Gross Filth Clean Up-Hoarding Cleanup

Gross Filth Cleanup or Hoarding Cleanup is a very common job in the bio-hazard industry. We have has many gross filth jobs in a month as we do homicides and suicides combined. Gross filth/hoarding what is it? The is a condition called hoarding or hoarder syndrome. This is where a person or persons keep or pack rat everything, I mean everything. For instance; a person buys cat litter uses 3/4 of the bag then saves the bag for a later date and buys a new one instead of finishing the first bag. This process happens for years. This process will happen for everything purchased. Some hoarders will actually pack themselves into corners having little paths to walk through the house or apartment. In lots of cases the restrooms are not in working order or they can't access them, so they urinate and deficate in buckets, sinks, tubs, pales, bags and keep it or try and dump it in the toliet missing most of the time.

Recently; TDI had a job where a person had placed the mattress in the dining area to sleep, the bedroom was full. After we began to clean we found a nest with over 20 rats and thousands of roaches living in her mattress. Roach nest were so think that we had to remove the paint on the walls to get them off. One of my techs asked me what the coffee grounds all over the floor was for? I told him that it wasn't coffee but roach eggs. The rate nests under the dishwasher were so large it took 2 giant black bags to get all the debris. We also have a new nick name for one of our techs "Caleb" is now known as "Roach". Caleb was cleaning the kitchen wall, when he picked up one of the pictures on the wall, at least 300 roaches ran all over his body, he did have a suit on, but he never flinched, just kept on cleaning. Five techs saw his ability to stand his ground and he earned a new level of respect.