The Block 2025 Episode 23 recap: Han and Can all but quit the spa room challenge

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Han panicking as she realises they only have an hour until tools down.

The Zen version of Han was a distant memory as the teams tackled a short week, with a public holiday meaning no work on site for one of the days, and two rooms – their rumpus plus the all-important Hepburn Springs Bathhouse treatment rooms – due for delivery at the end of the week.

With the prize of a $260,000 caravan up for grabs for that challenge, most teams were prioritising those spaces over the room in their own house.

Except for Han and Can.

Having already declared they’d hand over the caravan to Sonny and Alicia if they won it as a way to defuse the copycat scandal which saw the Queensland mum and dad accuse the WA pair of stealing their idea for a heated bench seat, Han and Can had left finishing their treatment room until the very last minute.

To be fair, they thought they could work at the bathhouse until 10pm so were blindsided when they left site to put the finishing touches on their space only to be told there was only an hour until tools down.

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Han panicking as she realises they only have an hour until tools down.

Han was furious and panic-stricken, and completely unwilling to listen to Can’s pleas that she calm down, which seemed strange given they were going to hand the prize over if they won it anyway.

“I just hate letting people down. They just sprung that on us, Can, it’s not fair,” Han said tearfully,

“It’s not worth getting upset about it. Your mental health is not worth compromising,” Can replied.

Particularly when the room they’ll be presenting has as much chance of winning as a dog kennel.

Can left Han to her own devices to design and style the treatment room, and she went for a kaleidoscope of textures, colours and styles.

There was a pressed metal ceiling, striped herringbone floor tiles in ‘70s colours and marble walls.

Even the relentlessly generous Emma is taken aback by the choices as she and other contestants take a peek, something Can is apparently well aware of.

“This bathhouse challenge just really doesn’t interest me at all. Everyone is laughing at our bathhouse,” she shrugged.

The teams can’t help but laugh at Han and Can’s insane treatment room.

So, what went wrong?

“Can took her hands off the reins and left me in charge of styling and decisions,” Han said. “That’s what went wrong. You’ll never do that again.”

There was plenty of tension to go round elsewhere on site too.

Robby and Mat won yet another challenge – this time to design wallpaper – taking home a $15,000 wall art piece as well as $10,000 cash.

The other teams could hardly muster a smile for the pair, who, since their disastrous striped bedhead incident have barely stopped winning.

So they were unlikely to receive any sympathy when Robby discovered their floorboards had been purloined by their flooring contractors – who are also working on Britt and Taz’s house where they had run out of material.

Alicia’s face says it all as the boys win yet another challenge, this time to design wallpaper.

They promised they’d find enough to finish Robby and Mat’s room, but it would necessitate installing a breaker board.

We’d explain what a breaker board if we fully understood it ourselves, so Google it if you really want to or just accept that Robby believed having a breaker board would be like leaving a fresh turd in the living room, despite the fact that a Block house with breaker boards aplenty previously won the show.

MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE’S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR

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

Episode 7: The big problem with the Block house designs

Episode 8: Robby and Mat’s drunken blunder

Episode 9: ‘An up-market nursing home’

Episode 10: Can faces the wrath of Han

Episode 11: Han micromanaging from her sick bed

Episode 12: Sonny cops a spray from Alicia