House & garage cleanouts in Johnstown

Liberty Junk Removal takes on house and garage cleanouts in Johnstown and the Northern Colorado towns around it. The call tends to come from someone whose garage hasn't held a car in years, or from a family that needs the house empty before a move or a sale.

A house cleanout runs through every room, so it's the bigger job. A rented unit across town is a storage unit cleanout, and the old tires in the garage are tire disposal. Two kinds of house job have pages of their own. When the house belonged to a parent who passed, that's an estate cleanout. When a landlord is clearing what a tenant left behind, it's an eviction and rental property cleanout. Everything else lands here.

The only homework is deciding what stays. Walk through before the truck comes and move the keepers into one corner, or stick a note on anything too heavy to shift. If you're still torn about a box, put it with the keepers, because a load that's gone to donation or the landfill can't be pulled back. Liberty Junk Removal holds 5.0 stars across 18 reviews on Google, and every town they clear homes and garages in is listed by name.

What goes on the truck

• Garage fridges and freezers
• Old couches and recliners
• Bedroom sets and dressers
• Unopened moving boxes
• Mattresses from spare rooms
• Old TVs and computers
• Bikes and treadmills
• Grills and scrap metal

These are the usual pieces on this kind of job, not the whole list.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: home cleanouts.

What usually comes out of a garage cleanout?

Mostly the heavy things that got parked there because it was easy. The second fridge that stopped cooling, a treadmill doubling as a coat rack, kids' bikes and metal shelving bowed under years of boxes. Some of it still has use left, like a dresser in decent shape, and some is plain trash, like a cracked plastic patio set. A garage is harder than a bedroom because the big pieces are wedged into the spot where the car used to go, and each one has to be worked loose before it's lifted. The furniture and household clutter that comes out of home cleanouts has the longer list.

When should you hire someone to clean out a whole house?

When the house is more than a few trips in your own car, or when there's a date it has to be empty by. A closing or the last day of a lease puts a clock on the job, and the booking is usually the next day. A whole house tends to mean bedroom sets, the dining table, the couch and recliner, closets of clothes and a kitchen's worth of small appliances, with the basement and garage on top. Downsizing brings the same call from the other side, when a houseful of furniture has to shrink to fit a smaller place.

Do you have to carry everything to the curb for a house cleanout?

No. A lot of people think they have to help load the truck or have everything at the curb. They don't. Liberty Junk Removal goes in and brings each piece out, from the dresser in the upstairs bedroom to the sleeper sofa in the basement. In the garage, just get the door open, and the freezer in the back corner and the bikes hanging from the ceiling go out without your help.

How much does a house or garage cleanout cost?

A cleanout starts at $125. Above that, the price follows how much room the load takes on the truck, so a half-full garage and a packed three-bedroom house land far apart. Loading, hauling and disposal are part of the figure, and there's no separate charge for dump fees. The quote comes from photos or an in-person look. Text a photo to (970) 634-6969 taken from the open garage door, with the floor and the top shelves in it, plus one shot per room for a house.

Where does the stuff from a house cleanout end up?

It gets sorted, and the good pieces go first, headed for a thrift store or Habitat for Humanity. A full house often has plenty of those, like a solid dresser, a dining set or boxes of dishes packed for the last move and never opened. Scrap metal from the garage, like the rusted grill and the bent shelving, gets recycled. Old TVs and the knot of cords from the junk drawer go out as e-waste. Broken particleboard and bags nobody can use are real trash, bound for the landfill.

Can paint cans and chemicals go in a garage cleanout?

Paint can go. Empty cans are preferred, and full cans cost an extra fee. In a garage the paint usually lives on the shelf above the workbench, half-used gallons next to old spray cans and weed killer. Spray paint is handled the same way as paint. Weed killer and other chemicals take a question first and carry an extra fee. Fuel and medical or biohazard waste are turned down, like used sharps or soiled supplies in a bathroom cabinet. Gather the fuel and the medical items into one box before the job and label it, so nobody mistakes it for part of the load. The old fridge and the TV on the garage floor are fine, since appliances and electronics go with a cleanout like anything else.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (970) 634-6969. Liberty Junk Removal looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back a quote for the whole job. The quote holds unless the job turns out bigger than the photo showed. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $125. Read the junk removal cost guide.

Where Liberty Junk Removal does this

All of the Northern Colorado area. At Dumpster Days, residents of Northglenn can clear out the garage and get rid of old furniture that will not fit in a trash cart. Johnstown's Spring Clean Up Day allows one trip per household. See every town Liberty Junk Removal covers for house and garage cleanouts.