
What Must I Have?
Chemicals
Chemicals - Chemicals
exist in nature and are also manufactured. Natural chemicals exist as
air, water, and fire (gas, liquid, and matter). Manufactured chemicals, like bleach,
are very helpful, but also hazardous in many cases. Under certain circumstances,
bleach becomes chlorine gas, a deadly chemicals used to kill human beings
in World War II.
Bleach is too easy to make by accident; consequently, bleach
is not mixed with other chemicals. Know your cleaning chemicals and your
cleaning solutions will be less expensive and more effective.
Pure Green 24
Duct Tape - Duct
tape: Always have duct tape around, needed or not. Buy extra rolls and
never be without it.
Cutting Tools - We
use the "Bloody Mary," and it
is very dangerous and MUST be used with GREAT CAUTION. There
are many other tools on the market for cutting carpet and other fabrics.
Learn about them.
Disinfectant - Bleach is my all around disinfectant, but is very corrosive and in some environments becomes hazardous to its users. Place it on a concrete floor saturated with urine and its the same as adding ammonia -- deadly! A cloud will actually appear above the concrete or wood floor.
Odor - Vanguish is a light-weigth odor control product. It actually cleans blood from non-porous surfaces fairly well, too.
Strikebac - This is a general disinfectant and more useful than bleach when it comes to working around metals and other materials better off with non-corrosives. Strikebac is rather inexpensive as disinfectant go.
Hydrating chemicals
(product pictures will be available by 1/25/09). It is important to learn
two parts of the cleaning process early: pre-treating and dwell time.
Once an area is pre-treated, let the area "dwell" and move on
to another area to clean. Return and clean once your chemicles have had
dwell time. Cleaning is much easier and faster in this way. Sample
Picture.
Rope
is an important item because it helps to bundle bulky furniture. With
rope, one cleaner can useful handles on a mattress
for removal.
Handles can be used to pull bulky furniture, like
mattresses. Pulling is usually easier than pushing. On stairways, much
caution must be exercised moving mattresses. We usually stand to the back
end of bulky items when going down. We gain more control in this way.
Urine - Urineoff is pretty good for reducing urine odors. Death scenes offten contain a certain amount of urine, so Urineoff does help in this regard. It is intended for urine odor control and is not to be diluted. It must be used full-strength and in a high enough quantity to dwell. It does work, but when the odor reduction need is severe, it will take some time and cost some money. |