A man has had to share his home with his neighbour's human waste after his flat became flooded with sewage and the council took more than a week to finally clean it up. Rob Escott was horrified when he walked into his council-owned flat in Llanishen, Cardiff, on Monday, June 6, and found the majority of the property flooded with a two-inch deep pool of raw sewage.
The flood was caused by a blocked outside pipe, which led to all of Rob's neighbours' waste being pumped into his flat via his toilet. However, while the blockage was cleared by a plumber just a few hours later, it took far longer for the mess to be fully cleaned up, leaving the 47-year-old "living in a nightmare" with his flat still covered in faeces and toilet paper.
Despite endless attempts to get teams from Cardiff Council out to his flat to clean up the mess as soon as possible, Rob claims it was nearly 48 hours after the initial incident that a cleaning team arrived at the property. Even then, he claims the team was unprepared for the job, initially bringing just a single bottle of bleach with them to deep clean the flat.
