Rockville, Maryland — 20850 through 20853. Single-family houses with basements, condo buildings, garden and mid-rise apartments, and families at every stage of moving in or moving on. One piece or a whole basement, at a flat photo-quoted price from $75, often same day — and no sales tax on the service in Maryland.
Snap a photo — flat price back in seconds, no tax line
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Most of the suburbs we serve in Montgomery County have one housing type and one kind of job. Rockville has three, sitting side by side across 20850, 20851, 20852 and 20853. There are the single-family neighbourhoods — colonials and split-levels with a basement, a garage and twenty years of a family's accumulation in both. There are the condominium buildings, where a turnover has to fit around a management office, sometimes a certificate of insurance and a booked elevator. And there are the apartment complexes, where the job is an end-of-lease clear on a deadline that does not move.
Underneath all three is the same churn: this is a working suburb of families, a lot of them multigenerational, with a large and long-established Asian-American community, and a housing market people move within rather than out of. Grandparents move in and a home office moves out. A basement is finished. A first condo is traded for a house two ZIPs over. A lease ends in July and everything that will not fit in the next place has to be gone by the walkthrough. Those are ordinary jobs, and the thing that actually matters about them is that the price is known before anyone arrives and the crew does the carrying.
And the money detail worth stating up front: Maryland does not tax junk removal as a service. There is no sales-tax line on your Rockville bill — the quote is the total. If you are also pricing a place inside the District, note that DC does tax this service; Maryland and Virginia do not.
One piece or a whole basement. An exact flat price comes back in seconds — no walkthrough, no "call for a quote," no number that changes on the day.
Same-day and next-morning are regularly open across Rockville. If your condo needs a COI or a reserved elevator window, we file and book it before dispatch.
Up the basement stairs, down from the third floor, out of the unit — you lift nothing. Usable items routed to donation, the space swept, no tax line.
Flat and photo-quoted. One or two pieces price per item; a basement, a garage, a condo or an apartment prices as truck-fill, which for anything more than a few items is nearly always the cheaper way to buy it. The carry-out and the disposal are already inside the number, and there is no Maryland sales tax on the service.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Lawn mower | $88 |
| TV (medium) | $91 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Desk | $112 |
| Mattress — queen | $139 |
| Mattress — king | $154 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Loveseat | $160 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa / couch | $170 |
| Dryer | $172 |
| Washer | $179 |
| Chest freezer | $196 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Sectional — 3-piece | $249 |
Basements, garages, condos and apartments — the 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. If it is more than a few pieces, photograph the room rather than listing the contents — a basement priced as truck-fill comes in well under the same items added up one by one. Adding the matching loveseat to the sofa, or the dryer to the washer? Send them in the same photo and they price together. No Maryland sales tax on the service.
Two outside reference points. Angi's cost research puts a typical American junk-removal job at roughly $130–$380, averaging around $250 — useful as a sanity check, though national averages hide the fact that most of those quotes are volume-based and confirmed on site. And the local one, which is unusually concrete in this ZIP: Montgomery County's own Shady Grove Processing Facility & Transfer Station is in Derwood, at the top of Rockville, and it charges collectors by the ton. Every hauler working your street pays that at the scale. Ours is already inside the flat price rather than added when the truck is loaded.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County bulk collection | Free / county program | Scheduled or on-call | Item caps and exclusions apply (confirm with MoCo DEP); you carry everything out to the collection point yourself; condo and apartment residents are generally served through the property, not individually |
| Self-haul to the transfer station | Facility fees by weight | An afternoon | You need a truck, a second pair of hands, and the whole thing loaded and unloaded by you — twice |
| Donate or sell it | Free | Days–weeks | Only clean, resellable items qualify; buyers rarely turn up to move a sofa; the basement is still full |
| Franchise hauler | Volume-priced; national typical ≈$130–$380 (Angi) | 1–3 days | Priced by how much of the truck you fill, usually confirmed only once the crew is standing in your driveway |
| JunkRabbit | From $75 · sofa $170 · fridge $221 · truck-fill $325–$985 · no MD tax | Same day / next morning | None — flat photo price, we carry it out of the basement or the unit, donation-routed |
It does — the county runs its own scheduled and on-call bulk collection, and for a couple of items with no deadline that is a perfectly good answer. We would rather tell you that than pretend the free route doesn't exist. What we won't do is publish a cap we can't stand behind: like every county programme in this region it comes with item caps and exclusions, and those change. Confirm the current limits and accepted materials with the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection.
Two limits bite specifically in Rockville. The first is the unit of measure. The programme counts items, already carried out to the collection point by you. A basement is not an item list — it is a room, on the wrong floor, containing furniture that two people cannot get up a stairwell without a plan. The second is who the programme is even for. Rockville is not only single-family houses: condominium and apartment complexes are typically served through the property's own waste arrangements rather than by individual residents, which means a tenant halfway through a move has no personal appointment to book. Your management office's rules govern, and in most buildings those rules say the same thing — a private hauler, at a scheduled time, through the right door.
That contrast is worth knowing if you commute into the District, because plenty of Rockville households are also looking at places in the city: in DC, buildings of four or more units are excluded from municipal bulk pickup outright and must have bulk items removed by a private licensed hauler. Maryland's rules are not DC's — they are set county-side and property-side, and they differ — so check the one that applies to your address rather than assuming the rule you read about the other side of the line.
And then there is the fact that makes this page different from every other suburb page we write: the county's disposal site is in your neighbourhood. The Shady Grove Processing Facility & Transfer Station sits in Derwood, at the top end of Rockville, and it is where county-collected material is consolidated before it moves on. It charges collectors a fee per ton. So when you ask where your basement goes, the honest answer is: a few minutes up the road, onto a scale, at a price measured by weight. That is why disposal is a real line in any truthful quote — and why we sort for donation at your house instead of at the scale, because everything a partner takes is weight nobody pays for.
Very little of a Rockville household needs to be buried, so the load gets split before it goes anywhere. Usable furniture and household goods go to donation first. A Wider Circle in Silver Spring — the next town over — furnishes homes for families leaving homelessness and issues donation documentation, which is the right destination for a dining set, a dresser, a bed frame or a sofa that still has years in it. Alongside them we route to Habitat for Humanity ReStore (furniture, fixtures, appliances, building materials), Goodwill of Greater Washington and the Salvation Army.
After that it goes by material. Refrigerators, freezers and window air conditioners get EPA-certified refrigerant recovery before anything else happens to them — that is a legal requirement, not a service extra — and the steel is recycled afterward, as is the metal from washers, dryers, shelving and exercise frames. Televisions, monitors and computers go to Montgomery County's e-waste recycling drop-offs. Paint and household chemicals are separated for the county's household-hazardous-waste channels. Only the genuine remainder rides up to Shady Grove and onto the scale — and after a proper sort, that is a smaller share of a basement than most people expect.
In the houses: Rockville's split-levels and colonials put the heaviest things in the worst place. Basement stairs are steep, often turn at a landing, and a treadmill, a chest freezer or a sleeper sofa coming up that run is a planned lift with blankets on the pivot and doors off their hinges where the turn won't take. We protect floors, stair treads and door frames on the way out. There is no stair fee and no charge for the basement carry — it is the job.
In the condos: buildings have their own rules and we work inside them. Where a building requires a certificate of insurance naming the association or management company as additional insured, we file it ahead of the visit at no charge; where it requires a reserved service-elevator or loading window, we book it and work inside the slot. Corridors and the elevator cab get protected. There is no high-rise surcharge on the price.
In the apartments: end of lease is a deadline job, and the useful thing is certainty. You get a fixed price from a photo, a fixed window, and a crew that empties the unit and takes everything out through the door your property manager wants it to go through — not a pile left by the dumpster corral for someone else to deal with, which is how tenants end up charged for it.
"Basement cleared, carried up and out, swept clean. Flat price from a photo, no tax line. Didn't lift a thing."
"Relocating for work — cleared the basement and half the house before the move. Donation-routed, no sales tax in Maryland."
"Old fridge and a couch gone same-day. Photo, flat quote, easy. Highly recommend."
How much does it cost in Rockville?
Flat, photo-quoted: lawn mower $88, medium TV $91, bookshelf $97, desk $112, queen mattress $139, king $154, treadmill $155, loveseat $160, dresser $169, sofa $170, dryer $172, washer $179, chest freezer $196, refrigerator $221, 3-piece sectional $249. Basements, condos and apartments run the truck-fill ladder — $325 at 2/8 up to $985 for a full truck. $75 order minimum, no Maryland sales tax on the service.
Is there sales tax?
No. Maryland doesn't tax the junk-removal service, so there's no tax line on a Rockville bill. Only the District taxes it — worth knowing if you're also pricing a place in the city.
Where does it all actually go?
Donation first, then by material — and the true remainder tips at Montgomery County's Shady Grove Processing Facility & Transfer Station in Derwood, at the top of Rockville, which charges collectors by the ton.
Won't the county take it for free?
For a few items, possibly — scheduled and on-call bulk collection with item caps and exclusions; confirm current rules with MoCo DEP. But you carry everything out yourself, and condo and apartment residents are generally served through the property rather than individually.
I rent an apartment — what are my options?
Usually your management office's rules plus a private hauler. (In DC, buildings of 4+ units are barred from city bulk pickup outright; Maryland's rules differ and are set locally — check yours.)
Do you charge extra for the basement stairs?
No. The stair-carry is included, in houses and in walk-up buildings alike, and there's no high-rise surcharge in a condo either.
Do you take the fridge and the washer?
Yes — refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, chest freezer $196, with EPA-certified refrigerant recovery where it applies and the metal recycled after.
Can you come today?
Often. Send a photo and you'll see the real availability alongside the price. Buildings needing a COI or a booked elevator usually mean the next working day instead.
Flat and photo-quoted. Single pieces: lawn mower $88, medium TV $91, bookshelf $97, desk $112, queen mattress $139, king mattress $154, treadmill $155, loveseat $160, dresser $169, sofa $170, dryer $172, washer $179, chest freezer $196, refrigerator $221, 3-piece sectional $249. A basement, a garage, a condo turnover or an apartment at end of lease prices as truck-fill instead: 2/8 of the truck $325, 3/8 $455, 4/8 $580, 5/8 $690, 6/8 $790, 7/8 $890, a full truck $985. The order minimum is $75, and there is no Maryland sales tax on the service.
No. Maryland does not tax junk removal as a service, so there is no sales-tax line on your Rockville bill — the flat quote is the total. Of the three DMV jurisdictions only the District of Columbia taxes this service, which is worth knowing if you commute down the Red Line and are comparing quotes for a place in the city.
Mostly to a facility in your own neighbourhood. Montgomery County's Shady Grove Processing Facility and Transfer Station sits in Derwood, at the top end of Rockville, and it is where county-collected material is consolidated before it moves on. It charges collectors a fee per ton. That is the single most local fact about junk removal pricing in this ZIP: disposal is a genuine cost, measured by weight, paid at a scale a few minutes from your house — and in our case already inside the flat number rather than added afterward. Check current rates and hours with Montgomery County DEP.
Usually not directly. Multi-family properties are generally served through the building's own arrangements, not through a resident-level county appointment, so the practical options are your management office's rules or a private hauler. It is worth knowing the cross-border contrast if you also look at places in the city: in the District, buildings of four or more units are barred from municipal bulk pickup outright and must use a private licensed hauler. Maryland's rules are different and are set at county and property level — check yours rather than assuming either way.
Yes, and it is the most common Rockville job. A split-level or colonial basement full of furniture, boxes, exercise equipment and retired appliances prices as truck-fill between $325 and $985 rather than item by item, which is almost always the cheaper way to buy it. We carry everything up the stairs, sort donation from disposal as we go, and sweep the space before we leave. There is no stair fee.
Yes — refrigerator $221, washer $179, dryer $172, chest freezer $196. Refrigerators, freezers and window air conditioners go through EPA-certified refrigerant recovery before disposal, which is a legal requirement rather than an upsell, and the metal is recycled afterward. Disconnection of a standard plug-in appliance is included; anything hard-plumbed or gas-connected should be shut off by a licensed trade first.
Often, yes. Rockville sits in the middle of our Montgomery County routing, so same-day and next-morning slots open up regularly — send a photo and you will see the real availability with the price. For a condo or apartment building that requires a certificate of insurance or a reserved elevator window, we file and book that first, which normally means the next working day rather than this afternoon.