Junk removal in Nepean.
Nepean stopped being a municipality in 2001 and the name stayed on the mail. We work all of it: Bells Corners, Lynwood Village, Westcliffe Estates, Leslie Park, Briargreen, Arlington Woods, Craig Henry, Qualicum, Graham Park and Centrepointe.
This is inside-the-Greenbelt Ottawa, west and south west of the core, on full municipal water and sewer throughout. It is also the oldest suburban housing on our list, and that is the fact that changes the work. Across the Centrepointe and Craig Henry area, roughly 14,833 homes between Highway 417 and Hunt Club Road, most of the stock was built between 1960 and 1990. Bells Corners is older again.
A house that has held one or two families since 1961 does not produce a few pieces. It produces a workshop, a laundry room with two generations of appliances in it, and shelving that was built in place and has to come apart before it can leave. That is a day with a crew, not a season at the curb.
Send a photo of the pile.
Photos are enough to quote from. You get the figure before anything is lifted, confirmed on site.
(613) 852-4059Five subdivisions, five different jobs.
Nepean is not one era. It runs from Bill Teron bungalows finished before 1962 to Minto streets started in 1985, and the decade a street was built tells us more about a cleanout than the postal code does.
Lynwood Village, Bells Corners
Late 1950s into the early 1960s, and one of the first examples of tract housing in Ottawa. Lloyd Francis and Donald Sim assembled the land and brought in Bill Teron in 1958. Four hundred families were living in Teron bungalows by 1960, another four hundred homes went up in 1961, and more again in 1962. Whole streets of the same floor plan, which means whole streets with the same basement stair and the same door width.
Westcliffe Estates, west of Lynwood
Founded 1969, over 1,600 homes, and built at significantly higher residential densities than the rest of Bells Corners, largely by Assaly Construction and later the Thomas C. Assaly Corporation. Density is a staging question more than a lifting one: less room to put a truck, and neighbours closer to whatever is coming out.
Leslie Park, Briargreen, Arlington Woods
Developed in the 1960s and early 1970s on land farmed by the Leslie family since 1819, some of which stayed in the family into the early 1960s. Sixty-year-old detached houses with full basements, and in plenty of cases one or two owners across the whole span.
Craig Henry, Qualicum and Graham Park
Craig Henry was farmland until 1971. Qualicum and Graham Park are 1960s houses on roughly 100 by 100 foot lots. Wide older lots mean real rear-yard access and somewhere to stage a load, which is the opposite of the newer south-end subdivisions where the driveway is the only option.
Centrepointe
The youngest piece of old Nepean. Minto only began developing it in 1985, after buying much of the land from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, twenty-five years after the first Lynwood bungalows were finished. Same postal name, different job.
One practical consequence of all of it: this is the pre-1978 half of our service area, so lead-era paint and asbestos-era ceiling finishes, floor tile and pipe wrap are ordinary here rather than unusual. It makes no difference to clearing furniture and boxes. It matters a great deal to a demolition scope, because the City's own rates page states the Trail Waste Facility does not accept asbestos, and suspect material has to go to a testing lab before anything is loaded rather than after.
Some of those streets now carry large new infill builds as well. Where an original house comes down to make room for one, the lot has to be dug, trenched and backfilled before anything goes up, and that is its own job: excavation and backfill.
Nepean is the nearest part of the city to the Trail Waste Facility Landfill at 4475 Trail Road, off Moodie Drive south of Fallowfield Road. If you own a truck and a trailer, a run from Bells Corners is short and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Check the gate before you load. The City lists the site as open Monday to Friday, 7 am to 6 pm, closed Sunday, and open on selected Saturdays only, which the City lists on its Trail Waste Facility page. Payment at the scale house is contactless only. Steel toe boots and a high visibility vest must be worn at the main tipping areas, and the facility's own page requires CSA green patch footwear and hi-visibility clothing for the Main Disposal Area and Small Load Area #2.
Four things it will not take, per the City's rates page: asbestos, liquid waste, hazardous waste and commercial garbage. Oil tanks and drums have to be cut in half or perforated many times before they go in, and the City's own advice is to call a waste disposal company if you are not equipped to do that safely.
What proximity does not solve is the stairs. Almost everything we move in Nepean comes up out of a basement before it goes anywhere, and that is the part that takes two people and a plan. The drive was never the hard bit.
The chest freezer is not a bulky item.
The City of Ottawa collects three garbage items every two weeks, where a bulky item counts as one, and anything above the limit has to be in a City branded yellow bag or it is left with a courtesy tag. Large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged at all. On a 1961 bungalow with a full basement that arithmetic is the whole problem, and the junk removal page works through it in detail.
Appliances are a harder rule and they are what old garages are full of. The City states that it does NOT pick up stoves, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, dryers, dishwashers, hot water tanks, furnaces or oil tanks at the curb, and residents must make their own arrangements. Its Bulky Waste page excludes electronic waste on the same basis, which is why a wooden console television sits in a basement for a decade.
The rule worth knowing before you call anyone: every refrigerator, freezer, air conditioning unit and dehumidifier must have its cooling chemicals removed and be tagged by a certified technician before it is brought to a landfill, and untagged items are refused entry at the site. Tell us the freezer is in the load and we will confirm how it gets handled before the job is booked.
Two smaller ones that catch renovations and workshop clearouts. Plaster, wood including pressure-treated lumber, drywall, concrete and asphalt are not collected with regular garbage at all. And glass, from windows to a broken shelf, has to be packaged securely in a cardboard box marked so the operator knows what is in it. We sort as we load rather than afterwards, so donations and metal come out of the pile on the way to the truck.
The tornado track ran through Arlington Woods.
Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed six tornadoes across eastern Ontario and Quebec that afternoon. Its statement of 27 September 2018 records the third of them: a tornado that tracked from the Arlington Woods to Greenboro areas of Ottawa near 6:00 pm, assessed as EF-2 with wind speeds of up to 220 km/h, which significantly damaged buildings and snapped many trees and hydro poles.
The heavy mature canopy over the 1960s and 1970s streets here is the reason they are pleasant to live on and the reason a storm in them is expensive. Storm work is rarely one thing: limbs and a fence in the back yard, a shed that came apart, a garage full of what used to be a tree, and then water in a basement because a roof was open for two days.
That last part is a different job from hauling, and it is worth calling it what it is. See water and flood damage restoration for the drying and tear-out side, and estate and pre-sale cleaning when a long-held Nepean house is being emptied to a listing date rather than at your own pace.
Priced on what leaves, agreed before we load.
Junk removal is priced by the space a load takes on the truck, adjusted for weight and for how far it has to be carried. In Nepean the carry is usually the variable: a basement stair, a doorway cut for 1961 furniture, and a workshop bench that has to be taken apart in place. Send photos, or call and describe the room, and the figure comes back before anything moves. It is confirmed on site and agreed before a single item goes on the truck.
We publish no rate card here, because a rate card cannot see your staircase. What we do publish is how the pricing model works, what pushes it up and down, and what other Ottawa haulers charge, on the pricing page.
Nepean, specifically.
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Yes. Bells Corners sits inside the old Nepean boundary along the Robertson Road corridor near Highway 417, and Lynwood Village and Westcliffe Estates are both in it. It gets no separate page here because it is the same trip and the same crew, not because it is an afterthought.
No, and the confusion is real rather than invented. The pre-2001 City of Nepean boundary also took in what is now Barrhaven, so a Nepean postal address can mean either. This page is the inside-the-Greenbelt part, roughly Highway 417 north, Hunt Club Road south, Highway 416 west and Woodroffe Avenue east. Barrhaven has its own page.
Tell us it is in the load when you call, because it is the one item that changes the plan. The City of Ottawa does not collect appliances at the curb at all, and its Special items page states that every refrigerator, freezer, air conditioning unit and dehumidifier must have its cooling chemicals removed and be tagged by a certified technician before a landfill will take it, with untagged items refused entry at the gate. We will confirm on the phone how yours gets handled before anything is booked.
It can. Stock in Lynwood Village, Leslie Park, Briargreen, Arlington Woods and the 1960s Qualicum and Graham Park streets predates the 1978 lead-paint cutoff, and the same era used asbestos-containing material in ceiling finishes, floor tile and pipe wrap. Clearing furniture, boxes and a workshop is unaffected. A demolition scope is different: the City's own rates page states plainly that the Trail Waste Facility does not accept asbestos, so suspect material has to be identified by a testing lab before any of it is loaded.
Sometimes, and we will say so on the phone rather than talk you out of it. Check the gate first. The Trail Waste Facility at 4475 Trail Road is open Monday to Friday, 7 am to 6 pm, closed Sunday, and open on selected Saturdays only, which the City lists on its Trail Waste Facility page. Payment is contactless only, and steel toe boots and a high visibility vest are required at the main tipping areas. What the short drive does not solve is the staircase, which is the part of a Nepean split level that takes two people.
Where these facts come from
Municipal, federal and local-history sources for the collection rules, the landfill, the housing dates and the 2018 storm, each with the date we read it.
- City of Ottawa, Curbside garbage collection read
- City of Ottawa, Bulky Waste read
- City of Ottawa, Special items read
- City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill read
- City of Ottawa, Rates for the Trail Waste Facility Landfill read
- Environment and Climate Change Canada, six tornadoes confirmed on 21 September 2018 read
- AllThingsHome, Centrepointe-Craig Henry community profile read
- Bells Corners local history, Lynwood Village and Westcliffe Estates read
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