Lease ending, team gone remote, or the suite downsizing from forty desks to twelve — the Triangle's office churn leaves a lot of furniture behind, and your landlord wants the space empty before the walkthrough. Desks are $112, task chairs $82, and a whole suite runs on flat truck-fill rates from $295 to $895. We work after hours, hand the building a COI, and route the e-waste to recycling because North Carolina says we have to. $75 minimum. No NC sales tax on the service.
Photos of the floor — flat price back fast
Upload Photos & Get Quote →Walk the suite with your phone — one wide shot per room, plus the storage closet and the IT corner. That's enough to price it: per item for a partial clear, truck-fill for the whole floor. No walkthrough appointment required to get a number.
Tell us the freight-elevator rules, the dock reservation and whether management wants a COI. We schedule to the building, not to ourselves — most Triangle office jobs run after 6pm or on a Saturday.
Furniture out, cubicles broken down, monitors and towers separated for recycling, usable desks and chairs offered to donation, and the suite left broom-clean for the landlord's walkthrough.
Two ways to price it, and we use whichever is cheaper for you. A dozen pieces going out of one department prices per item. A whole suite prices by how much of the truck it fills — that's almost always the better number once you're past twenty or thirty pieces.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Desk (standard) | $112 |
| Desk (L-shaped / executive) | $139 |
| Task / office chair | $82 |
| Filing cabinet (2-drawer) | $81 |
| Filing cabinet (4-drawer / lateral) | $101 |
| Storage cabinet | $99 |
| Metal shelving unit | $95 |
| Conference table | $201 |
| Commercial copier | $131 |
| Monitor | $78 |
| Desktop tower | $83 |
| Small printer | $78 |
| Boxed lot of small electronics | $104 |
Whole-suite truck-fill: quarter truck $295 · three-eighths $415 · half $525 · five-eighths $625 · three-quarter $720 · seven-eighths $810 · full truck $895. Bigger floors are quoted as multiples of the same tiers.
$75 minimum. Carry-out, cubicle disassembly, freight-elevator coordination, e-waste separation and disposal are included. No NC sales tax on the service.
Third-party context for comparison: 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, three-quarter $565, full $695, plus a $10–$50 trip charge and per-item surcharges. Those are volume prices confirmed when the crew is already in your suite; ours is quoted from your photos, before the date, in writing you can forward to finance.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh curbside | Not available | — | Residential service only — a commercial premises is not eligible for the $35 Bulky Load at all |
| Donate it yourself | Free | Days–weeks | Charities take good desks and chairs but rarely on your lease deadline, and you still move it to the dock |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | ~$298–$738 per truck (Junk Doctors), ~$305–$695 + surcharges (McJunk) | 1–3 days | Priced by volume, usually confirmed on site, and after-hours access is a negotiation |
| JunkRabbit | $112 a desk, or $295–$895 a truck, flat | Evening or weekend of your choosing | None — quoted from photos, COI on request, e-waste separated, suite left broom-clean |
Junk Doctors and McJunk figures are those companies' own published rate cards, quoted for comparison.
No — and this is the part that surprises the office manager who assumed the $35 curbside deal applied to work as well as home. City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services curbside collection is a residential program. The Bulky Load at $35, the special/appliance pickup at $70 and the free electronics collection of up to four items a week all attach to a residential household, not to a commercial premises. Your suite is not eligible for any of it. Businesses in the city are expected to arrange their own waste service privately — so for an office, a paid hauler isn't the expensive alternative to the city, it's the only route there is. (If you're in a genuinely mixed-use address and want to check, Solid Waste Services is 919-996-3245.)
The second half of the rule is stricter still. North Carolina bans computers and televisions from landfills, along with appliances, whole tires and several other categories. That makes the storage room full of dead monitors, retired towers and a decade of printers legally different from the desks — it cannot be tipped, it has to be routed to a certified electronics recycler. Any hauler who quotes you a flat truck price and then puts the monitors in the same pile as the chairs is doing something they're not supposed to. We separate the e-waste on site, and it goes to recycling. Old televisions from the break room and the lobby follow the same route — see TV disposal in Raleigh for how that one works.
So the honest summary for a Triangle business: the cheap municipal option doesn't exist for you, and the disposal rules are tighter than the ones your employees have at home. What you're buying is a fixed price and a compliant route.
Office furniture is unusually donatable, which is the good news in a downsizing. Solid desks, lateral files, conference tables and decent task chairs go to Habitat for Humanity ReStore — ten Triangle stores across Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties — and to Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina, which is headquartered in Raleigh. A young company two floors down or a nonprofit across town ends up furnished, and you can have the donation paperwork for your file.
The electronics leave separately and go to recycling, per the North Carolina landfill ban. Metal — shelving, filing cabinets, machine frames — goes to scrap; the Durham Waste Disposal and Recycling Center takes appliances and metal at no charge. Only genuine waste is tipped, at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill. One caveat we'd rather state twice than once: pull the drives or have IT wipe them before we come. We haul the hardware and route it correctly, but we're not a data-destruction vendor and we won't pretend to issue a certificate we don't issue.
Office cleanouts here cluster in four very different kinds of building, and they don't run the same way.
Downtown Raleigh towers are the classic version: a make-good clause, a dated walkthrough, a freight elevator you have to reserve, and a property manager who wants the COI before the crew badges in. We work those after 6pm or on a Saturday so the rest of the tenants never notice. The Warehouse District is the opposite in every way — repurposed brick lofts near Dix Park, full of startups, with a roll-up door, a shared corridor and a service alley instead of a dock. Those jobs are usually a company that grew or shrank fast and needs twenty workstations gone this week. North Hills and the Midtown offices sit somewhere between the two: newer buildings, real loading rules, professional services and practices turning over suites.
Then there's RTP, which is its own world. The corporate campuses out there — IBM and Fidelity among the largest employers in the park — run on badge access, escorted vendors, scheduled dock times and their own facilities contacts, and the e-waste volume from a campus floor dwarfs anything downtown. Morrisville and Brier Creek office parks nearby follow similar rules with less paperwork. We work all four the same way underneath: photos set the price, the building sets the schedule, and the crew shows up when it's been told to. Our RTP and downtown Raleigh pages go deeper on each.
"Lease ended on the 31st; they cleared 22 desks and a conference room on the 29th, after 6pm, COI already on file with the building. Walkthrough was a non-event."
"We went hybrid and half the furniture had to go. Most of it ended up with a nonprofit they work with, which our team loved. Flat quote from photos, zero disruption."
"Cubicle teardown plus a storage room of dead electronics. They separated the e-waste properly and swept the suite. Landlord returned the full deposit."
How much does it cost in Raleigh?
Per item: desk $112, L-shaped desk $139, task chair $82, 2-drawer file $81, 4-drawer $101, storage cabinet $99, metal shelving $95, conference table $201, copier $131, monitor $78, tower $83, small printer $78, boxed electronics $104. Whole suites: quarter truck $295 through full truck $895. $75 minimum, disposal included, no NC sales tax.
Can we just put it at the curb for the city?
No. Raleigh's curbside collection — including the $35 Bulky Load — is residential only, and a commercial premises isn't eligible. Businesses arrange private hauling.
What about the monitors and towers?
Separated and routed to recycling, because North Carolina bans computers and TVs from landfills. Pull or wipe the drives first — we haul hardware, we don't issue data-destruction certificates.
Will you work after hours?
Yes — evenings and Saturdays are standard for office jobs, scheduled to your building's freight-elevator and dock rules.
Do you provide a COI?
Yes, on request. Tell us the owner and manager names when you book and it goes in before the date.
Do you break down cubicles?
Yes — panels, surfaces, bins and hardware, dismantled and carried out by the same crew, priced by the volume it fills.
What happens to furniture that's still good?
Offered to Habitat ReStore's ten Triangle stores and Goodwill of Eastern NC first; donation paperwork on request.
Is it cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
For a few pieces, usually — you pay item prices, not a truck minimum. For a full suite we're not the cheapest truck in the Triangle; we're the one that quotes it before arriving and separates the e-waste properly.