The Amazon tech-tower district (98109) of condos and offices. We handle the high-rise COI and freight elevator, office cleanouts, and condo turnover, flat price from a photo. Desk $112, office chair $82, monitor $78, sofa $170; a whole floor or unit $325–$985, with a $95 minimum and monitors recycled free through WA E-Cycle.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →The room of desks, the corner of monitors, or the furnished unit you have to hand back. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no site visit, no "we'll estimate on arrival."
COI issued naming ownership and management, freight elevator reserved, dock window confirmed — including after-hours windows when the building restricts daytime freight.
Furniture to donation where it's resellable, monitors and desktops to free state E-Cycle recycling, metal scrapped. One invoice, the number you were quoted.
Flat by item for a handful of pieces, truck-fill once it's a room or a unit. The elevator reservation, the dock wait, the carry and the disposal are already in the number.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Monitor | $78 |
| Printer (small / desktop) | $78 |
| Filing cabinet (small) | $81 |
| Office chair | $82 |
| Desktop computer | $83 |
| Filing cabinet (large) | $101 |
| Peloton bike | $108 |
| Desk (standard) | $112 |
| Commercial copier | $131 |
| Desk (L-shaped) | $139 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Conference table | $201 |
A whole office floor, a lab suite or a furnished apartment prices as truck-fill: quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarters $790, full $985. A one-bedroom relocation unit usually lands quarter-to-half; a ten-desk startup office is typically half to full once the chairs, monitors and filing go in. $95 is the minimum for dispatching a truck and a two-person crew, so a single sub-$95 item bills at $95 — but almost nothing in SLU is a single item. Send one photo of the room and we price it as a set.
Third-party context: Homeyou and Yelp Costs put the average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. The difference here isn't the rate, it's the certainty — an office manager can put our number in a purchase order before anyone shows up, which a volume-estimated, on-site-quoted franchise can't offer.
On tax: Washington does not charge its ~10.35% Seattle retail sales tax on junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax (RCW 82.18) applies to the disposal portion and shows in your total.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch in a glass tower |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup | $30 per item | Your next garbage day | Curbside only, residential only — no curb in 98109, and it doesn't cover office furniture at all |
| E-Cycle drop-off yourself | Free | Multiple trips | Free is real, but sites take roughly 10 units per visit — a floor of monitors is several runs plus a vehicle |
| Liquidator / office resale | Sometimes pays | Weeks | Only wants the good Aerons and height-adjustable desks; you're left with the rest and the deadline |
| Traditional full-service franchise | Half truck ~$400–$600; full ~$700–$1,000 | 1–3 days | On-site estimate only — no firm number to give finance until the crew is already on the floor |
| JunkRabbit | Desk $112 · floor $325–$985 | Same or next day | None — photo price up front, COI filed, dock booked, e-waste E-Cycled |
The honest read: for two chairs and a monitor, the free routes win if you have a car and a Saturday. For a floor, a lab or a unit on a lease clock, the whole question is who books the dock and who is liable in the elevator.
Seattle Public Utilities does run a special-items pickup — $30 per item, by appointment, curbside only, landing on your next regular garbage day, with terms at seattle.gov/specialitems. In South Lake Union it is close to a non-answer, for two separate reasons.
First, there is no curb. 98109 is almost entirely 2010s–2020s glass towers — the neighborhood was rebuilt in a decade — and those buildings don't put anything on a sidewalk. Waste and freight both move through a reserved loading dock, reached by a freight elevator you have to book days in advance, after a Certificate of Insurance naming management (typically $1M general liability) is on file. A program that starts with "put it at the curb" has no route into the building at all.
Second, it's a residential program, and a great deal of what leaves an SLU tower is commercial — a startup's desks, a lab suite's casegoods, a team's monitors.
The e-waste piece is the one people get wrong. In Washington, monitors, laptops, desktops, tablets and TVs are banned from the garbage statewide, and E-Cycle Washington recycles them free under a manufacturer-funded program (ecyclewa.org). Free sounds like it solves itself — until you look at the volumes. Collection sites generally take on the order of ten units per visit, and a single floor of a tech office produces far more than ten monitors before you've counted a laptop or a docking station. The gap between "free program" and "sixty monitors and a Friday deadline" is exactly why the hauler you pick matters: we run the deliveries the program allows, keep the electronics out of the garbage where they're banned, and it never becomes a line item on your quote.
Good furniture is re-used first. A three-year-old height-adjustable desk or a barely-sat-in task chair has real second-hand value, so resellable pieces go to donation — Evergreen Goodwill, the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK) and Habitat for Humanity ReStore all take usable furniture and casegoods, and a receipt is available on request for the accounting file.
Electronics go to E-Cycle Washington, free and by law. Monitors, desktops, laptops and TVs are banned from Washington garbage, and the state program recycles them at no cost. Steel desk frames, filing cabinets and shelving are scrapped as metal; cardboard and clean wood are source-separated under Seattle's recyclables ban (SMC 21.36), which tags loads arriving more than 10% contaminated.
What's left is the only part that gets disposed of — and that's the part that costs. King County garbage tips at $243.38 a ton in 2026 and the state's 3.6% refuse tax is calculated on the disposal portion of the job, so every diverted monitor and donated desk shrinks both the tonnage and the tax base. Sorting properly isn't a green sticker here; it's how a flat quote stays flat.
Amazon's home campus is the neighborhood. SLU didn't grow into a tech district — it was built as one, block by block, around Amazon's headquarters, with Fred Hutch and UW Medicine anchoring a biotech corridor on the other side of it. The consequence for us is a specific, relentless rhythm: hiring, layoff and relocation cycles. Every one of those cycles moves furniture. A team arrives from another city into a furnished apartment; two years later the posting ends and the whole unit's contents are surplus. A startup takes half a floor, grows, shrinks, sublets, and the desks and monitors have to be gone before the lease reverts.
What that produces is a predictable inventory: standing desks, task chairs, monitors by the dozen, Pelotons and treadmills bought during a remote stretch, and the West Elm-grade furniture that came with a corporate housing package. It's mostly good stuff, which is why the donation and resale routing matters more here than anywhere else in Seattle.
The access story is Downtown's, with an after-hours twist. Every 98109 tower wants the COI before the freight elevator, the elevator reserved days in advance, and the dock window enforced to the minute. Many restrict freight moves to evenings or early mornings so the dock is clear during business hours — which suits an office that would rather the desks vanish before Monday standup. We book it, we work it, and the height of the floor doesn't change the price.
"Downsized the office a floor — cleared desks, chairs, and cubicles, filed the COI, booked the elevator. Flat price, clean."
"Condo tower turnover — couch and mattress out within our elevator window. Professional and fast."
"Old office furniture and e-waste recycled instead of dumped, which we loved. Fair flat quote."
How much does junk removal cost in South Lake Union?
Desk $112, L-shaped desk $139, office chair $82, monitor $78, desktop $83, small printer $78, filing cabinet $81–$101, commercial copier $131, conference table $201; sofa $170, queen mattress $139, Peloton $108, treadmill $155. A floor or a unit is truck-fill: $325 / $580 / $790 / $985. $95 minimum, carry-out and disposal included.
Will the city pick it up instead?
SPU's special-items pickup is $30 per item, curbside only, on your next garbage day (seattle.gov/specialitems). 98109 has no curb in play — the towers move everything through a reserved dock — and the program doesn't cover commercial office furniture.
Do you provide a COI for my tower?
Yes, same-day, naming ownership and management as additional insured — typically $1M general liability per occurrence. Send us the requirements at booking; it's included in the flat price.
Office furniture and e-waste in one trip?
Yes. Desks, chairs, filing and conference furniture plus monitors, desktops, laptops, printers and copiers in the same load, separated on the truck.
What happens to the monitors?
E-Cycle Washington, free — they're banned from the garbage statewide. Sites take roughly ten units per visit, so an office refresh means multiple compliant deliveries; that's on us, not on your quote. See ecyclewa.org.
Can you work after hours at the dock?
Yes — SLU buildings often restrict freight to evenings or early mornings, and offices usually prefer it. Same flat price.
How fast for a relocation?
Same-day when a slot and a dock window are both open; otherwise the first available window, usually next-day. Tell us the building with the photo and we'll be straight with you.
Is Washington sales tax added?
No — WA doesn't apply the ~10.35% Seattle retail sales rate to this service. The 3.6% state refuse tax (RCW 82.18) applies to disposal and appears in the total.
Not really. Seattle Public Utilities offers a special-items pickup at $30 per item, by appointment and curbside only, scheduled onto your next regular garbage day, per seattle.gov/specialitems. South Lake Union is almost entirely 2010s and 2020s glass towers, so there is no curb in play — the building routes everything through a reserved loading dock and a freight elevator, which is where we work. The program also does not cover commercial office waste at all.
Yes, and it is the most common SLU job we do. Desks, standing desks, task chairs, filing cabinets, conference tables, whiteboards, monitors, desktops, laptops, printers and copiers all go in the same load. Electronics are separated on the truck because Washington bans them from the garbage — they go to E-Cycle Washington, which recycles them free.
Yes, same-day. Every tower in 98109 requires a Certificate of Insurance on file naming ownership and property management as additional insured, typically $1 million in general liability per occurrence, before a vendor touches the freight elevator. Send us the management company's requirements at booking and the certificate goes over before the crew is dispatched, at no extra charge.
Computers, laptops, monitors, tablets and TVs are banned from the garbage in Washington and are recycled free under the manufacturer-funded E-Cycle Washington program, described at ecyclewa.org. The catch is that drop-off sites generally take around ten units per visit, and a single floor of a tech office produces far more than ten monitors alone. A hauler doing this properly is running multiple compliant deliveries, not sneaking a pallet of monitors onto a tipping floor — which is exactly why the compliant hauler matters here.
Yes. SLU buildings frequently restrict freight moves to evenings or early mornings so the dock stays clear during business hours, and offices often prefer the desks gone before staff arrive. We book the dock window with property management and work it, at the same flat price.
That is the SLU relocation pattern — a job change or a transfer, a furnished unit that has to be empty by a lease date, and a week to do it in. Send one photo of the unit, get a truck-fill quote back, and we book the elevator window. Same-day is often available if the building can give us the dock.
No. Washington does not apply its roughly 10.35% Seattle retail sales tax to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18 applies to the disposal portion of the job and appears in your total.