Junk Removal
Big Water

What the job involves in Big Water

Big Water is a straightforward place to work once you know it, and we have been working it for over a decade. With roughly 502 residents, Big Water is a smaller community in Kane County, and that shows up in the job: largely detached properties, long driveways and very little kerbside constraint.

Every quote is written down before the job is booked, so nobody is negotiating on a driveway with a loaded truck.

What a Big Water job looks like

Every job follows the same order, because that is what keeps the estimate honest and the day calm.

• A look at what is going before a price is given
• Carry-out from wherever it sits — no requirement to move it to the kerb first
• Sorting for donation and recycling where the item allows
• Responsible disposal of the rest, with the tip run included
• A sweep of the space afterwards

The reason we survey first is that the three things that actually drive the price — volume, access and stairs — are the three things you cannot judge over the phone.

We would rather tell you a date is unrealistic than take the booking and disappoint you. That happens more often than you would think, particularly at month-end.

Moving around Big Water

Most of our Big Water work sits around Big Water town centre and Lake Powell gateway, and each of those areas asks something slightly different of a crew — access, parking, the age of the housing, whether there is a lift involved.

We are usually in Kanab, Orderville and Glendale in the same week, so a junk removal job here rarely needs a separate trip charge — and if your move crosses between them, it is one crew rather than a handover.

Big Water runs on tourism, lake recreation and hospitality, and that shapes who is moving and when: term dates, transfer seasons and the end of a build all bunch the calendar.

Everything here is covered from our own crews rather than subcontracted to whoever is free that day — Kane County included.

We also work the northern end of the state, so a move from Big Water up to the Wasatch Front is one crew start to finish rather than a handover.

Who actually turns up to a junk removal job in Big Water

This is Justin and Miranda Ruuth's business, started in 2012 and still run by them. The crews are employed and background-checked, not day labour hired for the date.

That matters for the question nobody asks out loud, which is who is going to be walking through my house. You get the same company on the phone, on the estimate and on the day.

If something goes wrong, the person you complain to is the person who owns the company. That is worth more than a guarantee written on a website.

Booking a Big Water job

From June to September we start early and finish before the worst of the afternoon. It is not comfort, it is damage control — for the crew and for anything with a finish on it.

The last week of any month is the busiest, everywhere. Mid-month midweek is cheaper and calmer if you have the choice.

The call takes about ten minutes if you have these ready:

• A rough inventory, even a phone video walked room to room — it is the single thing that makes an estimate accurate
• Your dates, including the one that cannot move and the one that can
• Anything unusually heavy or awkward: a safe, a piano, a tub, a treadmill, a fish tank
• Access notes at both ends — stairs, lifts, gates, parking, gate codes
• What is NOT coming with you, which is often the cheapest decision in the whole move

Ring (435) 862-3080 and describe the job. You will get a written estimate, and an honest answer if the date you want is not realistic.