looks like the kitchens you work in doing some council refurbs in london, HORRIFIC. Funnily enough they all had 50" TV's aswell
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Hybrid
I would definitely tell them to jog on, it's not worth the health risks and I'm not that desperate for the work.
I've done work for local authority so i've worked in some manky houses so no stranger to grime but that's truly filthy.
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mountainman
Been in a few like that over the years working for housing associations, thankfully not many.
On the flip side though I've worked in many HA properties that have been superb and of course everything in between.
Funny thing tho, you go into a house gagging and after a few minutes get used to the smell.
Just hope that nothing else is needed from the van before the job is done.
On the flip side though I've worked in many HA properties that have been superb and of course everything in between.
Funny thing tho, you go into a house gagging and after a few minutes get used to the smell.
Just hope that nothing else is needed from the van before the job is done.
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bob the plumber
I put a boiler in for a customer a couple of years ago with a similily filthy house, before he left he said make yourself a brew, when i picked up the kettle it was coated in cooking fat. Had to run a new 22mm gas pipe to the boiler, it had to go through his bedroom, when moving the guys tv and video case i noticed he had a mixture of hardcore ****os inbetween a collection of disney videos (for example...weapons of a55 destruction next to snow white and the 7 dwarfs) never felt so uncomfortable in my life, very odd
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Guest123
Nah mate wouldn't work for them, only chickens are in it.
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dontknowitall
A picture's worth a thousand words. Both those pics are only worth one:
Gross.
Gross.
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Guest123
Went to fix a syphon in a council house a few months back. There were 5 parrot cages in the living room and the carpet was ankle deep in bird poo.
The loo was upstairs and the route was blocked with boxes and old clothes. Wonder how he got to the loo, or did he just do it with the birdies?
When I finally got up to the cistern, the toilet looked like it hadn't been flushed for a month. I wore a mask and vinyl gloves all through that job and it wasn't the worst house I've ever worked in.
How people can live like that I don't know, but a lot is hidden behind closed doors from people you'd never suspect of being like that.
The loo was upstairs and the route was blocked with boxes and old clothes. Wonder how he got to the loo, or did he just do it with the birdies?
When I finally got up to the cistern, the toilet looked like it hadn't been flushed for a month. I wore a mask and vinyl gloves all through that job and it wasn't the worst house I've ever worked in.
How people can live like that I don't know, but a lot is hidden behind closed doors from people you'd never suspect of being like that.
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Mike Jackson
Many years ago I was kneeling down in front of a loo refixing the flush pipe. My mate, standing behind me shouted don't lean to the left, there's skid marks on the wall. The dirty bar stewards had been wiping poo up the walls.
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S90GAM
I had one last week, refused to do the job as the house was filthy, and told the woman “sorry love but you’ll have to get someone else as im not desperate for the work”
Later that evening had her son in law who lives across the road phone me up threatening to report me to trading standards because I refused to repair the woman’s toilet, told him where to get off, the cheek of some people.
Later that evening had her son in law who lives across the road phone me up threatening to report me to trading standards because I refused to repair the woman’s toilet, told him where to get off, the cheek of some people.
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MattWeth
Oh my God.
I'd have said I couldn't do the job for health and safety reasons and walked back out.
Let's face it - you aren't going to want much repeat business 😀
I'd have said I couldn't do the job for health and safety reasons and walked back out.
Let's face it - you aren't going to want much repeat business 😀
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gravytrain
its true you cant tell who's going to be disgusting. i had one woman, well paid job in a govt dept
solar panels on the roof, house was a S hole. the smell was so bad it made my throat hurt. had to re-tile round the bath
at the end the bath was so dirty from before i started i had to clean it so the whole job looked ok !!
solar panels on the roof, house was a S hole. the smell was so bad it made my throat hurt. had to re-tile round the bath
at the end the bath was so dirty from before i started i had to clean it so the whole job looked ok !!
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Gray0689
I would of told her a few home truths as I walked out again tramp
These places are the reason i never go to the door with a tool box always go and have a look first then if you need to do a runner u aint got nothing to carry out
Tell Redsaw is a true pro found the cleanest place in the house to park his tools on the back of the lid ...filthy but not the first I`ve seen but fortunately not that skint that I have to accept these jobs like I had to when I was young regards turnpin:whatchutalkingabout
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REDSAW
well, i was regretting it when i entered the kitchen and was about to decline the job. but.. i dont like to come home empty handed so after looking at the blockage at the sink and looking outside and testing the grate with a bucket of water i found the hopper blocked. looking at all the dog doo outside (around 30 of them & big uns) each had white furry fungus on them!. i decided not to do that one.
next i checked the leak at the toilet and noticed the tap connector nut loose, a few spins with the spanner later and viola i had found the £££££.lol.
told her to pull out the crud in the grate her self then chuck a bucket of water down it. she then said if it dont work can i call you?. i told her yes but i didnt tell her i wont come back.lol.
charged her £30 (result) which i thought she wouldnt gripe about so out came the crispy new notes?.....
did i tell you about the one with an inch of soil on the downstairs floors?. there were peices of sweetcorn all over the place and 1/2'' dust on the walls and effects.
went into the living room (well, climbed) and found 8 wild pidgeons fluttering over the crap.
guy turned out to be an ex-tramp who was fond of them.
i ended up with a £5 tip,lol.
next i checked the leak at the toilet and noticed the tap connector nut loose, a few spins with the spanner later and viola i had found the £££££.lol.
told her to pull out the crud in the grate her self then chuck a bucket of water down it. she then said if it dont work can i call you?. i told her yes but i didnt tell her i wont come back.lol.
charged her £30 (result) which i thought she wouldnt gripe about so out came the crispy new notes?.....
did i tell you about the one with an inch of soil on the downstairs floors?. there were peices of sweetcorn all over the place and 1/2'' dust on the walls and effects.
went into the living room (well, climbed) and found 8 wild pidgeons fluttering over the crap.
guy turned out to be an ex-tramp who was fond of them.
i ended up with a £5 tip,lol.
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dave.ackroyd
looks fresh!! take it you had to wipe your feet on the way out?!
I like the fact that most of us say we'd have stormed out after letting them know what filth mongers they are. The truth is most of us are too polite and would have either sucked it up and done the job, or made a feeble excuse and made a quick get a way!!
Fair enough about the hopper. There's no way I'd do that either!!
Many years back we looked after a block of flats (about 15 flats) and they were all rented out to DSS people. They were often filthy. One bloke would alway offer us a cup of tea. It was the manner in which he offerered it that grossed me out most:
'Wanna cup o spit lads?'
Er no, you're alright thanks mate. Filthy scumbag. I hated that place.
Fair enough about the hopper. There's no way I'd do that either!!
Many years back we looked after a block of flats (about 15 flats) and they were all rented out to DSS people. They were often filthy. One bloke would alway offer us a cup of tea. It was the manner in which he offerered it that grossed me out most:
'Wanna cup o spit lads?'
Er no, you're alright thanks mate. Filthy scumbag. I hated that place.
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tamz
I would work in most places but twice i have refused to do it. Once when the smell hit me at the door and i honestly started boaking straight away, it was as bad a smell as knocking the scale out a urinal pipe, and another when i saw the state of the place which was a lot worse than the pics here. I just said i'm sorry but i can't work in these conditions, give me a ring when you get it cleaned...with no intention of ever going back.
Been in a few nasty places over the years, I find its made worse by the fact that jobs have been bodged in order to make a quick get away over the years so always seem to take longer to do.
And why is it that when places are really nasty they always seem to run the heating flat out so you can almost taste the smell as you go in.
And why is it that when places are really nasty they always seem to run the heating flat out so you can almost taste the smell as you go in.
Ha!! That is so true!
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tamz
Awe shut up Roger, i was enjoying my pizza :lol:
I was luckilly on holiday, but a few years back. A landlord paid us to clear and renovate a flat that had an evicted tenant.
Now I had done the CP12 on the day this young couple moved in. Newly married, in there early 20's. She was very flirty and quite good looking.
Anyway, the story unfolded that she had ended up running off with another bloke.....he'd stayed on at the flat. On the surface continuing with his office job and leaving every morning at 8am in his suit.
When the landlord got notified something was not right by one of his neighbours.
As I say, I wasn't present when the lads cleared the flat, but I saw the photos they took for criminal damage prosecutions.
There wasn't the bottled wee and all that other weirdness you see on these TV programs, but just piles of rubbish.
He's use a take away carton as an ashtray, and when it over flowed he'd just plonk another one on top. With bin bags of rubbish about 3 ft high through the whole flat.
The bog and bathroom were filthy, and you couldnt see the kitchen worktop for plates and cartons.
He'd basically had a break down when his mrs left, but on the surface must have been putting up a front of normaility.
I actually felt sorry for him....but that's probably because I was in Spain and the lads were in his flat clearing out the crap.
Now I had done the CP12 on the day this young couple moved in. Newly married, in there early 20's. She was very flirty and quite good looking.
Anyway, the story unfolded that she had ended up running off with another bloke.....he'd stayed on at the flat. On the surface continuing with his office job and leaving every morning at 8am in his suit.
When the landlord got notified something was not right by one of his neighbours.
As I say, I wasn't present when the lads cleared the flat, but I saw the photos they took for criminal damage prosecutions.
There wasn't the bottled wee and all that other weirdness you see on these TV programs, but just piles of rubbish.
He's use a take away carton as an ashtray, and when it over flowed he'd just plonk another one on top. With bin bags of rubbish about 3 ft high through the whole flat.
The bog and bathroom were filthy, and you couldnt see the kitchen worktop for plates and cartons.
He'd basically had a break down when his mrs left, but on the surface must have been putting up a front of normaility.
I actually felt sorry for him....but that's probably because I was in Spain and the lads were in his flat clearing out the crap.
Went to a job the other week in a back to back house, damp and mould on adjoining wall with next door around stoptap. I said this looks like its coming from next door and I'll have to go round there, she said "rather you than me"........
I went round there and the front door was practically hanging off its hinges and as the old bloke opened the door the smell hit me in the face like a sledge hammer, the house was a cattle shed and can imagine the smell at Auschwitz was something similar. There was another old guy leaning against the fireplace smoking a pipe, everything there was once white was black and had not been cleaned since the 60's.
The smell in the kitchen alone was enough to knock you out, sure enough the stoptap on this side was leaking badly and seeping through to next door. I explained I'd been to next door to investigate a 'leak' and told him you have to pay for this to be fixed as its trashing next door's living room wall. I gave him a price and he said he's be in touch. Yeah right.
I went round there and the front door was practically hanging off its hinges and as the old bloke opened the door the smell hit me in the face like a sledge hammer, the house was a cattle shed and can imagine the smell at Auschwitz was something similar. There was another old guy leaning against the fireplace smoking a pipe, everything there was once white was black and had not been cleaned since the 60's.
The smell in the kitchen alone was enough to knock you out, sure enough the stoptap on this side was leaking badly and seeping through to next door. I explained I'd been to next door to investigate a 'leak' and told him you have to pay for this to be fixed as its trashing next door's living room wall. I gave him a price and he said he's be in touch. Yeah right.
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tamz
I once worked in a house where the guy had a pony in the back room (upstairs 4 in a block)!
Also been in houses where they had ripped up the floor boards and burned them leaving a few stepping stones to move around on.
Worked in a lot of junkies houses years ago and used to feel heart felt for the kids. You just knew they would grow up to be the same.
Also been in houses where they had ripped up the floor boards and burned them leaving a few stepping stones to move around on.
Worked in a lot of junkies houses years ago and used to feel heart felt for the kids. You just knew they would grow up to be the same.
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