Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz County
Student move-out, beach-house turnover and Victorians full of forty years of surfboards. Santa Cruz clears out in waves, and we plan for them.
$175 – $599 junk removal, by load size Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz, CA
Most towns empty out gradually. Santa Cruz does it all at once. When the university year ends, whole streets on the Westside and around downtown put their contents on the sidewalk in the same two weeks — mattresses, desk chairs, particle-board shelving and furniture that was never going to survive a fourth tenant.
The rest of the year the work is different again: Victorians and craftsman houses with basements nobody has fully explored, beach properties that turn over between rentals, and garages holding boards, wetsuits and bikes from three decades of not quite throwing anything away.
Serving Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz County
Our Services
Every price is published in full. Pick the one that matches how much lifting you want to do yourself.
$175+ by load size
Our crew carries it out from anywhere on the property and hauls it away.
$200 flat, 25 minutes
You stage it at the curb, we load and go. The simplest option we run.
$295 48-hour rental
A 10-yard trailer in your driveway to fill at your own pace.
Santa Cruz, CA
We carry it out from wherever it's sitting — basement, attic, third-floor apartment or the back of a shared garage.
Booked ahead for the June rush and available at short notice when a house empties faster than expected. Everything left behind goes, deposit intact.
Older Santa Cruz houses hide a lot underneath them. Low headroom, damp boxes and thirty years of maybe-useful — cleared without you having to crawl in first.
Six bedrooms of flat-pack furniture, four sofas nobody claims and a kitchen full of things left behind. One booking, one crew, one price.
Santa Cruz, CA
A 10-yard trailer at $295 for 48 hours. Long enough for a garage, short enough not to lose the driveway for two weeks.
Ten cubic yards, which on the narrow lots between Mission and the ocean is the difference between a delivery and an apology.
Late May and June go quickly here. If your lease ends then, reserve the trailer as soon as you know the date.
Move-out season is genuinely our busiest window in this city. If your lease ends then, book the trailer as soon as the date is fixed.
Tell us what you have and get a fast estimate — no obligation.
Santa Cruz, CA
Flat $200, twenty-five minutes, no need to be home. Built precisely for the pile that's already on the sidewalk.
Mattress, desk, broken drawers, a chair somebody optimistically left out hoping it would find a home. Gone in one stop.
Useful between tenants. Arrange it, leave it staged, and you don't need to be in town for it to happen.
The single most common curbside call in Santa Cruz. Left out, rained on, and now nobody's problem but yours. Twenty-five minutes and it is gone.
Santa Cruz, CA
The volume that sits between a city cart and a full house cleanout. Most Santa Cruz jobs live in that gap.
Furniture, bagged cleanout trash and the overflow from a genuine sort-through, taken in one visit rather than rationed over six collections.
The single most-requested item in this city, and the one people most often get stuck with. We take it and route it properly.
Boards, bikes, wetsuits and camping gear from three decades of not quite deciding. Cleared in one visit rather than one weekend a year.
Santa Cruz, CA
A city that composts by instinct expects its haulers to sort. Reasonable expectation, and one we meet.
Metal, cardboard, green waste and electronics come off the truck apart from general trash. It's slower and it's the point.
Student furniture that survived the year, household goods still in service — offered for donation rather than thrown out because the lease ended.
Student furniture that survived the year and household goods still in service go forward for donation rather than being binned because a lease ended.
Why Us
This city empties on a schedule. A company that has not thought about June is a company that will not answer the phone in June.
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County
Capacity is set aside for late May and June because we know it is coming. Book early and you get a slot instead of a waiting list.
Basements, crawl spaces and under-house storage are normal Santa Cruz work. We bring lighting and we do not mind the headroom.
No hourly rate ticking while six people decide whose sofa it is. One number for the whole job, settled at the start.
Metal, cardboard, green waste and electronics separated before disposal. In a city that composts by instinct, that is table stakes.
Your junk leaves Santa Cruz.
Your peace of mind stays.
How It Works
Three moves from the first call to an empty driveway, and the heavy one is never yours.
01
Call or book online with your Santa Cruz address. A photo of the pile is usually enough for us to size it before we set out.
02
One flat number covering crew, hauling and disposal, agreed before a single item is lifted. Nothing moves until you say so.
03
Usually the same visit. The crew carries it out, sweeps up behind itself and sorts the load for recycling and donation afterward.
How To
None of it is required. All of it makes the job faster, and on a volume-priced service faster usually means cheaper.
If your lease ends in the move-out window, get a date on the calendar as early as you can. It is the one time of year we run out of slots.
Shared houses are where bookings fall apart. Sort it between housemates before we arrive and the day goes considerably better.
Crawl-space work needs different gear. Tell us at the booking stage and the right equipment comes with the crew.
Residential & commercial
Same crew, same published prices, whether it's a garage or a shop floor.
Family homes on the Westside and in Seabright, rented houses below campus, and beach properties turning over between rentals. The work ranges from a single mattress to a six-bedroom house emptied in an afternoon.
Property managers managing dozens of student properties, vacation-rental managers working weekly changeovers, and the small shops and studios downtown and on the Westside. Deadlines are tight and usually not negotiable, so we work to them.
Residential
& commercial
Safety
Old houses hide things — damp boxes, rusted metal, spiders and the occasional structural surprise. Under-house work is where care matters most.
Lighting, gloves, masks and boots. Nobody goes under a Santa Cruz house without them and you do not need to go under it at all.
Coverings on stairs and hallways, care around the narrow doorways that Victorian and craftsman houses are full of.
Paint, solvents, oil, batteries, tires and asbestos stay put. Older basements often hold some — we will flag them and tell you where they go.
What We Haul
Hazardous material aside, if it fits in the truck and it's legal to move, it's on the list.
Where we work in Santa Cruz: Downtown, the Westside, Seabright, Live Oak, Pleasure Point, Prospect Heights, the Circles, Beach Flats and the streets below campus.
Pricing
Distance changes how quickly we can reach you. It doesn't change what you pay.
$175+ by load size
Four sizes from a quarter truck ($175–$239) up to a full one ($499–$599). Free onsite estimate first.
See Load Sizes$200 flat
A 25-minute visit for anything you can stage at the front of the property yourself.
See Details$295 48 hours
10-yard trailer, 1 ton of disposal included, $150 per extra day, delivery and pickup in the price.
See DetailsReviews
A few notes from customers around the bay.
FAQ
The things people in Santa Cruz ask before booking.
Describe the job over the phone and we'll tell you which service fits and what it costs — no obligation.
Call 831-788-2620Yes, and it's worth booking early — late May and June are the busiest two weeks of our year in Santa Cruz. Tell us roughly how many rooms and we'll size the job.
Yes. Boards and frames get separated for recycling where the material allows, and anything still usable is passed on for donation instead.
Downtown, the Westside, Seabright, Live Oak, Pleasure Point, Prospect Heights, the Circles, Beach Flats and the residential streets below campus.
Yes, and often that is simpler. The agent can arrange access and approve the price if the tenants have moved on already.
Nearby
Same crew, same published prices, twelve towns across three counties.
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