Bunnings bombshell: {Hardware} large companions with The Block 2025

Australia’s most well-known {hardware} warehouse, Bunnings is becoming a member of forces with The Block for 2025 as its official D.I.Y associate.

Filming of the twenty first season of the favored actuality present has begun within the picturesque Victorian nation city of Daylesford the place the Blockhead groups will overhaul 5 houses, set to kind a brand new neighbourhood inside Hygge Property’s Middleton Discipline new housing property.

Bunnings managing director Mike Schneider mentioned the Bunnings staff was excited to be a part of The Block and assist this 12 months’s contestants with all issues DIY and residential enchancment.

 “Once we had been offered with the chance to associate with The Block, we jumped on the probability to supply 2025 contestants with all the pieces they want from the entrance gate to the again fence,” he mentioned. 

“We’re all about encouraging Australians to offer their house tasks a purple scorching go, and we all know The Block brings house renovation inspiration to thousands and thousands annually.

 “Our staff can’t wait to help contestants via their 12-week house renovation journey and hopefully encourage viewers to get caught into their very own tasks.” 

Bunnings’ new partnership can be evident when the collection goes to air later this 12 months by way of an on-site Bunnings Mini Retailer, the place Blockheads can get provides, along with looking for recommendation from Bunnings staff members.

Moreover, there may even be a Bunnings-branded nursery on-site in Daylesford for contestants to supply their plant provides.  

Bunnings’ new Block partnership for 2025 has marked the tip of an period for {hardware} chain Mitre 10 who had partnered with the hit actuality present for greater than a decade.

It additionally ends host Scott Cam’s tenure as Mitre 10’s model ambassador.

“For the previous 12 years, we’ve been proud to associate with The Block, inspiring Australians and demonstrating our dedication to DIY and residential enchancment,” a Mitre 10 assertion learn.

“We consider it’s the precise time to discover new alternatives to showcase the power of our model and the distinctive experiences our shops ship to our prospects daily.

“We half methods with The Block with nice respect for this system, its producers, and Channel 9.

“We’re deeply grateful for his or her partnership and the position they’ve performed in constructing the Mitre 10 model. We want them continued success within the seasons forward.”

Daylesford lastly set to shine

For the following few months the Blockheads and different solid and crew members will name Daylesford house, in what has been a very long time coming.

In 2023, plans had been scrapped to set the 2024 milestone season within the historic city as a consequence of a handful of locals’ complaints, and the present moved to Phillip Island as a substitute.

Early final 12 months, Channel 9 bought the 5 2400sqm Raglan Avenue tons that are located reverse the favored Farmers Arms Lodge Daylesford and in shut neighborhood of the Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens.

In step with Daylesford’s panorama and the broader neighbourhood’s design tips, Hygge Property director Joseph van Dyk instructed realestate.com.au that the big, architecturally designed homestead sort residences will kind a personal road with no passing site visitors.

“There’s a historic row of cedar bushes which can be protected and preserved and that shelters The Block land from the street on Raglan Avenue,” Mr van Dyk mentioned.

“In addition they will interface with one other eco village we can be designing to the north.”