Junk Removal the Highlands
Junk Removal in
the Highlands
Historic Northwest Denver — LoHi, West Highland, Berkeley, and Sunnyside (80211 / 80212), once the city's Italian quarter — is now its hottest pop-top and scrape-off market: original Victorians and Denver Squares standing shoulder to shoulder with brand-new slot-home duplexes. That teardown churn is the Denver-specific job here — pre-demo whole-house cleanouts and heavy renovation debris — alongside the basement clear-outs and new-townhome move-in piles. We price demo debris by the yard, tarp every load, and quote it all flat from photos. No Colorado sales tax on it.
Denver's teardown belt runs right through here
No neighborhood shows Denver's renovation boom like the Highlands. Walk any block in LoHi, Berkeley, or Sunnyside and you'll see it: a 1905 Victorian, a mid-century bungalow, and a just-finished modern duplex all in a row. Owners are popping the top (adding a second story) and builders are scraping off (tearing down to rebuild), and every one of those projects throws off two kinds of work we do: the pre-demolition whole-house cleanout before the crew arrives, and the renovation and construction debris once the walls come down.
That debris is not the same as hauling a couch, and we don't price it like one. Drywall, flooring, tile, cabinets, and old fixtures are heavy, and Front Range disposal charges by weight — roughly $88 a ton, and it doubles the fee for any uncovered load, which is why we tarp everything. So construction and demo debris gets its own honest volume line at $120 per cubic yard, quoted flat from your photos, with the tipping weight already built in. And because Colorado doesn't tax the service, the number holds from quote to invoice.
What we haul in the Highlands
- Pop-top & scrape-off debris — drywall, subfloor, tile, cabinets, old fixtures; priced by the cubic yard, tarped, diverted where we can.
- Pre-demolition whole-house cleanouts — everything left behind before a teardown-rebuild, so the demo crew starts clean.
- Victorian & Denver Square basement clear-outs — for the originals that are staying; carried up the stairs and out.
- New-townhome move-in debris — packaging, cardboard, foam, contractor leftovers, and the old furniture you replaced.
- Appliances & e-waste — a dead fridge or water heater pulled during a reno; TVs and electronics diverted to an e-cycler.
Renovation debris, priced by the yard and tarped
The heart of the Highlands job is construction and demolition debris, and we keep the pricing transparent: $120 per cubic yard, scoped from photos of the pile. That covers the extra weight demo material tips at, so you're not surprised at the end. Every load leaves tarped — partly because it's the law-abiding, safe way to haul, and partly because an uncovered load literally costs double at the Colorado disposal sites, and we're not passing that on to you. We work on a contractor's schedule too: a mid-project haul-out to clear the site, or a single big pull when the demo's done. Send a photo of the pile whenever it's ready.
Whole-house cleanouts before the scrape
Before a scrape-off, the house usually still holds whatever the last owner left — furniture, a fridge, carpet, closets nobody emptied, a basement full of forgotten storage. We clear the entire structure so your demo crew hits an empty shell: scoped as truck-fill (or multiple trucks for a big house), flat-priced up front, disposal included. Single leftover pieces still have set prices if that's all it is — a refrigerator is $164, a washer $133, a sofa $126 — but for a full house the truck-fill number is almost always the better deal.
Highlands pricing
Flat rates, photo-quoted before anyone shows up. Demo debris prices by the cubic yard; cleanouts price as truck-fill. Disposal included.
| Item / Volume | Price |
|---|---|
| Renovation / demo debris (per cubic yard) | $120 |
| Sofa / couch | $126 |
| Refrigerator | $164 |
| Water heater | $131 |
| Cleanout — truck-fill (1/4) | $241 |
| Truck-fill (1/2) | $431 |
| Truck-fill (3/4) | $587 |
| Whole-house — truck-fill (full) | $732 |
$75 minimum. Disposal included; every load tarped. No Colorado sales tax on the service — the flat quote is all-in.
See our Highlands renovation-debris guide → — how C&D is scoped by the yard, contractor scheduling, and diversion.
The city won't touch heavy demo debris
Denver's free Large Item Pickup is for household bulk at the curb, not a renovation. It runs once every nine weeks, caps at five items, and heavy construction debris (concrete, brick, drywall, tile) is excluded — as are appliances, electronics, and tires. In other words, none of the material a pop-top or scrape-off actually generates is eligible, and no contractor timeline survives a nine-week wait. That's the whole reason a professional hauler exists here: we take the C&D, the appliances, and the e-waste (Colorado bans TVs and computers from the landfill), tarp it, and haul it to the Denver-Arapahoe Disposal Site and the metro's transfer stations on your schedule.
What Highlands customers say
"Popped the top on our LoHi Square and the demo left a driveway full of drywall and old cabinets. They quoted it by the yard, tarped the whole load, and had it gone in one trip. No games on the price."
"I flip houses in Berkeley and Sunnyside and use them for the pre-scrape cleanout every time. They empty the whole house on my schedule, flat price, so my demo crew walks into a clean shell."
"Just closed on a new duplex in the Highlands and the move-in left a mountain of packaging plus our old couch. One flat-priced pickup and it was all gone. Simple."
Frequently asked questions
Do you take pop-top and scrape-off renovation debris in the Highlands?
Yes — this is the neighborhood for it. Demolition and reno debris (drywall, flooring, tile, cabinets, old fixtures) is priced as its own volume line at $120 per cubic yard because it tips heavier than household junk. Send photos of the pile and we quote it flat before the truck rolls, and we tarp every load.
Can you do a whole-house cleanout before a scrape-off?
Yes. Before a teardown-rebuild we clear the entire house of everything left behind — old furniture, appliances, carpet, whatever the previous owner didn't take — so the demo crew starts clean. We scope it from photos as truck-fill: quarter $241, half $431, three-quarters $587, full $732, multiple trucks for a full house. Disposal included.
Do you still do Victorian basement cleanouts here?
Absolutely. Plenty of the original Victorians and Denver Squares in LoHi, Berkeley, and Sunnyside are staying put, and their full basements fill up like anywhere in Denver. We carry it up the stairs and out, same flat photo-quoted price.
I just moved into a new Highlands townhome — can you take the move-in debris?
Yes. New slot-home and duplex move-ins leave a pile: packaging, cardboard, foam, contractor leftovers, and the old furniture you replaced. We haul all of it in one flat-priced trip so you're not stuck breaking down boxes for weeks.
Why is construction debris priced differently from furniture?
Because it weighs far more. Front Range disposal charges by the ton (about $88) and doubles the fee for an uncovered load, so heavy demo debris tips at a real cost. Pricing it by the cubic yard at $120 keeps the flat quote honest instead of burying the weight in a furniture rate.
Is there sales tax on top?
No. Colorado doesn't tax the junk-removal service and there's no refuse tax, so the flat photo-quote is the whole price.
Ready to Clear It Out in the Highlands?
Send a photo of what is going and get one flat price back — carry-out, hauling and disposal in it. Same-day is often open in the Highlands.
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