Rubbish removal Northern BeachesClearances and rubbish removal, done with care
More than a skip and a truck. We clear cluttered homes, garages, estates and whole houses across the Northern Beaches, and take everything away, discreetly.
Some rubbish removal jobs are bigger and more personal than a general cleanup. A garage packed to the roof, a much loved home that has become too much, or a full house that needs emptying with care. That is the work we specialise in across the Northern Beaches. We are a family business, and more than one generation of us has been clearing homes on the peninsula for over 20 years.
We handle the sorting, the heavy lifting and the disposal, and we do it gently and privately. We keep what matters, donate what we can, recycle where possible and take the rest away, leaving the home cleared out and tidy.
What we clear
- Hoarded and heavily cluttered homes, room by room
- Garages, sheds and under house storage
- Full house clearances and deceased estates
- Furniture, whitegoods and general household rubbish
- Recently sold and end of lease clean outs
The only exception is hazardous waste that needs special disposal arrangements, asbestos in particular. Tell us if you have any and we can arrange specialist removal rather than include it in the standard service.
Every Northern Beaches suburb
We work from Manly to Palm Beach and everywhere in between: Manly, Brookvale, Dee Why, Collaroy, Narrabeen, Cromer, Terrey Hills, Mona Vale, Newport, Avalon and Palm Beach, plus the neighbouring North Shore suburbs of Chatswood, Lindfield, St Ives, Lane Cove and Epping. The peninsula is one of our busiest patches.
Trucks, not skips
We load everything by hand straight onto our trucks on the day, and there are good reasons we never use skip bins:
- A skip can cost hundreds of dollars a day, and you still do all the loading yourself
- A badly packed skip wastes the space you paid for
- Skips sit on the street, annoy the neighbours and advertise the clean out
- Strangers tip their own rubbish into your skip, at your cost
- Hand-loading lets us sort as we go, so more is recycled and less goes to landfill
Sorting on the truck also makes tip runs faster, which keeps our fixed prices down. Most Northern Beaches waste ends up at the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, which processes around three quarters of the region's waste, and we sort loads to make the most of its recovery streams.
What a Northern Beaches council clean up won't take, we will
Since Manly, Warringah and Pittwater councils merged, the old council clean ups have become the Northern Beaches Council Bulky Goods Collection: two bookable services a year for mainland residents who pay the domestic waste charge, capped at about three cubic metres, roughly a small box trailer. It is a good free service, but it is limited, you do all the carrying to the kerb, and a long list of items is excluded. We take what the council won't, including:
- Items over 1.8 metres long, and heavy items two people cannot safely lift
- E-waste such as TVs and computers
- Car parts, tyres and batteries
- Sheet glass, mirrors, windows and glass tables
- Building material: insulation, brick, rubble, kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities
- Green waste, vegetation and everyday household garbage in volume
For what the council will take, the limits still apply: furniture, mattresses and bed bases, whitegoods with the doors removed, rolled and tied carpet up to 1.8 metres, a few sheets of metal roofing and small items larger than a toaster, all within the three cubic metre cap, carried to the kerb by you.
Booking rules and dates change from time to time, so check the current details on the Northern Beaches Council website before you book a council pick up. If the job is too big, too heavy or on the excluded list, call us instead.
We also do all the work. Nothing needs to reach the kerb, because we carry it out ourselves, from wherever it is in the home, the garage or the yard.
Four gentle steps
A private chat
Tell us what needs clearing. No pressure, no judgement.
A fixed quote
We assess the job and agree one clear price.
We clear it
Our crew sorts, lifts and loads, keeping what you want kept.
Clean and gone
We take everything away and leave the space tidy.
Common questions
Yes, from Manly up to Palm Beach and everywhere in between, including Dee Why, Brookvale, Mona Vale and Avalon.
Every job is different, so we give you one fixed quote after a look at the property. No hourly surprises.
Yes. We remove furniture, whitegoods, general rubbish and the contents of garages, sheds and whole homes.
Always. We can use unmarked vehicles and we keep every job private.
Skips usually work out dearer. We hand load straight onto our trucks, which lets us sort the rubbish as we go, recycle more, spend less time at the tip and keep the price down. A skip also sits on the street where anyone can dump into it, and that costs you money.
No. We sort and arrange everything as we load it onto the trucks, so recycling is separated for you.
In 20 years we have seen just about every kind of access the Northern Beaches can offer: steep driveways, long stairs, battleaxe blocks. It might take a little longer, but we will get it done. The one thing we cannot help much with is off shore properties.