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The Block 2024 episode 10, 11 recap: Ricky and Haydn fall victim to worst Block disaster ever

Posted: 2024-08-28 10:46:00

Original link: https://www.realestate.com.au/news/the-block-2024-episode-10-11-recap-ricky-and-haydn-fall-victim-to-worst-block-disaster-ever/

Theoretically this ensuite should have been a breeze for Ricky, given he’s already completed a bathroom in week one by himself while camping in a tiny tent.

But even with wingman Haydn by his side (and a comfy bed to sleep in), the forces are against the flamboyantly attired Melbourne tradie this week. And so, after a steady stream of disasters that saw Waterproofing Wednesday become Waterproofing Thursday and then Pull Up Waterproofing Friday, Foreman Dan orders Ricky and Haydn to give up and send their tradies home.

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Dan makes the call when he discovers plasterboards had been damaged while the boys were frantically trying to remove floor waterproofing that had failed to set because the wrong type of product had been used.

The boys' waterproofing is coming up in sheets.

DIYers take note: waterproofing isn’t meant to do this.

Haydn says it feels like they have been disqualified from the game.

A crestfallen Ricky agrees, adding: “To be told you can’t even compete to win, is just devastating.

“At the end of the day due to some actions, or a lack of actions it’s led to the end of our week.”

It’s also the end for their builder Miller, who the boys decide to send packing for good.

Ricky and Haydn had grown increasingly frustrated with Miller, due to his habit of being “reactive rather than proactive” on site. Matters weren’t helped when Miller left early on Waterproofing Wednesday for “personal reasons”.

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Turned out the reason wasn’t so personal. He had tickets to a concert.

It’s a “kick in the guts” for Ricky and Haydn who have sacrificed so much to do The Block only to see their hard work derailed by their builder’s apathy.

Ricky and Haydn's plaster is coming off in blobs.

… And plaster isn’t meant to do this.

Earlier Haydn had to bail on a challenge — yes, we have reached the stage of the competition where they subject exhausted and time-poor contestants to inane tasks that take them away from supervising their renovations — because of a problem with their curved wall.

Waterproofing had been applied to wet plaster whilst Haydn and Rocky were off site, leaving their planned feature a soggy mess.

As Haydn deals with that problem, poor Ricky tackles the challenge of building an eco-friendly penguin nesting box on his own, hoping to secure the $5000 prize and the potentially game-changing bonus point gnome (which is actually a ceramic penguin this year).

No amount of fluouo is going to cheer Ricky up after Dan tells him to rip up his bathroom and start again.

Despite Ricky’s best efforts to create a tiny house for Phillip Island’s most-famous residents, it is Kylie and Brad who triumph in the challenge, wowing the judge with their curved design. The win, along with some positive feedback from Shelley Craft and Scott Cam for their black-timber-walled ensuite after two weeks of consistent negativity, puts a spring back in Kylie’s step.

“You make some compromises and you’re trying to please everyone you lose your way a bit,” Kylie said of watering down her vision for a gothic-style holiday house after her black bathroom was universally panned in week one.

“I feel this is the most ‘us’ room.”

As Kylie and Brad find their groove and Ricky and Haydn fall to pieces, the three remaining teams are buckling under the pressure of the looming deadline.

Dan has to pull up both Kristian and Grant for “cutting corners” with their insulation while Jesse and Paige are still scrapping over tiles.

Dan is annoyed Kristian has been cutting corners again.

With the clock ticking, not only is Jesse sticking to his guns on floor-to-ceiling tiles — despite their week one disaster and the fury of his fiancé, Paige — but he has hired the world’s slowest tiler to install them.

Even after being prewarned by Mimi and Kristian about the glacial pace at which Ali tiled their week one bathroom, Jesse elects to use him for his ensuite this week.

Two hours later and two tiles have been painstakingly put in place.

Could the couple be headed to another bathroom wash-out? Time will tell.