Call (604) 910-7549 or Email: mond@junkpickup.ca
Our Rubbish Removal company provides the most reasonably priced waste management solutions for the city of Vancouver. Whether it is residential or commercial clients, we treat every job with the same level of professionalism. Our team will show up on time and haul away your unwanted junk items for disposal fees lower than any 1800 JUNK companies. In most cases our rates are 50% less than what the large companies charge.
Junk Removal Rates
Disposal rates are based on few conditions. If you have a single item such as a mattress ,box spring or any other furniture, then there is a fee for that item. However, if you have junk comprised by multiple items, it would not be fair to us to charge you for each item a separate fee. If you have two mattresses, we will not charge you twice the same fee. The more items you have, the cheaper the fee per item becomes. Therefore, for multiple items job, we charge per volume. If you have 3 couches, you will be charged for the volume the 3 couches take, which will be much less than if you have to pay for each individual couch. Visit our Junk Removal Prices for a complete list of our rates.
How much room does out truck have?
The truck is 12ft x 8ft x 5ft. This is 12 cubic yards. If we have to, we can put 6-7 couches. We try to arrange waste in a way that we get the most in the truck. Scroll bellow to see some videos that will give you some idea on the size.
What items do we dispose of?
We take most of the junk that you could have in your house. Starting from furniture and ending with green waste. Some of the junk that we cannot take is due to the fact that the city of Vancouver imposes certain restrictions on us what we can and cannot dump at the landfills. Find a complete list of the items we take and don’t take here.
Do we RECYCLE?
Often people ask us if our company recycles. Our hauling team recycles everything that can be recycled. Actually, there is no way around recycling certain waste. The city of Vancouver landfill is very strict on this topic and no recyclable junk makes it in the general 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.
Information on Green waste disposal
In the summer months we deal with green waste on daily basis. Trees, branches, leaves, bushes, firewood and grass 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 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 it 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 yard waste. 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 materials. At the land field, our business is billed based on the weight of the green waste we bring to them.
Some Information on construction waste
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 haul away 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. Most of the time construction waste material is in a big pile and all those four types are mixed and often it is hard to pull the different types apart. This adds a lot to the labor costs. It is also harder to load on our truck.
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 garbage. Companies engaging in such methods are fined most of the time. Drywall is recycled in Vancouver. The city of Vancouver dump charges double the fees for drywall. We are not sure why this is the case but this is the reality our company has to deal with.
There is also another important fact about drywall 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.
Phone: (604) 910-7549
