Junk Removal in Erving, MA

Erving has 1,665 people along the Millers River, and it is one of the few small Franklin County towns still shaped by an active paper industry. Farley is its western village.

Mill housing and mill buildings

The housing built for mill workers is closely spaced and older, with full basements and narrow stairs, so a clearance there is priced by the staircase rather than the volume.

The industrial buildings themselves generate a different kind of work. Where anything is being renovated, the material is construction and demolition debris rather than household junk, and that is priced by weight because debris hits a truck's legal limit at about half capacity.

What the state requires

Massachusetts banned wood, metal, brick, concrete and asphalt from landfills on 1 July 2006 and clean gypsum wallboard on 1 July 2011, so renovation debris goes to a construction and demolition facility rather than a transfer station.

On buildings of that age, asbestos testing comes before any demolition. That is licensed work under Massachusetts rules and no junk hauler should be disturbing it. A hauler who sees suspect pipe wrap or floor tile and stops is doing exactly the right thing, and testing first is far cheaper than having disturbed it.