Lot & Yard Cleanup
Lot and yard cleanup is the residential service that resets a property — storm debris and broken branches, blackberry through the back third, leftover landscape rubble from a prior owner, an old play structure that should have come down four summers ago — from $800 for a quarter-acre to $3,500 for a full half-acre to one-acre lot. The lot the new owner inherited covered in invasive brush and old yard junk. The back third nobody has walked into since the cedar tree came down in the November windstorm. A pile of broken concrete and bricks the prior owner left behind. The swing set the kids outgrew six years ago, rusting in the corner. Handis hauls it all out, sorted into the right disposal streams, with the receipts on the invoice.
Service
How Lot & Yard Cleanup Works
Five sequential steps from the on-arrival walk through the homeowner walk and 30-day guarantee — the actual order we run on every Handis yard cleanup so the disposal sorting happens once instead of three times.
On-Arrival Walk & Scope Sort
We walk the lot with you, identify what is in handyman scope (brush, debris, play structures, soft sheds, landscape rubble) and what routes to a licensed contractor (hazard trees, knotweed requiring quarantined handling, engineered grading, permitted excavation). The walk happens before the chainsaws come out.
Cut & Stage by Disposal Stream
Blackberry and brush get cut back with brush cutters and staged in one pile. Storm-cut wood goes in a second. Metal in a third. C&D rubble in a fourth. Cardboard and clean recyclables in a fifth. Pressure-treated wood (not yard waste) gets its own pile. The sorting happens at cut time so the loadout at the end is single-pass to each facility.
Drag, Load & Compact
Material moves from the staging piles to the dump trailer with hand tools and a powered wheelbarrow where the ground supports it. Heavy items (broken concrete, dense rubble) load first; light brush and yard waste compact on top. A standard residential lot reset fits in one to three dump-trailer loads.
Haul to Sorted Disposal — Receipts Returned
Yard waste to Cedar Grove. Wood to a wood-recycler or chipper facility. Concrete and asphalt to a concrete recycler. Metal to a metal recycler (often paid back, which reduces the invoice). C&D rubble to a licensed C&D transfer station. Hazardous materials to the King County LHWMP. Receipts come back to the property with the crew.
Final Rake, Homeowner Walk & 30-Day Guarantee
A final rake clears small debris from the cleared area. We walk the property with you, point out anything that crosses back to an arborist or a contractor, deliver the receipts, and document the work for the 30-day workmanship guarantee. Regrowth from cane stumps is not a workmanship issue and is outside the guarantee.
Lot & Yard Cleanup Pricing
Final pricing depends on lot size, the disposal-stream mix, brush density, access for a dump trailer, and whether stump grinding or hazard-tree work routes to an outside contractor. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Send us photos of the lot — we will sort what is in scope, what is contractor work, and what it hauls for.
Why Handis for Lot & Yard Cleanup
Most yard cleanup calls we get are for a lot that has waited a season or two too long — blackberry through the back third, the cedar branch that came down in November still where it fell, an old play structure rusted out, a pile of landscape rubble the prior owner did not haul. Each year of waiting doubles the work. Blackberry roots run deeper. Wood debris sinks into the ground and gets harder to load. Metal in the brush starts to rust and lose its recycling value. We do the cleanup at the right scale, sorted for the right disposal streams, and tell you on the call when the scope is a contractor job instead of ours.
Estimate
Tell us about the lot — rough acreage, what is on it now (brush, storm debris, landscape rubble, old play structures, invasive species), the access for a dump trailer, and any deadlines (a closing date, a permit walk, a season). We send a clear estimate for the full visit with the disposal-stream sort included.
Customer Reviews
Recent lot and yard cleanup reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Bought a half-acre lot with blackberry through the back third and a pile of landscape rubble the prior owner had left. Handis cleared it in two days, dragged the rooted stumps to the front for the grinder rental, hauled the rubble and brush in two truckloads. They were upfront that grinding the stumps was outside their trade.
November windstorm took down two big alder limbs across our driveway and back lawn. Handis came within 48 hours, cut to manageable lengths, hauled the wood to a chipper-recycler, raked the lawn clear. They told me upfront the standing trees still needed an arborist for safety pruning and gave us a name. Saved the week.
Old swing set the kids outgrew years ago, plus a rusted trampoline frame, plus a collapsed plastic playhouse. Tech dismantled all three, separated the metal from the wood and plastic, and the metal load actually came back as a small credit at the recycler. Cleared the back yard for the new patio.
Side yard had a stand of knotweed coming up along the fence. Handis flagged it on the walk-through, said it needed quarantined disposal not yard waste, bagged it on site in contractor bags, hauled in a separate load to the right facility. They told me on the call the cane stumps would regrow and would need a follow-up next spring.
Quarter-acre lot we let go for one summer too long. Brush, leaves, broken branches from a January wind event, and a pile of bricks from a wall we took down two years ago. Crew sorted on site — yard waste in one load, bricks to a salvage yard for a small credit, C&D rubble in a third. Lot is clear and we have receipts for everything.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis lot and yard cleanup — pricing, scope, disposal, scheduling, stumps, trees, and what routes to a contractor.