Curbside pickup in Golden Valley, AZ

Curbside pickup in Golden Valley means the pile is already outside when Brandon gets there. He owns B&H Junk Removal, prices the work himself and does the hauling himself, here and across the whole Mohave County. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. What separates this job from the rest of his work is that the carrying is done before he arrives: somebody has already set the couch and the bagged junk out at the front of the house, so he is loading a stack in the open instead of working his way through rooms.

Pricing runs off that photo. He reads the shot and quotes one number covering the whole load, and no job comes in under the $250 minimum. A curbside stack is one of the easier things to read in a picture, since all of it is in plain sight with nothing tucked behind a door or under a stairway. Shoot it from the sidewalk with the whole pile in frame. The phone rings through to Brandon, and the man reading the photo is the one who ends up lifting the couch.

Nothing actually has to be at the curb. Brandon hauls it out from wherever it is standing, so a dresser in the back bedroom or a mower in the far corner of a shed rides along with the stack by the mailbox. Set out what is easy to move and leave the heavy piece inside for him. He runs Monday through Saturday, 7 to 5, with Sunday closed, so put the pile out on a day he is working.

What goes on the truck

• Couch set out front
• Mattress by the driveway
• Bags of household junk
• Broken patio furniture
• Rolled up carpet
• Yard debris in piles
• Loose scrap metal
• Boxes from a cleanout

Text a photo of yours to (559) 479-1199.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: everyday household junk.

What a curbside pile usually holds

A curbside pile often starts with a weekend. Somebody clears a spare room or a shed, drags it to the front of the house, and then has no way to get rid of it. By Monday there is a couch on the driveway with a mattress leaning against it, and bags of household junk stacked next to a broken office chair. Homeowners call after they have already done the hauling across the yard. So do renters on moving day, and a property manager whose tenant left a stack where somebody parks. The junk is outside and in the way, and that is the whole reason the phone rings.

What he will not load off the driveway

Some of what ends up in a curbside stack stays right where it is. Paint, solvents, thinners and the rest of the household chemicals people pile up with the junk all stay. Propane tanks stay too, the patio and camping cylinders included, along with anything else holding pressure. Oil, antifreeze and a gas can get left as well, and so does a car battery or any jug with liquid still sitting in it. Pool and spa chemicals count as household hazardous waste, so the bucket of chlorine by the fence is not going on the trailer. Anything with asbestos in it, or that might have, is work for a licensed abatement contractor instead. A washer or a stove still tied into gas, water or power has to be disconnected before it goes. Whatever the transfer station turns away, Brandon has to turn away too, so ask about an odd item and he will check. For the rest of it, a fuller list of what he hauls and what he leaves spells it out.

What a curbside load costs

The minimum is $250. Above that, the picture sets the number: Brandon reads the stack in the shot and gives one figure for the whole load. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. Send it once the stack is finished rather than halfway through, so the picture shows what he is loading. Anybody who wants the bigger picture on pricing first can read what junk removal costs in Golden Valley, which covers more than one driveway.

How Brandon works a curbside job

He pulls up and matches the photo to the pile, then starts loading. If part of it never made it outside, he carries that part out; a dresser at the bottom of a staircase comes up the same as a bag at the end of the walk. What he needs is a spot to park near the stack and a way in that his pickup truck with a trailer can clear, so a narrow alley or a locked gate is worth mentioning when the photo goes out. At a rental or a commercial lot he has the manager point out which stack is going, because a shared driveway can hold two piles with different owners. Brandon does the loading himself, start to finish.

Where the stack goes after it leaves

Not all of a curbside pile is trash, so Brandon splits it up as he loads. A working dresser set out the week its replacement arrived goes to a donation center, and plenty of curb furniture lands in that category. Metal and other material is recycled where it can be. What is actually trash goes to the landfill. Sorting matters more on this job than on most, because a stack out front is mixed by the time it gets there: a good bookshelf propped on torn screen and broken lattice. He pulls the usable pieces as they come off the stack, before anything gets crushed under the rest.

Curbside piles across Mohave County

Brandon works out of Golden Valley, so a pile on a Golden Valley driveway is the short run for him. The county is wide, though, and the same stack sits on a driveway in Kingman or Bullhead City. Fort Mohave, Mohave Valley, Dolan Springs, Lake Havasu City and Laughlin in Nevada get the same trip, and so do Valle Vista, Chloride, Oatman, Yucca and White Hills, where a pile at the end of a long dirt drive still comes off the ground the same way. If the driveway in question is somewhere else in the county, check the list of towns on his route.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (559) 479-1199. Brandon texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $250. More on how pricing works.

Where Brandon does this

All of Mohave County. See every town Brandon covers for curbside pickup.