The Moving Cleanout Checklist for Trinity County

A moving cleanout checklist starts by splitting what leaves with you from what stays behind, then booking a haul for everything the movers won't touch so the house sits empty before your closing date or the last day of your lease. Work room by room, box the keepers, and set aside one pile for donation and one for junk. The junk pile is where we come in.

That is the whole thing in two sentences. The reason it gets messy is that a move surfaces stuff you forgot you owned: the broken recliner in the spare room, the dead lawnmower, three half-empty paint cans, a mattress nobody has slept on in years. County Line Junk Disposal is family owned out of Trinity, and we haul the load-and-go pile so you can hand over a clean, empty house instead of eating a cleaning fee or blowing your closing walkthrough. Greg answers his own phone, so if your timeline is tight you can just ask.

Here is the order that keeps a move from turning into chaos the night before the truck shows up:

• Go room by room and box the keepers first, so what's left on the floor is the donate-and-haul pile.
• Pull paint, motor oil, pool chemicals, and pesticides out and set them aside. That's household hazardous waste, and we can't haul it.
• Flag any fridge, freezer, or window unit with freon. Those carry a $35 add-on we tell you about up front.
• Do the garage last. It hides the heaviest, most awkward junk, and it's usually a job of its own.
• Clear a path to the driveway so the dump trailer can back close. On a rural place, tell us if the drive gets soft when it rains.

You don't stage or lift the junk itself. Once the keepers are separated, we do the reaching, the carrying, and the loading. The garage is enough of an animal that we wrote a whole garage cleanout cost guide for it.

A moving company's job ends at the truck ramp. They'll box your dishes and wrap your couch, but the busted particleboard dresser, the grill with a rusted-out bottom, the treadmill that became a coat rack, none of that goes on their truck. Some movers flat-out refuse anything they can't insure in transit, which covers a lot of the stuff you were hoping to be rid of anyway.

That leaves you with a pile in the middle of an empty house and a moving truck already gone. We take furniture, appliances, mattresses, e-waste, yard junk, construction leftovers, and general household clutter. What we don't do is hazardous waste, so keep the paint, chemicals, and oil out of the load. The full rundown of what goes and what stays is on the services page.

Here's the load-size ladder we work off of, same whether it's one room or a four-bedroom emptied wall to wall:

• Single item is $95.
• Quarter load is $175.
• Half load is $325.
• Three-quarter load is $475.
• Full load is $650.

A house where you're only leaving behind a few big pieces and some boxes often fits a half or three-quarter load. A place packed with furniture in every room, a full garage, and years of accumulation runs a full trailer, and occasionally two. Add-ons stay small and predictable: fridges or freezers with freon are +$35, each mattress is +$30, and tires are priced per item. New customers get 15% off that first job, and you pay when the work is done, cash, check, or Cash App.

Square footage is a rough guide at best, because two houses the same size can hold wildly different amounts of stuff. A 2,000 foot home where the owner already moved most things out might only be a half load. The same house left full after years of living, with a stuffed garage and a shed out back, can push past a single trailer.

The honest way to price it is to look at what's actually staying behind. Text a few photos of the rooms and the garage to (936) 259-3200, and you'll get a ballpark back the same day. We don't run an hourly meter, so a house with tight hallways or a second floor doesn't cost more for being awkward; it costs what the pile fills in the trailer. If you're settling a relative's place rather than your own move, the estate cleanout guide walks through the extra steps that come with that.

The trap is waiting until the last afternoon. Movers run late, closings get moved up, and the one day you had penciled in disappears. Give yourself a two or three day cushion. We're open 7 days a week, 8 AM to 6 PM, so a weekend haul before a Monday closing is normal for us.

For a lease end, an empty, swept house is often the difference between getting your deposit back and eating a cleaning-and-removal charge from the landlord. For a home sale, a clean walkthrough keeps the buyer from renegotiating over a garage full of your leftover junk. We text you a ballpark the same day you reach out, though the haul itself gets booked for a day that works on your calendar, often within a few days of your call rather than the same afternoon.

Rental turnovers, hoarder situations, houses that sat empty for a year, we've priced all of it the same way: by how much the trailer fills. The one thing to know is that a neglected place often hides dense, heavy debris under the clutter, like a broken-up concrete step or a pile of old roofing shingles. Heavy debris such as concrete, dirt, and roofing gets weighed and quoted separately, since a small pile of it can outweigh a whole trailer of boxes.

What we don't handle is biohazard cleanup, meaning anything that needs specialized decontamination. For ordinary junk, rot, and mess, we're the right call. If the yard grew over while the place sat empty, our Mahindra tractor handles light land clearing on the same visit, so overgrown brush and a junk pile can go in one trip.

Whether you're moving out of a place here in Trinity or clearing a rental over in Riverside, the load-size pricing is the same, with the small trip fee quoted up front if you're past the free 25-mile zone. The number we say on site is the number you pay, and you're free to walk if you don't like it. Send over your photos or call and text (936) 259-3200. We answer our own phone, 7 days a week, 8 AM to 6 PM.