A diverse hilltop neighborhood (98144, 98108) of bungalows with basements and detached garages. We clear the basement, the garage, or the whole house — carried up the stairs and out — plus single couches, fridges, and mattresses. Flat photo-quoted price from a $95 minimum, truck-fill clears $325–$985, often same-day.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One picture of the couch, the fridge, or the whole basement corner. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough appointment, no "call for pricing."
Same-day is usually open on the hill, and so are weekends. Tell us if the alley is tight, the garage is detached, or the basement stairs turn — it changes nothing about the price, only how we staff it.
A vetted, insured crew brings it up the basement steps and out to the truck, sorts donations and e-waste at the curb, and sweeps behind. You never stage anything.
Flat and photo-quoted. One or two pieces price per item; a basement, a garage, or a whole house prices as truck-fill, which is simply how much of the truck your stuff actually occupies. The carry, the drive, and the dump fee are already inside the number.
| Item / volume | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Washer | $179 |
| Dryer | $172 |
| Ten bagged / boxed loads | $178 |
| Truck-fill — 1/4 | $325 |
| Truck-fill — 1/2 | $580 |
| Truck-fill — 3/4 | $790 |
| Truck-fill — full | $985 |
$95 minimum. Loading, the basement stair-carry, and disposal are included. Clearing several things at once — the washer, the dryer, and the pile of boxes beside them — is cheaper as one truck-fill than as three separate item prices, so send one wide photo and we will quote it whichever way costs you less. Washington does not charge retail sales tax on this service; a 3.6% state refuse tax applies to the disposal portion and is shown in your total.
For outside context: cost trackers Homeyou and Yelp Costs put a typical Seattle junk removal job at roughly $253–$325, and local operators publish volume tiers in the same neighborhood — Junk Seattle lists about $89 for a small load, $149 for a quarter truck, $279 for a half and $449 for a full one. Those are third-party numbers, quoted here so you can sanity-check ours; the difference is that ours arrives before anyone drives to your house and includes bringing it up from the basement.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup | ~$30 per item | Your next garbage day | Appointment only, curbside only — you carry every item up and out to the street yourself |
| Self-haul to South Station | ~$35 min per trip (≤420 lb), ~$165/ton | A weekend of trips | You need a truck, a tarp, help loading, and several round trips for one basement |
| Donate it yourself | Free | Days | Only clean, resellable pieces, and you deliver them — most basement contents don't qualify |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$253–$325 typical job | 1–3 days | Priced by truck volume, usually confirmed only after a crew is standing in your driveway |
| JunkRabbit | From $95 · truck-fill $325–$985 | Same day | None — flat photo price, we carry it up the stairs, donation and E-Cycle routed |
Yes — narrowly, and it is not built for the job most people on Beacon Hill actually have. Seattle Public Utilities runs a special-items pickup for large things a garbage cart can't hold. It costs about $30 per item, it is by appointment only, it is curbside only, and it is collected on your next scheduled garbage day — the details live at seattle.gov/specialitems. For one couch on the parking strip, that is a genuinely good deal and we will tell you so.
The trouble is arithmetic and stairs. A Beacon Hill bungalow basement or a detached garage is not one item; it is a bed frame, a dryer, three bookcases, a rolled carpet, a defunct treadmill, and thirty boxes. At $30 apiece, with an item cap per appointment and a wait for each garbage day, a single basement becomes hundreds of dollars spread across weeks. And SPU will not come down your stairs for any of it — every piece has to already be at the curb, which is the entire hard part of the job on a hill where the basement door opens onto a slope and the garage sits at the back of the lot.
There is a second wall. Under Seattle Municipal Code 21.36, recyclables, food scraps, compostable paper, and yard waste are banned from the garbage, and a can with more than roughly 10% banned material can be tagged as a violation rather than emptied. A cleanout load is by definition mixed, so you cannot legally solve it by filling the bin over a few weeks either. It has to be sorted.
Which leaves self-haul. Your nearest gate is the SPU South Recycling & Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S, five minutes off the hill — published at roughly a $35 minimum per trip up to 420 lb and about $165 per ton beyond that. Cheap per pound, expensive in trucks, tarps, weekends, and a friend who owes you a favor. We do the same trip with a crew, a sorted load, and one number you knew before we arrived.
Beacon Hill loads are usually a mix of things that still have life and things that plainly don't, so we split them at the truck. Usable furniture, appliances, housewares, and clothing go to donation first — Evergreen Goodwill, the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK), and St. Vincent de Paul all take resellable goods across South Seattle, and we can ask for a receipt on your behalf. Televisions, monitors, laptops, and computers go to WA E-Cycle, which recycles them free statewide and where they belong anyway, since they are banned from the garbage. Metal is pulled for scrap; clean wood and yard waste are separated, which is both required by the ban and tipped at a lower rate than garbage.
That sorting is not decoration. Every pound diverted is a pound that never gets weighed at the disposal gate and never carries the 3.6% refuse tax, which is exactly why a hauler who sorts can quote a fair flat price and one who tips everything mixed cannot.
Beacon Hill's housing stock is its own access story. The ridge is single-family — 1920s–1950s bungalows and box houses, most with a full basement and many with a detached garage at the end of a long, narrow driveway or off a rear alley. Basement stairs here are typically steep, half-turn, and finish at a doorway too small for a box spring to make the corner cleanly. Front yards sit above the sidewalk on a retaining wall with a flight of concrete steps, so "just put it on the curb" means carrying it up out of the basement, through the house or around it, and then down to the street.
That is precisely the labor we are here to absorb. We work from wherever the item sits, take it apart if the stairwell demands it, protect the doorframes, and there is no stair, hill, or long-carry surcharge — the flat price you were quoted is the price. Many homes here are multigenerational, and a job is often being arranged by an adult child for a parent; tell us your preferred language, Spanish, Chinese, or Vietnamese, and we will do our best to match you. Either way the quote itself needs no translation — a photo goes out, a number in dollars comes back.
"Basement cleared, carried up and out, swept clean. Flat price from a photo, same-day. Didn't lift a thing."
"Rental turnover — hauled whatever was left and swept clean, same-day. Reliable."
"Old couch and a fridge gone in an afternoon. Photo, flat quote, easy. Will use again."
How much does it cost on Beacon Hill?
From a $95 minimum. Sofa $170, queen mattress $139, refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, ten bagged loads $178. Basement, garage, and whole-home clears price as truck-fill: 1/4 $325, 1/2 $580, 3/4 $790, full $985. Loading, stair-carry, and disposal included.
Will the city take it instead?
SPU's special-items pickup will, at about $30 per item, by appointment, curbside only, on your next garbage day (seattle.gov/specialitems). Fine for one couch you can already get to the street. Not an answer for a basement full of items, and never for anything still downstairs.
Can't I just fill the garbage bin over a few weeks?
Not legally with a mixed load. SMC 21.36 bans recyclables, food scraps, and yard waste from the garbage, and a can over roughly 10% banned material can be tagged instead of collected. Cleanout material has to be source-separated — we do that at the truck.
Do you carry it up from the basement?
Yes, every time, and there's no stair or carry surcharge. We also handle detached garages down a long driveway or off the alley.
Is this cheaper than a traditional hauler?
It's certain, which usually amounts to cheaper. Homeyou and Yelp Costs peg a typical Seattle job at about $253–$325 and local tiers run $89–$449 by volume; those crews quote on site. Ours is quoted from a photo, before anyone drives out.
What happens to what you take?
Donation first (Evergreen Goodwill, Salvation Army 1-800-SA-TRUCK, St. Vincent de Paul), free WA E-Cycle for TVs and computers, metal to scrap, and only the remainder to disposal.
Do you charge Seattle sales tax?
No. Washington does not apply the ~10.35% retail sales tax to this service. There is a 3.6% state refuse tax on the disposal portion, and it appears in your total rather than as a surprise.
Can you come today?
Usually. Beacon Hill is minutes from our South Seattle route, so same-day and next-morning windows — including weekends — are commonly available.
Flat and photo-quoted, starting at a $95 minimum. Single pieces: sofa $170, queen mattress $139, refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, ten bagged loads $178. A basement, garage, or whole-home clear prices as truck-fill — 1/4 truck $325, 1/2 $580, 3/4 $790, full $985. Loading, the stair-carry, and disposal are in the number. Washington does not charge retail sales tax on the service; a 3.6% state refuse tax applies to disposal and is shown in your total.
No. Seattle Municipal Code 21.36 bans recyclables, food scraps, and yard waste from the garbage, and a can that is more than about 10% banned material can be tagged as a violation instead of collected. A cleanout load is exactly the mixed material the ban targets, so it has to be source-separated. We sort at the truck — cardboard, metal, clean wood and yard waste, and e-waste all leave the garbage stream.
We carry them up. Beacon Hill bungalows almost all have basements, usually with narrow, steep stairs and a low doorway at the top. Our crew works from wherever the item sits — the basement, the back of a detached garage, an upstairs bedroom — and there is no stair or carry surcharge. It is in the flat price.
Anything usable is routed to donation first — Evergreen Goodwill, Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK), and St. Vincent de Paul all take resellable furniture and household goods, and we can request a receipt for you. TVs, monitors, laptops, and computers go to WA E-Cycle, which recycles them free statewide and keeps them out of the garbage where they are banned anyway. Metal is recycled. Only the true remainder is disposed.
It is more predictable, which on a cleanout usually means cheaper. Third-party cost trackers such as Homeyou and Yelp Costs put a typical Seattle junk removal job around $253 to $325, and local haulers publish volume tiers in the same range — Junk Seattle lists roughly $89 for a small load, $149 for a quarter truck, $279 for a half and $449 for a full one. Franchise crews quote on site after they see the pile. We give you the number from a photo before anyone drives out, and it already includes the carry-out and the dump fee.
Tell us your preferred language — Spanish, Chinese, or Vietnamese — when you send photos and we will do our best to match you with someone who can help. And the quote itself needs no translation: you send a picture, we send back one number in dollars.
Usually yes. Beacon Hill sits minutes from our South Seattle disposal route, so same-day and next-morning windows are commonly open — including weekends, which is when most basement and garage clears actually happen.