How a fixed-price clearance works
Rubbish removal is priced by the load, not by the hour, and it is priced before the work starts. Once you know that, every quote in this trade becomes easy to judge.
Why by the load beats by the hour
An hourly rate makes slowness profitable and puts the risk on you: the stairs run long, the truck fills early, the clock keeps going. Pricing by the load flips the risk back to the crew. We look at what is actually going, name one figure for the whole job, and if the roof cavity holds twice what anyone guessed, that is our problem, not your invoice's.
It is also cleaner than a skip bin for most household jobs: no permit, no driveway blocked for a week, no you-load-it, and no paying for empty air in a half-filled bin.
What the one price includes
- The crew and the truck, for as long as the job honestly takes.
- All the lifting and carrying, from wherever the items are: cellar, level nine, back shed.
- Building logistics where they apply: the lift booking, dock window and floor protection.
- Every disposal and tipping fee, including the regulated streams (e-waste, mattresses, white goods).
- The sweep-up. A cleared room is not cleared until it is swept.
If a quote you are holding does not say these things are included, ask. "Plus tip fees" discovered on the day is the oldest trick in this trade.
How the price gets set
We see the job
A walk-through in person for anything substantial, or photos and a phone call for a single item. Volume, access and streams decide the figure.
One figure, in writing
Before anything is lifted. Not an estimate, not a range, not "from". A figure.
The figure holds
The day's surprises are ours to absorb. The only thing that changes a fixed price is you adding to the job, and then it changes in writing first.
Questions that keep any quote honest
Ask these of anyone, including us. A good crew answers all five without blinking:
- Is that the total, including tip and disposal fees?
- Does it hold if the job turns out bigger than the photos showed?
- Who handles the strata booking, you or me?
- Where do the e-waste and the mattress actually go?
- Will the price be in writing before the crew starts?
Why there are no dollars on this page
Because a figure named before seeing a job is a guess wearing a price tag, and it always gets revised in one direction. The honest version of pricing in this trade is the model above: seen first, fixed in writing, inclusive, held. When you are ready, send us the job and we will put a real figure on it, the proper way.
Tell us what goes. We do the rest.
Send the form and we ring you back to arrange a look at the job. The price is fixed on sight, agreed before we lift a thing, and it covers the lifting, the loading, the sweep-up and the disposal.
- One fixed price, agreed before we start. No hourly rate, no tip fees added later.
- One visit for most jobs, booked at a time that suits your building or your street.
- Worthwhile things offered for donation first. Regulated streams go to licensed facilities.
Enquiries through this form are the fastest way to reach us while our phone line is being set up. We call you back.