Junk Removal Vancouver

NO HIDDEN FEES!

• Single items - $60-$100

• 1/4 load - $129

• 1/3 load - $149

• 1/2 load - $199

• 3/4 load - $299 

• Full load - $399

Call (604) 910-7549 or Email: mond@junkpickup.ca

  Vancouver Junk Removal provides the most affordable services in the Vancouver area.  Our Rubbish Disposal fees are 70% lower than most 1800 trash disposal companies operating in the Vancouver. We believe that rubbish removal services should be carried in a reliable and professional manner without any last minute surprises and hidden charges. Our Vancouver Junk Removal team will provide you with a set disposal cost prior to loading your garbage.  

• How big is a full load?

• About our junk removal fees for the Vancouver Area

• DO WE RECYCLE?

• Information on Green waste disposal for Vancouver

• Information on Vancouver construction waste disposal

• I have some garbage and a mattress or a couch

• Drywall Disposal for Vancouver?

• Couch Removal for Vancouver

• Mattress Removal for Vancouver

• What are our junk removal fees based on in Vancouver?

  How big is one load? The box is 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and 4 feet high. This is about 10 cubic yards.

The videos below provide a good idea much rubbish one load can take     

About our junk removal fees for the Vancouver Area

Junk removal rates can be categorized in two ways.  There are single items jobs and multi-items jobs. Single items jobs are priced based on what type of garbage you have. If you have a mattress or box spring, couch, washer or dryer or any other appliances, then you pay for what each item fee is.  As soon as you get an additional item on top of the 1st item, you get a better deal for the 2nd item. With multi- items orders,  rates are based on volume.  Vancouver Junk Removal charges you based on 1/3 load, 1/2 load or full load.  Multi-item jobs will cost you less than if you price each individual item. Therefore, it is a good idea to look around your property and see if you can find more garbage to dispose of so you can reach the full load. If you have to call us later to just comeback for one or two items, then you will see that the deal will not be as good as with the multi-item pick up. There is one exception to multi-item deals and that is if you add a  mattress or a box spring to the orders. City of Vancouver used to treat mattresses and box springs as regular garbage and Vancouver Junk Removal  had to pay a normal garbage rate based on how heavy the mattress was.  Since 2010 Vancouver city is charging extra for each mattress or box spring. For that reason if you have a full load, we would have to charge you the fee for a full load plus $20 for each mattress or box spring that you add to the load.

Does Vancouver Junk Removal RECYCLE?

Often people ask us if our junk removal company recycle. Our hauling team recycles everything that  can be recycled. Actually, there is no way around recycling certain rubbish. The city of Vancouver landfill is very strict on this topic and no recyclable junk makes it in the garbage.  Metal, unpainted wood, soil, greens, paints, drywall, mattress and box spring, light bulbs. All these types of waste cannot be placed with the other trash. If we do, we face big fines. If we keep on doing it, we could get banned from the Vancouver transfer stations and our junk removal business will be over. Doing junk removal in Vancouver is greener than most people think.

Information on Green waste disposal

In the summer months Vancouver Junk Removal deals with green waste on daily basis. A tree, branches, leaves, bushes, firewood and grass is rubbish which falls into our green waste category.  Disposal cost for green waste can very significantly due to the nature of green waste. For example evergreen big branches require few working hours to load them. They are easy to carry and pile on top of each other. This kind of green waste will have the usual disposal fees listed on our price list and there will be no extra charges.  However, in some other cases additional labor is required when dealing with green waste. For example if a client has small trimmings and leaves in a pile, and they are not in paper bags, then this will take additional labour to get the green waste on top of the truck. In order to save money, we advise our clients to place smaller branches and leaves in paper bags. Our  company does not remove dirt and soil since this type of material falls into the landscaping work. The dump station in Vancouver has limits on the amount and quality of soil that we can dispose and this work is best left for a landscaping company. They will do it faster and cheaper for our clients. In some cases, there is some soil mixed with the other green waste material. In those cases, we will remove it for your but there will be extra charge due to additional labor and higher fees we have to pay at the land field. Soil is very heavy. For example a cubic yard of soil is 5-6 times heavier than other green waste. At the land field, our rubbish removal company is billed based on the weight of the green waste we dispose.

What are Vancouver Junk Removal fees based on ?

It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while when I do junk removal in Vancouver I get clients who feel that they should be paying much lower disposal fees.  I don’t blame them. Before I started my junk removal business out of Vancouver, I was holding the same opinion. Actually, that was the main reason I started this business. I had the impression that I could charge a fraction of what the other  companies in Vancouver were charging.  Like those clients, I could not see the hidden expenses of this type of business.  As time passed on, I discovered that these hidden expenses were eating bigger and bigger chunk of my profits to the point when I had to keep on increasing my dumping fees on few occasions until the profits made sense to me.  Here is what it takes to complete a pick up in Vancouver and the additional expenses that come with it. A website has to be maintained. My web developer is not cheap, especially when I need only few lines added to some pages. It is a small task but he would not just charge me for 5 min of work done. So naturally he charges me for one hour of work. Then there is the junk removal advertisement expenses. This industry is very competitive and on average each client lead costs me between $5 and $20.  When a client's order is as high as $350, $20 for a lead is not so bad, but most of the orders are in the range of $90-$150. Often it is easy to underestimate how long it takes to get to the client’s home, get the rubbish loaded onto the truck, drive back to the dump station and dispose of it. At the dump station there is a waiting period between 10 and 20 min. The city of Vancouver has strict rules on where different types of rubbish goes.  General rubbish is disposed in one location but electronics, card board, metal, paper, paint and refrigerators are disposed in different locations. That involves more driving and more waiting on lines. On average to complete a job in Vancouver, it takes between 1 and 2 hours. My truck gets 6 MPG! With today's gas prices, going to the pump is no fun. When you add the disposal fees that are paid at the dump station, you can see how expenses are starting to eat from the profits. However, there was one big expense around my  business that I did not see for some time which turned out to be significant. Big trucks break often and when they do, they costs a lot more than fixing just a regular car. Close to $5000/year go to my mechanic.  I felt providing my clients with this information in order for them to better understand on what my  fees are based on.

Information on Vancouver construction waste disposal

Disposal fees for construction waste  can go up and down more than any other type of pick up projects. The reason for that is construction waste involves garbage that is different in weight, size, cost of disposing it and how long it takes for it to be loaded.  Most garbage pick up jobs differ in similar ways but construction waste is usually in a pile and things need to be separated before it is taken to the dump station. The rules for construction waste are very different and much stricter in Vancouver. For example wood, dry wall, metal, and bricks go into different places in the transfer station in Vancouver.  Dry wall also brings a double disposal fees when dropped at the transfer station in Vancouver.  Most of the time construction waste is in a big pile and all those four types of rubbish are mixed and often it is hard to pull the different types apart. This adds a lot to the labor costs. Construction waste also is harder to load on our truck.  A pile of construction material contains hundreds of small separate pieces and no more of few can be carried to our truck at a time. This also adds to the labor costs, especially if the pile of construction rubbish is far from the truck.

I have some garbage and a mattress

Let say that you have some garbage that is enough to fill up 1/3 of a truck but you also have a mattress to add to it. Most clients think that the they will be charge $129 for the 1/3 load plus $80 for the mattress. We only charge $80 for a mattress if it is by itself. However, this is not the case. We will charge you $129 plus $30 for each mattress. Therefore you will have to pay a total disposal fee of $159. If you have other furniture to add to the load, you will not be charged any extra fees. You will be charged what the added furniture adds to the total volume of you rubbish. Furniture items such as couch, table, desk, futon, sofa, and chairs are treated as a normal garbage. Only a mattress and a box spring carry extra fees.

Drywall disposal for Vancouver

Drywall is treated in Vancouver as a very different type of rubbish. To begin with drywall cannot be placed with the general junk at the Vancouver dump. Companies engaging in such methods of disposal of drywall will get fined most of the time. Drywall is recycled in Vancouver and therefore it cannot be treated as a normal garbage.  The city of Vancouver dump charges double the fees to dispose a drywall load at their facility. We are not sure why this is the case but this is the reality our company has to deal with. Drywall is also very heavy and disposal fees of drywall are based on weight.  Therefore keep in mind that drywall will costs you more than hauling away general garbage. There is also another important fact about drywall disposal that needs to be stated.  The city of Vancouver does not allow any other material mixed with drywall. Few of our clients not knowing this fact, have given us bags of drywall mixed with dirt, wood and other small items that is almost impossible to separate. If the bags are full of big sheets of drywall and other garbage, then that wouldn’t be too much of a problem, but usually this is not the case.  Therefore, please do not mix drywall with other waste. Sometimes the drywall clients need disposed have other material stacked to it that cannot be removed.  Such construction material could be tiles, wood, or plaster.  Since September 2011 the City of Vancouver transfer station would not take drywall that has anything stuck to it. We are not sure why they are having an issue with tiles and wood stuck to drywall. As for drywall with plaster the city of Vancouver claims that plaster has asbestos and therefore they do not want to take it. The only place where this kind of a drywall is taken is in Delta and this is way out of our operational area and an additional fees will be applied.  There is a way out of this situation but it involves the client testing the plaster for a high fee of $105. This will make sense only if the client has large quantities of drywall with plaster. How can you tell if your drywall has plaster on it. You will notice that it the sheets of dry wall are very heavy.  

Couch Removal for Vancouver

Couch/sofa is an item that our company can haul away for you.  Dealing with a couch is pretty straight forward.  Our team pays you a visit and picks up your couch for you. The disposal fee for a couch is also pretty much the same for any couch. The size of the couch does not influence how much we charge you for hauling it away to the Vancouver transfer station.  However, there are few scenarios that might add some extra charges on top of the disposal fees. Usually not exceeding more than $10-$20.

• Your couch is left on the rain and it has soaked in water – This will add weight to your couch and our waste disposal fees are based on an average weight of one couch. Our company has to pay disposal fees at the Vancouver transfer station and these fees are based on weight.
• Your building does not have an elevator – This scenario will add more labour cost to our company and naturally we have to charge for it.

What can you do before we come to haul away your old couch?

There are few things that you can do before we arrive to pick up the couch that will allow us to service you faster.  Removing any obstacles in the hallway will help us when we are taking the couch out of you house. This will also ensure that there will be a zero chance for any damage done on the these obstacles.  Removing the legs of the couch would help as well. Couch legs sometimes are the only reason it cannot fit though a doorway. Also these legs could scratch walls and furniture. Removing them will eliminate these possibilities.  

What if you have more than one couch?

In this case we will give you a good deal. We can pick up the 2^nd couch for half the price in most cases.

My Couch has bedbugs

Unfortunately our team cannot remove couches with bedbugs.  

Mattress and Box spring Removal for Vancouver

The average lifespan of a mattress is less than 10 years. At that point you have to get rid of your mattress somehow. Throwing it on the garbage is not an option for you. It is not an option for us either. In 2011 the City of Vancouver implemented new rules regarding mattress and box spring disposal.  Mattresses are not to be treated just as regular garbage anymore in Vancouver. They are to be recycled for their wood and metal. The size of your mattress does not dictate how much our disposal fees are. Single, double, Queen or King size mattresses have the same recycling fees. In general recycling items in Vancouver should be accepted for free but with a mattress this is not the case. Each mattress requires an extended amount of labour for the metal springs to be removed. Therefore the disposal fee our company pays for each mattress is much higher than just a regular rubbish with the same weight as a mattress. What can you do before we arrive to haul away your mattress? Please remove any obstacles that might be found in the hallway. This way we can be out of your house in no time. What if I have more than one mattress? You will get a good deal on the 2^nd mattress. In most cases you will pay only half the fee for any additional mattress. My mattress has bedbugs. We cannot pick up mattresses or box springs infested with bedbugs.