Rowhouse basements, trinity staircases, a free city pickup with real limits, and two campuses that empty University City every May — Philly's junk questions, answered one guide at a time.
The difference is not the truck. It is whether you know the number before someone is standing in your Fishtown living room. Ours is published: $126 a sofa,…
Every category below is commonly handled separately from ordinary household bulk. Put one out and the truck goes past it — and then your set-out becomes the…
$87 for a small window unit, $109 for a large one, $85 for a portable, $115 for an outdoor condenser. Refrigerant recovery is part of the price, not an add-on.
There are seven realistic routes in this city, not two. Here is each one, what it genuinely costs, and the situation where it is the right answer.
A studio usually lands around the $241 quarter-truck rung. A one-bedroom walk-up in Fairmount or Cedar Park lands between the $431 half and the $587…
$68 for a metal or platform frame, $126 for a solid or upholstered one, $152 for a king. The frame is usually the easy part — it is the bed around it that…
The price never changes with the day. Availability changes enormously. Here is Philadelphia's actual calendar, week by week, and the two weeks to avoid.
Sometimes yes — on the right day, within the current limits, wrapped where required. Here is what actually happens on a narrow Philadelphia block when it…
The cheapest route is free, and in this city it sometimes works. Here is when it does, when it burns a week, and what the flat numbers are when you stop trying.
The building, not the sofa, is what makes a Center City removal complicated. Get the certificate and the elevator booked and the rest is a $126 line item.
A two-story Philadelphia row home held by one family for forty years is typically one to three full loads. A full truck is $732, three quarters is $587, a…
Most Philadelphia garage clear-outs land between the $241 quarter truck and the $587 three-quarter rung. And if you do not have a garage, the same numbers…
Priced by the load, not by the judgement. A full truck is $732. A heavily filled Philadelphia row home is commonly two to four of them, and it does not have…
$390, flat. That covers the part nobody wants to think about — getting a spa off a South Philly roof deck or out through a house that is narrower than the tub.
A couch carried out of a Philadelphia row home is $126 flat. Everything else on this page is what you try first, and why most people end up at that number…
$103 for a queen, $143 for the mattress and box spring together, $68 if the frame is going too. Carried down the row-home stairs, not left on your pavement.
$164 for a standard fridge, $183 for a side-by-side or French door. Including the second one in the basement that has been humming since 2009.
$62, $68 or $73 depending on screen size. Including the rear-projection monster in the basement that three people once carried down and nobody ever carried…
$164 for the fridge, $261 for a washer and dryer pair, $189 for a stacked combo. Refrigerant handling is part of the price, not an add-on — and retailer…
Six red flags, four questions, and one rule: get the number in writing before a truck is on your one-way street, because that is the moment your leverage…
Yes. Leaving furniture on a vacant lot, under the El or on somebody else's pavement is short dumping, and this city takes it seriously. The legal…
The whole list, on one page, with no "starting at". Minimum $75 a visit. Same prices in Fishtown, Mayfair, Chestnut Hill and Cobbs Creek.
A dumpster is a container you fill yourself. In a city with no driveways and a permit requirement for street placement, that is a bigger decision than it looks.
Every day a unit sits full is a day it is not let. A single room is usually the $241 quarter-truck rung; a whole unit runs $431 to $587, priced before…
There is no single "mattress law" that covers you. There are three separate layers of rules, and the one that decides whether the mattress on your pavement…
A mattress is four recyclable materials welded into one unrecyclable object. Here is what separating them involves, and why $103 for a queen is usually the…
Movers take what you keep. Somebody has to take the rest. A typical Philadelphia move-out leftover load is around $424 itemized, or the $431 half-truck rung.
The staircase is the entire difficulty of junk removal in this city, and it is the one thing we deliberately do not charge for. A sofa off the third floor…
There is nowhere to put a truck in most of this city except the street, and the street is one lane once both curbs are full. That is our problem. Your sofa…
Lath and plaster weighs far more than the same volume of furniture. Here is how Philadelphia renovation debris actually prices, and why volume beats weight.
One week a year, this whole city moves at once. A typical abandoned student room is $293 itemized or the $241 quarter-truck rung — and the only thing that…
A 5x5 is usually around the $241 quarter-truck rung. A 10x10 lands between $431 and $587. Philadelphia rents a lot of storage because the housing stock has…
The real minimum is $75 a visit. A sofa is $126. A quarter truck is $241. Any Philadelphia ad promising a whole job for $74 is describing something much…
$68 for a 55-inch, $73 for anything over 65, $62 for the small one in the back bedroom. Electronics do not belong in a Philadelphia curbside pile, and the…
The rental price you see advertised is the smallest line on the bill. Here is everything else a DIY dump run in Philadelphia costs, against a flat $126 sofa…
Not a range, not a "starting at". The actual published numbers people in this city pay, from the $75 minimum to the $732 full load, with the arithmetic shown.
Five routes, in order. Work down the list and stop at the first one that fits. Most Philadelphia furniture ends up on route three or route five, and route…
A load off a Philadelphia row home is four or five different waste streams stacked in one truck. Here is how it gets separated, and what genuinely ends up…
$164 for a standard refrigerator, $133 for a washer, $128 for a dryer, $137 for a gas range. Carried up out of the South Philly basement, not left at the…
The cheapest quote and the cheapest outcome are different things. In a city of narrow staircases, shared party walls and active dumping enforcement, the gap…
Flat prices from $75 vs the ~$231 metro average — the whole list.
Free city pickup vs flat from $75 — where each wins.
Flat $126, sectionals $141–$271 — trinity stairs included.
Flat photo price from $75 vs the on-site estimate.
Mattress from $111, couch $126, same-day — citywide.
Whole-rental clears from $241 on the May calendar.