Susan's hoarding has left her unable to get upstairs, but with a cancer diagnosis, she needs a clean place to rest.

Seventy-year-old Arthur's flat is so packed with newspapers that family and friends have stopped visiting. Khim must face getting rid of her rubbish to make room for fiance Jim.

Can a serial shopaholic help a fellow hoarder see the light?

In the middle-class suburb of Crosby, Merseyside, Paul's house is literally bursting at the seams, room after room is submerged under six feet of clutter.

In Middlesbrough Susan and Robert's hoard has got totally out of hand, a self-confessed housework-aphobe Susan has inherited her hoarding ways from her mum and dad. Recognising that things have to change they send out an SOS to extreme cleaner Joe Kidd but can Susan let go of a lifetime of hoarding?

63-year-old Bubbles thinks that if she gets rid of her late Mum's stuff, she's getting rid of Mum. George Mensah helps a bereaved family with the grim task of emptying the results of a lifetime of hoarding.

When Joyce's partner passed away, Joyce lost her battle to keep on top of the hoarding behaviour she inherited from her mum. The house is so bad, it's overrun with rats and Joyce even found one of them asleep on her bed.

A son-in-law in Liverpool reaches out to specialist Joe Kidd because his family is fighting about their hoarding habits; family members ask for help as they stage an intervention for a loved one who has filled her Luton home with clutter.