Junk & Debris
Handis junk and debris removal covers the five real loads that show up around a Seattle home — construction debris after a remodel or demo, the garage or basement that has been a storage unit for a decade, yard waste from a brambles pull or a leaf-drop, an appliance or furniture run, and a full estate cleanout coordinated with executors and agents. From $250 for a single appliance or furniture run on a one-bedroom load up to $6,000 for a multi-day estate cleanout on a four-bedroom home. Every load sorted at the truck — metal to scrap, drywall and gypsum to the landfill, yard waste to the compost stream, E-waste to a certified recycler, mattresses to the King County mattress recycling line, donation-ready items to the donation drop. We hold a Washington L&I handyman registration; we do not transport hazardous waste (paint, solvents, pesticides, asbestos, lead-containing debris) and we tell you upfront which items need to route to a King County Hazardous Waste facility instead.
Services
Junk & Debris Pricing
Final pricing depends on truckload count, distance to the nearest licensed transfer station, refrigerant recovery if appliances are in the load, and whether the job includes stair carry-out from a basement or upper floor. Each child page lists detailed pricing for that service. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the load and the property — we will quote the truckloads, the disposal, and the day.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Junk & Debris
Junk and debris removal looks like a one-truck job from the driveway. The reality is closer to a sort-and-route logistics problem — every load splits into four or five disposal streams the moment it leaves the property, every Puget Sound transfer station charges by stream and by weight, and the wrong sort on a fridge (refrigerant not recovered) or a yard-waste load (knotweed mixed into the compost stream) creates a real downstream problem for someone else. A few hundred Seattle-area junk runs in, the patterns repeat — the loads worth doing right are sorted at the truck, manifested by stream, and paid for once at the right station, not refused twice at the wrong one.
Estimate
Tell us what you need hauled (construction debris, garage cleanout, yard waste, appliances and furniture, or a full estate), the rough volume in truckloads or rooms, whether there are stairs to carry out, any refrigeration appliances in the load, and any items you suspect are hazardous waste. We send a clear estimate with the disposal streams broken out.
What Our Customers Say
Recent junk and debris removal reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
We finished a kitchen remodel and had a pile of cabinet carcasses, drywall offcuts, and broken tile in the side yard for two weeks. Handis came in with a single truck, sorted the metal hardware off the cabinets for scrap, kept the gypsum drywall separate from the wood, and had the whole pile gone by lunch. Manifest with the scale ticket emailed by the end of the day.
Inherited my dad's house in West Seattle — three-bedroom rambler, full garage, basement workshop, sixty years of stuff. The crew worked four days across two weeks, paced the rooms with personal effects slowly while we made decisions, and ran the garage and the basement hard. Donation drops with tax receipts, E-waste to a certified recycler, the rest to Bow Lake. Documented every room before they touched it.
Brambles and ivy had been winning along the back fence for three years. We had a guy clear it; the pile sat in the yard another six weeks because nobody would haul it. Handis took the whole pile in one trip, kept the knotweed clump separated in a contractor bag (the tech actually identified it for me — I would not have known), and the back yard is usable for the first time since we bought the house.
Old chest freezer in the basement, dead for who knows how long. The tech showed me his EPA certification card on arrival, recovered the refrigerant on the floor next to the unit with what looked like a proper recovery machine, and then the two of them carried it up the basement stairs to the truck. Disposal manifest with the recovery documented. Did not feel like a junk run; felt like the appliance was actually handled correctly.
Single-bay garage that had become a storage unit. Two guys spent half a day, walked through every shelf with me first, sorted into four piles on the floor (keep, donate, E-waste, haul), drove the donation pile to Northwest Center and brought back the receipt, then took the rest to Houghton. Both of us could walk in the garage again by 3 PM.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis junk and debris removal — pricing, disposal streams, what we cannot haul, refrigerant recovery, and how we handle estate and sensitive cleanouts.