Video summary
The video introduces Spaulding Decon, one of the nation's largest private companies dedicated to cleaning up crime scenes and handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, and other tragic events. The specific case featured takes place in Pasco County, Florida, where a man who had recently relocated from out of state passed away under difficult conditions. Because his air conditioning was off and the windows were open, the room experienced temperatures between 90 and 95 degrees with approximately 85% humidity for several days. These extreme environmental factors significantly accelerated the decomposition process, causing body fluids to seep through the carpet, penetrate the mattress and box spring, and reach the raw wood subfloor beneath.
Upon arrival, the cleanup crew faces a challenging situation that requires immediate and thorough intervention to ensure the property can be returned to the family. The team must remove the carpet entirely and disassemble the box spring because the fluids have saturated multiple layers of the furniture and reached the structural subfloor. Workers are shown wearing personal protective equipment, including respirators, as they cut up the bedding and mattress to extract contaminated materials. The process involves carefully dismantling the box spring to access the raw wood underneath, ensuring that every single layer is treated to remove biological hazards before any further restoration can begin.
Once the physical debris is removed, the crew employs a specialized cleaning protocol involving a product called Part A to treat the concrete subfloor. After an initial vacuuming removes loose contaminants, they apply the treatment solution and use chemical indicators to verify that all traces of blood and body fluids have been eliminated. The second application proves highly effective, leaving the floor looking amazing without the need for sealing, which would otherwise alter its natural appearance. This outcome is described as a stroke of luck, as the team successfully extracted contaminants from beneath the base plates without having to apply a white sealant that might obscure the concrete's original look.
To complete the sanitization process, the crew sets up an ozone machine and runs it for 48 hours to neutralize any remaining odors and kill airborne pathogens. The video humorously includes a reading from the Tibetan Book of the Dead during a break caused by a power outage, highlighting the surreal nature of their work while they wait for the equipment to finish its cycle. After this extended treatment period, the team returns to find the site fully restored and ready for the family to retrieve personal items. The successful completion of the job underscores the critical role these private companies play in providing closure and restoring safety to properties affected by sudden and tragic deaths.
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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
Spaulding decon is one of the nation's
largest cleanup companies handling the
aftermath of homicides suicides
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he passed away with the air-conditioning
offs in the windows open and it's been
about a 90 to 95 degrees every day with
about 85% humidity so that accelerated
his decomposition the body fluids did go
through the carpet into the subfloor
Jesus Christ
I smell it already even worse now
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we are in Pasco County Florida here at
the site of a decomposition this man
relocated from out of state and he's
only been living in Florida for three
months he passed away with the
air-conditioning off in the windows open
and it's been about 90 to 95 degrees
every day with about 85% humidity so
that accelerated his decomposition and
then basically it looked like he was on
the bed and then he kind of just slumped
over and fell but the body fluids did go
through the carpet into the subfloor so
we are working on that today we'll get
rid of everything cut the carpet up and
treat the subfloor so the family can get
in there and and get his personal items
oh I smell it already it's even worse
now that the I manipulated the bedding
it's worse I'm gonna put my respirator
on
besides completely clean good thing is
it's a spring so we can char kway that
weirdo and let me grab the other buyer
of that
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I'm so
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right mr. cutting off a gas
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bill is cutting up the boxspring here
and it looks like it went through the
mattress went through the boxspring and
it's in the raw wood so we're having to
disassemble the boxspring here I'll grab
that for you so bill is in his personal
protective equipment cuz he's something
that's actually working on on the scene
here but it went all the way through
here you can see it even went into the
subfloor so we'll have to treat every
single layer all the way down yeah this
is the remainder of the box birth or the
mattress let's go
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so as you can see I'm just gonna hey
guys we're still here in New Port Richey
decided to take a break we lost power so
add a little bit of some inclement
weather coming in and one of the fuses
had blown it's good to go now so we're
gonna get back in there obviously we're
still sweaty we've been done for about
an hour had some lunch and gonna get
back to work
stay tuned for the final result guys
this is the Tibetan Book of the Dead so
I don't have my glasses on but I will
tell you don't ever eat at now when the
bardo of Dar Mata downs upon me I will
abandon all thoughts of fear and terror
I will recognize whatever appears as my
projection and know it to be a vision of
the Bardo now that I have reached this
crucial point I will not fear the
peaceful and wrathful ones my own
projections you have what is called a
mental body of an calm
jeez you have no physical body of flesh
and blood
so whatever sounds colors and rays of
light occur they cannot hurt you and you
cannot die it is enough simply to
recognize them as your own projections
no this the part of state the final
thing your sweat for my love's weird
because I'm
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sometimes decomposition fluids will go
beneath the carpet onto the subfloor
sometimes they hit the tack strip
sometimes they hit baseboards and
drywall in this particular situation
we're going to have to remove the tack
strip because the fluids went on top of
it through it
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huh
yeah so after you manipulate part a into
the concrete subfloor it will turn a
different color because it's essentially
pulling it out from the forest surface
so our next step is to have a vacuum it
up and the transformation just on the
first try
will be amazing
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so we've done our first vacuum of the
partay and the floor looks great
and visibly it looks great however we
need to check with indicator to see if
there's still any type of blood or body
fluids so I'm going to spray it on the
floor and it will let us know where we
missed or how many more applications of
Part A we need to do
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yeah becomes this thick zero
you know you want to pay attention to
where you're that whole area there
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I could not be more happy after the
second application of Part A on our
concrete floor it looks absolutely
amazing and I think we're going to be
able to avoid sealing the floor which
makes it look white and takes away the
concrete stuff so we finished up our job
and we got really lucky the blood was
able to be extracted out from underneath
the base plate so we got a super lucky
today we didn't even have to seal the
subfloor so now we're going to set up
the ozone machine and we're going to put
it on for 48 hours so we'll come back in
two days
and pull the ozone machine we are good
to go
that's it guys on to the next