Full house, empty house, one crew.

A cleanout isn't a bigger junk-removal job. It's a different job. Junk removal is "take these things." A cleanout is "empty this space" — and the hard part is rarely the lifting. It's the deciding, the sorting, and in a lot of cases, what the space means to the person standing in it.

We do the whole thing: a crew, our trailers, as many loads as it takes, and the space left swept.

Estate cleanouts

This is the one that matters most to get right, because it's almost never just a house. Somebody died or moved to care, and a family now has a building full of forty years of decisions to make while they're also grieving and probably on a deadline from a realtor or a probate attorney.

We work at your pace. Usual pattern: the family walks the house first and pulls what's keeping — photos, documents, jewelry, the specific things that matter. Then we work room by room, and we stop and ask rather than assume. If we turn up paperwork, a safe, cash, or something that looks like it belongs to somebody, it gets set aside for you, not loaded. When the family can't be on site — and plenty can't, because they're in another state — we'll work from a written keep list and photograph anything we're unsure about before it moves.

When it's done the house is empty and clean enough to photograph.

Garages, basements, and storage units

The ordinary version, and the most common call we get. A garage that hasn't held a car since the second kid was born. A basement of boxes nobody has opened. A storage unit that's cost more in rent than the contents are worth.

These are satisfying and fast. We clear, you point at the handful of things that stay, and the rest goes. Most of a garage is recyclable or donatable rather than landfill — metal, cardboard, usable furniture and tools — and we sort it as we load rather than burying it all in one pile.

Hoarding and heavy-accumulation situations

We handle these, and we handle them without making it worse. No commentary, no photos of the inside, no talking about the house afterward.

Practically: these take longer, they usually take more loads, and there are things in the way of the walls — biohazard, spoiled food, animal waste, structural or pest problems — that we're honest about rather than pretending they're ordinary. Some of it is a specialist's job, not ours, and we'll say so instead of taking your money. The scope gets set with whoever is managing the situation — the resident, family, a case worker, or the property owner — before we start, and we work to that scope.

Rental turns, evictions, and foreclosures

Property managers and landlords run this on a clock, and the clock is the whole problem. A unit that isn't cleared isn't rentable.

We turn units: everything the last tenant left, out. Furniture, mattresses, bagged trash, appliances, whatever's in the closets. We can hit a standing schedule if you run enough doors to need one. For evictions and foreclosures there are legal requirements around storing or disposing of a former occupant's property, and those are the property owner's or their attorney's call — we work to the direction we're given, we don't decide it.

What a cleanout costs

By volume and labor, same as any load: how much there is, how hard it is to get out, and how many trailer loads it makes. Disposal is included in every one of them.

For anything bigger than a garage we come look first. You cannot price an estate over the phone honestly, and a number that changes mid-job is worse than no number. We walk it, we scope it, we quote it, and that's the number.

If the cleanout turns up walls or fixtures that need to come out too, Frontier Demolition is the same company — strip-out and haul-off on one schedule. Get a quote.