Quality Air Works... (Not)

July 30 - Joel with Quality Air Works cleans infested ductwork at 211 Hunt Road. 

Urine and feces is found throughout ductwork, and urine stains are all over the subfloor.

 Dessicants (to dry up the urine) are found hidden inside the ductwork.

Towards the end of the afternoon, Joel recommends using an industrial strength cleaner called “Last Resort” -- which is the product that professionals use to remove overpowering obnoxious odors from dead bodies and decaying corpses at death scenes, among other unpleasant things -- requiring Lorri and Lisa to vacate the house for at least 2 days.

Joel returns to check progress of fumigation on August 2. He informs Lorri and Lisa they need to purchase an air purifier to further improve, then maintain, air quality in the home. 

August 15 - Joel stops by to remove the air purifier, but emphasizes the stench from the urine will be present in the dry wall and floors, and the house will likely be insufferable and unhealthy without it a permanent installation of an air purifier, the wholesale removal and replacement of subfloors, walls, and ductwork, or (more than likely) all of the above.  

Later -- after multiple duct cleanings, filter replacements, floor removal and industrial cleansing -- we learn that there is likely no way to eliminate the cat urine odor from circulating through the ducts, as the ducts themselves actually CANNOT be replaced due to structural issues.  Also, the urine smell is in the HVAC unit itself.  Even if we replaced the HVAC and the ductwork (which is impossible) there's a good chance the smell would remain, because it's in the concrete surrounding the ductwork as well.  We are stuck with breathing in the residue of the Exlers' cat's inability to control its bladder.  Forever.

It's not just inconvenient and unpleasant, kids -- there are actual real health hazards to breathing in cat urine all the time.  Read all about it here and here.

October 1 - Joel and crew demolish the kitchen, removing pink monstrosities from the bedroom and tear out portions of dry wall in living room, exposing toxic mold, intrusion of earth into the wall space without barriers in the substrate to keep it out, water intrusion into the floor and walls, structural weakness, and ever so much more. 

Vacate the house? Demolish the kitchen? Replace the subfloors, the walls, and the ductwork?  Raw earth and water seeping through the walls?  Most of this can't be fixed without razing the house, actually.  As if we could afford to raze and rebuild the house for which we've already paid $800,000.  

Say...  thanks again, Roz Neiman!  You're such a special human being.  (Once again -- NOT.)