While Britt got sprayed with Taz’s vomit after a night of drinking and cavorting by the fire, Sonny copped a very different sort of spray from wife Alicia.
A frustrated Alicia broke down after discovering Britt had already pre-ordered the furniture she’d had her eye on.
Having already been pipped at the post for a mirror and a vanity by other contestants, Alicia had a bad case of the poor me’s.
And so began a day of breakdowns.
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Alicia breaks down over the non-availability of a chair.
“You’re crying over a chair or a couch but right now this is your whole world,” she explained.
“So, these small things make a difference. If I was at home and couldn’t get a chair, you’d be like ‘oh well, no biggie’. But when you are in a competition and you want to
do well, small things make a difference.”
Her day went from bad to worse when she got back to site and saw Sonny had installed the towel rails at a level better suited to a set of monkey bars.
“You might as well hang the towels on the ceiling,” she ranted, knowing judge Shaynna Blaze would rake her over the coals for Sonny’s slapdash decision.
“Sonny works so hard all week and then he gets to the point where he just wants to make a decision and just move on. And they’re the decisions which cost us each week.”
Furious that Sonny inferred her reaction was rude to other tradesmen on site, Alicia told her husband to leave her alone while she cooled off.
“The damage is done. I hope you find someone really nice and polite after this,” she hissed, implying he’d be in the market for a new spouse after auction day.
Alicia is crushed by being given painting tips by Dan, and by her husband’s decision to mount a towel rail on the ceiling.
Remarkably, Britt took being doused in vomit by her other half with far more good grace.
Apart from hightailing it to Scott Cam’s empty caravan to sleep without risk of a second drenching, Britt was non-plussed (even amused) by what had happened.
Alicia was incredulous.
“I would kill you if you vomited on me!” Alicia warned Sonny. “I hope she arrested him.”
Taz blamed the fish he ate for dinner (and not the many, many fireside beers) for the incident.
Gathering up the evidence of, umm, food poisoning, Taz stashed the soiled linen in his car, not realising that his crime was already the talk of the building site.
Now, instead of being mocked for his lack of building lingo, he’s being given stick for being sick.
If Taz wasn’t suffering enough, that arched shower door was also causing him headaches.
As foreshadowed by foreman Dan on Monday, the custom glass door was not going to fit into the arched space.
Under time pressure, the couple admitted defeat and elected to cut a rectangular hole for the door to sit inside instead.
That came with its own problems as it involved having to re-waterproof the new void.
Scotty was certain that it would be worth all the effort, declaring their bathroom the shoe-in for the win when he and Shelley Craft swung by for an inspection.
A square peg is about to fit into this round hole.
The host was far less complimentary about Han and Can’s handiwork.
After giving Han some stick for her comeback (which saw her go from being at death’s door to dirty dancing on a haybale) the Scotty and Shelley took in the girls’ unique amber resin sinks.
While Shelley was clearly impressed, a confused Scotty quipped: “That looks like something you’d find salad in on the dinner table.”
Later, once the girls were out of earshot, Scott confided that he wasn’t impressed.
“I cannot see the vision of that bathroom. I can’t see it working,” he grumbled as the ever-sunny Shelley tried to find silver linings.
Certainly, the girls have some problems still to rectify before Sunday. Namely the brown VJ panelled walls which Can felt “gave barnyard” more than bathroom.
He might think it looks like a salad bowl, but Han and Can believe their vanity basins are a room winner.
With all this going on, everyone – and I mean everyone, the contestants, their trades, foreman Dan, Shelley and even Alisa and Lysandra – were inexplicably called to HQ to take a 15 minute line dancing break.
A more cynical viewer might think that it was a bit of filler. Or an excuse to shoehorn in another McCafe plug.
But for pole-dancing champ, Emma, it was simply heaven sent.
For Foreman Dan and a very hungover Taz, not so much. Let’s just say, they shouldn’t give up their day jobs.
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Episode 1: Why no NSW applicants were good enough for The Block
Episode 2: The worst day on The Block
Episode 3/4: ‘Tear them off’: teams forced to rip tiles from walls
Episode 5: Judges feedback leaves one contestant vomiting
Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s heartbreak
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