Hoarder House Clean Out

Original Post on The Salty Way

These posts are a little behind from real time. I’m busy and like my free time..it's a balance I'm working on and this hasn't been top priority so cut me some slack.

This is the house...

The place was a hoarder house. Junk everywhere. One of the bedrooms was filled wall to wall and 5 feet high with random stuff. Dude that lived there was probably a pretty cool guy at some point. He had a bar set up in the den and played in a band. Drop ceilings, shag carpet, fake wood paneled walls. The whole place had a 70's man cave feel to it aside from the accumulation of junk.\Rented a dumpster and spent 9 hours cleaning it out on a Saturday. South Florida heat in August, smelly old carpeting and no AC or fans is not a fun combination.

This is what the house looked like before taking all the junk out...

Still think your rooms a mess? After I started and saw the pace I was going I planned on leaving the bedroom piled high with stuff for a second day but when I finished the rest of the house I realized I couldn’t bring myself to come back the next day. By that time I had reached a breaking point in exhaustion/disgustion and had left the worst for last. The room had become a rats nest.

When you’ve got books, clothes and all this random stuff piled deep on top of itself, rats start tearing it apart from the bottom and creating tunnels within the torn apart junk. 8 hours into trashing out this place and I’m staring at a mountain of junk...I can hear the crawling... Bit the bullet and pushed through.

Filled to capacity What couldn't fit in the dumpster

After it was all done I realized I should have hired someone to help me out. It would have made the whole thing a lot easier and faster. Doing things yourself to cut costs can be the move for certain things but some cheap help on this part probably would have been money well spent.

Now that most of the junk is out the real fun starts. Demolition.