Buried in CASH 🤑-Massive Hoarder Home Clean Out!

what's up everybody today we are on a mission to find needles in a literal Hast stack here we have been tasked with cleaning up this level four hoarder home for one of our clients and he has got hell of Cash buried all throughout the property but let me give you guys a quick tour first this is the living room I'm standing on top of right now it's a good 4 ft off the ground so it's a good angle to kind of show the whole property here and this is the perspective from the dining area this is looking pretty deeply buried and over here to my right is the kitchen and it looks like we've been cooking up some frozen Marie calendar meals for a while so this is going to take some time to get through here I am in the downstairs bedroom and you can see the hallway is pretty full and tightly packed down from the foot traffic that's going to be a bit of a challenge now I'm walking into the downstairs bathroom this room was quite poorly neglected unfortunately so fun times ahead forover has the honor of cleaning this up this is the downstairs office and here we got the upstairs bedroom and right down the hall is bedroom number two finally we got the upstairs bathroom and I'll explain later why we're kidnapping the toilet we got about 10 rooms that need to be gutted and disinfected and here's the best part I estimated 3 days to get the job done way to go Jacob you definitely won't regret that later so let's start in the downstairs living room first got to start things from the beginning right so at the front door here we literally just had to use our hands and get things into bags I sat down here for a little bit to pick up trash cuz I knew that I might be standing with a shovel all day today especially in the super hot and sweaty hazmat suit I'm going to need to paast myself to actually make it through these next couple of days as you start going through jobs like this things begin to uncover that you might not have expected to see like right here where my hand is you can see a glass coffee table begin to reveal itself after some time we finally got through enough stuff here to take out the first major Furniture items which is this sofa bed taking this out allows us to work this horde from multiple angles and get more people in here now that we got some more space we began working on the corner of the house here right Under the Staircase and turns out projects like these like to perform magic tricks on you right like we're out here shoveling away at this area and stuff keeps magically appearing out of nowhere like here we just rolled out a giant speaker that was not visible before and it looks like we're almost done but oh wait here's more stuff buried underneath G and unfortunately this is what it's like throughout the whole project so we're going to be struggle busting for a bit we even found mummified rat carcasses while we're clearing out the section so that was fun and now we are beginning the part of the job where it is just a straight up grind so if you are considering a job like this I would say that these really grindy sessions are going to be the main reason a lot of people quit like outside of the traumatic things you see on a weekly basis like homicide and suicide you are also putting in some serious physical effort shoveling up trash and moving 30 lb bags of garbage all day and then then you got to throw these heavy bags of trash out into the dumpster and let's not forget here that the dumpster is outside the house and sometimes over 100 fet away from the front door so you got to walk over with a 30 lb bag of trash in your hands wearing that hot sweaty hazmat suit and just bake in the Sun so yes being mentally Brave and having a strong stomach are essential for a career like this but also is your physical fitness cuz at some point you're going to be going through it just like this and it's going to suck now this horde is at a point where we have a lot of space cleared out out of the way but there is still a ton of trash piled up so my favorite thing to do here is to go on top and just spread the joy all around now having done that we revealed a recliner so I went ahead and got that out of the way and I also got the AC unit removed as well that has a special disposal process you typically can't just dump it like regular trash and while I was at it I went ahead and got the couch removed too cuz you know why not I like getting the big stuff out of the house early cuz it's easier to load dump truck properly helps a ton if you're trying to reduce the amount of dumpl loads you want to take and since I may have underestimated this job that's going to be really important to minimize dumpl loads as much as possible ooh one thing I forgot to mention here about the client basically he doesn't live here anymore according to the neighbors he apparently hasn't been around in over a year poor guy ended up in the hospital which notified the kids and when the kids came out to the property they were shocked this is the house the kids grew up in so it was super trippy for them to see the condition of it they had no idea it had gotten this bad apparently the washer and dryer stopped working a long time ago so he ended up just buying new clothes from Walmart once they turned into cardboard he also had some concern about the banks and an upcoming Financial collapse so throughout this cleaning project we were finding wads of cash everywhere and among the obvious garbage we found some really nice rifles worth a couple ,000 so it was really nice getting to return that to the family the water also got shut off quite a while ago too so cleaning this thing without running water is going to be so fun now at this point in the project I just feel so beaten up already we're 2 days into the project we've gotten about four dumpl loads in already and we have a ton of stuff left to do we've been going bag after bag and this thing has just been Relentless but now we're coming up to the kitchen and when we first started the kitchen at the beginning of the day there was literally no room for shovels so that's when we pivoted focus and got the other parts of the house done first so that we could just get in there and just start scooping up all this trash it was mostly a lot of cardboard meal boxes and a lot of plastic water bottles I'd say that made up like 60 to 70% of the trash we're picking up now clearing this section of the house out was actually pretty fun my company recently got these bins with like a dust pan head at the top so I could literally go in with the bin and scoop up a ton of trash in one go it it was super satisfying I had a ton of fun doing it but if I go for much longer I'm going to start overheating in this hazmat suit for real so I went ahead and took a quick break and I grabbed some ice water to cool myself down and when I came back I had to go and finish off these countertops and for things like this it's really just hand to bag for the most part in the sink here there was a bunch of knives so you got to be really careful with digging your hands in there I'm wearing these super thick gloves they're called thickers they're my favorite thing in the world they don't puncture through anything at least from my experience so far so once I got finished here in the corner I went ahead and got a move on with the cabinets unfortunately rats had gotten through the entire house and especially the kitchen here and the cabinets and wherever there is rat droppings there is also urine so all the items here had to get trashed donation centers typically won't take that type of stuff even if you clean it really well it's just super not worth keeping now to finish off this Pantry I literally took out a rake and raked out the rest of the garbage under there and then I simply just grabbed a shovel and bagged up the rest of the stuff this was one of those kitchens with like an infinite amount of cabinets at least it felt that way so I even opened up underneath the sink and saw an absolute horrendous mess under there got that cleared up no problem and we are basically done with the kitchen besides the cleaning of course so I just went straight to the carpet cuz I was really tired of that kitchen I needed some type of change of pace and doing carpet is actually pretty fun for me basically what I like to do is open up the carpet and Slice on the underside on this hard part it makes slicing way easier and and then I just roll it up and take it out now I was getting kind of antsy cuz I just wanted to get this done as fast as possible so I didn't roll up the rugs the right way you can see the exposed carpet the soft fibers on the outside so that's just not the best way to do it cuz if you're taking it out you're going to start dripping you know carpet remains all over the the sidewalk on the way to the dump so that's not ideal just leaves more of a mess to clean up later um so I eventually fixed that and started doing it the right way and now we are are getting started on the carpet pad uh this is always underneath the the main carpet and sometimes it varies in quality from time to time so I've had some carpet pad that just literally so stuck to the floor cuz it was made in like the' 40s right and it just like evaporates in your fingers quite a nightmare to deal with but we eventually got all this stuff up and then I got started with a quick sweep through on the walls and ceiling to get the Cobbs taken off now we're getting a move on with cleaning the kitchen and for the floor I just took a deck brush to agitate it and then I just got on my hands and knees to wipe up the remaining crud I recently got a new Spin Mop that uses fresh clean water every time to rinse the mop so I should be able to get this done next time without getting on my hands and knees but once the bulk of the floor was taken care of I went ahead and got started on the countertops I'm using some of the Scrub Daddy sift cream alongside their barbecue daddy which is meant for the grill of course but it's got this handle and this woven Steel on the end of it it and a scraper as well so it just makes it a lot easier to scrub off some of these really tough stains I've been dealing with here I am using it on the oven and it just kind of decreases the time it takes to get the majority of the crud off and then I just simply wipe it up and it's looking pretty good again from what it sounds like it appears that the family is going to sell the property to an investor so I just got it clean enough to where contractors come in and demolish the whole thing and not feel super gross about it but yeah once I got the sink done that basically concluded most of the cleaning we had to do in this area which leads us to day three so that means I'm starting on bedroom number one in the downstairs area this room was pretty straightforward I went hand to bag for the first part to look out for valuable items like I said before we were looking out for thousands of dollars worth of cash throughout the property so as much as we want to just go in blind and start throwing everything away we really got to take our time and look through things like envelopes and pamphlets shirt pockets things like that because people tend to store cash in there and coins and other valuable things so got to take our time with that but we eventually got all the stuff sorted through and taken out we had to go through the closet which took a while cuz there was a ton of Clos in there um but this is what the room looks like now that we are done with it and now that this room is done we are going to get a move on with the bathroom this one I was kind of dreading all job long it seems pretty fairly neglected uh from what I can tell and cleaning this won't be uh too easy on us so to start this bathroom i l literally just had to go hand to bag for this first part super nasty was not a fan of that and then we took in the shovel to start scooping up these things uh at a bit of a quicker rate but what is hard about this is that the stuff is so packed down on the floor from all the years of feces and urine and whatever the heck is in there it made it cake down on the ground and it was really hard to lift up like this is what I'm talking about I'm taking my shovel here and I'm just trying to pry up this clothes that were caked on the bottom and dude this stuff is just not coming off I eventually got it all taken up with a little bit of help from the homies after that I went ahead and kidnapped the toilet because I like to collect trophies at the job sites I go to and dude this was an absolute prize so I took that bad boy home with me but now it's time to get moving on cleaning the sink I started off with the countertops using that Sith cream and the woven Steel on the scrub daddies and eventually moved on to the sink bowl itself which was coming up pretty easily until we got to this hair ball looking like thing in the middle of the sink it was just not coming off with the sponges so I took the barbecue daddy which has the Scraper on it and it came right off I finished up the detail work on the sink and got the rest of this ledge cleaned up as well and this is what the sink looks like now pretty happy with the way this turned out but we got to stay focused here I have this entire bathtub that needs to be cleaned if you look right above the tub you can actually see the evolution of these soap bars from beginning to end I don't know I kind of love seeing the time Decay and the consistency see behind using the exact same bar soap this shower here was taking a long time to complete without the running water it's just really a big challenge for us but turns out the family's going to hire a contractor to rip out the bathtub anyway so I'm just doing a Passover here once to disinfect it and now it's ready to get torn out now we're coming up to the end of day number three and I wanted to knock out this office as much as I can before we leave today so I just went straight into it and got the closet removed and then I just went hand to bag on my knees here in the corner and bagged up all the stuff here since this was the office room and the guy worked in here there were a couple of valuable items I wanted to sort through with the client first before I start trashing everything so we walked through everything in the desk and on the floor here with the client set aside valuable envelopes and cash and then I just got to toss everything else so I like having guidelines like that where we take all the valuable stuff out first and then we can just trash the rest makes the whole thing go by a ton faster so this is the finished result of the office room and now I'm going to get started on the upstairs bedroom this is the master bedroom where the client was sleeping at least we suppose he was and this one was also pretty straightforward like the last room we did the client went through and sorted out all their valuable belongings and got it taken out so all I had to do was go in and shovel up the trash and take it all outside I took the mattresses out and then I started working towards the corner in this area and eventually had enough room to take out the cupboards these were pretty heavy and I didn't want to ding any walls so I got a little bit of help to carefully move those out of the way we went ahead and shoveled out the rest of the trash here in the corner and I thought it would be a good idea to smash down the bed frame so we could save space for the dumpster so once I got that taken out it was time to do the carpet so I rolled up the carpet cut those things into strips and I actually rolled up the carpet the correct weight of time I let those carpet fibers on the inside so that none of that debris falls out I will say though my co-workers do have a pet peeve with the way I do it still cuz I cut them into really large strips and that just doesn't make it fit in the dumpster as easily uh for me I just I don't like having to cut through the carpet 10,000 times I rather do four slices and be done um but going forward I'll probably need to cut it into smaller strips super relaying but whatever I cut up the rest of that carpet pad bagged it up and now this is what the finished result of this bedroom looks like pretty excited now it's time to finish off the last bedroom of this house which all I really did was the mattress and the bed frame the crew did everything else so well done Lads on this one now the final part of this house was the second bathroom so I kidnapped another toilet for my collection literally took out the entire sink covers and countertop included and I scrubbed down the floor I had a scrub ddy butterfly mop which helped a lot and then I just did some final details on my hands and knees and this is what we're looking at now all in all it was about seven dumpl loads in total so we were cruising about two dumpl loads a day for 4 days straight it was a lot of hard work but it is finally done now and this house is ready to go back on the market for an investor and this job really couldn't have been completed without the amazing talent over at Harmony environmental these guys stuck with me throughout all four days even when they weren't supposed to go that extra day but they tued it out with me in these hot sweaty hazmat suits and were able to make this home really transform into something I didn't think was possible so if you ever need cleaning help make sure to message me on my website and we can get you connected to someone to help you just like this but yeah I hope you guys guys really enjoyed this video and make sure to stay tuned for more cleanup projects I've got scheduled underway