 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. We're here at a house where there was an unattended death that had happened late last year actually. From October, she was found maybe nine to fourteen days after she had passed. And this was my ex-wife in my house at one time and we got a divorce. Right over there's your hair. Do you see that? I mean, that's her whole head of hair. All right. Well, good morning. Here we are at our Cape Coral Biohazard day two. So just popping up some of the baseboards. We're still going to run the extractor a little bit. Well, I'm very pleased with what's going on here. Mentally, it's changed me, so I couldn't be happier, you know, with what's going on. The vial has kind of run down in here into the grout. It's pretty thick. I think we're going to get it with the lid up here. No, you're taking it all. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want any of these heads over here? No, I want the whole thing down on there. Because that's the puddle in the kitchen. I don't want to get one too. That was from already. Yeah, I can't believe it was still in there. It blows me away. So here's fresh knives to cut the linoleum, and then there's the, put those in there. Yeah, this is, it's what we call part A, and it has a terrible name. It's called meth part A. Meth part A, huh? Meth part A, because we'll use it for other things. So it's the meth that's useful? Yeah. So no, it's not indicating anything else, so you got it. So it'll make a change color or something? Yeah, it'll actually, it'll turn all like white and frothy and, yeah. All right. Well, good morning. Here we are at our Cape Coral Biohazard day two. So got the crew in there already started. You're going to hear some noises. Yesterday we spent the better part of the day just cleaning up that floor, sanitizing, disinfecting it, getting as much cleaned up and as much of the household items out and into the dumpster. And, you know, today we're in there just popping up some of the baseboards. We're still going to run the extractor a little bit. Not really considered a bio anymore because it's all cleaned up and sanitized and disinfected. So we get to be a little more comfortable today without all the gear and the masks. So we're excited. We're here. Let's go. The least amount of money I've ever found in a home. Really? Right there. The least amount of money. I think we found a penny yesterday right here. Yeah. And now look. Yeah. You want to roll it out? Yeah. What we had to do was these are the vertical blinds that were in the living room and because of the spread of the bio, some of the bottoms of these came in contact with the biohazard materials. So we're kind of painstakingly going through each one of them and finding out because they all aren't bio. So which ones have the bio on the bottom of it and we'll separate them out to regular trash and biohazard trash as well. You seen blinds like this before? Yeah. You have? Yeah. They look like the wraps. Like the, when you're injured. I can't think of the name. They're bandages. Yeah, bandages. They're bandages. Yeah. They're good observation. Yeah. They kind of do, don't they? Yeah. The more cloth, you know, I mean, these are actually more expensive than just like the vinyl verticals that a lot of us see. Oh, really? I mean, this is a fabric. So, you know, she definitely spent some money on these. You finding any with bio so far? Just a couple of them over. Oh, actually I have to indicate them. I think most of them are still in this moment. I don't know how to show this though. I have to go through this back. That's where we think most of the bio is. It's in the regular trash bag actually. Thick over here. The bio or the tiles? The bio that's kind of run down in here into the grout. It's pretty thick. And so what I'm trying to do is just get a little bit of it up the stuff. If this sets for about 20 minutes or so, which is why we have the steamer heating up, you know, it'll come up pretty easy too. And can you explain the importance of separating bio from things that are disposable? Yeah, yeah. So right now what we did, since they're in there ripping up the floor, we couldn't be in there at the same time, trying to take each one of these verticals down from the wall. So we chose just to take everything down, bring it out here. Some people put it in a regular trash bag for me to go through and separate it out and then separate it to a biohazard bag. So that's why you see a little bit on the ground, a little bit in a regular bag, and something's going in the bio bag. Oh, this one is not going to make it bubble. Yeah, this is like the degreaser. This is what's going to cut through the bio and make it really easy to clean up. You can see how it cleaned that, you know? Well, it's obviously not easy. It's just a bunch of back in the day to get grown. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty amazing stuff. Just do a great job. All right, Charles, can you kind of explain how you're feeling with the work done here so far? Well, I'm very pleased with what's going on here. Mentally, it's changed me. So I couldn't be happier, you know, with what's going on. I actually see progress and progress is what I need to move forward in my own life. So I couldn't be happier that this company has helped me mentally with this. So I just want to see it keep going. A curious question. You've been living in this home the entire time. What was that like with the bio? On the back porch in my tent for the first five days, and it was horrible. It was like 90 degrees in midnight. I couldn't, I mean, I just couldn't take it because seeing it in the window was really difficult. And then I cleaned the one room completely out and my father-in-law bought me an air conditioner so I can get in there. So that back bedroom in my house is sealed, but it's creepy. I know that that's my safe place and I can go there and think. But it's getting better because it's getting clean. So I know that the remnants is gone. So I'm feeling good. Rocks, is something up there too? Yeah, they're rocks. You want to be on there? Because yeah, it's kind of thick. So this is going to break up the biohazard? Yeah. Yeah, it works pretty fast. You know, we are still going to be removing the tile. However, we do still have to make it somewhat safe for the text to get down there and clean it up. Some of the biohazard material went underneath the baseboards and we pulled it out so you can see here. So not only what has happened is it's gone under the baseboard and it's probably gone down underneath the floor. And then we'll have to clean the floor and clean the concrete as well. So where the bio was. You don't have to walk through the outlander either. Well, you know what? We pretty much know. Because actually, yeah, it's kind of lengthy. The solution kind of tells us just how far. But I mean, you can start over there in that here and we're probably going to work our way and maybe right up to about here. And then we'll see if it indicates beyond that. Kind of like this underneath. And then it went out this way. But it was all in here. So we know we want, yeah. Yeah. You don't have to go to the wall. But it did go. You won't be able to get this out by like that unless you cut it or something because they're all snapped in. So you have to take out the board and you just look up like this. There you go. There you go. There's rat droppings. How do they get in the floor? That is amazing. So here we are at the Cape Coral of Bio. We're about mid-morning. And here there's lots of stuff going on in the background. We've actually started to rip up the flooring. Got some laminate flooring in there. So it's coming up pretty easy. But there is linoleum underneath it. And then what we're starting to see in certain areas where the biohazard kind of leaked underneath and kind of spread out underneath that. So we'll be going back over that and cleaning that up as well. But for right now, we're just trying to get through it and get the panels up. And then we'll move on to doing the floor, the tile floor in the entryway and into the kitchen as well. The rotary type of instrument that we use. That's my dental background. Instrument. Everything was an instrument. Now in this career, everything's a tool. How long were you in the dental? 27 years. 27 years I was in the dental field. And then I became an instructor. But for the most part, working left hand to the dentist was 27 years. Nice. Well, welcome to the restoration industry. Yes, right? Yeah. Instead of restoring teeth, you're restoring homes. Exactly, yeah. Same principle. You start at the foundation, you work your way down. Yeah. There we go. Okay. So Mariah wants to know if I can describe the smell. And I will tell you, there's so many of these you guys see, I know, and we can say how bad it smells. But until you have ever been in one of these, it really is an unbelievable smell. It's very distinct. And man, woman, child, it all smells the same after nine or 14 days. But Crystal just came up with a really good analogy. So think of it like, you know, your freezer goes out. You've got raw meat in there. It's defrosting. And it's been closed up for 14 days. It's all hot now inside. You open up the freezer and that smell you get. It's probably one-tenth. One-tenth of this. But it's the idea of, you know, what that smell might smell like. All right, Crystal, where we headed? We're off to a little adventure today. So once we pulled up the plank flooring, there's just a laminate. We found that there was linoleum that had been laid probably again in the 70s. So this stuff is like so glued to the concrete. Our little chisel is going to like take forever because the bio was so large. We're off to Home Depot to get a bigger blade for the end of the machine. So I don't make it faster to remove that flooring. At the end of day two, it feels like day four. We've done a lot. We've done a lot with three of us working here real hard, tearing up that floor. Crystal and I did a lot of the heavy lifting yesterday and clearing out a lot of stuff that was on the floor and getting up the initial bio off the floor. So today, we actually got to go in and we popped up all the laminate floors only to discover there was another layer of linoleum. For I and I, we had to rent this little tool over here to strip the linoleum off the floor. So we spent the better half of the afternoon doing that. It's four o'clock. We're ready to go. We'll be back here at eight o'clock tomorrow morning on a Saturday. Exciting! Hey Ed. Hey, good morning everybody. Karisen Ed here, Southwest Florida. We're third day here at the Cape Coral Project. You'll notice Ed's finally here and joining us. We've got a few more extra hands going on inside. You know, pretty much wrapping up today. We're going to be cutting into the drywall, seeing what we kind of are exposing there and kind of take it from there. We've got a couple of different jobs going on. Unfortunately, one of them is like, you know, 55 miles down the road south. But so yeah, I brought tools because we got to get into the drywall, the sill plate and the framing and things like that to see where the bio went. So that'll be part of today's action. And we've got the tools now to do it. Yeah, so they're going to be a little bit more of a challenge today. I think it's a little more humid. So, you know, we're just encouraging the team, you know, drink lots of water, you know, take your breaks, listen to your body. We'll be in and out, but we're trying to wrap up. So we're going to have some water as you can hear. Awesome. We'll see you inside. So Karissa, what are you guys doing out here? Homeowner had a few miscellaneous things, not that many that was too heavy for him to lift. I'm going to toss that in there for him. All right, does anybody watch your eyes? Okay. It foaming or is that just the actual chemicals? No, that's just, yeah, it's not foaming yet. Yeah. I mean, usually it foams up pretty, pretty quick. Are you surprised at that or? I am, yeah. I would have thought there would have been a little bit more, but this, you know, it's just more or less like, we hit this pretty good with the bee yesterday. All right, CC, we're indicating right there. Yeah. Do you see the difference? Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah. Kind of like that. Yeah. And you put on some brocks. Yeah, exactly. It's so, are you surprised about nothing really indicating on the tile? Well, that's why I got this bottle. Yeah, every once in a while, this product is, it gets affected by sunlight and natural light. So it's supposed to be getting low-paked. I like to just double-check when something's suspicious that it should indicate and it doesn't. I just want to make sure there were, you know, we don't have a diluted or, you know, bad product. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be, surprisingly, it doesn't seem to be indicating. So here we got, so here we need to take some tile. Looks like it probably went under. Getting a little bit of indication almost looks like leakage, though, very minor. So I think we'll just go ahead and give us another scrub. What I like to do is flush it down. Don't wave pressure back here. I'd probably try one, maybe twice more. If not, I would focus very much and even, you know, mark the floor, specifically where it seems to be indicating. And then we're going to have to, you know, cut the drywall. It might just be that long little boiler, too. Right. So, I mean, it might be, you know, that we, we have to cut the drywall and then we have to, we spray this or that did not pop up like that. So we let it sit. So I really think we're going to have to take more of this tile. Yeah, I was just about to tell you. But extract it. So it gets the bio off. And then we're going to take more of this. Is that the same thing? Do it with a betta brush? Yeah. So can you kind of give us a brief update and, Ed, you're about to head out, right? Yeah. Got to run down to the other project we got going on down to Marco Island. Hopefully we're going to be wrapping up here today. As you can hear, there's a lot of commercial going on in the background. We're still ripping up some tiles. Still finding some bio underneath the tile and around the baseboards and stuff. So that's all coming up. And it's just a slow and tedious process of, you know, spraying and wiping and spraying and wiping. Follow the evidence. Yeah. Can't leave any of that behind because it's only a matter of time before the smell kind of comes back a little bit. So we don't want that to happen. So it's very thorough, very detailed with that. Is that rust or is that blood? Oh, it's not. What we'll do right now, we've got a pencil here so we can own those markets. You know, we don't have to do the whole thing. Really only where it's indicated. So, Carissa, will these beams, these vertical beams, be a problem? What the plan is, is only in the areas where it's indicating not necessarily doing the whole wall. But we're going to hit it again. And let's say, let's look at this one over here. Like, you can see some of the bubbles. It's bubbling here where it's indicating. All right? But we can't cut this vertical beam, but we can cut just, you know, to the left of it and then to the right of it. And, you know, and then come over here and cut here and then take this piece out. Here's what we're going to do. We just spray it once, let it sit, and then see, you know, sometimes it indicates very quickly and then other times it takes a few minutes. So, actually that's looking pretty good. Chances of it absorbing, you know, when you think they're very slim. So that's all good. And then now, as an extra precaution, we're encapsulating it so no odor, no smell, you know, no wet wood smell. I think that's going to come through, so no smell control. Yeah, so that's good. So what we're doing right now is we're just going to type, you know, finish up a little bit in the kitchen so that it's indicating where we're going to go with that. I don't even know. I was in awe at how it got there because she was over here, you know. How did it get into my refrigerator? I mean, under my refrigerator, all of this was covered in. Well, you know, Frank was explaining earlier that, you know, no floor is completely level, you know, and so the house could have a small tilt to it. And so it just, it's just been a gravity, right? It's going to make it go wherever it's the lowest point, you know. I was really in awe. All right, Carissa. So tell me what we came back to after lunch. All right. So we came back after lunch. We had treated a few areas and we just kind of wanted to let the product set for a little bit and see what they indicated and showed us when we came back from lunch. So they indicated that a lot of things are clean. There's no more bio today. And we'll be able to turn this over to Charles for a nice little story at home. Tins of trauma that has happened here. He can begin his healing process and get his family here from North Carolina. Get the flooring done. The adjuster is going to be coming Monday morning at Inafog. He'll meet Charles, walk the area, make his list of things. And, you know, hopefully Charles will be getting a nice check to help him restore his life so he can move forward. That's our plan. Okay, Charles. So, Carissa gave you a walk-through. What did you think? I'm very impressed and very happy that everything is gone. You know, now I know, I mean everything. So that gives me a peace of mind. You know, it's like closures to this, you know. I know there's a lot of repair, but it is closure, you know. I know that I can begin my new life with my family here. All right. So overall, you're impressed with the work Ed and Carissa did? Extremely. It was funny because I was just telling my father and all she's been like my therapist. Like she's helped me kind of just keep focused a little bit knowing that the process is happening. And I see in the end and I'm glad today's today, you know. It's a new day, you know. Very impressed with the people, you know, the respect and the empathy and sympathy they've had for this. Couldn't ask for more. 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.