Rubbish piled 4ft high in flat because tenant has 'phobia of bin bags'

Extreme makeover! ‘Britain’s dirtiest home’ looks unrecognisable after men in hazmat suits clear out mountains of rubbish piled 4ft high

• The property in Portsmouth, Hampshire was dubbed the ‘UK’s dirtiest’ home
• Grimebusters spent three days clearing out space and restoring it for the tenant

A woman was left in tears of joy after grimebusters cleared ‘Britain’s dirtiest home’ after four-foot mountains of rubbish built up due to her ‘phobia of bin bags.’ 

The woman, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, is thought to have had around two years’ worth of rubbish piled high in her small one-bedroom property, which was so crowded the bed could not even be seen.

She was forced to sleep in a ‘nest’ surrounded by 4ft-deep of smelly rubbish – as she had a ‘phobia of bin bags’.

Professional grimebuster Joe Cole was stunned when he and staff at clearance firm JGD Pro Solutions had to ‘fight their way into’ the one-bedroom property in the Portsmouth, Hampshire, area.

The 43-year-old spent three days clearing food waste and packaging that the ’embarrassed’ woman built up for what he believes to have been two years.

Joe Cole and his team had to don face masks due to the smell of all of the waste in the Hampshire home

The kitchen was filled with clutter and appeared to have no space to prepare food

Joe Cole said he had to ‘fight’ his way into the property, which was so messy the bed could not even be seen

Shocking images show the combined living room and bedroom piled halfway to the ceiling with rubbish – so deep no furniture can be seen.

The bathroom floor was covered with packaging and the kitchen units crammed with clutter, appearing to leave no room to prepare food.

Joe claims the woman admitted she had a ‘phobia of black bin bags’ and so couldn’t clean up the mess herself – although numerous were spotted strewn among the heaps of waste.

After the clean-up, which involved shifting rubbish around 4ft deep, the business owner says his customer cried with joy as she’d ‘got her home back’.

He posted a video of the transformation to TikTok where he branded the house the ‘dirtiest in the UK’. It has so far been viewed more than 25,000 times.

Joe said: ‘She said she had a phobia of black bags. It was absolutely ridiculous, I’ve never heard anything like it before.

‘Usually people aren’t embarrassed about their property being like that but this girl was.

‘Her bed was completely covered and she was sleeping in the middle of the room. There was a nest in the middle and she slept in that.

Even the small bathroom in the property was piled high with packaging and waste

The piles of rubbish reached four-foot high in some areas of the small living space

The kitchen after Mr Cole had successfully finished clearing the apartment

The woman is said to have cried tears of joy after the transformation was completed

The woman had a ‘phobia’ of black bin bags, which reportedly left her unable to clear the waste

It took three days to rescue the one-bedroom space and restore it to a home

‘It must have been building up for about two years over lockdown. The bath was full of waste so she mustn’t have showered in that time.

‘The rubbish was half-way up the wall in the lounge and then a quarter of the way up in the hallway and in the bathroom and kitchen.

‘I had to fight my way into the house. There was packaging and food waste everywhere, she’d have had to climb over it to get to her nest in the middle.

‘When I walked in I thought “oh my god, you can’t get much worse than that”. It was smelly too.

‘She cried at the end because she’d got her home back.’

Joe and his team were forced to wear hazmat suits and masks due to the severity of the odour, and potential health risks associated with the heaps of waste. 

The clean-up, which Joe tackled in March 2022, has earned him admirers online who have praised his team’s ‘miraculous’ work.

One commented: ‘You guys really put so much effort in don’t you. Well done guys. You do absolutely incredibly.’

A second wrote: ‘You work miracles.’

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