There are many reasons for hoarding. Scientists say that the disorder is genetically inherited and has biological prerequisites associated with difficulty in making decisions, organizing, and planning (there are even studies showing that hoarders have reduced activity in those areas of the brain that are responsible for concentration and organization of their actions). Hoarding is often combined with attention deficit disorder, anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. This phenomenon is spread throughout the world regardless country and nationality, that’s why relatives of hoarders often use professional hoarding cleanup service philadelphia Pennsylvania and other US states.
Hoarders litter their apartments with various garbage and do not want to get rid of it at all. All this sooner or later leads to terrible unsanitary conditions and unbearable odor bothering people living next door. These people seem to “mutate” inside their bodies and simply do not notice that something is wrong with them. To make the matters worse, cockroaches and bedbugs infest hoarders’ apartments and create multiple colonies. As you know, cockroaches are carriers of diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fever, salmonellosis. Hordes of terrifying and vile insects begin to spread throughout the house at enormous speed and this is where the neighbors start to sound the alarm and turn to professional hoarding cleanup service Philadelphia Pennsylvania because only specialists can help in this terrible situation. They use insecticides that are safe for humans and animals. What’s more, professional hoarding cleanup service Philadelphia Pennsylvania use advanced cockroach extermination methods.
Desinfection is performed by one of three methods:
1. Aerosol – fine spray, in which the insecticide turns into a mist and settles on all surfaces.
2. Combined – spraying the infested places and applying a paste in the form of a gel in hidden places.
3. Gel – covering all hard-to-reach places with a special gel-paste.
It takes approximately 15 minutes to get rid of cockroaches.
A special form of hoarding is taking stray cats and dogs home. There is a fine line between hoarders and people who professionally take care of animals: shelter owners and breeders. This line is due care for animals and critical perception. A good shelter owner or breeder has animals who live in decent conditions, sterilized, fed, vaccinated and healthy. The hoarder, on the other hand, has too many animals in a small area; they mate uncontrollably, give birth to new ones, sometimes eat each other. They are malnourished and sick. There are too many of them for the hoarder to have enough money to feed them, but he does not realize this. It seems to him that no one else can love these animals the way he does, no one will take care of them the way he does. According to foreign statistics, from 2 to 5% of the population suffer from hoarding. Animals are collected by 40% of hoarders; 80% of animal collectors have sick, dying or already dead animals at home. Undoubtedly, the conditions, in which hoarders and their pets live are totally unbearable. What’s more, the hoarders spoil life of people living in the neighbourhood. It’s impossible for the neighbours to ignore the problem because sooner or later this problem becomes theirs. The only right solution in this case would be calling the police in order to set the poor cats and dogs free or find them more suitable accommodation in the animal shelter and then resort to professional hoarding cleanup service Philadelphia Pennsylvania to eliminate the consequences of the mess as soon as possible. With the help of modern chemicals these services will quickly take care of disgusting odors and when the odor sources are removed and the surfaces and materials are pre-cleaned, the premises are treated with special compounds using professional equipment to completely eliminate the odor and disinfect the air.