Landscaping debris hauling in Pasadena

Precise Junk Removal hauls landscaping debris in Pasadena and across the San Gabriel Valley. The job is the pile a yard project leaves on the ground. Rolled sod, dirt, rock, broken pavers, cut-out irrigation line, a hedge that got pulled, bags of clippings. The crew loads it and takes it away. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. A yard pile is heavier than an indoor cleanout and it sits outside in the way, and somebody is usually waiting on that space before the next part of the job starts.

A homeowner who hired a landscaper can find out the hauling wasn't in the bid. A crew lead calls too, when he wants the pile off the lawn so his guys can keep going, and so does a property manager with a tenant looking at a dirt mound in the side yard. The Precise crew prices the job and does the hauling, so the team that reads your photo is the one loading the sod.

Precise Junk Removal has been in business since 2009. The owner's own line is "Recycling is his love language." A yard load is one of the better chances to prove it, since a lot of what comes off a landscaping job is clean material rather than trash. The team runs out of Pasadena, and the text can go out as soon as the landscapers pack up. If you're not sure your pile reads as yard material, the page on what counts as junk and what the crew takes sorts that out.

What goes on the truck

• Rolled sod and soil
• Decorative rock and gravel
• Broken pavers and block
• Pulled-out drip and PVC line
• A hedge with the root ball
• Bagged grass clippings
• Brush and cut branches
• Pieces of a torn-out patio

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's usually in a landscaping pile

A yard pile is rolled sod with the dirt still attached, a mound of soil from a grade change, decorative rock somebody got tired of, broken pavers and block from a torn-out patio, drip line and PVC pulled out of the ground, the root ball of a hedge that came out with a truck strap, and bagged clippings stacked by the gate. Some of it is dense and some of it is bulky. All of it gets carried to the truck by hand, and the crew takes the whole pile in one go instead of leaving the odd half behind. If the yard is already finished and this is routine trimming and leaves, that's closer to gardening and yard maintenance work.

How a yard pile gets loaded

The crew reads the photo first and works out how much room the pile will take. Then it's hand loading. Sod and dirt go in by shovel and bucket, rock the same way, pavers stacked and walked out, irrigation line coiled so it doesn't catch on a fence post. Everything goes into the white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed.

Order matters on a mixed pile. Soil and rock go in low, brush and the hedge on top, so the load rides level and nothing blows out on the road. Precise Junk Removal is insured.

Getting to the pile and timing it with the crew

Access decides a lot on a yard job. A pile in an open driveway is the easy version. Stairs and a steep slope make the carry longer, so the photo should show the path to the street and not just the heap. Ask the team when you text. Timing matters too when a landscape crew is on the clock. The team gives a two-hour arrival window, so a homeowner can set it up the day before the landscaper starts or once the landscaper leaves.

Where a yard load ends up

Nothing goes straight to the landfill if there's a better stop for it. Part of a yard pile can come up whole, like pavers that lifted without cracking or a stack of edging block, and anything like that gets a donation center's first look before it rides anywhere else. About 75 percent of everything the crew picks up gets recycled. Real trash goes to the landfill, because some of a yard pile is past saving, and a root ball full of dirt or a length of cracked PVC is not going back into use. If you want to know how one particular pile gets split up, ask the team when you text the photo.

What hauling a yard pile costs

The floor is $50, and that's the smallest job on the truck. Past that, the crew prices off the photo and comes back with one number for the whole pile, set by how much room it takes on the truck. A ripped-out hedge that looks enormous can pack down smaller than a neat stack of block, which is why they want to see it instead of hearing a guess.

Two things get added when they apply. Stairs are +$50 each. A steep slope is +$50, and it can run higher depending on how hard the carry is, which comes back with the rest of the price off the photo. Cash, a check or an online payment all settle it. More on the way the crew prices a load sits in the Pasadena junk removal cost guide. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Yard piles across the San Gabriel Valley

Pasadena is home base, and the valley around it is the everyday run. Altadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia and Arcadia all see the same truck, and so do Alhambra, Rosemead and El Monte on the south side. The crew also gets out to Glendale and Burbank, and farther west to Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills. A landscape crew working three towns in a week can have the piles cleared in each one without lining up a different hauler every time. The full list, including the towns out past the valley, is on the page of towns the team hauls in.

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 Pasadena, the yard waste container takes branches no longer than 4 feet, so a bigger landscaping job needs a truck. San Marino residents can use the existing organics container for landscaping waste, and the crew handles what is left over. Glendale's green organics cart takes leaves, grass, branches and trimmings, and the crew hauls the pile that will not fit. See every town Precise covers for landscaping.