The Block 2025 Episode 33 recap: Three teams fail to finish in bruising week

Kumbaya is restored, I repeat, kumbaya is restored.

After a swerve into mild drama involving shopping trip standups, budget suspicions, stolen logs and some light copying, The Block 2025 has reverted to its default setting of reasonably nice people behaving reasonably nicely to one another.

It doesn’t start out that way in this episode though.

After neglecting their guest bedrooms and ensuite at the start of the week in favour of trying to impress 100 prospective buyers to win $50,000, three teams are in absolute struggle town trying to get them finished.

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Britt and Taz are devastated at their guest room failure.

At the absolute bottom of the pack are Britt and Taz, who barely have plaster on their walls, let alone waterproofing, as this episode begins.

Having been refused when they asked Alicia if she would let her tilers provide some magic quick drying waterproofing material the day before, Taz had managed to source some himself, but it was two hours away in Melbourne and they never really caught up.

To make matters worse, their tilers had never used the product, and their work failed to pass inspection, twice.

Before Alicia had arrived on site this morning, Britt and Taz’s tiler had again asked her tilers – the legendary Cursio brothers – for help and advice. When Alicia finds out it looks like she’s once again going on the warpath, but in the 30 seconds between telling a producer she was going to keep playing hardball, and arriving in her house, she’s changed her mind.

“Do whatever you have to do for them,” she tells the brothers, whose natural inclination to help anyone in need had been stymied by Alicia the day before.

“We decided we are more mature; we are the older people. We are the ones who can nip this in the bud. We can continue on like this or we can make the first move,” Sonny later told a producer.

Britt and Taz immediately walked over to their former best mates’ place to say thank you in person and it was hugs, then tears all round.

Praise the Lord, because it felt like we were one step away from a Netflix true crime documentary on the failed trip to Kmart.

Britt and Taz make up with Sonny and Alicia.

The relief Britt and Taz feel about their restored friendship with Sonny and Alicia isn’t enough to drag them fully out of their hole though.

Not even the Cursio brothers can fix their mess, and it becomes clear they won’t be finishing their guest ensuite this week.

Taz can barely choke any words out during a producer interview, he’s so upset.

“I felt like I was letting people down all day. Anything I did just didn’t seem to helping. We let ourselves down, let our guys down as well,” he said.

“Then I started thinking about our kids and letting them down.”

It probably wasn’t much consolation, but Britt and Taz were very much not alone.

Mat and Robby’s tiler headed off to play footy on Saturday, but assured them he’d be back to finish their bathroom straight after the game. And that was the last they saw of him.

“They’ve left us high and dry,” Mat said. “If we knew hours ago we could have organised something but now because of the time it’s too late.”

Taz is gutted to have not finished their room.

To round out the horror week, Han and Can won’t be finishing their bathroom either.

“We shouldn’t be in week eight not finishing,” Han says.

“I’m embarrassed and just don’t want to face the feedback,” Can says, with a little extra salt being rubbed into the wound by the fact judgement day is also her birthday.

With Sonny and Alicia and Ben and Emma the only teams to finish this week, the stage is set for some eviscerating judge feedback… that doesn’t come.

First up is Ben and Emma’s guest suite with galley-style kitchenette with green gloss square tiles and open shelving leading to a cosy bedroom with thick drapes, sage occasional chairs and velour bedhead.

Then it’s into the bathroom with another curved tile wall.

Ben and Emma’s guest suite bathroom is “a little gem”.

Darren Palmer declares “it’s just like a little gem” while Shaynna Blaze calls it a “boutique hotel suite”. Marty Fox says the kitchenette will immediately add value to the house.

The judges even overlook the execution issues which include a glass shower screen not being the right height and some slapdash cutting in.

“It’s so close to perfect, it’s perfect,” Shaynna says as they all agree the degree of difficulty this week with the inspection challenge coupled with the delivery of a bathroom plus bedroom deserves some more generous scoring.

Ben and Emma’s winning guest suite.

Han and Can don’t have a kitchenette, which Marty says will cost them on auction day, but the judges all love their trademark curved bed niche and their bold brown and burgundy colour scheme, as well as a TV hidden behind a curtain.

Shaynna seems inordinately offended by the presence of a small study nook in a guest suite for some reason, even though Darren points out plenty of people still have to join online meetings when they’re away.

Han and Can’s guest suite has trademark curves and trademark unfinished bathroom.

Marty suggests the nook would be better repurposed with a mini-fridge and bar set up.

Then it’s into the unfinished bathroom, where the judges love the red fluted resin vanity basin and the layout. Then it’s time for Shaynna to be horrified again, this time by a red towel.

Britt and Taz’s room comes under some criticism for the rustic-looking wall panelling that takes up half of every wall in the bedroom and hallway, though they do score points for including a kitchenette complete with fridge, toaster, microwave and fluted cabinet doors.

The judges also love their oversized bedside tables but ping them for their less than generous wardrobes.

The judges loved the oversized bedside tables in Britt and Taz’s room, but not the rustic wood panelling.

The unfinished bathroom also gets a big tick for its layout.

“If this was finished this would have been a contender, you can feel it,” Shaynna says.

Sonny and Alicia win kudos for theie unique wallpaper, designed by Alicia.

“I am blown away. It’s something I would buy as a designer,” Shaynna says.

Sonny and Alicia’s room featured wallpaper designed by Alicia, and one of this week’s only two finished bathrooms.

Their colour-drenched eggplant tones all get the tick, along with their walk-in robe and their bathroom with double basins, walnut vanity and beige tiles.

The only criticism comes from the fact they have exposed glass-front drawers meaning unless the occupant has a violent neat streak, they’ll be seeing their bunched up undies from the bed.

Mat and Robby’s room featured a handpainted wall feature.

Mat and Robby don’t have a kitchenette, but they do have a handpainted wall, grass cloth wallpaper and sage occasional chairs.

The judges like it but think it’s lacking amenity compared to some of the others.

“It’s lacking that suite element It’s a great bedroom, but if I had this square acreage I’d be fitting in a bar,” Marty noted.

Then it was on to the judging and after weeks of being also-rans Ben and Emma finally have a room win, including two perfect 10s (from Shaynna and Darren).

That means that on top of winning the $50,000 prize for being the favourite house of the prospective buyers, plus the $10,000 room win, they’ve also won $20,000 for their 10s.

FINAL SCORES

Emma and Ben 29.5

Sonny and Alicia 28.5

Han and Can 24

Robby and Mat 20.5

Britt and Taz 19

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