The Block 2025 Episode 43 recap: In a repeat of last week, Han has big plans and no cash

Han intends to finish this show as she started. Hiding out in the caravan having a sook.

Refusing to come out to talk to Foreman Dan because she was “too cold”, Han decided to instead discuss the plans over the phone from her hideaway.

Realising how strapped for cash the girls are this week, Dan was surprised to hear that Han was still flirting with unnecessarily rendering the walls of her pool cabana.

It felt like another case of Han making a rod for her own back, fixating on minor details at the expense of the big picture (in this instance finishing a huge garden space).

She had done the same thing with the shed last week. And the garage before that.

Frustrated to find Han hiding in the caravan after tramping mud all through the interior, Can sniped: “I’m trying to have fun down there and you’re doing f**king dumb sh*t.”

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Can leaves Han sulking in the caravan.

Can also reminded Han that they were falling behind. Everyone else was making headway on their gardens while Han was toasting up some peanut butter bagels and umming and ahhing about rendering the cabana walls.

“I’m not doing what everyone else is doing,” Han protested as Can pleaded with her to see sense when there was an entire garden still to finish with the smallest budget on The Block.

Han was not swayed, bellowing: “I will do what I want to do!”

“And where does that get us? The bottom of the leader board,” Can retorted.

“Why aren’t we choosing easy at this point? And cheap? We don’t have any money.”

She had a point. But to Han, it felt like Can had lost trust in her vision and ability to get the job done. Plus, her dad was about to arrive on site to help her finish the job (for minimum wage).

Han’s dad – and her first choice for doing The Block with – had assured her over the phone that rendering the cabana walls could be done. And so, that’s what she was going to do, come hell or high water.

Can wasn’t convinced.

“I think we just figure out where we focus our efforts Han,” Can said, tactfully.

“A shed is a shed. A cabana is a cabana. And that’s all it shall be. Shall we focus our attentions out to the wider garden darling?”

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As Han urged her other half to stop teasing her, she spat “I love you but I hate you right now.”

Remarkably, even after all this, Han was still talking about purchasing a sauna.

As Can showed her the books, to prove just how little money there was this week, Han seemed to think that there was still money lurking somewhere.

“You are not a builder. You have no idea how much things are going to cost. You are overreacting,” Han reasoned.

Ben finds out he’s going to have to rip out a $20,000 concrete slab.

Meanwhile Can was having buyer’s remorse for splurging on some of Han’s previous suggestions. Things like an expensive wine fridge and altering the lay-out of the house. Oh, and let’s not forget the unfinished shed.

It wasn’t just the girls who were struggling. Ben and Emma hit a roadblock when foreman Dan came past to tell them their $20,000 concrete slab wasn’t up to code. It was too steep and would need to be pulled up and redone.

The setback left the normally upbeat pair feeling uncharacteristically glum.

It’s Britt’s 30th birthday but she’s in no mood celebrate, even with Alicia’s balloons.

Britt was also in a slump. Despite being gifted a bunch of helium balloons and a celebratory meal to mark her 30 th birthday, Britt wasn’t in the mood to party.

Instead, she and Taz snuck off to have their own private dinner without telling the others they weren’t attending the festivities in Britt’s honour.

The cause of Britt’s mood was the news their shed wasn’t compliant and would need to be changed before the house could go to auction.

Reluctantly the couple agreed to remove their tables and chairs and add more wine storage, to make the space more of a cellar and less of a speakeasy.

In typical form, Sonny wasn’t too sad to hear Britt and Taz’s shed had been given the thumbs down.

“Why, should I be? Rules are rules,” he shrugged.

Mat was a little less discreet, dancing down the street singing “non compliant” with delight.

Following the advice of Dave Franklin, Mat and Robbie have invested in a huge bottle tree. The 4.2m tree will join a yard already brimming with novelties such as a pickle ball court and vast fireplace.

Alicia, on the other hand, after a few wink-wink-nudge-nudge chortles about “erecting Sonny’s big wood” (arbour) was taking a less is more approach to her landscape, arguing “just because you’ve got space, doesn’t mean you have to fill it all.”

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