Your "nope" moment

Jean-Claude

Jean-Claude

Keeper of the beautiful
Today a guy called and said he had an issue he needed help with.



He spilled 35#, yes thirty-five POUNDS, of used liquid cooking grease in his trunk. It made its way into the passenger compartment. He proceeded to take the car to a wash bay and pressure washed the fabric interior. He said that when he sets papers on the back seat the papers come up with grease on them and that for some reason it still smells like the grease. (I felt horrible for the guy but had to choke back laughter at this point)



I pretty much said, "nope" and that he should call his insurance company and look into a claim and to have more than a cleaning done.



What's your nope moment?
 
I would say that you summarized my nope moment Jean Claude. I wouldn't even begin to try and tackle something like that. He will need all new carpets. Don't see a way around it.



I wouldn't even know what I would charge if I were crazy enough to take on a job like that...
 
Had a client returning an airless paint sprayer to the rental company.....with paint still in the hopper. In the back of a brand new Ford Explorer. Client had to hit the brakes and you can guess what the end result was. Paint covered everything from the dash to the back of the truck. I told him the same thing, call your insurance agent.
 
dog was bleeding and threw up in the back seat of a truck with cloth seat...I said, I'm no hazmat team, I don't do that type of stuff, and to be honest replace is the only option for me.
 
Next time someone calls and says "my boyfriend drank too much last night and you can probably guess what happened in the car". Nope, no thank you, never again.
 
Had a customer call me and told me that he had a raccoon living in a car he was restoring and wanted to know if I could get the excrement out. No thanks!
 
D_Nyholm said:
Had a customer call me and told me that he had a raccoon living in a car he was restoring and wanted to know if I could get the excrement out. No thanks!
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Yes with fire.
 
Someone called me to do an interior detail on his friends car. Thing is, his friend was killed by gun fire in the car, so there was blood everywhere. That was my one and only "nope moment" so far.
 
several years back I got a call asking if I could remove some roofing tar that spilled out in the back of an older jeep cherokee, I asked many questions, and made myself very clear as to what I could and couldn't do, I arrived at the job and I swear I was expecting a friend or ashton to jump out and tell me I just got punk'd! There was tar from top to bottom, front to back on the interior of this vehicle. I tried my best to not be angry and I just asked the customer if he was joking with me and had the vehicle I was really gonna be working on in his garage, nope that was it. I looked at him and just told him that there wasn't anything I could do and he needed to just replace the interior or deal with the tar being there.
 
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Got a call from a trucking company in Colorado. ( I am in California) They told me that they need one of their big KW tractors "cleaned up". I asked what the deal was with it and the lady told me that a driver had picked up the truck a few weeks ago, for a delivery, and then disappeared. They found the truck here in California and found that he had been living in it for a few weeks. She told me there was feces, vomit, blood, rotten food and cock roaches. I politely told her that my company wasn't set up for bodily fluids and wished her luck. 
 
On this note:


 


Did you guys know there are no regulations for bio-clean up onsite for cars? From what I read about it, basically if you want to go clean up suicides in cars/houses you get the business and go do it. There are no regulations for even what is the bear minimum. 


 


...unreal (I have no desire to do it as we do better than the prices I've seen those guys make. But still...for any of you who...well nm..)
 
What about disposing of the materials used for cleaning any biohazards, towels, cleaning fluids, and such?

I would think that if someone gets caught disposing of these items in a regular garbadge that you may face consequences. This would apply to a business rather than the DIY types. I'm from Jersey...we regulate everything.

On a side note, if someone were to undertake a job that involved biohazards they would at least protect themselves from contamination.

Oh the stories from work that involve sanitation folks who happen across these items...
 
I agree that someone should get their hepatitis shots and proper PPE. From what I have read there are not any regulations though. Insurance providers may require something to be insured in doing it though.


 


Disposing of the biohazard? No idea. There are companies that dispose of it for doctor's offices/hospitals. I suppose they would be the ones to contact about that aspect.
 
mose said:
Got a call from a trucking company in Colorado. ( I am in California) They told me that they need one of their big KW tractors "cleaned up". I asked what the deal was with it and the lady told me that a driver had picked up the truck a few weeks ago, for a delivery, and then disappeared. They found the truck here in California and found that he had been living in it for a few weeks. She told me there was feces, vomit, blood, rotten food and cock roaches. I politely told her that my company wasn't set up for bodily fluids and wished her luck.
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Good lord. Sounds like a job for a match and some gasoline lol. Wonder if she got anyone to touch it
 
I have cleaned up my fair share of "stuff" in car interiors. My kind of a nope moment was a guy with a 2012 Ford Explorer that had dog diarrhea all over the 2nd and 3rd row. When he asked if I could clean it I said for something like that I would charge you $800-$1000.


He said: are you fu#&!%g serious! Its just dog $hi#.


One of the most disgusting interiors I have ever seen.
 
A man called to say he was up visiting his daughter during the last of her pregnancy. They took her to the hospital in his car when she started feeling labor pains. And then guess what happened? Her water broke. In his Cherokee. Told him I was booked in advance a couple weeks. Of course, he said he couldn't wait that long and said he'd have to call around since he was heading back to Houston the next day. 


 


And then there was the call from someone at a trucking firm. Seems one of his drivers was overcome by the heat and let loose from both ends inside the cab of the semi. And could I come out immediately and clean it. Said I was already booked and he'd be looking at a grand for me to break that appointment and $250 more if it made me puke. He said that was too much, what did I recommend? Take it to a car wash, tell them the interior needs cleaning. But don't tell them about the mess. Let them figure it out once they get into the job. 
 
Biohazard clean up is a tricky beast that should never be cheap. It can ultimately cost you do down the road if you're exposed to something you shouldn't be.
 
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