 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. I'm here today in Tampa area on an unattended death, excuse me myself, and show me's in the back there. This individual unfortunately passed away from unknown causes and was not found for approximately six to eight weeks. And then it's been an additional three to four weeks since we were able to kind of get in here. It's pretty intense in there. And you can actually see that it's continued to grow as it was unintended. So it looks like we're definitely taking the entire flooring for the bathroom and we believe that it is soaked into the walls. We're going to have to go into the walls as well. Yeah, it looks like it's just been traveling through the ground lines. So honestly, at the end of the day, I think this bathroom will be completely gutted. Yeah, it's going to happen. It's intense. Everything. There are flies everywhere, not only in there, but in all parts of the home. So one of the other things on all the walls, they're leaving in from the bathroom out. There's also larvae on the wall. So they're nesting. They've made this their home. So as she said, you can see these in opposite side of the house. You can see the flies and the larvae as well. Yeah, it's a pretty intense situation. We'll probably be here a couple of days getting this rectified and getting the odor situation under control. But this is a big one. Absolutely. Then we're going to have to go in there, pick up all the towels and the stools and stuff. We're taking out a big bio-maggot. And then our job is to smash and break all the tile so we can pull it up. Every piece where you see it hits the wall, just like water, it's going to be soaked up into the wall. So we're also going to have to take the wall, the cabinet stuff. We're going to have to check to see if it's in there. We actually have a chemical called indicator. When we spray it, it thumbs up and tells us where there's bio waste. So anything that we indicate that we can't clean it after three attempts, it's gone. Stuff like this that has a veneer surface on it, typically we can clean it. But these grout lines like this is very porous and it goes into it. And then once it gets underneath this, it just runs like crazy. Yeah, this is a hot mess. Yeah. Yeah, I mean definitely the walls in the closet are going to go. These walls here, the bifold door, I would just honestly take the tile up at the threshold and keep going all the way in. Because it's just been sitting so long it went through the grout line and yeah, it's a mess, mess, mess. When we walked in here, we knew that the main spot where the unattended body was found was in the master bathroom. But our concern was as the first responders come and find the body, they track blood and other bio throughout the house. So what we have to do is indicate outside the main area to make sure that we are cleaning and decontaminating those areas as well. And so what we do is this doorway here is the main entrance that we're using in and out of the house. So we're using that to make sure that from this point on that we're not continuously cross-contaminating the rest of the house. So we claim to our master bathroom. Then once we get into our master bathroom, we indicate outside the realm of noticeable bio matter and blood. And then what we're going to do is as we're treating it with our chemical, what we call Part A, and what that is going to do is rehydrate the bio matter. And once it rehydrates the bio matter, we start to wipe and clean it up because we know we're going to have to pull up the tile. But we don't want to be slinging that bio matter around as we're pulling up that tile. So we have to do a surface clean first before we go and start looking at the subfloor and removing the tile and then getting into the walls as well. So with a HEPA back and a SHOP back, they have similar functionality, but a HEPA back is self-contained where a SHOP back, you've ever used it before and it has an exhaust port so that it can keep that suction power and everything. When you're using a HEPA back, the HEPA filter, it takes in the particulates and all the bio matter and it keeps it all within the vacuum so that nothing gets back out into the air. When you try to use a SHOP back to do the exact same thing, it will push that particulate air back into your surrounding area. AC's on. I crank it down real low for suitable working conditions. As you see, we're in full Tyvek suits. We're in a respirator, but even with the AC currently set at 70, it is still hot. When you're working in there and just trying to scrub the floors, get everything up, use the HEPA vacuum. As you see, we also have the air scrubbers here. This is just to help pull all the particulate out of the air and try to reduce some of the smell. Hopefully, after we do the majority of it today, with the air scrubbers running, it will help reduce the smell a lot so that we can go to a N95 mask tomorrow, which is a lot less bearing on our face and our breathing capabilities. Until we get all the bio removed, we're not switching to the N95. Once we get all that removed, what we want to do is we want to place an ozone machine. That's one of the last steps, but what it does is it completely eliminates the entire odor and smell inside the house. Then we use odor blocks, which is like a car pine tree on steroids. What it does is it gives you whatever the scent is, ours are tropical. It gives you this tropical smell that will circulate through the house, keep the AC circulating and try to make sure that the house goes back to a normal smell as quick as possible. This has been here. We started to cut into the soil. The bio-matter started to seep up the wall. We're also seeing that because it was an unattended death and it sat here even after the body was discovered, so it went unattended for about two and a half weeks, actually three and a half weeks I think. Then it sat here for an additional six to eight weeks before the family decided how they could move forward. The walls were sucked up all the bio-matter, kind of like a sponge. Cleaning all that stuff up right now, what we have to look at next is into the wash basin here or the sinks. We're going to have to cut the kick plate off to see if it went beyond the kick plate at all. We're going to continue to clean the drywall. It looks like we're going to have to go into the drywall that's attached to the closet. Hopefully it didn't go too far into the closet and make us expand the job into the closet any further than it already has. Right now the only thing that we've had to do in the closet was pick up the flies that are nesting. Once we pull the drywall and the baseboard off, we are seeing nets and nets of flies and maggots and their little shell carcasses from where they transform from a maggot to a fly. Still got a whole day ahead of us. We're probably going to have to break into the shower as well, so stay tuned. Welcome back for day two. We want to introduce us to day two. How's day two going? So far it's out there rough start because we can't get the toilet up. Oh really? Yeah, the screws are basically completely rusted. There's nothing to, no grooves on them to get anything to stick. It's spinning if you do turn it. We'll try and get the water shut off already. Once we get that up we'll basically be getting the rest of the tile over here up. Thankfully, thankfully nothing went through the grout line. So there might be like a spot here or two around the edges of the walls and stuff. Other than that, nothing went through which is a miracle because that never happens. And try to get the rest of it done today. This whole thing's going to have to come out. The wall? Or is this the wood? Like everything on this lower half. Because the back part is good but it's going under this board and everything and I'm sure that soaked it up. I mean, this isn't a support area so we should just be able to cut that whole square off on the bottom, right? The wood? The wood, the other side of the drywall? The drywall, yes. The wood, no. You have to scrub it. Yeah. Because I mean if it's going under, that's my concern. Because this one should be okay. I'll just scrub around and get what I can off there. And then if anything, we'll just paint some hills there. No problem. It's just coming out. I can scrub that but it doesn't work. I'm so nervous because I don't want to have to take out a supporting part. Yes ma'am. Break this down into pieces, stick it in the bag, we're good. It did go a little bit past the grout so we're going to take out these front tiles right in here. Just to be safe and then check it again. Hopefully that kind of stopped it. We're going to find out. Underneath here. That's what I was thinking. If it goes up underneath there, then we'll scrub it. That's the case that all of this is going to have to come out as well. Yep, sure does. Too deep but obviously we can't cut this because that is a supporting foundation for the tiles. This is your second bio now? Yeah, give or take. How do you feel? How was this one compared to yours? I mean it's basically the same thing as usual with what comes along with the work. Biohazards is what it is. You've got to have the stomach for blood and all that other good stuff. Other than that, it's just dead office for me. Do you feel like it's something you keep doing? Oh yeah, I enjoy it. I've been doing this stuff, working restoration for about five years now. So bio is just an extra perk. It helps me to learn something new. See you next time Mario. I'm sorry, I can barely hear you. We'll see you next time. Yes, sir. I appreciate y'all. Thank you. Shelby, this is what your fifth, sixth bio? I think like fourth or fifth. How'd it go? Almost like fifth. What's that? I'm going to say it was my fifth one. It wasn't nearly as bad as what I thought it would be. Just from what we were told before we started the job, we thought that we were going to have to take out a lot more. Thankfully we didn't. Although I was a little upset to see that it did kind of get into the wood frame of the shower. That was easy to get out after probably about what, an hour's worth trying to get the tile and wood up. It's all good. We filled up everything. We got to fog the house to help get rid of the rest of the remaining of the snow. And we should be good.