Junk Removal in Denver

Denver is the city where the free option is real — and where its limits are most obvious.

The city runs Large Item Pickup on your normal trash day, on a nine-week rotation, and takes up to five large items and ten bags. If you have a couch and two chairs and you're not in a hurry, use it. We'll tell anybody that. There's no reason to pay for something the city will do in six weeks.

The reason our phone rings is what that program can't do.

Where the city program runs out

The clock. Nine weeks is a long time when you're closing on a house, turning a rental, or clearing a parent's place before the listing photos. A pile that has to sit on the curb for a month and a half isn't a solution — it's a code complaint waiting to happen.

The cap. Five items is a couch, a chair, a table, a mattress, and a box spring. That's a bedroom. It is not a garage, a basement, or a two-bedroom apartment's worth of leftovers.

The list. Denver's program does not collect appliances, electronics, construction material, or hazardous material. That rules out the fridge, the TV, the old computer, the drywall from the bathroom remodel, and the half-cans of paint in the corner — which, in most Denver garages, is a large share of the actual problem.

The curb. Everything has to be out front by 6 a.m., placed by you. In a Wash Park bungalow with a basement stair or a Capitol Hill walk-up, getting the item to the curb is the hard part. That's the whole job we do.

What we run in Denver

The older, tighter core is where this service earns its keep. Alley-loaded lots in Berkeley and Congress Park, narrow drives in Baker, third-floor walk-ups on Capitol Hill, garden-level basements in Park Hill — we carry out of all of them. Our crews come with straps, hand trucks, blankets, and jamb protection, and we sweep before we go.

Common Denver calls: garage and basement cleanouts in houses that have held a family for forty years, estate clear-outs, rental turns near the campuses, single heavy pieces that won't go down a switchback stair, and the debris pile from a remodel in a bungalow where there's nowhere to put a container anyway.

Electronics and appliances, handled correctly

Two of the things Denver won't collect are the two things people most want gone, and both have rules. Electronics have been banned from Colorado landfills since 2013 under SB12-133, so TVs, monitors, and computers go to an e-waste recycler. Refrigerators, freezers, and window AC units contain refrigerant that has to be recovered by a certified technician under Clean Air Act §608 before disposal.

We route both properly. You don't need to know any of that — you just need somebody to take the fridge.

Tell us what's there and where it sits. Get a quote.