The Block's Mat and Robby reveal truth about floorboard theft: 'Poor communication'

Robby was left with the tough spot of working with his tradies to figure out how to fix the problem, but what really happened? Did Emma and Ben steal their floorboards to sabotage Mat and Robby?

“Obviously, we ordered our floorboards a long time before, we knew we had enough, we actually over-ordered a little bit,” Robby tells Chattr. “Unfortunately, it just came down to poor communication from [the flooring] business.”

According to Robby and Mat, they knew House 2 was taking floorboards from them, but didn’t expect there to be a shortage.

“They ran out of floorboards, and were taking floorboards from us, but we were promised that we will have enough floorboards to finish the house,” Robby adds.

However, the pair believe it was the flooring company rather than Emma and Ben.

“They might take something in the future, but I’ll tell you what. What they’re taking this week might not be that big a deal,” Matt chimes in.

Why was it such a disaster for Robby and Mat to run out of floorboards?

During The Block episode, Robby chatted to the Flooring Xtra boss, who said the pair would put in a “breaker” if they ran out of timber.

However, Robby and Mat were furious at this idea.

“It would be disrespectful to the buyer,” Mat said. “Otherwise, as soon as you walk in, you’re gonna have a fat ugly beam, and you’re going to have herringbone going different higgledy-piggledy, it’s not a high-end, premium home then.”

Robby expanded on this in our interview, saying: “We wanted to connect our lounge room, and then we wanted to flow into all the rooms that were floorboarded. And you don’t want to sort of start in the corner and work your way back to the living room.

“It needs to flow from the living room. So we knew from [the] start we were going to do that, and the Flooring Xtra team were aware of that.”

So much drama over some pieces of wood! That’s what The Block is all about.