Older homes, plenty of rentals and yards that sometimes get forgotten. Ross picks up the green waste in Sunshine and takes it away before the next inspection.
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 Sunshine 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.
Quick pickups for landlords, tenants and owners.
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.
End-of-lease and vacant-property tidy-ups.
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.
Cut dry grass cleared from yards.
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.
Storm-damaged branches cleared from small yards.
Sunshine has a long industrial history, and much of its older housing was built for the people who worked in the local factories. There are workers’ cottages, postwar houses and, increasingly, townhouses and apartments. A large share of homes are rented, and the suburb is changing quickly.
That mix means a lot of gardens that are not looked after consistently. Between tenants, or while a property waits for renovation or sale, the yard can quickly get out of hand. A straightforward green waste pickup is often the quickest way to get it back to presentable.
When a Sunshine tenancy ends, the garden is often part of the condition report. Overgrown lawns, weeds through the paving and shrubs covering windows can all cause problems at the final inspection.
Once the growth has been cut back, Ross can take away all the green waste in one visit and send photos afterwards for the landlord or agent.
Some Sunshine properties sit empty for months while they are sold, inherited or waiting to be redeveloped. In that time the yard can become a mess of long grass, weeds and fallen branches.
Once it has been cut back, a one-off green waste pickup gets rid of the mess. If the property will be empty for a while, a return visit every few months keeps it from getting that bad again.
Many older Sunshine homes are on modest blocks with small front and back yards. The loads are often not huge, but there is rarely anywhere to put a skip, and a lot of the waste is too bulky for the bin.
A quick trailer load solves the problem without a skip taking up the front yard or the kerb for a week.
If you have a Sunshine tenancy ending or a property about to be listed, book the garden clean-up a week or two ahead. It gives time to deal with any surprises and means the yard is ready well before the agent arrives.
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.
