The time has come to begin doing all of your fall maintenance, cleaning, and prep work for the winter. This fall cleaning is similar to your spring cleaning, but the underlying focus is different. In the spring, you’re cleaning everything up and getting your backyard in shape so you can enjoy it during the warmer months. In the fall, however, your cleaning needs to focus more on winterizing the space and preparing it to endure the cold temperatures and weather that’s coming.

Cleaning up the yard and getting ready for the fall can be a chore, of course, which is why you want to make the process as easy as possible. Here are a few different ways to make your fall backyard cleanup in Miamisburg and the surrounding areas as quick and easy as possible.

Call Junk King Dayton When It’s Backyard Cleanup Time

The easiest way to get your yard debris under control is to call on Junk King. Our team handles junk debris and other garbage, plus we’ll take your old furniture, appliances, and any other junk you have hanging around.

When you call us in to deal with yard waste, we’ll do more than take your bagged clippings and other waste. We will take tree branches, stumps, firewood, old lumber, and just about anything else you happen to have that needs to go. We won’t do the actual tree trimming for you, but once those limbs are down, we’ll haul them straight to our truck.

In addition to yard debris, we will haul away your old fencing, patio furniture, and even that demolished old shed or small greenhouse. Getting rid of that debris can be a pain. Some city services won’t take plasterboard, drywall, or other construction debris. We will. We’ll haul away old doors, windows, sheetrock, plastic, and any other building material you’ve got that you want rid of.

Don’t Wait Until the Weather Gets Bad

The time to start your backyard cleanup is now, not in a month or so when the weather is already getting bad in some places. You need to take care of your winterization and cleaning before the snow, ice, and other cold weather starts in. While it may seem like you have a lot of time, it’s important to remember that the closer we get to the holiday season, the more events you may have. It can be difficult to find a weekend to spend on your yard when you’ve got so much going on.

If a storm does blow in, it can delay your cleanup plans by a week or more. It’s very difficult to do anything when there’s a lot of mud and standing water in your yard. These storms may bring down some of the limbs you wanted to remove from your trees, but it’s not the controlled trimming you would do. Instead, the limbs could end up on your car, your home, or on other things, causing damage. Some items you may have planned on donating may be completely destroyed.

We are available throughout the year, but even we can’t haul away junk when the weather is horrible or right after a large storm has come through and left debris everywhere. We’ll do everything we can to get to your home as soon as possible when you call us, but we do have to keep the weather in mind.

Have a Plan

Before you start your backyard cleanup, take a few minutes to come up with a plan. What do you need to get rid of? What do you need to winterize or bring in before the temperature drops? What do you want to donate or pass on to a friend or family member? If you simply go out in the yard and start moving things around, you may find that you don’t actually accomplish much. You might forget things, or you may find that you just don’t know where to start.

Having a plan, or at least a list of things that need to be done, will help you stay on task and make certain everything is taken care of. You might start with cutting the hedges and end with calling Junk King to come pick up the debris. Having this list will also make it easier to delegate or assign tasks to your family members. You won’t have several people standing around while you clean out the shed because they will have their own jobs to attend to.

Make Sure You Have all the Necessary Tools and Equipment

By making a plan, you will also know what tools and equipment you’re going to need. While you might think you only need a chainsaw and a ladder to deal with your limbs, you may realize you also need trimmers, electric hedge trimmers, a wheelbarrow, a sledgehammer, or one of a number of other tools. It all depends on what you’re doing as part of your yard cleanup and what tools you have on hand. If there’s something you don’t have, you should buy or borrow it before you start work.

Also, take a few minutes to make sure your tools are in good condition and that you have the right fuel or cords for any power tools you’ll be using. You may need to sharpen your pruning sheers or replace your chainsaw’s chain before you begin.

Select a Designated Junk Site

While we will pick up limbs and other junk that you’ve scattered across your yard, it’s actually easier for you to have a designated spot to gather all of the debris from your yard work. This way, you won’t be stepping over tree limbs to get to the hedges or avoiding the debris of your old shed while working on your fence. Yes, it takes a little more work to haul all of the debris to one spot in your yard, but it’s safer and easier to work by doing so. This also makes our job easier, which we do appreciate! We can be in and out much more quickly if everything is piled up in one spot.

Do You Want to Outsource Anything?

Junk King can come haul away all of the debris after you’ve finished doing the work, but is there anything else you want to outsource? There are some fall cleanup tasks you could hire others to do. For example, you could hire a gutter cleaning service to handle that job. If all you need to do is clean out the gutters, this may not be something you want to spend money on. However, if you know your gutters need repairs or rebalancing, you may need to call those specialists out anyway. While they are there, why not have them do a professional cleaning?

You can also hire a landscaper to come deal with your flowerbeds, shrubs, and other parts of the yard. These experts may know what flowers need to have mulch laid around them to help them through the winter and other knowledge that will help keep your landscaping looking good in the spring.

Don’t Forget to Check for Damage

During your fall backyard cleaning, be sure you look at the cement, pavers, shed, and other items in your backyard. You want to find damage now before the winter weather hits. If you have a paver patio, for example, and there’s a crack in the paver, it will likely be worse in the spring. That’s because water will get into the crack and freeze, causing it to expand and making the crack worse. If your shed has any holes or damage to the walls, rodents will make their way inside to escape the cold. They can do all sorts of damage to the items you have stored in there. Doing these repairs now will save you extra work and cost in the spring.

Ready to Clean up Your Backyard?

If you haven’t begun planning your fall backyard cleanup, you really should. The weeks are moving along fairly quickly, and you never know when bad weather will hit. Even if you can’t devote an entire day to this task, you can plan out what needs to be done and break the work down into smaller jobs that you can take care of within an hour or two. You don’t have to do everything in one go.

Once you do have your backyard cleaned up and have the junk ready to be hauled away, give Junk King a call. We will come take away all of your yard debris as well as any old furniture, appliances, and other garbage you have. We are “on time, fairly priced, work hard, and are professional” as one of our previous clients said in their review.

To get a free, no-obligation estimate or to make an appointment with Junk King, give us a call at 1-888-888-JUNK or book an appointment online. You can also text us pictures of what you need hauled away to 1-737-888-5865. We’ll get back to you with an estimate and work with you to determine the best pickup time.