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Madeleine Patrick

'Pizza-obsessed' hoarder house left cleaner 'scarred' and in tears

A cleaner says one job was so extreme it repeatedly reduced her to tears - as the 'pizza-obsessed' hoarder's house was stuffed to the brim with hundreds of takeaway boxes and bottles of urine. Self-employed cleaner Rayann McMullan spotted a landlord's Facebook post pleading for someone to clear out rubbish left in a Manchester flat by a former tenant.

Although used to rolling her sleeves up and doing deep-cleaning work, Rayann's jaw dropped when she stepped inside the one-bedroom apartment in Droylsden, Greater Manchester. Shocking snaps show the entire flat swamped in hundreds of pizza boxes, stale food, plastic bags and bottles of urine.

The 25-year-old says it took two days to clear out the flat, and cried multiple times at the prospect of tackling the jam-packed bedroom. Clearing the pizza boxes took four hours alone, and Rayann says she was forced to leave a Jenga-like stack behind as there were too many to keep making repeat trips down the stairs.

The mum-of-three claims she was 'scarred' by the experience and now gets 'flashbacks' whenever she sees a pizza box. Rayann, from Collyhurst, Manchester, said: "I got really excited when I was offered the job and then the landlord sent me a video.

Rayann was taken aback by the sight of the house (Kennedy News/Dust Fairy Cleaning Service)


"So I thought, 'right okay, that is a different job to what I would normally do'. When I got down to doing the dirty part, and all of the clear-out, I thought, 'oh no, what have I got myself into?'

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