She works hard for the money. Libby Denney, a brave mom of two from the UK, is on a mission to clean up her part of the world — one horrifying hoarder home at a time. At least the pay for doing this ...

For Jo Powell, cleaning is about restoring dignity and understanding the grief and shame behind every pile of rubbish.

An Indiana woman who bought her grandmother’s “hoarder house” for $20,000 to save it from being taken by the state has opened up about what she found inside—and how she is working to transform it into ...

A team of extreme cleaners have revealed pictures of one of their biggest ever challenges – clearing the home of a chronic hoarder. Aftermath Scotland don biohazard suits to tackle jobs like crime ...

For cleaner Mark Healy, who specialises in deep cleaning trauma scenes and tackling the homes of extreme hoarders, it was like many of the houses he visits - in complete disarray and piled high with ...

Amanda Uhle’s recent book Destroy This House (Summit Books, 2025) opens with an unsettling image of her parents’ home: “The garage in their Pontiac home was filled with food, much of it perishable.