Junk removal in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's two markets are both defined by their housing. A Philadelphia row house is a narrow staircase and a street you cannot block for long, which is why the load gets planned before the first item moves and why a bigger crew for a shorter time works out cheaper than the reverse. Pittsburgh has basements that go down further than anyone remembers filling and streets too steep or too narrow to park a truck on, which sometimes changes the vehicle before it changes the price.

In both, scrap metal is separated first because housing of this age holds a lot of it, and salvageable timber comes out second. Construction debris is kept out of household loads throughout the state — mixing them is charged at the higher rate at the gate, and that gets passed on either way.

Winter changes the access question rather than the price. Snow on a Pittsburgh hill or a plough bank down a Philadelphia street decides where the truck can actually stand, so we agree the parking before the day rather than on it. Older housing is the other constant: plaster, lath and painted timber come out of these homes in volume, and nothing suspected of containing asbestos goes in a Junk Koala truck — that is a licensed abatement job, and we will say so on the phone rather than on your doorstep.