The Block foreman Dan went to extreme measures to find out if one couple on the show were really telling him the truth.

The Block foreman Dan’s ongoing friction with contestants Han and Can continued during Sunday’s episode, as he busted them yet again going against his specific instructions.

This time, Dan resorted to checking The Block’s on-site security footage to catch the WA couple in the act.

Dan approached the pair as they stood outside their house, cleaning their dirty paint brushes and buckets under a tap. It might seem an innocuous act but, as Dan reminded them, it’s a clear breach of Block rules: Contestants must only dispose of paint in a designated wash space further off-site.

The girls insist they weren’t responsible for this.
There’s a big puddle of coloured liquid pooling on the ground nearby, but the girls insist they weren’t responsible for it.

“I’ve just come up and seen the girls rinsing their buckets of paint just here … they reckon they didn’t do this puddle, they reckon that was a plasterer or something,” Dan told the cameras.

“We’ve got springs everywhere. We don’t want to be contaminating our soil near the springs,” he said of this season’s picuresque Daylesford / Hepburn Springs setting.

Block contestants have to follow strict procedures about disposing of paint.
“We don’t want to do it anywhere, anyhow. I can only take their word and hope they’re not lying.”

But this isn’t the first time Dan has caught Han and Can going against his specific instructions this season – so this time, he resorts to extreme measures to find out whether they’re telling him the truth.

Dan sits down to watch the footage …

Busted!
He heads to The Block’s site office and sits down to review the day’s security footage – where he watches as Can is caught on camera cleaning out her paint brushes and buckets, creating the large coloured puddle they’d blamed on a plasterer.

“Why lie? Why would you lie about it?” the visibly exasperated foreman asked the cameras, before marching back to Han and Can’s house to call them out on the apparent lie.

“They’ve washed out paint on the ground, they’ve lied to me, and they’re not taking ownership,” he said.

Caught out, Can offered Dan a full apology and insisted it wouldn’t happen again. But in a chat to-camera the couple seemed rather less remorseful.

“It’s the first time that I have been caught and told off, and it’ll be the last time,” a smirking Can said.