 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 this is a hoarding job. This is where the sheet rock is just completely... Yeah. Is that how it is for a worse nightmare? Because when you're trying to scoop, obviously it'll always catch up and it just slows down the process every time. So today this is a hoarding job. And on the scale of hoarding this would be considered a level 5 hoard. A little bit of the backstory is a woman was rescued out of here by the fire department. And the fire department said actually that this was one of the worst hoarding situations that they had seen. So today we're here working trying to get started just getting the front door open. Because as of right now you can't even open the front door. But it's pretty unimaginable. There's areas throughout the house that don't have any ceiling. The client actually had outdoor table umbrellas that they put up to keep the rain off of them when it rained. Because there's just no ceilings throughout the majority of the house. So I think this job is probably going to take us about four or five days with the crew of four to five people. So just because of the elements everything is pretty weighed down and pretty heavy from years of just wet and trash and whatnot. So it's a lot of labor getting everything out of the house. We're here because the last time we were here you couldn't see that light from the other side. And right now they're working to get the front door open so that we can go in and out of the front door. But there's trash in the way. So they're having to shovel it out from the inside and the outside in order to get the front door open. Get the bigger items and all that stuff. Just like that. The car was here for a couple of years. It has no power. It's not running. So that's why we're trying to get it cleaned out so we can get it out of the driveway to get the trailer into the driveway. But there's road shoes flies. So you can see it's just like from the years of exposure to the elements. Everything is just, it's like wet and molded. So it's really taken a lot of time because it's pretty heavy. So this one behind you if you've got a lift. I don't know how you're peeling off. Oh yeah. So the paneling is peeling off and it actually looks like if you look up at the top next to where it meets the roof line. Actually the wall is starting to come this way as the sheet rock is just completely rotted. Is that gonna play like a safety concern? Yeah. So you know in situations like this that's kind of why the first day is about going in and like clearing out pathways. So that we can get a better look at it and make sure structurally everything is okay to have Tex in here working and what not. Yeah absolutely. That's number one on all of our jobs. Everything that we do is the hazard assessment and making sure that we have everything documented just so we can keep ourselves safe while we're working in these environments. You know because as much as we want to help people out the number one thing is always safety so. We want to keep that safety. Okay. Legendary. Yeah. He should be okay. He should be alright. I hope he comes back. Yeah. He had a call on the spot. So maybe he's doing it. Yeah. So the goal of this area here today? Yeah. We're... We try to basically find a spot, a stopping spot because we don't want to basically make one hole here. And then go to the next room and make one hole. We just basically want to make little cut out squares to where we go. So you can stand. You can work with it. And you know two people can easily work side by side on working and getting it all. I'm going to take a look if you guys want to stay on. Yeah. We made quite a lot of progress. It's like if it was here for if you've seen the start you couldn't even get in the door. You barely had the door open and now we have all of this almost done like half of it. We just have a little bit there to go. So we made progress throughout the day. We got like another truckload waiting outside. So it was kind of a successful day you know for the first day so. Are you sure that's another thing? Put it... Put it standing up I guess because I don't want that glass to break and have some crap on it. Just stand it up. Stand it up? Yeah. Like that? Yes. We're going to put trash in the back of it. I don't want that glass breaking and being all over the back of it. Yeah. The one near the airport closes at like 430? Something around there? So two of those bags is 100. 150. How many boxes have you gone through? We've probably gone through about I say three or four so that's 100 or that's 50 times four. 200 bags. Another bookcase that you know when I went to move it to clear some room it just completely fell apart. So it's got old cookbooks and stuff in it. So yeah. Again just the elements are destroying everything so. Yeah. That's sad. Those are just those two bins? Yeah and with the other stuff that's... What were in those bins? It was just items that she wanted to keep out of a couple things that we were able to salvage. So we're just boxing them up for her and we're going to take them back to our warehouse and store them there for the time being. Yeah so it's pretty slow going as we discovered starting to go through stuff. Everything's pretty wet and pretty. This has been exposed to the elements so it's really heavy stuff and a lot of hard work to get it out of there. So we've pretty much cleared about halfway of the front room and I also worked with the client to clear a pathway in the rear of the home just to help us get in and out a little bit easier and take a survey of what else we have to do. So tomorrow definitely be starting to clear out the garage area and the painting area in the front room and just keep tripping away. Yeah so today we're going to focus on finishing out the cleaning out the rest of the front part of the house and then just kind of we have four people here today so we're going to be able to divide up and just kind of fan out from that way, start clearing out the kitchen. There's a back hole way that is leading to the bedrooms that are back there that's pretty full of stuff. So we're going to have to get through that area first before we can continue on to those back bedrooms. So yeah today we'll just be clearing out as much as we can and just keep tripping away at it. Is there something in particular you're looking for? No the homeowner and her husband were big into music so I'm just looking to see if there's any kind of anything that's worth saving. There's like a bunch of music and programs from shows and whatnot so we kind of go through everything to see if anything is something that family is not. But I don't think it's, it has to have a good old sound. Yeah, yeah. Is there a clue? There's another one right here. There's a chain that's coming up. Oh there's a clue room. So this room is all done? Yeah. All right first room down. Yeah. It's so good. What we're doing here is the client is actually looking for a certain key or so which we found a lanyard. You want to show the lanyard? Dottie? That lanyard? She said that there's a key to it so we're basically going by hand and going to try and find this key for whole, whole things. You said that it's definitely there. So we're, that is what we're doing now. The light still could be anything from flower or could be mold. Actually it looks like mold because you can see the sporey. I was looking for the key. The key but there's nothing here. He asked me like, what is a bomb bitch? You said just put it there? Yeah, just put it in the cabinet. Give me the shovel? Yeah, just put it in there. That's it. Let me look at this one. Right here, right here. I'll have the shovel right here. Trust me, I'll do it. Just have the guys open. I see how you're strategically hanging all these lights. Pardon me? I see how you're like hanging up all these lights. It's very, very nice. So you can see better? Yeah. If I put it like from the floor to up, we don't see good. So this way we can be careful because we can have snakes. What kind of animals? Yeah. That was smart. What are you going to do in the meantime? What are you going to do in the meantime? Are you going to jump over here? Yeah, hop on with that up over here. It's too much of a small hallway. If you want to get a, it's too small of a hallway for few people to basically put inside of that to where the refrigerator is. So basically those two are working. I'll work around here until I listen up on out. You don't hate me talking all this? No. What's that to you? Y'all did. Y'all confused me because at one time I was silent and you're like, David, you've got to say something. I'll sit there and I'll do it. I remember that. And basically normally the perishables are pretty good to save but I deemed this whole closet obviously as you can see that I could really even touch it. That is just all the way rusted through. As you can see the door, it's got a toast. I should probably just knock it down. I'm going to put it in a little warm sack and scoop it all up and put it on the side. Yeah, all this is basically all showing that little cabinet that it came from and that pantry. So all this, that's all down there, came from that pantry over there on the right. You're kidding. I figured it was. So yeah, there's no point in cleaning and keeping all that because it's $200 for new fridge. Obviously the only things that we would do is just take off all the memorabilia all the pictures and things of that sort. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. What's up? You're taking all of the big stuff and just kind of looking. Yeah, no, no, that's just boxes. Okay. Because probably right here it was a place she didn't come didn't use it. It was her husband. Placed more to load the machine bullets. So probably she put all the trash, all the boxes right here. So I'm trying to put all the box out so we can start looking for good stuff. It makes sense. Okay. Huh? Done for today's pretty good. That's it? Yeah, let's do it. You're going to get this section? Oh, it's almost four. All right. Let's just pick all the trash. I guess we're wrapping up over here. It is quitting time. You're just like to make a good bet. If you want to look at there, you can. We're just working our way back towards from where we started out in the living room. Now we're in the back of the house. And we're trying to basically meet in the middle where you caught off with me last time I was in the kitchen. Pretty much got all that knocked out. And then we go onto the bedrooms probably as early as tomorrow. Maybe, probably the day after, but we'll see. So today we cleared out one whole room on the front part of the house. So that was a huge improvement. And we've made some good progress in the back of the house, cleaning that stuff out. So tomorrow we'll just be continuing to go through the kitchen and the back room so we can make a good push to get to the back bedrooms. Oh yeah, this is day three by the way. Just so you guys are catching up to what we're doing here. So obviously you all have gone over there and you've seen the front that we've knocked all that out and where I left off with y'all I told you, you know, we're going on to the kitchen or so. This is the back of the house if he wants to show basically the back of the yard and all that stuff. So we're going forward and compacting all this stuff and basically getting it on out of here. Kitchen is pretty much knocked out. I worked on that yesterday. All that we really have left is I think it's a three bedroom. Let's see if we can peek. Not so much. But there's three bedrooms on the back side of the house and stuff like that on the other side and then one hallway and we're making pretty good time because we wanted to be done by Saturday and that was our biggest goal and stuff like that. So for a sighting, for a scope I think I saw a scope earlier. Traumatized. So what have you been finding so far? Is it just like loose stuff like that or is it like big metal stuff? Well, everything is loose. Just loose debris like this. This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. The fact that somebody lived here is disgusting. I didn't do about 6,000 bags already. You can't even walk through there. Get there right there. Yeah, I know this is... We have to clean the walk through like that. Mm-hmm. What did you say that again? Nothing. I don't want this one. I'll just put that up there because I put all the metal over there because it separates and weighs down the bags. Yeah, you can put all these ones out here. I know, I know. We'll move all this stuff. Do you want to do that? No, you can do that. There's only one wheel there. You sure? I just know what you like to work it harder than you need to. Is that pretty much all the trash back there or are there still a couple more trash bags? There's a couple more. I'll come and look over here and lower here so you can go ahead and pull over. We'll come and show you all our worst nightmare. Come over here with us. This castle-tongued earth rug is heavy. That's our worst nightmare because when you're trying to scoop obviously it'll always catch up and it just slows down the process every time. Just a little inside of what we do and stuff like that. Technicians it's our worst nightmare. That and cords, obviously because it's a trip wherever it goes, but that's all part of what we do. Do you want to make because of all those cords near the water? Most of these extended cords are part of the cord. We're going to use those shards and do it and stuff like that. It's fine. We cut filming on days three and four. Our client was okay with us filming the job but she didn't want to be in the video herself so in best accordance with her wishes we decided not to film on those days. We have some great after-video however for you so here it is. Okay, all in all we were able to get everything out of this house. It took about six days with the crew each day and five people and at the end we took out about 15 dumpsters worth of trash so between 18 and 20 tons total of trash from this house. Yeah. Thanks for watching guys. 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