The Block

S08:E08 - Episode 8

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. The team that takes out the weekly win will stay in the competition. The other two teams will be going home. Its the first time the All Stars have been in an elimination and all three teams want a place on The Block. The three new teams have three units, one stacked above the other. The front stack has been claimed by Josh and Charlotte. Next door are Tim and Anastasia. Third in the row is Jess and Ayden. Bec and George have got the first floor apartment. On the second floor in an identical apartment are Matt and Kim. Dea and Darren are on the top floor in another identical apartment. The next day work begins in all the apartments but there’s not much the newbies can do until they see plans for the building. Scotty arrives with plans to tell them what they’ll be doing for the next ten weeks. The three new teams will each be converting their three apartments into one. Three bedrooms, three bathrooms, kitchen, living, dining, cellar and laundry in the basement and two car parking spaces. The newbies will be getting a stack of vouchers plus $150,000, straight into their AMP accounts. This week they’re starting on the second floor with a bedroom. They’re all very excited. Ayden and Jess have the smallest apartment, Tim and Anastasia have the largest and Josh and Charlotte are in between. Darren starts demolishing his room straight away and Scotty arrives to tell them they’ve got $10,000 to renovate their bedrooms this week. The rooms are small and the All Stars think it’ll be a challenge. The suppliers arrive to measure up for wardrobes and window furnishings and the All Stars know they have to bring something unique for the judges. Josh and Charlotte decide on plantation shutters for their whole apartment. Ayden and Jess know that they’re going to need a builder they can count on at all time. Anastasia is loving having a whole week to do a bedroom and meets up with a curtain supplier to choose her sheer fabric curtains. She’s chosen a supplier who is also working with Dea and Darren. Jess tells Ayden that she wants him to to expose the brickwork on one of the walls, but its not something Ayden wants to rush into. Charlotte and Josh’s doorway to their apartment is partially blocked by the scaffold and they’re wondering how they’re going to get all their materials inside. Keith tells everyone they’ll need to empty their apartment of all the old furniture. At the end of the first day of renovating most of the teams have a general plan for their bedrooms. George and Bec know how hard the competition is and were shocked when Scotty told them about the elimination challenge. Jess and Ayden’s original builder says he’ll do the job and will also bring an apprentice.