 Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling DeCon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding and much more. These are our stories. Today we're working on this hoarding job. It was originally the mother's house and then the daughter's taking it over. And like most hoarders, there tends to be a lot of challenges and some depression issues that ultimately lead to people having this. February 13, 2014. I'm actually worried about what we're going to find underneath there or something alive. Hi my name is Chris Johnson. Welcome to Greenville, South Carolina where today we're working on this hoarding job. A little bit of the background, it was originally the mother's house and then the daughter's taking it over. And like most hoarders, there tends to be a lot of challenges and some depression issues that ultimately lead to people having this. So as you can see from the videos that's gone on, there have been a ton of debris that's come out, a number of buckets filled with human feces. And it has definitely been one of our toughest hoarding jobs yet. There's approximately 10 rooms in this house. Today's plan is to get the majority of the stuff out of the house and then unfortunately there's also a bathtub filled with human excrement that needs to be removed and so we have to work on that. And if we can get everything out today and that's the real goal, then tomorrow it would be cleaning and making sure that the house is presentable back to the client. Have you seen anything like that before? Like that? This hoarding job is definitely one of the worst I've ever seen personally. The person who was living here had been using the restroom and buckets and storing them in the bathrooms and throwing the adult diapers away in there as well. So there's a lot of feces throughout the house that we're just kind of getting there and cleaning up. It looked like she had quite an alcohol problem as well. So there's a bunch of alcohol problems and I'm sure we're going to find a bunch of rodents to further we get into it. It's not super hot today but inside there. And as much stuff and body heat we got moving around with these suits on, it's inside these suits I would say is probably 103, easy. Inside the house without these suits is probably 98. It's one of those things that is sad to see people live like this. You don't understand it but you know people all go through hardships in their whole life. All you can do is to sympathize them and hope for the best for them. But this is what we're here for. This is what we do. We do a little bit of the restoration of the underhouses, molding, all kinds of stuff. We store anything that they need us to do. Today is to get this completely cleaned out. All the trash, all the junk, all the every bit of that furniture. And then tomorrow we'll come in and hopefully do the deep cleaning and be done tomorrow. Well usually I'm going out and dealing with customers and like doing so all my sales, especially for mold and cross-basin up underneath the houses and stuff all the time anyway. But it's nice to get out of the office to do this. Yeah, it's awesome. Inside the smell, it's alright. I said you gotta be a gangster to keep living in here when it's this bad. Stuff that's open from Amazon. Like there's bosses that were underneath all the garbage just completely filled with brand new boxes of Amazon. So boxes from Walmart that were on open. Empty rooms were for more of a respect thing for her mother. Her mother, I guess, that was her favorite spot. Maybe, I don't know. We were told that the daughter respected the mother enough to keep the main living room clean. And I think there's two bedrooms in there that are pretty spotless clean, organized really well. And I think it was more of a respect thing for her mother. And that's why those are clean compared to the rest of the house. Underneath the couch. And I looked down and there ain't no way. That scared me bad, dude. I thought I was dead. Yeah, let me see that thing. What kind of snake is that? I don't have snakes. We're just going to have to be scooping it up. So it's going to be buckets and scooping it up. I'm actually worried about what we're going to find underneath there or something's alive. I'm not sure exactly what that is. I don't know. See, I'm worried that there's somebody in there. That's that deep. That's a lot. I think we might need to bring a shop back. Just to get a big shop back and we'll end up having to throw it out. I think that might be easier. Look here. That's also full of poop. It was her mother's place and then she got it after her mother. So it's been, wow, I mean years. Years and years. You see, there's even poop on the wall. I mean, it certainly could be blood. I mean, I'm yet to find a body in a hoarder house, but I think it's going to happen one day. Numerous times we found dead animals. We found dead dogs. We found dead cats. Dead snakes like they found today. We do find dead animals, but that's all fly larva. Get all the bugs trapped inside until they start breeding inside. But unlike most hoarder houses, this is actually the food relatively good. And I know she wanted all this to just make sure that that was kept because she needs to go through it because I think her mother just passed away recently. Definitely. I'm banking on there being something dead in that tub for sure. Either a house pet, mouse, snake, something. There's no, there's no talent, but there's, there's no way there's not. So we'll see what comes of that. All right, give us one sec. Give us one sec. What are you pulling out? The body? Just didn't. Way better than scooping it with buckets. You don't have to use any poop buckets. This is nasty. There's poop. And I got it. We were pulling trash bags out of the, out of the bathtub that was filled to the top so that some punk guy could come in and clear it all out. And we dropped one of the bags and just nicked my coat and got a look at my other gloves. I couldn't do it. I had to get out of there. The whole thing, unfortunately, I don't think these things are salvageable is the problem. I mean, they're still, they're still completely backed up. I'm not exactly sure. We can certainly try some of the products we have, that's faster than 50-50, especially with the pump. That was better than us having to put our arms in it. That's for darn sure. Oh, that was going to be an option. If we couldn't get something like that, it was the option. It was the only option. We'd get it done, Tom. Could you smell it through the mask? No matter how tight you have it, it's still coming through. Once I seen somebody gagging, it was gone. Yeah, that's not liveable, even if you clean it. I'm not going to pass the inspection. I think the day was extremely successful. We've got almost every room, the majority done. We've even got some carpets up. Tomorrow is going to be the finish off of getting the rest of this stuff out. Follow it up with the deep clean and making sure that everything is presentable to the client when she comes home. Hey guys, thanks for watching. Today's video is sponsored by Audible. Laura. Laura. Yeah. What are you listening to? I'm listening to an audio book on Audible. Oh, that sounds cool. That must be how you get through all these boring, mundane mold jobs. Absolutely. They're really boring, but I even listen to this while I'm running or cleaning or just doing mundane tasks at home. 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All right, we're back for day two for the hoarder job. We've done our assessment of where we left off yesterday, what has to be done today. We're hoping to get everything done. We'll probably be 90 to 95 percent if we're lucky, 100 percent, but there is still a lot of work. There was definitely, like a lot of these jobs, a fair bit of surprise. But we have now assessed what our next steps are and what we're going to do in particular, things like that walk-in tub with all the poop, as far as cleaning that up and getting that all done. So we're just back at it. I don't want to do this, but this stuff's got to go. Yeah. For the Bible and stuff, you know what I'm saying? You know what you think about cleaning this one? I feel like stuff like that, you know? I hope I show you it. Like stuff like that, you know? I don't know. It's everything I expected it to be. We've got a lot of cleaning out to do, a lot of hazardous materials to deal with the tons. But it's, you know, what you've got to get yourself into and if you understand what you're doing, you don't have a problem with it. We're about to do a viral disinfectant with a fogger. It's a shock wave. What we're going to do is spray throughout the house. It helps with the smell, helps. It's not going to kill everything, 100 percent, because the house is so bad, but it's just going to help kill anything that we touch. It helps us not smell crap everywhere and any other feces that are in the air. I'm on the walls, on the clothing, beds, whatever it be. What we're doing is we're getting ready to tear out all the carpets because they're saturated with just garbage and a bunch of nasty stuff. So we're getting the closets cleaned out. We're getting ready to pull all the carpets to padding and then the carpet they laid on top of that carpet. We're trying to savage what we can savage, but you mean you still got rats and anything else coming on the stuff cleaned in it? You know, it's soaking through the boxes as you can see how it's yellow with all the feces and stuff. It's still, it's just not. For her health purposes, I mean... Basically, so we got one room cleaned all the way. We're taking all the stuff that she wants to keep, cleaning it off, cleaning all the dirt off it, wiping them down, moving it back to the first room we finished. So just so we can keep moving on to each next room a little bit at a time. See how it's starting to turn white? That's poop on there. Poop, pee, all that gets up. Mold. So the stuff I just sprayed was a Sea Room 1000. What it does, it spray it on. Once it hits, it digs deep. If you see it turning white and bubbly, it means it's affecting it, whatever it needs to do. If it's not there no more, then obviously it's doing its job. You wipe it down, pull carpet, wood floor, whatever. If there's blood in the ground on the wood surfaces or whatever it be. Walls. You spray it, you wipe it. If there's more, you spray it again. And if there's more, you'll wipe it again. You'll keep doing the process over and over until you don't see it no more. So if it leaks through the carpet and down to the subfloor and all that stuff, then you have to pull the subfloor out and then dump that too just because you're not going to get it out of the wood. Not quite done, but it's getting there. That's the deep clean what we could. Like I said, it's never 100% just because it's so bad. 95% is what we always say. For sitting for so long, just the feces and food, whatever it is, it's going to leave damage. There's mold, just whatever it is. You can't get it up 100%. That guy's worked really good. You can tell it's hot, sweating, suits, all that good stuff. Probably come through tomorrow and do one little final touch just to make sure everything's good to go. Do a walk-through and stuff like that. Not the funnest job in the world, but it's what we do. 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