Construction debris removal in Pasadena

Precise Junk Removal handles construction debris removal in Pasadena and the rest of the San Gabriel Valley. The job is the pile a build leaves behind: drywall scrap, busted tile, cracked plaster, chunks of concrete, dirt out of a trench, roofing pulled off a garage. The caller is a contractor, a remodeler or a homeowner running the build, and the site is usually live while the work goes on. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

A bathroom gut can look small sitting in the driveway and still be a real load. Tile comes with the thinset stuck to it. Plaster comes with lath and old nails. Dirt out of a footing weighs more than anything else on most sites and is the easiest to misjudge. That is why the photo matters on this one. The team wants to see the pile before they put a number on it, and a shot with a shovel or a 5 gallon bucket in frame tells them the scale.

The business has been running since 2009. The same crew answers the phone and does the loading, so the people who priced the job are the people standing on the site. A build can need more than one pickup, and the team prices each one off a fresh photo. If the wall still has to come down before anything gets loaded, tearing out the wall itself is light demolition and runs as its own job. The arrival window is two hours, so a contractor's crew can plan the morning around it.

What goes on the truck

• Drywall scrap and backer
• Broken tile and thinset
• Plaster and lath
• Busted concrete and brick
• Dirt from a dig
• Tear-off roofing shingles
• Framing offcuts and trim
• Pulled cabinets and carpet

Text a photo of yours to (626) 590-3118.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: remodel and demo debris.

What ends up in a construction pile

Most of these loads come down to the same materials. Drywall and the backer behind it. Broken tile with thinset still stuck on. Plaster and lath off an old wall. Busted slab and footing concrete. Dirt from a dig. Shingles and underlayment off a tear-off roof. Framing offcuts, pulled cabinets and carpet with the pad go out the same way. The people calling are general contractors, remodelers and handymen, and now and then a homeowner running the job themselves. What they share is a live site with a pile sitting where the next trade needs to stand. That is the difference from a furniture pickup or a garage cleanout. A small pile of tile or concrete still loads heavy.

Staging the pile so it doesn't block the job

Where the pile sits decides how the pickup goes. A pile against the garage door costs the crew the one place to park. A pile across a side gate blocks the only path to the back. Pick a spot the trades are not using. If you are not sure where the pile should sit for the pickup, ask the team when you text.

Heavy material mixed through light debris gets dug out by hand twice, so keep it apart. Concrete and brick go in their own pile. Keep the dirt separate, and keep the tile out of the drywall. Buckets beat loose dirt.

How the pile comes off a jobsite

The Precise crew loads by hand, piece by piece, off the pile and onto the truck, a white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed. Say in the text how the access runs. Narrow driveway, alley behind the building, a gate that swings halfway, a second story with one staircase. Stairs show up on unit work and upstairs remodels, and they carry an add-on.

On a managed property, hand the team the name and number of the super or the site manager, the gate code and where the truck parks. They work it out with the site from there. The Precise crew does the lifting, so nobody on your crew has to walk them through it.

Where the load goes after the truck pulls off the site

Usable material goes to a donation center first. On a remodel there is more of that than people expect. Cabinet boxes that came out whole, a solid door, a sink, boxes of leftover tile. The Precise crew sets that aside as they load.

About 75 percent of what the team picks up gets recycled. Real trash goes to the landfill. Precise Junk Removal runs that end, so the contractor's crew does not lose a hand and a truck to a dump run in the middle of a work day. Read up on the public dump near Pasadena and who is allowed to use it before hauling a load yourself.

What a load of construction debris costs

The minimum is $50, and past that the number comes off how much room the load takes on the truck. The team sets it from the photo, one number for the whole job.

Stairs are +$50 each. A steep slope is at least that much, and what it adds depends on how hard the carry turns out to be, so it comes back with the rest of the price off the photo. The team takes cash, a check or an online payment. The guide to how a pile turns into a price walks through what fills a truck. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Jobsite loads across the San Gabriel Valley

Precise Junk Removal works out of Pasadena, so the valley is where the jobs are. A contractor with a kitchen in San Marino on Tuesday and a bathroom in Monrovia on Thursday deals with the same team both times, and the price comes the same way off a photo.

Older valley streets put the work in tight spots. A narrow driveway with the contractor's trucks already on it leaves one place the pile can sit, and that spot decides how long the carry runs. Arcadia, Temple City, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Duarte and Van Nuys are all on the list. The Precise crew pulls loads out of every town from Alhambra to Woodland Hills.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (626) 590-3118. Precise looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $50. The only add-ons: stairs +$50, steep slope +$50. More on how pricing works.

Where Precise does this

All of the San Gabriel Valley. Monrovia's trash rules list construction and demolition debris among what cannot go in the black container, so jobsite debris needs a hauler. In Pasadena, the city's rental bin cannot take construction materials, which leaves jobsite debris for the crew. See every town Precise covers for construction debris removal.