What you should definitely know before carrying out an estate cleanout. Tips to avoid extra costs hassles and an assortment of problems.

If you ever had an estate to cleanout or you worked for a company that had to facilitate one of the many foreclosure cleanouts in the recent past, you may have run into many road blocks.  You wouldn’t think it would be that hard to throw items away, and if you did it the wrong way it likely became more expensive than it had to be.

The days are over of the burly garbage man providing all your waste removal needs….well maybe not the burly part.  That still seems the standard for some businesses.

Since the advent of profitable recycling and the institution of state laws mandating municipal recycling the United States has significantly curbed its reliance on landfills for the disposal of all their garbage.  However there is a category of debris removal that falls in the gap between what municipalities haul away and what landfills will accept.  In this gap is where junk pick up services provide their niche.

Residents in most areas have three choices when their municipality will not haul away their junk items- either they can rent a dumpster (also known as a roll of waste container) and do the project themselves, or  they can haul items to proper disposal locations and recycling and reusing facilities-or they can hire a junk pickup service. 

The problems providing your own garbage removal is that many items that you wish to dispose may be large and require another individual to assist you.  Then you have to have a vehicle to accomplish your junk removal and finally you will have costs associated with your time, fuel, and fees.  A junk pick up service is starting to sound better already.

Trust me it gets more difficult don’t think your going to dump everything at one landfill.  Unless they are equipped to handle all your items that require recycling, you are going to have to first spend time searching for separate facilities that will take your specialty items that require proper disposal.  This will include tire disposal, computer disposal and other types of E-disposal including televisions, cell phones, computer and monitors etc., refrigerator disposal, paint, chemical and oil disposal, which might each require a separate facility for each item.  Now a junk pick up service is looking a whole lot better.

So you don’t think it is worth your time or cost effective making all those trips.  Perhaps you have an entire estate to clean out. You could rent a dumpster and take care of the whole job- at least in one location….Actually that is not likely either.  Dumpster companies will fine you for dumping the specialty items listed above, because they are not allowed with co-mingled garbage in the landfills.  Plus you are going to require at least two people with the ability to move heavy items required for furniture removal, appliance removals, pool table removals etc.  And of course there is the cost of renting a dumpster usually between $300 and $500 depending on your location.

To accomplish an entire estate cleanout your best choice is to a hire an ethical reasonably priced junk pick up service.  Not all of these junk pick up services are created equally.  Most of the franchised junk haulers will charge you one set price which is essentially the price for the load and the labor although, it isn’t presented that way.  They will also charge you surcharges for E-waste, tires, refrigerators etc.  However with a small amount of searching you will find a local junk pick up service that will provide your junk pick up at prices equal to or slightly over dumpster rental prices. 

They will provide the labor to move the heavy objects out of your house.  The better companies will not charge you surcharges for a long list of items, but some may be required.

The greatest benefit in hiring a junk pick up service, beyond the extra labor is that they will be able to take nearly everything away.  Make sure you hire an ethical, established company that will ensure they don’t dump everything in the landfill.  Many will not because by recycling and donating they reduce their dumping fees.  Another added benefit is that you have done something to significantly help the environment.  Junk pick up services are able to divert half their junk pickup loads away from landfills and towards recycling and reusing.  Even if hazardous items were not place in a dumpster, there is still significant garbage that could have been recycled had you used an environmentally friendly junk pick up service.  For information on junk pick up services that practice environmentally friendly standards and are affordable, please feel free to contact us at http://www.junkshuttle.com.