Both dud Block homes sold, blow to last year\u2019s stars<\/a><\/p>\n Fresh blow for 2025 Block stars as new season starts<\/a><\/p>\n With some controversial help from the Cursio brothers, Courtney and Sev\u2019s family bathroom was a winner.<\/p>\n Lisa and Rosco presented an empty untiled room after their tiler\u2019s work was deemed sloppy and not up to code by the site foremen and had to be ripped up.<\/p>\n Courtney and Wyatt had agreed they could use the Cursio brothers once they were finished at their house, but when the super tilers turn up Lisa and Rosco are so far behind there\u2019s little point in getting them to work.<\/p>\n \u201cYou may as well go where you\u2019re actually going to be useful,\u201d Lisa tells them and so the Cursios fatefully end up at Courtney and Sev\u2019s place.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very nervous,\u201d Wyatt admits. And he was right to be. Without the Cursio\u2019s it\u2019s likely Courtney and Sev wouldn\u2019t have finished either.<\/p>\n Courtney and Sev\u2019s winning powder room.<\/p>\n They were also helped out by an unlikely party.<\/p>\n With Lisa and Rosco at a standstill Dan suggests Rosco go over and offer Courtney and Sev some manpower in return for something that might help them in a later week.<\/p>\n Rosco is nervous given he reneged on the deal he made with the girls last week, but heads over anyway, describing his hard-bitten negotiating technique thus: \u201cI basically went over and said \u2018Hey we\u2019ll help you out and if you win you can give us something\u2019,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m weak as piss.\u201d<\/p>\n Luckily Dan is there to ensure the terms and conditions are locked in with the final agreement being Rosco will help out and if the girls win they\u2019ll pay for Lisa and Rosco\u2019s bathroom to be tiled.<\/p>\n The judges loved Adam and Jolene\u2019s onsen-style shower seat.<\/p>\n But when Jolene finds out she\u2019s furious, marching off to tell Lisa and Rosco that Courtney has been describing Rosco as a \u201cdog\u201d and lecturing them on doing deals with him.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy! The f**king girls sat there the other night and talked smack about them!\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Jolene and Adam, along with Chantel and Wyatt, are the only other teams to finish their bathroom this week and they have high hopes of a win, especially given they\u2019ve spent $37,816.<\/p>\n But those hopes are dashed when the judges rule them out of contention for their fatal decision to eschew a door to the toilet, rendering the powder room pointless.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only people it\u2019s going to work for is the people that go to the nudist beach down the road,\u201d Shaynna Blaze says.<\/p>\n The judges like the onsen style seat clad in beige kit kat tiles but they question the need for a huge and expensive floor to ceiling shower screen that runs across the entire room given the wet area isn\u2019t a steam room and also note the complete lack of lighting and the poor painting.<\/p>\n Adam and Jolene\u2019s main bathroom.<\/p>\n Marty Fox counters though that most of these issues are easy to fix and wouldn\u2019t deter a buyer anyway.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just little things and I don\u2019t think the everyman buyer will notice these little things,\u201d he says, before Shaynna points out that they\u2019re currently being noticed in a reasonably public forum.<\/p>\n Wyatt and Chantel win the $10,000 budgeting award, having spent $29,565 in a week where they lost an entire day due to having a massive sulk.<\/p>\n They haven\u2019t changed the architect\u2019s design featuring three doors into one small vestibule, a fact the judges criticise them for, which seems a little unfair.<\/p>\n They\u2019re also criticised for having a tiny basin in a fairly large powder room and for not building their shaving cabinets into the wall, meaning the first thing you see walking into the bathroom is the side of the cabinets.<\/p>\n Chantel and Wyatt\u2019s family bathroom with bath jammed up against the wall and the sides of the cabinets exposed.<\/p>\n The judges like the wall sconces, the tapware colour choices and the vanity, but Marty notes the decision to jam the bath right into the corner of the room is \u201camateur hour\u201d give it means anyone having a bath won\u2019t be able to lean their head back.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is where minimalism can go completely wrong,\u201d Shaynna says. \u201cWhere you go from stark and simple to being prison-like.\u201d<\/p>\n If that\u2019s Shaynna\u2019s idea of a prison bathroom, then lock me up.<\/p>\n When the judges walk into Lisa and Rosco\u2019s $36,342 unfinished room they note that the couple have come up with the best layout of the day so far. They also love the brushed titanium tapware and vanity. Shaynna also notes the fact they haven\u2019t tiled means they may have dodged a bullet because they can now ditch the boring floor tiles they had laid out for the judges\u2019 inspection for something with texture.<\/p>\n Lisa and Rosco don\u2019t have much to show for their week.<\/p>\n Rick and Tayla\u2019s room is also unfinished but the judges are so unimpressed with what they have delivered it probably didn\u2019t make any difference to their placing.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no face level storage, their floor to ceiling tiles don\u2019t actually meet the ceiling, their towels are too busy and they\u2019re committed what is apparently a cardinal styling sin of having a bathmat on display. How gauche.<\/p>\n So it\u2019s Courtney and Sev\u2019s week, again.<\/p>\n Rick and Tayla in their unfinished bathroom.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve redone the architect\u2019s layout to create a sliding door from the hallway into the powder room, an open vestibule area for a linen closet and a classy space with a marble shelf and curved rendered wall in the powder room, inset face level cabinets in the main bathroom, with a huge rectangular skylight in the perfect position.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lack of power points near the vanity but that\u2019s about the only criticism the judges can come up with and they take home the most important win of the season.<\/p>\n Jolene is spitting chips, whining on the phone in the car home that the girls got extra help.<\/p>\n Jolene complaining about Courtney and Sev\u2019s win.<\/p>\n \u201cThe girls are a joke. They\u2019re going \u2018we\u2019re struggling, we\u2019re so behind\u2019, next minute there\u2019s 100 other trades in their and everyone else does their work for them.\u201d<\/p>\n Maybe she should have been whinging about her bizarre decision to create a literal public toilet in a lux bathroom.<\/p>\n FINAL SCORES<\/p>\n Adam and Jolene 24.5<\/p>\n Chantel and Wyatt 21.5<\/p>\n Lisa and Rosco 15.5<\/p>\n Courtney and Sev 25.5<\/p>\n Rick and Tayla 18.5<\/p>\n MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE\u2019S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR<\/p>\n Episode 1: First tears shed on season 22 of The Block<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 2: \u2018I will shut you down\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 3: \u2018I won\u2019t help them again\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 4: \u2018You will only last five weeks\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 5: Block couple ready to quit after scandal<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 6: \u2018Everyone is in on it\u2019: Chantel and Wyatt cry foul<\/a><\/p>\n Episode 7:<\/a>Gloves are off as Courtney accuses Rosco of treachery<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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