Junk removal in Orleans.
Orléans is the wrong end of the city for a dump run. Ottawa's only public landfill is at 4475 Trail Road in the far southwest, and the Greenbelt sits between it and every street out here. We work in Orléans, we carry it out, and you get the figure before anything goes on the truck.
Orléans is about 16 km east of downtown along the south bank of the Ottawa River, cut off from urban Ottawa by the Greenbelt and Green's Creek, and reached on Highway 174 or Innes Road. It is also a big place that was not built all at once: a 1958 street and a 2019 street produce completely different loads.
Send a photo of the pile.
Faster than describing it, and it means the number you hear on the phone is the number confirmed on site.
(613) 852-4059Out here, the drive is the job.
Trail Waste Facility Landfill sits at 4475 Trail Road, off Moodie Drive south of Fallowfield Road. From Fallingbrook or Avalon that is most of the way across Ottawa, one way, with a trailer that handles badly. Two trips and the day is gone.
The hours are the part people find out too late. The City publishes the site as open Monday to Friday, 7 am to 6 pm, closed Sundays, and open to the public on selected Saturdays only. The City lists which ones on its Trail Waste Facility page, linked below. So the weekend you set aside for it may not exist.
None of that means you cannot do it yourself. One load on a free weekday is a real option and we will say so. It means that out here the argument for calling someone is arithmetic, not persuasion.
Orléans was built in dateable waves.
More than half the housing here is single detached, with roughly 30 per cent row and townhouse. What comes out of it depends almost entirely on when the street went in.
From 1958
Queenswood Heights
The first major residential development in Orléans, with construction beginning in 1958. Nearly seventy years of one family in one house is a specific kind of job: a crawl space, a cold room, a garage that has not held a car since the eighties, and a basement where the boxes at the back predate the boxes at the front.
From 1970
Convent Glen, Orléans Wood, Chatelaine Village
Three subdivisions off one land deal. The Grey Nuns of Charity, who had bought the land from the Besserer family in 1885, sold 500 acres to the Costain and Minto companies in 1970. Mature canopy now, so these streets bring out rotted deck boards, roots through patio stone and shed contents that have been damp for years.
From the late 1990s
Avalon
Did not exist until the late 1990s. Bounded by Innes Road, Portobello and Brian Coburn to Trim Road, Mer Bleue Road and Wall Road, with 12,455 residents at the 2011 census. Its own published history records that development slowed while the builder went back to fix foundations on houses already built, and that some criticised building on swampland. Worth knowing before a basement gets emptied.
Concept plan approved June 2013
Cardinal Creek Village
The Tamarack tract east of Trim Road, roughly 3,000 units across about 208 hectares, still building out on a 15 to 20 year horizon. The calls are the opposite of Convent Glen's: packaging, offcuts, a first deck going in, a basement being finished rather than emptied.
Chapel Hill and Fallingbrook straddle the line between those waves, and we are not going to guess their era on a web page. We check the street. It matters for one practical reason: pre-1978 paint can contain lead, so on the older cores we plan the debris handling before the demolition rather than after it.
The map changes at the edge of town.
Urban Orléans is on full municipal water and sewer. The rural fringe south and east of it is not. Notre-Dame-des-Champs, at Navan Road and Mer Bleue Road, is private well and septic: the City operates six communal groundwater systems and every one of them is somewhere else, at Carp, Munster Hamlet, Richmond Kings Park, Richmond West, Greely Shadow Ridge and Vars.
That is not a technicality once a truck is involved, because a septic bed will not take the weight of a loaded vehicle. Underneath it all, this part of Ottawa sits on sensitive Leda marine clay left by the Champlain Sea, which is why excavation in Orléans near an existing foundation is a planning question here rather than a digging question.
Three items, every two weeks.
The City brought in a three-item garbage limit in 2024, and a bulky item such as a piece of furniture counts as one of the three. Anything over the limit has to go out in a City branded yellow bag, and large furniture cannot be bagged or have a bag attached to it, which is the catch. Waste that breaches the rule is left behind with a courtesy tag explaining why.
A few specifics worth knowing before you stack anything at the end of the driveway: carpet has to be tied and bundled to a maximum of 1.2 m long, 60 cm across and 15 kg; broken glass goes in a sealed cardboard box marked as such, never loose in a bag; and a cardboard box used that way counts as one of your three items.
For one old chair on the right week, the curb is the answer. For a basement, an estate or a renovation it is not a plan, it is a queue.
One appliance is still a cross-city trip.
An Orléans job can be one heavy thing: a chest freezer in a Convent Glen basement, or a dryer that finally quit. The City does not pick up appliances at the curb at all. Stoves, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, dryers, dishwashers, hot water tanks, furnaces and oil tanks all need their own arrangements.
Anything with a cooling circuit has one more step. A fridge, a freezer, an air conditioner or a dehumidifier needs its cooling chemicals removed and the unit tagged before a landfill will accept it, and the City states that untagged units are refused entry. From Orléans that is the worst way to lose a morning: most of the way across Ottawa to Trail Road, and a refusal at the gate.
So tell us what the item is when you call, and we confirm how it gets handled before anything is booked. A mattress is the exception worth knowing. The City collects one at the curb for free as one of your three items, and the mattress disposal guide explains when that works. For the full list the curb and the trucks refuse, see what junk removal won't take.
What we clear in Orléans.
Basement and garage clearouts, furniture, mattresses, appliances, renovation debris, sheds and playsets, and whole-property cleanouts. We carry, load and sweep. Junk removal is the core of it, and the pages for estate and pre-sale cleaning, water and flood damage restoration and demolition set out how each of those runs.
Sorting happens as we load, so what can be donated is donated and what can be recycled is separated before the rest reaches Trail Road. On a cross-city run that is worth more than it sounds: the less that goes to the scale, the shorter and cheaper the day is for everyone.
Call or text (613) 852-4059, or email info@ottawasiterestoration.ca. Photos of the pile are usually enough for a figure without a visit, and the figure is agreed before anything is loaded. How a junk removal quote is built, what moves it up and down, and what other Ottawa haulers publish, is all on the pricing page.
One thing this page will not do is promise you service in French. It would be the strongest line on it, in the most francophone suburb in the region, where 33.4 per cent gave French as their mother tongue at the 2016 census against 53.5 per cent English. That is exactly why it is not written here before it has been confirmed. Ask when you call.
Orléans, answered.
Something not covered? Text (613) 852-4059.
Orléans is not a separate town. It has been inside the City of Ottawa since the amalgamation on 2001-01-01, and before that it was split between the City of Gloucester in the west and the City of Cumberland in the east, which is also why permit and title history varies across one suburb. What moves a quote is volume, weight, carry distance, stairs and where the material is allowed to go. That is set out on our pricing page.
You get three items of garbage every two weeks, and the City counts a bulky item such as furniture as one of the three. Past three it needs a City branded yellow bag, and large furniture cannot be bagged or have a bag attached to it. Waste that breaks the rule is left with a courtesy tag. One chair on the right week is a curb job. A basement is not.
All of it, from Green's Creek and the Greenbelt out past Trim Road, and the rural land south of Innes Road. Queenswood Heights, Convent Glen, Orléans Wood, Chatelaine Village, Chapel Hill North and South, Fallingbrook, Bilberry Creek, Châteauneuf, Hiawatha Park, Notting Gate, Orléans Village, Springridge, Avalon and Cardinal Creek. Further east or south, ask anyway.
We are not putting a bilingual service claim on a web page before it has been confirmed, and it has not been. The demand for it is not in doubt: 33.4 per cent of the area gave French as their mother tongue at the 2016 census, against 53.5 per cent English. Ask when you call and you get a straight answer on the spot.
It changes where the truck sits. A septic bed will not take the weight of a loaded vehicle, so on the rural fringe south and east of urban Orléans the staging point is decided before anyone starts carrying rather than halfway through. Say so when you book and it costs you nothing but a sentence.
Where these facts come from
The municipal rules, the landfill hours and the Avalon construction history above, each with the date we read it.
- City of Ottawa, Curbside garbage collection and the three-item limit read
- City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill, location and hours read
- City of Ottawa, Special items: appliances and the refrigerant tag read
- City of Ottawa, Wells, the six communal groundwater systems read
- Avalon, Ottawa, boundaries, 2011 population and the foundation repairs read
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