A city that moves on one day a year, triple-decker stairs everywhere, and a state that bans mattresses from the trash — Boston junk removal has its own rulebook. These guides are it.
The five categories that reliably get left on the sidewalk, and what to do with each. Removal prices start at a $100 minimum; a sofa is $170.
$117 for a small window unit, $147 for a big one, $114 for a portable, $155 for an outdoor condenser. Carried down from a third-floor triple-decker at the…
A standard metal or platform frame is $92. A solid or upholstered queen frame is $169 and a king is $205. Disassembly and the carry down the back stairs are…
Sometimes — on the correct day, in the correct place, and not with a mattress. Everything else is a gamble with your address attached. A sofa removed from…
A single-bay garage behind a West Roxbury two-family usually runs from a quarter truck at $325 to a half truck at $580. Bigger suburban bays climb the…
$525 for a standard hot tub, $675 for a 6-8 person spa. That covers draining access, cutting it down if the side yard is three feet wide, and taking it away.
The minimum is $100 a visit. A sofa is $170, a fridge $221, a quarter truck $325, a full truck $985. You see the number before the crew leaves the yard.
$221 for a standard refrigerator, $246 for a side-by-side or french door, $155 for a mini fridge. Doors, stairs and refrigerant handling are all inside the…
$84 under 42 inches, $91 from 42 to 65, $98 above that. Massachusetts keeps televisions and monitors out of the ordinary trash stream, so the curb is not…
The whole list, in public. $100 minimum per visit, item prices from $30 for a tire to $985 for a full truck, and the carry down the back stairs is already in it.
The Boston question is not which is cheaper. It is whether a container has anywhere legal to sit on your street, and who is carrying the sofa down three…
Massachusetts keeps mattresses out of the ordinary trash stream, which is part of why the one leaning in your triple-decker hallway is still there. A queen…
A queen is $139, a twin $111, a king $154, carried out from any floor. The recycling is the boring part; the stairs in a triple-decker are the expensive part.
One headline number cannot describe a truck, a crew and three flights of triple-decker back stairs. Here is the published version instead, starting at a $100…
Two reasons it matters here specifically: Boston stairwells are narrow and old, and Boston buildings ask for paperwork before anyone touches the freight…
A field guide to Boston's curb economy — the hour-by-hour timeline, what's worth taking, what to never touch, and what happens to the rest.
It's a disposal ban on facilities, not a criminal law — who it actually binds, the four routes left, and the $71 set discount.
Seven kinds of collector, what each actually accepts, and the condition ladder that decides who says yes.
Eight frustrations that send people looking, the four service models available here, and which one actually fixes yours.
Six address types, six different answers — and why two neighbours on the same street can have completely different options.
Six stages from the room to the destination — every cheap route is cheap because it hands more of them back to you.
Seven real job shapes line by line, from a Sept 1 Allston room to a West Roxbury estate — and the rule that saved money on all seven.
Seven sofa types by difficulty, the stairwell turn that actually stops furniture, and why upholstery has no free route here.
Sorted by what has to happen before it can leave — refrigerant, water, gas, or nothing — including the step to hand to a licensed pro.
A restriction that binds facilities, not you — the four routes left, why CRTs are the hard case, and the data duty that stays yours.
The four things that actually stop furniture in a Boston walk-up, how to measure each, and what they mean for what you can own.
Not a lease flip — a departure. The five-way decision, and the one month of the year when selling and donating actually work here.
What a New England winter does to stored things, material by material — what's salvageable, what's already gone, and when to look.
In Boston this is a placement question before it is a price question. Where a container can legally go, and where it simply can't.
Renting is easy. Driving it here, parking it here, and unloading it somewhere legal is the actual job.
What half a century in one Boston house contains, the four-pass order that cannot be undone, and what multiple truckloads cost.
What actually drives the number here, why the walk-up compounds it, and the line a hauling crew shouldn't cross.
Six reasons Bostonians rent storage, the three ways it ends, and the one job in this city with no stairs.
What actually comes out of a pre-war Boston wall — the weight, the salvage worth money, and what needs testing before anyone touches it.
Written backwards — the seven reasons things fail to be reused, what survives all of them, and a plain paragraph about the landfill. No diversion percentage.
Seven properties of the object decide its destination before you get a vote — and why "someone will want this" is the most expensive sentence in any clear-out.
Seven moments where a company shows you what it is — from the first quote to what happened to your things — including the honest limits of our own model.
There is no cheap day — what timing actually controls is availability, your arrival window, whether the free routes are still open, and whether snow is in the way.
The anatomy of a 19th-century townhouse — sidewalk, stoop, areaway, servant staircase, parlour windows — and what each one does to getting something out.
Where a cleanout deduction figure comes from, why round numbers don't survive scrutiny, and what clearing a unit actually costs — for landlords and tenants both.
The listing-prep clock hour by hour — what to book first, what Boston access does to your window, and what honestly can't be compressed.
The full flat-price list, what moves the number, and the Boston things we don't charge extra for.
The citywide lease flip, "Allston Christmas," and why the Aug 29–Sept 2 calendar fills first.
The BU/BC/Northeastern belt unit clear the group chat can split.
Every route — curb rules, donation, self-haul and flat-price pickup — compared honestly.