Junk removal in Pasadena, by neighborhood.

Precise Junk Removal works out of Pasadena, and the same crew that prices the job does the hauling. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. Where the pile sits changes the work. Old Pasadena is the city's original business district, so a load there comes out of an older building on a commercial block. Playhouse Village sits inside downtown Pasadena, and a downtown pickup means the photo has to show the way out as much as the pile. Ask the crew when you text whether anything has to be moved to the curb.

Pasadena has a Bulky Item Procedure of its own, and the program box further down this page carries the city's details. Precise Junk Removal sorts a load before any of it rides to the landfill, so only real trash ends up there. The city's trash FAQ names Scholl Canyon Landfill and asks for residents' continued help keeping trash out of it to extend that landfill's life. For a self haul, what the nearest landfill takes is worth a look first. On a normal job the crew tries a donation center first with anything still usable, and about 75 percent of what gets picked up is recycled. Homeowners here still call the team for the bed frame, and a garage cleanout in an older Pasadena house gets the same one-number price off a photo.

An older block downtown gets the stairs and the parking question first: how many flights the couch has to come down, and where the truck can pull in while it loads. The crew sorts that out off the photo before heading over. A second floor unit over a storefront and a house with its own driveway are two different jobs, and the photo shows which one is waiting.

Pasadena runs its own one day e-waste and document shredding events through the year. If the monitor in the garage cannot wait for one, it can go out with the rest of the load. The same trip can take the printer off the shelf and the box of cords behind it, so the garage shelf comes back empty. The guide to what goes on the truck lists the usual items, and anything odd gets sorted off the photo.

How Bulky Item Procedure works

• The city advises booking the pickup at least two weeks before your regular trash day.
• Do not put anything out on the parkway until the pickup is scheduled.
• Items are taken from the parkway in front of the house, the strip between the sidewalk and the street. Moving them there is the resident's job, because city crews cannot come onto private property to do it.
• Have everything on the parkway by 7:00 a.m.
• You can set out about as much as would fill a 3 cubic yard bin, which is 4 feet wide, 5 feet long and 4 feet high.
• No single item may be bigger or heavier than what two people can safely lift.
• The pickup does not take e-waste such as TVs, DVD players, cellphones, gaming consoles, computers and monitors.
• The pickup does not take construction and roofing material such as concrete, cement, bricks, roof shingles, tiles or dry wall.
• The pickup does not take refrigerators or air conditioning units.

Checked October 2026 against cityofpasadena.net.

What Precise Junk Removal hauls in Pasadena

• Junk removal
• Furniture removal
• Appliance removal
• Mattress removal

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