The treadmill went up the bonus-room stairs in a box, in pieces, with the delivery guys. Now it's assembled, it weighs 250 pounds, and it's been a coat rack since March. $155 flat gets it broken down, carried down those stairs, and hauled — same number whether it's on the second floor in North Raleigh or in a garage in Apex. Ellipticals $131, Peloton $108, a whole multi-station gym $192. Photo-quoted before anyone drives out, and nothing sits at your curb.
One photo of the machine and the way out — flat price in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One picture of the machine, one of the route out — the stairs, the landing turn, the garage door. That's enough for an exact flat number in seconds. No site visit, no "we'll quote when we get there."
Same-day and next-day slots are usually open from Raleigh out to Cary, Apex, Morrisville, Durham and Chapel Hill. A condo building downtown or at North Hills wants a certificate of insurance? We send one.
Two people, hex keys and sockets. The frame comes apart where the stairwell demands it, goes out through the garage, and the room is swept. You don't lift a plate.
Every machine has its own flat price, and the price is the whole job — the disassembly, the stair carry, the drive and the disposal are already inside it. You see the number from a photo before anyone leaves the yard, and it doesn't move when the crew sees the staircase.
| Machine | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Weight bench | $93 |
| Punching bag (heavy bag & stand) | $95 |
| Stationary bike / spin bike | $97 |
| Weight set (plates, bars, dumbbells) | $99 |
| Rowing machine | $102 |
| Peloton bike | $108 |
| Elliptical | $131 |
| Stair climber / step mill | $135 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Multi-station home gym | $192 |
Disassembly, stair carry, hauling and disposal included. $75 minimum order applies to any job — every machine above clears it on its own. Two or three pieces going together are priced together from one photo. North Carolina charges no sales tax on the service.
If the whole gym room is going. Treadmill plus rack, bench, a tower of plates, dumbbells, mats and the mirror off the wall usually prices better as truck fill than as ten separate items — we quote it both ways and charge you the lower one:
| Truck fill | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck | $295 |
| Three-eighths truck | $415 |
| Half truck | $525 |
| Five-eighths truck | $625 |
| Three-quarter truck | $720 |
| Seven-eighths truck | $810 |
| Full truck | $895 |
Worth comparing, because these numbers are published rather than quoted on arrival: Junk Doctors lists a $135 minimum and McJunk lists a $175 minimum, and both price by how much of the truck you fill rather than by the machine. A single treadmill is a small physical load with an outsized carry problem, so it routinely lands at or above those minimums once volume pricing is applied — McJunk's floor alone is $20 more than our treadmill price. Ours is $155 flat for the machine, carry included, agreed before anyone drives out.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load pickup | $35 | Scheduled | Curbside collection only — you still have to get 250 pounds of treadmill down the bonus-room stairs and out to the street yourself |
| City special / appliance item pickup | $70 | Scheduled | That tier is for white goods; a treadmill isn't an appliance, and it's curbside-only either way. Not offered at all in Cary, Apex, Holly Springs or Wake Forest |
| Sell it or list it free | Free | Weeks–never | Buyers for used cardio are scarce and the ones who reply want you to help load it; meanwhile it stays in the room |
| Traditional volume-priced hauler | $135–$175 minimum (Junk Doctors / McJunk published floors) | 1–3 days | Priced by truck fill, so one bulky machine often prices like a much bigger load — and the number is frequently confirmed on site |
| JunkRabbit | $155 flat | Same day / next day | None — photo-quoted, breakdown and stair carry included, metal scrapped and console routed to e-waste |
Effectively, no — a treadmill qualifies for nothing on the menu. Raleigh Solid Waste Services (919-996-3245) sells its trash customers two paid bulk options. The Bulky Load pickup is $35, a scheduled curbside collection for furniture-sized things. The special or appliance item pickup is $70, and that tier exists specifically because North Carolina bans white goods from landfills and they need separate handling. A treadmill isn't a white good, so the $70 tier isn't for it — and the $35 tier, like every other city program, is a curbside service. The truck comes to your street and takes what is sitting on your street.
That one word decides the whole thing. A mid-range treadmill is 200 to 300 pounds of steel frame, motor and deck, and in a Triangle house it is almost never at ground level. It's in the bonus room over the garage, which means one flight of stairs with a landing turn at the bottom, then a hallway, then the garage. Nobody moves that alone, and the city program's help begins only after you've already done the hard part. The $35 is cheap because it buys collection, not labor — and labor is the entire problem with a treadmill.
The suburbs are worse off still. Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Morrisville and Wake Forest are not on the City of Raleigh's program at all — different towns, different solid-waste rules — so the $35 figure people find on Google doesn't even apply to them. And in those HOA subdivisions, a scheduled pickup means the machine sits visibly at the curb until the truck eventually comes around, which is exactly what the covenants prohibit and exactly how violation letters get written. That's why our whole approach runs the other direction: we come inside, take it apart in the room it's in, and load at the garage door. Nothing of yours ever touches the curb.
Gym equipment is one of the better loads we handle, because most of it by weight is metal and metal has somewhere to go. Steel frames, weight plates, dumbbells, barbells and rack uprights are pulled and sent to scrap, and the Durham Waste Disposal & Recycling Center accepts metal and appliances free of charge — part of why we can quote a treadmill as one flat number instead of padding it against an unknown tip fee. On a power rack or a plate set, that's very nearly the whole item diverted.
The electronics come off separately. A treadmill console, an elliptical display and a Peloton screen are computers with handlebars, and North Carolina bans computers and televisions from landfill disposal outright — so consoles, drive motors and control boards get routed to an e-waste stream rather than buried. This is a routing job, not a dumping job, and doing it correctly is a legal requirement in this state, not a marketing line.
And if the thing still works, say so before we start unbolting it. A functioning Peloton, a good adjustable bench, a clean set of dumbbells — Habitat ReStore Triangle (ten stores across Wake, Durham, Orange and Johnston, with free large-item pickup) and Goodwill of Eastern NC, which is headquartered right here in Raleigh, will both take usable fitness gear. Donated is better than scrapped, and once we've cut the cables that option is gone.
Here's the thing that makes Triangle equipment removal its own specific job: houses here don't have basements. Wake County builds on crawl spaces and slabs, so the space a Chicago or Boston homeowner would fill with a treadmill doesn't exist. The home gym goes somewhere else instead, and it's almost always one of three places — the bonus room over the garage in the newer North Raleigh, Brier Creek, Apex and Wake Forest subdivisions; a spare bedroom that stopped being a guest room around 2021; or the garage bay itself, sharing space with the lawn mower.
Two of those three mean stairs. A bonus room is up a full flight, usually with a landing turn at the bottom that a fully assembled treadmill deck simply will not swing through — which is why the machine comes apart before it comes down. The console arms fold or unbolt, the deck separates from the motor housing, and the frame goes down in two or three carryable pieces. A power rack is the same story with wrenches: uprights, crossmembers, safeties, then plates carried in stacks. None of that is an upcharge here; it's how the job is done, so it's already in the flat price.
Older intown houses have their own version. In Five Points, Hayes Barton and Historic Oakwood, the gym is often in a converted attic room or a narrow upstairs bedroom with a tight original staircase and no room to pivot — careful, slow, and worth doing without gouging century-old plaster. Downtown, Glenwood South and North Hills condos flip the problem to elevators and loading docks: we book the freight window and send a COI if the building asks. And in the HOA suburbs, we back to the garage door and load there, so the equipment goes from your bonus room into our truck without a minute spent visible at the street.
"Treadmill had been in the bonus room since we moved in and I'd convinced myself it was structurally part of the house. Two guys, twenty minutes, down the stairs in pieces. Flat price from the photo I texted."
"Converting the gym into a nursery. Rack, bench, about 400 pounds of plates and the elliptical, all in one trip and priced as a load instead of piece by piece. Cheaper than I'd worked out on my own."
"Movers flat-out refused the treadmill two days before closing. These guys came the next morning, took it from the second floor, and never mentioned stairs once."
How much does it cost in Raleigh?
Flat, photo-quoted, per machine: treadmill $155, home gym $192, stair climber $135, elliptical $131, Peloton $108, rower $102, weight set $99, stationary bike $97, punching bag $95, weight bench $93. Disassembly and stair carry included, $75 minimum order, no NC sales tax. A whole gym room can price as truck fill instead, $295 to $895 — we quote both and charge the lower.
Will the City of Raleigh take a treadmill?
Not usefully. Bulky Load is $35 and the special/appliance item pickup is $70, but both are curbside collections — the machine has to already be at the street, which is the entire difficulty. Cary, Apex, Holly Springs and Wake Forest aren't on Raleigh's program at all, and HOA covenants there don't want it sitting out anyway.
Can you get it down from the bonus room?
Yes — that's the standard job. Homes here have no basements, so the gym is upstairs over the garage. We break the frame down where the landing turn demands it and carry it out in pieces. No per-flight charge.
Do I need to take it apart first?
No. Leave it assembled; our crews bring the hex keys and sockets. If you've already dismantled it, send a photo of the pile and we price it the same.
Where does it end up?
Steel frames, plates and dumbbells go to scrap — Durham's recycling center takes metal free. Consoles, screens and motors are electronics, and NC bans computers and TVs from landfills, so they're routed to e-waste. Working gear goes to Habitat ReStore Triangle or Goodwill of Eastern NC.
Is it cheaper than the other Triangle haulers?
For a single machine, usually. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum and McJunk a $175 minimum, and both price by truck fill — one bulky treadmill tends to land at or above those floors. Ours is a flat $155 with the carry included, known before dispatch.
Can you take the whole gym at once?
Yes, and it's often the better deal. Truck fill runs $295 / $415 / $525 / $625 / $720 / $810 / $895 — send one photo of the room and we'll quote it against the item prices and use whichever is lower.
Do you cover Cary, Apex and Durham?
Yes — Raleigh and inner Wake (Cary, Morrisville, Apex, Holly Springs, Garner, Wake Forest, Knightdale) plus Durham and Chapel Hill/Carrboro. Same flat pricing across the Triangle.