HUNDREDS of binbags bursting with old sanitary towels and covered in urine are piled in a stinking, rotten heap.

But this isn’t a rubbish tip, it’s the three-bed home of a woman from Birmingham who hasn't taken out her rubbish for FIVE years.

8 The kitchen was found piled high with old rubbish and waste Credit: Channel 5

The woman and her children were found festering in their own rubbish and pet waste in shocking new telly doc Grime and Punishment, which airs on Thursday.

Five years ago the rubbish chute in the block of flats broke and the tenant began keeping her rubbish in the flat, saying she was too intimidated by drug users living below her to go to the bins.

Sleeping with insects on a urine soaked mattress

Clean-up professionals Caz and T, are called in by the council to clean up and are horrified by what they find.

8 Clean up professionals Caz and T are called in when things get unmanageable Credit: Channel 5

“It’s a mixture of cat litter, dog poo – old cartons, ripped up boxes. It’s bordering on a bio-hazard to be honest,” explains Caz, examining the state of the flat which now resembles a rubbish tip.

They find out that the tenant, who had mental health problems, had also been sleeping on a damp urine soaked mattress crawling with insects and stained with pet poo.

8 The mattress was in no state for repair, covered in a muck and grime Credit: Channel 5

Urine and poo soaked mattress

In amongst the rubbish, women’s sanitary products and animal poo can be seen as the officers start to shovel the years of waste into black bags.

Flies, maggots and insects can be seen crawling in and out of the mountains of decomposing household waste in distressing scenes.

“There is a lot of urine here and this is what makes the cardboard clam together and make it flat and embedded to the floor.

"You wouldn’t think to use a shovel inside but it’s the only thing for us that can deal with the thickness and gooeyness of the mess,” the clean-up officer explains as she gets to work with a garden shovel usually reserved for outdoor tasks.

8 Only a shovel will do to wade through the mess Credit: Channel 5

And the dirt busting duo have learnt there really is no ‘type’ when it comes to hoarding.

Caz says: “Hoarders can be nurses, judges… we even dealt with one millionairess. It doesn’t matter what walk of life you are from.”

Previously, T worked as an embalmer and says she preferred working with dead bodies to cleaning up the houses of the nation’s hoarders.

8 Pet faeces up to five years old was found in the property Credit: Channel 5

In one horrifying scene, Caz, who isn't wearing a mask, accidentally gets some of the dog poo in her mouth.

"Oh, another mouthful of poop," she sighs. "I've definitely just had poop in my mouth."

Dead pets festering in filth

One of the bedrooms has been used solely to store rubbish, and black bin bags tower up as high as the ceiling. It’s the officers' jobs to dispose of the lot.

Caz says during previous jobs the team have made the grizzly discovery of dead pets amongst the filth.

After hours of work filling 300 bin bags, the flat is clear and ready for cleaning and then redecorating.

8 No surface was left free of filth Credit: Channel 5

“The last bag is always the worst as it’s been there the longest – sometimes the smell gets so overpowering it’s just on another level.

"It’s one of those smells that doesn’t leave you nose follicles once you are home,” Caz reveals during stomach-churning scenes.

8 Flies and insects were found at the property Credit: Channel 5

The clean-up pro says that getting through the job is a case of mind over matter.

“If I think about what I am doing, I’ll never get it done – I am wading through insects and all sorts. It’s the job that no one wants to do," she says.

Dirty work

However, despite this T is quick to tell the camera crew that she wouldn’t judge the woman living in the property.

She says: “There will be people wondering why the woman couldn’t do this herself. However, she suffers with a mental health condition, and who am I to question her – I don’t know what’s going on with her.”

“She’s looking to us to help her and transform her life and that’s what we’re going to do” adds Caz.

“She just lost all hope and instead of throwing it out, threw it in her bedroom – her own mini rubbish tip that she’s been living in,”

8 The results of the transformation left the property unrecognisable Credit: Channel 5

After four days of rubbish removal, the last bin bag is filled and the team then work together to transform the flat back into a home with astounding results.

The bedroom that was previously used as a bin is unrecognisable following an incredible four day renovation.

“Those final moments make it all work it” Caz says, smiling into the camera.

It’s dirty work, but someone’s got to do it.

Grime and Punishment is on Channel 5 on Thursday at 8pm.