First, check what the city and county already cover
Straight talk, because it saves people money: for one or two things you can get to the curb yourself, you may not need us at all.
Inside the Statesboro city limits, Public Works collects yard waste and furniture curbside, and will pick up furniture and white goods from single- and two-family homes on request. Building materials and other bulk waste are collected by request too, and special services can carry a fee. Details are on the city's sanitation page; the number is 912-764-0681.
Out in the county, Bulloch runs convenience centers for residents, open seven days a week. Most sites take bulk items and metal, and — usefully — tires, which we can't. They won't take paint, used motor oil, or large batteries, and they close for a few hours at a time to be emptied, so check the county's current list before you load the truck.
So when is hiring it out actually worth it?
When the pile is bigger than a couple of pieces, when it's inside and someone has to carry it out, when it has to be gone today, or when it's the kind of job the city truck isn't coming for. That's most of what we get called for:
- Semester-end apartment turnovers — one unit or a whole building's worth
- Whole-garage, shed, and barn clear-outs, where thirty years went to sit
- Storage units emptied to the walls — often the last step of a move we already did
- Estate and downsizing clear-outs, handled patiently — see senior moving
- Moving-day leftovers — whatever isn't going to the new house disappears the same day
- Anything at the top of a staircase, which is the real reason most people call
Semester's end
Every May and every August the complexes off Fair Road and Lanier Drive turn over in the same week, and what gets left behind would fill a dumpster or three — futons, particle-board desks, the mini fridge, the mattress nobody's taking home to Atlanta. Property managers with twenty units to turn call us for exactly that: one crew, one morning, every unit empty and swept before the next lease starts. A student with one apartment gets the same crew and a smaller truck.
Farm places hold more than houses do
A Bulloch County clear-out usually isn't the house — it's the outbuildings. The barn, the workshop, the shed that hasn't been opened since the tractor was new. That's the job we bring a full truck for, and it's the job where the "what we can't take" list matters most: paint, chemicals, fuel, fertilizer, and tires stay behind, and we'll point you to the county sites that take the tires and the right drop-off for the rest.
The good stuff gets donated first
What still has life in it shouldn't go to a landfill just because it's leaving your house. Usable furniture and household goods go to Habitat for Humanity of Bulloch County's ReStore on Johnson Street, behind the downtown post office, where the proceeds build houses right here in the county. We'll make the run as part of the job and get you the donation receipts.
What we can't take
Hazardous materials — paint, chemicals, fuel, fertilizer, tires — and anything a landfill refuses. We'll point you to the right drop-off instead of leaving you to work it out.
The cheapest haul-away is the one you never move
If a move is coming, do this first. Clearing the discard pile before move day means you pay to move only what you're actually keeping — and on a downsizing or estate move, that routinely pays for the haul-away by itself. Same crew, one visit: the keep pile goes to the new place and the rest disappears.
