What We Haul Out of Your Home
If you can point at it, odds are we can carry it out. A typical junk removal job for us covers old furniture, broken electronics, boxes of who-knows-what from the back of a closet, busted exercise equipment, kids' toys nobody plays with, and the slow pile that builds up in a Greater Boston basement over the years. We take household clutter, full garage and attic cleanouts, office and storage-unit clear-outs, and the leftover debris from a renovation. You do not need to sort it into neat piles first.
We also handle the heavier and more awkward stuff that most people dread moving. Think a chest freezer in the cellar, a hot tub on the back deck, a cast-iron radiator, or a workbench that was clearly built in place and never meant to leave. Construction leftovers like drywall, scrap lumber, old cabinets, and torn-up flooring come with us too. Heavy material such as concrete, brick, dirt, and tile gets priced by weight rather than volume, since a small pile of it can outweigh a whole truck of light junk.
How a Cleanout Day Actually Goes
It starts before we ever pull up. You call or text 617-319-4693, send a couple of photos or a quick description, and we give you an upfront price based on how much room your items will take in the truck. When we arrive, we walk the space with you, confirm what stays and what goes, and lock the number in. There are no surprise add-ons once we start, and you are never on the hook for a vague hourly meter that keeps ticking while we carry boxes up from a Watertown cellar.
From there, the work is on us. We bring the dollies, straps, and tools, protect doorways and banisters where it matters, and carry everything out by hand. On a full-property cleanout we work room by room so you can see progress and flag anything you want to keep at the last second. When the truck is loaded, we do a final sweep, knock down the dust, and leave the space broom-clean. Most single-room or single-item jobs wrap in well under an hour; a packed basement or estate can run most of a day.
What Decides Your Price
The biggest factor is volume, plain and simple. We price by how much of the truck your stuff fills, starting at a quarter load from $149, a half load at $350, and a full load at $650. A few odds and ends from a closet land at the low end; a whole apartment or a stuffed two-car garage pushes toward a full load. Because the number is tied to space and not to the clock, you are not penalized if the stairs are tight or the carry is long, which matters a lot in Boston's older walk-up housing.
A handful of things can shift the figure. Heavy debris like concrete, dirt, and tile is charged by weight, since disposal fees for that material are set by the ton at the transfer station. If you sit outside our core Boston-area zone, a small travel fee may apply, and we will tell you that before we commit to anything. Difficult access, such as a fourth-floor unit with no elevator, does not change the load price but is worth mentioning up front so we bring the right crew and gear. Everything is quoted before we lift a thing.
What We Cannot Take
There are a few categories the law and our disposal partners simply will not allow on a standard junk truck, and it is better you hear it now than at the curb. We cannot haul wet paint, motor oil, gasoline, propane tanks, pool chemicals, pesticides, or other hazardous liquids. We also cannot take asbestos-containing material, medical or biohazard waste, or anything actively leaking. These items have their own legal disposal channels, and mixing them into a general load is both unsafe and against Massachusetts rules.
The good news is that most of what people worry about is fine. Latex paint can be dried out with kitty litter or hardener and then tossed in your regular trash, and we are happy to point you to your town's hazardous-waste drop-off days for the rest. Empty fuel containers, fully cured paint cans, and household batteries are usually no problem. When in doubt, send us a photo before the appointment. We would rather tell you ahead of time than show up and have to leave something behind.
Why Hire a Pro Instead of Renting a Dumpster
A roll-off dumpster sounds cheaper until you add up the real cost. You are paying for delivery and pickup, a rental window measured in days, and often a street permit if it sits on a public road, which is common on Boston's narrow blocks. Then you still have to do every bit of the lifting yourself, haul each item out of the basement and up the bulkhead stairs, and you eat overage fees if you go over the weight limit. A dumpster on the curb for a week also invites the neighbors to quietly fill it with their own junk.
Hiring us flips all of that. We show up at a scheduled time, do the hauling, and the truck leaves with the junk the same visit, so nothing sits on your property tying up a parking spot. You are not renting equipment or pulling a permit, and you never touch the heavy stuff. For a single cleanout, a same-day crew that loads, sweeps, and disposes responsibly almost always beats babysitting a steel box for a week and supplying the muscle yourself. We also sort for donation and recycling along the way, which a dumpster never does.
