Cleaning up 500 Gallons of Human Fluids | Full Home Transformation |

hello everyone my name is Jacob and I'm a biohazard cleaner and our client we are servicing today is a bit of a collector some may say this person has collected over 500 gallons of his own urine and has stored it inside his house me and my team here have been tasked with the lovely opportunity of getting rid of and discarding of all this urine and trying to get this property back to its original condition as best we possibly can if you take a look with me here through the master bedroom you're going to see where he slept and kept a lot of his urine jugs as well once the bed got totally full of urine jugs he moved on to sleeping in other parts of the house and if you look behind me here we have a whole row of urine jugs in the hallway trying to not step on these things while cleaning up this project was very very challenging this part of the house was the main dining area but it got completely hoarded out with stuff and it goes way above my chest so we got a pretty deep and high pile to deal with here now stepping into the kitchen here you'll notice that it's not nearly as bad as the rest of the house it's still going to require good amount of deep cleaning but that should be the easiest part of the whole house and I know you guys are probably dying to hear how this property even got this bad in the first place and I promise you I'm getting to that I'll be sharing bits behind the psychology of situations like this throughout the video so make sure to stay tuned for that so now that we are stepping into the living room here I want to show you guys what we got going on as you can see there are a couple of gallons of urine on the floor here so as I'm recording and moving through this maze here I got to be really careful with how I'm stepping cuz it's not going to be a very fun time if I step on one of those things and over here here is the desk where the client did his business from I'm not sure what he did for work and then over here if I just look over my left shoulder to the south side of the house like I I can't even get over there like I thought about jumping over this recliner you know and getting some footage there but I figure that might be a bit dangerous and create a tripping Hazard so I didn't where I'm standing here is the south side of the unit just so you guys can know what it looks like but before I get working on that I'm going to do the north side first so projects like these are obviously a bit challenging to say the least and very over in and like anything you really just got to take it one step at a time so here I am just like literally squatting and lunging on any place I can stand uh just to start getting this top layer of trash and start digging me a little bit of a hole to create some space and work a bit faster now I know what you're thinking and it's like how could someone possibly live like this how does someone even begin to start collecting hundreds and hundreds of gallons of their own urine and to really begin diving into that can of worms we should first talk about what a cognitive distortion is cuz that give you a lot of context onto the mind of a hoarder and how these things come into existence in the first place so cognitive distortions in a nutshell is essentially just irrational behavior and these behaviors do have roots in biology Evolution uh early life experience social cultural influences um a lot of things can influence these types of behaviors but what I really want you to remember as you watch the rest of this video is that these cognitive distortions you know this irrational behavior is typically a defense Ive mechanism from a trauma response so please keep that in mind as you watch this video and not to judge the person CU we don't know what was going on internally in this person's life so an example of a cognitive distortion that a lot of people have that most people can relate to is catastrophizing or expecting the worst case scenario that has roots in our biology and evolution because our ancestors needed to survive and if you expect the worst case scenario then you'll be prepared for the worst case scenario you can probably start piecing together how that type of thinking when gone over the edge leads to hoarding type behaviors so the whole catastrophizing what if I need this one day type of thinking is one cognitive distortion another one is emotional reasoning we all have an emotional connection to our stuff to some degree some people may feel that stronger than others but when your brain starts to associate waste with memories or emotions it can create a reluctance to let go of their stuff the thought there is throwing this away feels like losing a part of myself which is kind of true also as you're watching this you may notice I'm wearing a completely different hazmat suit for this part of the project and that's just cuz I'm trying to experiment with this uh this paper type system it basically will inflow you know fresh clean air um into the the headpiece I'm wearing you can see the thing I got on my back with the the tubing on the side it's kind of heavy and it's really annoying um for a lot of people I kind of like it just cuz I I enjoy the fresh air it feels more roomy with those other respirators sometimes it'll just like get really annoying on my face and give me a headache and I sweat a lot in it whereas this one I don't feel like I'm sweating as much it's still super hot not going to lie it's it's still a miserable experience um but I know I just feel like I enjoy it a bit more so as I was saying before about the cognitive distortions you know we have the catastrophizing we have the emotional reasoning uh another big one that a lot of you guys can probably relate to is the All or Nothing thinking and dude honestly that one kind of I relate to lot personally just because it it's the whole idea of like viewing cleansiness or organization as unattainable right it's like if I can't keep everything perfect why bother cleaning it all you know obviously not a good head space to be in and you should challenge that thought as much as you possibly can but that's something that really leads a lot of people down this Rabbit Hole of never being able to clean up after themselves and get anything done in the house cuz it has to be perfect that's why OCD is such a common mental health issue among this demographic so we have these cognitive distortions but what is pushing these people over the edge to get it to like the nth degree right like we are collecting human waste tons of trash that doesn't just happen overnight like what's going on here and for that we really have a mixture of life experiences and then psychological and neurological factors let's talk about life experience so number one obviously trauma and loss trauma can make your brain do the most wildest of stuff so experence experiencing significant loss like the death of a loved one Financial ruin whatever it is it can lead to holding on to objects or human waste as a form of control or comfort in an unpredictable world right another one is poverty and scarcity right growing up conditions of like severe deprivation can instill a fear of waste and a compulsion to save everything even including trash we Al we also have neglect and abuse that's a big one for situations like this a lack of proper caregiving and exposing the kids to filth and trash early on could honestly just normalize environments like this like you have entire generations of Hoarders who live in squalor where the kids grow up and that's just all they've ever like known like that's just what they're used to and they become adults and they they just continue the cycle there's also attachment issues right if you have a lack of secure relationships early on that could lead to an over attachment to objects or substances even including bodily waste as a substitute for human connection so that's kind of heartbreaking but anyway as we keep crushing through this project I am now getting a move on with the carpet let me know what you guys think of that first person point of view footage that you saw earlier I thought it was kind of cool with the sound effects uh but let me know if that's enjoyable to watch and I'll keep including it in future videos I'm taking my little box knife here uh ripping up the carpet and just slicing through on the back side there's these little stringy things that keep coming up when I tear the carpet which is getting really challenging in to cut off um but enough time and enough stabbing at it it'll it'll come through also I did want to take a moment here and ask you guys if any of you ever considered joining a career like this cleaning up crime scenes and hoarder homes if that's at all interesting to you uh there are quite a few positions open at the moment for the crime scene cleaning companies that I work with and they're always looking for really good highquality talent and so if this is something you've ever really considered or thought about doing I'd really encourage you to apply link on my website it's really tough work and it can turn your stomach a good bit so if you think you're ready for it um go ahead and apply it and we'd love to get you connected to a good fit now the last bit of work here was just to finish up the carpet pad which the carpet pad can play pretty hard to get sometimes and just get super stuck to the floor but I got pretty lucky on this one and we were able to transform this living room from this hot mess over to this which I'm really happy and excited about um we're making great progress on this so far and now we have to go and get a move on on to the dining room oh but real quick this is the south side of the house look at that before and after ooh this one was pretty straightforward same deal as before we have a horrendous amount of urine jugs just waiting to explode at our toes so we really had to watch out for that as we went in and since we're on the topic I might as well showcase our Urinator 3000 which is what we are calling this piece of Machinery to dispose of the urine safely and efficiently this piece of equipment is typically used under car maintenance shops um you put it underneath a car once it's like jacked up uh and it'll help drain the oil that's what it's designed to do but whether it's draining oil or hundreds of gallons of urine same difference um it worked phenomenally and you guys are probably wondering like oh why don't you guys just dump the urine down the toilet and yes typically we would do that only if the toilets actually worked and if the water was running so if we did that we would just be overflowing a a toilet that isn't draining and that could lead to all sorts of problems so what we did is we hooked up this piece of Machinery with a hose kind of like a garden hose sort of deal and you can watch the fluids drain all the way down into the septic unit besides the house and that was how we did our thing it uses gravity to actually Force the liquids down and through the piping here but now that we got a good chunk of the urine jugs taken care of we just have this pile of trash now to clean up and we'll be done with this dining room so we're going to go ahead and speed through this and I'll catch you guys when I'm done shoveling up all this crap oh but I also did want to wrap up what I was talking about with how a situation like this even occurs right so we talked about cognitive distortions and how you know if you take those over the edge it could lead to stuff like this talked about like life and cultural stuff you know if you grow up in a hoarder home or if you experienced a lot of abuse and Trauma growing up that can make these type of associations happen there's also just plain old neurological factors that contribute such as obsessive compulsive personality disorder um that's a big one we see a lot post-traumatic stress disorder is a big one uh depression anxiety is often associated with these sort of things depression and anxiety can diminish motivation and create fear around the whole decision-making process altogether which leads to a lot of this accumulated waste we also got executive dysfunction and that's usually seen in a lot of ADHD type of people and it impairs planning organization and decision- making making it difficult to to manage this level of waste I've personally been diagnosed with ADHD and yeah the whole planning organizing thing doesn't just happen on its own you really got to create systems for yourself that you can really rely on that even if you're having you know your moments of executive dysfunction you have a really solid system that keeps things in check and looking good and just like that we are now finished with the dining room area phenomenal looking good good we love it but we still have a lot of work left to do now as we are stepping into the kitchen we have a whole host of problems to deal with one of them being is that we don't have any place to work and get stuff cleared out of the way so I've got to go back to my old strategy again of just like standing right on top of the pile and just getting as much cleared out as fast as I can so I used my surroundings to my benefit and this chair here that was just ready to fall apart I used as a way to actually get a lot of this trash up and out of the way I was able to sit down on it and it was pretty comfy not going to lie 10 out of 10 this hand to bag method really is not ideal and it's really boring and annoying and you just got to get your hands and face all up in that trash not a very fun time I finally said f you to the chair cuz it just kept falling and collapsing on me it was no longer serving me so got that out of the way and now I've actually got some decent leg room to take my shovel and start ripping this floor up I love taking out all the trashes like this especially when it's at the point where I can really just like load up the shovel and and bag it out what's kind of fun about doing these trash outs where there's been garbage lying dormant for you know several years at a time is you kind of get a little hit of nostalgia when you dig deep enough like for example when I was digging through this trash I found the good old Black Ops 3 promotional material from Jack In The Box when they did that collab that was freaking wild I loved seeing that I can't believe it's been about 10 years since that game came out that's crazy but dude that was a fun game but anyway I'm moving on here to the counter stove top area and and got to take out all of this material um I would clean it but it looks like the landlords are just looking to uh just to rip it out and start fresh I mean can't really blame him because of the condition of it I wouldn't really feel comfortable putting anyone in that situation to use that type of appliances but once I got that finished I went ahead and moved on to the the table here that was kind of full of junk um so it it was pretty easy to just go and scoop that into the trash bin like I did and once I was able to clear off a lot of that I went over to to the kitchen sink and started cleaning up you know enough straws to kill a small ecosystem of turtles ecosystem of turtles I'm not sure what do you call like a FL a flock of turtles is that what they're called a bale of turtles huh who would have thought they're called a bale of turtles good to know but yeah now that I'm just about done with this kitchen this is what we were at before I started working on it and this is the after result still looks kind of rough not going to lie that flooring is just totally destroyed um and the oven had to get taken out and the stove top is totally taken out as well but making a lot of progress on this house so far let's move on to the dungeon now we are stepping into one of the first major bedrooms in this unit and this one is kind of nuts because it's already like blocked off entrance just from the jugs of urine right here at the front door so before we can even like clear the stuff out we got to like actually drain the urine out of the way so we can see what we're dealing with I was able to make a little crevice here and take out the mattress and you know lo and behold we got more gallons of urine to deal with we didn't see these gallons of urine when we did the initial estimate cuz it was all hidden underneath the piles of trash and the mattress and so this substantially increases the amount of work we have to do as far as draining goes and I'm not going to lie draining the urine out of these containers is like the number one bottleneck and actually getting this project done because we can really only have one person draining the urine at a time uh cuz if you have two people working that Urinator 3000 it's just going to Splash over each other it's kind of kind of nutty and realistically we can only do one jug at a time because if you try doing two at once you're going to get a lot of splashback um and you might actually increase the risk of dropping one of those buggers like tfold and I'm not in the the business of dropping these things anywhere cuz that just sounds terrible but after spending like literally all day draining that thing we were able to get this room like 90% clear and now all we really got to do is take up the last pieces of debris here and actually take out the carpet taking out the carpet at the end of a long day like this is just not fun at all cuz I'm already sweating in this hazmat suit and this carpet is just like really difficult to to deal with it's hard to cut it doesn't really come up super easily um and of course it's it's pretty filthy so just one of those cherry on tops we get after a long day of work but once we finally got all of this carpet taken up and out of the way we got the carpet pad dealt with and we were able to turn this gnarly gnarly bedroom um into this that's like completely clear and ready for a new beginning so now that we are done with that room let's go ahead and step into the bathroom here where we have quite a decent number of urine gallons not nearly as much as I would expect considering it's the bathroom but we still got a good bit of work to do here now the first step here of course was to to get rid of all the jugs of urine which we did that came out no problem and then I simply just went in um and grabbed up the rest of the trash unfortunately a lot of it was really like stuck down to the floor from the years of Filth and fluids that kind of dripped everywhere but we were able to get that cleaned up no problem at all and then I went ahead and got working on the bathtub here that was really just full of tons and tons of jugs so after we blasted through that uh we came out with a very very filthy bathtub that still needed to be cleaned so we gave that a quick wipe down and then got moving on to getting rid of the carpet in here and dude this carpet was just so so depressing it didn't want to come up for the life of me I had to keep stabbing and cutting away at these really small minute corners but eventually that came up and it kind of left this uh this black meshy kind of material behind which just was not able to come up whatsoever so they either just put carpet on top of it or maybe they'll go and remove the flooring outright altogether so here we are now we have finished the bathroom we're looking pretty good now uh we have finished the dining room the kitchen the living room we've gotten most this house completed all we have left to do is just the final bedroom which happens to have probably the most amount of urine in the entire house so let's jump into that now as we get ready to go tackle the master bedroom I've got several concerns kind of in the back of my mind as I'm going through this number one obviously do not want to see any of these urine jugs EXP explode around me so I've got to be very very careful with where I'm walking to not step on those and have them just you know urinate all over me and then two we just have the sheer overwhelming volume of stuff that needs to get thrown out managing overwhelm on these projects can be very very challenging because it just feels like the job will never get done no matter how much work we're doing it just seems like it goes on and on and on another challenge is just the monotony of it sometimes literally for an entire day I'm talking straight 6 to 8 hours all you do is just empty urine jugs into this canister and that's your entire purpose is to unscrew that cap dump your and try not to spill anywhere I often wonder to myself how the heck I ended up in a position where I am in a room with hundreds of gallons of urine and all I'm doing is this same task over and over and over not only that you know as you can see here the freaking canister is starting to overfill like it's not draining all the way and it's just because some crud can get stuck in those filters and the thing doesn't drain properly uh it's really really annoying so every couple of jugs you got to go in and clean the filter and make sure it's draining properly and you got to go and check the hose and make sure that's draining out properly into the septic tank um it's just it's just got some challenges to it but you know big deal you kind of got to do what you got to do now I was a little tired of doing the urine jugs and I finally got enough space where I could start working towards the the right flank of this room so I started getting a move on in this area just to change it up and I was able to make a lot of progress relatively pretty quick um with that it's always good to change up what you're doing every now and then so you don't just you know hate yourself at the end of the day what I found when it comes to picking up trash like this is just you know going on your knees and using a shovel I don't know why but I know I feel like my posture is a lot better if I'm just standing and bending over to pick up crud I'm like starting to hurt my back but I found a way that works pretty nicely just on my knees maybe it's cuz I'm 23 and I still got good knees but while I still have them I'm going to use them and get this job done easily as you can see I do have my cool guy glasses on so this is the firsters perspective you guys can have on this project this is what I'm seeing thankfully we have Bruno Mars to join us on this project and help us stay focused and lined up to get this thing done um but I'm just about finished up with the right flank of this house and right next to the bed here so we're going to be able to take out that dresser and get back to what we love doing most now that we got a decent amount more space cleared out of the way I went back to the urine game which is my favorite game right now I just love taking these jugs out and we created a bit more of a system so my job is just to get these jugs out of the room and then the rest of my team they're actually going to screw those Lids off and dump them down the tank in a different room uh this just helped consolidate the process so you know we can actually keep cleaning the room um and have the urine jugs going at the same time because there's a bit of a stop Gap when comes to these things if you overflow it too much with jugs then you're going to be waiting for a while so every now and then I'll stop pick up the jugs and then keep cleaning and when they need more jugs of urine I'll stop what I'm doing and go back to that now when should you take breaks that can always depend from person to person for me I really like getting a good chunk of the room done first before I go and take a break because when you go and stop what you're doing it's really hard to get back into that flow um and when you're already sweating and you feel gross you know you might as well just get as much done as you possibly can uh when I take a break you know you want to take your gloves off you take your mask off and you just kind of sit and soak in your sweat for a little bit and nothing feels worse than putting on a hazmat suit that is like already really sweaty and kind of nasty now you could always just put a brand new suit on you know and do it that way but those things cost like 20 $40 sometimes and you know we got pretty thin mark on some of these job sites so we got to save that cash you know what I mean now before I forget I did want to mention real quick here that you know if you're watching this and you know you recognize someone that you love is living in a somewhat similar situation uh with clutter with hoarding whatever it is if it kind of seems like they're in an unsafe environment um that you know healing might need to take place there I want you to know that healing is possible change is possible um and that there are phenomenal resources of available to get you on that path and to to be in a safer and better environment every client that I work with they always get free therapy just for reaching out um it's four weeks of free therapy um even if they don't use their service they still get that benefit so it's a really helpful tool for getting the framework of what's going on in your life and what to do about a situation like this additionally if you go on to my website there is an entire cleaning guide on how to take a project like this or you know projects you know less intense than this and it breaks it up into section by section on exactly what you need to do uh the conversations you need to have and the things to look out for um it's just based off of my experience from doing this over the past 5 years and I've found it to be quite helpful for a lot of people already so if you need a little bit of extra help uh to help you yourself or your loved one get on that path to Healing I highly recommend checking that guide out on my website it's completely free you get the therapy alongside of it and all of my experience from doing this type of cleanup work and the goal of it I is just really just to help you guys you know I I know how overwhelming and exhausting it can be uh to to be in a situation like this and feel like you're drowning and that you can't escape like it really sucks so the point is just to be helpful and I I really hope it kind of helps some of you guys out so feel free to check that out with the link in the description below but without further Ado I am just so excited to show you the before and after this room look at this we had all this urine all this debris and we turned it into this wo I love it um this is going to be one crazy rebuild that I'm so excited to see on how you know they bring their Vision to life with it but yeah that's it thanks for hanging out with me y'all