From the Downtown and South Lake Union towers to the Craftsman basements of Ballard and Fremont to the Eastside tech estates of Bellevue and Redmond — flat photo-quoted pricing from a $95 minimum, sofas at $170, whole basements at $325–$985 by truck-fill. Vetted local crews who know the basement-and-attic haul and the steep no-elevator walk-ups. We carry it up from the basement or down the hill so you don't have to.
Snap a photo of what needs to go — price back in seconds, no walkthrough
Upload Photos & Get Quote →One picture of the couch, the appliance, or the whole basement. An exact flat number comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "we'll quote it on site."
Same-day is usually open across Seattle and the Eastside. If your building wants a COI naming management or a booked freight elevator, tell us and we set it up.
The crew goes to the room the stuff is in — basement, attic, third floor, the far end of a Lake Union dock — carries it out, sweeps up, and hauls it. Usable pieces get donated.
Seattle isn't the Sun Belt — the classic Craftsman and box homes have basements and attics, and that's where decades of stuff piles up. Clearing the basement (or the attic, or both) is one of the most common jobs we do, and we carry it up and out — you don't touch it. Then there are the hills: Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, First Hill, and Magnolia are full of no-elevator third-floor units, so we haul furniture and mattresses down the stairs and out at no stair fee. Downtown, Belltown, and South Lake Union add a high-rise COI + freight-elevator belt; the Lake Union floating homes have their own dock-and-gangway access; and across the water the Eastside tech suburbs — Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish — bring estate and relocation clears.
We price the same way across all of it: send a photo, get a flat number that already covers the labor, the truck, the dump fees, and the drive. No "call for a quote," no hourly meter, no day-of upcharge. Same-day pickup is usually available. (A small WA refuse/solid-waste tax may apply at checkout on the disposal portion — see the tax note below.)
Two shapes of price. Single items have a set flat rate. Big jobs — a full basement, an estate, a garage — price by how much of the truck they fill. Both are quoted from your photo before anyone leaves the yard, and the labor, the stair-carry, the drive, and the disposal are already inside the number.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Loveseat | $128 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $249 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| King mattress | $154 |
| Box spring | $124 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Washer | $179 |
| Dryer | $172 |
| TV (small / medium / large) | $84 / $91 / $98 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Hot tub | $434 |
| Upright piano | $390 |
| How full | Flat price |
|---|---|
| 2/8 truck | $325 |
| 3/8 truck | $455 |
| 4/8 truck (half) | $580 |
| 5/8 truck | $690 |
| 6/8 truck | $790 |
| 7/8 truck | $890 |
| 8/8 truck (full) | $985 |
$95 minimum — that's the floor on any job, so a single small item still books at $95. Got more than one thing? Send one photo of the pile and we price the whole set together rather than stacking single-item rates; two or three big pieces usually land near a 2/8 or 3/8 truck-fill instead. Disposal and carry-out are included, and the price is fixed before the truck rolls.
For outside context: Homeyou and Yelp Costs put the average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325, with a broad range of about $170–$433. Local rules of thumb run around $150–$250 for a quarter truck, $300–$450 for a half, and $450–$700+ for a full load. Our ladder sits inside that band — the difference is that you see the number before anyone shows up.
See the full Seattle price guide → — every item and truck-load price, what actually drives the cost here, and how the WA refuse tax works.
| Option | Cost | Speed | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup (city limits) | $30 per item | Your next garbage day | By appointment, curbside only — you get it out to the street yourself |
| King County transfer station (Eastside) | $40.25 min load, $243.38/ton | Same day, if you drive | Your truck, your muscle, plus $25 if the load isn't secured |
| Donate (Goodwill, Salvation Army, ReStore) | Free | Days to weeks | Resellable condition only; no used mattresses; pickup slots book out |
| 1-800-GOT-JUNK / College HUNKS | ~$400–$1,000 (third-party) | 1–3 days | Volume-priced and quoted on site only — you learn the number when they're standing there |
| JunkRabbit | $170 sofa · $325–$985 truck-fill · $95 min | Same day | None — flat photo price, we carry it out, donation-routed |
Franchise figures are the companies' own published ranges, not ours: 1-800-GOT-JUNK quotes on site only, with a half truck commonly cited at $400–$600 and a full truck $700–$1,000; College HUNKS cites $600–$800+ for a full load. Municipal fees are the published 2026 King County and Seattle Public Utilities rates.
This is the thing almost every Seattle guide gets wrong, so here it is once, properly: Puget Sound has two different waste authorities, and which one applies depends on which side of the city line you're standing on.
Inside Seattle city limits — Seattle Public Utilities (SPU). SPU runs a "special items" collection for garbage customers at $30 per item. You request it, it's by appointment, it is curbside only, and it is scheduled to your next regular garbage day — not today, not tomorrow. Details and booking live at seattle.gov/specialitems. If you'd rather drive it yourself, SPU has two stations: the North Recycling & Disposal Station in Wallingford on N 34th St and the South Recycling & Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S, with a published minimum of roughly $35 per trip (up to 420 lb) and about $165 per ton. Fair warning: SPU's published rate page is dated 4/1/2023, so confirm the gate rate before you load up.
Everywhere else — King County Solid Waste Division. Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Issaquah, Renton, Newcastle, and Mercer Island are not SPU. King County's 2026 published rates are $40.25 minimum per load (up to 320 lb), $243.38 per ton for garbage, roughly $18 minimum / $115 per ton for yard waste and clean wood, and an extra $25 if your load isn't tarped and secured. Stations: Factoria (Bellevue), Houghton (Kirkland), Shoreline, Bow Lake (Tukwila), Renton, Enumclaw, and Vashon. Special-item fees apply on top: $30 each for a mattress or box spring (limit six per day) and $30 per unit for refrigerant appliances — fridges, freezers, and AC units, which legally require EPA-certified freon recovery before they can be scrapped.
Two more Seattle rules worth knowing before you fill a garbage can. Under SMC 21.36, Seattle bans recyclables, food scraps, compostable paper, and yard waste from the garbage — a load more than about 10% contaminated gets a violation tag rather than a collection. And Washington bans TVs, monitors, and computers from the trash entirely; the state's E-Cycle program recycles them free statewide, which is where every screen we pick up goes.
The gap in all of it is the same: no municipal program comes inside your home. Not SPU, not King County. Nobody carries a sleeper sofa up the basement stairs, down a Capitol Hill walk-up, or along a floating-home dock. That carry is the entire job — and it's the part we do.
We can't take hazardous materials — paint, solvents, chemicals, propane tanks, asbestos. Ask and we'll point you to the right King County or Seattle household-hazardous-waste drop-off.
Diversion isn't decoration here — in King County it's the difference between a $243.38-per-ton garbage load and a $115-per-ton clean-wood or yard-waste load, and it keeps material out of the 3.6% refuse-tax base too. So the sorting is genuinely in everyone's interest, and it happens on every job.
Basements. Start here, because it's the lane the Sun Belt markets can't claim. Ballard, Wallingford, Ravenna, and Wedgwood are wall-to-wall pre-war Craftsman and box homes with full basements, and after thirty rainy years those basements hold furniture, boxes that have gone soft, tools, and a treadmill nobody has touched since 2014. We clear them from the bottom of the stairs up.
Hills and walk-ups. Queen Anne Ave N's Counterbalance is roughly an 18–19% grade, and the city has more than 100 public stairways. Capitol Hill and First Hill are dense with 1900s no-elevator walk-ups. Every one of those carries is in the flat price: no stair fee, no hill fee, whatever the grade or the flight count.
Towers. Downtown, Belltown, South Lake Union, First Hill, and downtown Bellevue buildings want a Certificate of Insurance naming building management, typically at $1M general liability, and the freight elevator reserved days in advance with a dock window. We carry the insurance and file the COI, and we book the elevator rather than showing up and being turned away at the desk.
Floating homes. There are about 507 floating homes on roughly 70 docks around Lake Union — Eastlake, Westlake, Northlake, Portage Bay. No vehicle reaches the door; everything is hand-carried down the shared dock to the street. It's slow, careful work and a niche no franchise bothers to market.
West Seattle. We keep crews working the peninsula, because anyone who lived through the 909-day West Seattle Bridge closure from 2020 to 2022 knows exactly what "we'll come over when we can" is worth.
"Cleared out a Ballard basement that had 20 years of stuff in it — old furniture, boxes, a workbench. They carried it all up the stairs, flat price from a photo, gone same-day. Didn't lift a thing."
"Downsizing my mom's house on Mercer Island — discreet, careful with the good furniture, donated most of it. One fair flat price, realtor-ready. Highly recommend."
"Third-floor Capitol Hill walk-up, no elevator. They carried the couch and mattress down and out same-day. Flat price, no stair fee. Lifesaver."
How much does junk removal cost in Seattle?
Flat and photo-quoted: sofa $170, loveseat $128, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, king $154, box spring $124, fridge $221, washer $179, dryer $172, TVs $84–$98, treadmill $155, upright piano $390, hot tub $434. Bigger clears go by truck-fill from $325 (2/8) to $985 (8/8). $95 minimum, disposal included. Third-party sources put the average Seattle job around $253–$325.
Does Seattle pick up bulky items?
Inside city limits, SPU takes "special items" at $30 each, by appointment, curbside only, on your next garbage day (seattle.gov/specialitems). Outside city limits it's King County Solid Waste — a self-haul transfer-station system, not a pickup service. Neither comes inside.
Why is the Seattle minimum $95 and not $75?
Disposal here is genuinely expensive: King County charges $40.25 minimum per load and $243.38 per ton in 2026, plus $25 for an unsecured load; SPU's stations publish about $35 minimum and $165 per ton. The $95 floor covers that honestly.
Do you carry it up from the basement?
Yes — that's the most common Seattle job there is. Basements, attics, garages, third-floor walk-ups. No stair fee and no hill fee, whatever the grade.
Is there sales tax on junk removal in Washington?
Not the ~10.35% retail rate — that applies to goods, not this service. Washington charges a 3.6% state Refuse/Solid Waste Collection Tax (RCW 82.18) on the disposal portion, which may show as a line on your receipt.
Can I throw away a TV in Washington?
No. TVs, monitors, and computers are banned from Washington garbage. The state's E-Cycle program recycles them free, and that's where ours go.
Do you cover the Eastside?
Yes — Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Issaquah, Mercer Island, Newcastle, Renton, Bothell, and Woodinville, plus all of Seattle proper.
Do you do floating homes?
Yes. About 507 floating homes on roughly 70 Lake Union docks, hand-carried down the dock to the truck. Tell us the dock and slip when you book.
Serving the City of Seattle and the King County Eastside. Tacoma/Pierce and Everett/Snohomish coming in a later phase.
Because Puget Sound disposal is genuinely expensive. King County Solid Waste charges $40.25 minimum per load (up to 320 lb) and $243.38 per ton for garbage in 2026, plus a $25 fee for an unsecured load. Seattle Public Utilities' own stations publish roughly a $35 minimum per trip (up to 420 lb) and about $165 per ton. The $95 minimum covers the trip and that disposal floor honestly, rather than quoting low and adding it at the door.
Yes — unlike the no-basement Sun Belt, Seattle's Craftsman and box homes have basements and attics where decades of stuff piles up. We carry it up and out; you don't move a thing. That is the single biggest difference between us and any curbside program.
Yes — Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, First Hill, and Magnolia are full of no-elevator walk-ups, and Queen Anne Ave N's Counterbalance runs roughly an 18 to 19 percent grade with more than 100 public stairways around it. We carry furniture and mattresses down the stairs and out at no extra charge — no stair fee, no hill fee.
Yes. There are about 507 floating homes on roughly 70 docks around Lake Union — Eastlake, Westlake, Northlake, and Portage Bay — and no truck reaches the door. We hand-carry items down the dock to the street, which is exactly the kind of access no franchise markets for.