What is a crisis clean? Essentially, a Crisis Clean is usually a one-off cleaning of a home that is not safe or healthy for the person living there to return to; where an individual would be at risk due to the conditions they are living in. When is a crisis clean cecessary? Crisis Cleaning is…

Cleaning out a hoarded home At HALO, we get a lot of calls from the loved ones of people with hoarded homes. They are desperate to know what they can do to help their mother, daughter, father, son, sister, brother, best friend, etc… with hoarding disorder. We are constantly asked one question in particular, “How…

Discovering The Joys Of Minimalist Christmas The holidays are full of joy and cheer, peace on Earth, time spent with family and friends, turkey dinners and Christmas Carols. If your family is like mine, you try and strike a balance between being with family to create memories and not breaking the bank on Christmas gifts….

What is Swedish Death Cleaning? In Sweden, Death Cleaning is called döstädning. The name is a mashup of the Swedish wordsfor death and cleaning. The concept was first created by Swedish author Margareta Magnussonin her 2017 book called The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning; it is a New York TimesBestselling book. Although it might…

Although HALO hopes to never meet clients under tragic circumstances, there is achance that you may find yourself looking for experts behind trauma cleaning services,like HALO. Other names for Trauma Cleaning include biohazard cleanup, biohazardremediation or biohazard removal. When You Need Trauma Cleaning Services? Situations that require you to hire a trauma cleaner include accidents,…

When people find out that part of our work at HALO is cleaning and repairing hoarder houses,they are intrigued. Many people launch into telling us about the hoarded home in theirneighborhood with boxes and newspapers piled on the front stoop and garbage strewn aroundthe yard. However, the reality is that many houses being lived in…

HALO’s cleanup portfolio is quite diverse. Recently we started sharingabout the different kinds of Trauma Cleanups that we work on; our last blogtalked about Crime Scene Cleanups. Although not always classified as atrauma, Needle and Drug Cleanups are treated with thesame extreme caution and care as cleanups in the trauma category. Myths Of Needle &…

Crime Scene cleanup is one of the most misunderstood kinds of Trauma Cleanups; and HALOdoes our fair share of them. What is a Trauma Cleanup? The simplest explanation of a Trauma Cleanup is that it requires the cleaning of biohazardousmaterials. There are different kinds of trauma cleanups including workplace and industrialaccidents, crime scenes, trauma scenes…

One of HALO’s specialties is Estate Cleanout Services. Our Estate Cleanout clients usuallycome as the result of saddening circumstances; sometimes a death, injury, disability orinability to live independently. It is not easy getting a call from the family, public guardian ortrustee of someone involved in a life-changing accident, whose parent has developedAlzheimer’s or has been…

I was having a conversation with a new friend who was curious to know more about HALO. “How do you know whether someone’s home is cluttered, whether they’re just a great collector or an actual hoarder?” she asked. What a great question, I thought to myself, hoarding vs clutter. Let’s break it down. Every now…