Health advice from OC Junk Hauling

Moving from one home to another is a stressful enough thing without actually putting stress on your body. There is great temptation to save money and do it all yourself (packing, moving, hauling away what you don’t want anymore), and unless the hunks from the office ground crew want to come over and help, there is no need to pull a back muscle over the weekend lifting a box you thought had towels and instead had old garden tools to be thrown away.

OC Junk & Hauling offers not just “a bunch of moving guys” but a seasoned team of veterans who know the proper way to lift things and move from your house or apartment to the truck to be hauled away. Injuries slow down a job and are just bad for business, as well as most importantly are a staff safety issue.

But, what if you need to move boxes?

If you need to, for example, move boxes yourself out of the attic or out of a spare room, here are some basic tips from our seasoned staff of haulers.

• Half squat position is considered most preferable for protecting the back when lifting. Knees are bent, and the back is kept straight and upright. Serves to evenly spread load onto both hands at either side or in front of the body.
• Then move upward in a slow and steady motion. Your body needs to adjust to increased stress of lifting, so try to not lift heavy items hastily.

A muscle strain will happen when there is over-stretching of the muscle, or if there is a tear in it. Muscle fibers are most likely damaged.  And you’ve got what is well known as a muscle pull.

We aren’t doctors, but common experience calls for: some pain medication (like acetaminophen) to block pain signals from getting sent to the brain; and/or anti-inflammatory medication (ibuprofen/oral steroids) to reduce local inflammation causing the pain.

One other thing to mention, back muscle pain heals with time, anywhere from a few days up to 3-4 weeks. But if you are still suffering at the two-week mark you might want to touch base with your doctor.

Or, you can avoid some of this and call OC Junk Hauling. Once you’ve decided what needs to go with you and you’re happy with our free no-obligation estimate of what is not moving with you, all you need to do is sit back while our professional crew gets the job done! We do ALL the labor and loading of unwanted items, no matter where your items are located, and we clean up afterward, as well!  Call us at 949-424-9265.

Junk Hauling For A Relocating Business

Considering relocating your business somewhere else in Orange County? Expansion or better location? Congratulations! OC Junk Hauling stands ready to help with any office furniture you don’t take with you. Oh, you are taking it all? Are you sure that is wise?

Consider this: just like the juggler spinning the dishes, the more moving pieces you have, the more labor will be needed to get the job done. And since moving an office isn’t a one-person project, the more you must transport, the more it will cost you.

Ever wonder why retail stores slash prices before a move? To be nice to customers? Well, yes. But, also so they don’t need to spend money on expendable items that could instead generate income.

How big an office do you have?

To begin with, has the buzz word “paperless” avoided your filing system? Do you have files from 30 years ago? And your cabinets are just as old? Consider purging paperwork before the move and you might not need to pay for cabinets to go across the old hall, down the old steps, across the parking lot to the truck, then across the new parking lot, up the new steps and across the new hall.

Office moves based on the truckload average $500-$1,500 per load depending on the time it takes to load, the difficulty and the number of movers. Average truck rates are around $100 per hour per truck with three movers.

• 1,500 square-foot office will range from $750-$4,500, depending on the amount of materials moved.
• 3,000 square-foot office will range from $1,500 to $9,000 depending on not only the amount of materials but the extra furniture currently filling that space
• 10,000 square-foot office will start in the $5,000 range and could reach $30,000 for companies with numerous employee workstations that need to be dismantled, moved and then put together again. As they say, time is money.

On the other hand, if it doesn’t disrupt operations, you could ask your office staff to pack up their own work areas during business hours. This will help you to avoid paying a crew to pack up your office outside of business hours ($.75 per square foot for packing your office).

When you’ve decided what moves with you and what stays, give us a call at (949)424-9265 for a free estimate and a follow up on site appraisal. OC Junk Hauling specializes in commercial and residential hauling. We work regularly with local real estate companies, schools, property management companies, and government agencies as well as non-profit organizations in all their junk removal and garbage hauling needs. We cannot accept any hazardous materials, such as paint and oil, but pretty much if you don’t want or need it anymore, we’ll clear it out for you.

What are the three most essential actions you can take in preparation for an efficient and productive Spring Cleaning? Choose to make a list. Choose to use your camera. Choose OC Junk Hauling to remove all your unwanted and unneeded goods.

Spring officially hits Orange County on March 20^th. But before that date you will want to prepare for the mass exodus of things that have accumulated over the past year (…or years…)

Make a list

You can’t just wander around the house, acting like the Grim Reaper and deciding at the spur of the moment what stays and what goes — especially if you have a significant other. Toss the wrong thing away and you could be next to go out the door for Spring Cleaning.

Think of your house as the highway and each room an exit. You can only take one at a time. Make that your list. Which room will you both attack first. What are the criteria for that room? Presentation vs function. Out of style? Damaged? Gift from someone who is now persona non gratta (for like the millionth time— one time too many– he won’t let you forget that his Patriots got into the Super Bowl AGAIN and your fav CA team did not make it AGAIN).

Locate around the house any parts of that room that are in closets, storage or garage. Do they need to rejoin the room? If not, why still save them. “Maybe one day” has come and gone.

After you finish, sit down. Look around. Do you feel good? Ok, back on the Spring Cleaning highway and take the next exit.

Use your camera

Take pictures. Load them into your computer, notebook, or cell phone. They will last longer and be more portable than any old-style photo album. What are you taking pictures of? Things that are the Times of Your Life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtxanSrNdN8&list=RDwtxanSrNdN8&t=10). A wedding dress that is long out of style (unless it is a “classic” that has been handed down). Kids clothes that you saved for the kids, but they really don’t want for their kids because, again… styles!!! Toys. Drawings. Class projects (lop-sided birdhouse). Skinny jeans one of you used to fit in (… “and you are still as lovely today dear” … — remember what we said about not getting tossed out with the trash?)

Choose OC Junk Hauling

Let us know exactly what you want hauled away, and we will give you a free, no-obligation Spring Cleaning estimate: Beds, mattresses, sofas, sofa beds, tables, chairs, dressers, bookcases, books, clothing, lamps, file cabinets, armoires, weird gifts, and old/broken electronics (TV’s, VCR’s, computers, printers, monitors, copy machines, stereos, etc.).

All you need to do after that is to sit back while the professional OC Junk Hauling crew gets the job done! We do ALL the labor and loading, no matter where your items are located, and we clean up afterward, too! Give us a call today at (949)424-9265. We look forward to doing business with you during Spring Cleaning or any season.

Mattress Haul Away In Orange County

Each year, less than 5% of mattresses are recycled, even though up to 90% of the components can be recycled.  Your worthless mattress could be used to create carpet padding, animal bedding, mulch, and more. Unfortunately, much of a mattress and its contents end up in landfills or illegally dumped on curbsides, imposing significant management costs on local governments and taxpayers (that’s you!)

You didn’t know that? OC Junk Hauling drivers & crew, having traveled from north to south and east to west in Orange County, do. We are experts at quickly & cleanly getting the mattress, box spring, frames, pillows, etc. up and out of your home, so you can make room for the new replacements.

But, when exactly should you replace the mattress?

The Better Sleep Council recommends replacing your mattress every 7-10 years, depending on comfort and support. The truth is that the life of a mattress varies wildly, which depends on how you take care of it, how you sleep on it and how often you rotate it.

Did you catch that last word? Rotate. You have heard this myth: A mattress should be flipped every few months to keep it in good condition. Wrong. Most mattresses today are made one-sided, which means they should never be flipped. Just rotate your mattress monthly for the first 6 months and quarterly after that.

While we are on the subject of myths…. It’s against the law to remove the law tag on your mattress.

The warning against removing the law tag of your new mattress can be intimidating.  The Restonic mattress company advises, “The truth is that once you’ve bought the mattress and it’s in your home, you can do whatever you want with it. But if you ever need to file a warranty claim, it needs to be attached to the mattress because it contains critical information that will help the manufacturer process your claim.”

As one of the leading companies when it comes to mattress pickup and disposal, OC Junk Hauling operates in strict adherence with the Used Mattress Recovery and Recycling Act of the State of California. Needless to say, the best, safest, most reliable, most affordable, and most eco-friendly method of doing away with your old mattress is to book an appointment with OC Junk Hauling. We offer efficient & quick mattress pickup and removal services, and make sure that your old mattress does not end up in a landfill in Orange County, or anywhere else.

U.S. residents, businesses, universities, and others discard over 50,000 mattresses each day—that’s up to 20 million annually. You don’t want to be part of that staggering statistic. Call OC Junk Hauling at (949)424-9265.