Nightmare carpet issue

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Nightmare carpet issue

Postby jlet » Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:08 pm

Hi, I'm hoping to find some good suggestions here for my "little problem". Actually it's my elderly mother's "problem" and now my big headache to deal with. What I mean is, to cut a long story short... she contaminated the carpet in her home. She is now out of her home and living in a Board and Care facility for Alzheimer's. I want to clean, pack up, and sell her house, but first I have this horrible c.diff carpet issue to deal with. I

I wear shoe covers whenever I need to enter the home. I'm unsure which furniture is safe and what has to be disposed of. Some has an obvious answer, but some of the items I'm not sure. First, I'd like to get the carpet taken out. What company will do that? I called ServPro, and they took info for an estimate, but they really didn't want to deal with it so I didn't pursue it with them. Who do I call? He w about one of those hazmat companies who clean up messy crime scenes? What do you think?

I have more questions, but first I'll wait for responses on this. Thank you so much. J

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby Ril » Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:55 pm

Hello and welcome to the site. Sorry for your problems but I honestly think you are in the wrong place looking for answers. We don't know the agencies and companies who provide services where you live. I would call the nursing home and ask the social worker for assistance and failing that call your local health dept asking for referrals.

Best of luck to you.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby OCmama » Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:08 pm

Hi! If you are in California there is a company that will deal with C. diff clean up (they also do crime-scenes, so you may have one in your area). I am so glad that you are taking it seriously and not sending people in your mother's home who are not adequately informed or prepared to handle cleaning out your mom's home.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby jlet » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:10 am

Thank you for your replies. Ril - you say I might be in the wrong place looking for answers, yet you actually did give me some good information. Contacting the local department of health is something I hadn't thought of. I will certainly do that. Maybe the CDC too? I did already talk to the social worker and they had no clue who to contact.

OCmama - yes I'm in California.. OC in fact! Is it okay to tell me the company name here? I know there are several of that type of company I can call, but I'd hope whoever answers the phone has heard of cdiff and is familiar. It was quite humiliating having to explain what it is, and what my problem is to the other company to ask whether they deal with it or not!

This is stressing me out to no end. It needs to be dealt with asap. Thanks again!

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby beth22 » Tue Sep 19, 2017 1:35 am

Send a pm to OCmama and ask her for the name of the company.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby roy » Tue Sep 19, 2017 9:48 am

There's no bio hazard reportable so I would just wrap it up and take it to a dump, or bag it up and have a regular waste contractor remove it.
C.diff spores can be on anything you touch, supermarket trolleys, bus seats and hand rails, door knobs, soil in the garden, it's a normal common bug.
There's no special laws concerning disposing of a home contents that I am aware of.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby OCmama » Tue Sep 19, 2017 3:59 pm

I sent you a PM :-)

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby jlet » Sat Sep 23, 2017 12:51 pm

Sorry late reply here. OCmama I sent you a PM back, thank you so much. It seems it's "stuck" in my outbox. Did you get it? I wonder if I need a higher post count in order to exchange pm's?

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby roy » Sat Sep 23, 2017 1:09 pm

It leaves your outbox when the recipient reads it.

Be carefully you don't spend mega$$$ when you really don't have a serious problem.
Unless of course you panic and wrongly think there's a bio hazard.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby jlet » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:42 pm

Thanks Roy, about the PM's. Then if it wasn't a big deal, and highly contagious, why would anyone need to take special precautions not to get it? I think I'm still going to take strict precautions! But I hope to not have to pay a small fortune for the cleanup either.

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Re: Nightmare carpet issue

Postby roy » Sat Sep 23, 2017 3:57 pm

It's up to you but the contagious reputation is misleading. C.diff is a problem in nursing homes and hospitals because people are often on antibiotics. That is why they get c.diff as a disease. Its should be preventable by the hospital following correct procedures but alas they often fail to.
C.diff is only a contagion problem in health care settings in the majority of cases.
C.diff is a common bug, if you walk in the park it's in the soil. Around half of processed meats can carry c.diff and 75% of babies have it, you would not dream of calling in someone to change a diaper or dispose of it via a specialist company.
To be blunt a normal healthy person who has not recently been on antibiotics could suck on a c.diff contaminated carpet and would not catch c.diff as a disease.
Don't recommend it though:-)


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