The peninsula (98116, 98126, 98136, 98106) — Alki, Admiral, Delridge, Fauntleroy — beach bungalows and Craftsman homes with basements that hold decades. Local crews already on this side of the bridge, no crossing surcharge. Flat photo-quoted pricing from a $95 minimum: sofa $170, queen mattress $139, refrigerator $221, a whole basement at $325–$985 by truck-fill.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One picture of the basement, the garage, or the single piece that has to go. An exact flat number comes back in seconds — no estimator appointment, no "we'll price it on site."
Because we run several peninsula stops on one trip, same-day slots open up in West Seattle more often than the drive time would suggest. Beachfront condo needs a COI? We file it.
Down the basement stairs, up the bluff steps, out of the detached garage. Usable pieces to donation, e-waste to WA E-Cycle, the rest sorted and disposed.
Flat, photo-quoted, and fixed before we roll. One or two items price by the piece; a basement, garage or whole home prices by how much of the truck it fills — which is nearly always cheaper past a handful of items.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
Basement, garage or whole home — priced by truck-fill
| Volume | Flat price |
|---|---|
| 1/4 truck | $325 |
| 3/8 truck | $455 |
| 1/2 truck | $580 |
| 5/8 truck | $690 |
| 3/4 truck | $790 |
| 7/8 truck | $890 |
| Full truck | $985 |
$95 minimum. Loading, the stair-carry and disposal are included — and so is getting here. There is no bridge-crossing or travel surcharge anywhere on the peninsula. Clearing more than one thing? Send one photo of the whole pile and we price it as a load. Washington's 3.6% state refuse tax applies to the disposal portion and shows as its own line; there is no ~10.35% sales tax on the service.
Third-party context, not our pricing: cost aggregators Homeyou and Yelp Costs put the average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. The gap between quotes usually comes down to three things — whether the price is fixed before arrival, whether the crew carries it out of the basement, and whether travel to the peninsula is billed back to you.
| Option | Cost | Speed | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU special-items pickup | $30 per item | Next garbage day, by appointment | Curbside-only — every piece carried up from the basement and left on the street by you |
| Self-haul to SPU South Station (8105 5th Ave S) | ~$35 min/trip (≤420 lb), ~$165/ton | Same day, per trip | It's off-peninsula — you cross the bridge with a loaded truck, repeatedly, for a basement |
| Donation pickup | Free | Days to weeks | Clean resellable pieces only; the damp boxes and broken shelving stay |
| Traditional on-site-estimate hauler | Quoted at your door | Same/next day | You get a price only after a crew arrives — and some bill peninsula travel |
| JunkRabbit | $95 min · $325–$985 truck-fill | Same day | None — flat photo price, crews already here, we carry it up and out |
Yes, in the narrowest possible way. Seattle Public Utilities runs a special-items pickup at $30 per item — by appointment, curbside-only, and scheduled to your next regular garbage day (details at seattle.gov/specialitems). One mattress from a flat lot? Fine. A West Seattle basement? Not really: a basement's worth of furniture, storage shelving, a dead washer and a decade of boxes is dozens of $30 items spread across several garbage days, every one of which you personally carry up the basement stairs, down the front steps, and leave sitting on the street in the rain until the truck comes.
Self-hauling has its own peninsula-specific problem. SPU's nearest facility is the South Recycling & Disposal Station at 8105 5th Ave S — off the peninsula. Published rates run about $35 minimum per trip up to 420 lb and roughly $165 per ton, so a basement isn't one trip, it's several: load, cross the bridge with a full truck, queue, tip, come back, repeat. Add straps, because unsecured loads draw a fee. And under SMC 21.36, Seattle bans recyclables, food scraps, yard waste and compostable paper from the garbage, so a mixed basement-and-yard load has to be sorted before it goes over a scale.
That's the whole argument for us: one flat price quoted from a photo, a crew that's already on this side of the bridge, and every trip, sort and tip fee already inside the number.
Anything clean and resellable goes to donation first. Evergreen Goodwill and the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK) take usable furniture and household goods, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore takes cabinets, doors, fixtures and building materials — which matters on the remodel jobs, where a perfectly good kitchen often comes out intact. Ask and we'll get you a receipt. Electronics leave the load entirely: TVs, monitors, laptops and desktops are banned from Washington garbage and recycled free through WA E-Cycle. Metal — the old washer, the shelving, the rusted patio frame — goes to scrap, and refrigerators, freezers and AC units get certified refrigerant recovery first.
Only what's genuinely spent gets disposed of, and only that share carries the 3.6% Washington refuse tax. Diversion keeps material out of both the per-ton fee and the tax base, which is exactly how a flat price survives in a region where tipping is expensive.
West Seattle is not a neighborhood you drift into — it's a peninsula, reached by a bridge, and everyone living here has strong feelings about that. The West Seattle Bridge closed for 909 days between 2020 and 2022, and the years of detours through South Park and the low bridge are still fresh: for a while, "we'll send someone over" meant an hour each way. That's the honest reason we lead with the boring promise — we dispatch crews already working the peninsula, there's no crossing surcharge or travel fee, and because one route serves several stops here, a same-day slot is usually genuinely available rather than theoretically available.
The housing gives every job its own shape. Alki — the literal Birthplace of Seattle, where the Denny Party landed in 1851 — is beach bungalows and beachfront condos and apartments, where the work is downsizing a small cottage or emptying a unit with a shared elevator and a building that wants insurance paperwork. Admiral and the bluff streets are Craftsman and Dutch Colonial homes with full basements and long flights of front steps, plus view homes where an estate clear runs several rooms deep. Fauntleroy adds ferry-adjacent streets where you don't want a truck parked across a driveway for hours, and Delridge brings modest homes with detached garages down the slope. All of it is carry work, all of it is inside the flat price: no stair fee, no hill fee, no long-carry fee.
"Old water heater and a basement full of junk, carried up and out. Fair flat quote, no surprises."
"Basement and attic cleared before listing. Donation-routed, broom-clean, realtor-ready. Professional."
"Old couch and a fridge gone same-day. Photo, flat price, easy. Highly recommend."
How much does it cost here?
$95 minimum. Sofa $170, queen mattress $139, refrigerator $221. Basements, garages and whole homes go by truck-fill: 1/4 $325, 3/8 $455, 1/2 $580, 5/8 $690, 3/4 $790, 7/8 $890, full $985. Carry-out and disposal included.
Do you charge extra to cross the bridge?
No. Crews are dispatched from work already on the peninsula — no crossing surcharge, no travel fee, no zone pricing between Alki, Admiral, Delridge and Fauntleroy.
Will the city take it instead?
SPU's special-items pickup is $30 per item, by appointment, curbside-only, on your next garbage day (seattle.gov/specialitems) — and you do all the carrying. For a basement it's dozens of items over multiple weeks.
Is there a stair fee?
No. Basement stairs, bluff front steps and sloped driveways are the normal job here and they're in the flat price.
Can you clear the whole basement in one visit?
Usually — most run between a half truck ($580) and a full truck ($985). If it needs a second load we book it up front, not at the end.
Will you take damp, musty boxes and mildewed carpet?
Yes. Wet-climate basements and garages are routine. We sort recyclables and yard waste out as we load so the load stays compliant with SMC 21.36.
Is there sales tax on this?
No ~10.35% sales tax — Washington doesn't tax the service. A 3.6% state refuse tax applies to disposal and is shown separately; diverted material never enters that base.
No. We dispatch crews already working the peninsula, so there is no crossing surcharge, no travel fee and no zone pricing between Alki, Admiral, Delridge and Fauntleroy. The West Seattle Bridge closure of 2020 to 2022 lasted 909 days and taught everyone here what it costs to depend on off-peninsula vendors. Route density is also why we can usually add a same-day stop: one trip serves several West Seattle jobs.
Seattle Public Utilities runs a special-items pickup at $30 per item, but it is by appointment, curbside-only, and scheduled to your next regular garbage day (seattle.gov/specialitems). For one item on a flat lot that can work. For a West Seattle basement full of furniture it means dozens of $30 items across multiple garbage days, every piece hauled up the basement stairs and down the front steps by you, and left on the street in the rain until a truck comes.
No. Stair-carries are the normal West Seattle job — basement stairs in a Craftsman, a long flight of front steps on a bluff lot, a detached garage down a slope — and they are inside the flat price. We do the lifting from wherever the item sits.
Usually yes. A packed basement generally lands between a half truck at $580 and a full truck at $985, done in one crew visit with everything carried up the stairs. If it needs more than one load we book the second truck up front instead of surprising you at the end.
Yes. This is a wet climate and a lot of West Seattle basements and garages hold decades of damp cardboard, mildewed boxes, mossy patio furniture and water-stained storage. We load it, sort recyclables and yard waste out as we go so the load stays compliant with Seattle's SMC 21.36 rules, and dispose of the rest properly.
Donation first — Evergreen Goodwill, the Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK) and Habitat for Humanity ReStore all take resellable furniture, housewares and building materials, and we can bring you a receipt. TVs, monitors and computers are banned from Washington garbage and go free to WA E-Cycle. Metal is recycled and refrigerators get certified refrigerant recovery.