What goes on the truck
Brandon takes most of what a house or a yard can pile up, and there are a few things he leaves alone. Here are both lists, so you know what's going before the truck pulls in.
If you're standing in the garage wondering whether the pile in the corner counts, it probably does. Brandon Woodhouse runs B&H Junk Removal out of Golden Valley. He prices the job himself and he does the hauling himself, in a pickup truck with a trailer. Below are the groups he loads and the short list he leaves alone. The last section says where a load ends up. Each job has its own page on the index of every job B&H takes on.
Everyday household junk
Most of what goes on the truck is plain household junk removal, the stuff that fills a spare room until the room is gone. One couch or one dead freezer is a single item pickup, and Brandon still drives out for it. If the pile is already out front, that's curbside pickup, though nothing has to be. Ask Brandon about same-day junk removal when you call him.
- the couch nobody sits on anymore
- bags of old clothes and kid toys
- a busted dresser and its cracked mirror
- boxes of paperwork from the back closet
- the grill that quit two summers ago
- plastic totes with broken lids
- an office chair with a snapped base
Furniture, mattresses and appliances
Heavy single pieces are most days' work. Furniture removal is the sectional that won't go back down the stairs it came up. Mattress removal is the king set in the spare room, box spring included. Appliance removal is the fridge in the garage, as long as it's disconnected from gas, water or power before he shows up. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199.
- a sleeper sofa that won't make the turn
- a king mattress and box spring
- the second fridge out in the garage
- a washer and a dryer that both died
- a dishwasher pulled during a remodel
- an entertainment center built in 1998
Garages, sheds and storage units
A garage cleanout is the job people put off longest, because it means making a decision about every shelf. Brandon carries it out from where it sits, so nothing has to be dragged to the driveway the night before. A shed and storage unit cleanout works the same, including the unit you've been paying rent on since the move.
- rusted shovels and rakes
- bike frames with flat tires
- scrap lumber stashed in the rafters
- a chest freezer that stopped working
- cardboard stacked up since the move
- camping gear the mice got into
Estate and hoarding cleanouts
An estate cleanout usually lands on one person who lives three states away and has a week to empty a whole house. Brandon works room by room, and what the family wants kept stays in the house. A hoarding cleanout takes longer and takes more care with whatever turns up in the middle of it. One number covers the whole job either way, and it comes off the photos.
Landlords and business cleanouts
A tenant moves out and leaves half the apartment behind. Rental property cleanout strips the unit back to bare floors so a cleaner can get in behind him. Commercial junk removal is the shop or the office: dead display cases and the chairs in the back nobody will sit in again. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199.
Yard, brush and storm debris
Yard debris removal is the pile by the fence after a weekend with the loppers. Tree branch and brush hauling is what's left when somebody else does the cutting and stacks the limbs in the driveway. When the wind comes through, storm and monsoon debris cleanup is the shingles in the gravel and the fence panel that ended up two lots down.
- mesquite limbs cut to carry lengths
- palm fronds and dead ocotillo
- uprooted shrubs with the dirt knocked off
- a cracked patio umbrella and bent frame
- torn shade cloth off the carport
- shingles blown into the gravel
- a fence panel the wind took
Remodel debris and light teardowns
Remodels make more trash than anybody plans for. Construction and remodel debris removal takes the torn-out cabinets and the old tile sitting in the driveway. Light demolition is the step before that, like a sagging lean-to or a wall of shop shelving. Hot tub removal means cutting the shell down into pieces small enough to carry out. Anything that might contain asbestos is a no, and that work needs a licensed abatement contractor.
Metal, tires and electronics
Scrap metal removal is the dead swamp cooler and the bed frame bent in half. Tire disposal is the four in the side yard and the spare that's been flat since you bought the place. E-waste and TV removal is the tube TV in the closet and the tower under the desk.
- a swamp cooler pulled off the roof
- bent bed frames and rusted patio sets
- a water heater, drained and cold
- car and truck tires off the rim
- a tube TV and a dead flat screen
- a desktop tower and two monitors
What Brandon doesn't take
The list is short and he doesn't bend on it. Most of it is household hazardous waste. Pull these out of the pile before he loads, and if you're not sure about something, ask and he'll check. The rest of the job runs like any other.
- paint, solvents, thinners and household chemicals
- propane tanks and any pressurized cylinder, patio and camping cylinders included
- asbestos, or anything that may contain it, which needs a licensed abatement contractor
- motor oil, antifreeze and fuel cans
- car batteries and anything still holding liquid
- pool and spa chemicals, which are household hazardous waste
- appliances still connected to gas, water or power, which need disconnecting first
- anything the transfer station won't take, so ask and he'll check
Where hazardous waste goes instead
Mohave County sponsors household hazardous waste collection events in Bullhead City and Kingman. The paint and the pool chemicals off the list above belong with the county's program, not on Brandon's load. The county runs those events, so Brandon won't speak for what they accept.
Ask first
Some things sit on neither list, and Brandon won't guess at them over the phone. He'll tell you yes or no before anybody schedules anything. Nothing on the won't-take list moves into the maybe column, so a propane tank is still a no however good the photo looks. Text a photo to (559) 479-1199.
- a piano or a church organ
- a gun safe
- a pool table with a slate bed
- broken concrete, dirt and rock
- railroad ties and treated lumber
- a camper shell or a boat on a trailer
- an above-ground pool and its liner
- a stack of shipping pallets
Where it all ends up
A load doesn't go straight to the hole in the ground. Anything somebody else can still use goes to a donation center first. What's left gets recycled where it can be, and real trash goes to the landfill. Brandon quotes one number for the whole load. The cost guide for a Golden Valley load walks through the quote itself.
One text and it's handled.
Brandon answers the phone himself, and the form on this page works if texting isn't easy.
Text a photo
Text a photo to (559) 479-1199. One shot of the pile by the fence or the fridge in the garage does it.
Get one price
Brandon prices it off the photo and sends back one number for the whole job.
Brandon loads it
Brandon shows up with a pickup truck with a trailer and carries it out from where it sits. Nothing has to be at the curb.
Real reviews, copied from Google.
“Brandon and his work crew were able to clear my property of brush and debris in a quick timeframe. They effectively cleared debris under the house in a professional manner and made me aware of fixes needed on some electrical issues. I highly recommend Brandon B&H.”
Questions people ask.
Does anything cost extra?
Will Brandon take a TV or old electronics?
What about paint, solvents, thinners and household chemicals?
Where does hazardous waste go?
Does everything have to be at the curb?
Can he take an appliance that's still hooked up?
“I fight wildland fire out here. That work teaches you hard work pays off and there is no shortcut through a job. Now I am in the same desert clearing it out, one load at a time.”
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