Junk removal in Glen Ridge for 1950s family homes, by request

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Glen Ridge's curbside rules are not published where we could read them

Glen Ridge is a town of 217 people (2020 Census), and we could not confirm who collects its garbage and bulk or what the limits are. The town's website blocked our research, and nothing official we found covers it. We will not guess.

If you have a few pieces of furniture, ask Town Hall at (561) 697-8868 whether they can go to the curb. If you are emptying a whole house, need it done by a closing date, or the pile is more than the town will take, that is the job for a hauler.

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Permits go through the Town's own Building Division

Glen Ridge runs its own permits. The Town of Glen Ridge Building Division works out of Town Hall at 1501 Glen Rd. Per the town's permit pages, you email completed forms to the Town Manager, who forwards them to the town's Building Official. Two versions of the process online list the steps in a different order, so check the current one with Town Hall, and allow for a small town office.

Your GC or you as the owner pull the permit. Rapid Haul does not. Dany's crew does the non-structural tear-out (kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and tile, old flooring, drywall) and hauls every piece away. Never anything that holds up the house. A room tear-out starts at $750, and hauling a remodeler's leftover debris starts at $200.

or call (754) 249-1015

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One small neighborhood of long-held houses

Glen Ridge is a registered bird sanctuary and about 100 homes in total. Census estimates put the median build year at 1959, almost every home is a single-family house, and 91% are owner-occupied. The town was incorporated in 1947 as a 100-acre municipality, and part of it split off as neighboring Cloud Lake in 1951. The first house in the area went up in 1932.

Houses held that long fill up. The jobs that fit here are estate cleanouts when a home changes hands, downsizing before a move, garages and sheds packed over decades, and the debris from updating a 1950s kitchen or bath. House cleanouts start at $1,000, garage cleanouts at $300, furniture at $125 and appliances at $100. The crew carries everything out, protects floors and doorways, and sweeps each room.

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Booking a Glen Ridge job from Hollywood

Rapid Haul is based in Hollywood and mainly works Broward and Miami-Dade. Palm Beach County is by request, when the job is worth the drive, so there is no same-day promise for Glen Ridge. Text photos to (754) 249-1015 and Dany will tell you straight whether he can take it and when.

You get one flat price for labor, loading, hauling and disposal. Junk removal is paid after the job; jobs of $1,000 and over take a 50% deposit. For anything you haul yourself, the nearest public disposal is the SWA Central County Transfer Station at 1810 Lantana Road, which weighs loads for tipping fees, and the SWA Home Chemical & Recycling Center at 6161 N Jog Road, which takes household hazardous waste free for county residents.