Junk removal in Navan.
Ottawa Site Restoration clears junk across Navan, and the first thing worth knowing is that the landfill nearest you is not the one for your basement. The Navan Waste Recycling and Disposal Facility sits at 3354 Navan Road, west of the village in Notre-Dame-des-Champs. Ontario licensed it for industrial and commercial waste, construction and demolition debris, and dry non-putrescible domestic waste. Dry is the operative word. The wet half of a kitchen or a hoarding clear-out is not what that gate is for, and the City site built for household loads, Trail Waste Facility, sits on the far southwest side of Ottawa.
Call or text and describe the load.
(613) 852-4059The landfill on your own road, and the one you actually need.
Most Ottawa neighbourhoods have one disposal question. Navan has two, and they point in opposite directions across the city.
| What is being compared | Navan Waste Recycling and Disposal Facility | Trail Waste Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Where | 3354 Navan Road, in Notre-Dame-des-Champs, west of the village | 4475 Trail Road, off Moodie Drive, southwest side of the city |
| Who runs it | Private operator, licensed by Ontario | City of Ottawa |
| Licensed for | Solid non-hazardous industrial and commercial waste, construction and demolition waste, dry non-putrescible domestic waste, asbestos waste, impacted soils | Household and small-load residential waste |
| Approved annual intake | 234,750 tonnes | not applicable, City facility |
| From a Navan address | Minutes, on the road you already live on | Across the whole city |
Read that table the way a homeowner has to. If you are taking down a shed and the load is clean lumber, roofing and drywall, the near site is a construction and demolition site and that is exactly the material it exists for. If you are emptying a basement, the near site is licensed for dry domestic waste, and a basement rarely stays dry once you start moving what is at the back of it. Confirm what the gate will accept and what it charges before you load anything. Neither of those is ours to publish.
The reason the second column is a real inconvenience and not a rhetorical one: Navan sits about 25 km east of downtown Ottawa, and Trail Road is off Moodie Drive at the opposite corner. That is not a Saturday errand. It is most of a day, twice, if it takes two trips.
How much does junk removal cost in Navan?
The price is the space your load takes on the truck, agreed before anything is lifted. Think of the truck body as a fixed box and the quote as a fraction of it. A quarter is a sofa, a chair and a few boxes. A half is a small room emptied. A full load is a garage.
Three things move that number, and none of them is your postal code:
- Volume. Flat-packing and breaking down boxes genuinely drops a load a fraction, and it is the one thing you can do that lowers the price.
- Access and labour. A dresser beside an open driveway and the same dresser at the far end of an unlit barn are the same volume and not the same job. Stairs, a long carry and a narrow doorway all add crew time.
- Anything with a special disposal route. Refrigerant appliances, tires, drums.
Being in Navan is not a fourth thing. Navan has been inside the City of Ottawa since 2001 and is a designated Village in the City's Official Plan. There is no separate municipality out here and no jurisdictional basis for an out-of-town surcharge. Anyone quoting you one should be asked what it is for. The full model, next to what the rest of the Ottawa market publishes, is on the pricing page.
What a small pickup actually involves.
People ask about a minimum charge and expect the answer to be arbitrary. It is not. A one-item pickup still books a crew, a truck and a disposal run, and out here it also books the drive. OC Transpo runs three weekday peak trips each way through Navan on route 228, plus a Tuesday-only shopper bus on route 302. Nothing about that gets a mattress to a transfer station. Every trade call in this village is a vehicle, and on a small job the vehicle is most of the cost.
Which is why the honest advice on a single item is often to wait. Hold it until there is a half-load's worth, or put it out under the City's curbside allowance below if it qualifies. We will say so on the phone. A load that should not have been a paid job is not a job we want.
Where can I get free junk removal in Ottawa?
Free exists, and it is narrower than people hope.
Curbside collection takes three garbage items per household every two weeks. A bag is one item. A container under 140 litres and 15 kg with a removable lid is one item. A single bulky item such as one piece of furniture is one item. Anything above three has to go out in a City branded yellow bag, and furniture and large bulky items cannot be bagged at all, so they cannot go over the limit that way. Over-limit waste without a yellow bag is left where it stands with a courtesy tag on it.
Household hazardous waste depots take what the curb will not: paint, disinfectants, pool chemicals, propane and batteries. The City runs these as one-day events at rotating locations rather than a permanent site, and sets the dates each year. Check the City's household hazardous waste page for the next one before you drive anywhere.
The agricultural exemption is not the loophole it sounds like. Farm properties on curbside collection can set out unavoidable farm waste without a yellow bag in a defined spring window, and the City illustrates that with haylage wrap, bale twine and drainage tile. A barn full of lumber, fencing, tires and drums is a different category and it is not covered.
Donation is the real free option and we use it first. Anything still usable is set aside rather than thrown, so what reaches a landfill is the part with nowhere else to be.
Now run the arithmetic on an actual Navan job. One bedroom set is a fortnight's entire allowance. An estate clear-out on an acre lot with a garage and a drive shed is not measured in fortnights.
Barns, silos and the permit nobody expects.
This is the part that catches people in a farming village, and it catches them in both directions.
The City of Ottawa requires a building permit to demolish all or part of an existing building, and the Ontario Building Code is what puts it there. Start without one and there is a non-refundable administrative surcharge on top of anything else. Utility clearances confirming that services have been disconnected or capped are part of the application, not an afterthought.
And then the exemption. The City states that demolition of certain building types, silos and barns, and of non-load-bearing interior partitions, does not require a demolition permit. In a village surrounded by working farmland that is not trivia. It is the difference between a three-week approval and a scheduled crew. Read it precisely though: it is an exemption from the permit, not from everything else. Utility disconnection, what is inside the structure, and where the material ends up are all still yours to sort out.
- City of Ottawa, Demolition: do I need a building permit
- Government of Ontario, guide to the regulation respecting asbestos on construction projects and in buildings and repair operations
That second link matters here because of what Navan is built from. Asbestos work in Ontario is governed by O. Reg. 278/05 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, it applies to demolition and not only to removal, and it is a separate regulated trade. We do not do asbestos abatement. On an older structure the assessment happens before a demolition date is set, not after a wall is open.
What comes out of a Navan house.
Navan is not one building era, and a page that treats it as one is guessing. Three things are on the ground here at once.
The nineteenth-century village core. St. Mary's Anglican Church was built of local limestone and completed in 1898. The Shaw House, at the northwest corner of Trim and Smith Roads, dates to 1876. Health Canada's guidance is that a home built before 1960 probably contains lead-based paint, and the village core predates that line by seventy years or more. That governs how painted surfaces are disturbed during a demolition or a strip-out, and it is a question we raise before booking rather than after.
Rural acreage. Barns, drive sheds, machinery, drums, fencing, and decades of things that were kept because there was room to keep them. This is where a hoarding clean-out in Navan looks different from one in a townhouse. The volume is in outbuildings, not rooms.
Later village infill. Ordinary residential loads, and first-generation ones at that.
One thread runs through all three: no municipal sewer. Navan is not one of the six rural communities the City serves with communal groundwater wells, and Vars, a comparable village about 10 km away, is. Navan properties run private wells and private septic. That changes two jobs. For water and flood damage and mould, a wet basement out here is not a storm-sewer story and the extracted water has nowhere municipal to go. And for anything with a truck, a septic bed is not a driving surface. Tell us where the bed, the tank lids and the wellhead are, and we plan the approach before we arrive.
Getting a truck to your door.
The village boundaries run Navan Road and Inge Crescent to the north, the Prescott-Russell trail link to the south, Tenth Line Road to the west and Frank Kenny Road to the east. The southern one is worth saying out loud. That trail is the old rail corridor, where a station ran on Smith Road from 1898 to 1974. It is a trail, not a road. A property backing onto it has no rear access, so everything comes out the front whatever the yard looks like.
The rest is rural driveway arithmetic. Length, surface, turning room for a loaded truck at the end of it, and mud season. Tell us on the phone and it gets planned. Discover it in the driveway and it is a wasted morning for both of us.
August is the one month worth mentioning. The Navan Fair has run every August since 1946 and its fairgrounds are at 1279 Colonial Road, in the middle of the village. Colonial Road in fair week is not what it is the rest of the year. If your job lands in that window, say so and we book around it.
What we cannot take.
Paint, solvents, pool chemicals, propane cylinders and batteries go to a City household hazardous waste event, not on our truck. Electronics have their own route. Anything holding refrigerant is named at the quote. Asbestos is a separate regulated trade and not ours. The full list is on what junk removal will not take in Ottawa.
Saying this before a crew arrives is the whole point. The version that goes wrong is the one where a drum in the corner of the barn is discovered at the end of the day.
How to choose a junk removal company in Ottawa.
We are not going to tell you we are the best one. Here is what to ask anybody, including us:
- What is the price based on? Volume as a fraction of a truck, or weight, or time. If nobody will say, that is the answer.
- Where does the load actually go? A company that cannot name the facility has not thought about it.
- What happens to the part that is not garbage? Donation and recycling should be the default, not an upsell.
- Who plans the access? On a Navan acre, whoever asks about the septic bed and the driveway before quoting is the one who has done this out here.
- Ask for evidence, not adjectives. Anything a company claims to hold, ask to see.
What we do in Navan.
Junk removal and same-day hauling, hoarding clean-outs, estate and pre-sale clearing, demolition, water and flood damage restoration, mould remediation, and excavation. One number covers all of it.
Navan, answered.
Something not covered? Text (613) 852-4059.
Send photos of the pile.
Send photos of the pile, or call and describe it. Most Navan jobs can be quoted from pictures without anyone driving out to look at your barn first. Mention stairs, a long carry, the septic bed, the driveway, and anything heavy or holding refrigerant.
Ottawa Site Restoration, (613) 852-4059, ottawasiterestoration.ca
Where these facts come from
The City and provincial pages behind the demolition and asbestos sections, with the date we read them. Permit rules and collection rules change; check the City's own page before you act on one.
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