Junk removal in Kanata.
We clear junk across the whole of Kanata, both city wards, from Beaverbrook and Glen Cairn in the older west end out to Trailwest, Arcadia and Monahan Landing on the newer edges. What changes from street to street is not the drive. It is the house.
Kanata is the most age-layered suburb we work in. Its building stock runs from 1964 to a permit issued this year, and the population went from 19,728 in 1981 to 98,938 in 2021, which is four decades of subdivisions laid down beside each other. A sixty-year-old finished basement in Beaverbrook and a ten-year-old garage in Monahan Landing are two different jobs with the same postal prefix.
So the useful thing to say on the phone is not the neighbourhood. It is the era, the stairs, and whether the pile is already in the garage or still in the room.
Tell us what is in there.
Call or text, or send photos of the pile. You get a price before the truck arrives, and it is agreed before anything is loaded.
(613) 852-4059Sixty years of building stock in one suburb.
Kanata was a planned town before it was part of Ottawa. It was incorporated as its own city in 1978, out of March Township plus parts of Goulbourn and Nepean, and amalgamated into Ottawa on 1 January 2001. Each phase of that left a different kind of house behind.
Beaverbrook, from 1964
Bill Teron broke ground on a planned Garden City community on March Township farmland in the 1960s, and Tiffany Crescent was the first street developed, in 1964. Sixty years of one family in one house is a full-day clearout, not a truckload, and the basement is usually the half nobody has opened in a decade.
Glen Cairn and Katimavik-Hazeldean
The City's west-end flooding work describes the houses here as built in the 1960s and 1970s. Finished lower levels, laundry rooms with the original appliances still plumbed in, and staircases that were never sized for a chest freezer going back up them.
Bridlewood, Kanata Lakes and Morgan's Grant
The middle layer, and the one we will not put a date on. No sourced construction range exists for these three, and the decade labels that circulate come from listing copy rather than any record, so we leave the gap open. What is consistent is attached garages holding more than a garage was meant to hold.
Arcadia, Trailwest, Emerald Meadows and Monahan Landing
The newest layer, 2000s to current build permits, on small lots with a young canopy. Access is easy and the driveway is short, which is the opposite problem: there is nowhere to stage a pile, so sorting has to happen at the truck rather than on the lawn.
The practical difference is staging. Mature canopy and 1960s and 1970s lot layouts in Beaverbrook, Katimavik and Glen Cairn give you room to work but a longer carry and low branches over the driveway. The newer streets give you a clean approach and almost no room to sort. Both are fine. They just want a different plan, which is worth thirty seconds on the phone before the truck leaves.
Glen Cairn basements have a record.
On 24 July 2009, sewage backups flooded the basements of 1,500 homes across the Kanata and Stittsville areas, largely in Glen Cairn. The City report that went to councillors the following January named overflows at the Fringewood and Acres Road pumping stations, debris clogging a culvert grate at Kamitavik Road, and a Monahan drainage system pushed past what it was built for.
Two findings in that report still matter to anyone owning a house on those streets. Backwater valves failed in about 125 homes because their caps did not seal properly. And many of the homes built in the 1960s and 1970s did not have such a valve at all.
That is why a Glen Cairn call and a Bridlewood call are rarely the same call. What comes out of a lower level that has taken water is wet underlay, the bottom courses of drywall, cardboard storage that has wicked water halfway up, and furniture that will not dry. It is heavy, it goes soft fast, and it needs to leave the building before anything else gets decided.
The office floor and the golf course.
Kanata North, when a floor gets reconfigured
Canada's largest technology park sits inside the neighbourhood, seeded by Mitel, founded in 1972 by two engineers then at Bell Northern Research. It is the one part of Kanata where the call is rarely a basement. It is desks, chairs, partitions, server-room leftovers and the electronic waste that comes with a floor being changed around, usually against a date that is already fixed. Head for commercial cleaning or post-construction cleaning for how those run.
Kanata Lakes is a construction zone now
On 18 September 2025 the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the City's appeal in the Kanata Golf and Country Club case, ending the litigation and allowing ClubLink to proceed with a plan for 1,480 housing units on the site. A 1981 agreement had required the open space to be protected; a lower court declared key provisions void. Whatever you think of it, the practical effect is that those lands are a live redevelopment area rather than greenspace, which means demolition and debris work in a part of Kanata that has not seen it before.
City services, and a curb that fills up fast.
Kanata sits inside Ottawa's urban boundary on municipal water and sewer, so nothing about it is an out-of-town trip. Land past that boundary, in the former March Township, is rural and on private wells and septic. We check the address rather than assume.
The City brought in a three-item garbage limit for curbside collection in 2024, and three items are collected every two weeks. An item is a bag, a bin under 140 litres and 15 kg with a removable lid, or one bulky item. A dresser, a mattress and a bed frame is your entire fortnight.
Anything above the three has to go out in a City branded yellow bag, and the City states plainly that large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged. That is the sentence that ends most Kanata garage clearouts: the overflow route does not exist for the things people most want gone. Anything over the limit and not in a yellow bag stays where it is, with a courtesy tag on it. Recycling and green bin are still unlimited.
None of that binds us, because we are not a collection truck. Private garbage removal in Kanata runs the other way round: we load the whole pile in one visit, sort as we go so reusable furniture and recyclable material come out of the load before the rest heads for landfill, and sweep the space after. On the money: we quote by the volume the load takes up in the truck, on site, before anything is lifted. How that is worked out, and what other Ottawa haulers publish for the same load sizes, is on the pricing page.
Trail Road is a weekday trip.
The City's own landfill is the Trail Waste Facility at 4475 Trail Road, off Moodie Drive south of Fallowfield Road, and its gate keeps office hours: Monday to Friday, 7 am to 6 pm, closed every Sunday. It also opens on selected Saturdays, which the City lists on its Trail Waste Facility page. Check it before you hitch up a trailer.
Two rules turn people around at the scale house. Anyone using the Main Disposal Area or Small Load Area 2 needs CSA-certified green patch footwear and hi-visibility clothing. Payment is contactless.
The electronics from a Kanata North floor being changed round, and the old monitor in a Beaverbrook basement, follow a different rule from the rest of the load. Electronic waste is outside the City's curbside collection altogether. The same landfill takes it free of charge in 2026, along with scrap metal, as long as it arrives separated with no garbage mixed in, so we pull it out of the load before it reaches the scale. The guide to what junk removal won't take lists where every refused item goes instead.
If a weekday run is not on the table, that is what a junk pickup is for. We come to the house or the office, carry it out, and the sorting and the trip become ours.
Kanata, specifically.
Something not covered? Text (613) 852-4059.
Both wards, Kanata North and Kanata South, which between them take in Beaverbrook, Glen Cairn, Katimavik-Hazeldean, Bridlewood, Kanata Lakes, Morgan's Grant, Emerald Meadows, Trailwest, Arcadia and Monahan Landing. One caveat worth raising when you call: land past the urban boundary in the former March Township is rural and on private wells and septic rather than City services, so we confirm the specific address instead of assuming which side of that line it sits on.
Soaked underlay and carpet, the bottom of the drywall, cardboard storage that has wicked water up its sides, particle-board furniture that will not dry, and anything porous that sat wet. It leaves faster than it goes out at the curb, because three garbage items a fortnight does not empty a lower level. If the drying and the mould question are still open, start on the water and flood damage restoration page rather than here.
No. There is no heritage conservation district in effect in Beaverbrook. The City is running a Heritage Conservation District Feasibility Assessment, whose report was expected in the fall of 2025, and one of its possible outcomes is a recommendation to run a full district study. None of that touches emptying a basement or a garage. For anything to do with exterior work, the City's heritage planner is the right person to ask, not us.
For three items every two weeks, yes. The City collects three garbage items on your collection day, and a bulky item such as a sofa or a dresser counts as one of the three. Anything above the limit has to be in a City branded yellow bag, and the City states that large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged, which is what stops a garage clearout going out that way. Anything over the limit and not in a yellow bag is left behind with a courtesy tag explaining why.
People search both words and in Kanata they usually mean the same call. What separates them is who does the carrying. City garbage collection is a truck that takes three items off the end of your driveway on a fortnightly schedule and never comes inside. A booked junk pickup is a crew that goes into the Beaverbrook basement or the Monahan Landing garage, takes furniture apart where it has to, carries the load out and leaves with all of it in one visit. If what you need is somebody to get a chest freezer back up a 1970s Glen Cairn staircase, the word you typed does not change the job.
We do not publish a rate card, and we are not going to print a number here that we cannot stand behind for your specific load. Junk removal in Ottawa is priced by the space the load takes in the truck, and the pricing page explains how the fractions work, what pushes a price up or down, and what two other Ottawa haulers publish for the same load sizes. You get our figure on site, before anything is lifted.
Where these facts come from
Every dated claim above belongs to the body named beside it, and each link carries the date we read it.
- City of Ottawa, Curbside garbage collection and the three-item limit read
- CBC News, Glen Cairn flooding blamed on pumping stations (22 January 2010) read
- CBC News, Supreme Court won't hear Ottawa's appeal in Kanata golf course case (18 September 2025) read
- City of Ottawa, Beaverbrook Heritage Conservation District Feasibility Assessment read
- City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill, hours and Saturday openings read
- City of Ottawa, Rates for the Trail Waste Facility Landfill, free electronic waste and scrap metal read
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