Make safety a priority with hazardous junk removal
Sometimes junk isn't just in the way, but is actually dangerous. Here are six tips to identify and reduce junk-related hazards around your home.
It's one thing for junk to be an eyesore, but when junk becomes dangerous you need to act quickly before it causes any serious damage. To avoid junk dangers in your home, keep clutter to a minimum and regularly purge. Check out our tips to identify and reduce junk-related hazards in your home.
6 household hazardous waste items to look out for
1. Batteries in junk drawers
Do you have batteries sitting loose in a junk drawer? Authorities say a 9V battery, which has both poles on the same side, can start a fire simply by touching something conductive such as a paper clip or steel wool. To prevent this hazard, either recycle unwanted batteries (visit your local municipal website to search for facilities that accept batteries), wrap the ends in electrical tape, or keep them in the original package until you’re ready to use them. Be cautious with lithium batteries as well, they can pose a fire risk if stored near clothing.
2. Combustible items near space heaters, outlets or pilot lights
Don’t let junk collect near space heaters, outlets, or open flame. A loose connection or socket overload can cause a fire, and clutter becomes kindling that promotes combustion and will only help flames to spread faster.
3. Electronics with frayed cords
Replace items with cords that are starting to fray as this can be a serious shock hazard. The same rule applies for extension cords. If the cord looks fine but you’ve been shocked by an item in your house, the item or even the power source, could still be seriously compromised.
4. Tripping and falling
Keep junk out of hallways and away from stairs where you might trip on them. There’s no use keeping items around if they’re going to give you bruises, stubbed toes, or worse. If you’re the type of ‘clutter collector’ who keeps tall stacks of bank boxes, papers, or files around, remember that these can fall down and injure or trap you, making escape difficult in an emergency (or creating an emergency in itself). Cut down on the number of items you have around the house and neatly put important things away.
5. Junk in the yard
Keep your yard clean! Get rid of rusty swing sets, broken lawn chairs and non-working barbecues because they can become dangerous projectiles in a storm, especially in tornado or hurricane-prone areas.
6. Mold
Storing items for a long period of time in a damp basement or attic can encourage mold growth, which can be a serious health hazard that doesn’t always need a long time to build up. If your basement floods, have professionals remove waterlogged or damaged items (including drywall and carpet) promptly and have the area cleaned and dried properly.
If you need to remove potentially dangerous junk from your home, enlist the help of a professional junk removal company, such as 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. Contact us today to see if we are able to help remove your items!
Frequently asked questions
We price based on how much space your items take up in the back of our truck, broken down into ⅛, ¼, ½, ¾ of a truckload, all the way up to a full truckload. Our trucks hold the equivalent of seven pickup trucks.
Our prices vary based on location and there is a minimum charge for our teams to remove your items, which is different in each location, based on a number of factors, including local disposal and recycling fees.
We offer single item pricing for certain items such as mattresses or TVs, sometimes this will be less than our minimum charge.
For materials that have a heavy cubic weight like dirt, concrete, and gravel, pricing is based on the total volume that the material takes up in the truck, up to a maximum of one foot in height for a full truck.
Watch us load up a truck to see how our standard pricing works!
If you need service weekly, monthly, or quarterly, we offer bulk pricing discounts. This gives you better value compared to common alternatives, such as dumpsters or less professional junk removal services.
Interested? Call our business account team at 1-888-475-3461 to discuss your needs as well as pricing options.
On the day of your appointment with us, our friendly, uniformed truck team members will give you a call or text 25-30 mins before we arrive to let you know we’re on our way.
Whether your business has a single location or multiple locations, we can create a custom junk removal solution that works for you. We can coordinate pickups at multiple locations at a local, regional, and national level. Rather than work with dozens of regional or local companies, let 1-800-GOT-JUNK? handle the jobs across all your locations.
Absolutely! We take large items all the time. As long as it can be lifted and loaded into the truck by two people, we'll be happy to take it away for you!
We work with all types of businesses and can handle any type of job - cleanouts, bulk item removal, general junk removal and even specific items like cardboard or pallets. We can take pretty much anything as long as it's not toxic or hazardous. We can remove your items from wherever they’re located, whether it’s your office, store, site or anywhere else—all you have to do is point!
Yes, we're fully licensed, bonded and insured! We have insurance covering damages to both persons and property for every single booking.
While we don't quite service the entire map, we cover almost every greater metropolitan area across the US, Canada, and Australia. To see if we’re in your neighborhood, you can start a booking by entering your zip code here.
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