The big cleanup happens four times a year, the crew comes once, and the list of what they won't collect is longer than the list of what they will. Fencing, decking and lumber are all on the wrong side of it.
The remaining 2026 windows are September 7–9 and December 7–9, each falling on your regular collection day, up to thirty items, out by 6:30am. Crews do not return a second time. Miss the morning and the next opportunity is three months out.
Building and construction material, concrete, wood fences, decking, pallets and lumber, railroad ties and landscape timbers, rock, sod and dirt, tires, batteries, refrigerators and air conditioners. Between them that covers almost every outdoor project anyone in this city actually undertakes.
Outside the cleanup windows you get up to ten bulk items on your regular garbage day, bundled, bagged or boxed and under forty pounds each. A scheduled special residential pickup runs $84.31 per load — a real number, but one you find out after you call.
Safety Harbor is a short run for us and a town where the constraint is usually what a pile is made of rather than how big it is.
Older homes under mature oaks, brick streets, detached garages and long side yards. Garage clear-outs, shed tear-outs and the accumulated results of thirty years of yard projects.
Docks, seawalls and screened enclosures, which means storm debris, waterlogged furniture and sun-destroyed patio sets. After a blow this is the first side of town we're working.
Larger homes, HOAs with rules about what can sit visible and for how long, and fence and deck replacements — the exact material the city's cleanup list excludes.
Wood fences, decking, pallets and lumber are all named individually on Safety Harbor's not-collected list, and so are concrete, railroad ties and landscape timbers. So when a fence finally goes over in a storm, or a deck gets soft enough that somebody puts a foot through it, the demolition is the easy half. The disposal is the half that stalls for a year.
This is straightforwardly what we do. We take the fence down, pull the posts, load every panel, rail and picket, and haul it — same for a deck, a pergola, a rotted shed or a screen enclosure frame. Nails and screws get raked and magnet-swept off the grass afterward, because that's the part people find out about later.
It's quoted the same way as everything else. Send a photo of the run of fence or the deck from a couple of angles, tell us roughly how long it is, and you'll get one number covering the tear-down, the loading and the dump fee. Demolition jobs are priced individually rather than off the load card, but you still get the number before we start.
Priced by how much room it takes up in the truck — not by the hour, not by the item. Same card for every job we do.
| Load size | What that looks like | You pay |
|---|---|---|
| Single item | One mattress, couch or appliance | $99 |
| 1/8 truck | A few boxes and a chair | $165 |
| 1/4 truck | A bedroom's worth | $225 |
| 3/8 truck | A garage corner | $285 |
| 1/2 truck | Half a garage | $345 |
| 3/4 truck | Large garage clear-out | $475 |
| Full truck | Whole-house or estate clear-out | $595 |
Add-ons: stairs $40 per flight · fridges and freezers $35 · mattresses $25 each · tires $15 each. Hot tubs, pianos, sheds and safes are quoted separately — send a photo and we'll price it.
The number we send you is the number you pay. We don't add fees at the truck.
The next two are September 7–9 and December 7–9, 2026, on your regular collection day. Up to thirty items, out by 6:30am, and the crew only passes once. The city runs four a year, so after December the next is the following spring.
Wood fencing, decking, pallets and lumber are specifically excluded from the cleanup, along with construction material, concrete, railroad ties and landscape timbers. It's a materials restriction, not a volume one — splitting it up doesn't help.
No. Standard loads use the same flat card, $99 to $595. Fence, deck and shed demolition is quoted individually because labor varies, but you still get one number before we start.
Yes — both are on the city's excluded list and neither is a problem for us. Fridges and freezers carry a $35 add-on, told to you up front, which covers handling the refrigerant properly. For reference the city charges $31.44 a unit for freon removal when it will do it at all.
Often the same day, and rarely more than 48 hours. After a storm we're busier, and we'll be honest about the queue rather than promising a day we can't hit.
Every city has its own rules about what it will and won't collect, so each of these pages covers that city specifically.
You'll have a real number in about ten minutes, and no obligation either way.
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