How would you clear this particular house?

[MeanStreaker]

My wife and I bought our first house last year and, being a "gun nut", I started thinking about the best way to clear our new home.

I'll stop now for a second and give the general disclaimer that we all know: It's best to call the cops and have them clear it. It's not advisable to do it ourselves. My wife and I don't have any kids yet, so our plan should the alarm go off is to hunker down behind our dresser in our locked bedroom with the 870 while she calls the cops.

OK, with that being said, I thought it would be interesting to see how you would recommend clearing my second floor depicted below perfecty to scale.

I've practiced some and thought about it and have certainly found some pitfalls.

Let's say you know the first floor is secure, you're standing at the bottom of the stairs and for some reason you have to clear the second floor.

How would you go about it and why?

 

[lotus]

Lots of burst fire and molotovs.

 

[Sniper X]

Do a few walkthrus, then do them again and again, it'll dawn on you exactly where the "trouble spots" are and what specific areas you need to pay attention to and where you get caught up time and tme again in different scenarios. There are basic rules of house clearing, but no swat team is going to know your house as well as you will after about 20 walkthrus, and a few re-thinks of how best to clear the space. I also suggest having a freind who is tactical savy walk thru with you a few times and show you things you have yet to see yourself.

 

[Sniper X]

Bad guys hide in bedrooms first, them bathrooms, and then offices and closets in that order so consider that on your first trip, and clear the upstairs landing first...then I'd go right to master bedroom and down the hall....but tyr various scenarios and tell me what worked.

 

[Jeff White]

Have the entry team fast rope onto the roof over the bedroom at the opposite end of the hall from the stairs while the perimeter team did a breach and hold and banged the front room of the downstairs as a diversion.

The entry team blows a hole in the roof with a jet axe explosive, breaks through the sheet rock ceiling with a halligan tool, drops a bang in and then drops through into the bedroom. they then move down the hall, banging every room and closet until the second floor is cleared. Elapsed time for a trained unit, about 1:17......

Seriously, we aren't even going to get into specific TTPs here. THR is a forum for civilians. It's not a SWAT or military forum. This is off topic...

Jeff