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Garage Cleanouts in Connecticut

Park a car in your garage again. We haul out decades of tools, equipment, and forgotten gear so you get your space back.

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  • 16,000+

    jobs completed

  • 4.99 ★

    463 reviews

  • Family-owned

    since 2014 (12 years)

  • Licensed & insured

    in Connecticut & New York

Serving homeowners across our 5 CT counties and lower Westchester County, NY.
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Garages start as "place to park the car" and slowly become "place to store everything that doesn't have a home." Ten years in, the car lives in the driveway and the garage is a maze of tools, equipment, old paint cans, and a treadmill nobody's used since 2018.

This page is the door for getting the garage back. We haul, we sort donations, we triage the hazmat you can't put in our truck, and we leave you with a garage you can actually park in. Family-owned, operator-voice, 16,000+ jobs since 2014.

Who this is for

  • Homeowners reclaiming garage space — the car-back-in-the-garage project
  • Downsizers clearing decades of accumulated tools and equipment
  • New homebuyers who inherited a cluttered garage with the property
  • Estate cleanouts where the garage is the biggest single overload area
  • Pre-listing prep — see Pre-Listing Cleanouts for the listing-driven version

If your timeline is "this weekend" — call before 11 AM and you're probably good for same-day in our in-area towns.

What we do

  • Walk the garage with you. 5-10 minutes. You point at what stays.
  • Sort at the curb. Donatable items (working tools, usable equipment, bikes, sports gear) get separated for charity routing.
  • Hazmat triage. Paint, motor oil, gas, propane, batteries — we tell you where to route these. They don't go in our truck.
  • Load the truck. 20-cubic-yard truck (bigger than the standard 15-17 cu yd industry truck — more space per dollar).
  • Haul. Disposal at licensed transfer station; donations to charity partners.
  • Broom-sweep finish. Concrete floor swept. You walk in and park.

Common garage haul items

The stuff we end up hauling out of CT garages, in rough order of frequency:

  • Old lawn equipment (mowers, snowblowers, leaf blowers, trimmers — drained of fluids)
  • Tools and hardware nobody uses anymore (rusted, broken, duplicate sets)
  • Bikes nobody rides (kids' outgrown, adult un-ridden)
  • Sports equipment from sports nobody plays (golf clubs, hockey gear, treadmills)
  • Holiday decorations from holidays you no longer host
  • Old paint cans (we'll triage, you route through DEEP)
  • Old electronics from the workshop area (CT e-waste recycling required)
  • Cardboard and packaging accumulated for "I'll move next year" boxes
  • Boxes of old paperwork (we don't shred, but we can route to a shredding service)
  • Furniture that "might be useful someday" and never was

What we DON'T take — and where it goes

CT DEEP regulations require haulers to keep this material out of regular transfer stations. We triage these out at the curb and tell you the right disposal channel:

  • Paint, solvents, household chemicals → CT DEEP hazardous waste collection days (your town runs 2-4/year; check town website)
  • Motor oil, gas, antifreeze, transmission fluid → most auto-parts stores (AutoZone, O'Reilly's, Advance) accept used oil free of charge
  • Propane tanks (full or partial) → Blue Rhino exchange at any gas station that does propane
  • Batteries (car, lithium, alkaline, button cells) → Best Buy, Lowe's, Home Depot all run free battery takeback programs
  • Electronics with circuit boards → CT e-waste recycling — Best Buy free drop-off, most town transfer stations free or low-fee
  • Asbestos-containing material → specialized abatement hauler required; we cannot transport

See what can and can't go in a dumpster for the full disposal-channel reference.

Junk removal — truck-space pricing

When loading the dumpster yourself isn’t the right call — small volume, awkward access, or you just want it gone today — we send a crew. Pricing runs by truck space used, not by item. Final pricing confirmed before removal begins.

  • Minimum Load$145
  • 1/8 Truckload$195
  • 1/6 Truckload$250
  • 1/4 Truckload (~5 yd³)$295
  • 1/3 Truckload$340
  • 3/8 Truckload$395
  • 1/2 Truckload (~10 yd³)$455
  • 5/8 Truckload$535
  • 2/3 Truckload$615
  • 3/4 Truckload (~15 yd³)$655
  • 5/6 Truckload$690
  • 7/8 Truckload$745
  • Full Truckload (~20 yd³)$795

Not sure which tier? Send a few photos and we’ll size it for you.

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Pricing for garage cleanouts

Junk-removal pricing — truck-space used at the end of the job. Typical ranges:

  • Small / minimum load (few items, partial cleanout): $145-$295
  • Single-car garage moderate clutter: $295-$535
  • Two-car garage full cleanout: $535-$795
  • Large/detached garage hoarder-condition: $795-$1,800+ across one or two visits

For very heavy material (concrete patio pieces, brick piles, dirt) — a 10-yard dumpster at $447 often beats junk-removal pricing because weight fills it faster than volume.

Same rates across our service area. No zone surcharges.

Why us

  • 16,000+ jobs since 2014. Garage cleanouts are a meaningful share of the residential dispatch.
  • Donation routing built in. Items in usable condition go to vetted CT charities.
  • Hazmat triage at the curb. We tell you the right disposal channel for anything we can't take.
  • Operator voice. Tier range quoted on the call; final tier confirmed on site; no surprises.
  • Family-owned. Same crew, same phone number. Justin reads emails personally.

Garage cleanout FAQs

How long does a typical garage cleanout take?
Single-car garage with moderate clutter: 2-4 hours. Two-car garage packed to the rafters: 4-8 hours, sometimes a second visit. Detached garages with hoarder-condition accumulation: see [Hoarding Cleanouts](/hoarding-cleanouts). Most jobs are single-day.
Can you take old paint cans, motor oil, propane tanks?
No — those are hazardous waste under CT DEEP rules and the transfer station won't accept them. We triage these out at the curb and tell you where to route them (CT DEEP hazmat collection days, town transfer stations, propane exchange programs). Empty, dried-out paint cans are fine. Anything liquid or pressurized routes through other channels.
What about old lawnmowers, snowblowers, leaf blowers?
Yes — small engine equipment is fine in the truck. If it still has gas/oil, drain it first (your kid's mower probably doesn't, the dad-bought zero-turn does). Drained engines + chassis + deck go straight on the truck.
Can you take old bicycles, sports equipment, kid stuff?
Yes. Bikes in working condition route to a charity partner (Goodwill, Salvation Army). Old kids' bikes that nobody's riding anymore — same. Sports equipment varies — usable gear donates, broken / outdated stuff comes with us.
What's the cheapest path for a small garage cleanout?
$145 minimum load — that covers a few items or a small pile. Most garage cleanouts run $295-$535 depending on volume. For very small jobs (single item, a few bags), the minimum-load tier almost always beats renting a dumpster.
Do you sort what's worth keeping vs. throwing?
No — you sort. We do the loading. Most garage cleanout customers walk the garage with us before we start, point at what stays, point at what goes. Anything ambiguous (broken-but-might-fix tools, lawn equipment with sentimental value) we leave alone unless you say otherwise.

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