Junk removal in Stittsville.
We clear junk right across Stittsville, and the job splits two ways before the truck leaves the yard. One half is the old village along Main Street, where a house has held the same family since before the subdivisions arrived. The other half is Fernbank, where the ward councillor's own count puts 44 per cent of every home in Stittsville as built since 2016.
Those two produce opposite loads. Decades of accumulation comes out of a village house slowly, room by room, with a shed and a garage behind it. A ten-year-old house in Blackstone or Potter's Key produces renovation debris and moving waste, in volume, usually against a closing date. So the first useful thing to tell us is not the street. It is which of those two you are, and whether the pile is already staged or still upstairs.
Tell us which half you are.
Call or text with photos. The price is agreed before anything is carried out of the house.
(613) 852-4059Somebody already published when every street went up.
On 28 March 2024 the councillor for Stittsville Ward published a decade-by-decade account of the community's growth, read off aerial photography, naming which subdivisions appeared when. Most suburbs make you guess the era from listing copy. Here it is on the record.
| Built | Where | What usually leaves |
|---|---|---|
| Before 1980 | Stittsville Main Street south of what is now Abbott Street, Fringewood North and South, a scatter of homes near Hazeldean and Carp Road | Whole-house work. Forty-five years of one family in one building, plus a garage and usually a shed. |
| 1980 to 1991 | Crossing Bridge, Wyldewood, Amberwood, and the Iber Road business park | Downsizing and full property clear-outs. Iber Road is where the ward's commercial loads start. |
| 1991 to 2002 | Bryanston Gate, Forest Creek, the first phases of Amberlakes and Granite Ridge, and the streets around Brae Crescent | Second-time kitchens and bathrooms, and 1990s finished basements coming back out. |
| 2002 to 2011 | Timbermere, Echowoods, Jackson Trails, Fairwinds, Hartsmere and the West Ridge expansion | The first renovation wave. Original builder finishes, and play structures off the back lawn. |
| 2011 to 2021 | Fairwinds-Poole Creek, Potter's Key, Blackstone, Fernbank Crossing, Westwood, Abbottsville Crossing, Mapleton and Bradley Commons | Move-in and move-out loads, basement-finishing debris, and whatever the last owner left. |
| Being built now | Shea Village, Idylea, Abbott's Run, further Westwood phases, and apartments along Hazeldean Road and Stittsville Main Street | Construction debris, on lots with nowhere to put a container except the street. |
Two figures from the same notebook explain why the bottom rows are busier than the top. Roughly a thousand homes and apartments a year had been going in over the run-up to that 2024 count, and by the councillor's estimate close to a third of residents had lived here five years or less. Turnover on that scale is a waste stream of its own.
A container on a City street needs a permit.
It catches people out on the Fernbank streets in particular, where the lots are tight, the side yards are narrow and the driveway is already holding two cars. The obvious answer is a bin at the curb. The City lists exactly that, a roll off or disposal bin in a roadway or public laneway, as a temporary construction related encroachment granted under Road Activity By-law 2003-445.
The permits come in two shapes. A simple one covers an encroachment of ten working days or less. Anything longer than that, or the renewal of a simple permit, is a complex one, and no permit is granted for more than three months at a time. The City also states that it does not issue these permits for parking vehicles, which have to work within the Traffic and Parking By-law like everyone else.
None of it applies to a load that arrives, gets carried out and leaves the same day. That is the real difference between renting a container for a fortnight and booking a crew: one is a conversation with the City about the road allowance, the other is an afternoon. Which works out cheaper depends on how much you have, and that comparison lives on the pricing page.
The oldest ground and the rural edge.
Main Street, rebuilt after 1870
The village was founded in 1854 around what is now Carp and Hazeldean. The Carleton County Fire of 1870 then destroyed almost all of it, burning across more than 250,000 acres from Ottawa to Smiths Falls to Carleton Place, and it rebuilt along the rail line that first carried a train through on 16 September 1870. Which is why the surviving fabric starts where it does: Kemp's Tavern on Hazeldean Road, built 1868, was one of a handful of buildings left standing, and the Bradley and Craig barn at 590 Hazeldean Road dates to 1873. Nothing residential here is older than that, so an old-village job means long tenure, not heritage constraints.
The Carp Road Corridor is on wells and septic
The built-up community sits inside the urban boundary on municipal water and sewer. The corridor along its north-west edge does not. The City's Community Design Plan states that apart from the lands south of Highway 417, meaning the eastern half of the Westbrook Subdivision plus properties on Lloydalex Crescent and Carp Road, the corridor is serviced by individual wells and septic systems, and that new development there stays on private services. It is designated a rural employment area, with the heaviest uses nearest the quarry and landfill north of the 417. So one edge of a fast-growing suburban ward is rural-serviced light industry.
That second point has a disposal consequence. The City has put a permanent ban on industrial, commercial and institutional waste at the Trail Waste Facility, still accepting commercial leaf and yard waste, metal and e-waste. A shop clear-out on Iber Road is therefore a different routing question from a garage on Jackson Trails. Say it is a business address when you call, and see commercial cleaning for how those jobs are run.
Stittsville is the top of the Carp River.
The Carp River watershed sits entirely inside the City of Ottawa. The river runs 42 km and drains 306 km2, and the conservation authority describes it as predominantly urban in its headwaters in Stittsville, rural for the rest of its length, ending at Fitzroy Harbour. Poole Creek runs through that headwater ground, and the authority publishes an Upper Poole Creek restoration plan for it.
The practical version: property near water here sits under the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, not the Rideau Valley one that covers most of the south end of the city. People who moved up from Barrhaven or Manotick get that wrong regularly. It changes nothing about a garage clear-out, and it matters as soon as work happens close to a creek bank.
Ottawa collects three garbage items per household every two weeks. An item is a bag, a container up to 140 litres and under 15 kg with a removable lid, or one bulky item. Anything beyond the three must go out in a City branded yellow bag, and large bulky items and furniture cannot be bagged at all, so the overflow route does not exist for the things people most want gone. Recycling and green bin stay unlimited.
Driving it yourself is the other option, and from Stittsville that is a cross-town run rather than a neighbourhood errand. The Trail Waste Facility is at 4475 Trail Road, off Moodie Drive south of Fallowfield Road, open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 6 pm, closed every Sunday, and open on selected Saturdays only, which the City lists on its Trail Waste Facility page. Payment is contactless, and the City requires CSA-certified green patch footwear and hi-visibility clothing of anyone using the Main Disposal Area or Small Load Area 2.
We load the whole pile in one visit instead, sort as we go so reusable furniture and recyclable material leave the load before the rest, and sweep behind us. The quote is the space your load takes on the truck, agreed on site before anything is lifted. Estate and pre-sale cleaning and hoarding cleanup cover the two jobs the old village calls about most.
Stittsville, specifically.
Something not covered? Text (613) 852-4059.
All of Ward 6, from the Main Street corridor and Old Stittsville around Carp and Hazeldean out to the Fernbank subdivisions. That takes in Fringewood, Amberwood, Wyldewood, Crossing Bridge, Bryanston Gate, Amberlakes, Granite Ridge, Forest Creek, Timbermere, Echowoods, Jackson Trails, Fairwinds, Hartsmere, West Ridge, Potter's Key, Blackstone, Fernbank Crossing, Westwood, Abbottsville Crossing, Mapleton and Bradley Commons. One thing worth saying on the call: if the address is on the Carp Road Corridor rather than in the built-up community, it is rural-serviced ground and we plan the visit differently.
More than people expect, and it is a different list from an old-village job. Flat-pack furniture that did not survive the last move, packaging and offcuts from finishing the basement, builder-grade fixtures swapped out in the first renovation, the play structure the next family did not want, and a garage that has absorbed the overflow since the house was handed over. The councillor's 2024 figures put roughly a thousand new homes and apartments a year going into Stittsville, and that much movement generates its own waste stream.
Not without a permit. The City lists a roll off or disposal bin in a roadway or public laneway as a temporary construction related encroachment, issued under Road Activity By-law 2003-445. A simple permit covers ten working days or less; more than that, or a renewal of a simple one, is a complex permit. No permit runs longer than three months without being renewed. On the newest Stittsville streets there is frequently nowhere else to put a container, which is the whole argument for a crew that loads and drives away the same day.
No, and the difference is real. The City's own Community Design Plan states that apart from the lands south of Highway 417, meaning the eastern half of the Westbrook Subdivision plus properties on Lloydalex Crescent and Carp Road, the corridor is serviced by individual wells and septic systems. A septic bed is not a driving surface and a well head is not something to stage a pile beside, so we work out where the truck sits before it arrives rather than in your driveway.
It changes what we ask first. The councillor's build map puts pre-1980 construction in a narrow band: the Main Street corridor, Fringewood North and South, and a handful of homes near Hazeldean and Carp Road. Everything from Bryanston Gate onward is 1991 or later. If your address is in that older band and the job means stripping original paint, plaster or flooring, say so when you call so it is planned rather than discovered halfway through.
No. Stittsville has been part of the City of Ottawa since the 2001 amalgamation and is its own city ward, immediately southwest of Kanata. It is not a separate municipality and booking here is not a different kind of booking. What actually moves a quote is the volume the load takes on the truck and how hard it is to reach, both set out on the pricing page and both agreed before anything is lifted.
Where these facts come from
Every external fact above belongs to the body named beside it, with the date we read it. Collection rules, permit rules and landfill hours change; check the City's own page before you act on one.
- Glen Gower, Councillor for Stittsville Ward, NOTEBOOK: Population growth in Stittsville over the last 50 years (28 March 2024) read
- City of Ottawa, Temporary construction related encroachments, under Road Activity By-law 2003-445 read
- City of Ottawa, Carp Road Corridor Community Design Plan, Servicing read
- City of Ottawa, Carp Road Corridor Community Design Plan, Land Use read
- City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill read
- City of Ottawa, Curbside garbage collection read
- Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority, Carp River Watershed read
- Stittsville, Ontario, the 1870 Carleton County Fire and the surviving buildings read
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