The artsy early-1900s bungalow neighborhood just west of downtown — home of the Boylan Heights ArtWalk. Most of what we do here is one piece of furniture or a small renovation load, carried down the porch steps and loaded from a narrow street. Flat photo-quoted, from a $75 minimum, no NC sales tax on the service.
Snap a photo — flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Boylan Heights is small — a couple of dozen blocks of early-1900s bungalows and Craftsman cottages tucked between downtown Raleigh, the rail cut and Dorothea Dix Park, in a neighborhood that has been a Raleigh landmark since it was laid out as one of the city's first planned suburbs. It's the neighborhood artists claimed, the one whose porches turn into galleries for the annual ArtWalk, and the one whose skyline photo everybody has taken from the Boylan Avenue bridge.
What that history means for us is practical: small houses, small loads, tight streets. Nobody here is filling a truck with garage overflow, because these houses were built before attached garages existed. The Boylan Heights job is one bookshelf that won't survive another move, the loveseat that never fit the front room, the pile of lath and old cabinet doors left after a kitchen redo, a crawl-space clear-out before the house goes on the market. We're built for that: quote by the piece from a photo, come to the room, carry it down the porch steps, load from the street, and leave.
One picture of the chair, the bookshelf, or the pile in the back room. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "call for an estimate."
Same-day is usually open across the ITB neighborhoods. Tell us if the street is tight or a car has to move; we plan the approach before the truck rolls.
An insured crew takes it from the room, down the porch steps, and loads at the curb line. Usable pieces are donated. You lift nothing and drag nothing.
Everything here is priced by the piece, flat, from your photo — the carry-out, the drive and the disposal are already inside the number. Because Boylan Heights work is mostly single items, here is the whole small end of the ladder rather than a token sample:
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Folding chair | $62 |
| Stool | $69 |
| End table / side table | $70 |
| Dining chair | $75 |
| Ottoman | $76 |
| Nightstand / console table | $77 |
| Coffee table | $84 |
| Bed frame | $92 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Armchair / accent chair | $104 |
| Chest of drawers | $106 |
| Desk | $112 |
| Loveseat | $128 |
| Futon | $139 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| 10 bags or boxes of small stuff | $178 |
| Renovation debris, per cubic yard | $162 |
| Truck-fill — 1/4 | $295 |
| Truck-fill — 1/2 | $525 |
| Truck-fill — full | $895 |
About that $75 minimum — read this before you book one chair. Our order minimum is $75. That means a $70 end table on its own bills at $75, not $70, and a $69 stool on its own bills at $75 too. We would rather tell you that here than at the door. It's what it costs to route a truck and an insured crew onto a narrow Boylan Heights block for a single object. The way people here beat it is simple: look around first. A second chair, the bookshelf you keep meaning to deal with, and four bags out of the crawl space added to the same stop cost a fraction of what three separate visits would. One photo prices the whole thing together.
Disposal, carry-out and the drive are included. No NC sales tax on the service.
For a third-party benchmark: Triangle haulers publish their floors. Junk Doctors lists a $135 minimum, a quarter truck at $298 and a full truck at $738 (junkdrs.com/pricing), and McJunk publishes a $175 minimum up to $695 for a full truck, plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 per tire, $10 per CRT television and a $10 to $50 trip charge. Our $75 floor is the lowest of the three and carries no add-ons — but on a whole truck their published rates beat our $895, and we'd rather you know that than find out later.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | ~$35 | Scheduled collection day | Curbside only — you carry it out and it sits on a narrow street until the truck comes |
| Habitat ReStore / Goodwill donation | Free | Days, by appointment | Only if it's clean and resellable; ReStore's free pickup is scheduled, and they decline worn upholstery |
| Sell or give it away | Free | Days to weeks | Whoever answers rarely shows up with a truck; meanwhile it lives in your front room |
| Self-haul to South Wake Landfill | ~$37/ton tipped, plus your day | One Saturday | You need a truck, a helper, straps, and the muscle to get it off the porch first |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | $135–$175 minimum published | 1–3 days | Volume-priced with surcharges; a single chair still triggers the minimum |
| JunkRabbit | $75 minimum, flat by the piece | Usually same day | None — price fixed from a photo, we carry it out, donation-routed |
Boylan Heights sits inside the City of Raleigh in 27603, so unlike our Durham and Chapel Hill pages, the answer here is a real yes. City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services (919-996-3245) collects a scheduled Bulky Load for about $35, a special appliance pickup for about $70, and free electronics collection of up to four items a week (tires are excluded). Check raleighnc.gov for the current terms before you plan around them — municipal programs change.
For one chair, that $35 is genuinely cheaper than our $75 minimum, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. If you can wait for the collection day the City assigns and you can get the chair out to the curb yourself, take the City's deal. It's a good program, you already pay for it, and no honest local business should talk you out of it.
What the $35 does not buy is the part that is actually hard in this neighborhood. It is curbside-only: the crew takes what is already at the street. Getting a sleeper sofa out of a 1910s bungalow — down a hall built for 1910s furniture, through a doorway with a turn in it, and off a porch with steps — is entirely on you. It is scheduled, not same-day, which fails the two situations that generate most of our calls here: a closing date, and a contractor arriving Monday. And the thing then sits at the curb for however long the calendar takes, on a street where the curb is also the only place your neighbors can park and where the block's whole appeal is that it looks the way it did a hundred years ago.
So the split is clean. Light, portable, and you're patient → use the City. Heavy, upstairs, mid-renovation, or on a deadline → that's ours, and the number is fixed before we leave the yard.
What we can't take: wet paint, solvents, propane, and other household hazardous waste — those need Wake County's household hazardous waste route, and we'll tell you plainly from the photo.
Donation first, and in this neighborhood that matters more than usual — a lot of what leaves a Boylan Heights bungalow is solid, old, and worth keeping in circulation. Habitat for Humanity ReStore runs ten stores across the Triangle and takes usable large furniture; Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina is headquartered right here in Raleigh. A real wood bookshelf, a serviceable armchair, a dining set with life in it: that goes to a store, not a hole in the ground.
Then the sorting North Carolina requires. Televisions, monitors and computers are landfill-banned statewide, as are appliances and white goods, so those are routed to e-waste and scrap recycling. Metal from a bed frame or a shelving unit goes to scrap. Only the genuine remainder is disposed of, tipping at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill — which is the quiet reason our prices in the Triangle don't need to carry a big-city disposal premium.
Boylan Heights was platted before cars mattered, and it shows. The streets are narrow, several are effectively one lane once both sides are parked, and most of these houses have no driveway and no garage — which means on-street loading is the only option. We plan for that instead of discovering it: the crew scouts the approach, parks the truck to keep the lane open, and works quickly so nobody on the block is boxed in. If a car needs to move or a window works better than another, say so when you book.
Then the houses themselves. Bungalow front doors are narrower than modern ones, halls turn, and the front porch steps are the last obstacle for anything heavy. A sofa often comes out on its end or with the legs off; a bookshelf gets emptied and tipped; an oversized piece gets taken apart rather than forced. These are historic homes in a designated historic neighborhood, and the preservation sensibility is real — we pad door jambs, we don't drag anything across heart-pine floors, and we don't leave scuffs on a hundred-year-old porch column. No lawns are crossed, nothing gets staged on a neighbor's frontage, and the street looks untouched when we pull out.
"Just needed an old couch and a chair gone from our bungalow. Quick flat quote, carried it out, no fuss. Even on our skinny street."
"Small renovation cleanout. Photo, flat price, gone same day. No sales tax. Great for a tight historic block."
How much is junk removal in Boylan Heights?
By the piece: end table $70, dining chair $75, coffee table $84, bookshelf $97, armchair $104, chest of drawers $106, desk $112, loveseat $128, futon $139, dresser $169, sofa $170. Ten bags or boxes $178. Reno debris $162 a cubic yard. Truck-fill 1/4 $295, 1/2 $525, full $895. $75 minimum, disposal included, no NC sales tax.
Is one chair really $75?
Yes. The minimum order is $75, so a $70 end table alone still bills at $75. It's the cost of sending a truck and an insured crew down a narrow street for one object. Add a second piece or a few bags to the same stop and the trip pays for itself.
Should I just use Raleigh's $35 Bulky Load?
If you can wait for the City's collection day and you can carry it to the curb yourself — yes, and we'll say so. Boylan Heights is inside the City of Raleigh, so Solid Waste Services (919-996-3245) will take it. We win when it's heavy, upstairs, mid-renovation, or on a deadline.
Can you handle the narrow streets?
Yes. On-street loading is the norm here — no driveways, tight lanes. We scout the approach, park to keep the lane passable, and work fast so the block isn't blocked.
Do you carry it out or does it have to be at the curb?
We carry it out — from the back bedroom, the attic stair, the crawl space, the shed. Door jambs padded, nothing dragged across old floors.
Are you cheaper than Junk Doctors or McJunk?
On a small load, yes — $75 minimum against their published $135 and $175, with no mattress or trip surcharges. On a full truck, no: their published full-truck rates beat our $895.
What happens to it afterward?
Usable furniture goes to Habitat ReStore or Goodwill of Eastern NC. TVs, monitors and appliances are landfill-banned in NC and go to e-waste or scrap. The rest tips at about $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill.