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The price is based on how much of the truck your stuff fills — a minimum for one or two items, then roughly a quarter, half, three-quarter or full load on a truck of about 15 cubic yards. Labour, fuel, dump fees and the two people are all in that number. The exceptions are heavy material like concrete, soil, brick and shingles, which we price by weight because the transfer station weighs the truck and charges us by the tonne, and a few items with a disposal surcharge such as mattresses and fridges. You get the price on site before we touch anything, and it does not change once we start loading.

If you can fill it yourself over a few weeks and have a driveway to put it on, a bin can be cheaper. If it is a one-day cleanout, if there are stairs, or if nobody wants to carry it, a truck and crew is usually the same money or less: a bin is billed whether you fill it or not, weight over the limit gets charged back to you, and a bin on the street needs a road occupancy permit in most municipalities. We will tell you honestly which one suits the job, even when it is the bin.

Anything the household hazardous waste rules keep out of a transfer station — paint, solvents, gasoline, propane cylinders, pesticides, pool chemicals and the like — which your municipality's HHW depot takes free. We also cannot take asbestos, biohazards or medical waste. Almost everything else is fine, including appliances, mattresses, tires, electronics, hot tubs and pianos, with a small surcharge on some of them for the disposal fee.

Sorted, as much as a truckload lets us. Furniture and goods in decent shape go to a donation partner such as a Habitat for Humanity ReStore or a local charity, metal goes to a scrap yard, electronics go to an EPRA Recycle My Electronics depot, and clean wood, drywall and concrete go to recyclers where the local transfer station accepts them. The rest goes to a licensed landfill or transfer station, and we keep the tipping receipts if you want them.

You or someone with keys needs to be there for the estimate and to point at what goes. You do not need to bag, box or carry anything to the curb; that is what you are paying for. It does help to pull out anything you want kept and set it somewhere obvious, because once a room is being cleared, things move fast.

Yes, and we do a lot of them for executors and listing agents on a deadline. We walk it first, quote the whole house rather than a load at a time if you prefer, and go room by room setting aside photographs, documents, jewellery and anything that looks personal for the family to look at before it leaves. Nobody on the crew has anything to say about the state of the place.