Single items and small loads
The lounge the new one replaced, a dead dryer, a pile of boxes. Carried out from inside.
Rubbish removal in St Ives Chase
St Ives Chase is almost entirely houses, and a house renovation turns out more than a council cleanup can hold. We take it away in loads timed to your trades, from the rooms, the garage or the side path, for one fixed price agreed before anything is lifted.
What Ku-ring-gai's cleanup takes, and what it leaves
St Ives Chase is in Ku-ring-gai, across the park from Davidson, so its rules are Ku-ring-gai Council's, not the Northern Beaches rules Davidson works under. The cleanup here is booked ahead and collected from the kerb.
A cleanup booking takes
- Mattresses, from a cot to a king
- Fridges, freezers, ovens and washing machines
- TVs, computers, laptops and printers
- Furniture, beds, tools and carpet in manageable rolls
It leaves out
- Building and renovation waste: fencing, guttering, bricks, timber, tiles and concrete
- Paint, chemicals, pesticides and gas bottles
- Glass and mirrors
- Garden waste, which has its own booking
If all you have is an old mattress or a fridge that has given up, a cleanup booking may be the right answer, and it's worth trying first.
Call us when the job is past that: more than one booking can hold, full of the timber, tiles and fittings the council won't collect, or sitting inside the house where nobody is going to carry it out to the kerb for you. We load it from where it is.
- Bookings
- Four a year for each property, counted from 1 January.
- Size
- 3 cubic metres in total, no single item over 2 metres long.
- Putting it out
- On the kerb the night before collection, not earlier.
- One pile each
- Each house books its own. Adding to a neighbour's pile counts as dumping.
From the council: Cleanup collections and what they accept and booking a Council cleanup.
Renovating a St Ives Chase house
In a house with a garage, renovation waste tends to land there first and stay. We book three visits so it doesn't wait long, each one set by where the trades are up to.
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1 Before the trades
Clear the rooms being worked on
Whatever won't be going back in comes out before the first trade arrives.
- Beds, desks and lounges being replaced
- Boxed contents you've decided not to keep
- Curtains, blinds and old light fittings
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2 During
Take the fittings as they come out
Booked for the day the old kitchen, bathroom or floor comes up, so the garage stays usable.
- Cabinets, benchtops, sinks and cooktops
- Vanities, baths, toilets and screens
- Carpet, underlay and floating boards
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3 After handover
Take what's left at the end
The last of it, plus anything else in the house you'd like gone on the same trip.
- Offcuts, tile boxes and part sheets
- Appliance cartons and pallets
- Furniture that doesn't suit the new room
Pre-1990 house? Have the old linings tested.
For a home built before 1990, the NSW EPA's working assumption is that asbestos is in it somewhere. Before a renovation opens up the eaves, the sheeting behind bathroom or laundry tiles, or old vinyl flooring, get a sample tested.
Asbestos isn't something we carry. Friable asbestos, or more than 10 square metres of the bonded kind, is work for a licensed asbestos contractor, and asbestos.nsw.gov.au has the steps for finding one. Our loads go in after they have finished. What to test first
Old carpet and flooring
Carpet is the one renovation item Ku-ring-gai's cleanup will take, as long as it's rolled small enough to handle. One bedroom's worth can go that way.
A whole house of carpet is different. With its underlay it is a lot to fit under a 3 cubic metre limit, and floating boards, skirting and timber flooring count as renovation waste, which the cleanup leaves on the kerb.
We take the lot on the day the floor comes up, so the new floor goes down in rooms with nothing stacked in the corners.
- Carpet and underlay, rolled or not
- Floating floorboards and their foam backing
- Skirting, trims and door bars
- Vinyl and lino, once it has been tested
Skips on a St Ives Chase street
More than half the street names in St Ives Chase are closes and places. On a short close the kerb is shared with the neighbours, and during a renovation with the trades' vehicles too.
Ku-ring-gai Council has to approve a skip before it goes on the footpath, nature strip or road. It won't approve one on the street if the skip could sit on your property, and the applicant has to sign that it won't fit on site. It also asks what barricades and safety lights will be used, and street trees come into it: the council generally refuses a spot under a tree whose roots a skip could damage.
A crew loading from the house needs no skip approval. We park, carry from the rooms or the garage, and take everything with us, so nothing sits on the verge overnight. On a big renovation the builder may still want a skip on the drive for the steady waste, and we take the whole items that shouldn't be broken up to fit in it.
Garden waste from the bush edge
St Ives Chase runs up to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, and a garden that backs onto bush tends to produce more prunings and leaf litter than a green bin holds.
Ku-ring-gai has a separate bulk green waste booking for cut branches between 60 centimetres and 1.2 metres long and no thicker than 15 centimetres. Grass, leaf litter, thorny cuttings and tree stumps don't qualify.
Whatever that booking won't take can go with us on the same trip as the garage or the renovation. Ask us about anything heavy. Garage, shed and green waste
Other jobs in St Ives Chase
Garages, sheds and green waste
The double garage that stopped holding cars years ago, the shed out the back, and the garden.
Estates and house clearance
Clearing a parent's home, with the papers and keepsakes set aside before anything goes.
St Ives Chase questions
Should I book a council cleanup before calling you?
For a mattress, a fridge or an old TV, try the cleanup first. For renovation waste, a load bigger than one booking, or anything you'd rather not carry to the kerb yourself, ask us for a price.
Can you take the carpet and floorboards when the floor comes up?
Yes. Tell us the day the floor layer is lifting the old floor and we'll take the carpet, underlay, boards and trims then. Old vinyl or lino waits until it has been tested.
Can a skip go on the road outside our house?
Only with Ku-ring-gai Council's approval, and the council won't give it if the skip fits on your property. On a short close it's often simpler to have a crew load straight from the house.
Do you only collect from the kerb?
No. We pick up from wherever the load is: a bedroom, the garage, under the house or the back garden. Let us know about stairs or a steep drive so it's in the price.
What goes into the price?
One look at the load, then a single fixed price before we start. It moves with the volume, the material, and the distance from the load to the truck. There is no hourly charge.
Do you take old TVs and computers?
Yes, on their own or with the rest of a load. Ku-ring-gai's cleanup takes them too, so for a single TV that may be all you need.
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Tell us about the job
A few lines is plenty. We ring you back, come and look at it, and agree one fixed price before anything is lifted.
No hourly rate, no tip fees on top. The price covers loading, sweeping up and taking it to a licensed facility. If the job changes on the day, we agree the change before we carry on.