Rubbish removal built around the Tomaga River and the holiday-let scene
Tomakin sits right at the mouth of the Tomaga River, between Broulee and Batemans Bay, and that location shapes the rubbish we end up shifting. A lot of the homes here are holiday rentals, and when an owner finally clears out a place that has been let for years, the pile that comes out of the garage and the under-house storage is rarely just bin-bags. It's old camp chairs, a spare fridge nobody used, kayak racks that rusted in the river air, broken beach umbrellas and three generations of boogie boards. We come in, sort it, load it and take it away so the place is ready for the next changeover or the next tenant.
Because we run Tomakin on the same loop as Broulee and Mossy Point, we can plan a clear-out around the rest of our day on this stretch. That matters when a holiday let has a check-out on a Saturday and the owner wants the junk gone before the cleaners and the next guests arrive. We're already on this side of the river, so we aren't charging you for a special trip from the Bay.
Salt and sand wreck the gear stored in Tomakin, and that becomes the junk pile
River and beach homes in Tomakin cop sand and salt all year, and it's brutal on anything stored in a garage, a shed or under the house. By the time we get called, the metal furniture has rust running down the legs, the outdoor setting has gone brittle, and the whitegoods that lived in the laundry or the second fridge in the shed have seized up from the damp coastal air. None of that's worth keeping, but it's heavy and awkward to move, especially down the kind of sloping blocks you get near the river flats.
We take the lot. Old whitegoods, rusted outdoor furniture, salt-eaten BBQs, perished pool and beach gear, the works. Whitegoods get handled properly for recycling rather than just dumped, and anything with metal or recoverable material goes to the right place instead of straight to landfill. You're left with an empty, clean space instead of a corner you've been stepping around for two summers.
Changeover clear-outs between guests, not just deep cleans
The biggest part of our Tomakin work is holiday-let turnovers, and rubbish removal is the quiet half of that job. Guests leave more behind than people expect. Bags of beach sand and broken thongs, a busted camp stove, the inflatable that didn't survive the river, leftover firewood, and a garage that has slowly filled with stuff over a peak season. Before the next booking, the owner needs that gone, not shuffled into a cupboard.
We work this around the cleaning so you only deal with one local team. While the changeover clean is happening, we can be clearing the green waste from the yard and the junk from the garage, so the place is genuinely guest-ready and not just tidy on the surface. With short-stay turnovers being our main job here, we know how tight the window is between a check-out and the next check-in, and we move accordingly.
Green waste from coastal blocks and river-edge gardens
Gardens in Tomakin grow hard and fast in the coastal climate, and the blocks running down toward the Tomaga River often have a fair bit of vegetation to manage. When a holiday-home owner or a permanent resident finally tackles an overgrown yard, the green waste mounts up quickly. Hedge prunings, palm fronds, lantana, a tree that came down in a southerly, and the load from clearing back growth that has crept toward the fence line.
We take green waste away as part of a clear-out, so you aren't making a dozen trips to the tip yourself or hiring a trailer you have to load by hand. It goes to be processed properly rather than burnt or left to rot in a heap. If a yard tidy-up and a garage clear-out are happening at the same time, we sort the green waste from the household junk on site so each stream goes where it should.
Garage, shed and estate clear-outs for permanent Tomakin homes
Plenty of Tomakin is permanent homes, and those owners call us for the jobs that have been put off for years. A double garage that became storage, a backyard shed packed to the rafters, or a full estate clear-out when a family home changes hands. These are the jobs where you can't see the floor and you don't know where to start, and they're exactly what we're good at.
We bring the team, sort what's rubbish from what might be worth keeping, and clear it in volume so you aren't living with it for weeks. Estate clear-outs we handle with care, because we know there's often more going on than just the rubbish. We don't touch hazardous waste like asbestos, chemicals, paint or gas bottles, so if any of that turns up we'll tell you straight and point you to the right people for it.
One local, Indigenous-owned team you can call for the whole job
Capital Coastal Cleaning is an Indigenous-owned local business, started in 2023 by Tyson and run by a small team alongside Shanice and Lisa. We're based in Batemans Bay and we cover Tomakin as part of our regular coastal run, so you're dealing with locals who know the area, not a faceless skip-bin operator. We're police-checked and fully insured, open seven days, and we hold a 5.0 rating from 110 Google reviews.
Pricing for rubbish removal is based on volume, so you pay for the space the load takes up, not a flat fee that punishes a small job. We use low-tox products on the cleaning side, and because we do both the clear-out and the clean, a Tomakin holiday let or rental can go from full of junk to genuinely guest-ready or bond-ready in one booking. Give us a call on 0479 184 498 and we'll sort it.
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Capital Coastal Cleaning is owner-run by Tyson, who started the business here in Batemans Bay in 2023. A small, police-checked local team, the same faces each visit, and our name on every job, from Durras to Moruya.
