Worst smelling house I have ever been in!

[Exterous]

I have been in a lot of houses over the last couple of years - about 28 a week on average. I have seen some very very very messy ones, clean ones, old ones, empty ones. I have wondered how people could live in the mountains of shit they keep. I was in one where the lady had to clear out a space on the floor so I could do my work it was so covered in crap.

Never never never have I ever had to come home and change my clothes after a job - until today.

I consider myself to have a pretty tolerant nose but I almost retched when I walked into her house and smelled the stench. She had 3 dogs and 2 cats and I don't think she had ever cleaned. There wasn't junk on the ground but there sure as hell was A FRESH DOG TURD ON THE FLOOR. She had all hardwood floors, which is good because I think there was animal piss on the floor in a couple of places. I can't be sure but it was some sort of liquid - and I sure didn't want to find out.

God - I spent an hour there. And there were huge clumps (Softcover book sized) of animal fur behind her desk, where I needed to be.

I left her house - greatful I was able to breath through my mouth when I exclaimed "Oh shit - I can taste it!" Yes, all that time breathing through my mouth backfired. Oh and it was in my clothes too. I could smell myself and it wasn't pretty. I had to run home and rinse out my mouth with mouthwash - not to mention a complete change of clothes. Oh but that didn't help. Oh no - it was that bad. I had to shower

Eck!

Good lord - how do people live this way??!!

 

[clamum]

LOL

What sort of work do you do?

 

[d33pt]

damn i thought the house i moved into was bad. i don't know how people can live in such filth. what did you have to do there?

 

[zinfamous]

lol

:beer: for your troubles

 

[Beev]

I never want to be in your line of work.

 

[Drako]

LOL

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with Jerry's car and the BO.

 

[ViviTheMage]

bahahahaha so many funny threads today!

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: Sraaz
I never want to be in your line of work.

It's generally not a bad line of work. I set up computers/networks in people's homes. I also do TV wall mounting and surround sound installation

 

[moshquerade]

some people are lazy slobs.

 

[waggy]

a friend of my MIL is that way.

The lady has a LOT of money (her parents were very rich). she has a really nice house in Rockford. she had 4 dogs and 10 cats and NEVER CLEANED.

went over once to look at a dog. i about threw up walking into the house. You can see dog crap stains all over the floor.

 

[NuAlphaMan]

U're good! I wold have told my company to send out another tech!

 

[Fritzo]

I've been on DSL installs in houses like that. The worst one was in a bad part of town- I knew I was in trouble when I saw cat crap burried in the dirt in the cracks of the sidewalk leading to the house. Inside there was garbage, cat poop, and molded food everywhere. UGH. On the way back to the office I stopped and bought a gallon jug of hand sanitizer. How can people live like that? There was nothing wrong with this lady either. Well, other than she looked like the landlord lady from that movie Kingpin :|

 

[nakedfrog]

I think with some people it's a genuine mental problem.

 

[Squisher]

Reading posts like this sure is helpful to my diet. I think I'll skip lunch.

 

[michaels]

Nothing worse than going into a heavy smoker's house. My mom's neighbor smokes so much the wals are yellow in her kitchen. You move a pic and behind it is all white.

 

[Modelworks]

Long ago I used to work part time painting /cleaning apartments for a developer.
I often had to go into apartments where people were evicted.
People had lived there with no lights/water and when they left , they would leave the refirgerators with food rotten, toilets that had never been flushed, trash everywhere, pet feces, etc.

It was an awful thing to go into.
I moved on to better work as soon as I could

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: michaels
Nothing worse than going into a heavy smoker's house. My mom's neighbor smokes so much the wals are yellow in her kitchen. You move a pic and behind it is all white.

No, I'm pretty sure the house the OP went into is worse.

 

[michaels]

Well maybe but I used to do pest control and I have seen some roach infested shitholes beyond your worst nightmares. Roaches..literally 1000's all over the walls, ceiling etc...EVERYWHERE. The roaches would climb up my pants, fall on my from the ceilings/walls.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I remember going house hunting and going into some completely disgusting houses, one with fleas jumping all over the carpets. It's disgusting to see how some people live.

 

[StageLeft]

That sounds bad. A lot of people are just animals living in homes. Some "friends" of ours with kids have a toilet so disgusting it makes me sick to think about it, also like I can taste it. This woman stays at home all day but cannot get off her ass to clean the bathroom at least twice/year and lets urine in the kids' potty dry, leaving a ring. Needless to say, we don't have much of an interest in spending time there, since half the main floor smells like bathroom.

 

[dugweb]

I'm in a similar line of work, and go into lots of houses per week as well.

2 weeks ago I went into a house where I started dryheaving as soon as I stepped through the doors threshold. They had 4 dogs, 2 males, 2 females which they had to keep separated because the females were in heat o_o It was the strongest smell of bleach/body oder/dog shit I have ever smelt

It's hard to do a job when you literally have to step outside just to get some fresh air every few minutes. That was the first house where the thought occurred to me that this job could cause some serious health issues down the line. I felt like I was going to catch a disease in there.

I cannot believe how some people live in the conditions they do. It's disgusting.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: michaels
Nothing worse than going into a heavy smoker's house. My mom's neighbor smokes so much the wals are yellow in her kitchen. You move a pic and behind it is all white.

No, I'm pretty sure the house the OP went into is worse.

Agreed...a fresh dog turd! (hilarious emphasis) > heavy smoke residue.

 

[BKLounger]

Has anyone ever confronted someone about their animals excrement? It is really creepy the owner usually thinks absolutely nothing about it. I used to be a bench tech years ago and a woman walked in holding her laptop and said her motherboard needed to be replaced. I ask her why she thinks that. She responds saying her cat pissed all over it and now it won't start. I told her i refused to touch it i turned to a couple of the other techs that were working and asked if they wanted to work on a laptop a cat peed all over. Of course they said no. She woman starts throwing a fit at the manager saying her laptop is just as good as anyone else it had just been peed on. Thankfully the manager refused to take the laptop for us to repair. But she thought absolutely nothing about walking around with a laptop covered in cat pee.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: michaels
Nothing worse than going into a heavy smoker's house. My mom's neighbor smokes so much the wals are yellow in her kitchen. You move a pic and behind it is all white.

Do you mean like this?

 

[honkydory]

I have a story to share, a few years back my parent found out one of the houses in our neighborhood had been condemed and being the kid i was, i told all my friends and we went to check it out. All the doors were padlocked shut but we just bashed one off the back door and went in. The lady who had been living there had apparently been a shut in (as i learned later, she did not have running water or electricity or any other service for that matter for 2+ years) and the Random crap strewn about was amazing. The next thing that hit you was the stench i dont know how to describe it, it was like BO, Cat piss, fecal matter, rotting something all in one but SO SO SO much worse. The piles of clothes, and other assorted just was about knee deep through the whole house and grew to the celeing at any wall. The kitchen was non-existant there was a cooler by the sink but i think thats as good as it got. We acually decided to explore the rest of the house for some reason but ill give a few highlights... The bedroom had a bed, but it was a stand for clothes and crap. The family room had a piano but it didnt have strings, and a violin that desinigrated when i picked it up. and lets not talk about the bathroom. And the only thing i even got out of all this is a 20$ bill that i found on the desk (which paid for a new pair of pants because i threw those away after).