The Block

Scotty meets us at an old block of apartments in South Yarra. Six couples will meet up and fight it out against each other for the three available spots on The Block this series. To make the cut they'll have to please the judges with three rooms including a bathroom in just one week. The six new couples are thrown straight into the deep end.

There are just six hours to go until tools down. There's plenty of work, shopping and styling to be done before the bedrooms are complete. Ayden and Jess from QLD are aiming high with a suspended chair from their ceiling. In apartment three JJ and Mark have had an hours sleep and are ready to go in their room.

Last night's winners Charlotte and Josh are woken by the camera crew, Aimee is so happy to be through, Anastasia knows how close the results were and wants to get through once again. Luke and Ebony are keen to see the other rooms so they can get a sense of the close competition. So they all have a look at each other's bedrooms and are impressed with what they see.

The teams work through the night to get their bedrooms completed. There's no sleep for most teams and as the morning rolls around the teams paint, iron, clean and prepare their rooms for the judges. All except for Ayden and Jess. They sleep in past 7:00 AM which leaves them less than two hours before Scotty arrives for tools down. But Tim and Anastasia have finished ahead of time.

There are four teams remaining to fight it out. They must renovate their bathrooms in 72 hours. The team that scores the lowest with the judges will be the final team to be eliminated and the remaining three will win the right to move into The Block.

Luke and Ebony from WA have had the most setbacks with waterproofing issues and plumbing fixtures not being on-site when they need them. They can't complete the waterproofing because they're waiting on parts and at the start of a new day they are behind the other teams.

With just 13 hours to go until the bathrooms must be delivered, all the teams are at different stages of completion. But it's still anybody's race. All the teams work through the night to complete their tiling, grouting, cleaning and siliconing all the joins. Luke and Ebony have had a bad night because their toilet cistern is wrong, and their vanity is too big.

Tonight the All-Stars learn from Scotty that they'll start the competition with one apartment each. He gives them each the keys. All six teams have seven days to deliver a bedroom. At the end of the week, the six rooms will be judged. The newbies will be fighting it out for the $10,000 room prize and the All-Stars will be fighting it out to stay in the competition.

Its the start of a new day and the newbies have to think way ahead to kitchen week. They've got to meet with The Good Guys to plan their kitchen and Tim and Anastasia struggle to get head kitchen design. Ayden and Jess have decided they want to move their kitchen and they're hoping Keith and Dan will agree with their decision.

Safety Cam is ruffling feathers today, checking that all the trades on site have up to date insurance. Darren's plasterer doesn't have an up to date renewal form to show Safety Cam so Darren needs to find another plasterer. Lucky Ayden has a plasterer that Darren can use until things are rectified.

Its the last working day before the reveal of the bedrooms, a big day for the All-Stars because only one couple will stay on The Block. Dea supervises the wallpaper going up for the second time. Ayden installs the floorboards himself, he wants Jess out of the room until the end of the day. Matt and Kim have had their floors laid on a diagonal and they're happy with the results.

Tonight the teams finally learn which All Star couple will make it onto The Block. Darren and Dea are the winners and although George and Bec are devastated but they're also happy for Darren and Dea. They head back to the Block and surprise the three new teams.

Its the second week on The Block and teams are struggling with the early wake-ups and the weather. Darren and Dea have found out about Darren Palmer re-doing Tim and Anastasia's room. They suspect that their style has been copied by Darren and they're not happy. Charlotte has second thoughts about yesterday's tile choices.

Its the middle of bathroom week and all the contestants are stressed out. There's only two days before delivery. Anastasia talks to Bec about Deanne's confrontation over the seagrass wallpaper. Darren and Dea's bathroom is the biggest at 9 square metres. But the long narrow room has still been a challenge for Dea to design.

The contestants are putting the final finishing touches to their bathrooms. Dea and Darren have had a rough week with Darren being sick. Ayden and Jess's bathroom is a little unfinished and Jess isn't happy with their finished product. It's a mad scramble for Jess and Ayden but the other three teams are sitting pretty, taking their time to style their rooms, and even go out for breakfast.

Tonight the teams being work on their second bedrooms, and the start of a new day means it's hard for some teams to get out of bed. Dea has gone to see Darren in hospital, he's got double pneumonia. Their builder Andy has taken over supervising their build.

Tonight the teams are trying to progress with their second bedrooms, but for Josh its more of a struggle because of a brick wall that hasn't been completed in his apartment. Jess goes to Sydney and meets Neale Whitaker for a shopping trip, to help out with her styling for this week's bedroom. Dea is also flying solo with Darren still in the hospital.

The teams wake up the morning after their challenge in their brand new Jimmy Possum beds in Bendigo. Its Dea's birthday and Ayden surprises her with a cake. The teams all head back to the Block and Anastasia and Dea drive back in the same car, and after all the wallpaper talk, there's not much discussion in the car!

Tonight the teams complete their second bedrooms. They head to Scotty's HQ to hear feedback from the judges. It's their third room and they still have seven rooms to go! Josh and Charlotte and Tim and Anastasia are the two teams that haven't won a room. The pressure is on for these two teams to win a room.

After the second bedroom reveals at Scotty's HQ the contestants are finding it hard to move on to the next week of renovating. They've got to renovate their cellars, laundries and powder rooms but they all enjoy a sleep in before work gets started.

Dea gets stuck in the portable shower when Ayden puts a whole pile of sheeting in front of the shower door. Keith's having a few days off, his mother passed away so Dan will take over as foreman. The teams make over four children's bedrooms in a challenge for the Make a Wish Foundation. Ayden and Jess's children arrive for a visit.

Dea and Anastasia aren't getting on all that well, they're not speaking to each other. Anastasia thinks Dea still isn't over the wallpaper issues from the bedroom week. Darren and Dea think they're being picked on by Dan and Keith, because they're All Stars. Their 400 bottle of wines arrive for their cellar.

The cost of Dea and Darren's wine is the subject of controversy for all the teams. When the judges award the win to Dea and Darren, the other teams want to know how they plan to pay for all their 400 bottles of wine.

Dea gets her hands dirty as she cleans up their work site - Darren is off site and Dea does some work for about five minutes. Dea and Darren discover their plans to change the architects floor plans can back fire when they have issues with the ceiling height in the dining room. Dea is named the styling queen of The Block and she's pretty happy about it!

Dea and Darren's kitchen move has caused problems with the ceiling heights in their new dining area. Plans change for almost all the teams throughout living and dining room week. Mostly because everyone is confused about ceiling height regulations. Challenge Day arrives and the teams go to Collingwood to meet Scotty at Rokeby Studios.