Garages collect everything you couldn't decide to throw away. Old paint cans, broken bikes, the workbench from the previous owner, four generations of Christmas decorations, a kayak you used once. Basements are the same story, but darker and with more spiders. The reason these spaces never get cleaned is because the job is too big to start. We start it for you, and we finish it the same day.
Our crew brings a 16-foot truck, dollies, hand tools, work gloves, brooms, and the patience to sort instead of just throw away. You can hand us a list of what stays and what goes, or you can walk us through the space and point. We handle the rest — the lifting, the sorting, the loading, and the sweeping up after. Most garage cleanouts in Salem are done in three to six hours. Full basement cleanouts run a little longer depending on stairs.
We're not a 'rip it all out and dump it' operation. As we work, we separate: donation-eligible items go to one stack, recycling goes to another, scrap metal to another, and only the last category — actual waste — goes to the transfer station. If you have items you want to keep, we set them aside. If you want help deciding what to keep, we'll give you our read but the call is yours.
What's in scope: furniture, appliances, tools, sporting equipment, holiday decor, exercise equipment, lawn equipment, paint cans (we have routes to legal paint disposal sites — most haulers won't touch these), cardboard, scrap metal, old electronics, broken plastic bins, mystery boxes you've moved between three houses. What's not in scope: hazardous chemicals, asbestos, medical waste, tires (we can sometimes route tires through partners — ask). We'll tell you upfront if anything in your garage is outside what we can legally haul.