How much does junk removal cost in St. Louis?

The two ways junk removal is priced in St. Louis

There are two ways a St. Louis job gets priced. Per item fits when you can count the pieces: the sleeper sofa that is too heavy for the City's 100-lb bulky limit, the basement washer and dryer, a bedroom set from a Tower Grove South flat. You add the lines and that is the price — a sofa and a queen set are $126 + $143 = $269. Truck-fill tiers fit when the job is loose and uncountable: forty years of boxes in a St. Louis Hills basement, a Florissant garage, an estate in Kirkwood. Tiers run from 1/4 truck at $241 to a full truck at $732. Mixed jobs can use both, such as a half truck of boxes plus a washer: $431 + $133 = $564.

What drives the price in St. Louis

Our list price does not change for access, but the size and makeup of a St. Louis job does. Three things move the number here.

Old housing with deep basements

City neighborhoods are built of brick, much of it from 1880 to 1930, and inner-ring suburbs like Maplewood date to the early 1900s. Deep basements and attics hold decades of storage, so jobs often reach a half truck ($431) or more. Carry-up from the basement is included.

Heavy, solid furniture

Old St. Louis homes are full of solid-wood dressers, armoires, hutches and cast-iron tubs. Those have their own prices — a large solid armoire is $197, a cast iron bathtub $185 — and they are the pieces the City's bulky pickup will not take.

Material that has to be routed

Missouri bans major appliances and yard waste from landfills, and scrap tires must be shredded or chipped. That is why appliances, tires and yard waste are separate lines: fridge $164, set of four tires $87, yard waste $88. Dense debris like brick and concrete is $219 per quarter truck.

Tables

Cabinets, storage & office

TVs & electronics

Electronics aren't curb trash in Florida — they go to an e-waste recycler, including the leaded glass in old CRT and projection sets.

Outdoor & patio

Bags, boxes & debris

Once you're past a handful of bags, the truck-load price above is almost always cheaper than counting bags one by one.

Cost by type of job

Each price is shown before you book and only changes if you approve. A single item listed below $100, such as a $62 TV, is billed at the $100 minimum, so pairing it with another piece is usually worth it: a TV and its stand are $62 + $96 = $158.

Why the City's monthly bulky pickup can't do most St. Louis jobs

City of St. Louis residents get bulky pickup as part of the $14 per month per unit solid-waste fee, billed quarterly on the water bill. It runs monthly, during your designated collection week: items out by 6:00 am Monday, in the alley if your block has one, up to three items, and no piece over 100 lbs, 6 ft long or 2 ft in diameter. Refrigerator doors must be removed, railroad ties are not accepted, and BOAT-E collects batteries, oil, appliances, tires and electronics monthly. City residents can also self-haul to the North or South transfer station, weekdays 8:00 to 4:00, up to 12 half-ton pickup loads a year, with no business waste and no household hazardous waste.

It is the right answer for a chair, a small table and a lamp that are already downstairs and can wait for your week. It is not built for a 7-foot sofa, a sleeper, a whole bedroom, anything still in the basement, or anything that has to go today. And it only covers the City: St. Louis County municipalities, unincorporated trash districts and Metro East towns each set their own rules. See 5 things St. Louis bulk pickup won't take.

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