Small moves and appliance swaps in Pasadena

Small moves and appliance swaps is the hauling the Precise crew does on either end of a move, in Pasadena and across the San Gabriel Valley. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. What goes on their truck is what is being left behind. The couch that won't fit the new living room. The dresser with a broken leg that is not worth the gas. The old washer standing where the new one goes.

The date is the part nobody at the house gets to pick. A moving truck is booked for Tuesday, or a lease runs out at the end of the month. A buyer walks through on Saturday morning and the garage has to be clear before he does. Put that date in the text with the photo.

An appliance swap is the small version. The delivery crew sets the new range in the kitchen and leaves the old one on the patio, because hauling the old one away is usually not part of the delivery. If no move is involved and it is just the one machine, that is a single appliance picked up on its own. The pickup is for that one piece, or for that piece and the crate it arrived in.

What goes on the truck

• The couch that won't fit
• Old fridge after the swap
• Mattress and box spring
• Washer and dryer
• Flattened moving boxes
• Patio furniture left outside
• Garage shelving and hooks
• The bed frame that broke

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

From the full list of what goes on the truck: moving day leftovers.

What ends up in the leave-behind pile

The pile is usually the same shapes. A mattress and box spring nobody wants to pay to move twice. Patio furniture that sat outside for ten summers. The washer and dryer the new place already has. A bent bed frame and the particle-board shelf that fell apart coming off the wall. The people who call are usually sellers trying to hand over empty rooms, or renters who want the deposit back. Property managers call between tenants for the same reason. A garage that came with somebody else's weight bench and a rolled-up carpet is the same call. None of it is a full cleanout. It is the short list of heavy things left standing in a house that is otherwise already packed, plus whatever the last tenant decided was not worth loading.

The week before and the week after

Before the move, the work happens around a house that is still being packed. The furniture and appliances that are staying behind come out first, so the movers load a shorter list and nobody pays by the hour to carry out junk. It helps to mark what goes and what stays, with tape or a sticky note, because half a packed house looks like the other half. After the move, the job flips. The rooms are bare except for what the last tenant or the old owner left, plus the cardboard from unpacking. What gets pointed out goes on the truck, and the rest gets left alone.

What a move-out load costs

The minimum is $50, so a one-piece job like a single washer starts there. Past the minimum, the price follows how much room the load takes up on the truck, which means a bed frame and two boxes is not priced like a full living room. Precise Junk Removal sets the price off the photo and gives one number for the whole job. Stairs are +$50 each, so a second-floor apartment puts a staircase into the number. A steep slope adds +$50 at the least, and how much depends on how hard the carry is, so that comes back with the rest of the price off the photo. Cash, a check or an online payment all work. The guide on what junk removal costs around Pasadena goes over the same ground.

Where the pile goes once it's loaded

A leave-behind pile usually has working things in it, so the first stop is not the landfill. A dresser with all its drawers. A microwave that runs fine and does not fit the new counter. Those get dropped at a donation center. About 75 percent of everything the crew picks up gets recycled. The owner's own line is "Recycling is his love language." What is honestly finished, the broken particle board and the soaked cardboard, goes to the landfill. When something in the pile is a question mark, the list of what goes on the truck is the short answer.

How a move-out job runs

The crew does the carrying themselves. In an apartment that means the stairs, or the elevator and whatever window the building manager gives out for the freight car and the loading zone. Precise Junk Removal is insured, which is usually the first thing a manager wants to know. Where the pile needs to be sitting when the team pulls up, inside the unit or out by the street, changes building to building, so ask when you text. The load rides in a white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed. The team gives a two-hour arrival window, which matters on a day when the moving truck has the driveway for the morning. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Moving around the San Gabriel Valley

A lot of these moves do not leave the valley. Alhambra to Monrovia, or Pasadena to Burbank, and both addresses sit inside the area the crew already drives. Precise Junk Removal is based in Pasadena, so the old address and the new one are usually a short drive apart on their end. The same crew can clear the old place in the week before and the new garage the week after, with no second number to find. The team is open 8 AM to 8 PM every day, which helps when a key handover lands on a weekend. The full list of towns the crew drives to runs from San Marino out 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. See every town Precise covers for small moves and appliance swaps.