Junk Removal in Greeley, CO

Junk removal in Greeley is really two questions: what to put in the box, and what has a better route than the box. We would rather answer both honestly than fill a container with material that had somewhere free to go. The good news in this county is that quite a lot of it does — and the awkward news is that the biggest municipal route, the City’s own Spring Clean-Up, cannot take the things a clear-out usually produces most of.

Start with the City program, because most Greeley residents reach for it first. The Greeley Annual Spring Clean-Up runs two days in early May. It is open to City of Greeley residents only with a photo ID confirming residency; the last published charges were $25 per carload or pickup and $35 per trailer; it takes appliances, furniture, mattresses, scrap metal and tires, with Freon-containing appliances limited to one per household and tires capped at four. And then come the exclusions that decide whether it is any use to you. The City states that “vehicles with bagged loads will be turned away,” that all materials must be fully visible, that no enclosed trailers or box trucks are accepted, and that it will not take “construction or demolition debris (including dirt, concrete, masonry, plywood, and similar materials).” A garage clear-out in bags, a bathroom gut, a deck demolition or a basement full of old paneling is outside all of that. The Clean-Up line is 970-350-9336 — call them for this year’s dates rather than trusting a date on any website, ours included.

The second route, and it is the best trust-building fact in this county, is free. Weld County Household Hazardous Waste, 1311 North 17th Avenue in Greeley, (970) 400-2217, is open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free to every Weld County resident. It takes 200 pounds per household per visit, nothing in a container over five gallons, no leaking containers and no plastic bags. Paint, solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals and automotive fluids cannot go in a roll-off and they can go there instead, at no charge, three days a week, in Greeley. Two things it does not accept: electronics and appliances. Plan those separately.

Electronics are worth their own sentence because the rule is statutory rather than local. Electronics have been banned from Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 — televisions, monitors, computers, printers and the rest. They are not a container item anywhere in this state, and a clear-out that includes an old CRT television and a stack of dead laptops needs a plan for them before the box arrives rather than after. Tires are the other common surprise: they are refused locally and routed to registered tire facilities under Colorado’s waste tire rules.

What is left over is ordinary container content, and in Greeley there is a lot of it. Furniture, carpet, mattresses, shelving, boxes, clothing, garden equipment, fencing, decking, drywall and general household goods all go in the box. One local curiosity worth knowing: the City’s own code, at § 20-974, defines “refuse” to include “upholstered furniture… used or stored outdoors in any unroofed area” — so the couch on the back patio is not a piece of furniture in Greeley’s eyes, it is refuse. Inside the city limits questions like that are a City matter — Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311. Call the yard on (970) 888-6911 and we will tell you what to keep out of the box before we deliver it.

What We Clear Out Around Greeley

Container Or Removal, And Which Size

Most clear-outs land on a 20 yard, and in Greeley that is not marketing, it is the shape of the housing: with a thirty-inch frost line making basements ordinary, the standard job is a lower level plus a garage plus a storage level rather than a couple of rooms. A 15 yard is right where the job has a clear edge on it — one room, one garage bay, one shed — and it costs less. A 10 yard is not really a small-job box, it is the weight box, and it is the right answer if the clear-out includes broken concrete, paving, rock or soil. Where a house is being emptied completely, step up to a 30. The most common mistake we see is estimating from the doorway; walk the basement stairs and the garage first, then call (970) 888-6911 and describe it room by room. The sizing guide has the arithmetic.

Where It Goes After It Leaves

Three practical points on a clear-out, and one of them is about sorting rather than trucks. Sort before you load, not after. Electronics are banned from Colorado landfills outright; paint, solvents, fuel, oil, pesticides and pool chemicals belong at the county household hazardous waste facility on 1311 North 17th Avenue, (970) 400-2217, free to Weld County residents, 200 pounds per visit, nothing over five gallons and nothing in a plastic bag; tires go to registered tire facilities. Anything with refrigerant in it needs its own arrangement. Setting those aside on a tarp before the container arrives takes twenty minutes and saves an argument at the gate. Placement. Plywood under the wheels and the rear rollers, on concrete rather than lawn, with roughly sixty feet of straight approach, eleven feet of width and twenty feet of overhead for the hoist — and on the older Greeley grid the alley is frequently the better approach. The container sits five feet clear of any combustible wall under Section 304.3 of the 2021 International Fire Code, adopted by the City at § 22-454 with no amendment to Section 304. Wind. A clear-out load is light, bulky and exactly what a chinook is looking for, so tarp it overnight; one of the landfills serving this region publishes that uncovered or unsecured loads will be charged double. A last note on donation and resale, because it changes the size more often than people expect. Furniture in usable condition, working appliances without refrigerant, tools and building materials frequently have a route that is not a container at all, and pulling those out first can move a job from a 20 down to a 15. We would rather you did that before delivery than discovered it halfway through loading.