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Hoarding Cleanup Seattle, Lynwood and Surrounding Areas

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Professional Hoarding Cleanup Services in Seattle, Lynnwood and Western WA

 

Responsive Hoarding Cleanup

When it comes to hoarding, health hazards grow each passing day; swift cleanup often decides whether items are secure or discarded for good.

Ongoing Communication

At each stage, our hoarding cleanup services in Seattle and Western Washington keep you and your insurance agent informed, so all know what happens next and how to recover!

Fully Trained & Certified

As a leader in the restoration industry, PuroClean Northwest is exceptionally qualified to remediate hoarding damage.

State-of-the-art Equipment

Our state-of-the-art techniques and cleaning solutions can dramatically increase the likelihood of restoring hoarding damage without having to replace.

About Hoarding

Hoarding is a behavioral pattern of collecting and holding onto many items, even if they seem useless, and being unable to get rid of them. 

Hoarding is a clinical disorder. It is recognized as a mental health condition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 

We counsel family to not be angry with those in your midst with this disorder, not be embarrassed when we arrive. 

  • Our assignment is the restoration of property, and to show respect to all those we interact with
  • Just as you don’t blame someone for wearing glasses, braces, or being in a wheelchair, so too this disorder needs understanding and compassion

There are five stages of hoarding, each increasingly more severe. We have attended to all five stages, many times.

Stage 1

Excess Clutter

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Stage 2

One or more exits blocked

Stage 3

Odor, one or more rooms unusable

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Stage 4

Lice, food rot, urine, fecal matter

Stage 5

Rodents, structural damage

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Severe hoarding, requires disinfectant fogging application. Rotting food, dead rodents, fecal matter all have to removed safely. PPE required. Multiple dumpsters. Multiple crews.

Insurance Coverage: Damage to hoarding by the homeowner or family member, or tenant, is not typically covered by homeowner’s insurance. It is damage that has occurred over a long period of time, whereas insurance covers sudden and accidental losses, like broken pipes, fires, back up systems, and such.

The exception to coverage is if the hoarding damage is a part of a covered loss, like a water loss or a fire loss. A $2,500 water loss then becomes a $25,000 water-hoarding loss, and a fire loss doubles when hoarding is involved. Trauma scenes are also where we see hoarding, especially unattended deaths. We work with you and your insurance adjuster on such assignments.

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