I've been cleaning carpets for 31 years now, today I walked into the worse house I've ever seen.
I've been in cleaner hog n cow barns than this dog kennel house.
Open the door, rat hole had been chewed through the floor, filthy floor, smelled so bad my lungs bothered me, my clothes n hair smell like that nasty house
Dog poop in hallway, 20+? Dogs barking loudly, the bedroom he wanted me to clean I think was a dog bedroom, half inch of poop n hair on the floor, I think there was carpet under it!

I told him no I can't do it, he asked if I could try, I said no, I would ruin my equipment, turned and walked out, I can't believe it, so nasty gross, what kind of sick person lived there? Idk how anyone could, it surely would make you ill

Why did he want it cleaned ?

Trying to see if he could get his deposit back ?

I wonder .....what triggered his thought process to get it cleaned ? Or ...he figured it’s been 10 years,and might as well get it done....

Idk, I wonder if it was a dog house and he lived somewhere else?
I'm still sickened by what I saw n smelled, I told a lady that works for or knows a dog shelter, maybe the people will check it out.
I think this is third or fourth job I have refused in 31 years. It was worse than the other ones put together!
He saw my wife's advertisement on internet, Facebook

I'm glad you turned it down.

Hoarding is a nasty disease. Don't know how someone could live like that.
My 1st apartment with my bride.....a few months in we could not figure out where that smell was coming from. We kept deep cleaning everything especially the diaper genie and trash cans. Finally we told the manager who came over and agreed it smelled nasty. Few days later the manager tells us the apartment behind ours had a hoarder who probably didn't toss anything in months

Even a shovel first wouldn't help! Couple years ago I did a room of short carpet, she said she raised puppies on it for 25 years, I would have refused it but had drove 60 miles to house.
I'm almost done cleaning the nasty stained carpet, lady asks, do you think those spots will come out if you go over them a couple more times?
I said no this is the worse carpet I've ever done, she said huh? I didn't say it again, it was fifteen minutes before she talked to me, I didn't care, I don't want her to call again!

I was a phone guy for 34 years and I did a lot of residential service and there were times when you would get the dry heaves!! Nasty people out there!

Needs burned down.

My wife cleans our hardwood floor in our main room (900 sq feet) on her hands and knees with a bucket. I’ve bought her numerous contraptions that look a heck of a lot easier then the way she does it, but she says they don’t do the job. She would be in a coma if she saw that!!!

Must have found a girl friend...

I don't remember all the details as I was just a kid... But my dad had a job for some kind of contractor, HVAC I think, and got a service call for an A/C unit that kept tripping its circuit breaker.

When they got to the house the lady let them in and there were trash bags stacked floor to ceiling. They were throughout the house and there were so many that the woman just had narrow paths to walk through them. Stacks and stacks of bags of household trash. On top of that she had several cats in there too... Dad didn't know how many, but a lot.

He said it was absolutely sweltering in there. The rotting fermenting trash was putting off an insane amount of heat (and stench) and overloading the A/C.

Dad said they told her they couldn't fix the issue unless she got rid of all the trash. This absolutely bewildered her and she refused to even consider getting rid of it. They tried to reason with her but didn't have any luck. Finally they gave up and left.

They left and drove to the nearest pay phone and called the local health dept.

I can't imagine what kind of mental defect would cause a person to be like that.

Mike

That's what I was thinking! Stay up wind too!!
No, I would think guy was too ugly n gross for a girlfriend

I've heard of those kind of houses Mike, unbelievable for sure

X2!!

I've seen more than one house in this metro get torn down because they have been ruined by way too many "pets". Burn everything!

Thats pretty Nasty

She might be in the basement that could be that smell!

Lol, I better not add anything, lol

I had one like that years ago. It was a rental house and the guy was evicted. A fellow contractor had gone in several weeks ahead of me and removed dumpsters worth of garbage and and all the carpets.

I was asked to remodel the kitchen. The guy apparently kept around twenty dogs and other animals there. Even weeks after carpet removal and cleaning the ammonia smell of urine was overpowering.

rode an ambulance for 25 yrs as a volunteer and some of the living environments i've saw would blow your mind.

I don't blame you for turning that job down, and sometimes wish I found it easier to say "NO" myself. Having a small painting business I sometimes get jobs where the walls and floors are so filthy I feel the people find it easier to have their house painted rather than just clean it themselves. Sometimes I'll get a wiff of a smelly dropclothe and remember exactly what job that one had been on. Gross!