Compulsive hoarding is a state in which there is an overwhelming desire to collect things. A person showing signs of the condition is unable to discard items that other people believe are useless. Attempts to correct this situation may cause the hoarder great distress. … [Read more...]
Clearing Hoarded Homes in Housing Associations
UK National Housing Association published a landmark report into best practices for clearing hoarded homes in supported housing situations. They were concerned that enforced de-cluttering and deep-cleaning may ‘reinforce the situation’ and investigated other … [Read more...]
Helping a Relative Hoarding at Home
If you have a relative who has piles of stuff accumulating in their house, then its quite possible you have a compulsive hoarder on your hands. We wrote this post to share things you may not know about this condition, and how to go about helping a relative hoarding to … [Read more...]
Hoarding Squalor and House Clearances
A hoarding house clearance is not something to tackle lightly. This is because the behaviour is the outer sign of a deep-seated obsession. Therefore we need to understand the dynamics of hoarding squalor and house clearances first, before embarking on the project so … [Read more...]
Animal Hoarding Leaves a Trail Behind
Animal hoarding describes a situation where people keep so many animals - usually pets - that it becomes a health risk. Both hoarders and their animals may suffer the consequences. We encounter these situations on occasions when we clear a house of other hoarded … [Read more...]
How To Discuss Hoarding With Hoarders
Conversations with new clients often provoke an exasperated comment, ‘I don't know how to discuss hoarding with them’. This is often because the two parties are not on the same page. Our decades of experience has taught us that hoarders take a firm stance, and don’t … [Read more...]
Hoarding Disorder Affects Families Too
Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficultly discarding possessions, because the person believes they are worth keeping. The condition can affect the person’s lifestyle to the extent they live in unhygienic, even unsafe conditions. However, hoarding disorder affects … [Read more...]
Hoarding House Clearance Costs and Extras
A hoarding house is a work in progress, as opposed to the hoarded homes some senior citizens leave behind. Both types accumulate a surprising amount of clutter as the years pass by. It may we unwise to summarily do a hoarding house clearance, though. That’s because … [Read more...]
Cleaning a Hoarder’s Home
If you know of a friend or a family member who is a hoarder, then the time may come when their place needs a thorough good clean. This situation may develop after moving them to a place of safety, or after someone cleared their accumulation of junk. Cleaning a hoarder’s … [Read more...]
The Mind of a Hoarder – What Makes Them Tick?
Just what makes people hoard in London, or Oxford, or Manchester, or any other place that takes your fancy? They all have an affinity to accumulate things until they fill a room, or an entire house for that matter. We enter the mind of a hoarder in this review. We may … [Read more...]
