Over many years, discoveries that at first seemed unusual became more common - a stash of pot or other drugs, hand guns, sex toys all showed up multiple times. (But) one find has never been matched.

A homeowner called and asked if we could check her ventilation system for cleanliness. She also complained that her bathroom was always cold in the winter and hot in the summer. In fact, the homeowner has had this problem since the house was built 17 years ago.

(We had) an 800 square foot basement that had a sump pump failure. It was carpeted so we need to remove the pad. We found that the customer had been collecting model trains. It was set up like a warehouse, with only lanes.

We had a customer complain that there was a bad odor coming from her air ducts.

We were doing a job for a widowed woman. She lived alone and never ventured to her crawl space, that is until she had a flood.

We brought you the neat – yet unusual – story on Jason Brown earlier this month. As you may recall, the Rainbow International Fairfield, N.J. president pumped some 1,500 gallons of water into his own basement so he could dry it, demonstrate he and his team’s expertise and – ideally – drum up some new business with the attention it generated in the process.

We’ve asked for bizarre. And we got bizarre.

R&R’s “I’ve Never Seen That Before…” contest has been live for a couple of weeks now and so far we’ve received some funny, weird – and gross – entries from restoration and remediation workers all over the country.

Restoration & Remediation is holding a contest where we’re asking you to send us your stories of the strangest thing you’ve ever come across on a restoration or remediation job.