Brick House 319--Cleaning out a hoarder's house.

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Came across this new blog this week, from the people who bought a hoarder's house and have been cleaning out the accumulation of stuff. I haven't seen any pictures of vintage appliances yet. Actually, it is a very fascinating blog, telling the story with daily posts. Be sure to go back to view all the posts.

This would be the type of house that you would initially be excited to get into, if only to find a lot of interesting stuff. Then, you read the daily blog, and realize how much work awaits the 2 people who bought the house.

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their Pug is adorable

I found a link to this house last week - isn't it interesting to follow? I'm so glad I'm not the one having to do the work to clean it out.

I'll bet after a short time working in there, I wouldn't want anything to remain. No reminders!

I did spy a GE dishwasher and Westy refrigerator in the kitchen "before" picture -

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Holy Moley - so THAT'S what I'll be leaving my estranged nieces when I croak.  I care too much about Hubby to put him through that... 

 

I spotted a glimpse of a dishwasher control panel and avocado green front panels in one photo. First thought is that might have been a GE, but it was not a great picture.

 

Also spotted a Westinghouse refrigerator, possibly mid-late 50s, single door model. 

 

I can't imagine what else might be hidden in there!
 
Venting?

Is something venting to the outside?
Or are they running a poor man's ac duct to another room?

Malcolm
 
Its stated in the blog the ducting was bringing fresh air into the house to Bill as he sat at the kitchen table the first day the new owners met him. Id like to know what was in the 800 bins stacked in back of the house.
 
From the pic above, I'm actually impressed at how neat/tidy/organized everything looks. For a hoarder, at least.

I mean, just look at the precision with which those refrigerator magnets are arranged!

This may shame me into trying to tackle our basement. Which could mean that a Tappan gas range in harvest gold could become available to sell to anyone willing to pick it up in the Hartford 'burbs :)
 
brib68

I was thinking the same thing. Even the bins in the yard were kind of neatly arranged. It looked like organized chaos...Definitely hoarding but no where NEAR as bad as some of the houses I've seen on Hoarders.
 
Bump..

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I am really enjoying the transformation of 319, thanks OP, although sometimes the trauma of it all is almost too palpable.
Currently they are about ready to start building it back into a livable home.
Recently shared was the fact that the former resident Bill, is still adding(!) to the hoard, which now after removal and thinning resides in multiple storage units. He, by the way, has moved into a care facility.
Personally i hope the place is gutted and completly transformed as i find this style of design/architecture clostrophobic and uninspired. Sorry cubical lovers but open-plan has it's place and shoe-boxes like this is one of those.

For those not yet following, this pic is typical. It shows a room *after* much of the pre-existing, light blocking, towering hoard has been removed.
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I'm cleaning out the bookcases in my bedroom, all the old books are going away to a thriftstore, while the books I want to keep are going to be put in the livingroom. It's quite a job removing only a fraction of books that came out of the hoarder's house. It's hard to imagine so many books had to be removed. Books are heavy!
 
I don't know how some people can live in such filth.

A few years ago a friend asked me to go to a friend of his house to help him with a computer problem. I did and it was a severe hoarders house. There was stuff piled and falling over everywhere. Not even pathways.

Amongst the crap was real cat crap mixed in. I got in and out of there as quick as I could. About a week later I came down with a respirator infection from hell. It took me almost a month to get over it.

Do they wear biohazard suits to enter some of these places? I am sure they are warranted!
 
Well they had the firefighting suits this time...

Just the other night, there were a lot of fire sirens near our neighborhood and it turns out the house caught on fire and the owner had a hoarding problem, which made the fire hard to put out. Looks like the house will have to be demolished too.

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Looks like the fire was mainly in the attic being that it didn't look like anything below it was burned. If that was the case then I don't see how a candle could've started it as the reporter suggested, unless the attic was an upstairs room with a lit candle in it of course. and no electricity either? Wonder what started it... Not enough info in that report.
 
I think I'll not be following this link....

Too many reminders of a real life experience. Friends of mine were incredible hoarders. Long story short, they passed away 2 years apart for unrelated reasons. Suffice to say the basement looked very much like reply #10 AND they'd only been in the house a week before the first one passed away. My friends and I were left to deal with the disaster. Yes, we have pics. It's a good thing we took them because nobody believed us when we tried to explain the situation.

 

I have a very small fraction of what they had and I'm clearing stuff out as fast a circumstances will allow.

 

Jim
 
My father always told me the story of the two brothers in New York who died when one was trapped in the "tunnel" of trash and the other one starved, which, as I gather it, is a true story.

I have two neighbors who are hoarders. One is a least "clean" but the other is a problem and is causing a nuisance for the rest of us (smells, etc). We haven't figure out quite how to deal with him yet. And he doesn't have nearly as much stuff as the pictures above, but enough to be a problem.
 

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