Junk removal in San Marino, California

Precise Junk Removal sends its crew to San Marino on runs out of Pasadena. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. The median San Marino home was built in 1943, so the crew prices a garage that age from one photo, and a garage cleanout there often means decades of stored things. Put the whole pile in the picture so the price matches the load.

For big furniture, the city's Bulky Item Collection program is the first thing to check, and its own page lists what it takes. A couch or a fridge from the garage can also go on the truck with the rest of the pile, and if you are unsure about an item, ask when you text. In San Marino you can use your existing organics container for landscaping waste as well as food scraps, but the city's green bin list says palm fronds do not go in the green bin. The city's holiday greenery collection and recycling runs three full weeks, December 26 through January 15. Branches and fronds that have nowhere to go are a landscaping load for the truck.

About 17 percent of households rent, and San Marino Code Enforcement says tenants are accountable for removing trash, discards or litter piled up about the property. The department also asks for voluntary compliance first on property maintenance problems. If you are turning a unit or moving out, send a photo. A rental turnover with leftover furniture and a full garage prices the same way as any other pile, from the room it takes on the truck.

A San Marino rental turnover is where the order matters most. The usable couch or dresser from the unit goes to a donation center first, recycling comes next, and the landfill gets only what has no other home. The crew works that way on every load, and about 75 percent of what gets picked up ends up recycled. The garage boxes from a house built around 1943 follow the same order.

How Bulky Item Collection works

• Each home gets two bulky item collections a year, with up to 10 bulky items in each collection.
• Pickups are by appointment, and you choose the time that suits you.
• A bulky item cannot be longer than eight feet, wider than four feet, or heavier than 150 pounds.
• Bulky items include furniture, mattresses, couches and loveseats including sleeper sofas, chairs and other small furniture, water heaters, refrigerators, ranges, washers, dryers, dishwashers and similar large items.
• The program does not take car bodies, construction and demolition debris, tires, oil, antifreeze and other hazardous substances, household hazardous waste, electronic waste, fluorescent bulbs or household batteries. The program also leaves out regular trash, recyclables, food scraps, and anything that needs more than two people to move.
• Yard trimmings put out for a bulky item pickup have to be bagged.
• Holiday greenery is collected and recycled for three full weeks, from December 26 through January 15 each year.

Checked October 2026 against sanmarinoca.gov.

What Precise Junk Removal hauls in San Marino

• Garage cleanout: Garages in older homes tend to hold decades of stored things
• Landscaping: Sod, dirt, rock and pulled-out hedges hauled off after a yard project
• Tree trimming: Limbs and cuttings loaded after a trim
• Furniture removal: Priced from a photo of the piece, whether or not it fits the city's bulky item program
• Commercial junk removal: Rental turnovers where the tenant has a pile to clear
• Hot tub removal: Backyard spas and hot tubs cut into sections and hauled out
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Prices work the same here as everywhere Precise goes: how Precise prices a junk removal job. Not sure something qualifies? Here is what Precise takes, and what it won't, with sections on garages, attics and basements and yard waste after the project.

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