Summer is just around the corner! Get your home ready for the new season with these tips! Power Wash Your Home Give your siding a nice, clean bath with a quick power wash! As best as you can, try to avoid angling the spray upward, as this can direct water toward the spaces between the […]
Category Archives: Apartment & Home Clean Out
Cleaning Out to Prep an Oakland Estate Sale
Your elderly mother recently passed away, leaving behind your childhood home in Oakland. Now it’s your responsibility to get the property ready to sell. After much consideration, you’ve decided to hold an Oakland estate sale but it’s going to take some time to sort through all the contents first. Cleaning out a vacated property before […]
Apartment Cleanout in San Francisco After a Tenant Eviction
Although it’s rewarding at times, being a landlord in San Francisco can also be a thankless and stressful job. For example, after many months of haggling over past due rent, you’ve just had to evict a tenant from your Potrero Hill property. But now that your uncooperative renter has moved on the apartment’s a mess, […]
3 Home Improvement Projects to Do While Sheltering in Place in San Francisco
Most people in the San Francisco Bay Area are doing their part to flatten the COVID-19 curve. And although those measures have been effective public health officials recently announced that the stay-at-home order would be extended through May for six Northern California counties, including San Francisco County. If that includes you, sheltering in place for […]
Cleaning Out While Staying in in Walnut Creek
From Alamo to Walnut Creek, most people in the San Francisco Bay Area are spending more time at home right now under shelter-in-place orders that are helping to minimize the COVID-19 threat. If you’ve got a little more time on your hands why not put it to good use by cleaning out while staying in […]
Tips for a Productive Quarantine
Coronavirus quarantine is affecting us all. Plain and simple, there’s no way around it. We should all be staying home, and we hope you are! Staying home for weeks on end can drive even the most introverted of us nuts, and one way to beat the boredom is to clean up and to clean out! […]
Keeping Clean with Coronavirus in the Bay Area
By now we’ve almost all been impacted by the Coronavirus in the Bay Area. Whether you or someone you know has actually contracted the virus, or your travel plans or events have been canceled, we’ve all been hit. Now that schools are canceled and work-from-home schedules have been asked, social distancing is our responsibility to […]
Purge Unwanted Items Using the Marie Kondo Approach
Something in the spring air seems to motivate residents in the San Francisco Bay Area to clean their homes and toss out “stuff” they no longer want. From San Jose to Concord, homeowners will spend countless springtime hours sifting through their personal belongings in order to decide which items stay, and which don’t. But for […]
De-clutter San Jose in 2020
Welcome to the new year, the new decade the new 2020! We recently helped a San Jose resident clear out some long overdue clutter. You can see the photos below of what junk we cleaned out, decluttered, and hauled away. (That sounds like a cheer, right? “Hauled away in San Jose, hey!” Can you hear […]
People Love Us! – Year End 5 Star Yelp Roundup
Our customers love us! We at West Coast Junk have a 5 star rating on Yelp and on Google Reviews. We are proud of our great service and positive reviews like “Amazing Service, Fair Price!” “On-time, respectful, careful!” When you’re looking for someone to come into your home, it’s helpful to have the reviews and […]