 It was an unattended death. The person who passed away was lying on their bed for a few days and so the body decomposed quite a bit. The bile came down through both mattresses. 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. Hey, good morning. This is Chance Carrick. I'm the owner of Spalling Decon Palm Beach. We just got on site for a pretty big bio job this morning. It was an unattended death. The person who passed away was laying on their bed for a few days and so the body decomposed quite a bit. There's some blood and bio that goes straight down through the mattress into the sub flooring. Today's a pretty big job. It's probably going to take about eight to ten bio boxes, which is a pretty significant amount for an unattended death, one person. So we got our hands full today. We're going to get quite a bit of demolition done today and then we're also going to do some cleanup around the house for the client. So it should be a pretty long day, but it's going to be a great day to help another client out here in South Florida. So the blood is going to go too deep in there. The surface level, which is good. You don't have to put underneath it. That's definitely a plus. That's what's for us, right? So as you can see, the bio came down through both mattresses. It leaked into this bed frame and it came through. If you look real closely, you can actually see some of the maggots. It looks like some urine, bodily fluids, and then obviously the bio. But you can see there's maggots growing, crawling all around, there's feeding off of this. If we waited longer, they would actually grow and get bigger. They feed off of this stuff. So what we're going to do is we're going to treat everything, kill all of this, kill all the germs, bacteria, anything that's living, get it all cleaned up, and then we'll have to tear up the tile because the blood actually can get into this grout line and it gets underneath the tiling. The smell will come back after a couple of days, weeks, or months if it stains under there. So we have to demo everything out, get it all cleaned up, and then we'll get it all sanitized and put it back together. So you can actually feel the chemical reaction with the type of chemicals that we use to clean this. It actually gets warm as it reacts with the blood. So my hand is actually a little bit hotter than the rest of the area. And as you're wiping it, you can feel the heat coming right off of it. The mattress and the bile, but as you can see, they leak through this platform and it actually got underneath the tiling. You can see that that's all bile. So not only do we have to remove this tile, but we're going to have to remove this platform also. You can see that's all blood and bile right in there. And that's also here. So we're going to have to remove tile all out of here too. We'll get real smelly over time if we really move it. All into this wood. So what we have to do is we're going to have to remove this whole bed frame. Whenever wood gets into a porous material like wood, there's no way to really completely clean it and get all the bacteria and bile out of it. So we have to remove it, have to dispose of it in a proper way. And this will actually go to an incineration site and we'll get proof of incineration once it's complete. So this is actually blood. Blood finds a way to travel wherever the low point is. And so this was sitting right under the bed frame and it traveled all the way down to the ground and it was actually sitting on the ground and got right into the wood. You can see it right in the glue. There's no way to really clean that. So I don't know what they did, but they plastered the bottom of this. They didn't plaster over here, but they did under there. You can see the whiteness. It's almost like a caulk plaster that they've layered on the ground. Not really sure why. Cover the wood maybe? Cover the wood and maybe make it waterproof it, but it's interesting that they only did under there, but not right here or under where the tile. I got a drink for you if you want it. That's from two hours of work. There's the subfloor right there. Underneath this should be, that should be the weather surface, weathering. Yep, there's the cement. Alright, so this demo was a little bit more complex than we normally have to deal with. Typically down here in South Florida, the tile is typically laid right over top of the cement subfloor. In this situation, the whole floor is not only built up, but there's also the platform built up also. So we had to cut out the sub-wood floor. You can see right here, there's still some bioreminence. But then underneath, you've got your weathering and you've got your subfloor. So we're going to cut out the rest of this bio section, and then we're going to demo the rest of the platform because we've already had to destroy most of the platform. So once they go to rebuild this all, then they'll be able to lay tile flat across the whole floor. Alright, so we got all the bio completely out of the area where the body was found. It's soaked all the way through, all the way down into the subfloor. So as you can see right here, we had to tear out all of the subflooring. But all of the bio is completely gone. We're going to get this cleaned up a little bit. And then the rest of the day, we're going to spend demoing the rest of this platform so that it's ready for the rebuild to complete here. But all done on the bio. 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We're back on site this morning and we're focusing on getting the rest of the house cleaned up. There we go. Where's the front? Where's the head? There we go, twins. Got a bunch of Care Bears and Teletubbies. They're all cloth like material and since the bio was directly in here they're going to smell unless you get them professionally cleaned and laundered. The client decided that they'd rather dispose of them just to avoid that a little bit of the headache. So all of these types of little knickknacks, Teletubbies, Care Bears all that kind of stuff, it's all going to be thrown out just because it's going to be holding that bio smell a little bit due to being so close to the bio for an extended period of time. And this is something that we found very interesting an e-machine. This is probably, I don't know 20 years old or so, a single standalone computer. They don't make them like they do anymore. We are right on the Monday. The carpet is because there was a lot of gross fills on the carpet as you can see. The refrigerator into the garbage can, but the garbage people don't call much on Monday. So they asked us yesterday and we said absolutely because there's a lot of stinky shoes. What do we got here? Activity. Lots of activity. All right, so we just started with the clean out of the house this morning. We loaded up the trailer in the back with all of them big items and a ton of trash bags. We probably have close to about a ton behind us. And we're going to go to one of the Palm Beach County Transfer Stations where we can drop all of our trash. So it's pretty quick and easy. We go in, we get weighed, we go up to the tipping floor we drop all the trash out and then we roll out and get re-weight and pay the fee and then we're back to the job site. It will take us probably about 30-40 minutes round trip. It's super quick and easy. All right, we just finished up dropping everything at the dump as you can see. We dropped an entire trailer load, probably about a full ton, probably about 2,000 pounds. So we're about to head back to the job site, catch up with the rest of the crew and get this truck loaded up again for another dump later today. Had to cut some of the drywall over there for the bio. We're just going to flood cut the rest of this to see if there is a bigger mold problem. That portion is going to get replaced for the bio. So just a couple extra feet won't make too big of a difference and we'll be able to give the homeowner a good idea as to what situation is behind the wall. Doesn't look good in here, but I can't say I've ever seen drywall there on top of drywall like that. Who's in the wall? Someone's lucky real car. That's the machine. There was a cat that was living out here and it peed all over the carpet and I guess the glue that they used the combination of the pee and the glue kind of made the entire carpet stick to the entire ground. So we're ripping it up, but you can smell the cat urine pretty significantly along with a lot of the dirt and everything. So we just finished up the job here. The very last thing that we're going to do is ensure that there is lasting odors both from the decomp of the body but also some of the other things, some cat urine and things like that. So we're going to run a UV machine. It's going to run for 48 hours. No humans, animals, or plants can be in the home. It takes the oxygen out of the air so it's extremely dangerous. We put a warning on the front door but we'll also be running an air scrubber to make sure that if there are any lasting particles in the air that'll get all of the air cleaned up. So by Monday 48 hours this thing will be ran and all of the odor will be done and will be completely done with this job. It was a great team effort. I think the client is going to be pretty happy with the end result and it was a good day to work.