Post-event cleanup in Salt Lake City

Post-event cleanup in Salt Lake City is the haul-off after the party. The backyard wedding is over, or the market packed up at two, and what's left is thirty bags of trash by the fence, a couple of folding tables with bent legs, the centerpieces nobody wants, the cardboard the rental chairs came in, and the pallets a vendor left behind. Jeremy prices it from a photo. He loads all of it and takes it away. The people who call are the parents who hosted, the church activities coordinator, the market manager, and the neighbor who got stuck running the block party.

Jeremy's open 24/7, and that matters for events, because most of them land on a Saturday. Sometimes he can clear a Saturday wedding that night or Sunday morning if it's set up ahead, and a Friday party can be gone Saturday morning if it's on his calendar. Once the date is set, the pickup can go on his calendar early. He gives a one-hour arrival window and shows up with his pickup and trailer.

This is haul-off only. Jeremy doesn't take down tents, and he doesn't run a cleaning crew. He loads what's been set aside as trash and drives it away, and the venue handles the rest. Pricing starts at a $100 minimum and comes from a photo of the pile, so once the last guest leaves, take a picture of what's left and text it to (801) 557-1063 for a price. If the pile grows overnight, send a second photo before he heads over.

What goes on the truck

• Bagged party trash
• Broken folding tables
• Leftover decor and centerpieces
• Cardboard from the rentals
• Vendor pallets
• Busted pop-up canopies
• Plastic chairs bought for the day
• Banners and balloon arches

Text a photo of your pile to (801) 557-1063.

The full list of what goes on the truck, and what doesn't.

What's usually in the pile

Event trash is a different pile than a garage cleanout. It's mostly volume. Twenty or thirty contractor bags of paper plates and food scraps. Boxes from the rental company, flattened or not. Folding tables with a cracked top or a bent leg. The plastic chairs the host bought for one afternoon and doesn't want in the garage. Centerpieces, a balloon arch, the vinyl banner with the graduate's name on it, the string lights that quit halfway through the reception. From a market or a vendor fair, add the pallets, the broken pop-up canopy, the display shelving and the cooler with the cracked lid. Jeremy's trailer has wooden sides, so light stuff like that rides without blowing out on I-15.

If a couch or a fridge got dragged outside for the party and needs to go too, say so in the text. That's furniture or appliance pricing on top of the pile.

How Jeremy loads it out

Jeremy comes alone with his pickup and trailer, inside a one-hour window. He loads from wherever the pile sits, whether that's the side yard or the corner of the parking lot where the vendors stacked everything. Bags and pallets already stacked by the load-out door or at the curb are the quick version, and quick keeps the number down. If the pile is behind a locked gate or down the stairs in a reception hall basement, say so in the text so he plans for it. Alleys in the Avenues and parts of Sugar House run tight for a truck and trailer, so he may park on the street and carry it out.

At a church or a venue, he'll check in with whoever runs the building so the load-out door is open and the trash pile doesn't get mixed up with the rental company's return stack. Bags go in first and the tables and pallets go on top.

Where the pile ends up

Jeremy sorts the load before it goes anywhere. Folding tables that still stand, plastic chairs, the tablecloths and unused decor go to a donation center. The cardboard from the rentals gets flattened and recycled, and so do any metal table frames and the aluminum cans that got bagged separately. Pallets and the cracked tabletops go with the trash.

The bagged trash itself goes to the landfill. If a TV or a speaker got left behind, it rides with the load. He doesn't dump anything in a venue's or a neighbor's dumpster.

How Jeremy prices an event pile

The number comes from a photo. Take one picture that shows the whole pile, text it to (801) 557-1063, and Jeremy replies with a price for the haul. He's looking at how much of the trailer it fills, so thirty bags and a few tables is a different number than five bags and a balloon arch. He doesn't charge by the bag or by the hour.

A church basement or a walk-out reception hall means the stairs add-on, and a fridge that got hauled out to keep the drinks cold counts too. If the pile is bigger in the morning than it was in the photo, he'll tell you the new number before he loads. He takes cash, card or Venmo when the trailer's full. The pricing guide has more examples.

What stays behind

Some of it doesn't go on the trailer. Jeremy doesn't tear down tents or canopies that are still standing; if the rental company is coming for it, leave it for them. He won't take anything that's rented, so the chairs and the linens go back where they came from. Propane tanks from the food truck or the patio heaters, the leftover chafing fuel cans, tiki torch fuel and the half-used spray paint from the decorations count as hazardous waste, and Salt Lake County's household hazardous waste program takes those.

He won't shovel out the sand from a volleyball pit or the gravel somebody spread for overflow parking. Anything that needs a shovel stays. There's no cleaning included, either. He isn't sweeping the cultural hall floor or wiping down the tables that stay. The full list is on what he takes.

How the neighborhood changes the job

Backyard weddings on the east bench, in Holladay and Cottonwood Heights, have long driveways, so the trailer usually backs right up to the pile. In Sugar House the party is in a bungalow backyard with one side gate, and the pile comes out through it by hand. Church events around here usually mean the meetinghouse cultural hall, which has a side door by the kitchen and a schedule of who has the building next, so Jeremy times the pickup around it.

When a Saturday market downtown packs up, a vendor's leftover pallets and boxes can go that evening or the next morning if it's set up ahead. In an HOA neighborhood, the pile usually can't sit at the curb long, so the pickup goes on the calendar as soon as the date is set.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (801) 557-1063. Jeremy looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate, and the number doesn't change once it's loaded. Jobs start at $100. The only add-ons: mattress or box spring +$40, fridge or freezer +$25, stairs +$25. He tells you before he starts. More on what junk removal costs in Salt Lake City.

Where Jeremy does this

All of the Salt Lake Valley. See every town Jeremy covers for post-event cleanup.