One of Raleigh's most beloved historic clusters — the 1910s–20s streetcar bungalows and Tudors inside the Beltline. Attic, estate and renovation loads $295 quarter-truck to $895 full, debris $162 a cubic yard, sofa $170. We work carefully around old houses and narrow streets, and nothing gets staged on the corner. Flat photo-quoted, no NC sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Five Points — the streetcar-era neighborhoods radiating out from the Five Points intersection — is one of the oldest continuously desirable addresses in Raleigh. The housing is 1910s and 1920s bungalows, Craftsman cottages and Tudor revivals, sitting on narrow tree-lined streets that were laid out for a trolley line rather than a moving truck. People stay here. That is the defining fact about the work: when a house has had two or three owners in a hundred years, the accumulation is generational, and it is all still in the building.
So two jobs dominate. The first is the renovation — these houses get remodeled constantly, and a 1920s kitchen or bathroom coming out produces plaster, lath, tile, cast iron and old cabinetry that nothing municipal will touch. The second is the estate or downsizing cleanout, when a longtime home changes hands and somebody has to decide what happens to an attic that has never been emptied.
Both jobs run into the same two constraints, and they are the reason this page exists. There is no basement — so everything is in the attic, the crawl space, the detached garage and the back porch, which are the four hardest places in a house to get large objects out of. And there is nowhere discreet to put it — a Five Points corner is a place people walk their dogs past twice a day, and a mounting pile in front of a beloved old house gets noticed immediately. We load from inside and leave with it in the same visit.
A few shots up the pull-down stair, or of the room and the debris stack. That prices the job — no estimator parked out front while the neighborhood wonders what is happening.
Same-day is usually open Inside the Beltline. Tell us about the street — one-way, no driveway, a contractor already parked — and we plan the truck around it.
Floors and doorways covered, donations separated as we go, the site swept, and the truck gone the same visit. No pile left on the verge.
Flat, photo-quoted, with the carry-out, the attic stair, the drive and the disposal already inside the number. Whole-space jobs price by truck volume; renovation debris prices by the cubic yard because it is dense and heavy; individual pieces price as themselves.
| Truck-fill (attic, estate, whole-house) | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck — one room or a small attic corner | $295 |
| 3/8 truck | $415 |
| Half truck — a typical attic clear-out | $525 |
| 5/8 truck | $625 |
| Three-quarter truck | $720 |
| 7/8 truck | $810 |
| Full truck — attic plus crawl space plus garage | $895 |
| Renovation debris & period-house single items | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Renovation / demolition debris | $162 per cubic yard |
| Yard & storm debris | $119 per cubic yard |
| Cast-iron bathtub / fiberglass tub | $249 / $121 |
| Toilet / bathroom vanity / cast-iron radiator | $86 / $93 / $99 |
| Rolled carpet | $92 |
| Sofa / dresser / wardrobe | $170 / $169 / $165 |
| China cabinet / curio cabinet / bookshelf | $215 / $128 / $97 |
| Upright piano / grand piano | $390 / $590 |
| Refrigerator / washer / dryer | $221 / $179 / $172 |
| Loose pile — small / medium / large | $110 / $174 / $280 |
$75 minimum on very small jobs. Carry-out, attic stairs and disposal included. Clearing the attic and hauling the remodel debris in the same visit? Send one photo set and it is quoted as one job. No NC sales tax on the service.
Third-party context so you can price-check us: Junk Doctors publishes a Triangle rate card of 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, full $695 — plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 per tire, $10 per CRT television and a $10–$50 trip charge. Those are volume estimates confirmed once a truck is already sitting on your street; ours is confirmed before it is dispatched.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 per load | Scheduled collection day | Available to you — but curbside-only, one scheduled load at a time, and you carry every piece down from the attic yourself |
| City of Raleigh special / appliance item | $70 | Scheduled | Per item, curbside, and it does not cover renovation debris or tires |
| Donate (Habitat ReStore / Goodwill) | Free | Days | Takes the good pieces only, on the charity's schedule — and getting a china cabinet down an attic stair is still your problem |
| Rent a dumpster for the reno | Rental + haul + tonnage | Days parked out front | A container on a narrow Five Points street eats the on-street parking your neighbors use, and you load it yourself |
| JunkRabbit | $295–$895 by load · $162/cu yd debris | Same day, most days | None — flat photo price, carried out of the attic, nothing left on the corner |
Municipal and competitor figures above are third-party published rates, not ours. Our prices are the flat numbers in the tables above.
Yes, and unlike the suburbs, you actually qualify. Five Points is squarely inside the City of Raleigh, so City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services serves you: a scheduled Bulky Load for $35, a special or appliance item for $70, and up to four electronics items a week at no charge, with tires excluded. The number is 919-996-3245, and current rules and your collection day are on raleighnc.gov. If what you have is one couch and a broken bookshelf, that program is the cheapest route in the market and we will tell you to use it — we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The wedge here is not eligibility. It is scale. A Bulky Load is one scheduled curbside collection. A 1920s attic is not one load — it is a hundred years of a family in a space reached through a pull-down stair, and it typically runs half a truck to a full one on our ladder. Clearing it through the city program means breaking it into multiple scheduled collections spread over weeks, and, crucially, you are the one carrying every trunk, every headboard, every box of records down that attic stair and out to the street. The city's truck comes to the curb. It does not come to the attic, and it never will.
And then there is the part everyone in Five Points understands immediately: visibility. This is a walking neighborhood built around an intersection people pass constantly, with houses that neighbors are genuinely attached to. A growing pile of a family's belongings sitting on the verge in front of a well-known bungalow, waiting for a collection day, is conspicuous in a way it simply is not in a subdivision. For a renovation it looks like chaos; for an estate it looks like grief on display. Discretion is a real service here, not a marketing word.
Renovation debris is excluded outright, which surprises people. No municipal bulky program treats remodel material as a household bulky item — cabinets, countertops, tile, plaster and lath, trim, flooring, porch decking and cast-iron fixtures are not furniture, and a residential collection truck is not the route for them anywhere in Wake County. On top of that, North Carolina's landfill disposal bans cover pallets and yard trash alongside appliances, televisions, computers and whole tires, so a mixed debris pile legally has to be sorted and routed rather than tipped as one load. We do that sorting inside the price: clean wood to grinding or reuse, metal and cast iron to scrap, and salvageable period material set aside rather than crushed.
An old Five Points house produces unusually good donation material — solid-wood furniture, real dishes, tools, books and building material that a 1990s house simply does not contain. So donation comes first. Habitat for Humanity ReStore runs ten stores across Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties and takes usable large furniture and building materials, which makes it the natural home for both a sideboard and a set of surplus cabinets, and Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina is headquartered right here in Raleigh. Ask and we will get you the donation paperwork for what a partner accepts — worth having if an estate is being settled.
Salvage matters in a neighborhood like this. Period doors, mantels, hardware, heart-pine trim and claw-foot tubs have real reuse value, and pulling them out of a debris pile before it is crushed is part of doing this job properly in a historic district rather than just fastest.
Then everything North Carolina will not let a landfill take: appliances and white goods, televisions and computers, whole tires, lead-acid batteries, used oil, yard trash and pallets are all banned from landfill disposal statewide. Cast-iron tubs and radiators go to scrap, the old TV goes to a certified e-waste processor, brush goes to mulch. Only the genuine remainder gets tipped, at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill — cheap local disposal is a real reason a full truck here is priced the way it is.
There is no basement, and the attic is the job. These houses were built on crawl spaces, so the storage a Midwestern house would keep downstairs is instead above your head, reached by a pull-down stair or a closet hatch cut for a person, not a chest of drawers. That stair is the slowest part of almost every Five Points job and the part people underestimate when they call. It does not change your quoted price — the ladder work is inside it.
The crawl space is the other half. Low, dusty, occasionally damp, and full of the things that got put down there once. We suit up and go in rather than asking you to drag it into daylight first.
The houses themselves need care. Original heart-pine floors, plaster walls that do not forgive a dropped corner, narrow doorways and a stair turn that was sized for 1922 furniture. We protect the route out — floor covering, door-jamb padding, corner protection — and take pieces apart in the room rather than forcing them through an opening. That is not an add-on; it is how you work in a house like this without leaving a mark.
The street sets the logistics. The streetcar grid here is narrow and tree-lined, driveways are short and often lead to a detached garage behind the house, and on-street parking is how the neighborhood functions. We park considerately, keep the travel lane and the sidewalk clear, shuttle to the truck rather than blocking anyone in, and do not leave a container sitting out front for a week. If a contractor already has the driveway, tell us and we will plan for on-street loading.
Discretion is part of the service. Unmarked bins for anything personal, donation separated inside rather than sorted on the lawn, and a crew that understands the difference between a remodel and a family clearing a parent's house.
"Estate cleanout for my dad's home in Five Points — full attic, decades of it. Discreet, donation-routed, fair flat price for a big job."
"Bath tear-out in our 1920s bungalow. They worked around the old house and hauled everything to the right place. One flat number."
How much is junk removal in Five Points?
Flat and photo-quoted: quarter truck $295, 3/8 $415, half $525, 5/8 $625, three-quarter $720, 7/8 $810, full $895. Renovation debris is $162 a cubic yard. Single pieces price on their own — sofa $170, dresser $169, china cabinet $215, upright piano $390, cast-iron tub $249, radiator $99. $75 minimum, carry-out and disposal included, no NC sales tax on the service.
Will the City of Raleigh pick it up here?
Yes — Five Points is inside the city, so Solid Waste Services collects a $35 Bulky Load, a $70 special or appliance item, and up to four electronics a week free, no tires (919-996-3245, raleighnc.gov). For one couch, use it. It just doesn't scale to an attic, it's curbside-only so you do all the carrying, and the pile is very visible while it waits.
Can you handle a historic-home renovation?
Yes — $162 a cubic yard for cabinets, tile, plaster and lath, trim, flooring, decking and cast-iron fixtures. We protect the route out, salvage period material, and sort the load because NC bans several materials from landfills. No municipal program takes construction debris at all.
Do these houses have basements?
Almost never — they're crawl-space builds. Everything is in the attic, the crawl space, the detached garage and the back porch, and the pull-down attic stair is usually the slowest part of the job. It's already in the price.
Can your truck get down our street?
Yes. We plan for narrow streetcar-grid streets, short driveways to detached garages and on-street parking — we park considerately, keep the lane and sidewalk clear, and shuttle rather than blocking neighbors in.
Where does it all go?
Donation first — Habitat ReStore (ten Triangle stores) and Goodwill of Eastern NC, headquartered in Raleigh — with receipts on request. Period doors, mantels and hardware are salvaged. TVs, computers, appliances and tires are banned from NC landfills and go to recycling. Only the remainder is tipped, at about $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill.
Is this cheaper than a traditional truck-fill company?
For one item, nearly always; for a whole attic, competitive rather than cheapest. Junk Doctors publishes $135 minimum to $738 full truck, and McJunk $175 to $695 plus mattress, tire and trip surcharges. What we sell is one photo-quoted number with no surcharges and no on-site revision.