 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 guys we're in Venice, Florida on a unfortunate decomposition. The resident here lived alone and was awaiting some type of organ trance plant and it didn't happen. What's up Eric? Hey Evan. Is this going to be your first decomp? Uh third. Third? Third. Wow a seasoned veteran. Right already. They wasted time down here in Tampa. I'm Ebony Gray and this is Stephanie Sanders of Spalding Decon, Ben Salem, and this is going to be our first Decon. We're here going very chisely training so we are lucky to get some real life experience today. Hi my name is Jared Jones. I'm from Spalding Decon up there located in California and we are here to clean up a biohazard with some decomposition involved. Hey guys we're in Venice, Florida on a unfortunate decomposition. The resident here lived alone and was awaiting some type of organ trance plant and it didn't happen. So the person passed away in the area between the kitchen and the dining room. So it's part carpet and part ceramic tile. So we're dealing with kind of two different surfaces and two different tool sets that we have to do and we've got franchisees here from Ben Salem, Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania and Fairfield, California. So we've been having a lot of fun in the last week and a half or so and this is their first decomp that they're working on. Alright who's your gopher? I would start with somebody and then we'll switch. So Eric what's this process going to look like? So essentially what we're going to do is we're going to start peeling back at the labels. The layers of the carpet obviously from the initial look here looks like it's just a pretty small area but once we start peeling back the layers we'll see how far that the decomp has traveled. Now historically when you look here that's only you know few six few eight nine ten inches but when you start peeling a back it could actually travel 24 36 inches. So we'll start tearing it up see how far back it traveled and see all what we need to remove. It's only about you know six to eight inch square on the top level level. As we start to peel it back you can see it's saturated to almost double that size already and that's already the first level. So as we continue cutting we'll see how much farther it's traveled outside of that and then what we'll do we'll take them there to the corner after that. There you go. Concrete underneath so we have a lot of room for air. Let's comment up north. It is not actually just about all your homes up north will have basements in them so you're just dealing with subfloor. It's your particle board. If it's an older home you're going to have the actual true hardware that you don't want to damage. Down here it's definitely a lot nicer in that regards. Wow you can see what actually traveled even farther on the concrete. Six to eight inch areas turned into almost 18 inches square. Do we have something like a door scraper or something like that? Yeah we got the fresh one. We also got the flat bar that we can use as well. What's that? I mean you can try to see if it indicates but I doubt it will. We need to cut a little bit more. We need to move closer to this door I believe with carpet removal. Can we keep going then? Yeah and then go for we'll go get part A. Let's take the rest of that strip all the way to the sliding door and just dispose of the old red bag. Now the padding that's stuck to the concrete pull that up. Keep going towards you there by your left in front of your left knee. There you go. Now you know what to focus on. Okay so it's basically that center area there. Two dinner plates size. So I think it's really more of this. Staying the truck is completely void of it. How do we improvise? I will use the um. Preparer? Yes exactly. So take a paper towel and see if you can rub it now. Nope it's not coming. It's still a good amount. All right let her see if we can find that. That's a little better. Okay so after it's wiped dry what's the next step? Shockwave. Yeah. Very good. Tell them that's it. 10 minutes. Yep. And then while that's sitting where do we do next? Keep going. Okay that's good. So we'll get your area kind of free of debris. So this is hard. Yeah. So I would take that brush behind you and just start getting it up. Okay so I would go ahead and pick up those mats. They got to go. Oops we're pulling up top. So we don't have the bit for the paddle chipper? Correct. So knowing by hand. I don't know if he's a salesperson. One towel at a time. I'm gonna have those 90 degrees. Got a broom real quick or a brush. I can get some of the debris up. It's gonna work for me. I don't care. Ingress man in the world. Falling gold star. It's what we call redemption. All right. Eco-friendly. This is the eco-friendly way. Is that for fashion or safety? Safety it's really dusty in here. That's why my eyes were burning before. That in the sweat. But also fashion right. But also always fashion. So we just thought we're about to sweeping up. Should we have a van first? I would take up that piece of loose linoleum. Do you think loose? Yeah anything loose like that. Typically what I do is I'll use a pole scraper or something like that. I'll just give it. Now let's sweep up and then try not to mix dry with wet and the same hepa. Just makes it hard to clean. Yeah. It's so satisfying you are. Yeah I wish you get some out whole. This method would work too thank you. Sure. I even came prepared. This is cleaner. Because when this lights up the northern star is even dim. Okay. That's one pass. I wanted them to get the full effect of you know a trip without tools that way they know ahead of time. This is a learning experience. So you planned this. I planned this. I actually think I need to take that towel. I hate it. Thank you. First time. Yes you did. And the light lit up. You have to go side to side to get it to set. I love it. Never experience that. Side to side just to get it to set. If you take it to side. Okay. I can't see that. Besides me probably. All right. I got this set. I just hard to figure out man. I want to go to the phone. It's in. Oh my god it's in. Make 11. Thank you. No problem. Now full split. Rip my brand new pants. How was your first decomp? Was it easier than expected? Harder than you expected? What'd you learn? At least three or four times harder than expected. It was pulled dried blood via foot or foot and a half in diameter. So the carpet came up. It spread out in the pad which was a pad I'm not used to pulling out a little while longer and even more on the concrete beneath. And then the grout lines indicated so we ended pulling up 18-20 tiles and it just kept spreading on us. So we ended up pulling about 30 tiles. Pulling a fridge out going behind it. Pulling a stove out. Cleaning behind that. So it's much much more than it appeared to be up front. First decomp is down. How was it? I think it was easier than I expected. I wasn't grossed out which is always a good thing. The things that I've learned make sure you bring the right tools and maybe a couple of extra people just so that the job goes a little bit faster and a little bit more smooth. Definitely better to be over prepared to have something and not need it than not having to need it. It would have made our day go a little easier but we did learn a lot today by working manually versus working with power tools. 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