An Irish woman has revealed how her house had to be completely gutted after tenants left piles of rubbish to rot in every room.
Co Cork landlord Kristine was left horrified after she received photographs of the mountain of bin bags reaching the ceiling along with dirty dishes, saucepans, and food in the kitchen.
She said: “Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that inside of the house was like this.”
Kristine said that everything in the house had to be dumped, costing her thousands in renovation.
She added: “The sink, the kitchen sink, the bathroom, the toilet, the tiles, the walls, everything gone. It's going to be completely like a shell of a house, and rebuild it from there.”
She said that the damage was so bad that she couldn’t bring herself to walk into the house.
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Kristine said: “I didn’t go through the front door, I wasn’t able. I just couldn’t walk in.
“I had been as far as the front door because I called the RSPCA, the guards, the dog warden, myself and we went down we got the dogs out, the cats out.”
Neighbour Elaine described how she first realised something was wrong after her house was infested with rats.
It first started when her husband discovered the rodents after hearing activity in the attic of the house.
She told the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s RedFM: “The kids would hear scratching in their bedroom ceilings. We were hearing it in the wall by the windowsills, and then my 11-year-old son spotted something run across the bedroom floor.”
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And despite laying down traps and poison, the rodents wouldn’t stop harassing the family.
Elaine then realised that the back of their neighbour’s house was filled with rubbish.
She complained to the landlord who passed on the message to the tenants who ended up getting rid of the rubbish but the rats didn’t stop coming into the house.
Pest control told the mum that the rats were coming into the house from her neighbour’s who had a hole in their boiler and the drain shore was left open.
She said: “When pest control left he sent a report to my husband and said: ‘Look only thing I can see the way they are coming from is the boiler out the back your neighbour’s house and the shore and the lot. Get that cleared up. There’s no point in me treating your house if next door’s not been treated as well’.”
Shocking images from the house show rubbish strewn all over the floor in every room with piles of filled bin bags reaching the ceiling.
The house was filled with broken furniture, ruined mattresses, and faeces from pets in some corners of the house.
