We are one crew working out of Ottawa, and the point of a service area list is that it tells you whether we will actually drive to you. Twenty-five areas are listed below. Twenty-four have their own page; Ottawa itself does not, because this whole site is the Ottawa page.
A hoarding cleanout in a 1960s Blackburn Hamlet bungalow, a flooded lower level on the Cumberland riverfront and a post-renovation strip-out in a Centretown condo are three different jobs, and what makes them different is almost never the distance. It is the staircase, the loading dock, the septic bed or the age of the paint.
So this page runs the way the work varies: the twenty-five declared areas first, then the neighbourhoods inside them where something specific changes how a job is planned.
The city itself, and the reason there is no separate Ottawa page: this whole site is it.
West end, roughly 20 km out, and the most age-layered area on the list: Beaverbrook's first street was laid in 1964.
South-west and outside the Greenbelt. Two tornadoes crossed it on 13 July 2023, both rated EF1 by the Northern Tornadoes Project.
East end, about 16 km out and cut off from urban Ottawa by the Greenbelt. Roughly a third of residents have French as a mother tongue.
A former city, not a neighbourhood: a township from 1792, a city from 1978, gone into Ottawa in 2001. The name survives on the mail.
Also a former city rather than one community, at 298.5 km2 and 150,012 people for the old boundary in 2021.
A separate city in Quebec, created 1 January 2002. Three major Ottawa River floods in seven years, with 3,800 homes and cottages affected in 2019 alone.
Its own city ward south and west of Kanata, with subdivisions that date cleanly by decade from Fringewood to Potter's Key.
A village inside Ottawa, laid out in 1817. Water comes from wells while wastewater is piped out of the village entirely.
A village on the Rideau about 25 km south. The core is on central water and wastewater, the estate lots west of Mud Creek are not.
South Ottawa, 19 km from Parliament Hill, with effectively no pre-2000 housing, so lead-safe questions do not arise here.
A rural village 32 km south, the furthest out we go. On half-acre to two-acre lots the constraint is the septic bed, not access.
South Ottawa, 18 km out and settled in 1996. Full municipal water and sewer throughout, and one c.1950 pocket the suburb grew around.
A village in the Carp River valley 33 km northwest, its own boundary set in 1979. Rural servicing, so wells and septic beds decide where a truck can park.
Urban since it incorporated as a town in 1913, about 4 km east of Parliament Hill. Small lots and narrow streets, which is an access problem before it is a hauling one.
2.41 km2 of former Gloucester, ringed on every side by NCC Greenbelt and old Defence Proving Grounds land. A suburban island with no adjoining subdivisions.
A designated village 25 km east at Colonial and Trim. Cumberland Township, then the City of Cumberland from 1999, then Ottawa from 2001, so no out-of-town surcharge applies.
Three things share the name: the village on the south bank of the Ottawa River 24 km east, the former township that also held Navan, Sarsfield and Vars, and the ward.
The entire village is a Heritage Conservation District under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act, so what may be moved, stored or skipped on a property is governed differently here.
The original residential city south of Parliament Hill, on full municipal services. Two Part V heritage districts sit inside it: Minto Park from 1988 and Centretown from 1997.
Inside the city since the 1889 annexation to the Rideau Canal. Two Part V heritage districts, and lots deep enough that most of the work is the walk from the door to the truck.
Annexed from Nepean Township around 1949 to 1950, when Nepean lost 7,420 acres including Westboro Beach. Sources disagree on when the police village began, so no start year is printed.
The incorporated Village of Hintonburg from 1893 until the city took it in 1907. At 1.215 km2 the smallest area on this list, and heritage status is per address, not district-wide.
A pocket between the Rideau Canal and the Rideau River, the Police Village of Rideauville until annexation on 16 December 1907. Two waterways means two flood exposures.
Annexed from Gloucester Township in 1950, when Gloucester lost about 14,000 acres including Billings Bridge. Fully serviced urban land, so no wells or septic to work around.
These sit inside the areas above. Each is here because one specific thing about it changes how the work gets planned.
Inside Kanata and Stittsville
Carp catches people out. The village runs on a City-operated communal well system and is one of only three of those six communities also tied into the municipal trunk sewer, while properties outside the village boundary are on private wells and septic. Which side of that line an address sits on changes the job.
Inside Gloucester
Ringed by NCC Greenbelt on every side, which is why its population peaked in 1981 at 9,980 and stood at 8,173 in 2021. There is no new subdivision land, so every job is a cleanout or a renovation in a house that already exists, and roughly 80 per cent of it dates from 1961 to 1980.
Inside Orleans
Say which Cumberland you mean: the village, the former township or the ward. The village is the one with the flood history, named among the main flooded locations in Ottawa during the record 2019 Ottawa River flood. It is on private wells and septic, about 24 km from Parliament Hill.
Inside Ottawa
The closest area on this page to downtown, about 4 km, so same-day means same-day. It has been on full water and sewer since 1913, under the name Eastview until 1969. The constraint is the street: narrow roads, small lots, limited on-street parking.
Inside Ottawa
Westboro came into the city in the 1949-50 annexation that took 7,420 acres off Nepean Township, not in the 2001 amalgamation. Seventy-one per cent of its houses are detached and most were built between 1900 and 1960, so there are real driveways to work from on stock old enough for Health Canada's pre-1960 lead-paint guidance.
Inside Ottawa
Hintonburg's lot pattern was drawn by a streetcar company. Ahearn and Soper bought the Holland farm in 1892 specifically to subdivide lots along their new lines, which is why the houses are small, the side yards narrow, and there is nowhere obvious to put a bin.
Inside Ottawa
The Glebe has the one properly dateable junk-removal event in the city: the Great Glebe Garage Sale, the fourth Saturday in May every year since 1986. The rest of the year it is largely pre-1914 houses with two designated heritage conservation districts inside it.
Inside Ottawa
A different job from anywhere else here, because the buildings are different. About 86 per cent of Centretown's dwellings are apartments and condominiums against roughly 4.5 per cent single detached. Loading docks, service elevators and condo board approvals set the schedule, not driveway access.
Inside Ottawa
Bounded by the Rideau Canal on one side and the Rideau River on the other, and reached over the Bank Street Bridge, the main artery since 1912. Access is the whole story: a bridge closure changes truck routing and where a bin can sit.
Inside Ottawa
Annexed from Gloucester Township in 1950 and built out from the 1950s onward, which makes it the post-war area on this page and the one with the lowest lead risk. The earlier pockets around Rideau Park are the exception, so the build year still gets checked.
Inside Gatineau
A sector of the City of Gatineau since 1 January 2002, and really two different jobs. Vieux-Hull is a dense post-1900 core with on-street parking and limited frontage; Le Plateau is modern subdivision housing with driveways. Riverside streets carry basement-water history from the 2017, 2019 and 2023 floods.
Inside Gatineau
A village from 1847 that has been a Gatineau sector since 1 January 2002. Old Aylmer's rue Principale is what the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network calls one of the most impressive concentrations of heritage buildings in Quebec. It fronts Lac Deschenes, which is why it floods when the river peaks.
Municipal and federal sources for the servicing, lead and flooding points above, each with the date we read it.
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