Hoarding mother and daughter have their home professionally cleaned
Mother and daughter hoarders are embarrassed when professional cleaners tidy their home for the second time in 10 years and find mice droppings in one of their bedrooms
- Judy and Melissa, from Rochester, Kent, are a mother-daughter hoarding duo
- Enlisted help of Declutter Divas to clear their three bedroom bungalow of junk
- Judy was mortified to find there were mice droppings on her bedroom floor
A mother and daughter with a shared hoarding habit are left horrified when they discover their home has been overrun by mice.
Judy, 60, and 32-year-old Melissa, from Rochester, in Kent, share a three-bedroom bungalow that is full to the brim with rubbish.
They feature on tonight’s Hoarders Homes: No Room to Move, where Judy admits she developed her hoarding habits after the successive deaths of her husband Robin, her father and her mother, as well as a brain tumour which left her paralysed on her right side from the knee down.
Meanwhile, Melissa reveals that carrying her own grief, as well as being her mother’s sole carer, has seen her turn to hoarding as well.
Mother and daughter duo Judy, 60, and Melissa, 32, from Kent, appear on tonight’s Hoarders Homes: No Room to Move on Channel 5. Pictured together, they share a three-bedroom bungalow which is full to the brim with clutter
The house was professionally cleaned 10 years ago, but Judy and Melissa went back to their bad habits. Pictured: the corner of Judy’s bedroom
The bedroom after it is professionally cleaned on the show, with a now-visible wardrobe and Judy’s soft toy collection on display
Judy says the duo have been living in the house for 20 years. Speaking about her daughter, she explains: ‘She’s my carer and I love her to death, she does all the things I can’t do.’
A few years ago, Judy was diagnosed with a brain tumour on the left side of her face, and the condition caused her to become paralysed from the right knee down.
‘My motto is to take each day as it comes,’ she says.
Unfortunately, the ever-growing mounds of clutter in their home made it increasingly difficult for wheelchair user Judy to get around.
Judy and Melissa’s spare room before it was cleared of rubbish. Judy hopes to turn this into a crafts room
At the end of the three-day spring clean, the crafts room is neatly organised and ready to use
Before hoarding became a problem, Judy used to be a full-time carer for her late husband, who had multiple sclerosis and died 11 years ago.
Soon after, her father died, followed by her mother. The grief was too much to take.
‘In September my dad passed on the third and in October my granddad passed away,’ she recalls.
‘So I’m trying to get over the death of my dad, and then my granddad dies and then my granny does. We lost three people that we really cared about.’
The two women share a three-bedroom bungalow which is drowning in clutter and rubbish.
Judy, pictured, was embarrassed to learn that mice had infested her bedroom and left their droppings on the floor
Melissa admits that looking after her mother’s mental health has taken its toll, and her own room is also covered in junk.
‘I shouldn’t let it build up like that, but I do,’ she says sheepishly.
Meanwhile Judy admits to disliking the mess, but says tackling it felt overwhelming.
‘I don’t like looking at it, I don’t like seeing it, and I try to do what I can, there’s too much for me to do on my own,’ she says.
The mother-daughter duo hire Allyson and Chloe, aka the Declutter Divas, for some help, after first calling them in 10 years ago.
Having seen how the clutter has once again taken over Judy and Melissa’s home, the duo are determined to be ‘firm’ with them in order to get rid of most of it.
The first order of business is to empty an overflowing cat litter tray which is full of liquid and cat faeces spilling onto the floor.
The mother, pictured, suffered a brain tumour a few years ago which left her paralysed on her right side from the knee down
‘The smell of it is getting to me now,’ Allyson says, moving the tray outside to empty it.
They then start to sort through Judy’s collection of soft toys, which she has amassed over the years and struggles to let go of.
However, the pair are stopped in their tracks when they spot mice droppings in Judy’s bedroom. It proves a watershed moment for the mother, who tells the cleaners: ‘It’s just a wee bit stressful, all having it done and then you find mice dropping and it’s a bit disgusting.
‘It’s a bit distressing to find out you’ve been sleeping in there,’ Allyson replies.
Judy admits: ‘Set in your ways, in a cluttered house, sometimes you come out and you don’t want to come home to it.’
She explains that she has visions of making the third room in the house a space for crafts, but it’s full to the brim with clutter.
‘We’ve definitely got a bit of a job on our hands,’ Allyson says. ‘Judy, even though we’ve taken some of the big stuff out, there’s an awful lot out there and you really want to get that into a crafts room so you really need to come and make some decisions.’
Judy really struggles to part with her stash, but Melissa is there to help and keep the momentum going. She helps the duo of de-cluttering pros sort through Judy’s books and other bibs and bobs.
Among the items they fish out is Judy’s wedding hat, which she wore when she married Melissa’s father. She reveals she missed her husband a lot and never thought of getting remarried.
‘Sometimes I think “Who needs a man?”,’ she jokes. At the end of the third day, and after a hard struggle from Judy to get rid of more of her belongings, the Declutter Divas finally manage to restore some of the house’s former glory and make it more accessible for Judy.
Judy could barely move in her house full of clutter and says she was ‘set in her ways’ and didn’t like looking at her hoard
Touring her house, Judy is in disbelief, saying: ‘Is this really my bedroom,’ gazing at the clear floor and all the items neatly tucked away in drawers.
‘You’re a couple of geniuses,’ she says.
The team clean the whole house, including Melissa’s room, which looks brand new, and also manage to give Judy the crafts room she desperately wanted.
‘It hasn’t looked like that in how don’t know how long,’ she says.
‘You two are incredible at what you do,’ Melissa adds after sitting down with the Declutter Divas at the end of the experience.
She is so happy with her home’s transformation that she starts to tear up.
The Divas say it means the world to hear Melissa and Judy’s kind comments because they try to help people as best they can.
Hoarder Homes: No Room to Move airs tonight at 9pm on Channel 5.
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