In 2009, I started this business with a small Ford F-150 and slightly different intentions than the ones that stuck.

My name is Ivan. Back then I worked in online marketing — a keyboard job, a screen job — and North Vancouver Junk Removal was supposed to be a weekend side hustle. Honestly, I looked at it as a clever deal with myself: I'd just gotten my driver's license and discovered I loved driving, I wanted the exercise, and here was a way to get paid to do both. Hauling junk on Saturdays wasn't work to me. It was a workout and a road trip that happened to come with a cheque.

A few of my friends thought I'd lost it. They knew me as the guy who sat at a keyboard all day — and now I was lifting couches down staircases on my days off. The skepticism was fair. It just turned out to be wrong.

About six months in, something I didn't expect crept up on me: I liked the people. Every job was a different house, a different story, a different person at the door — and after years of talking to screens, that turned out to be the part I'd been missing. That was when it stopped being a side hustle in my head. I closed down my marketing work and went all in. I bought a bigger truck. And the marketing and coding background I thought I was leaving behind quietly became the thing that helped the business grow.

In 2014 Trifon came aboard. He started as my helper and became my best friend; these days he's the other half of the two-person crew that shows up at your door. (He's the one on the left in the photo.) Seven years in, I upgraded to the truck we still run today.

I built the business in the Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. Then in 2023 I moved to Deep Cove — a corner of the North Shore I'd wanted to live in for as long as I can remember, and now the place our green truck and my family calls home.

Seventeen years later, the business is deliberately almost the same size it was once it found its feet: one truck, two people who know what they're doing, and an owner who still, genuinely, likes the drive and the people at the other end of it. That's not a slogan. It's just why I still do this.

— Ivan, Owner

Every price is public. All of them — over 100 items and five load sizes — on the price list, before you ever contact us. If a fee isn't listed there, we don't charge it.

The quote is the price. Anything that could change it — stairs, long carries, heavy materials — gets said out loud before work starts, and you decide. Seventeen years in, this remains rarer in our industry than it should be.

Donation and recycling come first. Every load is sorted: usable goods to charity, recyclables to the right facilities, and only the remainder to disposal. Details on where your junk actually goes.

We win when you do. The founding idea of this business, kept from day one: a job is done right when both sides would happily repeat it. On the North Shore, where everyone is somebody's neighbour, that's not idealism — it's the only durable way to run a small company for seventeen years.

Is North Vancouver Junk Removal a franchise? No — it's an independent local company, owned and operated by the same person since 2009, based in North Vancouver's Deep Cove area.

Who will actually show up at my door? Ivan and Trifon (for In-Home jobs)...the same people, job after job, not rotating subcontractors. The person who quoted your job answers for it in person.

How long have you been in business? Since 2009 — seventeen years serving North Vancouver and West Vancouver.

Do you subcontract jobs out? No. If you book us, you get us.

Why should I choose a local company over a national brand? Three checkable reasons: our prices are published to the dollar while franchises quote on-site; the owner is on your job rather than in another city; and our reputation lives entirely in the community we live in — there's no brand to hide behind.