Basement & Attic Cleanouts
Basement & Attic Cleanouts
The two hardest rooms to empty in any house. Narrow stairs, low ceilings, and forty years of things that went down and never came back up. We do the carrying.
Why These Rooms Stay Full
Basements and attics don't fill up because people are disorganized. They fill up because getting anything out of them is genuinely difficult. A sleeper sofa that went into a finished basement before the stairs were rebuilt, a bedroom set carried into an attic by two people twenty years younger, boxes stacked behind other boxes in a crawl space with four feet of headroom. In older South Shore housing stock the staircases are narrow, the turns are tight, and the bulkhead is often the only realistic exit. That's the job. We bring enough crew to carry things properly rather than dragging them, and we protect the stairs, walls and doorframes on the way out.
What Comes Out
Furniture and mattresses, old exercise equipment, washers, dryers and utility sinks, water-damaged carpet and padding, shelving, paint-free construction debris from old projects, storage boxes, holiday decorations, luggage, and the general contents of decades of storage. Damp basements often mean mildewed furniture and cardboard that can't be donated and simply needs to go — we'll tell you honestly which is which rather than pretending everything can be rehomed.
Access, Stairs and Protection
We plan the exit before we start lifting. That means checking whether the bulkhead opens, whether a bedframe has to come apart, whether an attic hatch is the only way down and whether the banister is load-bearing enough to lean on. We use floor runners and door jamb protectors on the route out, and we take furniture apart rather than forcing it around a turn. If something genuinely cannot come out intact, we'll tell you the options before we do anything irreversible.
Pricing
Quoted flat-rate by volume before we begin, same as the rest of our junk removal work — stairs and long carries don't add to the price on the day. If you can send a couple of photos of the space when you call, we can usually give you a tighter number. Most single-room basement or attic jobs are a partial truckload and finish in a morning; full basements in older homes can run longer, and we'll say so up front.
Questions
Do you carry everything up the stairs yourselves?
Can you take apart furniture that won't fit through the stairwell?
The basement flooded and everything is mildewed. Will you still take it?
Can you take an old oil tank or water heater?
Get a Basement or Attic Quote
Send us a couple of photos of the space and we'll give you a flat price. We do all the carrying.