Flat, photo-quoted prices for a metro where every job involves a driveway, a hillside, or a third-floor walk-up — the LA guides so far, with more on the way.
People search for an alternative for one of two reasons: the date did not work, or they wanted to know the price before a truck showed up. Both are fair.…
Bulky-item collection is a good free service and it has limits. The frustrating version of this is finding out on collection morning, when the truck takes…
Every September, after a Valley summer that put a window unit through four straight months of work, Los Angeles discovers how many dead air conditioners it…
Most apartment cleanouts in Los Angeles happen under a deadline: a lease ends, an escrow closes, a manager needs the unit turned. Here is what the work…
Bed frames are the item people forget to include in the plan. The mattress goes first, and then there is a headboard, a set of rails, a slat pack and four…
The price does not change with the day you book. How long the appointment takes absolutely does, and in Los Angeles the deciding factors are street…
Only on one condition: a collection has already been scheduled and the item is out on the right day, in the right place. Without that, the curb is not a…
Cheapest depends entirely on what you have, where it is standing, and how fast it has to go. Here is the real ranking for Los Angeles, starting with the…
An estate cleanout is not a junk job with more items in it. It is a sorting problem with a deadline, usually handled by someone who is grieving and who may…
The Los Angeles garage is not where the car goes. It is where the last four apartments went, plus a treadmill, a surfboard, and a stack of paint cans from a…
This is difficult work and it is usually being arranged by a family member, a case worker or a property manager rather than by the person who lives there.…
A hot tub is the single hardest thing most homeowners ever try to get rid of. It was craned onto the deck or wheeled in before the fence went up, it weighs…
The couch is the item that reveals how your building was built. A sofa comes into a Los Angeles apartment once, usually with two people swearing at each…
A mattress is bulky, floppy, impossible to carry alone down a half-landing stair, and worth nothing to anyone. That combination is why so many of them end…
A refrigerator is the single hardest thing to get out of a Los Angeles apartment. It is heavy, it is wider than the doorways in most 1920s buildings, and it…
The television is the one item almost everyone tries to leave behind, because it is bulky, worthless and technically not trash. Here is what you can…
Appliances are the heaviest thing most people ever try to move out of a Los Angeles apartment, and the only household item that can flood a hallway on the…
Los Angeles has hundreds of haulers, from two guys with a rented pickup to national franchises. The good ones and the bad ones look identical on a phone…
The short answer is yes. The useful answer is about how it actually gets enforced in Los Angeles, which is complaint-driven, address-based, and lands on…
Here is the price list, item by item, with nothing behind a phone call. These are the same numbers whether you are in Brentwood or Boyle Heights, on the…
A dumpster is the right tool for a long project on a lot that can hold one. In much of Los Angeles the second half of that sentence is the problem, and that…
The two companies do the same physical work. The difference is when you find out the price, and in a city built on hillside stair runs and walk-up…
A unit sitting empty is a unit not earning. Turnover cleanouts in Los Angeles are a scheduling problem more than a pricing one, and the buildings that…
A mattress is the one item almost every Angeleno eventually has to deal with, and it is also the item most likely to end up leaning against a telephone pole…
People ask what mattress recycling costs in Los Angeles and expect a single number. There isn't one, because the gate fee is the smallest part of the bill.…
Every move produces a pile of things that are not worth moving. In Los Angeles that pile has a deadline attached to it, and a deposit riding on whether it…
Remodels in Los Angeles happen on lots where there is nowhere to put a dumpster, on streets that sweep twice a week, and in buildings from the twenties…
Storage is the most expensive way to own things you do not use, and Los Angeles rents more of it per person than almost anywhere. At some point the monthly…
Every junk removal market in America has a teaser number floating around it, and Los Angeles has more of them than most because the ad auction here is…
Electronics are the one category where the rules are genuinely strict and genuinely enforced. California treats e-waste as its own stream, which is good for…
Renting a truck looks like the cheap answer until you write down every line. In Los Angeles the drive is the expense, and the drive is the thing nobody…
Most pricing articles give you a range so wide it tells you nothing. This one gives the actual totals for the jobs people in Los Angeles actually book, with…
Old furniture in Los Angeles falls into three honest categories: worth money, worth giving away, and worth nothing. Sorting them correctly saves weeks of…
Everything leaves in one truck, and then it stops being one thing. A load picked up in Echo Park splits into five or six destinations before the day is…
There are five different parties in Los Angeles who will take an old appliance off your hands, and they charge five different amounts — including nothing.…
Licensed and insured is on every hauler's website and most people read straight past it. In Los Angeles it decides three concrete things: whether a crew can…
The full flat-rate list — by item and by truckload — and what moves the number.