Junk Removal Sammamish
Junk Removal in
Sammamish
The plateau (98074, 98075): large master-planned homes, three- and four-car garages, bonus rooms and daylight basements that quietly fill up. Flat photo-quoted price from $100 — sofa $126, hot tub $390, quarter truck $241 through full truck $732. Sammamish is King County, not Seattle, so there's no $30-per-item city pickup out here — and your HOA won't let you stage it at the curb anyway. We load from the home.
How it works on the plateau
1 · Send photos
The garage bay, the basement corner, the pile in the bonus room — or just the one item. An exact flat price comes back in seconds. Texting the photos works if that's easier than calling.
2 · Pick a window
Same-day is usually open across the Eastside at no extra charge. If your association wants a vendor check-in or a certificate of insurance, tell us the community and we handle it before we arrive.
3 · We load it from the home
Crew carries it out of the garage, up from the daylight basement, down from the bonus room, straight into the truck. Nothing is ever staged at the curb for a neighbour or the HOA to look at.
The Sammamish home, cleared
Sammamish is big family homes on the plateau — three- and four-car garages, bonus rooms and daylight basements that fill up over a decade of kids, hobbies and Costco runs, and the relocation churn of a tech-heavy population moving on employer timelines between here, Redmond, Bellevue and, often, abroad. Households on the plateau are wealthy, time-poor and largely international; this is one of the most heavily Indian and Chinese communities in the state, and a large share of the jobs we run out here are tied to a move-in, a move-out or a family member arriving. Those calls tend to come with a deadline attached, which is why a price you can get from a photo at 10pm beats booking someone to come and look at your garage next week.
What we clear, in practice:
- Garage clears — the third and fourth bay that hasn't held a car in years: shelving, bikes, paint, camping gear, flat-pack furniture that never made it inside.
- Daylight basement & bonus-room clear-outs — carried up and out, priced as truck-fill.
- Relocation and whole-home clears — everything the movers or the shipping container leave behind, cleared before the walkthrough.
- Furniture & appliances — one sofa or the whole formal living room nobody uses; fridges and freezers with proper freon handling.
- The big outdoor stuff — hot tubs cut apart and carried out, pool tables dismantled, swing sets and trampolines taken down once the kids outgrow them.
- Downsizing and estate clears — discreet, donation-routed, receipts on request.
- Storage units — the 10x15 in Issaquah or Redmond you've been paying for since the last move.
How much does junk removal cost in Sammamish?
Flat, photo-quoted, with loading and disposal included. Single items price per item; garages, basements and whole-home jobs price as truck-fill, which is almost always the better number once there's more than a few pieces.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Minimum (any job) | $100 |
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| King mattress | $114 |
| Trampoline | $116 |
| Sofa / couch | $126 |
| Home gym | $241 |
| Swing set / play structure | $143 |
| Refrigerator | $164 |
| Refrigerator (large) | $183 |
| Sectional — 4-piece | $228 |
| Hot tub / spa | $390 |
| Hot tub / spa — 6-8 person | $501 |
| Pool table | $603 |
Volume jobs — the garage, the basement, the whole house before a move — price on the truck-fill ladder instead:
| Truck fill | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck (2/8) | $241 |
| 3/8 truck | $338 |
| Half truck (4/8) | $431 |
| 5/8 truck | $513 |
| Three-quarter truck (6/8) | $587 |
| 7/8 truck | $661 |
| Full truck (8/8) | $732 |
| 10x15 storage unit, cleared | $880 |
The $100 minimum is the floor for sending a truck and a crew out to the plateau; every item on the list above clears it. Sending more than one thing? Photograph them together and we'll price the set — a mattress plus the bed frame plus the dresser is usually better as one job than three.
Third-party context. Cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle-area junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325, across a range of about $170–$433. That's the market our quarter truck at $241 sits in — with the difference that you have our number before anyone is dispatched, not after a crew is parked on your driveway.
On tax. Washington does not apply its retail sales tax (~10.35% locally) to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax (RCW 82.18) applies to the disposal portion of the job. Small, real, correctly named — we don't claim "no tax."
4 ways to get rid of bulky junk in Sammamish
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle's $30-per-item bulky pickup | — | — | Not available here. SPU's special-items program serves Seattle city limits only; Sammamish is King County |
| Self-haul to a King County station | $40.25 min/load (≤320 lb) · $243.38/ton · +$25 unsecured · mattress $30 each · refrigerant appliance $30/unit | An afternoon per trip | Factoria or Houghton, in your own truck, strapped down — and the sofa still has to get out of the basement first |
| Donation pickup | Free | Days to weeks | Resellable condition only, booked in advance — great for the good furniture, no help with the garage |
| Traditional full-service franchise | ~$130–$400 single item (third-party estimate) | 1–3 days | On-site estimate only — no firm number until a crew is in your driveway |
| JunkRabbit | From $100 · quarter truck $241 · full $732 | Same day, usually | None — flat photo price, loaded from the home, nothing staged at the curb |
Does Sammamish pick up bulky items? (No — and here's what actually applies)
This is the single most common misunderstanding on the plateau, because Seattle's program is the one that shows up in every search result. Seattle Public Utilities runs a special-items bulky pickup at $30 per item, by appointment, curbside only (seattle.gov/specialitems) — and it is only for addresses inside Seattle city limits. Sammamish is not one of them. There is no $30-per-item city couch pickup out here, and no amount of calling will produce one.
What governs Sammamish is King County Solid Waste, and the county's model is self-haul: you bring the material to a transfer station and pay at the scale. The 2026 rates are $40.25 minimum per load (up to 320 lb), $243.38 per ton beyond that, and a $25 unsecured-load fee if it isn't properly strapped. Special items are extra on top: mattresses and box springs $30 each, limit six per day, and refrigerant appliances — fridges, freezers, air conditioners — $30 per unit, which also require EPA-certified freon recovery rather than just being dumped. Your nearest stations are Factoria in Bellevue and Houghton in Kirkland.
Now here's the part that actually decides it for most plateau households. Sammamish is master-planned, and the covenants run against you. HOA rules across the plateau's communities commonly restrict curbside staging of furniture and debris and require vendors to check in at the gate or the office. So read the county option again with that in mind: it assumes you can put a sofa, a mattress and a garage's worth of boxes out front while you make three trips to Factoria in a borrowed pickup. At a great many Sammamish addresses, that curb isn't legally available to you, and a bulky item sitting on it will get tagged before the second trip.
That's the whole case for how we work: we load from the home. Out of the garage, up the daylight-basement stairs, down from the bonus room, directly into the truck. Nothing is staged, nothing sits out front overnight, and nothing arrives on a neighbour's photo in the community group. The county's scale-house fees, the mattress and appliance surcharges and the freon handling are all already inside our flat number.
What happens to it after we load it
Donation first, where it's genuinely resellable. Evergreen Goodwill, the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK), Habitat for Humanity ReStore and St. Vincent de Paul all take usable furniture and household goods across King County, and several will collect from the home themselves if you have the lead time. We'll route the good pieces there and provide a receipt for tax purposes on request, which matters on a downsizing or estate job.
Electronics go to WA E-Cycle. TVs, monitors, laptops and computers are banned from Washington garbage and recycled free statewide under the manufacturer-funded program — so the old bonus-room TV and the stack of monitors cost nothing to divert.
The rest gets sorted rather than tipped whole. Yard waste and clean wood — the dismantled play structure, the deck offcuts, the garden clear-out — tip at roughly $115 a ton against $243.38 a ton for mixed garbage, so separating them is both required by the region's contamination rules and materially cheaper. Metal goes to scrap. And because Washington's 3.6% refuse tax is calculated on the disposal portion of a job, everything diverted sits outside that tax base too. Sorting, compliance and your flat price all point the same direction — which is exactly why we can quote a garage from a photograph and hold the number.
Plateau access: garages, daylight basements, decks and gates
The garage. Three and four bays, deep shelving down both walls, and a decade of accumulation stacked to the ceiling. This is the classic Sammamish truck-fill job, and it's usually a half to a full truck — $431 to $732 — rather than an item list.
The daylight basement and the bonus room. Plateau homes have the storage that Sun Belt houses don't, which means furniture goes down when it stops being wanted and has to come back up years later. Carrying a sectional or a pool table up a flight is included; there's no stair fee in our pricing anywhere in this market.
The deck and the back yard. Big lots collect big objects: the hot tub inset into the deck surround that hasn't been heated since 2023, the pool table in the bonus room, the swing set the kids outgrew, the trampoline the rain has been working on. Rain-country damp finishes all of them off eventually. A hot tub is $390, cut into carryable sections and taken out through the deck gap or the side gate (a hard-wired 240V tub needs a licensed electrician to disconnect it first — the homeowner arranges that, and we'd rather say so than imply we do electrical work).
The gate and the vendor check-in. Tell us the community when you book. If the association wants a vendor sign-in, a window, or a certificate of insurance on file, we sort it before the truck rolls, and the quote doesn't change.
When Sammamish calls us
- The large-home declutter. Ten years in the same house, four bays and a basement full, one weekend to get it back.
- Downsizing. Kids gone, house too big, the formal furniture and the play structure both going at once.
- Relocation — including overseas. The container takes what matters; we clear what's left before the walkthrough. Tech-employer timelines don't wait for a Saturday at Factoria.
- Remodel season. The hot tub or the pool table has to be out before the deck or the basement gets rebuilt.
- Play-structure teardown. Swing set $143, trampoline $116 — dismantled and gone the same day, usually while the kids are at school.
- Estate clears. Discreet, unhurried, donation-routed, with receipts for the executor.
- The storage unit you're done paying for. A 10x15 clears at $880 — often less than another year of rent on it.
Why the plateau chooses JunkRabbit
- Flat price from a photo — quoted before we dispatch, at whatever hour you're actually looking at the garage. No on-site estimate.
- HOA-smart — we load from the home, so nothing is staged at the curb, and we handle vendor check-in where a community requires it.
- No stair fee — daylight-basement and bonus-room carries are inside the price, not added to it.
- Built for a deadline — same-day is usually open, and relocation clears can be booked from photos over text.
- Donation-first with receipts — Goodwill, Salvation Army, ReStore, St. Vincent de Paul; E-Cycle for electronics; wood, yard waste and metal separated.
- Honest on tax — no WA retail sales tax on the service, the 3.6% refuse tax on disposal, named correctly.
What Sammamish customers say
"Cleared the garage and basement before the move — donation-routed, flat truck-fill price. Carried it all up and out. Easy."
"Whole home gym and a basement of stuff gone same-day. Fair flat quote, no surprises."
"Old furniture and a fridge out of the garage. Photo, flat price, easy. Highly recommend."
Sammamish questions, answered
How much is junk removal in Sammamish?
$100 minimum. Sofa $126, queen mattress $103, king $114, large refrigerator $183, 4-piece sectional $228, home gym $143, swing set $143, trampoline $116, hot tub $390, pool table $603. Truck-fill: quarter $241, half $431, three-quarter $587, full $732; a 10x15 storage unit $880. Loading and disposal included.
Does the city pick up bulky items here?
No. Seattle's $30-per-item special-items pickup is Seattle city limits only — Sammamish is King County, which is self-haul: $40.25 minimum load, $243.38/ton, +$25 unsecured, mattresses $30 each, refrigerant appliances $30/unit with EPA-certified freon recovery. Nearest stations: Factoria (Bellevue) and Houghton (Kirkland).
My HOA won't let me stage anything at the curb.
Exactly why we exist out here — even the county option assumes a curb you're not allowed to use. We load from the home, so nothing sits out front, and we'll do vendor check-in if your community requires it.
Can you clear a whole home before a relocation?
Yes — one of our most common plateau jobs, priced as truck-fill from photos, donation-routed, on a mover's timeline. Text the photos if that's easier than a call.
Hot tub, pool table, swing set?
Hot tub $390 (cut apart and carried out; have a hard-wired 240V unit disconnected by an electrician first), pool table $603 dismantled, swing set $143, trampoline $116.
Where does it all go?
Donation first (Goodwill, Salvation Army, Habitat ReStore, St. Vincent de Paul, receipts on request), electronics to free WA E-Cycle, yard waste and clean wood separated (~$115/ton vs $243.38 for garbage), metal to scrap.
Is there sales tax?
Not on the service — WA's ~10.35% retail sales tax doesn't apply to junk removal. The 3.6% state refuse tax (RCW 82.18) applies to disposal.
How does it compare to a franchise?
Third-party guides put an average Seattle-area job at ~$253–$325 and franchise single items at ~$130–$400 with on-site estimates only. We're not the cheapest on the Eastside — we're the one that gives you the number first.
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Frequently asked questions
Does the city pick up bulky items in Sammamish?
No — and this is the point most Sammamish residents get wrong. Seattle Public Utilities' $30-per-item special-items pickup applies inside Seattle city limits only. Sammamish is King County Solid Waste territory, and the county does not run a per-item curbside bulky collection for you. What it offers is self-haul: 2026 rates are $40.25 minimum per load up to 320 lb, $243.38 per ton beyond that, plus $25 if your load is not properly secured. The nearest stations are Factoria in Bellevue and Houghton in Kirkland. Mattresses and box springs are $30 each with a limit of six per day, and refrigerant appliances such as fridges, freezers and air conditioners are $30 per unit and require EPA-certified freon recovery.
My HOA won't let me put anything at the curb. Is that a problem?
It is the reason to call us rather than a problem for us. Sammamish is master-planned, and the covenants across the plateau's associations commonly restrict curbside staging of furniture and debris and require vendors to check in. Notice what that means: even the county self-haul option quietly assumes a curb you are not allowed to use. We load from the home — out of the garage, up from the daylight basement, down from the bonus room — straight into the truck. Nothing ever sits out front, so nothing gets tagged.
Can you handle a whole-home clear before an international relocation?
Yes, and it is one of our most common plateau jobs. Sammamish households move on tech-employer timelines, sometimes overseas, often with a shipping container taking the keepers and everything else needing to disappear before the walkthrough. We clear whatever the movers leave behind — furniture, mattresses, the garage shelving, the play structure in the back yard — as one truck-fill price quoted from photos, with donation routing and receipts on request. Text us the photos if that is easier than calling; most relocation jobs are booked that way.
Do you take hot tubs, pool tables and swing sets?
Yes — these are plateau specialities, because large lots and big decks collect them. A hot tub is $390 flat: we cut the shell into carryable sections and take it out of the deck surround or the side gate (a hard-wired 240V tub should be disconnected by a licensed electrician first, which the homeowner arranges). A pool table is $603, dismantled and carried out of the bonus room or basement. A swing set or play structure is $143 and a trampoline $116, taken down and hauled once the kids have outgrown them.
What happens to everything after you take it?
Donation first where the item is genuinely resellable — Evergreen Goodwill, the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK), Habitat for Humanity ReStore and St. Vincent de Paul all take usable furniture and household goods across King County, and we can provide a receipt for tax purposes. Electronics go to WA E-Cycle, which recycles TVs, monitors, laptops and computers free statewide. Yard waste and clean wood are separated because they tip at roughly $115 a ton against $243.38 for garbage, and metal goes to scrap. That sorting is both required by the region's contamination rules and cheaper — which is exactly how we hold a flat price we quoted from a photo.
Is there sales tax on junk removal in Sammamish?
Not on the service. Washington does not apply its retail sales tax, roughly 10.35% locally, to junk removal. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18 does apply, on the disposal portion of the job. It is small, it is real, and we would rather name it correctly than tell you there is no tax at all.
How does the price compare to a franchise?
Third-party cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle-area junk-removal job at roughly $253 to $325, across a range of about $170 to $433 — and published third-party figures for the national franchises run about $130 to $400 for a single item with on-site estimates only. Our quarter truck is $241 and a full truck is $732, both known from a photo before anyone is dispatched. We are not the cheapest hauler on the Eastside and do not claim to be; we are the one that gives you the number first.
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