Garage Cleanout on Sea Island, GA

Sea Island is private, so the crew doesn’t simply turn up at the garage door. We coordinate access ahead of time with you, or with the property manager or caretaker if you’re away. That part is on us, and once it’s set we head over and get to work.

A single-car garage at a cottage off one of the numbered East or West streets and a big garage under a larger house are the same job at different volumes. Either way the sort spreads across the driveway, and the truck, the trailer and the crew stay off the landscaping and leave the private drive and the gates the way we found them.

When the last of it is on the truck, the keep pile goes back in neatly, the floor gets swept, and we get out of your way. Nothing that was supposed to go is left behind for another day.

Right at the start we ask whether there’s anything you definitely want, anything valuable and anything sentimental. Then everything comes out, and the sort runs in three zones: keep, donate, go. The let-me-think-about-it pile is normal, and nobody rushes it.

Attics are the same job in a harder room. We bring plywood to walk on, we hand heavy boxes down rather than carrying them down, and summer attic work gets scheduled at first light where we can.

If there’s a grill in the mix, let us know about any propane tanks when you send photos, so we can figure out the right way to handle them.

Send us a few photos and tell us what you need removed. We’ll take it from there.

Tools that still work and decent household goods may be offered to organizations we work with, such as Habitat ReStore or Goodwill. They decide what they accept, and condition matters.

Old metal, from a dead mower to a rusted grill, usually goes to scrap, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

For everything else we figure out the right destination ourselves; you never have to sort the load by where it ends up.