One of Raleigh's oldest and most rooted communities, and one of its fastest-changing. Sofa $170, refrigerator $221, a loose pile $110–$280, whole loads $295 quarter-truck to $895 full. We come inside and carry it out — same day when you need it — quoted flat from a photo, donation-routed, with no NC sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Southeast Raleigh is a historically Black community with deep roots and a lot of continuity — families who have held the same address for forty and fifty years, churches that anchor whole blocks, and some of the most affordable housing left inside the city limits. It is also changing fast, with new buyers and new construction arriving on streets that have looked much the same for a generation. Both of those facts are true at once, and they produce the two calls we get from 27610.
The first is a family. A parent has died or moved into care, and the house they raised everyone in has to be emptied — closets, the attic, the crawl space, the shed out back, the carport, the china nobody has room for and the furniture that has been in the front room since 1978. It is not really a hauling job. It is a week nobody wanted to have, with a deadline attached to it, and what the family needs is a crew that shows up on time, works quietly, does not make them lift anything, does not pass judgment on the state of a room, and puts the usable half in front of a charity instead of in a landfill.
The second is an owner turning a property. A landlord with a unit that has to show Monday, an investor who just closed on a house, a family cleaning up a rental they inherited. Different clock, different paperwork, same physical work: clear it, sweep it, get a number that can be dropped into a scope without a surprise on the invoice.
We do both, and we try to do them without confusing the two. A neighborhood is not inventory. The house at the center of the first call is somebody's family home whether or not it is about to be sold, and that is how our crews are told to treat it.
One shot from each doorway, plus the shed and the crawl-space door. That's enough to price a whole house — no estimator parked out front, no appointment to get a number.
You get the whole number up front, plus an honest day count. If a $35 city Bulky Load would do the job instead, we'll tell you that first.
Nothing goes to the curb to wait. Usable furniture, appliances and housewares go to ReStore and Goodwill; appliances and e-waste to recycling as NC requires.
Flat, quoted from photographs, with the carry-out, the drive and the disposal already inside the number. A house prices by truck volume; single pieces price on their own.
| By volume — house clears & turnovers | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck — one room, or a first pass | $295 |
| 3/8 truck | $415 |
| Half truck — a shed, a garage, or a small unit | $525 |
| 5/8 truck | $625 |
| Three-quarter truck | $720 |
| 7/8 truck | $810 |
| Full truck | $895 |
| Whole-house clear (multiple loads) | Quoted from photos as one total |
| Loose pile — small / medium / large | $110 / $174 / $280 |
| Yard & storm debris | $119 per cubic yard |
| Single pieces | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / loveseat / recliner | $170 / $128 / $132 |
| Sectional — 2-piece / 3-piece / 4-piece | $190 / $249 / $307 |
| Queen mattress / king / box spring / set | $139 / $154 / $124 / $192 |
| Standard dresser / large dresser / chest of drawers | $169 / $199 / $106 |
| Bed frame / headboard / bunk bed | $92 / $77 / $165 |
| Refrigerator / large refrigerator / chest freezer | $221 / $246 / $196 |
| Washer / dryer / washer-dryer combo | $179 / $172 / $225 |
| Gas range / electric range / water heater | $176 / $172 / $176 |
| TV small / medium / large | $84 / $91 / $98 |
| Lawn mower / grill / set of tires | $88 / $95 / $117 |
| Bagged household goods — 10 bags / 15 / 20 | $178 / $264 / $348 |
$75 minimum on small jobs. Carry-out from anywhere in the house, the shed, the crawl space or the yard is included — there is no stair fee and no "we didn't know it was upstairs" adjustment. 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 crew is at the door; ours is confirmed from photographs before anyone is dispatched.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 per scheduled load | Days, on the city's calendar | Genuinely cheap — but curbside-only and scheduled. You get it out of the house and to the street yourself, and it sits there until the truck comes |
| City special / appliance item | $70 each | Scheduled | Covers a fridge or water heater at the curb; no tires; still nobody carries it out for you |
| Donation pickup (Habitat ReStore) | Free | Days, on their schedule | Free large-item pickup, but only for clean, resellable pieces — it won't clear a shed, an attic or a crawl space |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | ~$135–$738 published Triangle rates | 1–3 days | Estimated by volume and normally confirmed only once the crew is standing in the front room |
| JunkRabbit | $295–$895 per load · house quoted as one total | Same day, usually | None — flat photo price, we come inside and carry, donation-routed with receipts |
Municipal and competitor figures above are published third-party rates, not ours. Our prices are the flat numbers in the tables above. These options combine well — the city for a single sofa, us for the house.
Yes, and this is one of the few pages where we tell you to consider the city first. Southeast Raleigh is inside the city limits, so City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services will collect a scheduled Bulky Load for $35, a special or appliance item — a refrigerator, a water heater, a range — for $70, and up to four electronics items a week at no charge; tires are excluded. Call 919-996-3245 or look up your collection day at raleighnc.gov. Plenty of junk-removal pages bury this because $35 undercuts them. If you have one sofa, no deadline, and someone who can get it to the street, that program is the right answer and we would rather you use it than pay us $170.
What you're paying us for is not a lower price. It's the two things the city program structurally cannot do.
It does not come inside. The city collects what is already sitting at the street. Getting a fifty-year-old sleeper sofa out of a back bedroom, a chest freezer up out of a crawl space, or twenty years of a shed onto the verge is entirely on you — and for the person most likely to be reading this, an executor in their sixties clearing their mother's house, or a widow who cannot lift a dresser, that is the whole job. It's the half nobody can do alone, and it's the half our flat price covers.
And it does not come today. Bulky Load is scheduled. When probate has a date, a closing is Friday, a unit has to show Monday, or the family only has this weekend together to get it done, "sometime next collection cycle" is not a plan. Same-day and next-morning are normally open here.
Scale is the third limit. A whole house is not a bulky load — it's several full trucks. Run through the city program, that becomes many separate scheduled collections with the contents of a family's home stacked at the curb on a residential street in between. Nobody in this neighborhood wants that display of a parent's belongings out front for a week, and it is exactly what our crews are there to prevent.
Donation first, and we mean it as more than a line. A house held for fifty years is full of usable furniture, tools, linens and housewares. Habitat for Humanity ReStore runs ten stores across Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties and offers free large-item pickup, and Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina is headquartered in Raleigh with stores throughout the Triangle. For a family, that's the difference between "we threw away Mama's things" and "somebody's using them." Ask for the receipt and we'll get it to you — for an estate being settled, a documented donation trail is worth having.
One honest boundary: we're haulers, not appraisers. We don't value anything and we don't want to be the reason a family finds out too late that something mattered. If there's any chance a piece has value, have an appraiser or estate-sale firm through before we start.
Everything North Carolina bans from landfill disposal is routed rather than tipped — appliances and white goods to scrap metal, televisions and computers to certified e-waste recycling, whole tires and yard trash to their own streams. Only the genuine remainder goes to disposal, at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill. It's all inside the flat price.
There are no basements here, and that changes where the work is. North Carolina builds on crawl space and slab. So the fifty years of storage that would be in a basement anywhere else is instead spread across a floored or half-floored attic, a crawl space nobody has properly looked at since the Reagan administration, a backyard shed, and a carport or detached garage. On a whole-house clear, the crawl space and the shed are reliably the last and slowest parts, and both are already in the quoted number.
The housing stock is older and more varied than the rest of the city — modest mid-century ranches, older frame houses, some brick, a growing amount of infill. That means narrower interior doorways, tighter hallway turns, porch steps that were never built for a chest freezer, and the occasional room that was added onto without a wide way in. We disassemble in the room rather than forcing something through an opening, pad the route, and protect the porch boards on the way out.
Parking and access are usually straightforward — on-street or a driveway — which is one of the reasons we can be quick here. If the house is on a narrow street or the driveway's already got a contractor in it, tell us at booking and we plan the approach instead of finding out on arrival.
Se habla español. Quotes and scheduling can be handled in Spanish by photo and text, and our Spanish furniture page is at Retiro de Muebles en Raleigh — mismos precios fijos, mismo servicio.
"Cleared my aunt's home — respectful crew, donation-routed, fair flat price. They made a hard time easier."
"Rental turnover — whole unit cleared the same day, easy flat quote to bill back. No sales tax. Will use again."
How much does it cost?
Flat and photo-quoted: quarter truck $295, half $525, full $895, with a whole house quoted as one total. Single pieces price on their own — sofa $170, queen mattress $139, dresser $169, refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, large TV $98. A loose pile is $110 to $280. $75 minimum, carry-out and disposal included, no NC sales tax.
Won't the city do it for $35?
Possibly, and if so you should let it — Bulky Load $35, special or appliance item $70, four electronics a week free, no tires (919-996-3245, raleighnc.gov). It's curbside and scheduled, so it can't come inside and can't come today. Those two things are what we're for.
Can you clear a whole house?
Yes — several loads quoted as one total, worked at the family's pace and splittable across visits. Attic, crawl space, shed and carport included.
Do you do rental and foreclosure turnovers?
Yes — whole units cleared and swept, flat quote that drops into a scope of work, same-day windows available. If something looks left behind rather than abandoned, we stop and ask.
Do these houses have basements?
Almost never — crawl space and slab construction. The volume is in the attic, the crawl space, the shed and the carport, and the crawl space is usually the slowest part.
¿Hablan español?
Sí — cotizamos por foto y texto en español. Sofá $170, seccional de 3 piezas $249, colchón queen $139, refrigerador $221. Más en Retiro de Muebles en Raleigh.
Where does everything end up?
Donation first — Habitat ReStore (ten Triangle stores, free large-item pickup) and Goodwill of Eastern NC, receipts on request. Appliances to scrap metal and electronics to certified e-waste recycling, since North Carolina bans both from landfills. The remainder is disposed at about $37 a ton.
Is it cheaper than a traditional truck-fill company?
For one item, usually. For a full house, competitive rather than cheapest, and we won't pretend otherwise — Junk Doctors publishes $135 minimum to $738 a full truck, McJunk $175 to $695 plus mattress, tire, TV and trip surcharges. Ours is one number from photos with the carry-out included.