Mid-century and Craftsman family homes in Wedgwood, Bryant and View Ridge (98115) — full basements, floored attics, detached garages, deep back yards. A basement or garage clears for a flat $325–$985 by truck-fill; a sofa is $170, a dresser $169, a fridge $221, and the minimum is $95. We carry it up and out. You don't lift a thing.
Snap a photo — flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Wedgwood, Bryant and View Ridge sit in the quiet northeast corner of the city, and locals describe the area the same way every time: suburban in the city. Wide streets, deep lots, mid-century boxes and Craftsman bungalows on the older blocks, a detached garage at the end of most driveways, and a real basement under nearly all of it. That combination is why a "cleanout" here means something different than it does in a Capitol Hill studio. It isn't one couch. It's a basement, an attic, a garage and a back fence line, accumulated by a family that has been in the house a very long time.
We clear all of it in one visit and one flat number: the basement carried up the stairs, the attic brought down, the garage emptied down the driveway, the yard pile loaded, and the space swept. You point at what goes. Nothing needs to be dragged to the curb first, sorted into categories first, or broken into per-item appointments — and the price you were quoted from a photo is the price at the end.
Stand at the bottom of the basement steps or in the garage doorway and photograph the whole space. A flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough appointment, no hourly meter, no "call for pricing."
Same-day is often open across NE Seattle. Tell us if the basement stair turns, if the garage is behind a gate, or if a car has to move off the driveway, and we size the crew accordingly.
The crew empties the space, sweeps it, and splits the load between donation, metal, clean wood and yard waste, e-waste and the genuine remainder. You watch from the top of the stairs.
Rooms price by truck-fill — how much of the truck your things actually occupy — and single pieces price flat. The stair-carry, the driveway walk and the disposal are already inside both numbers.
| Job / item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Truck-fill — 2/8 (quarter) | $325 |
| Truck-fill — 3/8 | $455 |
| Truck-fill — 4/8 (half) | $580 |
| Truck-fill — 5/8 | $690 |
| Truck-fill — 6/8 | $790 |
| Truck-fill — 7/8 | $890 |
| Truck-fill — 8/8 (full truck) | $985 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Lawn mower | $88 |
| Metal shelving unit | $95 |
| Contractor bags — 10 | $178 |
| Yard debris — per cubic yard | $119 |
| Loose pile — large | $280 |
$95 minimum on any job. Loading, stair-carry and disposal included. In practice a Wedgwood basement plus the detached garage usually lands between the 5/8 ($690) and 8/8 ($985) tiers; a garage on its own is typically 2/8–4/8 ($325–$580); a single bedroom's worth of old furniture is often just the flat per-piece prices above. A small WA refuse tax may apply on the disposal portion.
For outside context, Homeyou and Yelp Costs put the average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. See the full Seattle price guide →
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch on a full basement |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup | $30 per item | Your next garbage day, by appointment | Curbside only, per item — dozens of fees spread over weeks, and you carry every piece up and out yourself |
| Donation pickup (Goodwill, ReStore, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul) | Free | Days to weeks | Resellable pieces only, judged at the door; trucks collect from the ground floor, not from a basement |
| Self-haul to SPU North station (Wallingford) | ~$35 min/trip ≤420 lb · ~$165/ton | Same day, if you drive | Many trips across town, a truck you may not own, and the stairs at your end of every load |
| Rent a dumpster | Container + placement | Days parked on the street | You still fill it by hand, and it sits in front of the house for the neighbors to enjoy |
| JunkRabbit | $325–$985 truck-fill · $95 min | Often same day | None — flat photo price, we carry it up and out, sorted and donation-routed |
Municipal figures are the published Seattle Public Utilities rates (SPU's self-haul page is dated 4/1/2023 — confirm before you load). Ours are flat, photo-quoted, and include the labor.
Technically yes — and then the arithmetic ends the conversation. Seattle Public Utilities runs a special-items collection at a published $30 per item. It is by appointment, it is scheduled to your next regular garbage day rather than to your calendar, and it is curbside only. You book it at seattle.gov/specialitems.
Now inventory an actual 98115 house. A basement with a sofa bed, two dressers, a workbench, a bike, four bookcases, a chest freezer and thirty years of boxes. A detached garage with a mower, a wheelbarrow, three shelving units, paint-free lumber offcuts and the kids' old camping gear. That is not a special-items appointment. That is dozens of $30s, and because the program runs on garbage-day cadence with per-appointment item caps, clearing a house that way stretches across weeks. Worse, the program's design assumes you've already done the hard part: SPU's crew does not come down your basement stairs or into your garage. Every one of those pieces has to be carried up, walked down the driveway and staged at the street by you, then left sitting there until the truck arrives.
There's a second rule that catches people who decide to shortcut the whole thing into their regular bin. Under SMC 21.36 Seattle bans recyclables, food scraps, compostable paper and yard waste from the garbage, and a load more than roughly 10% contaminated earns a violation tag instead of a collection. A basement pile that includes flattened cardboard, glass, a bag of clippings from the back fence and some clean lumber is precisely the load that gets tagged.
Self-hauling is a legitimate option here — SPU's North Recycling & Disposal Station in Wallingford on N 34th St publishes roughly $35 minimum per trip (up to 420 lb) and about $165 per ton, though that page is dated 4/1/2023, so check before you load. The gate fee isn't the problem. The problem is that a Wedgwood basement plus a garage is never one trip, and you're the one carrying it up the stairs at the start of each of them.
Sorting is most of the work on a house like this, and it's also what keeps the price honest: King County tips garbage at a published $243.38 a ton while clean wood and yard waste run about $115, and electronics cost nothing at all. A sorted truck is the compliant one and the cheap one, so we do it on the tailgate instead of at the gate.
Access in Wedgwood is a different puzzle than downtown. There's no freight elevator, no COI, no dock window — instead there's a narrow interior basement staircase, often with a turn at the bottom, a low-headroom landing under the main floor, and sometimes an exterior back stair or bulkhead that's easier for a sofa than the inside route. We look for both before we start carrying.
The garages are the other Wedgwood specialty. Most are detached, at the back of a deep lot, down a single-width driveway — which means a long carry to the truck and, on the tighter blocks near View Ridge, a parking plan so we're not blocking the street. None of that is a surcharge. The flat truck-fill price already assumes real distance and real stairs, because on this stock there always are some. If the back gate is narrow or a car has to move, tell us in the photo message and we'll bring the crew size to match.
One more local reality: this is the Pacific Northwest, and a basement that has stored boxes for thirty years is damp at the bottom of the stack. Soft cardboard, mildewed paper, a dresser swollen shut, tools rusted to the pegboard — that's an ordinary NE Seattle load. You don't need to pre-sort it, dry it out or apologise for it.
"Basement and attic cleared, carried up and out, swept clean. Flat price from a photo. Didn't lift a thing."
"Old couch and a treadmill up from the basement. Fair flat quote, same-day. Easy."
"Cleared the house before listing — donation-routed, broom-clean, realtor-ready. Professional."
How much does it cost in Wedgwood?
Truck-fill for rooms: $325 (2/8), $455, $580 (half), $690, $790, $890, $985 (full). Flat per piece otherwise — sofa $170, dresser $169, fridge $221, mower $88, metal shelving $95, ten bags $178, yard debris $119/cubic yard, large loose pile $280. $95 minimum, carry-up and disposal included.
Will SPU take a basement's worth?
Not practically. Special items are $30 each, by appointment, on your next garbage day, curbside only — and the crew doesn't come down the stairs or into the garage. Details at seattle.gov/specialitems.
Do you carry it up and out of the detached garage?
Yes. Basement stairs, back stairs and the full length of the driveway are all in the flat price. No stair fee, no long-carry fee.
Can you do a downsizing or estate clear?
Yes — it's one of our most common 98115 jobs. Room by room, donation-routed, discreet, receipt on request.
Are damp or moldy basement boxes a problem?
No. Soft cardboard, mildewed paper, swollen dressers and rusted tools are normal here. No pre-sorting needed.
What about the recycling ban?
SMC 21.36 bans recyclables, food scraps, compostable paper and yard waste from the garbage; over ~10% contamination gets a violation tag. We source-separate, which is also cheaper — clean wood and yard waste tip near $115/ton against $243.38 for garbage.
Should I drive it to the Wallingford station myself?
You can — SPU North on N 34th St publishes about $35 minimum per trip up to 420 lb and roughly $165/ton (page dated 4/1/2023). But a basement plus a garage is many trips, and you carry every load up the stairs first.
Do you take yard debris and old sheds?
Yes — planters, fence panels, clippings and shed teardown. Clean wood and yard waste get separated from the garbage stream.
Is there sales tax on it?
Not the ~10.35% retail rate. A 3.6% state Refuse/Solid Waste Collection Tax (RCW 82.18) applies to the disposal portion and may appear on your receipt.
Not in any practical sense. Seattle Public Utilities collects special items at $30 per item, by appointment, scheduled to your next regular garbage day, and curbside only. A mid-century basement plus a detached garage is dozens of items, so that is dozens of $30 fees spread across weeks of garbage days — and you still have to carry every single piece up the stairs, out of the garage and down to the street yourself, because the SPU crew does not come inside. Booking details are at seattle.gov/specialitems.
Yes, that is the service. Wedgwood, Bryant and View Ridge homes usually pair a full basement with a detached garage at the back of a deep lot, so a crew works both ends — up the basement steps and down the driveway. There is no stair fee and no fee for the walk from the garage to the truck.
Yes, and it is one of the most common calls in 98115. These are long-tenure homes, so the job is usually a lifetime of storage rather than a move-out pile. We work room by room at whatever pace the family needs, keep usable furniture out of the landfill by routing it to donation, and provide a receipt on request for the tax records.
Under SMC 21.36 Seattle bans recyclables, food scraps, compostable paper and yard waste from the garbage, and a load more than roughly 10 percent contaminated gets a violation tag instead of a collection. A basement pile mixed with cardboard, bottles and a few bags of yard debris is exactly the load that gets tagged. We source-separate on the truck, which is both the compliant answer and the cheaper one, since clean wood and yard waste tip near $115 a ton against $243.38 for garbage.
SPU's North Recycling and Disposal Station in Wallingford on N 34th St is the nearest option, published at roughly $35 minimum per trip up to 420 lb and about $165 per ton — that page is dated 4/1/2023, so confirm before you load. The catch is that a basement plus a garage is never one trip. It is a pickup you may not own, several round trips across town, and you doing the carrying at both ends of every one of them.
Not the roughly 10.35 percent retail rate — it does not apply to this service. Washington instead charges a 3.6 percent state Refuse/Solid Waste Collection Tax (RCW 82.18) on the disposal portion, which may appear as a small line on your receipt.