Hoarding Cleanout in St. Simons Island, GA

It starts with a walkthrough. Together we pick a starting point — often one room or a clear path — and a pace, and most of these jobs run as a series of visits rather than one long push.

Adult children, a social worker, a case manager or a professional organizer can all be part of the plan. We schedule around them and keep the person who lives there at the center.

Waste, mold or pests are a specialist’s part of the job: we bring in the licensed people who do that cleaning and remediation and fit our removal around their schedule.

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

People here notice how a crew shows up, and word gets around the island quickly. On a hoarding job that matters more than usual, so we keep it plain: no announcing the work to the neighbors, no photos of anybody’s home passed around, and the drive and the street left as clean as we found them.

The home might be inside the gate at Hamilton Landing or in The Commons at Frederica. Where there’s a gate, the code or an access window is set up with the family or whoever manages the property, so the truck never sits at the entrance waiting.

A staged job sometimes goes better with a roll-off on the property, so things leave when the person is ready instead of waiting on the truck. On the tight streets near the beach and the Village, where there’s rarely a good spot to leave equipment for long, a container can be the wrong call; we’ll tell you so and run truckloads instead.

Older island homes often carry real history, and in a packed house the things that matter turn up in odd places. So we open boxes and bags before they go in the truck, and anything that looks important goes to a keep area nothing leaves without a decision.

We figure out where each part of the load belongs, sorting as we clear, and the truck takes it straight off the island to Brunswick.

Furniture and household goods in decent shape are often offered to organizations we work with, like the Salvation Army or Habitat for Humanity ReStore. The organization decides what it takes, and condition matters.

Old refrigerators usually go through an appliance and refrigerant recycling channel, often SA Recycling in Brunswick, and other metal is typically scrapped there.