There's 2 places that stick in my memory
The first was a property the owner was wanting to "refurbish". They had been living in it in absolute squalour, with rubbish everywhere, both inside and out. There were bags of rubbish piled up inside and outside the house. I heard a rattling noise amongst bags in the porch and a rat ran out and into the kitchen, which was piled up with filthy pots and pans, empty food tins and all manner of rubbish. You could barely see the pattern on the floor anywhere in the house for the dirt and the downstairs front room had two non-housetrained dogs living in it. I made my phone ring and pretended to answer an emergency, said I had to leave and never came back or answered their calls.
The second one was a terraced house where the bathroom was being used to keep two non-housetrained dogs. Dog dirt was piled up against the bath panel and smeared on the floor. The dogs had urinated on the basin pedestal causing the pipes to rot over time. The floor was so soggy and saturated in it that it squelched when you walked over it and the smell was unbearable. The landlord asked for a report, and when I drove past a couple of weeks later, it looked like the tenants had been evicted, there was a skip
outside and builders in the process of gutting the property.
Another plumber I know told me of flats property in Harrogate where they had been called to investigate a foul smell by one of the tenants. It was found to be the property below. The flat was used by junkies and the toilet had stopped flushing and they had carried on using it, then when it was full to the brim had started to use the bath as a toilet until that was half full. The flat was littered with used syringes and the landlord had to get a professional cleanup company in.
The first was a property the owner was wanting to "refurbish". They had been living in it in absolute squalour, with rubbish everywhere, both inside and out. There were bags of rubbish piled up inside and outside the house. I heard a rattling noise amongst bags in the porch and a rat ran out and into the kitchen, which was piled up with filthy pots and pans, empty food tins and all manner of rubbish. You could barely see the pattern on the floor anywhere in the house for the dirt and the downstairs front room had two non-housetrained dogs living in it. I made my phone ring and pretended to answer an emergency, said I had to leave and never came back or answered their calls.
The second one was a terraced house where the bathroom was being used to keep two non-housetrained dogs. Dog dirt was piled up against the bath panel and smeared on the floor. The dogs had urinated on the basin pedestal causing the pipes to rot over time. The floor was so soggy and saturated in it that it squelched when you walked over it and the smell was unbearable. The landlord asked for a report, and when I drove past a couple of weeks later, it looked like the tenants had been evicted, there was a skip
outside and builders in the process of gutting the property.
Another plumber I know told me of flats property in Harrogate where they had been called to investigate a foul smell by one of the tenants. It was found to be the property below. The flat was used by junkies and the toilet had stopped flushing and they had carried on using it, then when it was full to the brim had started to use the bath as a toilet until that was half full. The flat was littered with used syringes and the landlord had to get a professional cleanup company in.
