:29I would never contaminate my rocks.
45:31I'd only heard that Christian was quite the sole Namaste guy.
45:39He wasn't very Namaste about his rocks.
45:43There's some in the landscape that you use.
45:45I think there's four in the landscape.
45:47It's just so cheeky.
45:48That's okay.
45:49Regardless, they're not getting shifted now because you can't get them out.
45:52You can't take an escalator over all the Rio.
45:56Our point of difference to the landscape is these rocks.
45:59Okay.
45:59And now they're in your landscape.
46:01I was like, bro, they all look the same to me.
46:04A rock's a rock.
46:05Well, the thing is, we were lovely enough to be able to store your rocks for you guys.
46:10Yeah.
46:10And for longer than the day, the deal was we would have the rocks there till the end of
46:14that day.
46:15Yeah, that's right.
46:15And they're actually still there.
46:17Yeah.
46:17So I think, if anything, we've been doing you guys a favour.
46:21Does that entitle you to use the rocks?
46:23Or someone just had to grab me?
46:25That's okay.
46:25We'll just agree to disagree and we'll get on with it.
46:27It wasn't like, we're stealing these rocks.
46:30No.
46:30It was just like, oh, rocks are there.
46:31They were next to the rocks of ours that looked exactly the same.
46:35As I was saying, our point of difference are those rocks.
46:37Yes.
46:37And those rocks are now in your garden.
46:42Yeah.
46:42Finders keepers.
46:43Yeah.
46:44Losers weepers.
46:45Tough titties.
47:01Monday's MG getaway, we went to the lake house at Dalesford.
47:05Oh, wow.
47:10This is amazing.
47:14Luxury.
47:15Luxury.
47:18This is stunning.
47:20Look at this view.
47:24That place is absolutely insane.
47:26Cheers, mate.
47:28Cheers.
47:29Cheers to the celebration.
47:31Celebrating the cellar.
47:33And three turns.
47:34And three turns, obviously, yes.
47:35Off to dinner, so we were lucky enough to sit in the library area with Scotty.
47:41Just because you've got three turns, we've got Beluga Caviar Donuts.
47:45Oh, nothing starts the night like a Beluga Caviar Donut.
47:49Oh, you don't get that every day.
47:51That's because you've got a 30 out of 30.
47:54And then a special guest arrived.
47:58Hey, guys.
47:59How are you?
48:00In comes Dave Franklin.
48:02Yeah!
48:06Award-winning landscaper Dave Franklin first appeared on the block in 2012.
48:12Over the years, he's worked with several teams to produce some amazing landscaping.
48:16And his designs have taken out the win five times.
48:20Meet the new boss.
48:22In recent years, he's come on board as a judge.
48:25And on Sunday, he'll be scoring the team's backyards.
48:30I hear you had a big win last night, so I've got a surprise for you guys.
48:33We had a great week.
48:33Oh.
48:34Oh.
48:34Do you want to do the honours?
48:36And there it is.
48:36$10,000 thanks to MG.
48:39Wow.
48:40Oh, there you go.
48:41We can talk about what you've got to do with this $10,000 on your garden.
48:43Show me the plans.
48:45We're pretty lucky.
48:45We're sitting down with Scotty and Dave Franklin going over our landscaping plans for this week.
48:50So that's a huge advantage.
48:53I do love the fireplace.
48:54I think it's, you know, something that's out of this world.
48:57It's how to make that work with the pool, the pickleball court and everything like that.
49:01He gave us lots of advice on plants and layout as well as we need to put in some mature trees.
49:08I would be trying to get something that looks like it's been here for 10 years.
49:12Okay.
49:12You know, something that tells a story.
49:13Plus, block your neighbours out.
49:15Okay, so don't be scared of buying something at four or five metres torque.
49:19When you have someone like Dave with his years of expertise and knowledge giving us a bit of a clear direction, that really helped.
49:26Oh, you asked me to drop this off.
49:27Oh, this I did ask you to do.
49:29That's a first for the lake house and toolbox with big biggies on that.
49:32Of course, the boys scored three 10s last night with a perfect score, 30 out of 30.
49:40They also get a massive cash injection to their budget, thanks to Arnott's.
49:44Three lots of 10.
49:4730 grand.
49:49And there's another 10.
49:50Hey, there it is.
49:52Let me just see if there's no secret gnomes or anything in here.
49:54No, there's no gnomes, mate.
49:56Cheers, mate.
49:56Congratulations, boys.
49:58Cheers to you.
49:59Well done, guys.
49:59Thanks, mate.
50:00Welcome, Dave.
50:01Thank you, Dave.
50:02Cheers, mate.
50:02Cheers, mate.
50:11We're ordering macs for Chump's Dinner.
50:13Oh, mac indeed.
50:15I'm thinking like 10 Big Macs, 10 large fries.
50:20How many Chump's Dinners have you guys attended?
50:22How many weeks have we been here?
50:24We are yet to miss a Chump's Dinner.
50:25Yeah, I think we are basically the king and queen of Chumps.
50:28Chump and Chumpette.
50:30Dinner is...
50:33Lucky days.
50:34Yeah, it's a big day on Mondays, you know, you've got to walk around and then, you know,
50:39some head builder might come and yell at you.
50:41It's not a wine cellar.
50:42If you make it more of a wine cellar and not a bar, then the building surveyor will go,
50:48OK, cool, that's a wine cellar.
50:50Did everyone get approval today from the surveyor?
50:52Because the surveyor was coming around today, remember?
50:54I'd like to make sure the sheds were above board.
50:57The question was asked about if everyone's compliant, we just sort of say it's island.
51:02As the weeks grow on, your battery is more drained, you are more fatigued.
51:07For us, right, if people are constantly coming at us, it does feel personal, so we're just
51:12sort of pulling back a little bit to protect our own space and try and enjoy these last
51:16few weeks.
51:17Provincial and, um...
51:18And it seems Britt and Taz aren't the only ones who are choosing to be tight-lipped with
51:23their neighbours tonight.
51:24There was some chatter around secret gnomes.
51:28Yes.
51:29There's definitely a secret gnomes.
51:31You reckon?
51:32How long have you had the gnome?
51:34We've had the gnome since Domain, so Domain was like week eight.
51:38So we've won the secret gnomes.
51:41So there's a bonus point.
51:42We don't have it.
51:47The boys could have it, though.
51:48The boys could have it.
51:49I want the gnome.
51:51We're doing a very good job at playing along and pretending that we don't know even what
51:56a secret gnome is.
51:58The secret gnome's different.
51:59You have to say, hey, Scotty.
52:01We want to play our secret gnome, and everyone's like, what?
52:04Oh, really?
52:04Yep.
52:05So we're definitely going to use the gnome on fun deck?
52:07Because we can't use the gnome next week.
52:09The gnome is deleted after this week, so we have to play it.
52:12Everyone feeling good for tomorrow?
52:16I'm excited for more obstacles to overcome tomorrow, and, yeah, like, let's see what goes
52:22wrong.
52:23Yeah, I can't wait for that.
52:24Who's ripping up their concrete tomorrow?
52:26Yeah.
52:29Tomorrow night, the question is answered.
52:32It's about 10mm over 100mm.
52:33This may have to be ripped up.
52:35Oh, it looks like we're going to have to lose all this paving.
52:37Pulling up a slab of concrete was the last thing that we wanted to do.
52:40Oh, my God.
52:42Are you serious?
52:44Devastatic.
52:48Iceberg!
52:49Dead ahead!
52:50Also, the backyards continue to take shape.
52:54It's the biggest wood on the block, my arbor.
52:57Now, that's an arbor.
52:58That's huge.
52:59Art Han and Ken struggle to get on the same page.
53:05Candice has just snubbed the Cabana.
53:07I'm not doing what everyone else is doing.
53:09And where does that get us?
53:10To the bottom of the leaderboard.
53:12The Cabana is the Cabana.
53:13And that is all it shall be.
53:15Oh, my God, Candice, you're driving absolutely bonkers.
53:16Guys, please stop.
53:17Please stop.
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