For many of us, a shower is a place of peace. It is a sanctuary, a place where we can get away from it all. When that is compromised, there is often very little that we can do.
Sadly, this renter recently came to a very gross and disgusting realization. A noticeable amount of grime had started to pop up in her shower, so she wanted to get to the bottom of it.
Julia Lang-Malone moved into this home on Gold Coast, Australia with her family last year. Since the move, she has been struggling to deal with a terrible scent that has been emanating from the bathroom.
As she shared on TikTok, she scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed but nothing was happening. This had to be such a frustrating feeling, we are sure.
Imagine how it feels to be cleaning and cleaning, only to experience the same problem over and over again. Julia finally discovered where the smell was coming from and it is even more disgusting than anything that you could have ever possibly envisioned. Whoever was living in this house previously had left a stockpile of cigarette butts behind the panels of the shower frame, creating quite the stench in the process.
The smell of nicotine was permanently embedded in the home. As anyone who lives with cigarette smokers can tell you, it is a very tough smell to get rid of once it has established a presence in the home. The whole shower had to be taken apart to address the issue. They were even seeping out of the bathroom tiles, due to a hole that had developed in the bottom of the frame.
The damages were stunning and of course, this family is absolutely infuriated by the laziness of the previous tenants.
Check out the videos below:
@radhauswife You can not IMAGINE the smell! Watch this space for how we try to fix it 😓 #ew #gross #smoker #cleantok #spew #noway
@radhauswife Replying to @ThisIzMe-Peta1979 Weve done unrepearable damage but we got in 😅
It’s pretty gnarly, but hopefully they’re able to get the smell to go away.