
Junk King Hudson Valley
About us
Junk King Hudson Valley is led by Jean Leon & his team of dedicated individuals. To help preserve the environment in his own way, Jean provides free services for those in need & plays an active role in promoting recycling in his community. We deliver our services promptly & in an excellent manner. Our trained staff is equipped & capable of hauling all sorts of junk no matter where it is in your house or office. We recycle or donate 60% of the haul we get from our customers.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Appliance, Construction Waste & Yard Waste. Disposal & Recycling – Television & Refrigerator. Foreclosure Clean - Outs. Disposal – Hot Tub & E-Waste., Garbage, Removal – Furniture
Amenities
Free Estimates
Yes
Accepted Payment Methods
- CreditCard
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they came in on time took all the junks that needed to be taken out clean out the area after the work
they were great!
The guys arrived on time and started looking around. They said then that they thought it would be a two truck job, but that would be ok since they could fill one truck and then empty it and come back. That sounded fine to me. The guys who did the loading were great - hard working and easy to communicate with. Jean also told me that for a "big job" like this they'd usually do an estimate first. I had told him from the start it was a "big job" so yeah, I wish they had!
Sadly, two trucks wasn't even close to enough. They finished that first day and hadn't even touched the basement or the garage which were full of stuff! They still had a large amount in other parts of the house too. Clearly something had gone very wrong with their estimate. I was told it was because I had stuff all over the house, not just in one spot. Yeah, that's true, but I wasn't hiding anything - I showed the guys around the first day and pointed out everything that was going.
I talked to Jean and he was very apologetic. He assured me that his guy told him one more truck load would do it, no problem.
I'll save you all the details here, but suffice it to say that three truck loads was not enough. Nor was four. It was five truck loads before it was done. Unbelievable! In the end what was supposed to be a single-day job was finished 18 days later. This took constant contacts asking them to come back and getting updates on their schedule and truck availability. What's worse, I had to do a lot of this remotely - we'd already moved by the time the house was only half cleaned out!
Throughout this process Jean told me over and over that he was down a truck and the service was usually better. I guess that could be, but it doesn't explain why they couldn't figure out how many truck loads it would take to do the job. I don't know if hearing that other people got better service was supposed to make me feel better but it didn't help very much.
So, if you're going to use Junk King on a "big job" I've got two pieces of advice for you: 1) get an on-site estimate before the work starts and 2) don't expect them to finish on time.
"Mr.{member name removed}, thank you for your feedback. As the owner this is a difficult review to read. The reason why is because your experience is no where near the norm when it comes to the service we normally provide. As you said your job turned out to be a large job. On June 8th one of our trucks was involved in a major traffic accident. This took 50% of our resources away for over a month. As I explained to you this affected our service in terms of speed and efficiency. With both trucks running we normally would have sent 2 trucks to your home at the same time along with 4 guys. But again this wasn't possible at the time we did your job due to the accident. We were trying to balance large jobs along with the other appointments we had on schedule, trying to keep all our customers happy as we usually are able to do. In terms of the accuracy of the estimate I want to apologize. Im not sure why the guys under estimated the amount of volume you had. I discussed it with them and I think the issue was how the stuff was spread out over the home(no fault of yours and no excuse ). Sometimes as you walk through a home to do an estimate you can forget some portions of the job when it is this large. The proper way to handle this is to walk through several times before giving a final estimate. Im sorry we miscalculated the amount you had. We just got the other truck back from repair on Friday. So our service has been restored to the high level our customers are use to. Im very sorry you didnt get to experience this as our company was going through a tough time. Hopefully you give us an opportunity to work for you again the future so we can show you how we normally work and why we are so highly rated."
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