 Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the clean up after the police are gone. Spalling Decon is one of the nation's largest clean up companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding and much more. These are our stories. So we're on our way to a mold and rodent dropping job. So that's rat feces? Hey guys, so we're on our way to a mold and rodent dropping job. Woman's house kind of flooded, got affected two bathrooms and the ceiling of a utility room. Well, there's also rodent droppings in the walls too, so we're doing both, but... So today you get to be in there for a full demo of two bathrooms and a ceiling of utility rooms. So we're tearing it all out so it should be a lot of action shots, a lot of good stuff. Stay tuned. Steve, can you tell us a little bit about what we're doing and why? Yeah, so right now we're putting up a containment wall because we're going to be working on mold remediation inside this bathroom, okay? So as we're doing our work, we're going to be agitating the mold spores and as we agitate the mold spores, we don't want them to get out into the rest of the house. So you put up a containment wall, work inside the containment. As you come out of the containment, you will don and dock your PPE to make sure that you're not spreading mold spores throughout the house. Okay, so what I'm doing right now is I'm doing this half because we have a little bit of excess because we always try to make sure that we go a little bit wider on both sides because you can always cut less. It's hard to add more, so. The hardest parts for every technician, including myself, I actually got my butt kicked on doing my own containment over there in the week, is putting up these contaminants. Because depending on the door jam and the height of it, if you're trying to do it by yourself, really as you see, there's not a lot of space for both of us to work in here. So if this is really a one man job. So what you want to do is you want to start from the top, hang your sheet. Make sure it's nice and straight on the top as you're hanging your sheet and then make your cut so that it fits the door as best as possible so that you have a nice tight containment. You do not want a loose containment because if the air is on or a fan is blowing like our dehumidifier is in there and it has an exhaust fan and stuff like that, that puts a lot of play in that containment area. And we'll eventually pull that tape off the wall if not taped properly or there's too much slack in the containment wall. Let's see how this looks after he's done. Containment is here, nice and secure. Checking my tape every once in a while. You will see that as people come in and out sometimes that this loosens up and I always check to make sure we're nice and tight on the side. Now we've got to check the zipper. Okay, see here, see where my zipper goes down here in the gap because I want to be able to close it beyond where that gap is to actually provide containment. Zip up. You'll see I did the same thing up here. The plastic is up here. I can go a little bit higher and then I have access into my containment area. Basically, we're in one of three access points to the attic and we're removing the insulation. So the original insulation was a layer of batting. So it had like paper on one side. When we started pulling it, I noticed a lot of tunnels. So there is, you know, some rodent damage that's been up here. So there's tons of tunnels that we saw. They actually communicate through tunnels, lots of feces. So far we've have one fatality on record. Definitely had a skeleton that was plastered to that drywall, which we sucked right up. We almost had a second fatality. Our hose literally almost sucked me aside. So, you know, when you do a job like this, your equipment is like super important. So we have fortunately a machine that allows us to suck the bats with the rest of the stuff up at the same time. So challenges we're facing, as you can see, there's lots of lines running all over. So, you know, we've got to be very careful. Obviously the pitch in this area is also not forgiving. But we're getting it done. I'm excited for the homeowner because like once the insulation's out, when you have rodent infestations, you notice an immediate improvement of like the indoor air quality. And so she's going to, the house is going to feel a lot fresher. All right. How are you holding up, Isaiah? Are you doing all right? Pretty good. I mean, let's go baby. That's all we got for you right now. We got to get down into that first. So get the tile out, clear your working space, and then start working down as we go. Okay? Problem is once we, there's a small bathroom, so we're also going to have to do our vacuuming and stuff in here. Okay? Steve, so as you're tearing up the wall, what are you seeing? So I'm seeing where the rest of the mold is. So we already did a mold assessment here. It came back positive at Culver remediation. We see here as I expose more of the wall discoloration on some of these beams here. Some major discoloration in here. But down here, this is bloated dry wood from where it's been away. As you see, I can visibly, I can break it apart with my hand because it's very weak at this point. Okay? So what we're going to do is get an access point so that I can start getting all of this bloated and nasty wood out of here and then treat the support beams and then seal them so that they are no longer a risk to create more mold within the house. Okay Steve, can you tell us why we need to remove the toilet? The leak happened on this wet wall that is the shower right here. But when I did my moisture readings, the moisture showed that this wall was wet behind this toilet. So this dry wall needs to come. I'm going to have to pop the baseboards, cut this, but I can't do that if the toilet's in the way so I got to remove it. This wall was wet so we got to pull that dry wall because that dry wall acts as a sponge and soaks up that moisture. We already know that there's mold. The mold will be growing inside of that dry wall as well. Mediation protocol shows that if we find more visible mold as we're doing this, we've got to keep on going on our two feet and treat. You can see all of this right here as we take care of. Here all these have been treated. Right here is different than what we see here. This is for a tile to be sat there. It's built to be water resistant because it is for the shower. This is decorative for the dry wall and stuff and it's a little less water resistant than this is. Once we get the HEPAVAC in here and we get to see this, we'll know more. What are you going to do now? So now all of our mold spores and dry wall dust and just general stuff that came out of the wall and debris. We're going to suck up a HEPAVAC which has a HEPA filter which is a self-sustaining vacuum. So it just keeps everything inside where it's like your normal shop vac. It just blows kind of all those particles and stuff out the back. So it's self-sealing and closed. So we're going to use that to suck everything up to make it better. This is where the roof started sagging and actually caved in. If you look right here, this frowning on the ceiling right here. This was the indication signs for them that it was leaking water first. And then come over here and look at this support beam. This support beam right here has visible blue. When it's black it's bad, when it's black it's white, plus it's evil worse. But our rule is two foot. So now we're going to go two foot beyond that. So I'm going to go at least right here. So let me make my marks. That's two of three. And we did half of it so far. Immediately when I went in it was just like the temperature was way off. And a lot of times you have heat build up. There's not a lot of exhaust initially. So that can also contribute to mold. I know you guys with Spalding Decon are working on that. But as I was removing the insulation, the other thing that I noticed is that when they did the construction of the home, they actually, there's a couple kinds of insulation. So here we have blown fiberglass but underneath it is rolled bats that's faced. So it's got a paper. So when they installed the bats they actually covered the soffits. So the bats were basically covering that. So the fresh air goes in from the outside. But unfortunately it wasn't allowing the fresh cool air to go in. And that's another reason why the heat was building up. So we pulled that out. Immediately we started noticing a difference. We got the hottest side of the house done. We typically try to work on the south-southwest exposure because that's the hottest part. So basically we've got the hottest part of the second story attic done. So I'm sure we'll find more things so far. There's no dead bodies in that spot. But we'll keep looking baby. That's it for now. So the next thing I'm going to do, take all these. Interesting enough, there's screw. There's nail. There's nail, there's screw. Sometimes these laborers, they'll just use whatever they have available. All right, so this piece looks pretty gnarly on the backside. Look, you got it. And I got to go this way. But I'm also seeing that this is a live electrical wire. So I got to pull this down, tuck it away. Let's tuck it back this way. It's going to be pretty interesting. We're going to go, go, go. So that's rat feces. As you know, Jessica's here doing the insulation. See, we are driving back to the office in the day one today. Very exciting day. We started the demo in the master bathroom. We found that there was more molds. We had to go an additional two feet. We are going to have to pull up the hardwood flooring tomorrow. So that's going to be an interesting task. We also pulled the majority of the roof that needs to be pulled from the utility room. We treated all the, all the support beams. We still have a little bit more to do to pull. But because we were wrapping up, we treated those. It's going to be a multiple step process to treat that. So that we make sure that the mold is completely killed within the side, that area that is between the first floor and the second floor. That where the leak happened and created molds. Very interesting day. Made for a little change on our pace and our direction. But we are going to get a good portion of it done today. 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.