Biohazard Cleanup Exeter NH
Certified remediation of unattended death, blood, trauma scenes, hoarding and sanitation problems across Exeter - in the older houses around the center, the long-occupied family homes, and the rural property out toward Kingston and Fremont.
A lot of our Exeter work involves a house somebody has lived in for forty years. Sometimes the call comes after a death. Often it comes before one - from an adult child who has visited for the first time in a while, or from someone who went round after not getting an answer, and found a home that has quietly become more than one person can manage. Those jobs need patience more than speed. Nothing goes out that has not been agreed, the person who lives there is spoken to rather than about, and we work at a pace they can cope with.
What We Do
We remediate scenes that are not safe to clean with household products and a mop - blood, decomposition, sewage, animal waste and infectious material. Containment goes up first, the contaminated material comes out, the structure is disinfected and verified, and the waste leaves under manifest.
A death discovered days or weeks later. Fluids reach through flooring into subfloor and framing, and odour travels through the whole building, so the work goes as deep as the contamination does rather than as deep as it looks.
Quiet, fast and complete, usually for a family who has just lost someone. We work behind closed doors, in unmarked vehicles, and nobody who lives there has to look at the room again before it is finished.
Once police release the property, what investigators leave behind becomes yours to deal with - blood, fingerprint powder, evidence cuts in the drywall, chemical residue. We take all of it.
After an accident, a fall, a medical event or an injury at work. Blood is treated as potentially infectious whoever it came from, and that is what separates a remediation from a wipe-down.
Years of accumulation, often with animal waste, spoiled food and pest activity underneath it. We work at the occupant's pace and nothing is thrown away that they have not agreed to.
A backed-up main, a failed septic line or a flooded basement. Black water carries the same pathogens as raw waste, so porous material that has absorbed it comes out rather than being dried in place.
Droppings, urine, nesting material and carcasses in attics, basements, crawl spaces and camps. Dried rodent waste becomes a respiratory hazard the moment it is disturbed, which is why it is not a shop-vac job.
Homes, offices, schools and vehicles after a confirmed illness - C. diff, MRSA, norovirus, hepatitis, influenza. EPA-registered product, applied for the dwell time the label actually requires.
What We Clean
Two rooms can look identical and need completely different work. What matters is which material is contaminated, how porous it is and how long it has been there - because fluid on a sealed tile floor is a day's work, and the same fluid in old pine boards is a floor coming out.
Potentially infectious
Treated as infectious regardless of source. The visible pool is rarely the extent of it: blood wicks under baseboard, along floor seams and down through subfloor joints, so the area we open up is larger than the area you can see.
How we handle it: Containment, porous material out, disinfect, verify
Fluid, gas and insect activity
Decomposition produces fluid, gas and insect activity, and all three move. Odour is not a smell sitting in the air; it is residue on and inside materials, and it comes back if the source is only masked.
How we handle it: Deep demolition, source removal, odour treatment
Category 3 water
Raw sewage and any flood water that has contacted it. Carpet, pad, drywall below the water line and anything particleboard has absorbed it and is not salvageable, whatever a drying company tells you.
How we handle it: Extract, remove porous material, antimicrobial, dry
Airborne when disturbed
Dried droppings and urine become airborne the moment somebody sweeps them, which is the one thing nobody should do. Common in northern New Hampshire attics, barns, camps and any building left closed for a season.
How we handle it: HEPA containment, wet removal, insulation out
Mixed hazard
Rarely one hazard. Under the accumulation there is usually some mix of animal waste, spoiled food, pests and sometimes human waste, and the biohazard layer has to be separated out and handled on its own terms.
How we handle it: Sort with the occupant, biohazard layer separately
Surface contamination
A confirmed illness in a household or workplace, or the residue first responders and investigators leave behind - fingerprint powder, tear gas, extinguisher chemical. Surface work, but it needs the right product and the right dwell time.
How we handle it: EPA-registered product, labelled dwell time, wipe-down
How It Works
Nothing here is improvised on the day. The questions on the phone decide the crew and the equipment, and the work on site follows the same order whether it is one room in a city three-decker or a lake camp that has been closed since October.
What happened, where, who owns the property, whether police or the medical examiner has released it, and whether there is an insurance claim. That is enough to dispatch.
We walk the scene, find the real extent of the contamination rather than its visible edge, and give you a written scope and price before anything is touched. No charge for this.
Plastic barriers across the openings, negative air machines running, HEPA filtration, and the crew in full PPE. This is what keeps the contamination inside the one room it is already in.
Contaminated porous material comes out - flooring, subfloor, drywall, insulation, furniture - into sealed, labelled containers. We cut back to material that is clean, not to material that looks clean.
Hospital-grade disinfectant on every affected surface for its full dwell time, then odour treatment at the source. Fogging and ozone are finishing steps, never the fix.
Surface testing where the job calls for it, waste manifests and photographs for your file, and a written scope your insurer can read. We tell you plainly what needs rebuilding.
Standards and Compliance
Biohazard remediation is not an unregulated trade. A crew that cannot name the standard it works to, or tell you where your waste went, is a liability you inherit as the property owner. These are the six things worth asking any company you call, including us.
Local Notes
Much of this work is in houses that have been lived in a long time, which changes the building, the contents and the conversation.
Decades of belongings, older plumbing and heating, and rooms that have been closed off for years. The remediation is rarely the whole job, and the rest of it needs to be handled by somebody who is not in a hurry.
Failing plumbing, a bathroom that has stopped working properly, accumulation that has gone past manageable. These are biohazard jobs even though nobody has died, and they are far easier to deal with early.
Adult children frequently live elsewhere and are trying to arrange something they have not seen. We assess, photograph and quote without you present, and we will tell you honestly what the house actually needs rather than what you are braced for.
The houses near the historic center carry plank floors, plaster and framing that lets odour move between storeys. The age of the building usually decides whether a job is one room or three.
Out toward Kingston, Fremont and East Kingston it is septic, wells and long drives, with the access forming a real part of the quote.
Cost
Priced per job, by what has to come out and how far the contamination reached, rather than by the hour. Here is where our work usually lands - and on most covered claims this is your insurer's bill rather than yours.
Most jobs land in a predictable band. A single-room blood or trauma cleanup typically runs $1,500 to $5,500; an unattended death found within a few days is usually $3,000 to $7,500; hoarding and advanced decomposition go higher, because far more has to come out.
| Type of cleanup | What it usually runs |
|---|---|
| Blood or bodily fluid cleanup, one room | $1,500 - $3,500 |
| Suicide or trauma scene, one room | $2,500 - $5,500 |
| Crime scene cleanup | $2,500 - $7,500 |
| Unattended death, found within days | $3,000 - $7,500 |
| Unattended death, advanced decomposition | $7,500 - $20,000 |
| Hoarding and gross filth cleanup | $5,000 - $25,000 |
| Sewage backup, Category 3 water | $2,500 - $10,000 |
| Rodent or animal waste remediation | $1,200 - $5,000 |
| Infectious disease disinfection | $600 - $3,000 |
These are the ranges we work in, not a quote. Where your job lands inside one comes down to the seven factors below - and on a covered claim most of it is your insurer's bill, not yours. Tell us what happened and we will price the actual job.
What Moves the Number
Nothing on this list is a surprise charge. They are the things we assess on site, and they are the reason an honest price cannot be given down the phone without seeing the scene.
| What we assess | How it moves the quote |
|---|---|
| How long it was there | The single biggest factor. Hours means a surface job; weeks means subfloor, framing and sometimes structure. |
| What the material is | Sealed tile and concrete clean up. Old pine boards, carpet pad, particleboard and insulation absorb, and come out. |
| How far it spread | Fluid travels under baseboard and down through floor seams, and odour travels through the whole air volume. |
| Volume to remove | One room of flooring is a different disposal weight from a hoarded three-bedroom house. |
| Access and the route out | A third-floor walk-up, no parking, a camp at the end of an unplowed road. All of it adds crew hours. |
| Odour work needed | Source removal is the fix; sealing and treating what cannot be removed is extra time on top of it. |
| Testing and documentation | Surface verification, clearance testing, and the written scope an insurer or a court will want. |
Insurance and Billing
People put off calling because they think they are about to pay twenty thousand dollars. Usually they are not. Standard homeowner and commercial property policies treat trauma and biohazard remediation as a covered loss, and several carriers have a specific allowance for it.
You pay your deductible and we invoice the insurer for the rest. The scope, the photographs, the product records and the disposal manifests go into the file in the form adjusters expect to see.
A property loss does not have to be authorised before it is made safe. We document everything from the first photograph so the claim stands up afterwards, and we can speak to your adjuster directly.
Where a death or a violent crime is involved, New Hampshire's victims' assistance program may cover cleanup costs for the family. We will tell you whether your situation is likely to qualify and what has to be filed.
Why a Remediation Firm
The reason this is not a cleaning job is that the hazard is invisible, it is infectious, and the law has an opinion about where the waste goes. Here is what actually differs.
| What differs | Certified biohazard crew | Janitorial or cleaning service | Doing it yourself |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodborne pathogen training | Required and current | Rarely | No |
| Containment and negative air | Standard | No | No |
| Fit-tested respirators | Every technician | No | No |
| Finds what you cannot see | Opens up to clean material | No | No |
| Waste disposal | Licensed, under manifest | Household trash, usually illegal | Household trash |
| Odour outcome | Source removed | Masked, returns | Returns |
| Insurance documentation | Scope, photos, manifests | An invoice | None |
| Who carries the exposure risk | Us, insured | Unclear | You and your family |
The part that catches people out is disposal. Putting regulated waste into a household bin or a rented dumpster is not a shortcut, it is a violation that follows the property owner - and the odour almost always comes back anyway, because the source is still under the floor.
Why Us in Exeter
A crew that treats a long-occupied house as a volume problem gets through it quickly and leaves real damage behind - belongings gone that nobody agreed to, a person who lives there treated as an obstacle, and a family relationship worse than it was.
We separate the part that is genuinely a hazard from the part that is simply a lot of things, deal with the first properly, and go at the occupant's pace on the second. It takes longer. It is the only way this works.
No charge to assess the scene, and nothing is touched before you agree the price.
The occupant decides, not us and not whoever is paying. The only exceptions are things that are genuinely hazardous, and we explain those rather than removing them quietly.
The biohazard layer is usually a much smaller job than the clear-out around it, and it is the only part that is urgent. We price them apart so you can decide.
Assessment, photographs and an honest written scope, so you are deciding on what is actually there rather than on a phone description.
Unmarked vehicles, no branding, nothing on the street that tells a neighbourhood anything. Dignity is most of what matters in these jobs.
Exeter Questions
Many of these come from people trying to help a parent and unsure whether this is even the right number. If you are not certain, ring anyway.
(866) 786-3078Blood and trauma work runs $1,500 to $5,500, an unattended death found within days $3,000 to $7,500, and hoarding or gross filth $5,000 to $25,000 depending on how much has to be removed.
Hoarding is the band with the widest spread, and the figure depends almost entirely on volume. An assessment turns that range into an actual number, and it costs nothing.
Yes, and it is much better to deal with it at this stage. We work at their pace, we talk to them rather than around them, and nothing is removed that they have not agreed to.
What we will not do is turn up with a crew and clear a house while somebody stands in the hallway. That does lasting harm and it is not what this work should be.
Partly. Underneath accumulation there is often animal waste, spoiled food, pest activity and sometimes human waste, and that layer is genuinely hazardous and has to be handled properly.
The volume above it is a clear-out, which is different work at a different price. We separate the two so you are not paying remediation rates to carry out furniture.
Same day. Exeter sits off Route 101 close to the Seacoast, so it is quick to reach at any hour.
For a non-urgent job - a sanitation or hoarding assessment - we will usually arrange a time that suits the person living there rather than arriving immediately.
Yes. From Exeter we cover Newfields, East Kingston, Stratham, Kingston, Hampton Falls, Epping, Newmarket and Fremont routinely, and the rest of this part of Rockingham County.
Several are rural and on septic, which affects both the scope of a water job and the access. Say so when you call.
For a trauma or biohazard loss, usually. For hoarding and long-term sanitation, often not - most policies treat that as maintenance rather than a sudden loss.
We will tell you honestly which category your situation is likely to fall into before you make a claim, and we will scope to a budget if that is what is needed.
Almost always, but only by removing the source. In Exeter's older houses the framing carries odour between floors, so what you smell upstairs often originates in a cellar or a closed-off room.
Treating the air alone buys a fortnight. We find where it is actually coming from first, and we will tell you what has to come out before we start.
Not from us. Nothing on the vehicles, nothing on the crew, containment inside the house and waste out on a planned route.
In a neighbourhood where people have known each other for decades this is often the family's first concern, and we treat it as part of the work.
One phone call, day or night. You do not need to describe it well, and you do not need to have decided anything yet. We will tell you what is involved and what it costs.
Service Area
Exeter sits inland from the coast with the Great Bay towns to the north and the rural Rockingham towns west. The list runs from nearest to furthest.