What the crew hauls, and where it ends up

This page is for the homeowner standing in the garage wondering if the thing in front of them goes on the truck. Most of it does. The crew runs a white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed, about 648 cubic feet; a national chain's own pricing page lists 400 cubic feet for a full truck. They price every job from a photo, one number for the whole job, $50 minimum, set by how much room the load takes on the truck. The list below is grouped the way the jobs come in. For the long version, there's one page with every service Precise Junk Removal offers.

Furniture, mattresses and the mixed pile

This is the everyday load. Junk removal is the mixed pile, the bags and boxes with a broken chair on top, loaded in one stop and priced from a photo. Furniture removal is one couch, or a sectional out of a back bedroom, and the photo should show the way out as well as the piece. Mattress removal is the mattress and box spring out of the house, carried out by the crew, from $50. The pricing guide walks through how that number gets built.

• Couches, loveseats and sectionals
• Mattresses and box springs
• Dressers and bookcases
• Dining tables and chairs
• Bagged trash and boxed-up clutter
• Rugs, lamps and the broken recliner

Appliances

The fridge that died in the kitchen, or the chest freezer that has been humming in the garage since the last owner. Appliance removal is washers, dryers, dishwashers and stoves, carried out and loaded onto the truck. Refrigerator and freezer removal has its own page, the old fridge or chest freezer off the kitchen floor, priced off a photo, $50 minimum. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

• Refrigerators
• Chest and upright freezers
• Washers and dryers
• Dishwashers
• Stoves and ovens
• Microwaves

Garages, attics and basements

Whole-space jobs, where the photo is of the room instead of one item. A garage cleanout is priced off one photo of the whole garage, starting at the $50 minimum, and the team loads it. An attic cleanout is boxes, old insulation and a disused swamp cooler coming down the ladder. A basement cleanout is soft boxes and swollen particle board coming up the stairs, and stairs are an add-on at +$50 each, so get them in the photo too.

Whole houses

An estate cleanout is the whole house, worked room by room, with anything the family keeps set aside before the rest goes on the truck. A hoarding cleanout starts with the floors and walkways, and nothing leaves until the person living there says so. Both are big loads, and both get priced the same way as a single couch, as one number off a photo. For a whole house, a photo of each room tells the crew more than one shot from the front door.

Offices and storefronts

The same truck works for businesses too. An office cleanout is desks, cubicle panels, chairs and filing cabinets out the back door once the staff has gone home. Commercial junk removal is the store that is closing or the rental unit between tenants, hauled by the same crew that quotes it and priced off a photo. The crew works 8 AM to 8 PM every day. A landlord or a manager can text the photo the same way a homeowner does.

• Desks and conference tables
• Office chairs
• Cubicle panels
• Filing cabinets
• Shelving and display racks
• Boxed paper and packaging

Hot tubs, sheds, decks and fences

Backyard structures come out in pieces. Hot tub removal means the shell gets cut down and the sections hauled out. Shed removal starts with emptying it, then it comes down, metal or wood. Deck removal is the boards, the joists, the posts and the nails underneath, with the ground left level. Fence removal takes the panels, posts and footings off the lot and leaves the line clear for the next crew. The team prices the teardown and the haul as one number.

Remodel and demo debris

Construction debris removal is the drywall, tile, concrete and dirt hauled off the jobsite so the work can keep moving. Light demolition is the crew taking apart walls that hold nothing up, old tile and old cabinets, and hauling the debris out themselves. On a renovation they clear the debris in waves, demo through packaging, so the work area stays open for the trades. Dirt and concrete ride on the same truck as the drywall.

• Drywall and plaster
• Tile and backer board
• Broken concrete and brick
• Dirt and sand
• Old cabinets and countertops
• Lumber and trim
• Packaging from new fixtures

Yard waste after the project

Green waste goes by the load instead of a bin at a time. After a landscaping job, the sod, dirt, rock, pavers and the pulled-out hedge get loaded up and hauled off. After a tree trimming, the branches, limbs and trunk rounds go the same way. Gardening and yard maintenance covers bagged and loose green waste, the pile by the fence that has been sitting there since spring. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Moving day leftovers

Movers load the truck and leave the rest. Small moves and appliance swaps is the pile the movers won't load, cleared before the move or after it. It's the boxes you never opened the last time you moved, and the patio set that isn't making the trip. An appliance swap is the old fridge out of the way so the new one can go in. $50 minimum, priced off a photo, and the photo can be of the pile where it sits on moving day.

Ask first

Some things a homeowner asks about aren't on the list above. Paint cans, a propane tank, car batteries, tires, a piano, a gun safe, the box of old phones and cords. For any of those, the crew answers off the photo, for that item on that job, and nothing on this page promises a yes or a no.

For hazardous waste and electronics, Pasadena points residents to the S.A.F.E. Collection Centers that the City of Los Angeles maintains. The city also says lithium ion batteries are the leading cause of refuse truck and facility fires, so mention it when the thing in the photo has one inside, like a power tool or an e-bike. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Where it all ends up

Recycling is his love language. That's the owner's line on the home page, and it's where the load ends up. Donation comes first, and what still has life in it goes to a donation center. About 75 percent of what the crew picks up gets recycled. What's left, the real trash, goes to the landfill.

If you'd rather haul a load yourself, there's a guide to the public dump near Pasadena and who is allowed to use it. For everything else, the photo is where the price starts.