Backyard Cleanout in St. Simons Island, GA

Things that are rusted together or half-sunk in the grass get worked loose, and a swing set or a trampoline is taken apart enough to carry.

A shed, a run of fence, a small deck or a pergola counts as light demolition, and it can come down on the same visit as the loose junk. Put it in the photos so it’s in the number from the start. Branch piles and hedge cuttings mixed in with everything else ride the same truck.

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

Toward the north end, lots are more spread out, some of the ground is soft, and the carry from the back of a property to the truck can be the longest on the island. We plan extra time and extra hands for that rather than dragging a loaded dolly across a wet yard, and nobody up there expects it rushed.

The yard might belong to a home in the St. Simons Island Club or to one behind the gates of Hampton Plantation. Either way the plan starts with where the trailer can sit and the route from the back fence to it. Where there’s a gate, we line up the code or an access window with you or whoever looks after the house before the truck pulls up.

After a storm or a long stretch of bad weather, the island’s schedule tilts toward debris and urgent cleanup, because that’s what most people need first. A backyard that can wait a week is often easier to book once that settles, and we’ll tell you plainly where you fall.

We figure out the right destination load by load. Metal — grill bodies, frames, old swing sets, fencing — usually goes to scrap, often at SA Recycling in Brunswick.

An old outdoor fridge goes through the appropriate refrigerant recycling channel, typically SA Recycling as well.

Outdoor furniture that is still solid may be offered to an organization we work with, which decides what it can take; the rest is disposed of properly. All of it comes straight off the island to Brunswick.