Gardening and yard maintenance in Pasadena

Gardening and yard maintenance hauling is what the Precise crew handles after the cutting is done, in Pasadena and across the San Gabriel Valley. Bagged clippings, loose branches, pulled plants, bags of leaves, old soil from a bed you dug out. The crew sets the price off a picture. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. What separates this job from the rest of their work is sheer volume. A cleared bed or a hedge pulled out at the roots is more than a week of clippings. That pile is what they load.

Most of these calls come in after the work is already done. Someone spent Saturday pulling ivy off a fence and ended up with a tarp full of it. A gardener mowed and edged and left the clippings bagged by the gate. A bed got stripped to bare dirt and the old soil is sitting in five buckets. Precise Junk Removal handles the clearing and the hauling end of it, and cutting branches that are still up on the tree is a separate job.

Booking runs on a photo. The team sizes up how much room the pile will take and texts back one price covering all of it. The line is open 8 AM to 8 PM every day, and every set pickup carries a two-hour arrival window instead of a whole morning of waiting. A wide shot of the whole pile tells them more than a close-up of one bag, so stand back when you take it. Get the bags and the branches in the same shot and they can read it closer.

What goes on the truck

• Bagged grass and clippings
• Loose brush and branches
• Pulled shrubs with root balls
• Bags of raked leaves
• Dead sod and turf
• Buckets of old soil
• Cracked pots and planters
• Palm fronds

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

From the full list of what goes on the truck: yard waste after the project.

What ends up in a green waste load

Green waste comes in two shapes and both load. Bagged is the tidy half, contractor bags of grass, leaves raked off a lawn, hand-pulled weeds. Loose is the rest, ivy ripped off a fence in long mats, hedge trunks with the root balls still on, palm fronds, dead sod rolled up and heavy with dirt. Then there is the part nobody calls green waste until it is in the way, buckets of old potting soil, cracked planters, a bag of mulch that sat out all year.

Most of the crew's other work turns on one heavy piece. This one turns on bulk. Light pieces in large amounts fill a truck faster than people expect. Homeowners call after a weekend of clearing. A gardener who cut more than his own truck holds calls too, and so does a property manager who needs the yard clear before the next tenant.

What a yard full of green waste costs

The minimum is $50. Past that, price follows room. What the crew is reading in the photo is how much of the bed a pile that size will take up, which is why the whole thing needs to be in frame. Loose brush takes more space than it weighs. Bagged clippings stack flat. The crew reads the picture and sends back one number for the whole pile instead of a count per bag.

Two add-ons can land on yard work. Stairs are +$50 each. A steep slope starts at +$50, and what it ends up adding tracks how rough the carry is, which the photo shows the crew along with the rest. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

How the pile gets out of the yard

The carrying is the crew's own work. Green waste is rarely stacked where a truck can reach it, so most of this job is moving the pile from the back corner of the yard, down the driveway and out through a side gate. Loose brush gets gathered before it travels so it does not shed across the lawn. Wet sod and old soil move in smaller armloads because they get heavy fast. If there are stairs or a slope between the pile and the street, get those in the photo too, since each one carries its own line in the price.

On a rental or a complex, the team works to the time the manager sets and takes the route the manager wants, the alley or the far end of the lot. When the plants are still in the ground and the whole yard has to come down to dirt, that is the heavier yard clearing and landscaping work.

Where the clippings and the dirt end up

Sorting starts before the truck pulls away. Anything in the pile that still has a life in it gets set aside for a donation center, which on a yard job is usually the planters, the hand tools or a bag of soil nobody opened. Of everything the crew hauls off, about 75 percent gets recycled. What is left over as actual trash goes to the landfill, and on green waste that is the torn bags and the broken plastic that came out of the beds with everything else.

It is worth getting the whole pile in the picture for that reason as well, because a load of clippings and dirt and a load with half a fence mixed into it do not get handled the same. For anything in the pile you are unsure about, the page listing what rides on the truck spells it out.

Yards from Pasadena out through the valley

Pasadena is home base, and the work runs out from there across the whole San Gabriel Valley, from Altadena and Sierra Madre down to Alhambra and San Gabriel, and out east through Arcadia and Monrovia. Properties are not built the same here, and that is what moves the number on a yard job. A flat driveway in Temple City and a backyard up a flight of steps in Sierra Madre can hold the same volume of clippings and still be two different carries, so the photo matters more than the address.

There is no lot to drive your bags to, and there does not need to be, because Precise Junk Removal comes to the pile. If your town is not in the short list above, the whole list of towns it hauls in sits on one page.

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. In Sierra Madre, the organics container takes hedge trimmings, weeds and grass clippings, and the crew takes the overflow from a big yard day. San Gabriel's green cart takes flower and hedge trimmings and weeds, and the crew hauls the extra. In La Cañada Flintridge, green waste for the seasonal collection must be bundled, not bagged, and the crew can haul it loose or bundled. See every town Precise covers for gardening and yard maintenance.