Cleaning a hoarder biohazard kitchen for FREE

hi everyone um trying to figure out where to start on this one so this is another hoarder house the difference between this one and the last one I did is somebody still lives in this one and I'm sorry because that's not rice and neither is that or that or that pretty much every inch of this kitchen is covered in dead maggots and we're talking millions of dead maggots uh so where to even start in place like this I start by picking up the trash and she says she recycles um Walmart bags so I'm going to put those in a specific trash can just dedicated to nothing but Walmart bags and then you can tell she's got a fixation with Pepsi uh all the stuff on that upper left hand side is actually Pepsi things that she's collected so I'm not really going to touch any of that during this cleanup my goal in this cleanup is to make this a safe room for her to exist for her to cook food and all that and my main goal is going to have to be first to clear out the trash enough to be able to walk through this room then I'm going to have to try to clear off one counter and get as much of the maggots and mouse feces and insect feces and stuff off of there to where it is less of a danger to me personally while I'm working in there now right off the bat you'll notice that I don't have a mask on or gloves and that's mainly because this surface trash that I'm picking up is new enough to where it doesn't have a bunch of stuff on it I will very quickly put on a mask and a pair of gloves once I get down past this quote-unquote new trash a lot of the stuff that's down here on the floor is uh actual food that she's just bought but it's so contaminated that there's not much I can save I can save canned stuff and stuff that has never been opened before and what I do with those off camera is that I spray those down with 97 isopropyl alcohol and sterilize the cans and the packaging itself then I find a safe place to put those and that's a safe place to put them is after I've cleaned out and sterilized the cabinets then I can put the food back inside of it but I had to throw away I would say at least half of the food that she has not just on the floor but in the cabinets themselves open containers of like flour and sugar and stuff like that everything in this kitchen was contaminated so I'm also putting all the k hands in specific bags as well the aluminum cans all the 10 and everything else is going in just regular everyday trash so I I got just out of the kitchen one and a half bags 42 gallon bags of cans that she can recycle and get a little bit of money out of the microwave on the left we're going to clean the outside of that a little bit later just to get the stuff off of it but she said don't worry about cleaning the inside because the microwave doesn't even work and so the only thing that I was doing with that microwave was getting the outside surface stuff off of it and she doesn't know it yet but I'm going to replace that microwave for her as you can see as I'm moving these dishes around oh Lord yeah now as you can see as I'm moving these dishes around how many dead maggots are on there and inside that front pan they're still live maggots in there and so some of the stuff that's in this kitchen I ended up setting out on her back porch off in the grass because it is no longer usable it is completely contaminated and even if it could be saved like I'm not going to I'm not cleaning a pan full of 50 000 live maggots in it now fortunately there were only three or four pieces that I had to put out like that and those are that's a decision on do I clean it for her and get this back into like new condition or do I just buy her new pans because I'm totally fine doing the ladder that's a small price to pay for me to not have to do that stuff I'm using easy off oven cleaner and I'm spraying the top and then that part that top part of the face and I'm going to let that sit while I'm letting that sit and I want that to sit for at least 10 minutes I'm going to start taking all the stuff off the counter beside it getting rid of everything that's ruined which is most almost everything here I think I was able to save the coffee a couple things of oil that didn't have maggots stuck to it I did save the coffee filters but I ended up throwing those away later because I I don't think there's that those things can survive I wouldn't want coffee running through that by the way you didn't see wrong that is a spatula stuck to the wall back there it was not resting on anything it was just stuck to the wall once I've got all that cleared off I want to take a small hand broom and a dustpan and sweep up what I can of these there's a big spot in the Middle where all the that larva is stuck to the counter with grease and so after I get this all swept up and dumped in the trash I'm going to spray the countertop with oven cleaner too now at first I thought well I don't really know how that's going to react with this old cheap laminate on this countertop and then I looked at it again and said I don't actually care how that's going to react with that laminate it's pretty much ruined if I don't clean it and it's ruined if I mess it up so the best thing I could do is put a harsh chemical on it see if it comes clean and then see about sterilizing it later and it did work then while that's soaking I want to bounce back down to the floor pick up all the remaining trash and um little pans and crock pots and stuff like that that pressure cooker and the crock pot ended up going outside the crock pot had a leak in it and then the pressure cooker is one of the ones with live maggots in it and so both those went outside so I'll pick up the rest of this stuff sweep up the floor and this is a first pass sweep and the only reason that I'm doing it right now is so that I can walk without feeling the crunch of dead maggots on my shoes because come on man foreign cleaner with a paper towel and the reason I'm not using a rag on this is because if I use a rag that's like a one shot one use thing and I know I'm going to go through probably 50 plus rags in this cleanup so if I'm using paper towels here I can make a quick pass to get all the nastiest stuff off of it then make a second pass with paper towels to get the residue off and maybe even a third one to get it all the way down to bare wood but I'm wasting I'm not really wasting paper towels by doing that normally I don't like to use paper towels because I the rags are a little bit more economical a little more eco-friendly but in this case I would rather use paper towels and save my Rags so I'll get I'll do the same thing with the stove and then I'm going to take a razor scraper just to get the burnt residue off of this particular burner and then I will go back over that with Mr Clean once I get all the the oven residue off there or the oven cleaner residue off of there and I'll sterilize it and polish clean it with Mr Clean I'll use a microfiber towel to do that and then I'll follow that up with a uh an ultra fine microfiber towel and the ultra fine what that does is kind of polishes it and takes all the the wipe streak marks out [Music] that is crazy the difference between what that was and and what it is now a little bit later I'm going to be sitting all those nasty dirty dishes back on this counter and back on this stove and you may be thinking uh why would you do that after you just spent all that time cleaning all this you're going to put that nasty you know all those dishes on to where the maggots are going to fall off of those and back onto that surface well I'm going to clean those surfaces at least five times anyway so all I want to do is remove the biggest hazards in the room to myself personally and that is piles and piles of dead maggots um so once I've got that off of there at least the biggest safety risk to me is gone and then whenever I move those dishes from the sink to this counter that's just creating space then I can do the same thing to those counters where I can clean it off wipe it down sterilize it then I can start doing the dishes while I'm here I'm just knocking out this quick electric can opener here and I'm just doing that with Mr Clean and then just scrubbing it down and getting all the the nasty stuff off of it can opener more like can't opener get it anyway I'm going to do the counters now this is kind of my polish clean with Mr Clean I've been getting all the rest of that residue off of there and sterilizing it and now that I've got those counters situated I'm going to bounce back to the dishes counter and I'm going to start throwing away all the trash and all the dishes that are completely ruined which is about I'd say a good 20 percent of them and then I'm going to clean and sterilize the sink and these counters foreign this water from the right hand sink you'll see some black stuff all over the dishes and in the water that is a combination of it's either hydrogen sulfide or nitrogen sulfide and then it's also got like she she uses SOS pads or she used to or the intention was there to use them and she had put at least two of those in the dishwasher and then left them there and those had to have been there for man I don't even know a year maybe and the SOS pads had dissolved for those of you in other countries our SOS pads are steel wool with soap embedded in it and so those had dissolved and that's what that huge rust ring is on the top part of the sink I can get part of that out and if I spend enough time I could get all of it out but I go over that with a kind of a steel wool type scrubber and then I use power paste which is basically a buffing compound and I use Comet which is basically kind of a buffing compound powder sort of deal and I was able to get out most of that rust if I wanted to spend enough time I could get it all out of there but all I'm concerned about here I'm not looking to make this new I'm looking to make it safe okay so I'm going to spray the whole sink down faucets and everything with oven cleaner and then I don't show it on camera but I sprayed this entire counter down as well and then I took a break and let that set for about 15 minutes came back and I used the paper towel method again and I want to get as much of this off here as possible because I'm going to be putting Mr Clean on that in a bit and I don't know how Mr Clean would react with oven cleaner so I want the oven cleaner gone she does have a dishwasher but I don't use it because one it's broken but even if it was not broken I still wouldn't use it because of a few reasons I can do dishes better than a dishwasher by hand two these dishes are in such bad condition that I wouldn't trust a dishwasher to be able to get them clean and three I am autistic and one of the few things that kind of sets me off and gives I don't know how to explain it to people who don't have autism but it gives the sound of a dishwasher gives me really bad anxiety so I always prefer to do dishes by hand even if there's a fully working dishwasher there I get that a lot of my videos actually they a lot of people ask why is he doing dishes by hand when there's clearly a dishwasher right there I just don't like them foreign pad thing I've got is kind of like a sponge and then it's got woven steel fibers in it it's basically a knockoff steel Daddy then I use a power paste which is a Scrub Daddy product and it I think I mentioned earlier that's basically rubbing compound is all that is and with that I was able to take off a considerable amount of rust and I even attempted to get even more off but then I was like okay do I want to spend a lot of time on that rust ring or do I want to get this kitchen done in a reasonable amount of time a reasonable amount of time ended up being about 13 hours spread over two days I spent seven hours the first day and I spent I came back uh the next day and spent another six foreign I really like Comet because it's super super cheap and it works it's basically like a scouring powder I'm going to go back over the whole sink again with the power paste and that's basically just to try to bring back a little bit of shine to this sink foreign and then once I've got that completely sterilized rinsed down Mr cleaned and all that stuff then I'm going to start dishes because now I know that I'm working with a sterile safe surface foreign TS with Mr Clean I let those set for about two or three minutes and then I will go over it with the knockoff steel Daddy and then I re-wipe it down with just a rag just to get all the extra crud off but that worked really really well all the stuff that you see at the bottoms of all these cabinets are insect feces insect vomit roach droppings uh fly droppings I was really shocked that there wasn't a lot of mouse feces here I mean there was Mouse feces on most of the cabinets but I figured this would be really really really piled up but I think the insects actually out competed the mice for food foreign to do the inside of this cabinet I want to sterilize that with Mr Clean I do have a rag that I use occasionally when the the shelves are really really bad and that rag I basically soak it down with alcohol and wipe down the shelving then once the cabinets themselves are sterilized then I feel safe putting things back in it also my hair somehow flipped up underneath my mask little strap thingy and I think we could make that a trend in real life it's sort of punk looking like I get I guess I'm the punk cleaner now foreign okay now I need to take all the glasses and everything out of this one and do the same thing with this cabinet where I do the insides uh the this one wasn't super bad I mean it was enough where it needed done obviously the whole kitchen every inch of it needs done but it wasn't quite as bad as the other ones that I ran into there's one that we'll run into later where I had to actually pull the contact paper off and completely scrub down the sink to its bare paint I didn't do that one on camera I actually thought I was recording it and I wasn't because sometimes I am a all right I fixed my hair there so I'm no longer punk I'm just a normal dude I'm cleaning the windows with a mixture of isopropyl alcohol the strength on that is 97 percent mixed with water and a few drops of Dawn dish soap I spray that on let it set for like maybe a minute and then wipe it down with a microfiber cloth and then I dry it with an ultra fine microfiber and that's what removes the final streaks and wipe marks and back to the dishes that's my first round of silverware I completely fill this and I still have more so you can see after I'm done I refill that sink with brand new dish water and then I change my gloves and then while those are soaking I start spraying down the bottom cabinets I want those dishes to soak as as long as they can because those are really really contaminated and I'm actually using about five times more dish soap than I normally use on dishes in fact I went through an entire bottle of Dawn dish soap just doing the dishes in this house foreign a lot of houses have that actually not not that bad but that was a mark where she had to grab the doorway in order to get through from room to room so this woman if you're wondering what leads to a house like this I get a lot of people who get mad and say these people are lazy this woman has actually been through several surgeries she's almost immobile she uses a walker to get around she's had multiple deaths in her family including her husband so compounding the immobility with extreme depression and the genetic factors that go into hoarding which there's a ton of research out there you really should look it up it's fascinating um to read about I don't think there's a way this house could have not been hoarded I think she needs a lot of therapy and had we not been taking the steps to actually clean this up and get this house back into its original condition or at least a livable condition I probably would have reported this myself to Adult Protective Services and in fact the daughter is on the verge as well we're giving this a shot and helping her clean it up now normally with a hoarder you don't go in and just clean out the house and say there you go problems fixed because one this won't fix the problem at all and two that can actually be dangerous to a hoarder there have been cases where the hoarders have gotten into such a bad depression after a cleanup like this even though it to you and I this seems like a the logical thing to do but they can harm themselves and they can sink into a depression that's so bad like they could really really bad things can happen but this is not a normal situation this is an emergency situation where she has to get this cleaned up I mean she's living in a literal biohazard so this is a matter of safety first and then we will worry about it looking all pretty later down the line [Applause] oh hey look it's more dishes so I want to knock those out real quick I've got two loads I change the water in between each one of those and then I put the third load in to soak and while that's soaking I'm going to jump into this section and get this cleared off foreign [Applause] foreign the cabinets I'm going to soak down inside and out with Mr Clean I'm going to let that set for a few minutes and then take the uh just the rag is enough to get that off of there though the inside I do end up needing the the steel fiber uh knockoff Scrub Daddy thing that door is on an angle so it keeps closing on me and I was getting more and more angry with it because I kept having to hold it back or bump it with my elbow foreign you saw nothing there oh hey more dishes okay now we're back to a food cabinet this is a baking cabinet and so I had to throw away quite a bit of stuff out of here um and this is above the normal food area that had all the maggots and stuff so this one I definitely wanted to make sure I did a really thorough job of sterilizing everything inside and out before I put the savable food back in there I did find some food in there that I threw away the expiration date was all the way back to 2019 so three-year-old food I do check the expiration dates on everything before I put them back so now I'm going to put back all the savable food everything that was open got tossed no matter what and in this cabinet everything was pretty much able to be saved because it's all closed food closed containers oh hey more dishes so on this one this is three Clips put together where I had to change the water out each time and I ended up washing a few of those dishes with straight oven cleaner because they were just so caked now this is a countertop we've already washed but again in order to sterilize this really thoroughly I'm going to wash that several times anyway so the old dishes and the old cabinet white bounce that I just did had dropped a whole bunch of you know other nasty stuff back onto the cabinets but that's fine we we want that or we don't want that but it gives us an excuse to reclean it over and over again now the cabinet that I'm working on here that is one of the ones that I had to pull the uh contact paper off on the bottom you'll see when it opens up how nasty that is I just ripped all that out and completely scrubbed down that cabinet inside and out I wish I would have got it on camera because it was actually neat to see that clean up but now this cabinet also had the same problem as the other one where it kept opening over and over and over again and I got mad and flipped that one off too but it goes by too quick for you to really notice I mean I didn't flip it off because I would never do that especially to an inanimate object that could not possibly feel shame from me flipping It Off oh hey more dishes now once I get those knocked out I'm going to come over to the left of the stove there's this microwave stand and the reason I'm not wearing gloves here is because almost everything on this is just a little bit of grease and a whole lot of dust so I'll just brush that off with my little handheld broom thingy and then spray that down really heavy with Mr Clean and I let that set for I don't know a couple minutes A lot of the times if you're dealing with heavy grease or you're dealing with a lot of dust remember that a lot of these cleaning products work in layers and so like even soap you can put soap on something wash it down and then you have to use soap again to get down to the next layer you don't have to get it all off at once you can you can scrub something down two or three times it's fine foreign the face of the stove was covered with a lot of Grease but really Mr Clean by itself was enough to take that off using the little steel wool thingy that I've got foreign the streaks that you see going down the glass there are actually on the inside of the glass there are actually two panes of glass one on the outside one on the inside and the streaks that you see are sandwiched down the middle I can get those out but at this point I'm not taking apart the oven door and the glass in order to oh hey look more dishes but I'm not taking that apart to get the inside of the glass just yet if I do more work on this house I can do more fine-tuned cleaning like that so here I used a lot of oven cleaner to clean up baking sheets and I did wash cast iron because they are completely ruined and they need to be stripped back to the original cast iron and then re-seasoned and all that but there's no way I was going to let her cook out of those things a lot of people especially from the south are like no you're not supposed to wash cast iron well if they're covered in maggots and Mouse Poop then yes you are supposed to wash cast iron you can always re-season it later foreign foreign now we're down to one last clean on the top of the stove I think all the dishes may be done at this point and I just do that with regular Mr Clean and a microfiber cloth and then I followed that up the same way we did the first time with an ultra fine microfiber to take out the streaks and now all the nasty stuff is finally gone she can actually use that stove to cook on now who'd have thought thank you oh no check it out more dishes this I this I think is the final yeah so that was the final dishes now we're gonna tackle this floor in layers the same way as talking earlier so the first step in doing that is to sweep the floors and even after all the sweeping I did the first time through this is all just stuff that fell off of the dishes and fell off the counters as as I was cleaning so all that stuff on the floor is dead maggots or pretty much all of it so I want to sweep it up first and then I'm going to use my mop I'm going to fill a mop bucket and I'm going to clean my mop and not wring it out all the way I'm going to there we go we're gonna dip that in there and then we're going to dribble the water all over the floor and the uh most soiled areas and we're going to let that soak meanwhile I'm gonna just start mopping the room heavy and when I say heavy I mean I'm leaving a bunch of water on the floor and we're basically just smearing all this cleaner around the room and if we happen to pull up a little bit of dirt while we're doing this that's fine but that's not the intention the intention is to spread this water around so I'm going to rinse that out in the sink with pure scalding hot water then I'm going to wring it out and mop it again and this time I'm going to concentrate on scrubbing down the actual dirt spots because they've sat just long enough to where they can soften up now as I'm doing this this is pulling heavy heavy dirt off of the floor and that means we're going to have to re-sweep it again if we're mopping a normal floor that we wouldn't have to worry about this because the mop would just absorb dirt but in this case we're actually pulling dirt up off the floor like big chunks of dirt so after we're done mopping this we'll have to sweep the whole thing and then we can take a paint scraper and get any of the big chunks that a mop couldn't get off and then re-sweep those back up and then go one final time with a nice heavy mop like we would a normal floor and this whole thing should be done I mean I could spend another 10 hours in this kitchen getting everything every square inch of it sterilized but for what we're doing which is making this you know safe enough for her to use right off the bat it's a pretty big transformation let's use the scraper to get off the the big chunks that the mop couldn't get we'll sweep those up really quick and then we'll go over it one more time with one final mop I did not do the inside of the fridge that's something I can't get to yet I mean even the freezer smells like dead bodies it's really really bad in there now the outside with that with that fridge closed this kitchen finally at least this room smells good um but I just didn't get to it I spent two days on this thing as is foreign after I think if I were to have charged someone for this I would have charged probably a good 500 bucks if not more to clean up this this may have even been you know pushing a thousand dollars just to get it into this condition but I did this for free because that's what I do I like to help people out there's no way that this person has got the money to pay somebody to clean something like this so if I can help her then awesome

Channel: Midwest Magic Cleaning

Views: 2,413,898

Keywords: Housekeeping, cleaning, satisfying, timelapse, time lapse, house cleaning, organization, organizing, free, free cleaning, depression cleaning, depression help, kindness, help, autistic, autistic cleaning, hoarder, hoarder cleanup, biohazard cleaning, biohazard cleanup, extreme cleaning

Id: cdNJkRyzA88

Length: 41min 6sec (2466 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 07 2022