A coupon for 50 cents off Nabisco cookies was taped to the frame of the bathroom door. At the behest of the Health Department, a suburban city had asked us to clean a home, to bring it up to “inhabitable” … Continue reading
Dirty Dave and Mark are engaged in an intense conversation in DuAll’s Situation Room. What are they saying?
Some readers have asked me about Dirty Dave, our legendary Field Supervisor and head of all things filthy. Here are two shots, taken 15 minutes apart today. This is the cleanest you’ll ever see him, I thought. But no: Dirty … Continue reading
Every property tells a story. Initial entry into an unknown home brings a barrage of information about the previous occupants, and we crew members become temporary cultural archeologists. Digging through the detritus of another’s existence is an oddly voyeuristic endeavor, … Continue reading
Every new property offers a little something different. As I have written before, there are a lot of things I don’t understand about the condition in which some people leave their homes. Exhibit A: The Dine and Dash This is … Continue reading
If the appliance is inoperable, we take it. And we take a lot. Many of the homes we service have fallen victim to years of neglect, and ovens, refrigerators, water heaters and more reflect this. Here is a smattering of … Continue reading
It was your standard refrigerator, the kind for which William Perry was nicknamed: large, square, bulky. We had to remove it. The fridge was in the basement of an old house in south Minneapolis, where the people had moved out … Continue reading
I’m out in the field all day today, but I’ll leave you with these two pics from the nasty bathroom house. These two shots capture the only wall decorations in the entire place. It’s not like the place had been … Continue reading
It was worse than I thought. My initial inspection of the bathroom lasted perhaps 30 seconds, which was enough time to snap a couple of pictures and get the heck out. Yesterday, though, I had to spend more time than … Continue reading
This post is not for the squeamish. Do not scroll down unless you are comfortable observing human behavior at its foulest. Even Dirty Dave puked when we saw this. The photo at the bottom of the page was taken in … Continue reading
