Glastonbury Junk Removal for Big Houses and Bigger Basements

Two facilities, one permit, and you do the hauling

Glastonbury's refuse pages describe a drop-off system rather than a curbside bulky pickup. The town runs two sites: the Transfer Station on New London Turnpike and the Bulky Waste Facility on Tryon Street in South Glastonbury. Using either one takes a Refuse Permit that runs on the fiscal year, bought at the facilities, at Town Hall or by mail. Residents without a permit can still use the bulky site for a fee with proof of Glastonbury residency. Check the town's current fee schedule, published each year in its Waste Disposal Guidelines.

The permit carries a rule worth knowing: it may only be used to deliver acceptable items generated in Glastonbury, and the town may ask for proof of where a load came from. So it will not help you clear a relative's house in Manchester, and it is no help if you are a renter without a vehicle that can carry a sectional.

What that means on a big job

Big properties make big jobs. A finished basement with a bar and a sectional, a three-bay garage, a pool shed, a playset the kids outgrew, an old barn with forty years of tools and feed bins: none of it fits in an SUV. Every load to Tryon Street is a trip with your own vehicle, your own back and your own Saturday. Mattresses and electronics can go through the state stewardship programs without a permit, but someone still has to carry them up the basement stairs and drive them over.

A town with deep history

Glastonbury has 154 houses built before 1800, the second-most of any town in the United States, and four date to the 1600s. The South Glastonbury Historic District runs along Main Street toward Chestnut Hill Road, and its oldest surviving building is the Tryon House from around 1731. The town's villages, from Addison and Buckingham to Hopewell, East Glastonbury and Welles Village, mix those antique homes with postwar and newer subdivisions. Orchards and berry farms still work the hillsides, a legacy of J.H. Hale Orchards, which grew to more than 1,200 acres by 1900.

Older farmhouses mean low-ceilinged attics, steep cellar stairs and outbuildings. Newer homes mean volume. Either way, it is heavy work.

Common Glastonbury jobs

• Whole-basement cleanouts before a sale or a renovation
• Sheds, playsets and swing sets, taken apart on site
• Barn and outbuilding cleanouts: old equipment, lumber, bins and scrap metal
• Estate cleanouts in antique homes, with care for old floors and stairways
• Furniture, appliances, mattresses and electronics from any floor

The crew does all the lifting and loading. The quote comes from the volume your load fills in the truck, and you approve it before anything is carried out.

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