The Block NZ
The Block NZ
TV ShowReturning Series

The Block NZ

6.1 / 10 · 6 votes
2012
~1h / ep
10 seasons
416 episodes
Reality

The New Zealand version of the international hit renovation-reality series in which four couples compete to renovate four dilapidated houses in a very upmarket suburb – room by room, week by week, challenge by challenge – and sell them at auction for the highest price.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    04-07-20121h

    The four couples meet for the first time and are given the task of finding one of four Mazda BT50s before making their way around Auckland to locate four red blocks each that are w...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    05-07-20121h

    The four couples enter their houses for the first time and are all shocked to see just how bad a condition they are in. After spending an entire day cleaning up the houses, the tea...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    11-07-20121h

    The couples begin their first room renovation, the second bedroom, and Mark challenges them to build a wall to his exact measurements—with a prize that will turn the competition up...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    12-07-20121h

    Ginny and Rhys deliver their house swap verdict. Shannon sets the couples a distressing challenge, the couples are each given a brand new bedside table and are required to distress...

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    18-07-20121h

    The teams are required to build a piece of furniture from recycled material. This week room is the study/childs bedroom, teams are required to furnish the room with recycled furnit...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    19-07-20121h

    The challenge is a plumbing challenge, each team must run piping from a starting point to a tap. The first team to get water flowing through the tap wins the competition. Rachael &...

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    25-07-20121h

    This week the teams are required to renovate the bathroom and laundry. The challenge this week is for each team to cook and host a meal for the other teams. The other teams are req...

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    26-07-20121h

    The team challenge this week ran over two nights with the first two teams hosting their meal on the first night and the second two team hosting their meal tonight. Sarah and Richar...

  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    01-08-20121h

    This week the teams are required to complete the Lounge and Hallway. Today's challenge was to build a dog house, the winning team of the doghouse challenge was Libby and Ben. Part...

  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    02-08-20121h

    The teams were given a room full of furniture but with everything painted in white. The teams were required to colour the rooms and furniture in colours of their own choice with th...

  • Ep 11

    11.Episode 11

    09-08-20121h

    This week the teams were required to complete the kitchen and dining areas. The challenge for today was to redesign a balcony of an Auckland waterfront apartment. The teams were gi...

  • Ep 12

    12.Episode 12

    10-08-20121h

    The teams were required to decorate a room for a magazine shoot, the teams were allowed to hire expensive furniture items for this challenge. Once the room was designed and photogr...

  • Ep 13

    13.Episode 13

    15-08-20121h

    The final interior room was decorated this week, the master bedroom and ensuite. Today's challenge was to create a mosaic art work from broken tiles, the teams had to also incorpor...

  • Ep 14

    14.Episode 14

    16-08-20121h

    The teams were required to complete a maze challenge where they must run through a maze to find pieces of outdoor furniture, once the pieces are found the teams are required to ass...

  • Ep 15

    15.Episode 15

    22-08-20121h

    The competition now moves outside with teams competing to landscape the front of their section and start on the exterior paintwork of the house. Today's challenge was for the teams...

  • Ep 16

    16.Episode 16

    23-08-20121h

    Work on the front of the section continued with Sarah and Richard plantting a large palm tree on their property upsetting their neighbours. The challenge today was to build an eco...

  • Ep 17

    17.Episode 17

    29-08-20121h

    The final room challenge and this time teams are required to landscape the backyard. The teams are given this time 10 days to complete the challenge instead of the usual 7 days, te...

  • Ep 18

    18.Episode 18

    30-08-20121h

    Work on the backyard continues. A winner is not revealed this week as the challenge carries on into the next week. Today's challenge was to market the house for auction to a team o...

  • Ep 19

    19.Episode 19

    05-09-20121h

    The final week and a two-hour episode. In the first half of the episode teams work hard to complete the backyard and finish off the rest of the house. Sarah and Richard were the wi...

  • Ep 20

    20.Live Final

    06-09-20121h

    The final episode, also a two-hour episode, featured a look back at the competition over the past 10 weeks and the final auction. The results of the final challenge were revealed w...

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