Junk Removal in Surrey, BC

Surrey is the largest city in Metro Vancouver by area, and that single fact shapes almost every junk job here. A pickup in Bridgeview and a pickup in South Surrey are the better part of half an hour apart, so scheduling matters more here than anywhere else we work — we group jobs by part of the city rather than running the length of it twice in a day.

The second thing that shapes a Surrey job is that Surrey is unusually well served for disposal. Two of Metro Vancouver's six regional recycling and waste centres are inside the city: North Surrey on 192nd Street and Central Surrey on 154th Street. Most cities in the region have none. That keeps the haul short.

Surrey loads are also priced under Metro Vancouver's fee schedule rather than the City of Vancouver's, which matters more than it sounds. The two systems have different minimum charges and different per-load caps, so an identical load costs a different amount depending on which side of the boundary it came from. The table further down is the schedule that applies there.

What we clear here is mostly houses rather than towers: basement suites between tenants, garages that have been filling since the nineties, yard and renovation waste from a city that is constantly rebuilding itself. The tower work is real but concentrated — City Centre and Guildford — rather than spread across the city the way it is in Burnaby.

Surrey runs a free Large Item Pickup Program for households on City waste collection; it is paid for through the garbage utility. A household can have up to 6 items collected a year, or 8 with a registered secondary suite, and the count resets each year with no carry-over. Apartment buildings with City recycling get up to 4 items a year, booked through the property manager or strata. You book online, set the items at your collection point by 7:30am on the day, and the City's trucks can come any time until 7:30pm. Mattresses and box springs have to be individually wrapped and sealed in clear plastic: the City gives out free bags at its Cart Storage Yard (14577 66 Avenue, weekdays 9am to 3pm) if a mattress is on your request. Cancel less than two business days ahead and it counts as one of your items (City of Surrey: Large Item Pickup Program, checked 11 October 2026).

If your items qualify and you can get them out to the collection point, use it: you have already paid for it. We are the option for everything it leaves behind.

• Refused items. Surrey won't collect hot tubs, pianos, toilets, sinks, bathtubs, renovation material such as cabinets and countertops, glass, mirrors, fencing, propane tanks or commercial waste. We take hot tubs, pianos and renovation leftovers like cabinets, toilets and sinks; empty propane tanks go with the load. Ask us about the rest of the list. We don't take drywall, asbestos or hazardous materials.
• Past your allowance. More than 6 items (or 8 with a suite), or a pickup after this year's are used up.
• Still in the house. The City collects from your collection point, so a sofa or a fridge has to get there first. We carry from wherever it sits, and stairs or a basement suite don't add to the price.
• Not on a booked date. Same-day pickup is guaranteed anywhere in Surrey, at no extra charge.

Surrey is predominantly detached housing, and a lot of it has a basement suite. Suite turnover is the single most common reason we get called: a suite is emptied, and whatever the last tenant left has to go before the next one moves in.

Newton, Fleetwood, Strawberry Hill and Panorama Ridge are large-lot detached neighbourhoods where garages, sheds and side yards accumulate for decades. Cloverdale and Port Kells run out to semi-rural properties with outbuildings, long gravel driveways and the kind of accumulated machinery that needs a scrap run rather than a garbage run. South Surrey and Grandview Heights are newer and tidier, and the work there skews to downsizing and estate clearouts.

The apartment stock is concentrated: City Centre around Whalley and the Guildford town centre, plus a rapidly growing band of townhouse complexes through Clayton and East Clayton. Townhouse complexes are the awkward ones — no loading bay, tight visitor parking, and often a long carry from the unit to wherever a truck can legally stop.

Distance. Surrey is big, so tell us which part of the city you are in when you book.

Acreage and gravel. Long gravel driveways in Cloverdale and Port Kells are fine, but we would rather know in advance. A loaded truck on soft ground is how driveways get damaged.

Townhouse complexes. Visitor parking is almost always the limiting factor in Clayton and East Clayton. Tell us where a truck can stop and roughly how far that is from your door.

Towers. City Centre and Guildford buildings want the elevator and loading bay booked ahead, often outside peak hours. Give us the window and we will size the crew to finish inside it.

Crescent Beach. Narrow lanes and heavy seasonal parking. Summer weekends are genuinely difficult for a truck; a weekday is easier.

Surrey is better served than almost anywhere else in the region. Two of Metro Vancouver's six regional recycling and waste centres sit inside the city: North Surrey at 9770 192nd Street and Central Surrey at 6711 154 Street. Which one a load goes to depends on where in Surrey it came from, and either way the haul is short.

Surrey loads are priced under Metro Vancouver's schedule, not the City of Vancouver's. That is a real distinction and almost nobody explains it: the regional minimum is $25 at peak and $15 off-peak, against $20 and $10 at the City of Vancouver's facilities, and the per-load caps differ too. The table above is the one that applies there.

The Surrey-specific detail worth knowing is the peak-hour rule. Metro Vancouver charges the higher peak minimum between 10am and 2pm on weekdays — but not at Central Surrey, Langley or Maple Ridge. If a load can go to Central Surrey, the time of day does not change the minimum.

Surrey also has an unusual density of specialist depots: a dedicated drywall recycler on Anvil Way, several scrap metal yards, and pallet and lumber recovery in Port Kells. Drywall is the one material we do not haul. The Anvil Way recycler takes it directly, and Metro Vancouver's recycling and waste centres take used drywall from residents' homes, double-bagged.

Metro Vancouver has said it is planning full-scale recycling depots at the North Surrey and Langley centres, expected to be operational in 2028.

Dump fees are included in our price, so none of these charges shows up as a separate line on your bill. Usable items are sometimes donated, but we don't promise it, and we publish no diversion rate we cannot evidence — recyclable and stewardship material is separated because the facilities surcharge loads containing it, and because those return programs are free.