i wonder why the teams didn’t have to stay together at all times this week
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Interesting question. Maybe the circumstance of the Melbourne house (Thornbury) allowed a team member to stay behind?
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Maybe because it put too much pressure on teams in the previous week when zones ended up unfinished and one person collapsed from heat exhaustion.
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Unless it drastically changes with the grand final the promos were misleading … and if there aren’t any harbourside apartments, terrace houses and a church in the grand final, the promos will have been a big fat lie.
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Combining the Fix Up room with the garden although a good idea on paper clearly not working in practice. As much as the drama of an unfinished room may add to the show overall a sub-standard of renovations does the show no favours.
Glad it was back to front/back this week but god, the Lisa edit really annoys me. Maybe she really is that dumb but all season they’ve just used her for comedy value rather than credited her with any intelligence and it’s really frustrating now.
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I haven’t watched it? So what was so different about this season? Based off the promo’s it looked completely different.
So far the only major difference was the first round was renovating the first floor of a warehouse. All rounds after that have been houses like it has been in other seasons.
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So maybe for the grand final the two remaining teams would each have to renovate a whole apartment?
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One of them will have to be looking towards the Royal Botanic Gardens with the Sydney CBD in the background, as it is in the promo.
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Just caught up with Monday’s episode which marked the start of exterior renovation of Tim and Mat’s Thornbury home. After Pete and Courtney won the golden shovel challenge, they took the other two teams to a local cafe called Haytch for dinner. According to Zomato review site, Haytch is only open until 4pm, so I think the producers asked the cafe owners to open the doors, just to allow the teams to eat and discuss which team would get the fix up room.
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Is that fact relevant to the renovation?
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or paid them $$$.
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Yeah. Have a feeling it’s another product placement.
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The product placement for the skylights has been the most blatant and in your face.
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Reality TV producers seek to alter reality for production. Who knew 
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Practically makes much more sense though for all concerned to film in an empty restaurant - especially for the restaurants paying customers.
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Did the producers put too much focus on the gargoyle statue in Tuesday’s episode? It was installed on top of the roof at Tim and Mat’s house on the final day of exterior renovations, and seemed to have an effect on Shayn & Carly and Lisa & Andy. Problem was that Lisa & Andy spent too much money on paving for the sunken fire pit, leaving little money for to fix up the master bedroom, meaning Lisa had to return the bedside tables she bought at Bedshed in order to pay the tradesmen.
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Did you answer your own question? Are you superstitious?
Haven’t you been watching these reality shows long enough to know that when they are really boring they dramatise the smallest things and just make stuff up?
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Couldn’t work out if Tim and Mat were holding back to be tactical or really just disapointed, though ultimately think they were rather generous in their scoring - I don’t think anything deserved more than 7s to be honest and nobody seemed to pick up that the only “play” spaces created for Tim’s daughter were a patch of grass and a teddy bears picnic. I know she’s only young but in previous series they’ve created some really decent play spaces and it really was missing from Shane and Carly’s zone especially. A play space with nothing to play with should have been scored the same way an empty kids bedroom would have been.
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If they were smart they would just take that fire out and cover the fire pit in astro turf for a play area for their kid or maybe fill it will sand for a sandpit. it was a good idea for a bachelor but I feel like Tim’s more of a family man now and it looked really uncomfortable. I thought the front yard was stupid, who sits in hanging chairs out the front in view of all the neighbours?
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