How To Guide

Crawl spaces concentrate everything a house sheds - mold, rodent droppings, standing water, sewer gas, and appliance exhaust - into a space you enter head-first on your belly. This guide covers the P100-coverall-goggle PPE stack, when a gas monitor is warranted, the tell-someone rule, and the finds that should stop a DIY job cold.

An estate or hoarder home cleanout is an unknown-hazard site wrapped in a deeply personal situation, and both halves deserve a plan. This guide covers the P100-and-layered-glove PPE stack, the hazards hiding in stacked rooms, the two-person rule and sort-zone system, and the red flags that mean it is time to bring in professionals.

Sweeping or vacuuming dry mouse droppings is how people catch hantavirus, because it aerosolizes the virus from urine and feces. This guide follows the CDC protocol step by step: ventilate first, wear a P100 respirator and gloves, wet the droppings with disinfectant before you touch them, wipe rather than sweep, and bag the waste safely.