Units, townhouses, rentals and older family homes around a busy centre. Ross clears Box Hill's garden waste by hand and takes it off to be recycled.
Not a franchisee or a truck driver from a booking system. The bloke who quotes it is the bloke who loads it.
No bags to fill, no skip to load. Leave it in a pile and he loads it, sweeps up and takes it away.
Not a bin size. A heap beside the driveway and one at the bottom of a steep yard are different jobs and get different prices.
Standing tree, asbestos, or more rubbish than garden — he tells you before he starts, not after.
A pruning pile hauled away and a few bags of leaf litter collected is the usual combination on a Box Hill block.
Piles of prunings, branches, hedge trimmings, leaves and weeds that won't fit in the green bin. Ross backs the trailer in, loads it himself and takes it away to be recycled — you don't lift a thing.
Units, townhouses and older family yards.
Doing a big garden clean-up — overgrown beds, a back corner nobody has touched in years, a rental between tenants or a property being tidied for sale? Pile it all up and Ross collects the lot in one visit.
Rentals and shared gardens tidied up.
Fallen limbs, shed bark, leaf litter and dry prunings gathered up from around the house — the fine fuel that matters most in a grassfire or ember attack. Collected and taken away before the Fire Danger Period starts.
Dead growth cleared before the hot months.
A gum has dropped a limb across the driveway, or a windy night has left the yard covered. Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. Standing trees and hung-up limbs are an arborist's job — once they've dropped it, Ross can take it away.
Fallen branches loaded and removed.
Box Hill is Whitehorse's busiest centre, with towers and shops along Whitehorse Road and around the station. Step a few streets back and it becomes a mix of older weatherboard and brick houses, blocks of units from the sixties and seventies, and newer townhouses built where single homes once stood.
That mix makes for a different kind of garden work. Shared gardens around units, small courtyards, rental properties and the odd big old back yard all need attention, and the green bins are often shared too. Ross offers green waste removal in Box Hill for all of it, loaded by hand and taken away.
Many older Box Hill unit blocks have shared gardens along the driveway and around the buildings. Nobody owns them outright, so they tend to get overgrown until someone organises a tidy-up.
Ross works with owners corporations and managers as well as individual owners. Once the overgrown shrubs have been cut back and the beds cleared, he can take everything away in one visit.
Box Hill has a lot of rentals, and gardens often slide between tenants. Property managers need them cleared for inspections and changeovers.
Ross can arrange access through the agent, do the clean-up and send before-and-after photos for the file.
Among the units are older houses with larger back yards — fruit trees, veggie patches and big shrubs planted decades ago. Many are being cleared ahead of redevelopment.
Ross takes the green material from those gardens before demolition, or simply does the regular overflow for families who've been there a long time.
If a Box Hill rental has a routine inspection or a new tenant coming, book the garden clean-up a week or so ahead. It gives time to fit the job in and means the yard is ready on the day.
Suburb, roughly how much there is, and what the access is like. A photo saves a lot of back and forth.
Ross comes back with a number. On big or awkward jobs he has a look first rather than guessing.
Loaded by hand, driveway swept, and off for proper green waste disposal.
Ross runs this on his own. He quotes the job, he turns up, he loads the trailer and he takes it away — the same bloke every visit. There is no office in between, no skip company, and no franchise cut coming out of what you pay.
It also means he will tell you when something isn't his job — a standing tree that needs an arborist, or a pile that is more rubbish than garden — rather than taking the money and leaving you with half a problem.
The suburb, roughly how much there is, and how easy it is to get a trailer to it is enough to work with. A photo of the pile gets you a price fastest.
Prefer to talk? Call or text Ross on 0416 030 925. Monday to Saturday, daylight hours — weather permitting.
Get a price on your pile. Takes a minute — Ross reads them himself.
Thanks — that's gone through to Ross. Spring is his busiest time, so if it's close to fire season he may take a day or two.
