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Pennsylvania Suicide Cleanup

Every death scene has similarities when fluids remain. These similarities include fatty acids, blood, and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM). After death occurs by a violent act or unattended death and decomposition, the remaining scene requires special cleaning because of fluides and tissue.


Eddie Evans Flexibility
I have cleaned hundreds of such death scenes. Homicides, suicides, unattended deaths with decomposition, traumatic injuries and deaths while in the US Army, and more. I clean throughout California and elsewhere as needed. I own my own company, Biosafe, and have no employees. Because I am a solo cleaner, because I do not pay employees, or pay the State for workmen's compensation insurance, my prices are kept lower than most or all of my competition.

No one will work as hard or ensure personalized, quality service the way a hands-on business owner does. An owner has a vested interest in his or her business, an employees interest is much different. You can rest assured that I will clean and re-clean your dwelling or business environment.


Building and Contents - Hygiene
My first steps include containing infectious materials before transporting material. I use over-the-shelf and professional cleaning and disinfecting chemicals and tools.

I refer to the human decay odor as "miasma." There adantages to using this lable in the field. It sounds like an inoffensive term. It tends to give people a new understanding for something related to death that they were previously afraid to learn about. With this newly learned lable, there is a new learning and a willingness to begin understanding what has occurred. Its use also gives the cleaner something to share without puffing herself (himself) up; the cleaner will now appear more professional.

Every home has its own odores, even odors that many of us cannot detect. Some of these odors grow from cooking ethnic dishes unfamiliar to our sense of smell. Other odors arise from certain cleaning chemicals. Other odors may arise because of the age related odors eminating from infants and the elderly.

So why should we care about any odors other than those related to death?

We should care about any and all odors arising in an indoor environment. Only by understanding how far we need to go in combatting the death odor, miasma (see above link to Wikipedia), will we know now what resources and time to invest on a cleanup.

While cleaning a death or trauma scene, our sense of smell begins to lose its sense of various fragrances after about twenty minutes. By the time that we are ready for our first and possibly only break and debriefing, say twenty minutes, we find it hard to detect miasma and other odors.

We call the death odor "miasma" because miasma was once accociated with a plague in Europe around the 17th Century. No, diseases are not passed by the death odor, but the death odor must be overcome, at least to a passing level to get paid.

Using a fogger is one step toward reducing miasma. Fogging will not destroy the odor in total if it is heavy. Fogging will also allow for some part disinfecting upon solid, or nonporous surfaces.

Here are some links to consider.

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Products

Disinfecting
Manual sprayers - Disinfecting large areas can be done in a number of ways. For a low budget approach, hand sprayers and garden sprayers are useful, but not desirable. The mist from these sprayers may be harmful.

Fogging
For an investment of about $99 to $500, an entire room can be fogged quickly and easily. A fogger reaches hard to reach areas. It will cause the disinfecting solution to reach all exposed surfaces, given the time and solution. It is hard to beat a good fogger with a good solution for disinfecting.

Ozone
Ozone machines are expensive, and they can be very dangerous. There is really no point in trying to pinch pennies when buying an ozone machine. Without an industrial size ozone machine, large areas cannot be properly disinfected in any reasonable amount of time.

If ozone is needed for a large contaminated area, then it should run 18 to 24 hours. The same applies to using ozone for altering odors. Miasma will either be reduced or vanish to the senses when an industrial ozone machine runs long enough. I like to run my ozone machine for 24 hours. Ozone machines are self-cannibalizing because the ozone circulates bach through the ozone machine’s insides. Ozone’s beauty is that it destroy, oxidizes, bacteria. The irony is that it does the same to is own insides, but only after a long time.

Ozone machines have “elements” for creating lightning-like ozone particles which are blown out of the machine by fans. At least 12 elements should be available in an industrial ozone machine. Be advised that once an element goes, it will cost about $90 to replace it. All elements eventually need to be replaced. I change a minimum $200 to use my machine to “deodorize” vehicles and houses.

Regarding vehicles, an ozone machine can be left outside of a vehicle while ozone is blown into it via 2 inch hoses. In this way the machine is spared its own ozone while creating ozone from fresh air. Of course, security for the machine is an issue. About six hours of ozone will often reduce cigaret smoke quite a bit, if not totally. Never make promises about ozone’s power, and charge a minimum of $200. Many people will baulk at this price, but your machine will cost you about $3000. You cannot afford to give it away.