House & garage cleanouts.

A cleanout is priced by volume, which means how much room your load takes up in the truck, not by the hour and not by the item. One garage bay is a small load; a whole house is several. You get your number in person, standing in the space, before anything is lifted. If it doesn't work for you, we leave and there's nothing to pay.

A single garage is usually one load. Whatever the size, you hear the number before anything is lifted, and you're paying for the load rather than the hours, so there is nothing to gain by it taking longer.

No. Shelving units, workbenches and everything stacked on them all travel, and the floor underneath gets swept. Point at what goes and it goes.

No — that is the one thing we can't carry. Paint, solvents, motor oil, chemicals, asbestos and medical waste have to go to a household hazardous waste facility, because the transfer stations we use won't accept them. Garage shelves are usually where the paint tins live, so tell us what's there when you call and we'll say yes or no before we drive out.

Yes. Room by room, and the parts people forget: the attic, the basement, the crawl space, the shed and the yard. Whole-property clear-outs are a normal week for us, and they can be spread over more than one visit if that suits you better.

Every week. A unit turns over on a Friday and it's clear by Friday night, so it can be shown the next morning. Landlords and property managers get one number to call and one invoice per property.

As little as possible goes to landfill. Furniture and goods in usable condition get donated rather than thrown away, what can be recycled gets recycled, and scrap metal is separated out. The rest goes to a licensed transfer station.

That's the whole business. Call (408) 202-9877 and in most cases we're there the same day, often within a few hours. Call in the morning and the space is usually back by the evening. If the day is already full we'll tell you straight on the phone instead of booking you and not turning up.