Basement Cleanout in Orland Park, IL
Finished and unfinished basements cleared out in Orland Park, carried up the stairs by two people, sorted and hauled the same day.
Basements around here hold decades. The split levels and colonials in Orland Park mostly came with a full basement, a lot of them got finished at some point, and what ends up down there is furniture from a house you moved out of in 1998, a treadmill, a bar nobody uses, and forty boxes of paperwork. The reason it stays is not sentiment. It is the stairs. Orland Park Junk brings two people, carries everything up, sorts it as it goes, and hauls it off, so you do not spend six Saturdays making trips with a hand truck.
Serving Orland Park, Orland Hills, Tinley Park, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Homer Glen, Mokena, Frankfort, Oak Forest, Lemont, New Lenox and nearby.
Priced by the item, disposal included
Exact quote from a photo before we drive out
We carry it out from basements and upper floors
Usable items offered for donation first
What We Remove
The stairs are the whole job
Nothing in a basement is hard to lift on flat ground. It is hard because of a stairway with a turn, a door at the top that opens the wrong way, and a landing that gives a couch nowhere to pivot. Split level homes add their own version, where the basement stair and the front door are on different levels and everything has to go up twice.
We walk the route first and figure out what has to come apart in the basement rather than at the top of the stairs. A sleeper sofa gets its mechanism unbolted downstairs. A bar or a built in shelf unit gets cut into sections before it moves. A treadmill folds or comes apart at the deck. That planning is why a basement full of furniture takes an afternoon instead of a weekend.
Floor protection goes down on the stair treads and the path to the door before anybody carries anything. Basements are also where you find out whether the exterior door actually opens, since a lot of them have not been used in years.
What comes out of a basement that is not just junk
Old electronics are almost guaranteed. A tube television that has been sitting behind the couch since the last upgrade, a tower PC, a VCR, a stack of cable boxes. Illinois bans all of that from landfill disposal and the Village lists the covered items explicitly. They go on our truck and get routed to a registered recycler, or you can run them yourself to the CHaRM center in South Holland, which takes electronics free from Cook County residents.
Water damage is the other common one. After a heavy rain in a basement with an old sump or a cracked wall you get soaked carpet, padding, and the bottom foot of drywall, and all of it has to leave quickly before mold sets in. That is heavy, wet, awkward work and it is one of the most common reasons people call.
We also flag things instead of dumping them. Paperwork that looks like it has account numbers in it gets pointed out rather than thrown on the pile, and so does anything that looks like it was somebody's collection rather than somebody's clutter.
Why curbside does not scale to a basement
The Village's collection through Waste Management covers up to three cubic yards of refuse a week plus one bulk item. A basement cleanout is routinely ten to twenty five cubic yards. Doing it a week at a time means a summer of hauling things up the stairs yourself and staging them at the curb by 6 a.m., and a wet couch or an unbagged pile is the kind of thing that gets left behind.
A rented dumpster solves the volume problem and none of the labor problem, which is the actual problem. The dumpster sits in your driveway while you make the same trips up the stairs you were avoiding.
What It Costs
Basements are priced by volume and by how hard the carry is, with all labor and disposal included.
| Job | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Small basement, a few pieces and boxes | $350 to $550 |
| Half basement | $600 to $950 |
| Full finished basement | $1,000 to $1,800 |
| Water damaged carpet and padding | Quoted by the room |
| Add appliances or a freezer | $125 to $225 each |
Send photos to (708) 840-0147 from the bottom of the stairs and from each corner, plus one of the stairway itself, and we will price the whole thing before we come. Ask about our discounts, since a basement and a garage on the same day is meaningfully cheaper than two visits.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a basement cleanout cost in Orland Park?
A few pieces and some boxes run $350 to $550. A half basement is $600 to $950 and a full finished basement is $1,000 to $1,800. Stair carries are already priced in, so the number does not change when we see the stairway.
Do I have to carry anything up the stairs?
No. That is the service. Leave everything where it sits and walk us through what stays and what goes.
Can you get a couch or a treadmill up a stairway with a turn?
Yes. Things that will not make the turn intact get taken apart or cut in the basement. That is included in the quote rather than billed as extra labor.
What happens to old TVs and computers from the basement?
They cannot go to a landfill in Illinois, so they go to a registered recycler. If you want to handle it yourself for free, the CHaRM drop off center in South Holland accepts electronics from Cook County residents on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and the second and fourth Saturday of the month.
Do you handle wet carpet after a basement flood?
Yes, and quickly matters. Soaked carpet and padding plus the bottom section of drywall come out and go straight on the truck. Tell us how many rooms and we will quote it from photos.