The car's been out in the cold all winter because the garage is full — let's fix that. Attached or detached, we clear the whole Denver garage at one flat truck-fill price from $325, carry it out ourselves, and route the usable stuff to donation and the metal to scrap. Reclaim the space before the first snow — same-day, and no Colorado sales tax on the service.
Send a photo of the garage — flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Denver runs on about 300 sunny days a year, so snow melts fast — but the storms still come, and there's nothing worse than scraping ice off the windshield every morning because the garage is too full to park in. Fall is when the reclaim job peaks: people finally want the car inside before the first real storm, and that means clearing out the years of overflow that crept in around it. And unlike the Sun Belt metros, Denver homes come with both flavors of garage — the attached garages of Central Park, Green Valley Ranch, and the newer builds, and the classic detached garages behind the Wash Park, Wheat Ridge, and Arvada bungalows. We clear either kind: you send a photo, we price the whole garage as truck-fill, and a crew empties it in one visit so the car finally fits.
A shot or two with the door open. We estimate the truck-fill and send one flat number back — no walkthrough needed.
Same-day and same-week are usually open across Denver and the suburbs. Get it done before the next storm rolls in off the Front Range.
The crew empties the garage — shelves, workbench, the far corner — sweeps up, tarps the load, and donates or scraps what it can. You park inside.
A garage is priced by how much of the truck it fills, quoted flat from your photo. The carry-out, the drive, and the disposal are already in the number.
| How full the truck | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Quarter truck (a corner or a single bay's overflow) | $325 |
| Half truck | $580 |
| Three-quarter truck | $790 |
| Full truck (a packed two-car garage) | $985 |
| Set of tires | $117 |
| Old spare refrigerator (freon recovered) | $221 |
$75 minimum. Carry-out and disposal included. Detached garage plus the shed or the yard? We fold it into the same visit. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
See the full Denver price guide → — every truck-fill tier and item price, and what drives the cost.
Denver has both kinds of garage, and each has its own wrinkle. A detached garage behind a Wheat Ridge or Arvada bungalow often holds a generation of tools and yard gear on a dirt-or-gravel floor — heavier, dustier, and no basement to blame it on. An attached garage in a master-planned community like Central Park (formerly Stapleton) or Green Valley Ranch comes with an HOA that polices curbside staging — you can't just pile the old stuff out front for pickup. So we load straight from the garage, never the curb, and there's nothing for the association to flag. Either way, on flat Denver ground there's no hillside-access surcharge — it's all in the flat price.
| Option | Cost | Speed | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Large Item Pickup | Free | Months (~9 weeks per cycle) | 5 items per cycle, curbside-only, no appliances/electronics/tires/paint — the exact things in a garage |
| Rent a dumpster | ~$300–$500+ | 1–3 days to drop | Sits on the driveway; you load every item by hand and can't put tires or paint in it |
| Rent a truck & self-haul | ~$40–$120 + dump fee | A full weekend | All the lifting, driving, sorting, and tipping is yours — uncovered loads double the fee |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$250–$700+ | 1–3 days | Priced by volume, often confirmed only on site |
| JunkRabbit | Flat, from $325 | Same/next day | None — flat photo price, we carry it out, scrap- and donation-routed |
The garage is where the city program is least helpful, because it's where the excluded stuff collects. Denver's free Large Item Pickup (booked via Denver 311 · 720-913-1311) runs on a rotating ~9-week schedule, caps you at five large items, and is curbside-only — and it specifically won't take appliances, electronics, or tires, which is precisely the old fridge, the dead TV, and the stack of tires living in your garage right now. So even if you had the time to haul a two-car garage to the curb five pieces at a time across several two-month cycles, you'd still be stuck with the very items you most wanted gone. That's the whole case for full-service: one visit, we carry it all out, and we take the things Denver leaves behind.
Garages are full of metal and still-good gear, so we sort as we load. Usable furniture, tools, and outdoor equipment go to donation first — Goodwill of Colorado, ARC Thrift Stores, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Scrap metal — the shelving, the old mower deck, the workbench frame — is diverted to a metal recycler instead of the landfill. Electronics go to an e-cycler (Colorado bans them from landfills), refrigerant appliances get EPA-certified freon recovery, and tires are recycled. Every load leaves tarped, which on the Front Range keeps the tip fee from doubling — and keeps your flat price fair.
"Hadn't parked in my own garage in three years. They cleared the whole thing in a morning — old shelving, a dead freezer, tires the city wouldn't take. Car's inside before the snow. Flat price, no tax."
"Central Park HOA won't let you leave anything at the curb. They loaded it all straight from the garage, nothing out front, association never blinked. Easy flat quote from a photo."
"Detached garage behind our Arvada bungalow, packed to the rafters with my dad's tools. They scrapped the metal, donated the good stuff, and swept it out. One number, done."
How much does it cost?
Truck-fill, flat from a photo: 1/4 $325, 1/2 $580, 3/4 $790, full $985. $75 minimum, carry-out and disposal included, no CO sales tax.
Do I have to move it to the driveway first?
No — we clear it straight from the garage, and in HOA neighborhoods that means nothing ever sits at the curb.
Can you take the tires, paint, and old fridge?
Yes — those are the items the city refuses, and they go in the same flat-priced trip, with freon recovered and metal scrapped.
Can you come before it snows?
Yes — fall is our busiest reclaim season; same-day and same-week windows are usually open. Send a photo and grab one.
Detached garage out back — can the truck reach it?
Almost always. Denver's alley-loaded detached garages are easy for us to pull up to, and even a snug lot or a shared alley just means we hand-carry the last stretch — no extra charge for the walk.
What happens to the stuff that's still good?
Working tools, bikes, and furniture head to Denver-area donation partners first, scrap metal and the old fridge get diverted to recyclers, and only the genuinely dead weight rides to the transfer station.