Clutter Cleanup - After Clutter Is Cleaned What Needs To Be Done?
In many Clutter Clean Up situations , the main focus is on removing unwanted items and organizing and sorting all the items. What’s left is a major amount of dust, odors, stains on the walls, stained and possible useless carpets and flooring. The clutter in many cases has made it almost impossible to clean and keep the house in a sanitary way. The following is a room by room cleaning detail on what is needed to clean after a major clutter situation.
Kitchen Cleaning
The kitchen in many ways has been unused due to the mass amount of cluttering that piled up through the years. The kitchen needs major decluttering including inside and outside cabinets, appliances ( if still useable ), sinks, and windows. The object is to get to every space in the kitchen so that the kitchen may become a healthy useable eating and cooking space. Please be prepared that in many cases the appliances may be broken and may need to be fixed. The flooring may not be useable and in some cases may need to be removed and the sub floor may need to be checked for safety and durability.
Living Room/Dinning Room Clutter
It should be assumed that every accessible space must be cleaned. A light cleaning will not work due to the fact that these rooms may not have seen the light of day for decades. Windows, ledges, pictures and in some cases heating systems may need to be removed to get to dirt. If you can smell odors after cleaning it usually means that the carpet needs to be cleaned, or removed to get the filth that lies underneath. Painting the walls can also help. Remember that getting rid of the odor always means removing the source of the odor. The odor could produce mold growth which would create unhealthy conditions. Depending on the levels of hoarding / Clutter in the home, it may also need air purifiers to rid the toxins in the air.
Bedroom Clean Out
As with the living room and dining room areas cleaning every square inch is best to bring the rooms into a sanitary state. The cleaner must also have experience in dealing with all types of stains, including food and especially urine and feces stains. The worse thing to do is to forget to mention to the cleaner that there was urine and feces stains. The cleaner can refuse to clean up after feces or urine or realize most if not all cleaners do not have bio hazard training or the licensing to handle feces and urine clean up after clutter clean up.
Mold Remediation and Removal
Mold removal is another issue that after a clean up people will face. After removing all the items , mold may be found on many of the walls. Mold can cause a variety of health issues in people from breathing problems to watery eyes and even death in some rare cases. Make sure the mold is removal by a certified company who has been trained by the IICRC.
If you do enough research there are companies that actually do all of the services that you need. Professionals in clutter clean up, will mention that the fewer contractors involved in the clutter clean up, the better for the occupant in the home. There are many different types and names for clutter cleanup such as Pack Rat Cleaning or Senile Squalor Cleanup which bring different services and individuals with the proper training to complete these specialty cleaning projects.
Look for a company that specializes in
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Clutter clean up
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Cleaning after the removal
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Clutter Bio hazard clean up ( urine, feces, insect removal )