 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. So today we are going to a home. It's a hoard home. They've been essentially keeping all their trash for looks like maybe a year or so. Xavier, what do we got here? Nice telescope. Oh my God. Good morning. Welcome to Nashville. First off, welcome back to Nashville. So today we are going to a home. It's a hoard home. They've been essentially keeping all their trash for looks like maybe a year or so. So it's not like a belongings hoard or anything like that. It's just trash, which are our toughest ones because those bring the bugs and the smells and all the fun stuff that goes along with that. But the situation is family going through some stuff is they're getting a divorce. So they're selling their home, but they obviously can't sell the home in the current condition. So what we do in those situations is instead of them having to pay an astronomical amount like this thing cleaned up and presentable and ready for the market, ready for it to list, we'll come in, purchase the property, clean it out ourselves and fix and flip it. It's a great solution for families when they might not have the money to pay to get it fixed up and cleaned out ready to sell for themselves. So they can come to us, treat us as almost a one stop shop, and we say, hey, you know, with the amount of money we're going to have to put into this, here's our purchase price. And if they like it and it works for them, then that's great. Then we can handle all of the cleaning ourselves, all of the item removal and getting it presentable for the next sell and to make it a home again for the next family to come in. So that's what we're doing today. All right, guys. So welcome to our job site today. As we talked about earlier, this is a pretty typical trash hoarding home. So what you see is probably a couple years of neglect, a couple cats in here, and the homeowners just seem to kind of stop throwing away their trash. So we'll walk through, talk through what our job is today, and hopefully we can finish today as well and get this place cleaned out. So we'll start back here, walk through before the crews get in here. It's important to note right now I'm not wearing any PPE. So no gloves, no mask. We're not disturbing anything right now. I'm not touching anything. Now when we start working, PPE will be worn. So we'll have a mask on at the minimum in 95 and then gloves. And then depending on what people are going through, it suits definitely long pants and shoes. So bathrooms are always a little scary. So not bad. So what you see here is again a lot of trash, just neglect. You know, the house has got really good bones, but everything in here has to go. It's a quick order of this because it's just in a trash bag or a trash can and then out of the dumpster. So continue on into the living room, anything here. You guys can't smell it, but I had some cats. So a lot of this floor is going to have to go. Probably all the baseboards are going to have to go in order to get rid of that ammonia smell and some of the cats smell in here too. So keep walking through again, mainly trash. This is the master. If you want to take a look at that, you can't both fit. So that's going to take a whole dumpster in itself. We're on here, kitchen. So I'm sure we will have to throw away the fridge, molded food. Would you consider this a little five-word? Yes, I would. Not because of the amount, but because of the contents. You know, we've seen much worse hordes, but maybe they kept newspapers for 50 years. That's a lot easier to deal with this type of situation because of what we're going to uncover and have to deal with. That's why the PPE gets important, mask gloves, all that type of stuff. So yeah, this goes into the garage. We won't go in there yet, but you can see this floor. It's going to have to go. It's just got too much moisture and feces damage. Honestly, there's not enough cleaning that we could do to save that. Yeah, and then everything in here wants to get rid of the fridge. All of the coffee makers. It's just everything's too far contaminated to keep. The tough part during the renovation is going to be, you know, we'll have to do some serious cleaning before we do any painting. And that includes the ceiling, all the walls. But I do think it's got good bones that we can save it and make it home again for somebody. All right, so the bonus room area. I don't even see carpet. This has to be gone. Again, urine, feces. Up here we got similar story, trash, old furniture, old desks, and more cat feces. So I mean, it's a sad story. It really is. But you know, that's where we can help. That's the good news is we'll come in here. They don't have to put it on the Marvy. They don't have other people come in and check it out. They call us. We'll come in judgment free, clean it up, and repurpose it for a nice, a really nice home in a nice area with a big yard for a young family to kind of take advantage of. So that's the goal here today. The goal is to get all of this out in one day. Got a crew of about six coming in, and they're going to make quick work of all this. And the question will be, do we have enough room in the dumpsters? Or do we have to get another dumpster? Follow along. Get some good footage, some good before and afters. Like I said, the end of the day is everything out. And then tomorrow we can start having contractors and potential buyers come in to start the process of getting this property back to normal. This is, believe it or not, pretty common. So what happens is when someone starts hoarding their trash, is they know they don't want to keep it in their living space, so they start to throw it out of their living space. What you see is they start to toss them over here, stack them nice and neat, got lazy, started throwing it, throwing it, throwing it. And eventually they just started opening the door from their kitchen to put it out until they ran out of room. That's when you start using your house as a dumpster as well. So it starts in one small spot and then it grows and grows and grows and then it's eventually the whole house until it's overwhelming. And then no one person can fix this, so that's when you have to call somebody. But I do believe, I don't think I've ever seen this many trash bags in one garage. This is a whole dumpster, which is tough on our plans because in order to get this done today we've got to probably turn five or six full dumpsters, 30 yard dumpsters, and it's hard for a dumpster company to keep up with that. But luckily we're here until we get it done and Redbox is going to support us through that. So we'll see how much this does to the dumpster and we'll have some good afters. That's for sure, it'll be nice and open, maybe not clean but open. How many trash bags do you think are here if you had to guess? Oh man, 1,000? At least 1,000. For sure, because that's dense, you know what I'm saying? Those things are packed in there, so maybe more, but no less than 1,000, that's for sure. Oh sweet, this is what you do. There's plenty of stuff right here. Oh, so that was the door that I went in. Yeah. Just full of trash bags, okay, that makes sense. It's funny because I always, in our little work group chat always send a little sloth emoji. Another sloth. Alright, what were we about to do? Open this fridge up that's been sitting here for God knows how long. Look right here. basement, I mean basement. Bottoms we're at too. These were all the meat set. I think this is not off. No, it's on, so it's off. It ain't this bad. Alright, if you had to guess, how many water bottles do we have here? 24. Probably, I would say at least a good at least a few hundred. It looks like an old sewing machine. It's pretty cool. Peter's the total, every single one, totaling apart. My name is Bob Vren. I am the owner and operator of Red Box Plus of North Nashville. One of the unique offerings that we have with our dumpster service. As you can see, we have two porta-potties that are attached to a 30-yard dumpster. So what that allows us is the capability to deliver two services on one truck and with one driver on time. It gives us the flexibility to help speed up the progress with a clean up on the restoration site like this. We love partnering up with Folding Decon because they need time is of the essence. So we offer a unique service that delivers not only on-time service, but quick service and quick responses. Time to get it organized as we clean. So tell us a little about where we are now. We're underneath the house in the crawl space and somehow a good amount of trash back here in the back of a crawl space. Crazy party is on the other side of the door. It's also filled up with a bunch of trash. What do you think happened in there? It's a science experiment. Was it all maggots? I don't know. Dead maggots? And some not dead ones? Johnson, Nate is hands down can move any piece of furniture no matter how big by himself with a dolly. He doesn't need anybody to move anything. He's a magician with the dolly. I have to bat away the moving company to try to steal them. Get out of here. Nate works here. Xavier, what do we got here? A nice telescope. Oh my God. Christmas came early, Xavier. Yeah, this ain't no cheap Barbie. Let's have a look. I didn't see no Barbies like this growing those. Yeah, that's something different. Collector. You want to walk around? Yeah. So big cats, all the living room stuff's gone. Of course, pretty gross still. Pretty slippery. But yeah, dishwasher. I mean, wash machine dryer. Living room stuff. Kitchen's cleared off. I think they could save some of these because these are good. These are good. We just had to re-sand it and, you know, re-sand and cleaned up and all that. But this still works. Both appliances still work. Obviously they'll put it on the floor. And then, yeah, so tomorrow we've got this beast. So this was the master and if I were to guess, this is where they started hoarding after garage. Outside and then we'll go upstairs. So we've done a little bit up here and moved some big furniture. This will take an hour tomorrow. The hardest part is going to be getting these couches out. We might just bring some tools, saw them up, chop them up in here. Didn't quite get to where we wanted to get to. There's a lot more of what we kind of expected. Good day. All in all, good day. Good morning, guys. Bright and early. Almost 6 a.m. Getting an early start today at the hoard because we didn't get quite as much done, meaning we didn't finish yesterday. So we've got to get out there a little early. Finish up. We've got the master bedroom and the bonus room left. Other than that, we're all good. So we'll have three empty dumpsters ready to be filled today and then we should be complete with that. Join us as we finish up in the next couple hours and get this thing done. We'll do a quick walk-through before we get started. Crews are showing up right now. We've got three empty dumpsters. Yeah, so let's come check it out. Lots of junk left. That's fresh. This is probably the old dumpster in itself. So the last piece in here, a couple of big pieces of furniture. Those would be a little difficult to get down, but Nate will knock it out. If we have time, we'll pull carpet in here as well. But obviously, priority is getting all the stuff out. It's getting to work. I'll pull it back up. Maybe it'll break or be a little bit loud. What we should have done is had this dumpster placed very conveniently directly underneath this window. So we could have just tossed it all out. Because we didn't think and plan, we'd now have to toss it out, pick it up, toss it in. But we still think that's the quicker way than load them up, bring them all the way down and deal with some heavy bag or dumpster. So now we've just got to toss them all out and then pick them up, doubling our work. But lesson learned. Here's your treat! Oh! I don't know what happened. I've been at some houses to where you can see an inch to two, and you can turn on the TV between the couch and the entertainment stand. Can you tell me a little bit about what we're doing and why at this moment? Pulling the carpet because there's really no saving it, honestly. There's no decontamination of it because there's been so much sitting on it for so long. Unless you want to drop them in a bag. I mean, we can just take it one side and one side and just walk it down. That one might have to carry it. Yeah, that's pretty big. If you look at the subfloor you can see where some of the urine had sewed through to the subfloor. The good news is now that it's rotted I think if you do some cleaning and seal this subfloor people won't have to replace it anymore. Because it's still structurally sound as long as you remove the carpet and seal the subfloor it's affected. Then I don't think the new homeowner will have any issues with the smell. You're going to obviously want to remove all the baseboards because you can see some of these baseboards where the cats decided to use the bathroom the most are really affected. And once they're that affected that saturated you can't clean them. So the only option is just to but overall exposing the subfloor is a good idea because it looks good and that's going to make whoever is going to flip this house their job a whole lot easier and cheaper because they don't have to worry about subfloor. Just kind of cosmetic stuff at this point. Believe it or not new baseboards, new paint, new flooring is going to make this place back to the homeowner. Yeah, overall good sign for the new owners. Did you call yourself? First thing in odor control is you got to remove the source and that is the source of our odor as well as this floor. But we're not going to remove it for we're just going to remove the carpet and pad and that'll help with the odor a little bit. So just anything to make it a little bit more presentable. A couple of scented candles Exactly, yeah. Some Yankee candles Maybe some of those Christmas tree things you're hanging around for. Well we're going to check out the crawl space Usually I wouldn't be as concerned with the crawl space but because we've found trash in the attic in every closet I'm thinking that the crawl space is going to bring us some gifts and if you look back there you can see 30-40 trash bags I guess that's where they started and then I assume it's too hard and that's why I started throwing it in here So oh no not too bad, pleasantly surprised actually at the state of the crawl space the duct work looks really good which is really surprising foundation looks good there's not standing water and moisture levels look okay I'm not going to tell you the readings but yeah we'll just clean it out get all the trash out just like the rest of the house so we are wrapped on the hoard job for the week got everything we needed to I think we pulled out 8 dumpsters 8 30 yard dumpsters of stuff 5,000 pounds of trash in each so a complete guesstimate is around 40,000 pounds worth of trash we pulled out basically a day and a half figuring out what's next with the property it's either selling to an investor or fixing it and flipping it ourselves so now the fun part begins and we can start to make the transition into a normal home again and have you on for some new family so last thing guys you know if you live in the middle Tennessee area and have any water restoration mold remediation hoarding needs also we are expanding into Memphis this year so we should be opening up in Memphis middle of June early July so as we open up there we're going to be doing the exact same type of work in Memphis so if you are in need or know of somebody in need of those two cities please give us a call or find us on the internet and we'll be happy to help so thanks guys thanks for joining us and I'm sure you guys will be back in Nashville for the next one 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