Renovation & Pop-Top Debris Removal in
the Highlands

LoHi, West Highland, Berkeley and Sunnyside (80211 / 80212) are the busiest teardown blocks in Denver — a pop-top going up next door to a full scrape-off, both throwing off drywall, flooring, cabinets and fixtures faster than any dumpster fills. We haul the construction and demolition debris by the cubic yard at $162, empty the whole house before the demo crew arrives, and work on your build schedule. Every load tarped, C&D diverted, quoted flat from a photo. No Colorado sales tax on the service.

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How a debris haul works in the Highlands

1 · Photograph the pile

Snap the debris stacked in the driveway, the garage, or the room mid-demo — or the whole house if it's a pre-scrape clear-out. You get an exact flat price back in seconds, scoped by the cubic yard for debris or as a truck-fill for a full house.

2 · Slot it into the build

Mid-project haul-out, a single pull when demo wraps, or a standing weekly clear — we schedule around your crew and inspections, not the other way around. Same-day is usually open.

3 · We load, tarp & divert

A licensed crew loads it all — you and your framers keep working — tarps the truck, and routes clean wood, metal and reusable cabinets away from the landfill. Disposal receipts kept for your records.

Pop-top, scrape-off, and the two kinds of debris

Nobody talks about renovation the way Denver's Northwest side does. A pop-top means adding a second story to an original bungalow or Denver Square; a scrape-off (or just "scrape") means tearing the house to the dirt and rebuilding, usually as a pair of slot-home duplexes. Both are everywhere in the Highlands, and both generate two distinct jobs. First is the pre-demolition whole-house clear-out — everything the previous owner left behind, cleared so the demo crew starts on an empty shell. Second is the construction and demolition debris itself — the drywall, subfloor, tile, cabinets, trim and old fixtures that come out once the walls open up.

Those are priced differently on purpose. A clear-out is household volume, so it scopes as truck-fill. Debris is about weight: Front Range disposal charges roughly $88 a ton and doubles the fee on any uncovered load, so a bin of demo material tips at a genuine cost that a couch-and-dresser rate would never cover. That's why C&D has its own honest line — $162 per cubic yard — with the tipping weight already built in and the load tarped every time.

How much does renovation debris removal cost here?

Flat and photo-quoted, with debris by the yard and clear-outs by the truck. Disposal, the drive, and the tarp discipline are all in the number.

JobFlat price
Minimum job (a small pull)$75
Renovation / demo debris (per cubic yard)$162
Yard / branch debris (per cubic yard)$119
Whole-house clear-out — truck-fill (1/4)$325
Truck-fill (1/2)$580
Truck-fill (3/4)$790
Whole-house — truck-fill (full)$985
Refrigerator pulled during a reno$221
Water heater$176

$75 minimum. Disposal included; every load tarped. A big scrape runs multiple trucks — we quote the whole job flat before we start. No Colorado sales tax on the service — the flat quote is all-in.

For context, hauling a full construction dumpster in metro Denver commonly runs several hundred dollars once weight overages and swap fees are added, and a rented bin sits on your permit-limited street for days. Our cubic-yard debris pricing is quoted from your photo before the truck rolls, weight included, and it leaves the same day.

4 ways to clear renovation debris in Denver

OptionCostSpeedCatch
Denver Large Item PickupFreeUp to ~9 weeksCurbside household bulk only — construction debris, concrete and brick are excluded outright
Rent a construction dumpster~$350–$650+Days on siteWeight overage fees, a permit for street placement, and you load every board yourself
Traditional full-service hauler~$550–$900+ per truck1–3 daysPriced by volume, often confirmed only on site; heavy-debris and uncovered-load upcharges common
JunkRabbit$162/yd, or truck-fill from $325Same dayNone — flat photo price, we load it, tarped and diverted, on your build schedule

Does Denver pick up construction debris?

No — and this is the reason a pop-top or scrape-off needs a real hauler. The City & County of Denver's free Large Item Pickup (scheduled through Denver 311 · 720-913-1311) is built for household bulk set at the curb: it runs only about once every nine weeks, caps at five large items, and specifically excludes construction and demolition debris — concrete, brick, dirt, drywall and tile — along with appliances, electronics and tires. In other words, essentially nothing a renovation produces is eligible, and no framing inspection or draw schedule survives a nine-week wait for a curbside slot that won't take the material anyway. That gap is exactly our lane: we scope the C&D by the yard, take the appliances and e-waste the city won't (Colorado bans TVs and computers from the landfill entirely), tarp it, and haul it to the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site and the metro transfer stations on your timeline.

What we haul on a Highlands renovation

What happens to the debris after we load it

A renovation isn't all landfill. We divert first: clean dimensional lumber, metal and cardboard go to recyclers, and intact cabinets, doors, sinks and light fixtures go to Habitat for Humanity ReStore, where they're resold to fund local builds — with a donation receipt on request. The genuinely spent material is disposed responsibly at the Denver-Arapahoe Disposal Site or a transfer station, and because we're a licensed Denver waste hauler we keep the disposal receipts for at least a year, which is useful if your project is documenting construction-waste diversion. Every truck leaves tarped — the safe, legal way to haul, and the reason your bill never catches the doubled uncovered-load fee.

When Highlands crews and owners call us

Why Highlands builders choose JunkRabbit

What Highlands customers say

★★★★★

"Popped the top on our West Highland Square and the demo buried the driveway in drywall and old cabinets. They scoped it by the yard, tarped the load, and had it gone the same afternoon. The price on the photo was the price."

— Marco D., West Highland
★★★★★

"I build slot homes in Berkeley and Sunnyside and use them for every pre-scrape clear-out. They empty the whole house on my schedule at a flat price, so my demo crew starts on a clean shell. No dumpster sitting on the lot for a week."

— Renata F., Berkeley (GC)
★★★★★

"Kitchen gut in LoHi — old cabinets, tile, and a dead fridge. One flat-priced pull, they even took the cabinets to ReStore. Way cleaner than the bin quote I got, and no tax tacked on."

— Aaron P., LoHi

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