Remodel leftovers, demo debris, or new-build material — hauled off at one flat photo-quoted price. Mixed debris runs $162 a cubic yard, a whole load prices as truck-fill from $295 to $895, and tear-out fixtures are flat (toilet $86, vanity $93, cast-iron tub $249). We keep the HOA suburb site clean and the curb clear, so the job wraps without a fine. Disposal included, no NC sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →The Triangle is building fast, and the debris follows the growth map exactly. Holly Springs has roughly doubled since 2010 and is near 48,000 people; Wake Forest is up about 23%; Fuquay-Varina about 29%; Apex keeps stacking HOA subdivisions onto what used to be farmland. Those numbers translate directly into new construction, punch-list cleanups and the remodels that follow a few years behind. Meanwhile the older Inside-the-Beltline neighborhoods — Five Points, Hayes Barton, Historic Oakwood, Mordecai — generate the other half of our debris work: 1910s–1920s houses being reworked room by room, where the tear-out is plaster, heart-pine trim, cast-iron and a bathroom that hasn't changed since Eisenhower.
We haul off the debris that comes with all of it: drywall, lumber, flooring, old cabinetry, fixtures, tile, packaging, and demo waste. In the HOA neighborhoods we keep the job site and the curb clean so there's nothing to get flagged, and everything goes to the right facility — with NC's landfill bans on metal, appliances, and electronics handled by routing those to recycling.
One or two shots with something for scale — a door, a wheelbarrow, a crew member. That's enough to size it in cubic yards or as a truck fraction.
The number comes back in seconds and holds. Pick a slot that fits between trades — same-day is usually open across Wake County.
The crew loads by hand, pulls metal and reusable material out of the stream, sweeps the staging area, and leaves the driveway empty. No container left behind.
Debris prices two ways and we quote whichever suits the load. A measured tear-out pile prices by the cubic yard; a full haul-off prices as truck-fill. Single fixtures price flat.
| How it's measured | Price |
|---|---|
| Construction / renovation debris, per cubic yard | $162 |
| Loose debris pile — small | $110 |
| Loose debris pile — medium | $174 |
| Loose debris pile — large | $280 |
| Truck-fill 1/4 | $295 |
| Truck-fill 3/8 | $415 |
| Truck-fill 1/2 | $525 |
| Truck-fill 5/8 | $625 |
| Truck-fill 3/4 | $720 |
| Truck-fill 7/8 | $810 |
| Truck-fill — full | $895 |
Tear-out fixtures, flat: toilet $86, vanity $93, rolled carpet $92, fiberglass tub $121, cast-iron tub $249, radiator $99. Yard and land-clearing debris prices separately at $119 a cubic yard. $75 minimum on very small jobs. Loading, the drive, the sorting NC law requires, and disposal are all inside the number — and there's no NC sales tax on the service.
Third-party context: Triangle haulers price debris by truck fraction. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum, quarter truck $298, half $488, three-quarter $608, full $738 (junkdrs.com/pricing). McJunk publishes a $175 minimum, quarter $305, half $435, three-quarter $565, full $695, plus a $10–$50 trip charge and per-item surcharges. On the disposal side, South Wake Landfill tips municipal solid waste at about $37 a ton including the state's $2/ton excise — cheap, local disposal is the reason debris hauling in the Triangle prices below what it does in most metros.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 per household bulky load | Scheduled collection day | Not an option — the program is for household bulky items and does not accept construction or renovation debris at all |
| Roll-off dumpster rental | Rental priced by size and tonnage by the rental company; sales-taxable in NC as a lease of property | Delivered in 1–3 days, kept for the rental term | It occupies your driveway for the whole rental, HOAs regulate a visible container and street placement needs permission, you load every piece yourself, and going over the weight allowance adds tonnage fees |
| Self-haul to the landfill | ~$37/ton tip fee, plus a truck or trailer | Multiple trips over a weekend | You load, tarp, weigh and unload repeatedly — and appliances, metal, electronics, tires and pallets can't legally go in the load under NC's disposal bans |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | $135–$175 minimum, $695–$738 full truck (published Junk Doctors / McJunk rates) | 1–3 days | Volume estimated on arrival, trip charges on top, and a debris load is exactly where an on-site re-estimate hurts |
| JunkRabbit | $162/cu yd, or $295–$895 truck-fill | Same day, most days | None — photo-quoted first, we do the loading, sorted per NC bans, nothing left in the driveway |
Competitor, municipal, landfill and tax figures above are third-party facts, not our pricing. Our numbers are the per-yard and truck-fill prices in the table further up this page.
On most of our pages the municipal answer is "yes, but slowly." Here it's simply no. The City of Raleigh Bulky Load program run by Solid Waste Services (919-996-3245) collects a scheduled curbside load for $35, with special or appliance items at $70 and free electronics collection up to four items a week. It is a household bulky-item service — the couch, the mattress, the old washer. Construction and renovation debris is not part of it. Drywall, lumber, tile, subfloor, cabinetry, roofing and demolition waste fall outside the program no matter how tidily they're stacked, and a contractor-generated pile at a residential curb isn't what the collection truck is set up to take.
North Carolina adds a second layer that curbing can't satisfy: the state maintains landfill disposal bans covering appliances and white goods, televisions and computers, whole tires, used oil, lead-acid batteries, pallets and yard trash. A renovation pile is almost never one clean material — it's drywall and the old range and the shipping pallets the tile came on and the limbs from clearing the side yard. Legally that load has to be separated and routed, not tipped as one mass. Sorting is the actual work in debris hauling, and it's what you're buying.
Then the neighborhood layer. In Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest and Fuquay-Varina, the HOA covenants that govern nearly every new subdivision are written precisely to prevent building material sitting at a curb or a container parked in a driveway for a week. Inside the Beltline the constraint is different but just as real: Five Points, Hayes Barton and Historic Oakwood are tight streets with on-street parking and neighbors who notice, and a preservation-minded block does not enjoy a debris pile on the verge.
So the answer to "can I just put it out for the City?" is no, and the answer to "can I sort and route it myself?" is technically yes, with a truck, a trailer, a scrap run, a ReStore run and a Saturday. We do it in one visit at a price quoted from your photo. Confirm current City rules at raleighnc.gov before planning around them — municipal programs change.
Sorted, not dumped — that's not a green slogan here, it's the law and the economics. Metal comes out first: ductwork, copper and PVC-free pipe runs, rebar, cast-iron tub and radiator, appliance carcasses, aluminum trim. It goes to scrap, and Durham's transfer facility takes appliances and metal for recycling free, which keeps that stream out of the tipping bill entirely.
Reusable building material goes to Habitat for Humanity ReStore, which runs ten stores across the Triangle and is the single best outlet in this region for cabinet runs, solid doors, light fixtures, trim, unopened material and working plumbing fixtures. A kitchen tear-out where the cabinets are ten years old rather than forty is a ReStore donation, not a landfill load — and you can ask for a receipt.
Pallets and yard trash are landfill-banned in NC, so shipping pallets get routed to reuse or grinding, and any limbs or land-clearing material goes to a yard-waste facility rather than into the mixed load. What's genuinely left — broken drywall, tile rubble, contaminated carpet, torn insulation — goes to disposal at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill. It's a short haul and a cheap tip, and that's the reason we can price a cubic yard at $162 in this market.
New-build subdivisions (Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Fuquay-Varina, Clayton, Knightdale). Wide streets, soft graded shoulders and a builder's schedule. We stage on the driveway or the pad rather than the lawn, load by hand so nothing gets dragged across new sod or a fresh curb pour, and clear before inspections and walkthroughs. The covenants that make a dumpster awkward are a non-issue when the truck arrives, loads and leaves the same hour.
ITB renovations (Five Points, Hayes Barton, Historic Oakwood, Mordecai, Boylan Heights). Narrow 1920s streets, on-street loading, mature trees over the drive, and floors we're not willing to damage. Crews carry rather than drag, protect the path out, and keep the staging footprint small so the block isn't blocked. Plaster and lath, cast-iron and heart-pine trim are all familiar loads here — and the trim and fixtures worth saving get pulled aside for donation instead of smashed into the truck.
Garage, attic and crawl-space work. With no basements in North Carolina, a lot of remodel debris comes out of the attic over the garage or from under the house. We do that carry too, which is where a self-haul plan usually falls apart.
Contractors and remodelers. Flat photo quotes are easy to fold into a client invoice or a change order, and a same-day clear between trades keeps a schedule from slipping. Repeat crews book a standing window; tell us what your trade calendar looks like.
"Kitchen remodel in Apex — old cabinets, tile, and drywall. Hauled off in one truck, site and curb left clean. Flat price, no HOA letter."
"New build in Holly Springs left a pile of offcuts and packaging. Quoted from a photo, gone same day. Easy."
"Bath tear-out in a Five Points renovation. They worked around the old house and hauled everything to the right place. One flat number."
How much does construction debris removal cost in Raleigh?
$162 per cubic yard for mixed construction and renovation debris, or truck-fill: 1/4 $295, 3/8 $415, 1/2 $525, 5/8 $625, 3/4 $720, 7/8 $810, full $895. Loose piles are $110 / $174 / $280 by size. Fixtures are flat — toilet $86, vanity $93, rolled carpet $92, fiberglass tub $121, cast-iron tub $249, radiator $99. $75 minimum, disposal included, no NC sales tax on the service.
Will the City of Raleigh pick it up?
No — the $35 Bulky Load program (Solid Waste Services, 919-996-3245) is a household bulky-item service and doesn't accept construction or renovation debris at all. NC also bans pallets and yard trash from landfills, so a mixed reno pile has to be sorted and routed rather than curbed. Check raleighnc.gov for current rules.
Is this cheaper than a dumpster?
Often, and it's a different product. A roll-off is rented by size and tonnage, sits in the driveway for the rental term, needs permission if it's in the street, gets regulated by HOA covenants, and you load every piece. It's also sales-taxable in NC as a lease of property, where our hauling service isn't. We bring the labor and the driveway is empty the same day.
Can you work mid-project, between trades?
That's most of what we do — the demo pile cleared before drywall, the offcuts cleared before inspection, the punch-list load before the walkthrough. Same-day is usually open across Wake County.
What can't you take?
Asbestos, wet paint and solvents, and other regulated hazardous material — those need licensed abatement or Wake County's household hazardous waste route. Everything else in a normal reno pile rides. Send a photo and we'll tell you plainly.
Where does it end up?
Metal to scrap, reusable cabinets, doors and fixtures to Habitat ReStore's ten Triangle stores, pallets and yard trash routed away from disposal as NC requires, and the true remainder to South Wake Landfill at roughly $37 a ton.