 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. How we came upon this house was the daughter and son of the owner who contacted us. The mother and one of the sisters or her daughter was living in this home. The mother died and the daughter died as well. They think the mother just died of natural causes probably from the environment and then the daughter probably committed suicide right after that. So both of their bodies were found in the home. They weren't decomposed or anything. They were found like a day or two later. So the rest of the family saw the home and the condition that it was in and they didn't want anything to do with it. So they called me originally for a clean out quote and then we kind of negotiated a sale. So I purchased this property. We closed on it last week and we are in the process of cleaning it out now. I think it's going to be about a two week process to clean it out and then the rehab portion will start and the rehab on this house is going to be substantial. He's actually cleaning his... I mean he looks clean. He's taken a bath. Juan, what are the names? Pedro? Pablo. Yeah, Pedro and Pablo. They're the supervisors today. What the fuck? Get it Juan, get it. I don't love my job anymore. Spread out more cheaters. I'm just here for the deal. Oh yeah. Yeah, there you go. So when you see one, just kill. There, get that one. Blow it, get that one. That's too big for this. No it's not, get it. Oh. Get it, get it. Get it, yes. Fuck you, that works. I threw that one for you. I know, I know. That one juice is on it. That one juice is on it. No way. Dude, your foot. I bought this house. I'm not sure why. I will make it beautiful, but it might kill me in the process. Hello. Stop thrashing my house. Hello. We are here at the Winterhaven property and we are doing a check up on the status of the renovation. And as you can see, we've got a ton of raw wood here and the electricians are running all the wire. Wow, this is incredible. Laura Spalding here in Winterhaven at the Pet Cemetery House. We are so close to having a brand new tenant in it, but we are cosmetically ready and I wanted to show you what we've got going on in this beautiful house. So behind me you can see brand new paint, brand new landscaping, a giant trimmed oak tree and a brand new metal roof. All right, we are inside the Pet Cemetery House. I am standing in the middle of the living room and Sammy is over by where all the pet cages were stacked up. If you remember correctly, there was a dead mummified cat by this window right here. So what we've done in this room is repaired all the walls. We've put in new window treatments. I've added a mini-split air conditioning, of course, brand new fans and lighting and fantastic flooring with brand new baseboards as well. I can't wait to show you the rest of the house. The next room was formerly the master bedroom. This was the bedroom where the two previous owners passed away in. This particular bedroom took us two days to clean out. Follow me. So if you remember correctly, the crew and I were standing on top of a mountain of trash where we took a picture on Instagram. This room had a giant transformation. Brand new window treatments, new floors, new baseboards, new closet doors and of course new paint and smoke alarms. This room was a mountain of work because of all the hoarding that went on in here. Now I'm going to show you bedroom 2. If you remember correctly, this is the bedroom where we could not even get inside. We're going to go over and force our way through the trash. Kyle and I also sledded down the mountain of trash in this particular room. It took us over a day just to clean out this small bedroom. Follow me and I'll show you what we did. So I'm standing in the middle of what used to be a mountain of trash. This room had a huge transformation because we had to gut the plaster walls to be able to run the new baseboards, of course doors, closet doors, window treatments and paint. This room took a long time. So if you remember I was really adamant about keeping the integrity in the age of the house, which included these cabinets that are built in. They don't make that stuff anymore. So what we did is sanded them, painted them and put some new hardware on here. These are fantastic deep real wood cabinets that provide a ton of storage for these two bedrooms in this bathroom. Take a look at this amazing bathroom transformation. This was one of the worst rooms in the entire house. The bathtub was being used not only by the cats but by the humans that lived here as a bathroom. We removed the bathtub. We had to pull it out of plaster that was mounted over the old bathtub. We ran all new plumbing, subway tile, paint, new toilet, granite, a nice vanity and of course great lighting and a mirror. I'm super impressed with this bathroom because it was so terrible and to stand in here now with absolutely no odor, no bugs and it's just brand new and beautiful. One of my favorite parts about this house was redesigning the kitchen. One of the biggest problems with these older homes is that they don't have enough cabinet and storage space. So I wanted to open it up and put in a ton of cabinets and really modernize everything. So take a look at these brand new cabinets with a brand new island, granite countertops. We put a built in desk over there and plenty of pantry space on the left and on the right. We made this kitchen not only modern but more functional. There's tons of storage space with soft closed doors and cabinets. We modernized the lighting by putting can lights and these pendant lights here and then one of the issues that we had is this took so long that the pricing for the floor that I had originally picked out was three times higher. So I had to pivot and pick a different floor. This particular floor that I chose is more on the brown side and the other one was on the gray side. So to tie all that in I added a back splash here with plenty of brown in it to bring it all together. So brand new appliances here all updated and built in and this is my favorite room. I think it's open and it's very inviting and it's a great place for entertaining. We added this pass through here kind of a butler room and this next room over here used to be the Florida room or sun room as some people call it. What I did is I turned it into a dining room. We are in the new dining room the former Florida room if you remember correctly this was just windows and it had a ton of animal cages below it. So what I wanted to do is really open it up to this nice huge backyard that has a plenty of grilling area. So I added a double French doors and I also wanted to keep the shelving that was there but I wanted to clean it up and modernize it. So we put kind of wood paneling on the back of it added plenty of baseboards new window treatments and I really love these pendant lights really kind of modernizes everything in this house and ties it all in. If you remember correctly leaving this dining room slash Florida room this was a storage room behind this door here. What we did is turned it into a new master bedroom with a giant walk-in closet and a brand new huge master bath follow me. So I'm standing in the new master bedroom I love this room because we took it from a crappy old storage room and we made it a really awesome ensuite with a walk-in closet and a giant bathroom. So if you remember correctly this ceiling used to be a dark brown which really dated it but I wanted to keep it because I like the grooving of it instead of just putting drywall. So what we did is we just put a million coats of paint on it and I think it came out pretty cool because it's got a little bit of design to it. We added another air conditioning plenty of window treatments we put crown molding in this room and of course the tall baseboards. But I really like this walk-in closet because it's huge so this used to have the really dated paneling walls so what we did is we painted over all that and we added some racks and it's huge. Absolutely enormous closet with plenty of natural light as well. So after we were done cleaning that part of the house if you remember this door back here comes in from outside in the carport area we had to squeeze in because there was tons and tons of items here and this room behind this wall used to be the laundry room and it was stacked to the ceiling with trash it wasn't even usable so we turned that into a giant master bathroom come take a look. So I'm standing where the washer and dryer used to be located we took all that out we moved the water line and we made a giant walk-in shower here with a rain head on it it's really really really large so we put some decorative tile in here to bring it all together and then of course the white tile and the black grout to match we added of course a brand new vanity double vanity and new toilet, new mirror and new lighting so this is actually now a real master bedroom so this house used to be two bedroom, one bath and now it's a three bedroom two bath so I hope you guys enjoyed the big reveal of the pet cemetery house but I can't end the video now I've got to tell you about all the setbacks and the reason why it's taken so long so we started this project back in July of 2019 everything was going great kind of we found a lot of stuff but we had a massive roach problem we did 32 bombs, hired pest control we took care of that so once the renovation started one of the first things we did was put on a brand new roof we hired a licensed roofing company they came in and they put this beautiful roof on the house and on the exterior she shed out back well when the city or county came to sign off on the roof they noticed that a separate permit was not pulled for the she shed I guess as a licensed roofer you should probably know that that's a requirement so the county shut down the job find that roofer and made him pull that permit well that delayed us about three months nothing works quickly with government so once we started back up again it was in December the electricians came in were finishing running the wire plumbing came in and discovered that not only do we need to do new plumbing on the inside of the house but we need to replace all the plumbing all the way out to the street so that was a big expense that wasn't anticipated so we had that added another couple weeks on to our work the electrician kept going back and forth and back and forth so here we are April 12th of 2020 we were supposed to be finished the week before Thanksgiving and we just had our last inspection a couple days ago and they told us that the electricians again missed a GFI in the master bathroom and a GFI for the new washer and dryer location so we still do not have a permit we are getting that fixed this weekend so we should have it hopefully this coming week but the house is ready to be on the market just a couple little things left and the landscaping I'll show you has been completely cleaned up it was absolutely overgrown there was so much stuff back there we ended up putting a new roof on the she-shed and then painting the interior of it my original plan is I wanted to finish that and because we went so much over budget we are just going to leave it as storage right now I also wanted to finish the garage and enclose it and make it an actual two car garage but because we went so much over on budget that's going to have to wait right now I hope you really like the transformation it was a super frustrating project but it goes to show you that there are so many unknowns whenever you are renovating a house and this was a giant undertaking for all of us not only the rehab part of it but the cleanup was huge as well we pulled about 26 tons of trash out of this little 1650 square foot house so it's a fantastic neighborhood right down the street from a lake a giant lake so I'm super happy with it and I'm proud of the work that was done despite all of the setbacks so I hope you enjoyed it thanks for watching guys don't forget to like, share, subscribe and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode that's it guys on to the next