Cars, pickups and vans
Blood and biohazard cleanup for cars and trucks in High Point
A car is a small closed box lined with foam, fabric and carpet. After an assault, a medical emergency at the wheel, a death, or a drive to the emergency room with someone bleeding, it holds on to what happened in ways a car wash and a detailer are not set up to handle.
Phone picked up day and night, every day of the week
Is the vehicle yours to clean yet?
If the car was part of a crime or a serious crash, the police may be holding it as evidence, or it may be sitting in a tow yard on their instruction. Nothing should be cleaned until the investigating agency releases it. Ask the officer on the case, and ask where the vehicle is and what it will take to collect it.
If it is already back in your driveway, leave the windows up, keep children out of it, and don't run the heater or air conditioning.
Inside the car
What the work involves
Seats and belts
Seat covers hide what the foam beneath has absorbed. Cushions may be removed, and seat belt webbing that was soaked is often replaced, not cleaned.
Carpet and floor pan
Carpet is lifted so the padding and the metal under it can be reached. Fluid collects in the low points of the floor.
Vents and headliner
Air vents, the headliner and door panels are checked and cleaned, because fine spatter and odor travel.
Odor
The cabin is treated after the source is gone. Scent sprays over the top of it don't last.
Paying
Who might cover a vehicle
- After a crime
- North Carolina's victim compensation claims page names car interiors, the cleaning of blood, as an example of crime scene cleanup it can pay for. The program's number is (800) 826-6200.
- Auto insurance
- Whether your policy responds depends on the cover you bought and on what happened. Ask your insurer or agent, and tell them a biohazard cleanup company will be doing the work.
- A work vehicle
- For a company van or truck, the business's insurer and its safety officer should both hear about it before anyone drives it again.
Repair, sell or let it go
Sometimes the family doesn't want the car back whatever its condition, and that is a reasonable choice. Even then it usually has to be cleaned before a dealer, a buyer or a salvage yard will take it. Ask the cleanup company for a written note of what was done; a buyer or an insurer may want to see it.
Where the cost of cleaning comes close to the value of an older vehicle, say so on the call. A straightforward company will tell you when it is not worth doing.
Vehicle questions
Do they come to me, or do I bring the car in?
Either, depending on the company. Many work in a driveway or at a tow yard. If the car should not be driven, tell them and they will come to it.
Can a detailer do this instead?
A detailer cleans what can be seen. Blood under a seat or in the carpet padding needs parts taken out and waste carried off properly, which is a different trade.
What about a rental car or a rideshare vehicle?
Tell the rental company or the platform straight away, before arranging anything. They may have their own process and insurer.
High Point and the Triad towns nearby
Nobody in the family should have to clean that room
Give them the address and one sentence about what took place. They will want to know if the officers and the medical examiner are done there, and then they will describe their approach.
When you are ready, call.
Whoever picks up is with a separately owned local firm that does biohazard and trauma cleaning around High Point. Listen to their plan and their price. Whether you hire them is up to you.
Call (743) 256-4780Phone picked up day and night, every day of the week
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