Shocking footage from an insider of a hoarder’s dirty house shows ‘ten tonnes’ of rubbish covering the entire floor and piling up on the walls.
Mine-clearing company The Rubbish Removers shared clips of their eight-man team wading through knee-high piles of rubbish, discarded beer bottles and containers full of urine at the two-bedroom property in Lancashire.
The house, which a client had inherited from a distant relative, was due to sell, but would have faced a near impossible market with some rooms filled to the ceiling with rubbish and crumbling walls.
Operations manager Richard Walsh, who was one of eight workers on site for the mammoth clean-up job, was stunned by the amount of beer cans and wine bottles thrown away.
Mine-clearing company The Rubbish Removers shared clips of their eight-man team wading through knee-high piles of rubbish, discarded beer bottles and containers full of urine at the two-bedroom property in Lancashire
The house, which a client had inherited from a distant relative, was due to sell, but would have faced a near-impossible market with some rooms filled to the ceiling with rubbish
Although it is a semi-detached house with a relatively small bathroom, the 31-year-old expert claims that he and his team removed around ten tonnes of waste during the colossal three-day job .
Video of the cleanup shows mounds of rubbish covering the entire floor and piling up filthy walls – even flooding an armchair and mattress in two of the rooms.
Mr Walsh said: ‘When we went up to the second floor, every room was full of rubbish at chest height – beer bottles, beer cans, food, all kinds.
“The whole floor, even the stairs, was full of rubbish. Then there was a third floor where the attic was and it was absolutely floor to ceiling.
“You had to bend down to get into the gates because it was stacked so high. Many rooms couldn’t even fit into it.
“I believe it was a man who lived there who was unfortunately an alcoholic and over the years had accumulated rubbish and mess – all the cans and beer bottles.
“A lot of the bottles had also been filled with urine, so that was the big problem with the job that made it the hardest to deal with – that was the most shocking part.
“Based on what we saw, I would say it had to build for a few years – maybe 10 to 15 years.
“It was shocking and the smell was quite bad. It’s something we get used to, but this one was particularly bad.
Although it was a relatively small, one-bathroom terraced house, the waste disposal team disposed of around ten tonnes of waste in a mammoth three-day job.
Video of the cleanup shows mounds of rubbish covering the entire floor and piling up dirty walls – even flooding an armchair and mattress in two of the rooms
It took eight demining professionals three days to move the mountain of rubbish by filling countless tarpaulins and bin bags and loading them into vehicles.
The masses of cans and bottles were then taken to a recycling centre, leaving the house completely sterile and revealing dirty and damaged walls and floors.
Richard admits that although it is a relatively small property, the house was one of the most difficult jobs they have tackled due to the amount of rubbish piled up in each room.
“When you have ten years of rubbish piled on top of each other and you start disturbing the pile, the food scraps come, then the smell of old beer, which is obviously not good, then the urine” , did he declare. .
“While we were moving it some urine bottles started to break and the smell was quite bad.
It took eight demining professionals three days to move the mountain of rubbish by filling countless tarpaulins and bin bags and loading them into vehicles.
“We probably moved between eight and ten tonnes of waste from a two-bedroom terraced house, which is quite a lot.
“Usually if we move that much trash you’d leave a four or five bedroom house.”
The demining team hopes to help people out of difficult times in their lives with a compassionate helping hand.
Richard said: ‘It’s easy to go out there and think ‘how can anyone live like this? but people do, you have to be compassionate and non-judgmental.
“Our teams are very good at that. We’re not here to judge anyone, we’re just here to do a job for them.
“Whether they’re cleaning it for themselves or a family member, it’s obviously a sensitive situation, that’s how we handle it.”
