 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. Probably a four to five-day hoard this week. Alright, come on in. Hopefully we still decipher what she really wants to keep because there's a lot of stuff to go through. Alright guys, so we're on the highway heading to the hoard. Do you know anything about it, any details? Yeah, so we've got a... probably a four to five-day hoard this week. An individual, let's by herself, has her for some time now. She's gonna, she's moving. I think in the spring of next year. So four or five months, she's gonna be moving out of state. So now she's gotta figure out, okay, I gotta clean up before she can get movers in. So our job this week is to... we're gonna systematically kind of go through each room with her, each one of her items, and then she's gonna have to choose what she wants and what she doesn't want, and that's gonna make her move a lot more manageable. There is quite a bit of trash and stuff like that. We're gonna go through and get all that stuff out ourselves. You know, the noticeable trash, carbon boxes, trash bags, stuff like that. And then yeah, it's gonna be kind of meticulous. It's gonna take a lot of time. It's a big house, probably five or six rooms in there with two car garages. So a lot of stuff, but we do have all week to do it. So that's the good thing. All right, come on in. So this is our customer's home. Like I said earlier, she's moving. So she's clearly got downsized before she moves. So yeah, we'll walk around. This is the living room. You'll see the path that she's kind of created. I don't think this room is really used for anything else anymore other than collecting stuff. Looks like a lot of cardboard boxes. Anything that gets mailed here is probably opened and then thrown on the pile. But a nice home, really nice floors. We just gotta clean it up and get it back to kind of livable. Yeah, she's gonna have to make some decisions. That's what she's thinking she wants to keep. That's happening too fast. So I'm gonna have to slow down with her. Once I get cleaned out, really be methodical about what's being taken in and taken out because she can't keep all this. All right, so upstairs is two rooms up here. So this is the bedroom where she's been sleeping. So this isn't that bad. There's some trash in here that we can take care of. The bathroom's not horrible. I guess this would be like an office. Oh my, that's another room. I thought that was a mirror at first. The layout is humongous. It's a monstrous house. It doesn't look that big from the outside. This is gonna be the top of the room that we're gonna have to deal with. I don't think she's gonna have a lot of personal attachment to all this stuff. When I did the estimate, I asked, what percentage of this stuff can we throw away? I said, what percentage of this stuff can we keep? Do you want to keep? She says, 100% of it. Then I said, what do you want us to do here if we're keeping 100% of this? She might have even done that. That's what I'm saying. This almost looks as if she had some kind of a business. Yeah. Because this looks, if it wasn't everywhere on the ground, this looks like you'd walk into a fabric store. Right, especially like, I mean, there's hundreds and hundreds of different kinds of colors and it's coordinated in colors, patterns. This is pretty amazing. Okay. Close. Hopefully we can donate a lot of those clothes. Yeah, go get a lot of our thing, the goodwill. Yeah, I think what we'll do, one of these, probably starting tomorrow when we move into the house, is we should get the bins out here, shoes, go in the bins, and then she can go through those. Yeah. Because I'm looking at- Well, a lot of this stuff is not even probably the right size. It's how many years old it could be just donated, brought over to Goodwill. Right. And if she sees them all in one spot, in a box. She'll be able to go through stuff. Yeah. And then this is the master. Lots of clothes. I'm hoping that we can donate some of this stuff. Yeah, more clothes. And what she wants to do with this is get it stuff out she doesn't want organized. So that way we can pull stuff from in the house and use this as strictly storage. So when she does move, moving truck can just back in here and load it up. So I'm expecting this to still be full when we're done. But hopefully that means that everywhere else is livable and clean. So yeah, that wraps it up as far as like the initial kind of walkthrough of everything, seeing everything. There's that other garage out there, but they've already kind of started with that. Again, the goal is to get as much of this stuff out, let her see as much of her stuff that she wants to see and then if she doesn't want it, it gets thrown out. If she does want it, then hopefully we have enough room to organize it and store it for. We'll be here for five days, probably four or five days. And yeah, knock it out. Right on. Right now we're just getting everything organized so that she could go through and just cycle what she wants to keep. Anything that's really trash, we're just going to throw it into the dumpster and go about the day. Hopefully she'll cycle what she really wants to keep because there's a lot of stuff to go through. We're going to have to work consistently with her and try to open things up, give stuff away to the Veterans Association or the trash. So what we'll do since we've got to wait for things to go in, we'll keep two guys out here. So as she says, this is a keep. Just bring it in there and organize it. Two guys will go inside with trash bags and just remove trash from the house. Obvious trash. No personal items coming out, no anything unless it's cardboard box or garbage. Empty containers. I did a walk-through with her so I got a good idea of what's going on with Stan but I'll just do the trash first and then when she gets back in I'll just kind of... Can you take one person with you or the other guy? Okay. I saw you like putting blue tape like on certain items. Yeah. What was the specific reason for that? So she kind of had a good idea which is we're going to start a pile for a yard sale. So we're really struggling with room in here and an attempt to free up some room. We're going to put blue tape on every piece of item that she wants to sell at a yard sale. Once all that's done for that garage we're going to pull it all out and stage it for our yard sale and she's basically just having a continuing yard sale throughout the week. She's going to put it on Facebook. People can come by and purchase the items from her. It's two-fold. She gets some money. We can clear up some room so we can better do our job and it kind of keeps... It's a little bit easier to say hey can I sell this instead of just throw it away. So yeah, that's the plan. So right now you guys are just picking up obvious trash? Yep, we're going to pick up obvious trash that's just from food or whatever, etc. and then we're going to wait for her to come back in and kind of delegate what she wants to keep and what she wants to go and we'll just kind of keep continuing to make our way to the house and set aside stuff that she wants and doesn't want. Any treasure so far or has there just been like little... What'd you say? Any treasure so far? Maybe this candle. I don't know man. I can't tell you. So how many bags have you guys filled up so far? Man, how many? I don't know. I couldn't tell you. At least 13. 13? Yeah. It seems like everything is trash. Yeah, it looks like she kind of just is collecting the trash right here. I don't see any trash cans in here so it looks like she's kind of just designating this as her kind of trash zone. So, we'll get this area cleared out and we'll continue to go down and around. So have you just kind of just made a path here? Like right here? Yeah, we're just trying to clear a path so it's comfortable for her to walk through and kind of help us navigate what she wants to keep and what she wants to throw away. But yeah, again, we're just throwing away strictly just trash that is obvious trash and like paper, like newspapers that are torn and tattered and same thing with magazines. They've been sitting on the bottom and they're ripped. They're trash. Yeah. We'll try salvaging anything that's, any magazines and newspapers that look like they're salvageable. But majority of this stuff looks like it's kind of covered in some type of feces and urine or food debris. So, majority of this stuff is going. How many bags have you filled up and so far? I've probably done good 15 plus bags. It's going to continue. Keep going. So what's the goal right now of laying all this stuff up? Lining these boxes up so that she can walk through and go through them kind of at a better pace. Pace herself as she goes through them and everything. So she gets an idea of what's getting thrown away and what's getting keeping. Instead of them being piled up. Yeah. It's not going to send her down. Some progress made, some progress not. Yeah. Making inches in each direction at this point. So... Is the primary focus still this area or are you going to... Well, probably if we're just trying to clear pathways so that we can actually go through all of here. We're trying to get to the garage so that we can start clearing that out. The second first garage will be used to store the stuff that she wants to keep out of the house. But we've got to be able to get to that point where we can walk things out. And we're slowly but surely making it to where we actually have walkways. So that's going to help. It's going to be fun as like making a path like to there. Because right now there's no way to get over there right now. Right. Looks like she's got like a little space over there kind of cleared out and educated her garden stuff. But why don't you get a path from here and it'll be smooth sound for the most part. Because it got that entire wall just like... Right. ...random stuff. But thankfully most of this stuff is just empty boxes and just empty like containers for the most part. So it's not heavy stuff and should be pretty quick. I can get through most of this without her her approval and a lot of things because this is all good to get to it. Looks like I'm not even making a dent. Little by little. Yep. Making a lot of headway so far, James. What's that? Making a lot of headway so far. We're trying to move a little bit. Yeah, some of the stuff that's ended up being soiled or soaked and, you know, it's not really salvageable. It could be after a while and it'll start to decay and clothes will get some moisture on them and it costs more than it would be to replenish it. Put this someplace. I think it's not towards here. We're finalizing on day one. Day one we accomplished to clean out the garage being able to go through her area where she has all of her fabrics and everything like that. We've also cleared out one of the two garages so that we can start putting her furniture and putting the rest of her major items that she wants to keep in her garage sale into the one of two garages. We're going to use the first garage that's detached for all furniture and any boxes. We're going to use the second garage that's attached that'll be with all of her personal items, fabric and stuff of that nature. So tomorrow we'll get back into that. That sounds good. For day two day two we're going to focus on going through more of the clothes as well as the personal items that she has that we were able to clean out most of the first and second garage so we can use them as storage places. So we're going to be systematically moving out things that she's going to keep into those two spaces right now that they've been cleaned out. Our crew will be going through here taking stuff out of the home that will be either thrown away or used for giving to we've got the veterans affairs that she's away to and we also have a small yard sale that she wants to be able to see if you can accomplish getting some sold as well. So what are you guys getting at right now? I guess everything besides cloth and magazines as far as I can tell I'm just going to try to pull this table against the wall and see what I can collect on the table for to go through or whatever. It's a good little process going on. You can sit down right here and show up and I'll get it out. There's a lot more easier to manage now, huh? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Just scoop it out. So what are you doing in this room exactly? We're just going through some things that we're keeping and donating and yard sale stuff stuff that she might want to take with her on the move. Okay. I'm just seeing what we got in here and sorting and separating that kind of thing. Is it predominantly just clothes in here? Clothes, what's the clothes? Yeah. Are these donated? Yes. We're for sure donating this, right? We're selling. Selling, donating, selling, donating and keeping. That's what we're doing. Should I be getting some more trunks? I thought it was a clothing store. Yeah. Garbage. And watching us on the Pelicans. Yeah. That's what we're doing. Yeah. Yeah. And here? Just like in this living room area. Uh, well, we need to take the stuff that she's keeping and stage it in the garage with this other stuff that she's going to be keeping and move the furniture that she's selling out in the yard and move the furniture that she's keeping also in the garage and then we'll come back through and just kind of do a last like sweep through, get all this last little bit of trash out and then we'll move like all the stuff on the walls. We've got a pile of clothes right here for her. We've got a bunch of books and magazines on the white table. We've got a lot of cloth over there that she still wants and that's about it. And we'll get down to like the small stuff on the ground. All right. I'll let you too. Thank you. They can get expensive. Got it? Yeah. I'm going to set this in the garage. So how's it going so far, Liz? We're making some and we're going to have to kick into high gear in just a minute. We've got a lot of stuff for her so that's a good thing. Oh wow. I thought it was empty, my boy. Yeah, we're open. We've got this because the end of the open is going to have to come in handy. Okay. So no cards? Yes. Okay. Thank you. This is nice. That's what we're looking for. Living room? No. All of this right here. Trash, Dennis? Yeah. This is all the trash I've gotten from the living room. I'm sure there's a lot more to come out but this is what we've got so far. Trying to get it to all thrown out before I head to lunch and it doesn't continue to pile up on me. Does she have these boxes running around or did you guys Yeah. She actually has these boxes outside. Kind of assuming that the you know, using the boxes is going to be okay because at this point she's she's wanting to keep so much stuff that she'll need to use something to transport these regardless when and where that'll be because there's a lot. We have boxes in almost every room. Books, sorry. We have books in almost every room. So we give ourselves a chance of getting ahead. Basically figured out like those two containers hold way more trash than normal trash bags? Yeah. I mean This is normally my go-to game plan because this is like five trash bags right here. It's easier to roll around and for sure. You literally don't you physically don't have to carry it. You can just roll that bad boy to the dumpster. Work smarter not harder. That was really about to say that. Yeah. It looked like a bag. Trash on over here. What is it? Trash on over here. Yep. So I'm moving out of the living room where I am at least and now I'm going to start trying to tackle the dining area and the kitchen. I'm trying to make my way to that dining table and try to get that out in the yard sale and move over here Trash can at the bottom of the stairs like directly at the bottom? No. To the right kind of you could probably it's empty. You could probably kick it out the way. That's my fault. Yeah. I was just trying to separate the change from the bacon soda. Okay. Day two we're wrapping up and we have accomplished clearing out much of the dining room area. We're going to continue to clean out the kitchen area tomorrow morning. We have stacked up the items that she was wanting inside of her living room and started moving stuff out into the the garage area again where we had kept up and cleaned for her. She's going to spend most of the night trying to go through some clothes so that tomorrow we can actually start sifting through with what she does or doesn't want and then give to the veterans as far as donations. So see us again tomorrow and we're going to wrap up the rest of the day. Yeah. One more thing. Yeah. I saw that the yard sale was doing a little well. How did that go? Actually we did do pretty well with the yard sale. I think we did like a hundred or so dollars today. I'm not quite sure. I didn't really count but we did quite a bit. We've gotten rid of quite a bit of a pieces for her. So you know she's at least accomplishing recouping some cash for some of the stuff she can get rid of too. 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. That's it guys. On to the next.