Pile one: cut vegetation — the city's lane
Branches, limbs, leaves, clippings: Raleigh collects yard waste at the curb for residential customers, and for pure vegetation that program is the right answer at the right price (following the set-out rules — containers, bundling, and size limits that change, so check Solid Waste Services for the current ones; Cary, Apex, and the towns run their own versions). We are not going to pretend to compete with a service your taxes already fund. Where the city's lane ends is precisely where the next two piles begin — it takes the green stuff, not the grill.
Pile two: the objects — flat catalog prices
Everything in the yard with a name has a price:
| Yard object | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Tire | $22 each |
| Patio chair | $30 each |
| Yard tool (blower / trimmer / ladder) | $33 each |
| Wood pallet | $33 |
| Contractor bag | $41 |
| Large planter / pot | $45 |
| Patio umbrella + base | $53 |
| Charcoal grill | $59 |
| Outdoor lounge chair | $61 |
| Lawn mower | $65 |
| Propane grill (tank stays behind) | $71 |
| Patio table | $89 |
| Picnic table | $111 |
Minimum job $75. The weathered patio dining set — table ($89) + four chairs ($30 each) — is $209 flat; add the mower and the charcoal grill and the whole backyard turnover is $333, one visit, carry from behind the shed included.
Pile three: the no-line stuff — describe it carefully
Old fencing, deck boards, lattice, bagged soil, sod, gravel, brick: the pile with no single catalog line, and the place yard quotes traditionally blow up. Two different answers inside it:
Demolition wood — fencing and decking — loads on the ordinary truck tiers: a few fence sections run a quarter truck ($241), a full fence line or deck tear-out toward a half ($431) and up. Nails can stay in; that is what gloves are for.
Heavy inert material — soil, sod, rock, concrete — is the honest asterisk: trucks hit weight limits long before volume limits with this stuff, so it quotes case-by-case. Say roughly how many bags or wheelbarrow loads when you book and you get a firm number up front. The one outcome we refuse to produce is a surprise price invented on your driveway.
The gas rule
Powered equipment goes — mower $65, blower and trimmer $33 each — with one rule: drain the fuel or run it dry first. Gasoline, oil, and full propane tanks are hazardous-material streams no hauler should carry; Wake County's household-hazardous-waste drop-off takes them, propane exchange racks take crusty tanks, and the emptied machine rides our truck like anything else.
A worked spring overhaul
A North Raleigh backyard reset: dead patio set (table $89 + 4 chairs $120) + charcoal grill ($59) + mower ($65) = $333 as a list. Add a fence tear-out's worth of boards and the load graduates to tiers — usually the $431 half truck covers the objects and the wood together, in which case the tier is your price, not the sum. The quote runs both routes and gives you the cheaper one; the vegetation pile, meanwhile, waits at the curb for the city, costing nothing.
Sequence the spring weekend
The efficient order: cut and bundle vegetation for the city's pickup first; stage the objects and debris where the crew can see them (or just photograph them where they lie — we carry from anywhere on the property); book us for the day after the cutting is done, so the pile has stopped growing before it is priced. Spring Saturdays book fastest in the Triangle — a weekday slot buys flexibility, and the price is identical every day because we have no cheap day to hunt for.
How booking works
Photograph the piles and send them via the quote page or text (984) 480-3690 — mention anything from pile three explicitly. Flat price back in about a minute, two-hour window, crew loads everything from wherever it sits: deck, side yard, behind the shed. Metal frames and mowers route to recycling; usable furniture to donation; the rotted rest to disposal, all inside the number.
The bottom line
Sort into three piles and every one has a clean answer: vegetation to the city, objects at flat prices (mower $65, grill $59, patio set $209), debris on the tiers ($241–$732) with the heavy inert stuff declared up front. Get your price or call (984) 480-3690 — and let the yard start the season empty.
Serving Raleigh, the Triangle and Wake County
Frequently asked questions
How much does a spring yard cleanout cost in Raleigh?
Sort it into three piles first. Cut vegetation — branches, leaves, clippings — usually rides Raleigh's curbside yard-waste collection for the cost of following the set-out rules. Yard objects price off our flat catalog: lawn mower $65, charcoal grill $59, patio table $89, patio chairs $30 each, planters $45. Mixed debris loads run the truck tiers: $241 for a quarter truck up to $732 for the full 16 cubic yards, crew and disposal included, $75 minimum.
does the city of raleigh pick up yard waste
Raleigh collects yard waste at the curb for residential customers — vegetation like limbs, leaves, and clippings, prepared to the city's rules (containers, bundling, size limits that change, so check Solid Waste Services for the current ones). That program is the right answer for the green pile and the wrong one for everything else: it does not take the dead grill, the rotted fence panels, or the bags of soil, which is exactly where the other two piles come in.
do you take old fencing and deck boards
Yes — torn-out fencing, deck boards, and lattice load as demolition debris on the truck tiers: a typical fence-section pile runs a quarter truck at $241, a full fence line or deck tear-out toward a half at $431 or more. Nails and screws can stay in; our crews handle it with gloves and the right expectations. If a contractor is doing the tear-out, we can time the debris pickup for the same afternoon.
what about soil rocks and concrete
The third pile is the honest asterisk: heavy inert material — soil, sod, rock, gravel, concrete, brick — is the one category we quote case-by-case rather than off the standard ladder, because trucks have weight limits long before they have volume limits with this stuff. Describe it up front (roughly how many bags or wheelbarrow loads) and you get a firm number before booking. What we will not do is discover it on the day and improvise a price on your driveway.
Is powered yard equipment extra?
No — it is just catalog items: lawn mower $65, snow blower $71 (yes, Raleigh garages contain them), string trimmers and blowers $33 each as yard tools. One rule: drain the gas first, or run it dry — fuel is a hazardous-material stream we cannot haul, though the empty machine is routine. Old gas cans with fuel in them stay behind for the county's household-hazardous-waste drop-off.
Can you clear the whole spring project in one visit?
That is the normal booking: the dead patio set, the grill, the mower, the fence pile, and the garage overflow all ride one truck, priced as items or tiers — whichever is cheaper for your mix. Same-day windows across Raleigh, Cary, and the Triangle are usually open if you book by mid-afternoon, and spring Saturdays go fastest, so a weekday slot buys flexibility.
Photograph the piles and get a figure in about a minute on the quote page, or call (984) 480-3690. More about how we work and our frequently asked questions.