Britt and Taz had the last laugh on The Block, after adding an extra $30,000 to their budget this week, thanks to two challenge wins and a triumphant room reveal, which they were criticised by other contestants over.
One of those challenge wins was for having the most energy-efficient house, but the other contestants didn’t think Britt and Taz were deserving of the win.
“There’s no way in hell they should have won that, at all, because their whole house has underfloor heating, which is not energy efficient,” Mat said in a producer-led interview.
However, according to Taz, that’s exactly why they won.
“The underfloor heating actually worked in our favour, curing it, because when you have the underfloor heating, you’re not running your [reverse cycle] air cons [on heat] all the time,” Taz told Chattr.
“So you don’t really need, and if you’ve chucked a fire on with the underfloor heating, it’s like, your house is so toasty. But everyone else here — we walk through the houses — and you have to have the aircon blasting [on heat] all the time, whereas with us, you actually don’t need to run aircon. So you can just run underfloor heating, which is a lot cheaper, a lot more sustainable than running the aircon all the time.”
Britt and Taz were working towards winning the energy efficiency challenge all season
While Britt and Taz’s energy efficiency challenge win might have come as a surprise to the other Blockheads, the couple have been making smart, sustainable choices all season long.
“Scotty Cam came up to us and said it looks like you were the only ones that actually gave any thought to the sustainability challenge. We’ve been harping on about that since before we started,” Taz told Chattr.
“We’ve harped on about this since day one. We have had our eyes on that prize, making sure that we have the most sustainable house on The Block,” Britt added.
Of course, Britt and Taz’s kitchen was stacked with energy-efficient appliances; however, their approach has been a full-season strategy.
“Episode Two, I was digging up a fruit orchard to try and replant them,” Taz explained. “We just harped on every week about sustainability, because that’s what we’re about, especially where we’re from, and that as well. So we didn’t actually think it was going to be a contest, but yeah, I think Scotty reminding us that was good as well. He’s like, ‘Yeah, you guys are the only ones that really put up a chat about it.'”
The Block 2025 airs on Sundays at 7:30pm and Monday – Wednesday at 7pm on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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