Biohazard work is not cleaning. Blood and other potentially infectious material is handled under the OSHA bloodborne pathogen standard, which sets what protective equipment the crew wears, how the area is isolated, how waste is contained and where it is allowed to go. It is also the one job we do where the property is almost never the hardest part — there is usually a family, a landlord or a business owner standing on the other side of it. We show up in unmarked vehicles, we do not discuss the address, and we work around the people involved rather than through them.
Alachua County sits on covered karst — a limestone shelf under a thin skin of sand and clay, the same geology that opened the Devil’s Millhopper and that drains a large part of the county down through Paynes Prairie rather than out to a river. What that means for a wet building is that stormwater does not run off, it goes down, and a heavy afternoon cell can leave water sitting against a slab in Jonesville or Haile Plantation long after the rain has stopped. Nothing here has a basement either, so a failed supply line spreads flat and fast. Add a rental market where thousands of duplexes and 1970s apartments turn over every August, and a good share of what we dry began as a slow leak nobody was home to notice.
Crews dispatch 24/7 from our Gainesville base at 1126 NW 2nd St, Ste C and cover all of Gainesville — one local team, no subcontracted call centers. See all services in Gainesville or read more about biohazard & trauma cleanup.
