Rubbish removal in Leeds: the local guide
Leeds is really a dozen different housing types in one city, and each one changes how a clearance actually gets done. There are back to backs and through terraces across Harehills, Beeston and Armley with no driveway and no rear access, Victorian student terraces and HMOs around Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse, stone terraces out at Morley and Pudsey, and large Edwardian villas with cellars and long gardens up in Roundhay, Alwoodley and Adel. Our yard is on Portland Road in Armley, so this is our own doorstep rather than a place we drive out to, and our two-person teams carry everything out for you, up or down the stairs, through the ginnel or off the top of the hill, so you never lift a thing.
Areas we cover across Leeds
We collect right across the LS postcodes, including the city centre (LS1 and LS2), Kirkstall and Burley (LS4 and LS5), Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse (LS6), Chapel Allerton and Meanwood (LS7), Roundhay, Oakwood and Gledhow (LS8), Harehills and Burmantofts (LS9), Hunslet and Middleton (LS10), Beeston and Holbeck (LS11), Armley and Wortley (LS12, our own yard), Bramley and Farsley (LS13), Seacroft and Whinmoor (LS14), Cross Gates and Halton (LS15), Adel and Cookridge (LS16), Moortown and Alwoodley (LS17), Horsforth (LS18), Yeadon and Rawdon (LS19), Guiseley (LS20), Otley (LS21), Wetherby (LS22), Garforth (LS25), Rothwell (LS26), Morley (LS27) and Pudsey (LS28). Not sure we reach you? Send a photo on WhatsApp and we will confirm in minutes.
Leeds City Council bulky waste, or a Kruze collection?
We will always be straight with you, and in Leeds the council option is genuinely good if it fits. Every Leeds household gets one free bulky waste collection per financial year through leeds.gov.uk, then up to three more at £30 each, so four a year in total, and households on council tax support get all four free. Each collection covers up to five items and they will take furniture, mattresses, fridges, washing machines, carpets and doors. If you can wait for a date, carry everything out to the kerb yourself and you are under five items, take the free one. We would rather tell you that than sell you something you do not need.
Where it does not fit is the detail. Leeds will not take garden sheds, kitchen units, bathroom suites, pianos, hot tubs, rubble or glass including mirrors, booking is online only, and the calendar opens just four weeks ahead so slots vanish in busy periods. A Kruze collection starts from £24.99, we come the same day across most of Leeds when you book before noon, we take almost all of the things on that excluded list, and we do every bit of the lifting from any room, cellar, loft or garden rather than the kerb. You pay for the space your waste fills in the van, so a few items cost less than a full load, and every job comes with a digital waste transfer note.
Your nearest Leeds tip
If you would rather take it yourself, Leeds has eight household waste recycling centres open seven days a week, including Seacroft on Limewood Road (LS14 1LU), Kirkstall on Evanston Avenue (LS4 2HR) and Meanwood on Meanwood Road (LS7 2LP). They run 8am to 6pm from 30 March to 25 October and 8am to 4pm through the winter, with last entry fifteen minutes before closing, and they close only on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. Two things catch people out. Fridges and freezers are currently not accepted at any Leeds site. And if you are not in an ordinary car you need a Large Vehicle, Hire Vehicle and Trailer Permit, with a 6ft 6in height barrier at the entrance, high roofed, medium and long wheelbase vans and anything over 3 tonnes refused outright, trailers only if a car is towing them, and twelve permits a year of which only four may be for a borrowed or company vehicle. Trade waste is not accepted at any Leeds tip whatever permit you hold, so if the load came out of a job rather than a house, the tip is not the route at all.
The Leeds jobs we do most
Around Headingley, Hyde Park and Woodhouse the summer tenancy changeover fills the terraces with mattresses, broken flat pack, desks and bagged waste, and we clear whole student lets at short notice so landlords and agents can turn them around. Across Roundhay, Alwoodley, Adel and Horsforth it is bigger work, full house and probate clearances, cellars, garages and long gardens, where the carry is the job. In the inner terraces of Armley, Beeston, Harehills and Bramley it is more often single items, a sofa or a fridge, and end of tenancy clear-outs where parking is tight and the only way out is the front door.
Stay on the right side of the law
Your duty of care as a householder does not end when someone drives your waste away. If it is fly-tipped you can be fined even though you paid someone to take it, which is why you should always ask to see a waste carrier licence and always get a transfer note. Kruze is registered with the Environment Agency under CBDU597687 and issues a digital waste transfer note on every single job, no exceptions. If a price sounds too good and nobody mentions paperwork, that is usually why.
Moving out of Leeds as well?
Plenty of our Leeds clearances happen around a move, so we do both. If you need the furniture taken to a new address rather than taken away, our man and van removals team does that too, and you can see what a move across the city costs on our Leeds removals prices page.
