Winchester and Franklin County

Where do house cleanouts go in Franklin County?

To the Republic Transfer Station, 9577 Tullahoma Hwy in Estill Springs. The county’s solid waste page sends construction and demolition waste there, and also treated or painted wood, house and garage clean-outs, sheds and rental clean-outs. The convenience centers and the Joyce Lane office won’t take commercial waste.

So a cleanout here can’t just go to the nearest center. Our house, garage and rental cleanouts load it all and haul it away, and you don’t have to work out what belongs where.

Franklin County Solid Waste and its centers

The county office is at 419 Joyce Lane (931-967-1139), open weekdays 8 to 4:25 and Saturdays 8 to noon. Its convenience centers are Alto, Capitol Hill, Center Grove, Cowan, Estill Springs, Lexie Crossroads, Old Salem, Sewanee and Winchester Springs. The page gives no addresses, tire rules, appliance rules or fees, so call Joyce Lane first.

That gap matters most for the things people actually want gone: a dead refrigerator, a set of worn tires, a washer that quit. None of them is addressed on the county’s page. Our junk removal takes refrigerators, washers and dryers along with the rest of the load.

Tear-outs and permits

Winchester doesn’t publish a curbside bulk schedule or a demolition permit page that we found. Ask the city before a shed comes down. Sheds and treated wood are on the county’s transfer-station list, and our shed and deck demolition handles the tearing down and the hauling both.

Around the square and the lake

The Franklin County Courthouse, built in 1936 and 1937, stands on Winchester’s square, and Tims Ford State Park is at 570 Tims Ford Dr. We move households here, near or far, along with the heavy pieces, pianos to hot tubs. The other Franklin County city on our list is Tullahoma.