 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. Alright, so today at 10, they're gonna be having the roading guy come out and they're gonna be checking the traps. I know yesterday when we were here during the estimate and everything, the homeowner did mention that a couple of the traps went off. So there are some rats that have been caught. But we also know that there's still a lot up there. So, gonna see what he says. I know while we're doing this, we are gonna have to try to gently move the traps so that they stay up there at the same time without getting our fingers caught. But we're gonna be starting in the garage today, right now. Because there is like no ceiling in the garage. It's just go straight up to the roof with all the insulation. Gotcha. So we're gonna be sweeping everything up, getting everything picked up. That is currently down. Right. And then we're gonna cover everything or move something to cover. And then we're gonna go ahead and pull everything down. If we can't get the vacuum just to get it up there and get all this stuff out. If we drop the ceiling and there's still droppings and everything, all it's gonna do is get that thing out. Yeah, so I mean... I mean, because out of anyone that we work with, I'm the only person that would be able to fit in there. And then, obviously, she's gonna be her circle PPE and she's gonna be up there for 15, 20 minutes, leaning down, getting out, coming back. And it's gonna be a whole house. So that's why we're trying to get the vacuum. If we can't get the vacuum, it'll be a whole lot easier. We're trying to start pulling out insulation, but we're trying to minimize the droppings that are in the insulation. We don't know how much is in it. And at the same time, we don't want to cross-contaminate to keep everything bacteria-wise on its tools, on its equipment, personalized and stuff like that. Never work, right? We'll grab, put it on the floor. Once everything's there, bag it, trash it, put it on the back of the truck. Oh, there's one right there. Got him. Woo! Shit! We're gonna get it cleaned up. We're gonna vacuum again. Then we're gonna start on the other side. We're gonna do the same as everything. All right, Steve Wolf here, general manager of the Tampa location for Spalding Decon. I'm out here in Clearwater for a rodent dropping cleanup. We have a 2,000-square-foot house here that the owner was actually in Minnesota for about a month trying to sell his other house. They came back home. They had taken the animals from the home, their cat and two dogs, or sorry, dog and two cats, and came back and the rats had taken over the house. So what we're doing right now is we're pulling all the insulation and cleaning up the area. Then we're gonna disinfect the house after we make sure that all traces of the rats are gone. We are working in conjunction with a terminator to make sure that there is no more presence of rats after we leave. Now to get vacuumed. Vacuum up the floor. All the flat surfaces first. Come in with my spray. Got some microbial. Wipe down everything. Flat surfaces, tea, mattress, chairs, bed, all that stuff. Contain the door. Fog it onto the next room. Yeah. It's crazy how it didn't really affect all these others. Just right there. Sorry. We're gonna get clean. We need it done. Ready to the door! So we set containment over the doors so when we start to do the demolition, the removal of the drywall flooring, doesn't matter. If there's mold, if there's blood, rat droppings, the smell and the dust from when you're doing the work, you don't want it to travel from space to space and cross-contaminate your work area from your common area so that then you won't have to do more inside of the house. Just keep everything contained inside your work area so that when you do come out, everything will be good to go. There's insulation in the closet on the floor. This is all insulation right here. We're in the wall. I'm gonna see if I can find a hole somewhere. That is a hole right here. You take a picture of it. It's the nail. Do you know that there's a hole in the closet where they ate through? I say there's a hole there. I was looking at that. There's nothing up top. I didn't pay much attention to what was happening. What do we need to do? It's just got to be a patch to fix. Do we need to move this? To see, yeah, because we don't know how... Just to make sure there's nothing else behind it. That's a lot of insulation. Let's swing it around. Here comes the washer chair. That's about right. Do you see the droppings there? Yeah, I don't doubt it. All that insulation is going to have to come out too. You continue to draw all damage behind the plaster on that side as well. We just found out that all that is exposed and that's where some of them have been coming in at. I'm just glad that they didn't eat through that pipe but at the same time it's a copper pipe so they probably wouldn't even eat through that. They did have a whole lot of water damage. The vacuum in here real fast. Nope. The vacuum is starting to fall apart. I think when I stepped on it, I pulled this piece right here out. Made me a little nervous. So we're finished here. Day one of the rodent infestation cleanup. We removed all of the insulation that was exposed inside of the garage. We cleaned it out. We sprayed, fogged, disinfected and inside of all the affected areas inside of the house where they were located. We did find an exposed wall inside of the closet where they were making their way in and that's how they got through the house. Tomorrow we're going to come back. We're going to cover, contain more of the affected areas and spray and kill. We might have to remove some of the plaster and the drywall inside if we can manage and we can get this vacuum that we're hoping for. That'll be such a plus. If not, then... I get to climb up there. Me and my partner, we're obviously enthusiastic about the next day but we're going to be alright and we're going to get it done. Until tomorrow. See you guys later. Hey guys, it's Shelby. We're back here with our client with the rodent infestation. Today we're going to have a lot of fun. I get the joy of going up and down at a very tight space and getting all the insulation out using a 100 foot hose right here that we got hooked up to a very powerful vacuum. Got a big bag, going to be very heavy. I'm very nervous because I know there are rats up there still alive. We've already seen a bunch of them dead in the traps and now I get to have a little fun with some live ones. Hopefully. Just praying I don't get bitten. Anniversary, very scary, very special, special? Yeah. And then after this, I'm going to watch Cary and then after that, I'm going to watch VHS94 and then after that, I'm going to watch The Media. How is this possible? It's Shutter, dude. It's like the Netflix of horror. Shutter has the largest and fastest growing collection of horror movies and series in the world. And it's not just your mainstream blockbuster hits. It's also low-budget indie movies and horror classics, even original series and podcasts. 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Yeah, so out of the ones that I had art that were up there, so we caught two. We had the two that caught rats. There was two right next to it that both were disengaged. And I'm betting that one snapped and the rat got frantic and hit the other one and it caught him. So that was actually, that was ate by a rat, not by a human. I found one of those back there too. There's another one under here. I think. Oh no, it's not a human. Your butt. Another one. If I rat and if you look, you can see the chew marks where they got their access point and ate it. There's nothing. Not even crumbs. I'll use that long rat tongue to get all the... Alright guys, we're here in Clearwater, Florida, working day two of the rodent infestation. Had a couple of mishaps today. We actually rented an insulation vacuum to start attacking the attic and the insulation vacuum was faulty. We called the rental company so tomorrow is actually the day we're going to do the installation. So what we did today is we focused on all the rooms, making sure that we cleared all common areas of rodent droppings. We vacuumed, we wiped down and disinfected everything. What is left to do is the attic, do the AC vent removal as well and then we're going to do another final scrub. That's going to take the next two days. Hopefully we can get this done without any issues. It looks like other than minor mishaps like the insulation vacuum being faulty. We're moving right along. Wonderful tenants that are here that are actually being very helpful. They're very understanding of what we have to do through our course. That's definitely a great thing and helping the job go a little bit easier. So stay tuned for the next two days to see how the attic insulation removal is going. This here is an insulation vacuum to soak up all the blown-in insulation from inside of the attic. Once we get all the blown-in insulation out of the attic that's where we'll be able to see the droppings and where the rats did their business up there. We get all that stuff clean disinfected, sprayed out wiped down and all that good stuff. Then the AC people can come back they can get the insulation put back in, they can get the duct work clean and all that. But until we're done with our portion then they're just at a standstill. So we're trying to hurry up and get it done as quick as possible, fastest in a timely manner. I got to adjust it and turn it up. Once she gets up there and she gets situated I'll go outside and I'll adjust it to turn it up on higher speed just sucks because it seems like I'm not doing a whole lot of much but in all reality I can't fit in the attic space. I'm gonna roll over and be flippin' and tossin' like a marito and be a flip upside down. Just throw me out there. Right now we are trying to find an easier way for me to be able to move around in the attic to get all of the insulation out of there, or at least as much as we came for today. Go put my gloves on. There we go. Did you have to go through the ceiling? He doesn't want us to. But at the same time that's going to be probably the only option that we have. Because he's telling us that we can pick and choose areas that we can cut at, but certain areas of the ceiling he has paneling he has tile, he has drywall and it's just let me see what you got. Okay, so over here How's it going, man? Good, man, good. We removed all of the batter from inside here and we cleaned up everything in here. Was there a drywall here? No, just insulation. Okay. Then these panels behind you are what was covering this right here going all over the cross. Okay, from road and stuff here you know? No. He told us to trash all that because it got soaked. Hi, how are you? I'm Laura. Nice to meet you. You as well. I cleaned up and vacuumed out inside of the AC pan. Okay. As you can see from here there's not really an access that you can get to, but then there's a small access on this side over here. Hi Laura. Hi, how are you? Where's your mold at? I was going to take a look at that. Right here. That's over here. It's coming from the same thing. Okay. From the top corner of the pantry. Yup. But then here's the other attic access. Oh my God, look how small. I can't get up there. But the only good thing about that is there's no insulation here. Okay. So we're going back across the other side of the house. I'm going, she's going, but obviously we can't be under 15, 20 minutes at a time. Is the hose working okay? But it just gets tight. So you just have to get what you can. That's what we've been doing. So what do you think is causing the mold? Is it an AC leak? It's stupid. Because the rats, they chew through it. They chew through the ductwork? Yeah. Okay. Did they show up yet? The AC people? Yeah. And they told them that all of it has to get redone. Yeah. That's what I figured. I just wanted to stop by here and check on Mario and Shelby. I feel really bad for these clients because, you know, they were up north. They came back to Florida and realized that rats had taken over their home and absolutely made chaos in there. They pooped everywhere. They chewed through their air conditioning. They ate their food. They destroyed their furniture. And I guess the biggest takeaway from this is they discovered that there's an exclusion in their insurance policy for any type of animal intrusion or damage. So that's something you really want to check on with your homeowners insurance to make sure that you have some type of coverage, especially if you live in an area like Florida where if they see a vacancy in a house or anything, man they take over. So we're really trying to access their attic and get all this faeces out and, you know, the dead car cases and stuff. We're having a really hard time because there's no attic space to actually walk through. So it's super, super difficult job here. And it's obviously super hot. So they're having a really hard time navigating this job. But they're doing a great job and they have great attitude. So I'm super proud of them. Listen, here has to come down so I can get the panels down, clean them, get the installation down. We should be good in here. Just got to make sure that I'm not in her way because she's actually doing laundry right there behind us. I want to take that cabinet out, but at the same time if I move it and it's still soaking wet, it might break, it might crumble. Geez. So I don't want to take that chance. I just vacuum and clean up everything around it. Hopefully I can just pull them out with no problems and vacuum and get everything out of there. Everything should still be full of water and get that cleaned up and out of there too. You know what? I might just slide it, yeah. Just slide it right on out. It's even better. Clean it anyways. And this board here that's soaking wet from where the water was leaking. Okay. I want to say it. Let's take it down but at the same time. Which board? The little one? Yeah, the board running across right here. The little skinny one. Yes. Yeah. That should dry, shouldn't it? It should. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah, let's leave it alone because this is concrete anyway so that's not hurting that. No, no, no. But that piece of wood right there it can dry out. Yeah. Just had some more insulation up top with some dropping that's sitting on top of the panels. So I had to make sure I dropped all the insulation get the panels down and just recleaning it and get everything squared away back to the way it was before the AC people come back all the cleaning and make sure they put the duct back and the clutch back off the right way. Is this a solution right here that you're spraying the paint? Is that shock wave? Yes, sir. Okay, okay. Great. It disinfected. Nice. Anti-microbial spray. Get rid of mold, germs any and everything you needed to do and it's not harmful to any pets, your people none of that good stuff. Take some of that home, man. I don't know if I can. Of course, wonders. Do you have a bottle at home? Of course I do. Really? I need to grab one. Do you have an extra one? No, but I can get you some. All you have to do is dilute it. Yeah, just oh. Because if you use the straight concentrate oh my god. Did it hit? Yeah. You dilute it? Yeah, you're going to. So here we are day four of the Rhoda Infestation Cleanup just got a little bit more cleaning to do a little bit of bits and pieces of what we missed we were managed to get everything out of the attic sucked up all the insulation got up all the dropping spray fog inside the attic which it may seem like it's not much but it really is so now we're just going behind ourselves doing a deep clean inside all the bedrooms, hallways common living spaces in the garage other than that should be good to go. So hopefully on Monday we can get everything finalized and squared away and that's about it. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode. For more information visit any of our locations.