 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. I came upon this house was the daughter and son of the owner. Contacted us the mother and one of the sisters or her daughter was living in this home. The mother died and the daughter died as well. They think the mother just died of natural causes probably from the environment and then the daughter probably committed suicide right after that. So both of their bodies were found in the home. They weren't decomposed or anything. They were found like a day or two later. So the rest of the family saw the home and the condition that it was in and they didn't want anything to do with it. So they called me originally for a clean out quote and then we kind of negotiated a sale so I purchased this property. We closed on it last week and we are in the process of cleaning it out now. I think it's going to be about a two week process to clean it out and then the rehab portion will start and the rehab on this house is going to be substantial. Holy shit. This is one of my top 10 worst houses in my 14 years and the weird thing about this house is that I bought it. So now it's my problem. This is miserable. I have done hoarding and storage units for years. Probably five or six years. This is the most horrendous thing I've ever seen. Not including the dead animals that we're finding. Hence pet cemetery. This is fucking bad. This is what? How many days has this I lost count? So this is day four. Kind of lost count. The longest animal hoard that we had done was four days. It doesn't even feel like we've touched anything in here. I'm actually going to open windows and talk at the same time. We left, I think, 25 to 30 bug bombs in here last night and we were tired of being carried away by the roaches themselves. Almost everything is dead. I haven't seen that one thing move. Nope, that's a lie. One is twitching right now, using the kitchen, which we'll walk in there. So I'm just trying to air out the best I can. The goal today is to finish this Florida room, which will then become the formal dining room. And then the kitchen, as well as at least 90% of one of the bedrooms. We found another mattress under that mattress. There was a bed skirt and there was another mattress in there. So we'll get that going. We still have had a minimum three to four days in here. So as soon as I opened the door, I had a massive, massive aneurysm. Because I thought there was just a bunch of live roaches right at the front door. They're not. They're dead. I don't want to be here anymore. Oh my God, that's a good thing. I'm so over. I'm so over this job. This job has put me on my breaking point. This room has taken what? Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. This one room has taken three days. I wonder if there's a line in here. There is a line. Like you can see, like right here. That's how high this was. When you look into the other bedroom that I climbed in, that's how this bedroom was. We're just trying to get to a point to where we can start shoveling a dime because there's so much big bulky shit. And everything is covered in bugs. Oh Bambi, is it new? I love Bambi. This job has made me question my sanity. The heck out of me. That cat right there was under a blanket. I pulled it back and it was staring at me. Scared the living dog shit out of me. What Disney movie is this? The Aristocrats. Every single hoarder that we have done has collected Disney movies. And I love Disney. I'm scared that I'm a hoarder because I love Disney. Shit man. It was a really busy day but just for a warm room. First day I was with Ben and we just cleaned like one food by one food. I was yesterday here for five or six hours and I cleaned like two feeds by two feeds. But today we are, I'm working with Kyle but we are doing a really good job because we are almost done. But just one room, three days, that's a lot of shit. We usually clean one room in maybe one day, maybe two days, but this is a lot of shit. We found a newspaper in here dated 2003, which is scary. So spent like this for a long time, a long time, 15 years. Absolutely crazy. I can't do math so it's probably, you know, 16 years but... He's actually cleaning his... This is so nasty for them. You know, they look like, I mean he looks clean. He's taken a bath. Juan, what are the names? Pedro? Pablo. Yeah, Pedro and Pablo. They're the supervisors today. Laura's not here and when I walked in this morning for day four I quit. So I put somebody else in charge. You're sorry? Yeah, Ben doesn't care. No, Ben doesn't care. So we're all just... Oh, come here, little friend. From a roach attack. This is where they've all been running because Juan and I have watched them all run here. That's a lot. It's a squeak. Yeah. Can you hear this? Oh, that's so crazy. A lot. Yeah, me too. I don't get that feeling yet. It's because you've only worked here a little bit. Day number seven you're going to be like in a padded room shaking back and forth. Hey, we are starting day seven of our cleanup. We have eight people here today to try to knock this out. We're actually getting sick from this house. We've got three people that are ill and we're, you know, wearing our respirators. So this place is just very, very unhealthy and I think also that we're really fatigued and we're tired because of the just the massive volume of trash and just being vigilant not to get bit by anything or, you know, roaches are crawling and flying everywhere. So this house is definitely challenging. The number ending grab. Oh my God. I want to see what that whipped cream looked like. Really nice. She's going to put that back in the fridge right now. This I think is from like Holland or something. That's old. There's no dead foot in this, right? Not yet. This is beautiful. But now it's true on sweet. Yeah. Is that the proper width of the door? No, it's wider. Okay. But if I frame it and box it in, it'll be perfect. Yes. Look at this. Master bedroom. We're coming along here. Put our door here. Dining room. Kind of weird, but whatever. It'll flow. You've been watching too many. I'll help you with this much energy. Dude. Come on, Glenn. This is ready. These are what they are. Hey, Ben, we need more garbage bags. I need to bring two boxes back here. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Don't listen to him. You haven't been inside yet. Yes, we can. The house is done. That was the biggest part. Is it though? Once we have it all separated. Keep. Keep. There's a lawn mower in here. We're holding the grass over there. I see nothing but Christmas. I'm in heaven. The smell is ungodly. They do a terrible job of pushing other people's trash to the side. So we're essentially driving over other people's trash and then walking in it, that's why we have rubber boots on, vultures and the seagulls are like fighting you as you're dumping your load. My kitchen counter and I started smacking. I wish I had a fast boat. Hey, this is an update from the Pet Cemetery House. We've got eight people here today and it has gone amazing. We are up well over 22,000 pounds of trash and we have, I would say 95% of everything out of the house. When we first started we can only get the door open to about here and it just stacked all the way to the ceiling. Alright, so I'm going to try to venture into this room. Oh my God. I am at the ceiling 100%. We've reached to the walls and there's still some roaches left here but not many. There was hundreds of thousands of roaches here when we first started and we kept repetitively doing the bombs and it really took care of almost all of it. So obviously we have a landscaping issue that I need to get on here. But wow, I'm impressed. I came up to visit my daughter and the house next door apparently the two people that were living here passed away and found out that they were hoarders and I've been watching for the last three, four days where they've been pulling stuff out of here and making comments and just trying to get over the shock, I guess because I had no clue that they were hoarders and just to look at the idea and it just blows my mind. It's unreal. I mean, you would think that there would be some indication but the yard's always been halfway maintained any time we visited and we've been visiting my daughter here for over a year and had no indication whatsoever and I can't even comprehend. I'm looking at them and we were watching them in one room and the man was sitting on a pile and he was above the window sill like about three feet and he's putting stuff into plastic bags to be able to pull out of the house and he's sitting on a pile about two or three feet above the window. My daughter didn't even have any idea and she'd been living here for a while and had no indication that they were hoarders. I understand that there's the information age we have a lot more notice than we ever did before but to think that it's been happening right next door and had no clue. You see about the shows on TV about the hoarders and such like that and you just kind of say then to realize it was happening right next door is just I can't comprehend it. It just doesn't it just boggles my mind. I just can't believe it at all. Stay tuned for our progress because you know it doesn't seem like we're getting anywhere but I know we are. We are here at the Winterhaven property and we are doing a check up on this of the renovation and as you can see we've got a ton of raw wood here and the electricians are running all the wire, the brand new wire throughout the whole house. We're upgrading it to a 200 amp panel so follow me and I'll show you the progress. Our new master bathroom. So it's going to be a walk in shower here, nice tub here and a double vanity here with plenty of storage. A gigantic master bathroom. I don't even think mine's this big. Then we got our new master bedroom and as you can see we've got the furring strips up already so we're going to be putting a drywall here when the electricians are done and then we're going to be white washing the ceiling here. This is the kitchen. It looks like not a lot of work's been done but actually it's a lot of work to run all this brand new electrical wire through plaster walls. So they had to make some cuts and stuff and if you remember, we removed the soft bits that were above the old cabinets here. We've had pest control come in twice already. We're going to have them come in a third time to make sure everything's dead. For the most part, I haven't seen anything since I've been here all the roaches. I do see some dead ones on the floor so it looks like it's working but remember we did like 13 bombs when we were here and then pest controls come twice so it's been crazy amount of bugs. This is the site of progress right here. This is all of our new stuff that's going in. We've got our tubs, we've got our lights but one of my favorite things here about the design is this tile right here. This is a really cool pattern of tile and what we're doing is we're putting this on the floor of both bathrooms and this will also be the backsplash in the kitchen so it's really going to bring some color into the house and make it super, super modern. If you remember this bathroom but this is the bathroom that both humans and animals were pooping in the tub now it's been completely gutted. You can remember the tub was right here and then the tub was actually built into the plaster here so it was super difficult to remove. Glenn, our contractor has done a great job of removing that but you can see the pipe right here it's so bad and old that it's been broken and we're going to end up replacing all that but anyway, new showers going here new vanity here, medicine cabinet here and just to give you a good idea look at this electrical see you don't want anything like this it's cloth covered and that's not up to current code this is the stuff that's up to current code right here so this is the type of electrical that you want, you don't want that stuff right there. So one of the other things that I decided to keep in the house is these cool cabinets and I know it dates the house but what we're going to do is we're going to clean this up, paint them and put new hardware on them I think it's a really cool feature because it's storage for this bathroom you don't have to put like a ton of cabinetry in the bathroom and make it feel smaller it's already here so I just decided to keep it and repurpose it and I think it's a cool feature that keeps the integrity of the age of the house but yet we're going to modernize it so one of the bad things when you're totally rewiring a house that has plaster is that sometimes the old wiring is tapped in so it's difficult to get out so if you can see we had to cut all of the plaster here to run the new wire so there's going to be extra remodel and extra rehab work for the new walls. So when we showed up today, my contractor let me know that one of the neighbors came over and admitted to him that he was helping the lady dig graves here in the backyard for all of the cats so he thought there was probably 30 cats buried right here where we're standing so it's a little disturbing but apparently not illegal so we're doing lots of landscaping here so it's kind of good to know that we're probably going to remove this tree here because it's really overgrown but I'm not going to disturb this area there's really no reason to, we're just going to mow the grass and call it a day but this is a really good idea of how much landscaping that we've already removed. I am so excited. We are at the mid-season finale so you got your longer episode I don't even know what's going to happen with this house it's still under renovation I have officially been banned from seeing anything else I have seen a single can light in the ceiling and I have seen a single French door that's all I know I'm super super excited episode 10 is going to be the reaction to everybody and the house so stay tuned keep enjoying all of our episodes, we're pushing the longer episodes as much as we can we just, we try not to bore you guys with the little itty bitty stuff so hope you guys enjoyed episode 5 season 2 see you guys soon