A lot of people hire a junk hauling services to help them clean up the forgotten spaces in our lives. Places like basements, attics, and garages are ideal targets for junk removal. But what many people don’t know about junk removal services is that they often charge for labor and charge extra if a junk removal turns into a full blown house cleaning. But there steps you can take to minimize the amount of time a junk removal service has to spend at your house and make your junk hauler happy.
1. Put Everything in One Place, On The Ground Floor
One of the things that you can do to really help out your junk removal service and reduce your out of pocket costs is to gather up the bulk of the junk you want removed and place it on the ground floor, near a easily accessed door. Junk haulers hate going up and down stairs. So when and where you can minimize the amount of stairs they have to use.
2. Pre-organize
Before your junk removal services arrives do some pre-organization and pre-cleaning. Get some trash bags or boxes and start making three piles. A keep pile for the stuff you want to keep. A donation pile for items and clothes you want to donate to a charity or thrift shop. And a throwaway pile of junk you don’t need and want your junk removal service to haul away. Remember the goal is to reduce clutter so your throwaway and donation pile ought to be larger than your keep pile.
Once you have a throwaway pile put it somewhere that the junk removal company can easily access.
3. Label All Your Hazardous Materials
Depending on your junk removal service they may or may not haul away hazardous chemicals like paint and varnishes. Make sure you label and group all your hazardous items together. Put them in one location so that a junk removal service can haul them away, or you can dispose of them later at a disposal center.
If you follow these three tips you’ll save some money and make your junk hauler very very happy.
