The cultural center of DC's Salvadoran community (20010) — row houses and three- and four-story walk-ups with no elevator. We carry the sofa, the futon and the mattress down from whichever floor it is on, at a flat photo-quoted price from $75. Hablamos español. No stair fee, no curb drag.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Ask anyone who has moved out of a unit on Mount Pleasant Street what the hard part was, and nobody says the price of the truck. They say the stairs. This is a neighborhood of row houses and three- and four-story walk-up apartment buildings along Mount Pleasant Street and 16th Street, and the walk-ups are the operational story here: no elevator, a narrow interior staircase, a turn at each landing, and a box spring that was never going to make that turn without somebody who has done it before.
It is also, in a way that goes beyond housing stock, the cultural center of the District's Salvadoran community — not simply a neighborhood where Spanish is spoken. The DMV is home to roughly 260,000 Salvadorans, the largest Hispanic-origin group in the region (GMU Institute for Immigration Research), and Mount Pleasant is where a great deal of that community's civic and commercial life has been anchored for decades. So we run this the obvious way: atendemos en español — the photo quote, the scheduling and the crew at the door.
What we actually do here is straightforward and physical. A sofa down four flights. A mattress and box spring out of a top-floor unit on the last day of a lease. A row-house basement that a family has been filling for two generations, carried back up the stairs. A landlord's turnover between tenants. All of it flat-priced from a photo, per piece or as one truck-fill. (DC sales tax applies at checkout.)
Photograph the piece or the whole unit. The exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no estimator, no revision at the door. Puedes mandarla en español.
Which floor, how many flights, does the staircase turn, is there a rear exit? We plan the carry-down before dispatch so nothing gets improvised on your landing.
An insured crew does every step of it, blankets the rail, breaks pieces down in place when the turn demands it, and loads. Usable furniture goes to donation.
Flat and photo-quoted. Single pieces price per item; a whole unit or a basement prices as truck-fill. The carry-down from any floor, the loading and the disposal are already in the number — there is no stair fee, no fourth-floor surcharge and no fuel line.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Bed frame | $92 |
| Twin mattress | $111 |
| Box spring | $124 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Futon | $150 |
| Mini fridge | $155 |
| Loveseat | $160 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
Whole units and row-house basements — 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. A bed is usually three pieces — mattress, box spring and frame — so photograph the set rather than each piece; grouped items almost always price under the same items added up separately, and a full move-out is nearly always cheaper as a truck-fill. DC sales tax applies at checkout.
An outside reference point: 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, priced by volume and typically confirmed only after an estimator has climbed your stairs to look.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| DC DPW bulk trash (311 / dpw.dc.gov) | Free | Scheduled appointment | Only if your building is ≤3 units; 7 items per appointment; no renovation debris; and you get it down four flights to the curb yourself |
| Donate (Goodwill, Salvation Army, Habitat ReStore, A Wider Circle) | Free | Days | Must be clean and resellable — and most sites want it delivered, which means the stairs are still your problem |
| Rent a truck and self-haul | Rental + fuel + tip fee | Half a day | Every piece goes down the stairs by hand, then up into the truck, then off again at the transfer station |
| Franchise hauler (1-800-GOT-JUNK, College HUNKS) | ≈$400–$600 half truck, $700–$1,000 full (HomeGuide 2026) | 1–3 days | Volume-priced and generally confirmed only by an on-site estimate |
| JunkRabbit | From $75 · sofa $170 · truck-fill $325–$985 | Same day | None — flat photo price, carried down from any floor, no stair fee, español |
Here the honest answer depends entirely on how many units are in your building, and in Mount Pleasant that line runs right through the middle of the neighborhood. Worth knowing exactly which side you are on before you call anyone.
If you are in a row house or a small conversion of three units or fewer: the city program covers you. DC DPW bulk trash is free, you request an appointment through 311 or dpw.dc.gov, and it serves single-family homes and buildings of three units or fewer. Mount Pleasant has a great many two- and three-unit row-house conversions, and they genuinely do qualify. If you have a couple of chairs and a headboard and your timeline is flexible, book it — it is your tax money. Just know the limits: seven items per appointment, a scheduled date rather than same-day, no renovation or C&D debris, and it is curbside, so everything still comes down the stairs under your own power.
If you are in one of the larger walk-up apartment buildings on Mount Pleasant Street: you are almost certainly in a four-or-more-unit building, and those are excluded from DC bulk trash entirely. Under District rules, condos, co-ops and buildings of four or more units must have bulk items removed by a private, licensed hauler (DC DPW). There is no free tier for you, no slow option to fall back on, and no amount of calling 311 changes it. The only question left is which licensed hauler quotes the number before arriving, speaks your language, and will actually carry a sofa down from the fourth floor without inventing a stair fee.
And regardless of which building you are in, one category is never a 311 appointment: renovation debris. Torn-out cabinets, an old vanity, plaster and tile are outside the program by definition. We price that by volume at $162 per cubic yard, with contractor bags at $55 each or $178 for ten.
Donation first. A dresser or a sofa that survived four flights of stairs is usually still worth something to somebody, so usable pieces are routed to Goodwill of Greater Washington, the Salvation Army, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, or A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, which furnishes homes for families leaving homelessness and issues documentation on request. Metal frames and box-spring steel go to scrap. Televisions and computers go into the District's e-waste stream rather than the trash. Refrigerators, freezers and window air conditioners get EPA-certified refrigerant recovery first — a genuine legal requirement, already inside your flat price. Only the remainder is tipped at a regional transfer station, and disposal in this region is expensive enough that sorting on the way out is not a green talking point so much as basic arithmetic.
This is the page's real subject, so here is exactly how we handle it. The buildings along Mount Pleasant Street and 16th Street are typically three and four stories with no elevator, with an interior staircase built narrow and turning at every landing. That turn is where jobs go wrong. We measure the piece and the landing before anything is lifted. We take doors off hinges rather than force something through a frame. We break beds, futons and sectionals down in place — a box spring in particular almost never makes a 20th-century landing turn intact, and cutting it down beats scarring your stairwell. Rails and walls get blanketed on the pivot, and the crew works the stairs in a two-person carry rather than dragging.
Three things follow from that, and they are the whole point. There is no stair fee. Fourth floor and ground floor are the same flat number, because the price came from your photo and we are not renegotiating it on a landing. There is no curb drag — we come to the room the piece is in, which is the entire difference between us and a city program that collects only from the street. And nothing sits outside waiting; the item leaves with the truck the day we come, rather than living on the sidewalk in front of your building until a scheduled date.
For the smaller row-house conversions the shape is different but the principle is the same: front steps, a narrow interior stair, a basement with its own tight run, and sometimes a rear alley that loads far better than the street. Tell us which side works and we build the carry around it.
"Equipo en español, sacaron el sótano completo y muebles viejos. Precio fijo, rápido, sin sorpresas. Muy recomendable."
"Walk-up move-out — couch and mattress down and out same-day, no stair fee. Fair flat price."
"Rental turnover, hauled everything left and swept clean, same-day. Reliable."
How much does it cost in Mount Pleasant?
Flat, photo-quoted: bed frame $92, twin mattress $111, box spring $124, queen mattress $139, futon $150, mini fridge $155, loveseat $160, dresser $169, sofa $170, refrigerator $221. Whole units and basements run the truck-fill ladder, $325 at 2/8 up to $985 full. $75 order minimum, carry-down and disposal included. DC sales tax applies at checkout.
Will you come down four flights with no elevator?
Yes — that is the neighborhood's signature job. Doors off hinges, beds and futons broken down on the landing, rails blanketed, two-person carry, no stair fee.
Will DC bulk trash take it instead?
Only if your building has three units or fewer — which many Mount Pleasant row-house conversions do. Seven items per appointment, scheduled not same-day, no renovation debris, curbside. The bigger walk-ups on Mount Pleasant St are 4+ units and excluded outright; District rules require a private, licensed hauler for those.
¿Hablan español?
Sí — la cotización, la cita y el equipo. Mount Pleasant is the cultural center of the District's Salvadoran community, and we treat Spanish as a first language for this service.
Can you do the whole unit at lease end?
Yes, usually same-day. One photo of the unit, one truck-fill price from $325, swept when we leave, usable pieces donated.
Mattress and box spring together?
Queen mattress $139, box spring $124, frame $92 — photograph the set together and we price it as one job.
Cheaper than a franchise?
More predictable. HomeGuide's 2026 research puts franchises at roughly $400–$600 half truck and $700–$1,000 full, by volume and confirmed on site. Ours comes from a photo, and one sofa off the fourth floor is $170.
Yes, and it is the defining job on this side of the neighborhood. The walk-up buildings on Mount Pleasant Street and 16th Street run three and four stories with no elevator and narrow interior stairs that usually turn at each landing. We measure before we lift, take doors off hinges where we have to, break beds, futons and sectionals down in place rather than forcing them through a frame, and blanket the rail on the pivot. There is no stair fee and no floor surcharge, and there is no curb-drag — nothing waits on the sidewalk.
It depends on the size of your building, and in Mount Pleasant the line falls right down the middle of the neighborhood. DC DPW bulk trash, requested through 311 or dpw.dc.gov, serves single-family homes and buildings of three units or fewer, with up to 7 items per appointment, curbside only, and no renovation or construction debris. Many of Mount Pleasant's small two- and three-unit row-house conversions do qualify. The larger walk-up apartment buildings along Mount Pleasant Street are four or more units, which excludes them from the program outright — District rules require those bulk items to be removed by a private, licensed hauler.
Sí, y en este barrio importa más que en casi cualquier otro. Mount Pleasant is the cultural center of the District's Salvadoran community, part of a metro population of roughly 260,000 Salvadorans — the largest Hispanic-origin group in the region. You can send the photo with a note in Spanish, get the flat price back in Spanish, book in Spanish, and have a crew at the door that speaks it. Most junk-removal companies in the DMV still run English-only sites and phone lines.
Routinely, and in Mount Pleasant it is often a multigenerational household's basement — furniture that got retired instead of removed, boxes, tools, paint, seasonal bins. It prices as truck-fill from a photo rather than item by item, we carry all of it up the stairs ourselves, we sort donation from disposal as we go, and the floor is swept before we leave.
Yes — end-of-lease walk-up move-outs are one of our most common Mount Pleasant bookings, and same-day is usually open. Send one photo of the unit rather than photographing pieces separately: a whole-unit clear prices as a single truck-fill starting at $325, which is nearly always less than the same furniture added up one piece at a time.
Yes, and they are the classic walk-up load. Queen mattress $139, twin $111, box spring $124, bed frame $92, futon $150. A box spring is the piece that most often will not turn on a narrow landing, so we break it down in place instead of scarring your stairwell. All of it is inside the flat photo price.
HomeGuide's 2026 cost research puts national franchise junk removal at roughly $400 to $600 for a half truck and $700 to $1,000 for a full truck, priced by truck volume and usually confirmed only after an estimator visits. Ours is per item or per truck-fill and comes back from a photo before anyone drives to Mount Pleasant Street, with the carry-down and disposal already included. One sofa out of a fourth-floor walk-up is $170.