View Full Version : How do people live like this?
captainsmelly
27-04-09, 02:52 PM
I'm delivering around a fairly large council estate the other day, and mostly it's quite nice. It's all been recently redeveloped/tarted up and it's a pleasant place really. But I get to a couple of blocks of 4 flats, and the smell of stale urine is overwhelming. I mean I cant breathe it's so bad. I'm dying of manflu and my nose is so bunged up I could not smell anything for a few days before, still quite bad now even but this made me sick. Behind a bush!
Fair enough I know a lot of people are unwell and suffer from 'leakages' and I suppose after a while they would probably get used to the smell and not notice it, but surely the neighbours and even people in blocks nearby must be concerned. I can't imagine you could eat or sleep or anything in these conditions. There was columns of flies in said blocks.
It's not a one off, or even blocked drains as I've been here a few times over several months and it's always the same.
You could still detect the odour on my clothes when I got home that day and before anyone starts IT WASN'T ME despite my ill chosen username!
kwak zzr
27-04-09, 02:54 PM
errrr dat doesnt sound very nice :( are you learning to hold your breath for a long time?
missyburd
27-04-09, 03:02 PM
Maybe take a mask with you next time, they might get the hint when they see you then lol. Sounds horrid, but to be fair it mightn't be through any fault of their own, they could just be physically incapable of doing anything about it :-( Have you tried mentioning it to the people living there? There's every possibility they're so used to it they just don't think about it any more, disgusting and unhealthy though it is...
captainsmelly
27-04-09, 03:06 PM
Maybe take a mask with you next time, they might get the hint when they see you then lol. Sounds horrid, but to be fair it mightn't be through any fault of their own, they could just be physically incapable of doing anything about it :-( Have you tried mentioning it to the people living there? There's every possibility they're so used to it they just don't think about it any more, disgusting and unhealthy though it is...
I think one lady saw me barf! That'd give a little hint!
missyburd
27-04-09, 03:07 PM
I think one lady saw me barf! That'd give a little hint!
Are the people that live there elderly then? Surely not kids there?
captainsmelly
27-04-09, 04:21 PM
I don't really know. Most of the estate is mixed ages so I guess this part is too..
For most of them its free, so they take what they can get......unless they are young enough to climb the property ladder (have a few kids)
Speedy Claire
27-04-09, 05:59 PM
Sounds quite tame... you should come with me into some of the houses I go into! I`ve been into houses that don`t just stink of stale urine but there`s faeces all over the floor too. One of my patients feeds all the local stray cats... she just throws cat food out of a tin onto the floor and encourages the cats to eat up, they then obv spray/wee/poo onto the carpet too.
I`ve been into houses where there`s children crawling amongst beer cans, cigarette ash and human poo.... believe me i`ve complained but nothing can be done about it. The stance appears to be "just cos they`re your hygiene standards it doesn`t mean everyone has to abide by them"!
The people in those blocks of flats are probs fighting a losing battle.... sometimes residents try their very best to keep their environment clean but drunks/foul kids urinate their every night and the "decent/clean" people end up giving in.
keith_d
27-04-09, 06:04 PM
Probably drunks/kids using the stairwell as a public (in)convenience. Only thing the locals can do is try to get the council to fit locks & intercom, but in the current climate they've got no chance.
Off topic slightly I know....BUT
I was in the bullring in birmingham saturday/sunday and parked in the NCP/Selfridges car park......and it really did smell nice. Not even the stair wells smelt of pee......amazing I tell you
Dave20046
27-04-09, 06:16 PM
I'm delivering around a fairly large council estate the other day, and mostly it's quite nice. It's all been recently redeveloped/tarted up and it's a pleasant place really. But I get to a couple of blocks of 4 flats, and the smell of stale urine is overwhelming. I mean I cant breathe it's so bad. I'm dying of manflu and my nose is so bunged up I could not smell anything for a few days before, still quite bad now even but this made me sick. Behind a bush!
Fair enough I know a lot of people are unwell and suffer from 'leakages' and I suppose after a while they would probably get used to the smell and not notice it, but surely the neighbours and even people in blocks nearby must be concerned. I can't imagine you could eat or sleep or anything in these conditions. There was columns of flies in said blocks.
It's not a one off, or even blocked drains as I've been here a few times over several months and it's always the same.
You could still detect the odour on my clothes when I got home that day and before anyone starts IT WASN'T ME despite my ill chosen username!
clip their wingmirrors that'll teach em ;)
captainsmelly
28-04-09, 01:05 PM
clip their wingmirrors that'll teach em ;)
Ooo you b!tch.
Can't anyway, work have banned me from driving!
apparantly swineflu makes you think you can smell urine....
Dave20046
28-04-09, 01:07 PM
doh! :(
Was this the same estate btw? That's what made me think it.
Owenski
28-04-09, 01:09 PM
Sounds a nice place to be.
Its a security system cleverly installed to keep police and council bailifs away. They come anywhere near the premisis they puke and run away retching.
missyburd
28-04-09, 01:11 PM
apparantly swineflu makes you think you can smell urine....
Nah it makes you not mind living in your own pi$$ :p
Dave20046
28-04-09, 01:12 PM
Nah it makes you not mind living in your own pi$$ :p
Does it make you not shower either?
think I has it :pig:
captainsmelly
28-04-09, 01:14 PM
Shut up Keithd
doh! :(
Was this the same estate btw? That's what made me think it.
No mate, different one but quite a lot of estates I go to are very similar in this respect
I used to encounter the same thing back in the days when I did a paper round. There was a small (three storey) block of flats right at the end of my round where they kept their dustbins in their stairwell and the stench was unbearable. I had to hold my breath while I ran in and delivered a paper to one of the flats.
I'd occasionally cover for someone else's round as well and there was a similar block a few streets away. No bins that time, just a really stale minging smell of dust, grime and dying old people. Revolting.
Miss Alpinestarhero
28-04-09, 06:00 PM
You'd be suprised at the kind of conditions people can live in.
If its that bad, cant you complain to Environmental Health?
Milky Bar Kid
28-04-09, 07:07 PM
Pah, Enviromental health won't do anything about it!
Like Claire says, it's the same everywhere and waht Captin is describing is quite mild.........
ArtyLady
28-04-09, 07:17 PM
Might be the managment company (or who ever caretakes the communual area) not doing their job properly - I saw something about this on TV the other night, the residents who were able-bodied were fighting a losing battle trying to clean it :(
I see these kind of houses every day because I survey houses for insulation. Most of our clients are on benefits and many are in council or housing association properties.
In a fair few of them I feel the need to wipe my feet on the way out.
I see these kind of houses every day because I survey houses for insulation. Most of our clients are on benefits and many are in council or housing association properties.
In a fair few of them I feel the need to wipe my feet on the way out.
A friend owns a letting agency and he cleans out houses like this where tenants have stockpiled human poo. He showed me some pictures. It was so disgusting, poo randomly placed across the carpet wherever the tenants chose to take a dump.
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