From fears about having a flooded home, at worst, to an unrenovated garden, at best, Daniella and Aaron soon discovered that a lot could be achieved in seven hours post a cyclone.
Despite the House Rules work site on the Gold Coast being ground to a halt due to dangerous weather brought on by Cyclone Debbie in late March, the teams were able to return and finish their landscape designs.
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Trailer: Cyclone Debbie hits House Rules
As a state of emergency is declared, for the first time in House Rules history the clock stops and the race to save Aaron and Daniella's Gold Coast house begins.
"It was definitely the toughest thing we have done in our whole lives," said Ella to agreeance from fiancé Sean and opposing team Kate and Harry.
"I didn't want to ever have a shower again, I felt like I'd been ... rained on that much," said Kate, looking well groomed (and clean) for the studio cameras.
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"They were going to have a pool in the front and back garden, that's how wet it was," agreed Harry.
While Aaron and Dee were in Tasmania working on Sean and Ella's Hobart house, the remaining couples worked to undo some of the minor damage left in the cyclone's wake and managed to finish the exterior of the Broadbeach Waters home.
"I've got the shakes," said Dee upon seeing her front garden.
"How did they get all this done with all the wet weather?" said an amazed Aaron. "I can't believe it either. I'm in shock," agreed Dee.
"What we had, a disaster to coming home to this. Our house is a tropical oasis resort," reflected Dee from her new deck overlooking the canal. "You know financially this would have taken us 10 years or more to get something like this."
"These guys that have done this for us, they're beautiful people. You could never pay anybody back for what they've done for us, to give us all of this," said Aaron in the moment that brought tears to Griggs' eyes. "It's pretty amazing."
"Oh I get so emotional, it's happy tears," said Dee. "So appreciative."
But when it came to the judges' scoring, it was clear that the cyclone still had an impact; with Aaron and Daniella's home being deemed as having the worst renovation in comparison to Sean and Ella's house.
Yet it was Sean and Ella who landed at the bottom of the leaderboard for the first time.
Laurence Lewelyn-Bowen deemed their back garden, beyond the side fence, as "awful".
"But not just once, probably awful seven times," he said. "... This is what made me sad, I could see your panic and disappointment in that scheme. I was just heartbroken by what I saw."
He was very critical of the layout, since the exercise area was "worth a thousand of those (cubby houses)" and the pool area was done "really, really badly".
Sean and Ella winced at LLB's score of four, "that really hurts", but remained determined to do better than 17 out of 30 next time.
It was a three-way tie between the remaining teams, who all scored 21 points out of 30 overall, despite the judges torn over Kate and Harry's renovation.
Drew said the entry felt like "a cheap Thai restaurant" whereas Wendy and LLB agreed it was elegant with a good use of space.
Next to be renovated is Kate and Harry's garden in Adelaide, SA, and Jono and Andrew's garden in Mandurah, WA.
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