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Whole House Cleanouts in York County, PA

Every room, the basement, the attic and the garage, cleared on one plan and left broom-clean.

Same-Day Service
Upfront, No-Surprise Pricing
We Load Everything
Local & Owner-Operated
Owner-operated. William is personally on every job from start to finish.

A house cleanout is the whole job: every room, every closet, the basement, the attic, the garage and whatever is living in the shed out back. William walks the house with you first, room by room. Anything you flag stays put. Usable furniture and household goods go to donation drop-offs, and the rest gets loaded, hauled and disposed of at licensed transfer stations. We run as many truck loads as the house needs and finish with a broom-clean sweep. Most full houses take one full day. A heavy hoarder situation or a big estate can run two.

Patio lounge frames, lawn chairs, a step ladder, and a flat-screen TV loaded in the trailer — The Junk Lord

What's Included

  • Room-by-room walkthrough with William before anything moves
  • Anything you flag stays, and we work around it
  • Two-person crew, fully insured, in a marked truck
  • All the lifting, carrying and loading, attic to basement
  • Donation drop-offs for reusable furniture and household goods
  • Multiple truck loads as needed, with disposal at licensed transfer stations
  • Broom-clean finish in every room we empty

What We Take

  • Bedroom, living room and dining room furniture
  • Kitchen contents: dishes, pots, pantry shelves, small appliances
  • Refrigerators, washers, dryers and chest freezers
  • Clothing, linens, books and boxes of paper
  • Mattresses, box springs and bed frames
  • Basement shelving and decades of stored boxes
  • Attic totes and holiday decorations
  • Garage tools, lawn equipment and shed contents
  • Old TVs, computers and stereo gear

How the job goes

  1. Step 1
    Photos or a walkthrough

    Text pictures of each room to (717) 654-6138 for a first look, or have William walk the house with you. Point out what stays, what you'd like donated, and anything you're not sure about yet.

  2. Step 2
    Price confirmed upfront

    The price is based on how much space the contents will take up in the truck. It's confirmed before we lift a thing, so the number at the end is the number you agreed to.

  3. Step 3
    Room by room, top to bottom

    We clear one room at a time so nothing you flagged gets swept up with the rest. Reusable pieces get set aside for donation; everything else goes on the truck.

  4. Step 4
    Loads out, floors swept

    We run as many loads as it takes, then sweep every room we emptied. You, your realtor, the estate attorney or the property manager can walk it when we're done.

Pricing
Most full-house cleanouts $1,200-3,500 depending on volume
Final price confirmed before we start. What affects the price
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One crew for every kind of house cleanout

People call this a lot of things: a house clearance, a full house cleanout, clearing out Mom's place, turning over a rental. The work underneath is the same. Empty the property and leave it ready for whatever comes next. What changes is the pace, who's making the calls, and how much sorting happens before things go on the truck.

  • Estate cleanouts, when an executor or the family is settling a loved one's home
  • Hoarder cleanouts, handled judgment-free and confidentially, at the household's pace
  • Foreclosure and eviction trash-outs for landlords, banks and asset managers
  • Move-out cleanouts at the end of a lease or before a closing
  • Single-space jobs when it's only the garage, the basement or the attic

Where a houseful of stuff goes in York County

York County's household trash is delivered to the Resource Recovery Center on Blackbridge Road in Manchester Township. It's a waste-to-energy plant: the county's combustible household waste is burned there to make electricity, and the ash takes up about a tenth of the original volume.[1][2]

A few things in every house can't ride along with the trash. Pennsylvania's Covered Device Recycling Act has kept TVs, desktop and laptop computers, monitors and computer peripherals out of household trash since January 24, 2013, so they get pulled aside for electronics recycling.[3][4]

Refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners and dehumidifiers hold refrigerant. Federal law prohibits venting it during disposal, and at the county's Small Load Drop-Off the Freon is removed before those units are recycled.[5][6]

Full cleanout or a dump trailer?

If you'd rather sort and toss over a few weekends, we can drop our 14-yard dump trailer in your driveway instead. You fill it on your own timeline, and we haul it when you're done. If you'd rather not touch any of it, the full house cleanout is the one where we do every bit of the carrying.

What we don't handle

Recent Work

Whole House Cleanouts jobs from our camera roll

Storage shed packed wall-to-wall with boxes, totes, and household goods staged for The Junk Lord crew in York County, PA
Packed shed — York County, PA
Boxes, a vintage suitcase, and a storage tub in the garage, loaded trailer in the driveway — The Junk Lord, York County PAWIDE
Mid-cleanout — York County
Drywall and construction debris stacked for haul-away in York County, PA — The Junk Lord
Drywall haul — York County, PA
Open boxes, a rolled rug, and a cooler covering the garage floor mid-sort — The Junk Lord, York County PA
Swept — York County, PA
Empty corrugated storage shed interior after a Junk Lord cleanout in York County, PA
Shed cleared — York County
Red and blue gas cans, wire shelving, and a hose reel packed into a metal shed — The Junk Lord, York County PA
Heavy clutter — York County, PA
Real Reviews

What customers say about our whole house cleanouts

“Very Happy with the terrific job Junk Lord has done! We had a lot of "stuff" and kept finding more " stuff"! Their organizational skills loading the trailer got most of what we had and we had ALOT! Thank you very much! We plan on using you again and highly recommend you@”

Renee HenryGoogle· 3 months ago

“Prompt response. They came next day at the time they said they would. They got all the junk out of my garage in no time at all and at an affordable price.”

Tyler CGoogle· 5 months ago

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Sources

  1. [1] York County Solid Waste Authority — York County Resource Recovery Center (accessed 2026-10-04)
  2. [2] York County Solid Waste Authority — FAQs (accessed 2026-10-04)
  3. [3] Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection — CDRA Frequently Asked Questions, PDF (accessed 2026-10-04)
  4. [4] Pennsylvania General Assembly — Covered Device Recycling Act, Act of Nov. 23, 2010, P.L. 1083, No. 108 (accessed 2026-10-04)
  5. [5] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Section 608 overview (accessed 2026-10-04)
  6. [6] York County Solid Waste Authority — Small Load Drop-Off Facility (accessed 2026-10-04)
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