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The third season of The Block NZ premiered on 26 August 2014 and ended on 18 November 2014. It ran four nights per week, Tuesday–Friday. The season was set in the Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier, and was judged by Home and Garden editor Shelley Ferguson and architect Mark Gascoigne.

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  • The third season of The Block NZ premiered on 26 August 2014 and ended on 18 November 2014. It ran four nights per week, Tuesday–Friday. The season was set in the Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier, and was judged by Home and Garden editor Shelley Ferguson and architect Mark Gascoigne. (en)
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  • Teams finish renovating their child's and teenager's bedrooms. The two rooms are judged and scored separately. Maree & James win the child's bedroom, while Alex & Corban win the teenager's bedroom. (en)
  • Teams finish renovating their garages, which are judged by Shelley Ferguson and Mark Gascoigne. Alex & Corban, with a total score of , have the highest score and win $4000 to go towards their budget on The Block. (en)
  • Because of the extensive rain, the room reveal date for the garage is extended by five days. Quinn visits an obstetrician to determine if she can continue on The Block, although its verdict is not revealed. (en)
  • Teams finish their family rooms, which are judged. Despite not following the brief, Alex & Corban are not marked down for it. (en)
  • Teams continue renovating their garage. In the middle of renovation, they go to a Point Chevalier beach to construct a raft from plastic sheeting and duct tape, which they sail to a buoy 100 metres offshore and then back, before picking up a red flag from the shore. As winners, Alex & Corban win an 80″ Sharp Quattron Pro TV, while runners-up Jo & Damo win a 70″, and remaining teams Maree & James and Quinn & Ben get a 60″. Back at the building site, Quinn announces that she is pregnant, despite the producers advising her not to get pregnant until The Block has finished filming. (en)
  • All teams but Alex & Corban finish their interiors. Because Alex and Corban's rooms are unfinished, the judges decided not to score them. Each team's living rooms and entryways are scored separately; other miscellaneous rooms that are completed during the week are not judged. (en)
  • Teams continue renovating their garage. (en)
  • Jo & Damo choose house 4 and randomly select which houses the other teams have. Quinn & Ben are allocated house 1, Alex & Corban are assigned house 2, and Maree & James are given house 3. They must make their houses waterproof enough for their first night on the building site. (en)
  • Teams finish creating their hotel suite, which are judged by Shelley Ferguson and Mark Gascoigne. As winners, Jo & Damo travel to the site of The Block to decide which team has which house. (en)
  • Teams head to an indoor rock climbing facility where they must stack crates while the woman on each team climbed up the stack. Because of Quinn's pregnancy, she is unable to participate in the challenge, and The Edge presenter Jay Jay Feeney takes her place. Jo & Damo win the challenge, climbing up 12 crates and winning $5,000 worth of window treatments. (en)
  • Teams are given a Canon camera to take a photo that they will print on either aluminium, canvas, or glass. Season 2 judge Jeremy Hansen evaluates the photographs and determines Alex & Corban to be the winners. They choose Jo & Damo to join them for the prize dinner. After completing the challenge, teams go to the building site to continue renovating their garages. (en)
  • Jo & Damo host their dinner party with a Grecian and superhero theme. Other teams note how much attention had gone into the food. To entertain the guests, Jo & Damo hire Stephen Witt, a 2014 Nominee for the Billy T Award. The next team to host their dinner party, Ben & Quinn, have rib eye steak as their compulsory ingredient. Their theme is farmyard animals. For entertainment, they have a petting zoo of bearded dragons, rabbits, gerbils and rats. Site foreman Peter Wolfkamp evicts Jo & Damo's head tiler from the site after parking in the wrong place for the third time. Because of this, Jo & Damo have to pay a $975 Auckland Council fine. (en)
  • Maree & James host their dinner party with a Hawaiian theme; their compulsory ingredient was eggplant. The scores from Dinner Wars are revealed, with each team marking the others out of ten for entertainment and ten for cuisine. (en)
  • Teams create a viral video with a personality from MediaWorks Radio stations The Edge and The Rock. Alex & Corban team up with Guy Williams, Jo & Damo with Jono Pryor, Quinn & Ben with Ben Boyce, and Maree & James with Megan Annear. (en)
  • Other teams have mixed thoughts on Quinn & Ben's scoring. While Maree is bitter, Damo said that it is understandable with Quinn being pregnant, and that he and Jo "would've done the same if [they] had to". Teams finish their rooms, which are judged. Alex & Corban placed first and win the $4000 prize. (en)
  • In the challenge warehouse, teams have four hours to upcycle a chest of drawers to put in their teenager's bedroom. Each team is allocated a Bunning's Warehouse gift voucher worth between $100 and $400. The chests of drawers were judged by Janice Kumar-Ward, a judge from season 2. Maree & James win the challenge, winning a $30,000 bathroom upgrade. Alex & Corban place second, Ben & Quinn third, and Jo & Damo last. (en)
  • At the North Harbour BMX track, teams are given three hours to design and construct a bicycle entirely from plywood. Afterwards, they must participate in a relay race to the finish line. Because of Quinn's pregnancy, Jackie Thomas, winner of the first season of The X Factor, races with Ben. Mare & James place first, winning a $2,750 small kitchen appliance pack from Breville, along with $2,000. Jo & Damo place second, Alex & Corban third, and Quinn & Ben last. Back at the building site, teams continue working on their rooms. Alice Pearson, winner of season 2, visits each of the teams and gives them a bit of advice. (en)
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  • The third season of The Block NZ premiered on 26 August 2014 and ended on 18 November 2014. It ran four nights per week, Tuesday–Friday. The season was set in the Auckland suburb of Point Chevalier, and was judged by Home and Garden editor Shelley Ferguson and architect Mark Gascoigne. (en)
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