 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. The gentleman was here for two days. He was just in the process of remodeling his house and just put a new roof on. We're in Newport, no, where are we? Port Richey, Florida. Super, super, super minimal job. I think we've been here 20 minutes. Most of that was signing contracts. They only want the tile wiped. We're not allowed to do anything with pulling anything or like destroying anything. So we are sanitizing the walkway. The gentleman was here for two days. He was just in the process of remodeling his house and just put a new roof on. I got the call yesterday while I was in Orlando yesterday and scheduled it for this morning. This job seemed to be a super, super large job. So we had dispatched the full crew, including the camera crew, the filming crew. And we drove the two hours out there. We got maybe 15 minutes of footage on the entire job that took us an hour because the client was heavily monitoring every move we made to make sure that we didn't do any type of demo or destruction. So even during the explanation processes to the client, it was more or less one of those, it's okay, I don't care type of things. That should have been a much, much larger job and jobs like that don't happen very often. Most of the time the client's like, oh my gosh, I need to get this gone. I need to get this taken care of so we don't have an issue. So we got a two to three minute clip out of 15 minutes worth of filming because we were just being so highly watched and highly dictated on what happened to the property. The area that we had done was immediately as you walked in the door. And it couldn't have been more than a five foot by four foot section that needed to come out. And even at that with the terrazzo flooring underneath, the client just didn't want to have to do that. So it was a super small, super small space. So Juan was working on the outside working his way in and I was working from the inside working my way in to where eventually we ended up just meeting in the middle. I don't even feel that we broke a sweat on that job because it was so minimal. The only thing we were allowed to do was wipe clean. At the end of the day for that job, the only thing I think I could take away from that job was the fact that some people just don't care. They try to get off as cheap as possible. They also try to avoid any extra that they have to deal with. So that's something I'm not used to. I guess there are people out there in the world. So we already cleaned all the floor with bar A. But we have a hole right here which is still indicating. To be honest, we should remove the tile. But we can't so I'm going to try to clean again. We are in Clearwater Florida today. We're at a water mitigation job. I called him in about an hour and a half ago. A customer on late Sunday noticed that there's sink which is behind me here. Had sprung a leak down not only below from the water lines but that also was spraying water out the top. Filled with water. See all this water coming out. Just filling up. Hey, this is Ryan with Swally Deacon. We are in Clearwater Florida today. We're at a water mitigation job. I called him in about an hour and a half ago. A customer on late Sunday noticed that there's sink which is behind me here. Had sprung a leak down not only below from the water lines but that also was spraying water out the top. So we got the call from the insurance company. We're taking a look at everything I'm about to kind of investigate the full extent of the water damage itself. The plumbing repair has been fixed so there's no active leak at this point and we're going to check things out. Get started. Damage to the collar top is extremely visible. I'm not allowed to remove that without the insurance company giving me the go-ahead. Plus they're also using the sink as they're only sink in the kitchen here so it's functioning. It's not leaking out because the plumbing repair has been fixed. I'm going to leave it as long as I can. We'll probably be able to touch base with the adjuster sometime later today or tomorrow. I'm sure they're going to go ahead to at least remove the collar top. I'm going to try to save the cabinets. It's a tile floor so there's no work to be done there and it might have a little bit of baseboard to pull out but there's very little demo today that's more of kind of preliminary get my equipment set up to start the drying process. Those should be a quick one. So all of this has been water damaging. It's all dry now. It's completely dry. But it's just... I'll go with you. So when it beeps like this, this is a pin meter. And when it beeps like that, it's 100% saturated. So I take my pin meter and basically these pins read the moisture levels when you stick it into the building material whether it's the baseboard or the drywall or whatever you just stick it into. So what it'll do is it'll tell me the moisture level. So obviously I'm testing areas that we know have been affected but I'm also testing areas that have not been affected to get my baseline. Right now it is extremely hot and humid in the home. It's about 82.5, 83 degrees and very humid because they've had so much water in here the last couple of days. So we're going to get our equipment in here and definitely get the dehumidifier to suck a lot of this moisture out which will help the drying process tremendously. Pretty sure we're going to be able to dry the cabinets out themselves. It's an older style cabinet which is actual real wood. We're going to try to salvage as much as we can here. And the paneling and the hallway behind me has definitely some water absorbed into it but hopefully we can dry it out. It's only in the bottom. It looks like a couple inches at the most. So we'll see what we can do to salvage everything we can. I don't have any pry bars so what I'm going to do is I'll take the utility knife. I'll score the top of the baseboard and then I'll just use a flathead screwdriver to kind of get in there and pry it out just real slowly and then get the hammer in there and I'll just work it just easier with a flathead pry bar because that's what they're designed to do. You kind of tap them in and pop the baseboard on and you're good to go. It's a concrete floor. Obviously there's a little bit of flex in this tile and it's not that one. It's a little bit in this one but it's mainly this one. So we'll be able to dry that out so minimal. It's not like it's super loose. It's just got a tiny bit of flex in it which, you know, tile has a little bit of flex in some cases but hopefully we can dry it out enough so it doesn't have to be removed. It might need to be re-routed. Maybe a couple of tiles popped up and reset. There's a little bit on this spot here on that joint as well but the bulk of it isn't, you know, completely solid and insecure. You can see the grout line's cracked. It's got a crack here and then there's a crack there. Just a little bit of water got in there. The potential there is a couple of these tiles might need to be removed so we'll see if we can kind of suck that moisture out and maybe they can re-rout it. Kind of layered in sheets to make a sheet of plywood and it's got water that's soaked in so it's just kind of peeling off. So I'm going to get as much of it out as I can because it's buckling and it's just peeling off and it smells like that moisture smell. It just smells really kind of that mildewy, you know, just like it's starting to rock kind of smell. Usually underneath cabinets that just the water just kind of drains out. It's just sitting in here. It's amazing, never seen that before. And so my guess is that water is all the way underneath here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my vacuum, suck that out and then hopefully I'll be able to tell once I suck this out, if the water's kind of coming in from the sides, then I got to get this whole thing out of here. It almost seems like there's a little bit of water under each side. So I'm scoring the top where it's cocked and painted in this piece of quarter round into the cabinet. But it's soaking wet. It's grouted in, it's cocked in, it's painted in. It's not old school, so it's built well. Part of the issue I'm having is I can't turn off the sink. There's no shut off valves. So I couldn't rip this out today if I needed to. Without shutting the whole house down, I don't want to do that. It's just when I'm hitting the wood, you can just see the water. See all this water coming out of here? It's just filling up. And then I'm going to put in our drying equipment. Get this thing out. What's this tile right here? We'll see if the insurance does that or not. If it's my house, I'm 100% ripping this floor out. So the last thing I did, I sprayed anti-microbial around all the baseboards throughout the kitchen into that hallway. That floor really needs to be completely removed. We'll make the call there. We'll come and do moisture checks tomorrow. Hopefully we get a hold of the adjuster approval to remove those items I just talked about. That's the case. We'll rip all that out. Get everything cleaned up and just put some drying equipment in for another day or two. At that point, it will dry really fast. Hey, guys. We know that you hated, absolutely hated the hiatus we took for, I don't know what, about 12 years. 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