Remediation Company Bee Removal…It’s Clean!

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Bees (now blocked from) entering into a home.

When someone says “Remediation!”, bee removal is not the first thing that comes to mind. Instead, you immediately think:

water damage…

fire and smoke damage…

dreaded mold…

ripping out drywall and cabinets…

or some other drastic unexpected and unpleasant situation in your home. Bees certainly fall into the drastic, unwanted and unwelcome category, but you generally don’t think about a remediation company removing bees.

Well, in the last month our remediation company has received calls and been on the scene of three separate bee extractions. Late spring and early summer is swarm season for honey bees. Unfortunately, small holes entering into your home, which lead to some nice size cavernous spaces in between your floor joists, is an open invitation to bees–a great protected place for honeycomb! Add a queen bee to the newly-formed hive and they are in business.

It has been an interesting new line of business. In all actuality, we don’t remove the bees. We come in first, as usual, but we aren’t doing the demo…we are teaming with a different set of professionals in the middle of the job: beekeepers*. The beekeepers do their thing, and we do our thing.

You aren’t going to find many companies better at containment than a disaster trained remediation company.

When you successfully fight unseen airborne contaminants everyday, you’re certainly going to be able to stop a clearly visible black and yellow insect. Bees are simply not going to make it past someone trained at containment.

A pressure fit containment room is a zero impact, yet fully sealed, series of walls built to stand alone. Proper pressure fit containment will not dent or scratch the floor, ceiling or walls.

Not just bees…this pressure fit containment room contains zombies as well!

We set up full containment, be it doorways, temporary walls and definitely any HVAC passageways or vent fans.

Zipwall zipper door entering into the contained space.

Sample of an interior pressure fit containment wall / door during bee extraction.

Zipwall in a pressure fit wall.

Admiring those Zipwall zipper doors? We do too–we have found them to be very durable! Check Zipwall’s zipper door here.

Covering air supplies and returns onto the quarantined space also protects your HVAC system in addition to not spreading the dust or allowing bees to escape.

Even light fixtures aren’t safe from us! We wrap them too (the points of contact on any walls or ceiling should only use painter’s tape too, as you don’t want to peel off existing paint). Any possible crevices in a containment room can also provide shelter for escapee bees looking for an alternative way out. Everything gets sealed off.

Air supply covered? Check! Vent fan covered? Check! Light fixture covered? Check!

If you’ve ever been through a remodel you know the fine layer of dust that settles on everything through the rest of your house. The use of temporary walls or sealing off doorways for containment in addition to covering airway passages keeps the dust in the quarantined space.

In addition, protective measures are placed on all surfaces.

Floor protection is a must when dropping ceilings, honey, insulation, and / or any other more nefarious debris coming down out of the ceiling and / or walls.

Even a small bee removal job requires floor protection.

While the bees are causing secondary damage to your walls and / or ceiling from necessary hole opening for bee hive removal, they don’t have to damage the carpeted, tiled or hardwood floors too!

Likewise, all other surfaces should get covered to minimize the sticky honeycomb from underlying walls, shelving, cabinetry, and appliances. We’ve encountered paint surfaces where the honey took the paint off the wall as the lack of primer under the paint as well as the flat paint came off with the honey.

Are you allergic to bee stings?

So are we. So we understand the importance of keeping the bees away from the rest of your household.

Sensitive to drywall dust when the drywall repairs are going on while patching up the resulting hole from removing the bees?

The same containment set up to keep the bees and the rest of the home are also the answer to keeping drywall dust contained.

Because this guy…

…is about to start creating some dust!

Full disclosure, “this guy” was sanding down an entire room, including the entire ceiling skim coating away crow’s foot texture, when these photos were taken. A small patch will not generate that kind of dust, but there is no getting around some amount of dust *will* be created.

Guess what else a remediation company has in spades? HEPA air scrubbers.

Making contaminants disappear into a filter rather than floating in the contained space is what remediation is all about. Drywall dust, disrupted wall / ceiling insulation, dirt and any other critter droppings (hopefully no critters themselves) are going to get cleaned up by the HEPA air scrubber before it hits the floor.

Pretty sure those drywall specs are not just drywall dust fallen on top of the cabinet…

You can bet a remediation team is wearing proper masks and particulate filters, but the HEPA air scrubber is what will keep the air clean throughout the process.

Last up is the abundance of high velocity fans every remediation cannot do without.

Speeding up the dry down after cleaning off the bee hive?

Want the drywall mud to dry faster?

Got you covered!

Consider a remediation company if you have the unfortunate experience of requiring bee removal services.

Hiring them just for containment purposes is an option even if they do not offer putback and bee removal itself.

Cleaner. Safer. Faster. Contained.

Got bees? If you are in the Greater Houston bay area south of Beltway 8 give us a call at R & R Property Rehab.

*We work with M & M Honey–a no-kill, remove and relocate service; as well as beekeeping and honey producer. Mark and Michelle are great couple out of Santa Fe, TX, also servicing the Galveston to Houston corridor.

Hmmm…got a company name with duplicate letters and an ampersand? Maybe we’d work well together. 😉