The Block 2025 Episode 42 recap: Han worries she’s been portrayed as a spoilt brat while Britt and Taz cop it for their illegal bar

Finally, after weeks and weeks of foreshadowing, the moment has arrived. It’s landscape week and things quickly get rocky.

Predictably, Han was in tears. Not only was she overwhelmed by the huge task ahead but she was down in the dumps after a cast screening of the first episode.

Believing she had come across as a “spoiled brat,” Han was flattened.

“I feel gross,” she moped. “I feel gross about myself. I feel gross about the situation.”

For Can, on the other hand, the screening drove home how much of her time was being spent dealing with Han’s moods.

“It’s just a TV show. It’s not life or death,” she cautioned to a tearful Han.

Her words fell on deaf ears though, because Han had already found a new drama to agonise over.

How much Block contestants really make

Block couple’s stunning $435K profit

Han hides in her hoodie after feeling like she’d been portrayed as a spoilt brat on the first episode of The Block.

This time she was in a strop over Britt and Taz’s speakeasy. Having been told her own plans for the outdoor shed were not compliant (leaving them to present an unfinished and confused room), Han was annoyed that Britt and Taz had received the greenlight to turn their shed into a backyard wine bar.

“I ask all those questions and get told it’s not ok. So, it’s unfair. How is it ok for one and not another?” Han moaned.

She rightly saw this as an unfair double standard. But Can was eager to just move on and enjoy the time that was left.

Can joked that The Block had taken a toll on them as a couple: “We used to be friends and now we are enemies. If I had my time again, I would come here with Robby.”

Han is peeved about Britt and Taz’s wine bar.

Unbeknownst to Han, Britt and Taz’ wine bar hadn’t actually been held to different standard. The West Australian cops simply hadn’t made their vision for the space clear in the submitted plans.

Now that the room had been revealed, site supervisor Aiden told the couple that it wasn’t compliant and would need to undergo a major make-over to go under the hammer.

Unimpressed, Britt said “We have sacrificed three months of our lives to sell a house and set our young family up. So, for him to say, well you can’t sell your house [is devastating].”

Like Han, Taz and Britt felt they were being subjected to double standards, pointing to the fact that Robbie and Mat had an almost identical set up in their underground cellar.

“I don’t think you are getting double standards. Most of that room is dominated by being a wine cellar,” Aiden countered.

“I am not here to tell you what to do. But to me, this is more of a bar than a wine cellar. If you made it more of a cellar…”

So essentially, they need to whine less about failing to get approvals and add more wine to get approval.

Aiden tells Britt and Taz they need less whine and more wine.

Taz said it had dampened what should have been one of the more exciting weeks on The Block.

At least they had made some headway on their landscaping unlike most of the other contestants who were staring at a dwindling bank balance and an empty yard to fill by Sunday.

All season host Scott Cam has been banging on about how herculean the task would be, urging the teams to tuck money away each week in anticipation.

Emma and Ben had a whopping $130,000 in their kitty for works, Britt and Taz had $100,000 available, Sonny and Alicia were spending $90,000, Robby and Mat were spending $70,000 (on top of the $50,000 fireplace and $50,000 pickle ball court they won earlier) while Han and Can have just $50,000.

Everybody was getting a 3D printed cabana. And $10,000 worth of furniture.

With the most cash to splash (and holders of the secret gnome) Emma and Ben were well placed for a win.

But their budget also needed to fund their copycat cellar.

After touring Robby and Mat’s winning cellar (and snapping a few “inspiration” shots), Emma wasn’t feeling optimistic about getting their room done on top of landscaping all that garden and producing a pool cabana.

The expectant parents were eager to use their main point of difference –their house elevation – to house a cellar. Only, beyond laying a concrete slab they hadn’t yet done anything towards making their dream a reality.

Matt and Robby, on the other hand, had been toiling away on their space since week one.

“The boys delivered such an incredible cellar and, at the moment, I am looking around at ours and it looks like a mess,” Emma said. “It just feels a bit unobtainable at the moment. I don’t know how we are going to pull it off.”

Britt and Taz are caught out running an illegal speakeasy.

Emma was also worried that her yard was going to look more like a skate park than a garden because so much of the space would be paved.

Her solution was to add a large circle of grass in the middle of the concrete. Emma and Ben also used the old “finders keepers” law to give their garden a boost.

Last week, their neighbours Han and Can had asked to store some large boulders on Emma and Ben’s property. Several days later, and with fence lines now built, some of the avalanche of rocks still hadn’t been removed.

And so, they made their way into Emma and Ben’s design.

The expectant parents argued it was just a case of mistaken identity. Given all rocks essentially look the same, Han and Can’s rocks had simply been mixed up with their own.

“It wasn’t like we said ‘let’s steal these rocks!’ it was more a case of, ‘well, the rocks are there…’” Emma justified.

Han and Can’s normally zen landscaper wasn’t having a bar of it, declaring the move “devilish!”

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