JunkRabbit is a junk removal marketplace for Seattle and the Eastside. We connect you straight to vetted local haulers — Ballard and Capitol Hill to Bellevue, Redmond and Kirkland — so you get one fair flat price instead of national-chain markup. $95 minimum, sofa $170, queen mattress $139, a whole home $325–$985 — and you see the number before anyone leaves the yard.
Snap a photo — we price every item before we arrive
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Seattle junk removal is dominated by a handful of national chains that charge a brand premium for a job dozens of local haulers already do for less. The problem was never supply. It was that you couldn't find the good local crews, compare them, or trust the price.
So we built the bridge. You send a photo; we identify every item and price it from real Seattle market data; vetted, insured haulers compete for your job; and you get the cheapest one at one transparent flat price — the basement haul, the estate staging, the drive across the water already in the number. No on-site "estimate," no upsell at the door, no surprise surcharges.
Real numbers, because a page about honesty shouldn't dodge the one question everybody has. Everything below is flat and quoted from your photo, with the carry-out, the stairs and the disposal already inside it.
| Job | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Minimum for a truck and crew | $95 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Truck-fill — quarter | $325 |
| Truck-fill — half | $580 |
| Truck-fill — three-quarters | $790 |
| Truck-fill — full | $985 |
Single items price individually; a basement, a garage, an estate or a whole unit prices as truck-fill, which is almost always cheaper than adding pieces one by one. The full item-by-item breakdown — appliances, electronics, office furniture, exercise equipment, bagged debris — is on our Seattle junk removal cost page.
For outside context, cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put the average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. We're not claiming to undercut every quote in the city on every job; we're claiming you'll know our number before a crew is in your hallway.
This is the one structural difference worth understanding, because it decides how the whole transaction feels.
The national franchises price by how much of the truck your load fills, and they confirm that number on site. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College HUNKS Hauling Junk both operate that way in Seattle and on the Eastside: you book a window, a truck arrives, and only then does anyone tell you what it costs. The estimate is free, which sounds generous until you notice when it happens — you find out the price at the exact moment you have the least room to say no, with two people already standing in your living room and your lease or your listing on a deadline.
We flipped the order. You send a photo. Our pricing engine identifies the items and returns a flat number in seconds. You decide with the price in front of you, at your kitchen table, at whatever hour you're actually thinking about this. Then a vetted hauler is dispatched to do exactly that job for exactly that number.
It also means the number holds. There's no volume re-measurement in your driveway, no "we didn't know it was on the third floor," no line item that appears because the truck turned out fuller than someone guessed.
Two different waste authorities cover our service area, and it changes the economics of your job more than most people expect. Inside the city limits, disposal falls under Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), whose transfer stations are the North Recycling & Disposal Station in Wallingford on N 34th St and the South Recycling & Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S. Across the water and south, it's the King County Solid Waste Division, at stations including Factoria (Bellevue), Houghton (Kirkland) and Bow Lake (Tukwila), where 2026 garbage tips at $243.38 a ton with a $40.25 minimum load. Puget Sound disposal is among the most expensive in the country, which is exactly why our minimum is $95 rather than the lower floor you'd see in a Sun Belt city — and why diverting to donation and recycling is something we do rather than something we advertise.
What does it cost?
$95 minimum; sofa $170; queen mattress $139; truck-fill $325 / $580 / $790 / $985. Carry-out, stairs and disposal included. Full breakdown on the Seattle cost page.
How is this different from a free on-site estimate?
1-800-GOT-JUNK and College HUNKS price by truck volume and commit only once a crew is in your home. We quote flat from a photo before dispatch. Homeyou and Yelp Costs peg an average Seattle job at roughly $253–$325 — the difference is when you learn your number.
Do you do basements?
Yes — Craftsman basements and attics are the most common Seattle job we run, carried up the stairs at no extra charge.
Is there a stair or hill fee?
No. Queen Anne's ~18–19% Counterbalance grade, its 100-plus stairways, and Capitol Hill's walk-ups are normal work here. It's in the flat price.
Can you provide a COI for my tower?
Same-day, naming ownership and management as additional insured — typically $1M general liability — for Downtown, Belltown, SLU, First Hill and downtown-Bellevue buildings. We book the freight elevator and dock too.
Do you serve the floating homes?
Yes — 507 homes on about 70 Lake Union docks, every item hand-carried down the dock because no truck reaches the door.
Do you charge sales tax?
Not on the service. Washington doesn't apply its ~10.35% Seattle retail sales rate to junk removal; the 3.6% state refuse tax (RCW 82.18) applies to disposal and shows in your total.
Which areas do you cover?
Seattle proper plus the King County Eastside — Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Issaquah, Newcastle and Renton. SPU handles disposal inside the city; King County Solid Waste handles it on the Eastside.
Flat, and quoted from a photo before anyone is dispatched. A sofa is $170, a queen mattress $139, and a whole-home or whole-unit clear prices as truck-fill — quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarters $790, full $985. The minimum for sending a truck and a two-person crew is $95. The carry-out, the stairs and the disposal are already inside those numbers. A full price breakdown lives on our Seattle junk removal cost page.
The national franchises price by how much of the truck your load fills and only commit to a number once a crew is standing in your home — 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College HUNKS both work this way, with no online or phone price. That is an estimate delivered at the moment you have the least leverage. We do the opposite: you send a photo, our pricing engine identifies the items, and you get the flat number before anyone leaves the yard. Independent cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253 to $325, so the question is not really who is cheapest on any given job — it is who tells you the price first.
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do here. Seattle's Craftsman and box housing stock has real basements and attics, unlike the Sun Belt cities, and after decades of damp Pacific Northwest storage they fill up. Carrying boxes, furniture and appliances up a narrow basement stair is a normal Seattle job for us, not an exception, and it is priced the same as anything else.
No. Queen Anne Ave N runs an 18 to 19 percent grade for five blocks — the historic Counterbalance — and the hill has more than 100 public stairways, while Capitol Hill and First Hill are wall to wall with no-elevator walk-ups. If we surcharged for stairs and grade we would be surcharging half of Seattle. Down the stairs, down the hill, no surcharge: it is in the flat price you were quoted from the photo.
Yes, same-day. Towers in Downtown, Belltown, South Lake Union, First Hill and downtown Bellevue require a COI on file naming the building's ownership and management as additional insured, typically at $1 million in general liability per occurrence, before a vendor may use the freight elevator. Send us the management company's requirements when you book and the certificate goes over before dispatch, at no extra charge. We book the elevator and the dock window too.
We do. There are roughly 507 floating homes on about 70 docks around Lake Union — Eastlake, Westlake, Northlake and Portage Bay — and none of them have truck access to the door. Every item is hand-carried along a long, narrow communal dock to where the truck can legally stop, over a gangway whose step-down changes with the water level. We plan for that; it is a genuine access niche rather than a surcharge.
Not on the service. Washington does not apply its roughly 10.35% Seattle retail sales tax to junk removal. What Washington charges instead is a 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18, and it applies only to the disposal portion of the job. You will see it in your total, and you should be suspicious of any Seattle quote that adds a full retail sales rate to a hauling service.
Seattle proper — Ballard, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Fremont, Wallingford, the U-District, West Seattle, Rainier Valley, Beacon Hill, Magnolia, Madison Park and the downtown core — plus the King County Eastside: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Sammamish, Issaquah, Newcastle and Renton. Inside the city limits, disposal falls under Seattle Public Utilities, whose transfer stations are the North station in Wallingford on N 34th St and the South station at 8105 5th Ave S. On the Eastside it is the King County Solid Waste Division, at stations including Factoria in Bellevue, Houghton in Kirkland and Bow Lake in Tukwila.