Garage Cleanout in Orland Park, IL
Attached and detached garages emptied in Orland Park, from a corner pile to a full two car, sorted and hauled in one visit.
A garage fills up the way a house never does, because nothing in it belongs to anyone in particular. The paint cans from the last three color changes, the bikes the kids outgrew, the shelving unit that holds boxes nobody has opened since the move, and the second refrigerator that has been running for a decade for six cans of pop. Orland Park Junk empties garages down to a swept floor. We sort as we load so the electronics and the appliances go where they are supposed to go, and you get the parking spot back the same day.
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
Three cubic yards a week is the real ceiling
Here is the number that decides whether you need a hauler. Orland Park's Waste Management agreement provides a 96 gallon refuse cart and collects up to three cubic yards of refuse per week. Anything that does not fit in the cart has to be in bags or containers no larger than 45 gallons that weigh under 50 pounds each, and only one bulk item comes with the weekly pickup.
Three cubic yards sounds like a lot until you look at a garage. A single set of steel shelving, a broken patio set, and eight boxes of miscellaneous is most of it. A real garage cleanout is typically six to fifteen cubic yards, which is four or five weeks of curb setouts if you do it in pieces, and that assumes nothing gets rained on and nothing gets refused.
The Village's annual curbside Spring Clean Up each April is the one week the volume rule opens up, and it is genuinely worth timing a cleanout around if you are not in a hurry. It does not accept electronics, so the televisions and computers still have to go somewhere else.
The stuff in a garage that needs its own answer
Paint is the first one. The Village is specific: paint has to be dried out in the can to be collected, and only latex, water based paint is allowed in regular trash once it is dry. Oil based paint, solvents, motor oil, gasoline, and pesticides are not trash at all, and Waste Management offers an At Your Door special collection service that Orland Park residents can schedule for exactly those materials plus electronics and batteries.
The old refrigerator in the corner is the second one. Federal rules require refrigerant to be recovered before disposal, so a garage fridge or a window air conditioner is not something to hand to a scrapper who happens to be driving by. We handle those the right way as part of the cleanout.
Electronics are the third. Illinois bans televisions, monitors, computers, printers, VCRs, game consoles, and cable receivers from landfill disposal. If you want to run them yourself, the CHaRM center in South Holland takes them free from Cook County residents on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and two Saturdays a month. Otherwise they go on our truck and get routed correctly.
How we work a garage
You point, we carry. The most efficient version is you spending twenty minutes ahead of time pulling out anything you are keeping and putting it in the driveway or one corner, then telling us everything else goes. That is faster and cheaper than deciding item by item while two people stand there holding a shelf.
We sort into keep, donate, recycle, and dump as we load, and we will flag anything that looks valuable rather than throwing it on the pile. Shelving gets unbolted from the wall, anchors come out, and the floor gets swept before we leave. If a job turns out smaller than the photos suggested, the price comes down. It does not go up because the boxes were heavier than expected.
What It Costs
Garages are priced by how much of the truck the load fills, with labor, sorting, and disposal included.
| Job | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Quarter garage or one corner pile | $300 to $450 |
| Half garage | $450 to $700 |
| Full two car garage | $800 to $1,300 |
| Add a refrigerator or freezer | $150 to $225 |
| Detached garage plus a shed | Quoted from photos |
Text a few wide photos to (708) 840-0147, one from the door and one from each back corner, and we will price it before we come. Ask about our discounts, since garages combined with a basement or a shed on the same visit come in well under two separate jobs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a garage cleanout cost in Orland Park?
A corner pile or quarter garage runs $300 to $450, a half garage $450 to $700, and a packed two car garage $800 to $1,300. Labor, sorting, and dump fees are all in that number.
Do I need to sort anything before you get here?
Only the things you are keeping. Pull those into the driveway or one corner and tell us the rest goes. Everything else we sort as we load.
Can you take the old paint cans?
Dried out latex paint, yes. Oil based paint, solvents, gasoline, and pesticides are household hazardous waste and belong in Waste Management's At Your Door special collection service, which Orland Park residents can schedule. We will separate those out and tell you what to do with them.
What about the extra refrigerator?
We take it. Refrigerant has to be recovered before disposal under federal rules, and we route it through a facility that does that. Add $150 to $225 to the cleanout price.
How long does a full garage take?
Most full two car garages are two to four hours with two people, and we sweep the floor before we go. It is one visit, not a series of curb setouts.