Home Under the Hammer bosses may have found their worst ever house after a couple picked up a "minging" property with no roof.
The house in Burton, Staffordshire went on auction for a guide price of just £25,000 - which seemed a bargain until potential buyers realised there was no protection from the rain.
Host Martin Roberts was spotted filming at the run-down house near the town centre, Staffordshire Live reports.
The mid-terraced house had sustained fire damage and also featured a long, triangular garden that was completely overgrown with shrubs and weeds, with old garden furniture lying abandoned.
Martin tried to enter the house through the back door when the handle snapped off in his hand.
Walking inside, he found mould covering the kitchen walls and rubbish scattered all over, as well as rotting cupboard doors and tape with "DO NOT USE" printed on it strapped across the front of the appliances, including the cooker and washing machine.
"Here's the kitchen - let's leave pretty quickly, because it's pretty minging," the host said.
After heading into the "rear living room", Martin added: "My guess is that when there was the fire, water was sprayed into stop it and it's all come down here. The whole house smells damp.
"This is one of those properties where you've really just got to imagine what it could be."
He found the "front living room" in "equally terrible condition", with the room filled with damp, mould and rotting furniture.
The flooring in some parts of the house was in such bad condition that it was deemed "unsafe".
One door in the property was covered in "DO NOT USE" tape, with a sign reading "warning - unsafe flooring and ceiling" attached to it.
Martin questioned: "What's been damaged in terms of the structure of the building?
"Obviously the woodwork will have been burned, but how far down does that go?
"Are the joists in the first floor damaged? What kind of damage has been done by the water?"
An estate agent brought in to inspect the property suggested making the downstairs open plan and installing a third bedroom in the loft.
A woman named Jas, from Leicester, and her husband Harpreet piked up the property at auction for £67,000.
They hadn't even seen the house before buying it, and Jas was rendered "speechless" when she finally laid eyes on it after the auction.
She said she expected to spend £30,000 renovating the house, with work including the installation of a loft room and removing chimneys to make the downstairs rooms seem bigger.
Five months on, work on the roof was still ongoing, with scaffolding still in place.
Jas and Harpreet had so far spent £18,000, with money still needed for wiring, plastering, a new bathroom and a kitchen.
After the work the pair had done, an estate agent said he expected the property would carry a guide price of £85,000 at auction, which would see the couple break even.
If they were to complete the works, the expert said it would be worth £125,000 to sell or £650 per month in rent. Jas said she would like to rent the house out.
