Junk removal in Riverside South.
We clear junk across Riverside South, from the older streets off Spratt Road and Earl Armstrong to the newest phases near Limebank. One fact governs the work here: the first homes in the modern community went up in 1996, on farmland the developers had been leasing back to farmers while they waited for the city to reach them. Almost nothing on these streets has had time to fill up the way an older Ottawa house does.
So a job here is usually material rather than contents. A kitchen that has been torn out, a garage that filled in twenty years instead of sixty, a deck that has reached the end of its life, the leftovers of a build two doors down. There is one exception on the whole map and it is three streets long.
Tell us the phase.
A finished street and one still being built are two different bookings. Say which you are on.
(613) 852-4059A suburb with almost no past to clear out.
The 2021 census counted 19,802 people across 28.6 square kilometres, in 6,903 homes. The community was settled in 1996 and came into Ottawa with the 2001 amalgamation, and the municipality it came from was the City of Gloucester, not Nepean.
The mix is condo flats and low-rise condos, townhomes, bungalows and two-storey singles, laid out subdivision by subdivision: Ironwood by Cardel, River's Edge by Claridge, Tapestry by the Rideau by eQ Homes, the Hennessy Court rentals by Richcraft, and HN and Urbandale elsewhere. Name yours on the call and we already know roughly what the driveway and the stairs look like.
Everything in the community design plan area is on full municipal water and sanitary sewer. There is no well to protect and no septic bed to keep a loaded truck off, which is not something we can assume in Greely, Manotick or Richmond. Here the driveway does the work and the load comes out through the front.
The exception is Honey Gables: three streets on the west side of River Road, built around 1950, that the new community grew around instead of replacing. It is the only pocket in Riverside South where the age of the building materials is worth settling before a strip-out starts, and on those streets we ask.
The first wave is now old enough to renovate.
1996 is thirty years ago. The phases built between then and about 2010 are now 20 to 30 years old, which is precisely the age at which a house starts shedding the parts it came with. The builder-grade pressure treated deck. The fence that went in with the sod. The first kitchen and the first set of bathroom fittings. A lower level finished cheaply and now being done properly. None of that is a curbside quantity, and all of it comes out at once.
Turnover supplies the rest. A community of first-time and move-up buyers changes hands often, and a move generates a load of its own: what the sellers will not carry and the buyers will not keep, plus whatever was in the garage that nobody claimed. That is junk removal at its plainest, and where a whole property has to be emptied and made presentable before a listing goes up it becomes estate and pre-sale clearing.
Where the renovation is the job rather than the aftermath, interior demolition takes the room apart and the debris leaves in the same visit. This is the part of the work that grows on its own here: every year more of the early phases cross the same line.
The train arrived before the town centre did.
O-Train Line 2 reached Limebank and began carrying passengers on 6 January 2025. The district meant to surround that station had been approved the year before: the City's planning and housing committee passed the Secondary Plan at its meeting of 24 April 2024, with council voting on 1 May, covering about 9,000 jobs, 1,400 more homes, a school, a park, a community centre and a library branch, and updating a community design plan last revised in 2016.
Approved growth on that scale means parts of this community will be a construction site for years yet. That is not background colour, it is the booking. A finished house sits next to a framed one, frontages are mud rather than sod, and streets are shared with trades.
So we settle two things before the day rather than in your driveway: where a truck can stand without blocking a working site, and whether the carry crosses ground that will not take a loaded trolley.
If a job wants a bin left on site instead of a truck loaded and gone, where it stands is a rule and not a preference. On your own driveway there is nothing to apply for. The City lists a roll off or disposal bin in a roadway or public laneway among the works needing a temporary construction related encroachment permit, issued under Road Activity By-law 2003-445, and it states plainly that it does not issue those permits for parking contractor vehicles. Our bin and equipment rental page sets out the process and the current fees.
The same logic runs at the curb: the City asks that bags and approved containers sit on the ground near the road, not on the sidewalk, the roadway or a snow bank.
One rule at the landfill splits these jobs in two.
The City's landfill is the Trail Waste Facility at 4475 Trail Road, and from here the route runs west over the Vimy Memorial Bridge, the Strandherd-Armstrong crossing completed in 2014. Before that there was no direct road to Barrhaven at all.
The gate opens 7 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday and is closed every Sunday. It also opens on selected Saturdays, which the City lists on its Trail Waste Facility page. Payment at the scale house is contactless.
The rule that matters more here is the other one. To preserve what is left of the site, the City has put a permanent ban on industrial, commercial and institutional waste at Trail Road. Commercial leaf and yard waste, commercial metal and commercial e-waste are still accepted. The rest is not.
In a community with this much construction in it, that single line separates a household clear-out from a job site load. So we ask who the work is for before we book it rather than after. Either way the pile is sorted as it is loaded, so what can be donated or recycled leaves separately from what cannot.
The jobs these streets actually produce.
Renovation debris and interior tear-outs. Garage and basement clear-outs. Deck boards, fence panels and playsets at the end of their first life. Moving loads either side of a sale. Builder leftovers and packaging once the trades are gone and the house has to be handed over clean, which is where post-construction cleaning comes in. Lower-level water is its own call in a house of any age, and water and flood damage restoration is where that one starts.
The number comes before the lifting. It is set by how much room the load takes on the truck, how heavy it is, how far it has to be carried, and where the material is allowed to go. Riverside South is inside the city, so distance is not one of the variables. How pricing works sets out the whole model, and what the rest of the Ottawa market publishes.
Riverside South, specifically.
Something not covered? Text (613) 852-4059.
Two published boundaries disagree, so we work from the address rather than the name. The current community profile puts it between Canyon Walk Drive and other roads to the north, Rideau Road to the south, Limebank Road to the east and River Road to the west. The Riverside South Community Association's ultimate planned boundary is wider, taking the east edge out to Bowesville Road and the north edge up to Leitrim Road. If you sit between Limebank and Bowesville you are inside one of those and outside the other, and either way you are inside the City of Ottawa and inside where we work.
Somewhere we agree on before the day, not somewhere we find on arrival. Say on the call if a builder is working next door, if the frontage is still mud or if the driveway is shared, and we plan the approach and the carry around it. If the job wants a bin left standing rather than a truck loaded and driven off, the driveway is the simple answer: a bin in the roadway or a public laneway needs a City permit and a bin on your own driveway needs nothing.
Nothing because of its age. Housing here is effectively all 1996 or later, so the questions that shape a strip-out in older parts of Ottawa, about what is in the paint and what is behind the wall, do not arise on these streets. What still matters is what the item is. Appliances holding refrigerant, paint and solvents, batteries and electronics each have their own route and none of them is the curb. Tell us what is in the pile and we will say what has to be separated out.
Yes, and it is worth saying on the call, because you are the exception on this page. Honey Gables is three streets on the west side of River Road built around 1950, and the modern community grew around it rather than replacing it. On stock that old the order of work changes: what the material is gets settled before anything is sanded or broken open, and that is a test rather than a guess. The carrying and the sorting run the same as anywhere else here.
If it is your own household waste and you have a weekday free, yes. The Trail Waste Facility opens 7 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday, closes every Sunday, and opens on selected Saturdays only. If a contractor is doing the work it is a different question, because the City has put a permanent ban on industrial, commercial and institutional waste at that site. Read the City's page before you drive out; the Saturday schedule changes.
Where these facts come from
Every external fact on this page, with the date we read it on the live source. Landfill hours, collection rules and permit conditions change; check the City's own page before you act on one.
- City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill: hours and the IC&I disposal ban read
- City of Ottawa, curbside garbage collection and where a container may sit read
- City of Ottawa, temporary construction related encroachments read
- Wikipedia, Riverside South, Ottawa read
- All Things Home, Riverside South community profile read
- Ontario Construction News, Riverside South transit-oriented development approved read
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