Notting Hill is small and easy to miss, tucked between Clayton, Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley. Its gardens still produce plenty of green waste.
Not a franchisee or a truck driver from a booking system. The bloke who quotes it is the bloke who loads it.
No bags to fill, no skip to load. Leave it in a pile and he loads it, sweeps up and takes it away.
Not a bin size. A heap beside the driveway and one at the bottom of a steep yard are different jobs and get different prices.
Standing tree, asbestos, or more rubbish than garden — he tells you before he starts, not after.
A pruning pile hauled away and a few bags of leaf litter collected is the usual combination on a Notting Hill block.
Piles of prunings, branches, hedge trimmings, leaves and weeds that won't fit in the green bin. Ross backs the trailer in, loads it himself and takes it away to be recycled — you don't lift a thing.
Hedge and shrub offcuts from family homes.
Doing a big garden clean-up — overgrown beds, a back corner nobody has touched in years, a rental between tenants or a property being tidied for sale? Pile it all up and Ross collects the lot in one visit.
Rental yards tidied between leases.
Fallen limbs, shed bark, leaf litter and dry prunings gathered up from around the house — the fine fuel that matters most in a grassfire or ember attack. Collected and taken away before the Fire Danger Period starts.
Dry grass and dead shrubs cleared for summer.
A gum has dropped a limb across the driveway, or a windy night has left the yard covered. Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. Standing trees and hung-up limbs are an arborist's job — once they've dropped it, Ross can take it away.
Branches from yard trees collected and taken.
Notting Hill is one of the smallest suburbs in Monash. Its residential streets are mostly post-war and 1960s-70s homes on suburban blocks, with a business and light-industrial area on one side and Monash University close by. Many houses are family homes, and a good number are rented to students and university staff.
Because it is small, Notting Hill is sometimes left off the lists of services. Ross covers it on the same run as Clayton and Mount Waverley, so if you need green waste removal nearby, it is no harder to get than anywhere else in the area.
Most Notting Hill homes have a front lawn with a few shrubs, and a back yard with fruit trees, a shed and screening plants along the fence. These gardens are not huge, but they have had decades to grow.
Once a year or so, someone decides to cut it all back. That produces a pile that the bin cannot take, and Ross collects it in one visit.
Being so close to Monash, many Notting Hill houses are rentals, and the gardens can go a long time without attention. When a lease ends, the yard is often the biggest job.
Ross can do an end-of-lease green waste pickup and deal directly with the property manager for access.
Many Notting Hill homes have a driveway down the side and a reasonable path to the back yard. That makes loading quick and keeps the cost down compared with tight inner-suburban blocks.
Send a photo of the pile and the access and Ross can usually quote without a visit.
Leases and university terms mean late spring and early summer are busy in Notting Hill and Clayton. Booking in October or early November means the job is done before the rush.
Suburb, roughly how much there is, and what the access is like. A photo saves a lot of back and forth.
Ross comes back with a number. On big or awkward jobs he has a look first rather than guessing.
Loaded by hand, driveway swept, and off for proper green waste disposal.
Ross runs this on his own. He quotes the job, he turns up, he loads the trailer and he takes it away — the same bloke every visit. There is no office in between, no skip company, and no franchise cut coming out of what you pay.
It also means he will tell you when something isn't his job — a standing tree that needs an arborist, or a pile that is more rubbish than garden — rather than taking the money and leaving you with half a problem.
The suburb, roughly how much there is, and how easy it is to get a trailer to it is enough to work with. A photo of the pile gets you a price fastest.
Prefer to talk? Call or text Ross on 0416 030 925. Monday to Saturday, daylight hours — weather permitting.
Get a price on your pile. Takes a minute — Ross reads them himself.
Thanks — that's gone through to Ross. Spring is his busiest time, so if it's close to fire season he may take a day or two.
