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There was no way that anyone could live in the house. >> no way, shape or form was it livable. >> if you have an entire house amassed with stuff from wall to wall, where do you even begin? what a lot of times happens is they sort of throw their hands up. they feel very beaten down, they feel very hopeless and overwhelmed, both anxious and depressed. >> this is hoarding. >> the removal of clothes and debris takes schaeffer one month to complete. >> i filled up four 30-yard dumpsters. and i think i filled over 500 garbage bags to the top about the biggest bags they make. there's nothing that can...

Bunch of plates that, they were used. they weren't washed. and they were stacked up and spoons and forks and pots and pans that were used and not washed. >> at one point during the survey lang loses sight of his friend rick. >> where are you at? >> over here. >> we didn't see him back there at first. he was standing where the kitchen table would have been. i think the kitchen table was actually under all the stuff. it was up to the ceiling. i've never seen anything like that before. >> let's move on to the living room. >> i think the worst room was probably the front room. the front room was t...

About to create an action, an eviction. he felt the pressure. >> 2005. they head out to survey the scene. >> he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix-it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me? please help me. >> and what they find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. >> this place was one word -- abysmal. you had to push the door open with your shoulder to get it open. then you walked around sideways like this to slip in. just get in. and from there, there was virtually everything, food, clothing, stuff, everywhere. >> the debri...

It was so packed that you could actually in midday see the steam coming out from the methane gas from all the organic material. >> this stuff was rotting. all right? creating heat. >> what i saw would make anybody want to vomit. you didn't know if you were looking at a dead opossum or if you were looking at just old food. i mean, it was just unrecognizable. >> they realize that years of dropping food onto the floor had actually created a new higher floor. >> they ate like this and they watched the tv and when they're done, they throw this one there and that one that way. and it stacks up. >> i...

You couldn't walk around it. you had to climb over it. >> there's the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the top of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was three feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas it was higher. basically got stacked. couldn't see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the ceiling. >> it was clean clothes. she would clean them and pack them away. so it wasn't just garbage. >> there's the top of the door. got a little bit of clearance. >> to put that much stuff in there, she...