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Hoarding Clean-up in Farmersville, TX

SERVPRO of Northeast Collin County/Greenville is not just a water and fire clean up company. We also specialize in mold and biological cleaning as well. What is biological clean up? Well, it can be a number of different things. These are some things that we consider as a bio cleaning: Sewage backups, crime scene residues, suicide/death accidents, blood cleanup, hoarding scenes, animal waste/remains, and chemical spills. Today we care going to focus on hoarding.

According to helpforhoarding.net, “Hoarding is a condition that affects many people and some don’t even realize it until it is too late. According to hoarding statistics, about 5% of the entire population in the universe displays some sort of clinical hoarding. This percentage is twice the rate of OCD and four times the rate of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders.” That is a lot of people who are directly affected by hoarding, and yes, hoarding is considered to be bio cleanup.

As you can see in these two images, hoarding can be a huge safety issue not only to the home owner, but also to anyone directly in contact with them and their home. Hoarding can hide a lot of underlying contaminantes from the lack of cleanliness. Mold, body fluids, dead animals or other contaminates can and have been found in hoarding situations once the clean up has been started.

For our technicians safety we always require Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to be worn on all bio clean up jobs. As you can see in the picture our technicians are in full PPE to clean up a hoarding we had been called in on. These jobs can be extremly messy, and considering you never know what you will find they can also be a little nervewracking. SERVPRO is ready for any surprises though and we strive to clean it all up and make it, “Like it never even happened.”