For many business owners, expanding to include hoarding cleanup in addition to existing restoration and remediation services is seemingly an easy decision. For instance, you already have the proper PPE and overhead, there’s  currently a big demand for such services and hoarding cleanup work doesn’t have the “shock and awe” and psychological impact on workers that trauma and crime scene cleaning does.

But as Heidi Lamkin, Absolute Bio-Recovery Services East, recently discovered on a job, that latter point isn’t always true.