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Junk King Office Cleanout <– How to make your next office cleanout painless, efficient, safe, and within budget.
Junk King is your solution for the office or warehouse cleanout. We take the extra precautions to protect your business and your property. We have the capacity for large jobs, and we can assure you that all the office materials are property donated, recycled, or re-purposed.
Your car is on the street exposed to the snow, sleet, and frost. Why? It’s because your garage is full of stuff you don’t really want or need.
The space in your garage is worth on average $60 per square foot – a typical 2-car garage is about 500 square feet or worth $30,000. You’re using a $30,000 space to store stuff you’ll never use.
Give yourself (or your spouse) the gift of a garage, where she can park her car and unload groceries in dry comfort. But don’t let this chore become your next big headache.
Call Junk King 888-888-JUNK (5865) and let us make this vision reality with our rental dumpsters. The heaviest thing you’ll lift is the phone. We do all the work. We donate, recycle, and purpose everything we haul. Because your items are already in the garage, we’ll give you a nice discount. We haul almost anything—including all the items that your subscription trash company will not take.
Take your garage back!
The average temperature of all ocean water is about 38.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Salt water freezes at 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit or less than 10 degrees colder than the average. That’s a pretty tight range when you think about it.
At least 15% of the ocean is covered by sea ice some part of the year—about 10 million square miles. Sea ice was shrinking rapidly in 2009. However, data from September 2013 indicate that sea ice coverage hit a 35-year high this year. Other data indicate the ice, although broader, is still thinner.
Geologists claim that 200,000 years ago, the Ice Age presented a different habitat, wiping out many species. Sea levels were 400 feet lower—the English Isles were then part of the continent, for example. Most of North America was buried under ice – over a mile thick in places like Seattle.
Are we in a temporary lull in trend toward less ice or is the trend going back to more ice. Will the sea levels rise of fall? Is there anything we humans can do to affect the rate of change? Sixty years ago, scientists said the long-term trend was cooling. Then global warming was the prevalent theory. One thing is certain: most things change.
However, we at Junk King won’t change our strong commitment to being 100% landfill free: donating, recycling, and re-using materials. Whether the global trend is warming or cooling, we should not foul our own nest. In our own small way, we strive to the best of our ability to leave our living space in better shape than we found it.
By the way, a colder planet means more fresh water—sort of. Sea ice contains hardly any little salt. You can melt the ice and use it for drinking water. Of all the Earth’s fresh water, 69%is stored in the ice caps and glaciers and 90% of that “fresh water” is in Antarctica. Another 30% of the Earth’s fresh water is underground. Only 0.03% of fresh water is what we see in rivers and lakes.
You have options how to get rid of your old refrigerator.
Option 1: Call Junk King and pay a flat price – typically $89 to $118 – that includes all the labor, truck, and recycling fees. You get same-day service – completely hassle-free. If demo is involved, we provide a free estimate. Our job is to make you happy and earn your repeat business.
Option 2. Call your trash hauler. They typically charge $75, but you need to get the regerator to the curb, and you need to have a technician drain the freon and tag the compressor. The typical cost for that service is $200.
Option 3. Do It Yourself. You can rent a truck for approx $69 (or borrow a friend’s truck for a six-pack of beer), load and drive the refrigerator to the County dump or to a metal recycler. Fairfax County charges by the weight and adds a $2 charge for the freon purge (residents only). Some metal recyclers are more flexible than others regarding the freon purge: they may charge a fee or they may not. The best case scenario is that you get free use of a truck and you spend about three hours loading, driving, and disposing the refrigerator and pay a disposal fee of $20-$30. Rule of thumb: if your time is worth more than $12/hour, DIY hauling hardly ever makes sense.
If you have an old appliance that you need hauled away, call us and we’ll give you a free estimate and work with you to ensure that you get the best value.
You scored huge savings on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Your cool couch, flat-screen TV, refrigerator, mattress . . . all that new stuff arrives, and now you need to get rid of the old stuff.
Keep your savings streak alive and call Junk King to remove your old, unwanted items. We offer single item pricing—the best deal of any insured, full-service hauler in Northern Virginia. We’ll even demo that old hot tub or shed for you.
Junk King Fairfax is now on Thumbtack where you can shop for home services and construction support. You can also call us directly at (703) 348-8214. We serve Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Prince William, and Montgomery Counties.
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Local Junk King haulers and recyclers across the United States are helping hoarders appearing on the TLC show, Hoarding: Buried Alive. The broadcasts featuring Junk King franchisees begin November 6, 2013. Click here for some previews!
For the franchise owners and employees of the company, aiding the individuals featured on the show is more than a chance to get a little face-time on a popular national television show. It’s local business aiding local residents in need. Helping those with the compulsive-obsessive disorder can be an emotional experience for everyone involved—junk collectors, hoarders, and the families of the hoarders. Virtually every employee at Junk King, from those at the corporate headquarters in California, to the local franchisee, has spent time collecting junk. Walking into any home where there is an extensive amount of clutter, even if it can’t be termed “buried-alive” clutter, affects those who enter the space. Even the employees who answer the phone to book the appointments for “everyday hoarders” can sense the despair. Whether the call is from a family member or the individual who needs help, the hopeless attitude is easy to sense. Adding hope to the equation is the job of the workers. The local Junk King employees who actually collect the “stuff” know they must “tread lightly” in these situations. After all, hoarders have psychological issues, and even the perception of a “callous attitude” can stop an intervention in its tracks.
Local Junk King franchises apparently have a knack for the kindness needed in the extreme situations featured on TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive. While there is an eight-hour time limitation for actual removal of the items, Junk King usually gets a call back, after the completion of the filming to finish the job. This indicates that the local franchisees not only do a good job, but that they are sensitive to the issues involved with hoarding. Anyone who has watched even one Buried Alive broadcast has seen how difficult it can be for the hoarders to accept help without feeling they’re somehow being violated. Junk King, a company with over 50 franchises throughout the U.S. and Canada, understands it is their responsibility to help hoarders without making it seem as if the home is being invaded.
Again, Hoarding: Buried Alive episodes featuring Junk King hauling begin November 6, 2013.
Here is some information to help you decide whether to use the Arlington County Service or call Junk King when you need to dispose unwanted items or debris. In general, for small pick-ups, Arlington provides good service at a modest additional cost to residents. If you think you have a big load or you need some labor to clear your clutter, then Junk King is likely your best option.
For Arlington Service, you request a pick-up, Monday — Friday, 8 a.m. — 5 p.m. You need to get your items to the curb and Arlington has some rules you must follow. “Pile items separately, curbside or in the street (not in the yard). There must be an overhead clearance of approximately 25 feet. Do not pile under low hanging power lines or tree limbs. Do not place next to parked cars; the truck needs at least a 10-foot clearance from cars to avoid possible damage.”
Arlington charges $20 for televisions and $15 for computer monitors, added to your quarterly utility bill. Arlington charges $10 for metal items (air conditioners, cabinets, exercise equipment) collected curbside for recycling. They have a weight limit of 50 lbs. maximum for each item. These charagable items include:
• Air conditioner
• Awnings (window, porch)
• Boat
• Camper shell (truck)
• Car doors, bumpers
• Cast iron/wrought iron fixtures (bath tub, sink) and furniture
• Chain link fence
• Dehumidifier, humidifier
• Desk/office
• Drill press
• Engine block
• Exercise equipment
• File cabinet (3 drawer+)
• Fireplace, insert
• Floor buffer
• Furnace
• Garage doors
• Gas grill
• Grate/iron (sewer, tree)
• Heat pumps
• Heating oil fuel tank
• Home appliances (dishwasher, freezer, refrigerator, stove, washer/dryer)
• House radiator (cast iron)
• Hydraulic floor jack on wheels
• Lathe/metal
• Lawn equipment, motorized (leaf shredder, mower, rotor tiller)
• Motor/outboard
• Pool
• Recreational vehicles (go cart, moped, motorcycles/motorbikes)
• Safe
• Shower stall
• Snow blower
• Metal stairs
• Stationary air compressor
• Table saw
• Tool chest
• Truck wheel/rim
• Wardrobe/closet
• Water cooler, heater
• Wood stove
The Arlington County Website has a list of items they take curbside or that you can drop off at their disposal facility. Click here.
Junk King takes everything. We provide all the labor, even some demolition for items such as sheds and hot tubs. We charge by volume. You can call Junk King 24 hours per day for same-day service in a convenient two-hour window. We can guide you through the disposal of paint and other items that Arlington will not take. Roughly speaking, if you have enough junk to fill a standard pick-up truck or more, you are probably better off using our labor to remove the unwanted items.
Again, Arlington has a good service for small, easy-to-manage disposal problems. Certainly, if you can get your items to the curb, Arlington’s $20 charge for TV or $10 for a gas grill makes more sense than calling a junk hauler. For larger cleanouts, you can save your time and your back by calling Junk King.
At Junk King, we give free estimates, and we’ll be straight forward and tell you if we think you are better off with the Arlington County service. Call me any time: Alex Powers, Owner and General Manager, (703) 819-5667
One last note: Arlington has an awesome system for leaf collection. Here’s the schedule: Click here.
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My Fairfax neighbor told me, “My old refrigerator just provides a little shade for the food but doesn’t make things cold anymore. Can you get rid of it for me?”
We’ll be happy to come remove your old refrigerator or freezer and we’ll give you a good price, excellent service, and recycle it for you.
But first, let’s make sure the old fridge really is a goner. Follow these five simple steps:
1. Check the plug and circuit box to make sure your fridge is getting power.
2. Check the thermostat to make sure you didn’t accidentally bump it into the off position.
3. Make sure the vents in the back of the fridge or freezer aren’t blocked.
4. Ensure your condenser coils—at the back of, or underneath your fridge—are clean. You can use a coil brush or a vacuum to clean the coils.
5. Ensure that the condenser fan spins freely. If your condenser coils are on the back of your fridge, you won’t have a fan.
If the fan doesn’t turn, unplug fridge try to clean the fan blades. Then plug in the fridge and watch to make sure that the fan spins when the compressor turns on. If the fan doesn’t spin, you need to replace it. The parts run from $7 to $30 for most models.
If the fridge is dead, you’ll need a new one. Some stores provide free delivery and haul away—score! If the store tells you the haul-away fee is greater than $89, then you owe it to yourself to call Junk King for an estimate.
Someone had to drag this debris 200 feet to the curb.
This post was updated in April 2022
If you’re considering Bagster, it’s likely that you need junk hauling or debris removal services but don’t want to hire a typical company that comes to your property in an obvious truck or van. You might be looking to reduce the hassle of hauling your trash yourself and trying to fit it into your car, SUV, or minivan along with everything else you’re transporting on your way to work, school, or home.
Debris hauling can be a hassle for any business or homeowner. Unless you live in a larger city, where there are junk removal specialists available, hiring someone to remove debris from your home or business can cost a lot of money. Bagster is making debris removal simple by offering affordable alternatives to traditional trash bags. With Bagster, homeowners and businesses can haul away junk quickly and easily while reducing their costs on disposal fees significantly. These days, many cities offer curbside pick-up programs but some waste management firms charge exorbitant rates for even small items.
The concept of the Bagster™ is like having a 3 cubic yard mini-dumpster, but is that solution for debris hauling right for you?
Bagsters require time and effort on your end. You purchase the Bagster at a retail store like Home Depot. You must fill the big green bag using your labor and ensure that the bag is within 16 feet of the curb so the waste hauler can reach the bag with its mechanical lift. On average, you ought to budget at least three hours to acquire and fill the bag. The Bagster hauler may charge extra or refuse to haul if you overfill the bag. If you have stone, concrete, or dirt, you can fill only 1/3rd of the bag. No item can exceed 4 feet in length.
The Bagster costs $30 for the bag and you pay another $79 to $249 for the pick-up (average $140) for the hauling. That comes to $60 per cubic yard. You pay the whole $180 whether the bag is full or not.
With more than 30 years of experience behind them, Junk King is one of America’s top junk removal companies. They have handled thousands of different jobs—everything from garage cleanouts to construction debris and furniture removal.
Junk King has alternatives that provide better flexibility and better pricing. We have 18 cubic yard trucks with crews to provide the labor. We discount for pre-staged debris, essential what a Bagster becomes. Our pre-staged rate for the Bagster’s 3-cubic yard volume of construction debris is $90. That’s about half the cost of a Bagster.
Junk King also has 12-cubic yard dumpsters for rent. Our dumpster would hold 4 Bagsters. These dumpsters are perfect for DIY projects and small renovations. The graphite wheels make the dumpster’s driveway friendly. The cost is $298 for the dumpster and includes the first ton — normal weight for 12 cubic yards of construction debris. To get the same volume of Bagsters you pay up to $685. Again, our solution is more flexible and costs about half the cost of the Bagster solution.
Here are just a few reasons why our services are better than Bagster ’s:
Junk King knows that you may need your items removed at any time during the day or night, which is why they offer 24-hour online booking services. That means you don’t have to rearrange your schedule in order to meet with them, as they come when it best suits you.
On each job that they handle, Junk King employees work quickly and carefully so as not to disrupt any home or business while they’re onsite. Their trucks also contain safety equipment such as straps, ramps and wedges to keep everything safe and secure throughout transport.
When you compare Bagster ’s pricing to that of Junk King Fairfax, what might seem like comparable prices, however, things can quickly become much more expensive for Bagster customers with you dig deeper. For example, in addition to costing more money per cubic yard of junk removed, Bagster doesn’t provide any discounts for volume pricing or additional jobs. You always pay their full fees for every job.
If anything happens to your vehicle or property during transportation due to fault from one of their workers or subcontractors, Bagster will cover all damages; however, if damage occurs due to negligence from one of their staff members, then you could be held responsible for paying out-of-pocket expenses. Junk King is fully licensed, bonded, and insured so you always have nothing to worry about.
When you want to schedule your junk removal job, Junk King gives you three delivery options. You can choose when they come to pick up your items: same day, next day, or on a weekend. Junk King also offers a number of flexible payment options based on how much stuff needs to be removed.
Bagster charges you a standard rate of $60 per cubic yard to haul your junk, regardless of how much waste that equates to. The company also offers an additional service where they dump your debris at no extra charge. When you add it all up, Junk King is one of America’s most affordable junk removal companies when it comes to pricing!
While Bagster does give you the ability to remove a lot of your junk, it won’t cover things like old or broken appliances. Junk King has appliance removal services that can make them more cost-effective overall. Not only that, Junk King will do all of the heavy lifting for you. You don’t have to worry about hurting yourself trying to MacGyver an old appliance into a Bagster.
Unlike most junk removal solutions, including the DIY approach of loading a truck and taking it to a landfill, Junk King has the environment in mind with everything we do. We will go through every item we collect and break down the components and materials and recycle whatever we can to help reduce the impact your junk has on the environment. It is a win-win situation for you and the environment!
If you have a bunch of unwanted junk taking up precious space around your home or business, call Junk King today! We can help you declutter your home or business and help you start on the pathway to a cleaner, more usable space.
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