Federal and Victorian row houses (20007) with no elevators, narrow vintage stairs, cobblestone streets and rear-alley carry-outs — plus the cellars and English basements underneath them. We carry it down and out, carefully, at a flat photo-quoted price from $75. You don't lift a thing.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Georgetown is the District's oldest neighborhood, and its housing stock tells you exactly what the work is going to be. Federal and Victorian row houses with no elevators. Staircases built narrow, steep, and with a turn at the landing that no modern sofa was designed around. Cobblestone streets where there's frequently nowhere legal or sane to stop a truck. And behind almost all of it, the rear alley — which is very often the smarter way to get something large out of the house.
Add the cellars. Georgetown houses have English basements and cellars, and a house that's been in the same hands for thirty or fifty years has a cellar to match: furniture that got retired instead of removed, boxes, paint cans, tools, the crib, the third dining set. Getting all of it back up a vintage staircase is the entire difficulty of a Georgetown cleanout, and it's the part we're here to do.
And because this is a local historic district, care isn't optional. Plaster that predates drywall, original floors, painted stair rails and doorframes that can't be replaced from a big-box shelf. We take doors off hinges rather than force a piece through, break furniture down in place, blanket what we carry past, and work quietly. None of that is a line item — it's just how a Georgetown job has to be done. (DC sales tax applies at checkout.)
Photograph the piece, the room or the cellar. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no on-site renegotiation.
Front door or rear alley? Which staircase, how many turns? We plan the carry before we arrive, so nothing is improvised in your stairwell.
An insured, vetted crew does every lift, protects floors and rails, sweeps behind itself, and routes what's usable to donation.
Flat and photo-quoted. A single piece prices per item; a cellar, a floor or a whole house prices as truck-fill. The stair-carry, the alley carry-out, the loading and the disposal are already in the number — there is no stair fee and no historic-house surcharge.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Loveseat | $160 |
| Sideboard | $165 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| China cabinet | $215 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Sectional — 3-piece | $249 |
| Upright piano | $390 |
Cellars, floors and whole-house clears — truck-fill ladder
| Truck fill | Flat price |
|---|---|
| 2/8 of the truck | $325 |
| 3/8 | $455 |
| 4/8 (half truck) | $580 |
| 5/8 | $690 |
| 6/8 | $790 |
| 7/8 | $890 |
| Full truck (8/8) | $985 |
$75 order minimum. Clearing more than one thing? Photograph the group rather than the pieces — a set priced together is almost always less than the same items added up one at a time. Renovation debris prices by volume at $162 per cubic yard; contractor bags are $55 each or $178 for ten. DC sales tax applies at checkout.
A third-party benchmark, since "what should this cost" is the real question: HomeGuide's 2026 cost research puts national franchise junk removal at roughly $400–$600 for a half-truck and $700–$1,000 for a full truck — and those numbers are typically confirmed only after a crew comes out to look at your cellar in person.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC DPW bulk trash (311 / dpw.dc.gov) | Free | Scheduled appointment | 7 items per appointment, single-family and ≤3-unit buildings only, no renovation debris — and you carry it down the stairs and out yourself |
| Donate (Goodwill, Habitat ReStore, Salvation Army, A Wider Circle) | Free | Days | Must be clean and resellable; pickups book out and most locations want you to deliver it |
| Self-haul to a transfer station | Truck rental + tip fee | Half a day | You need a truck you can actually park on a Georgetown block, and you do every lift twice |
| Franchise hauler (1-800-GOT-JUNK, College HUNKS) | ≈$400–$600 half-truck, $700–$1,000 full (HomeGuide 2026) | 1–3 days | Priced by truck volume, usually confirmed only by an on-site estimate |
| JunkRabbit | From $75 · sofa $170 · truck-fill $325–$985 | Same day | None — flat photo price, narrow-stair and alley carry included, donation-routed |
Mostly, yes — and we'll say so plainly rather than pretend otherwise. DC DPW runs a free bulk-trash collection program, requested through 311 or dpw.dc.gov, and it serves single-family homes and buildings of three units or fewer. That covers the great majority of Georgetown's row houses. If you have a couple of chairs and a headboard and your timeline is loose, book the appointment. It's your tax money.
Now the limits, which is where most Georgetown jobs actually land:
And there's a category of Georgetown address the program doesn't reach at all: the converted four-plus-unit buildings and the condos along the waterfront and M Street. Under District rules, condos, co-ops and buildings of four or more units are excluded from city bulk pickup and must use a private, licensed hauler (DC DPW). For those residents it isn't a comparison — a private hauler is the only lawful route, so the question is simply which one shows up with a flat price and the insurance paperwork already done.
Georgetown furniture is frequently too good to landfill, so donation comes first. Usable pieces are routed to Goodwill of Greater Washington, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, the Salvation Army, or A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, which furnishes homes for families leaving shelters and will issue a receipt — a genuinely good outcome for a sideboard that has one more life in it. Metal goes to scrap. Electronics go to the District's e-waste drop-off rather than the trash stream. Refrigerant appliances get EPA-certified recovery before disposal. What's truly waste tips at the regional transfer stations — Fairfax County's I-66 and I-95 complexes or Montgomery County's Shady Grove facility — which is also why we sort on the way out rather than at the scale.
The physical constraints here are specific enough to plan around, so we do. Stairs: no elevators, narrow treads, a landing turn, and a rail that's often original. We measure before we lift, take doors off hinges, break beds and sectionals down in place, and blanket the rail and the wall on the pivot. The street: cobblestone blocks with permit parking and no loading zone mean we don't idle a truck across your neighbor's door any longer than the carry takes. The alley: most Georgetown blocks have a rear alley, and on plenty of them it's the far better route — shorter carry, no front steps, nothing dragged across the sidewalk. Tell us which side works and we build the job around it.
Two more Georgetown specifics. Georgetown University (20057) puts a real spike in the neighborhood every May, when students clear apartments and shared row houses in the same two weeks — that whole-unit job prices as one truck-fill, not per roommate. And waterfront and M Street condos in four-plus-unit buildings need a certificate of insurance for management and often a service-elevator window; we file the COI and book the window before the crew is dispatched.
"Cleared the rowhouse basement — furniture, boxes, decades of stuff, carried up the narrow stairs. Flat price, same-day. Didn't lift a thing."
"Discreet estate clear — careful with the antiques, donated the rest, realtor-ready. Professional and quiet."
"Student move-out — whole apartment gone in an afternoon. Flat quote, easy. Highly recommend."
How much does it cost in Georgetown?
Flat, photo-quoted: sofa $170, loveseat $160, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, dresser $169, bookshelf $97, sideboard $165, china cabinet $215, refrigerator $221, upright piano $390. Cellars and whole-house clears run the truck-fill ladder, $325 at 2/8 up to $985 full. $75 order minimum, stair-carry and disposal included. DC sales tax applies at checkout.
Will DC bulk trash take it instead?
For most Georgetown row houses, yes — DPW serves single-family and ≤3-unit buildings via 311 or dpw.dc.gov. But it's seven items per appointment, it's scheduled rather than same-day, it won't take renovation debris, and you get everything down the stairs and out to the alley or curb. Four-plus-unit buildings and condos are excluded outright and need a private licensed hauler.
Can you handle the narrow stairs?
Yes — that's the neighborhood's defining job. Doors off hinges, pieces broken down in place, rails and floors blanketed, no stair fee.
Do you carry out through the rear alley?
Whenever it's the better route, which on many Georgetown blocks it is. Tell us which side loads more easily and we plan around it.
Do you take renovation debris?
Yes. DPW explicitly doesn't accept construction and demolition debris, so a historic kitchen or bath tear-out is ours: $162 per cubic yard, contractor bags $55 each or $178 for ten.
Can you clear a cellar nobody has touched in decades?
That's the signature Georgetown booking. Truck-fill priced from a photo, sorted for donation as we go, swept when we leave — and every bit of it carried up by us.
Can you come during GU move-out in May?
Yes, and we staff for it. A student apartment or shared row house in 20057 clears as one flat truck-fill price. Book a few days ahead in the first half of May.
Flat and photo-quoted. Single pieces: sofa $170, loveseat $160, 3-piece sectional $249, queen mattress $139, dresser $169, bookshelf $97, sideboard $165, china cabinet $215, refrigerator $221, upright piano $390. A cellar, a whole floor or a full row house prices as truck-fill: 2/8 of the truck $325, 3/8 $455, 4/8 $580, 5/8 $690, 6/8 $790, 7/8 $890, full truck $985. The order minimum is $75. Stair-carry, alley carry-out, loading and disposal are all inside the number. DC sales tax applies at checkout.
For most Georgetown row houses, yes. DC DPW bulk trash serves single-family homes and buildings of three units or fewer, and you request an appointment through 311 or dpw.dc.gov. The real limits are the ones that matter here: seven items per appointment, no renovation or construction and demolition debris, it is not same-day, and it is curbside — you get everything down the narrow vintage stairs and out to the alley or the curb yourself. The converted four-plus-unit buildings and the condos along the waterfront and M Street are excluded from the program outright and legally need a private, licensed hauler.
That is the Georgetown job. Federal and Victorian row houses here have no elevators, and the staircases are narrow, steep and often turn twice. We take doors off hinges where we have to, break pieces down in place rather than forcing them through a frame, and blanket what we carry past. Protecting plaster, historic floors and painted stair rails is part of the work, not an upsell, and there is no stair fee.
Yes — and this is exactly where the city program stops. DC DPW bulk trash does not accept renovation or construction and demolition debris, so the torn-out cabinetry, the old vanity, the plaster and lath and the counters are not a 311 appointment. We take them: demolition material prices by volume at $162 per cubic yard, and contractor bags are $55 each or $178 for ten.
Routinely. Georgetown English basements and cellars hold generations of furniture, boxes, paint, tools and holiday bins, and the hard part is getting all of it back UP a narrow staircase. That is our job, not yours. It prices as truck-fill from a photo, the crew sorts donation from disposal as it goes, and the floor is swept before we leave.
Georgetown is a local historic district and the houses show their age in the best and most fragile ways. Our crews work quietly, protect floors and stair rails, keep the sidewalk and alley clear while loading, and do not park a container on your block. Estate and downsizing jobs are handled discreetly — no branding on the front step longer than the job takes.
May is our busiest Georgetown week and we staff for it. A student apartment or a shared row house near campus in 20057 clears as one flat truck-fill price rather than per roommate, and we can do the whole unit in a single visit before the lease ends. Book a few days ahead during the first two weeks of May if you can — that window fills.