A woman who turned her bedsit into one of “the UK’s dirtiest homes” due to her “phobia of bin bags” has seen it transformed in an incredible makeover.
Her one-bedroom property in Portsmouth is now unrecognisable after being cleaned by professional grime buster Joe Cole.
The 43-year-old spent three days clearing food waste and packaging for the “embarrassed” woman, whose identity is protected.
Shocking images show the living room and bedroom piled halfway to the ceiling with rubbish – so deep the bed can’t even be seen.
Cole was stunned when he and the staff of clearance firm JGD Pro Solutions had to “fight their way into” the home.
The bathroom floor was covered with packaging, and the kitchen units were crammed with clutter, leaving no room to prepare food.
Cole claims the woman admitted she had a “phobia of black bin bags”, so she couldn’t clean up the mess herself.
After the unique clean-up, which involved shifting rubbish around 4ft deep, the business owner said his customer cried joyfully as she’d “got her home back”.
Cole carried out the clean-up in March last year and posted a video of the transformation to TikTok, where he branded the house the “dirtiest in the UK.”
Cole said: “Usually, people aren’t embarrassed about their property being like that, but this girl was.
“Her bed was covered entirely, and she was sleeping in the middle of the room. There was a nest in the middle, and she slept in that.
Cole added: “The rubbish was halfway up the wall in the lounge and then a quarter of the way up in the hallway, bathroom, and kitchen.
“I had to brawl my way into the house.
“There was packaging and food waste everywhere; she’d have had to scale over it to get to her nest in the middle.”
A dumpster diver has made an incredible haul after finding fresh food while rummaging through an Aldi bin.
New Zealand man Brenden Rikihana is a confessed ‘scavenger’ who rummages through supermarket dumpsters in Western Australia.
The 53-year-old lives in Perth with his family and donates most of his haul to families struggling to make ends meet and charities in his community.
Mr Rikihana searches bins at Woolworths, Coles and Aldi for toys, clothes, fresh vegetables, fruit and other food items. He shares his dumpster diving adventures on his ‘Bin Living with Big B’ social media channels.
In a video split on his YouTube channel on April 17, Mr Rikihana highlighted how ‘picky’ supermarket giants are after finding a box of quiche Lorraine’s in an Aldi bin.
‘Here we are at another Aldi, and straight off the bat, we find a whole heap of these, a whole box of Quiche Lorraine’s,’ Mr Rikihana says.
‘Pumpkin, ricotta, spinach, and pineapple. A whole box of them. Firm date. Still in date for another two weeks.’
The World Kitchen’s 700g quiches retail for between $6 to $7 – and were marked with an expiration date of April 23 – making Mr Rikihana’s find of 11 quiches worth more than $65.
Mr Rikihana is then seen searching the rest of the bin, where he finds a couple of bags of coleslaw, tomatoes, potatoes, bagels, strawberries and nectarines.
He checks the expiration date of the items and the class of the fruit and vegetables before taking them out of the bin and putting them in bags.
In a video shared on TikTok on Wednesday, Mr Rikihana shows a range of products and food items he found in a Coles bin the night before.
The video shows the haul spread out on his table and kitchen bench, including bottles of dishwashing liquid, toothpaste, shower gels, deodorants, dove soaps, bread, eggs, herbs, fruit and boxes of chips.
‘Why tf would they throw all this out when people are struggling,’ another person commented.
A third person chimed: ‘That’s disturbing how much waste.’
Others warned Mr Rikihana not to eat from the ‘fun mix’ as Coles issued a recall for Smith’s chips after some of its products found foreign plastics and metal shards.
However, Mr Rikihana reassured his followers, claiming only the Smith’s cheese, onion, and the original were recalled, with the rest still good to eat.
