Most junk doesn’t pile up because you’re messy. It piles up because getting rid of it is a pain. The old couch is too heavy for two people and won’t fit down the stairs the way it came up. The treadmill in the basement hasn’t moved since 2019. The fridge in the garage works, sort of, but you’ll never use it again. Hauling any of it means renting a truck, finding someone with a strong back who owes you a favour, figuring out where the city even takes this stuff, and burning a Saturday you’d rather have back. So it sits, and the pile grows, and a year goes by.
Moving Co. does junk removal in Toronto and right across the GTA, seven days a week, often same day. Furniture and appliance hauling, full estate and condo cleanouts, garage and basement clearing, office and retail clear-outs, and the one-off “please just get this out of my house” jobs. You point at what’s going. We carry it out, load it on the truck, sweep up after ourselves, and haul it away. You don’t lift a thing, and you don’t have to think about where it ends up.
We’re a moving company first, which is the part that makes us different from a guy with a pickup and a Kijiji ad. Insured crews, a clear price agreed before we start, and no mystery fees once the truck is full and you’re committed. No broker hand-off either: the people you book are the people who show up. Call 905-752-7787 or request a free junk removal quote and tell us roughly what you’ve got.
What junk removal costs in Toronto
Let’s talk price plainly, because this is where the sketchy operators play games.
Junk removal is priced by volume: how much space your stuff takes up in the truck, usually measured in fractions of a truckload. A few items from one room is a small job. A whole basement or a full estate is a big one. On top of volume, three things move the number:
- Weight and disposal. Most household junk is bulky but light. Some things are dense and cost more to dump: renovation debris, concrete, a load that’s mostly heavy appliances. Dump and recycling fees are real costs, and they vary by what’s in the load and where it has to go.
- Access. Junk sitting in the driveway is quick. Junk in a third-floor walk-up, down a tight basement stair, or at the end of a long carry from a back unit takes longer, and the price reflects the labour. Downtown Toronto adds its own wrinkles: elevator bookings, loading dock windows, and nowhere legal to park the truck.
- Special handling. Fridges and freezers carry refrigerant. E-waste and mattresses have their own disposal streams. Some items come with small associated fees, and we’ll tell you up front if any apply rather than burying them in the total.
Here’s our promise on it. We give you a clear estimate before we start, we explain what’s driving the number, and the price we agree is the price you pay. We don’t quote low to win the booking and then “discover” the load is bigger once your stuff is on the truck and you’ve got no easy way to back out. If your pile turns out larger than you described, we’ll tell you the revised number before we load it, not after. Send a rough description or a few phone photos with your quote request and we’ll get you close right away.
If you’re booking junk removal alongside a move, the moving side runs on our standard hourly rate instead: $50 per hour per mover plus $49 per hour for the truck, so two movers and a truck is $149 an hour. One hour minimum, then billed in 15 minute increments, so going eight minutes over costs you eight minutes and not a full extra hour. The $149 rate applies to select non-peak dates and peak-period pricing may vary. Full details are on the pricing page.
Why pay a crew instead of renting a bin?
A bin sits in your driveway for a week looking ugly, and it may need a City of Toronto permit if it’s going on the street. You still do every bit of the lifting yourself. And you’re paying for days you don’t use. We show up, do the labour, and leave with the junk the same day. For most households that’s less hassle and often less money once you honestly count your own time, the truck rental you’d have needed, and your back.
What we haul (and what we can’t)
If it fits in a truck and isn’t dangerous, odds are we’ll take it. The usual list:
- Furniture: couches, sectionals, recliners, mattresses and box springs, bed frames, dressers, desks, dining sets, that sleeper sofa nobody in the family wants.
- Appliances: fridges, stoves, washers, dryers, dishwashers, microwaves, freezers. There’s a rule on fridges and freezers, more on that below.
- Exercise equipment: treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, the home gym you bought in good faith in January.
- Electronics and e-waste: TVs (including the old tube monsters that weigh as much as a person), monitors, computers, stereo gear, printers.
- Household clutter: boxes of “I’ll deal with it later,” old toys, broken lamps, bags of clothes, the general junk that accumulates in closets and spare rooms.
- Garage and yard stuff: shelving, bikes, tools, patio furniture, BBQs (tank removed and emptied), the entire contents of the shed.
- Renovation leftovers: old cabinets, a single torn-out vanity, scrap from a small DIY job. For a full gut reno with tonnes of drywall and concrete, you usually want a dedicated demolition bin instead, and we’ll tell you so rather than quote you a fortune to do it by hand.
What we can’t take is the short, boring list every honest hauler has: hazardous materials. No paint, solvents, motor oil, gasoline, propane tanks, automotive batteries, asbestos, or chemicals. Those have specific drop-offs and handling rules in Ontario for good reason, and the dump won’t accept a load with them mixed in. If we spot something on the day that needs special disposal, we’ll flag it and point you the right way rather than quietly tossing it in the truck and making it someone else’s problem. Same with a fridge or freezer: the refrigerant has to be dealt with properly, so let us know in advance and we’ll handle it correctly.
Residential junk removal in Toronto
Most of what we haul comes out of houses, condos and apartments, and most of it falls into one of a few familiar situations.
There’s the single stubborn item: a sectional that won’t go down the stairs, a piano nobody plays, a fridge in the garage. There’s the room reclaim, where a garage or basement has quietly turned into storage and you want it back. There’s the pre-listing clear-out, where a realtor has told you the place shows better empty and you’ve got a photography date looming. And there’s the post-renovation tidy, where the contractor took the debris but left the old cabinets, the torn-out vanity and a pile of packaging behind.
All of it is the same job from our side: you decide what goes, we carry it out and haul it away. You don’t need to drag anything to the curb, dismantle furniture, or have it waiting in the driveway. Residential jobs are usually the fastest ones we do, and a typical garage or single-room clear-out is a couple of hours rather than a full day.
Commercial junk removal for Toronto businesses
We do commercial clear-outs too, and they run a little differently.
Office furniture removal, cubicle and workstation teardowns, retail fixtures and shelving, restaurant equipment, warehouse and storage clear-outs, and end-of-lease strip-outs where the space has to be handed back empty. The usual constraints are timing and access rather than volume: a landlord’s hand-back date, a building that only allows freight elevator use outside business hours, a loading dock you have to book, or a requirement to have a certificate of insurance on file before any crew is allowed in the building.
Tell us the deadline and the building rules when you book and we’ll build the schedule around them, including evening and weekend work where the building requires it. We can provide a certificate of insurance ahead of the date. If you need the space cleared and also need the good furniture relocated rather than dumped, we can do both in one visit, since we’re a moving company as well as a hauler. Larger or multi-site work is handled through our enterprise moving service.
Same day junk removal in Toronto
A fair number of our calls are urgent. A tenant left a unit full of furniture and the new one moves in Saturday. A closing date moved up. A landlord gave notice. Something has to be gone today, not next week.
We run seven days a week and we can often do same day pickup in Toronto and the inner GTA when you call early enough, since the crews and trucks are already out. It depends on what’s already booked and where the crew is, so the honest answer is always the same: call 905-752-7787 and ask rather than assuming. If we can’t fit you in today we’ll tell you straight and give you the earliest slot we actually have, rather than taking the booking and letting you find out on the day.
For same day work, a rough description over the phone or a couple of photos gets you a price fastest. Downtown condo jobs are the one place where same day is harder, because the building usually needs an elevator booking and some buildings want 24 or 48 hours notice.
Junk removal on the same day as your move
This is the smart play, and it’s the one most people miss until we mention it.
When you’re moving, you’re already deciding what comes with you. The honest answer for a lot of it is “nothing,” but the old stuff still has to go somewhere, and the default is that it rides along to the new place where you pay to store junk you’ll throw out anyway within the month. That’s backwards. Moving day is the cheapest possible time to purge, because the crew, the truck and the muscle are all already standing in your hallway.
So we do both in one visit. As we load the things you’re keeping, we clear the things you’re not. The dresser you’re donating, the mattress you’re replacing, the basement full of stuff that isn’t making the trip, gone the same day, no second appointment and no bin rental sitting in your driveway for a week collecting dirty looks from the neighbours. It pairs naturally with a house move, and it’s almost mandatory for a condo or apartment move, where you’re usually downsizing into less space and every cubic foot you don’t move is money and aggravation saved. If you’re doing a long haul move out of the city, it matters even more, because you really do not want to pay by distance to truck a broken bookshelf all the way to Ottawa.
If the job is only a haul-away with no move attached, that’s fine too. Plenty of our junk removal calls have nothing to do with relocating, and we don’t treat them as second-class. A standalone single heavy item going out the door is a job we’ll happily take on its own.
Estate and full property cleanouts
Clearing out a home is sometimes the heavy version of this job, and not just physically.
When someone passes, or a relative moves into care, or a long-term tenant leaves a unit packed to the ceiling, somebody has to empty the place. It’s a lot to take on, especially when you’re also grieving, or working against a closing date, or staring down a landlord’s deadline. We do these cleanouts carefully and without making it weird. You decide what’s kept, donated, or sold ahead of time, and we clear the rest, top to bottom, including the attic, the basement, the garage, and the corners everyone avoids. We work at a pace that respects what’s going on, and we don’t rush you through decisions about the things that actually matter.
We handle condo and apartment cleanouts the same way, including the full clear-out a unit sometimes needs before it goes on the market or gets handed back to the landlord. If you’ve got a closing or a hand-back date, tell us, and we’ll build the schedule around it so the place is empty when it needs to be, not the day after. For executors and family dealing with this from out of town, we can often arrange access in advance and keep you updated, so you’re not flying in just to unlock a door.
Condo and apartment junk removal in Toronto
Downtown buildings have their own rulebook, and it’s the part that catches most people out.
Most Toronto condo towers require an elevator booking for anything bigger than a suitcase, and many want it days in advance. Most require a certificate of insurance from any crew working in the building before they’ll let them past the concierge. Loading docks are often shared, booked in windows, and strictly enforced. Some buildings ban moves and removals entirely on Sundays or statutory holidays. Get any of it wrong and the crew stands in the lobby while the clock runs.
We book all of this for you. Tell us the building and the unit when you call and we’ll deal with property management directly: elevator reservation, dock window, certificate of insurance sent ahead of the date. It’s the same process we run for condo moves every week in CityPlace, Liberty Village, Yorkville and the rest of the core, so it’s routine rather than a scramble. If you want the neighbourhood detail, we have pages for CityPlace, Liberty Village, Yorkville and North York.
Garages, basements, and the rooms that became storage
Then there’s the everyday version: a space that quietly turned into a dumping ground over the years.
The garage you can’t park a car in. The basement you’d love to actually use. The spare room that became a graveyard for everything without a proper home. These are the jobs people put off for years and then can’t believe they waited on, because it takes us a couple of hours and suddenly you’ve got a whole room back. We pull everything out, you make the keep-or-toss calls (we’re glad to help you decide), and we haul off whatever’s going. No judgment about how much there is or how long it’s been there. We’ve genuinely seen it all, and yours isn’t the worst.
How it works
- Tell us what’s going. Describe the load, a few items, a room, a whole house, over the phone or in the quote form. Photos help us nail the estimate. Call 905-752-7787 if you’d rather just talk it through.
- Get a clear price and a date. We give you an estimate based on volume and access, book the crew, and sort out anything your building needs: elevator booking, a certificate of insurance, a loading dock window.
- We do the heavy part. The crew arrives in the window we gave you, lays down protection so nothing gets scuffed on the way out, and carries everything out. You point, we lift. No furniture-shuffling on your end and no dragging things to the curb the night before.
- We haul it and tidy up. It goes on the truck and off your property the same day. We sweep the space before we leave, and we don’t go until you’ve looked it over and you’re happy with it.
Where the junk actually goes
We’re not trying to fill a landfill, and you probably don’t want to either.
Where it’s reasonable, we sort for donation and recycling instead of dumping everything in one go. Furniture and appliances in decent shape can go to charities and reuse programs. Metal, e-waste and cardboard go to recycling streams rather than the tip. It’s not always possible. Some things are genuinely done, and there’s nowhere for them to go but the dump, and we won’t pretend otherwise or charge you a premium for a vague “eco” promise we can’t back up. But the default is simple: reuse and recycle what realistically can be, dispose of the rest responsibly. If you’ve got specific items you want donated, tell us and we’ll do our best to route them there.
Insured crews and a tidy job
Two things people forget to ask a junk hauler until something has already gone wrong.
First, are they insured? A lot of cheap haulers aren’t, and they’re cheap for exactly that reason. If someone gouges your hardwood dragging a fridge out, or hurts themselves on your stairs, an uninsured operator quietly becomes your problem and possibly your liability. Our crews are fully insured, and we can provide a certificate of insurance for condo and apartment buildings that require one before they’ll let any crew work, which a surprising number of GTA buildings now do as standard.
Second, do they clean up? We protect floors and doorways on the way out, and we leave the space swept and clear, not littered with the dust and debris that comes off a basement’s worth of old stuff. You should be able to use the room the minute we drive away, not after an hour of cleanup you didn’t sign up for.
Because we also handle packing and wrapping, furniture assembly, single item moves and small moves, it’s all one company and one number to call if you need more than just a haul-away. No coordinating three different outfits to empty one house and hoping their schedules line up.
How to get ready (and how to keep the price down)
You don’t have to prep anything. The whole point is that we do the lifting. But a couple of small things make the job faster and can keep the bill lower.
Sort the keep-from-toss before we arrive, if you can. The biggest time-sink on a cleanout isn’t carrying things out, it’s standing around while someone decides whether the old desk stays or goes. If you’ve already made those calls, even loosely, like “everything in this room is gone, don’t touch the garage,” we move quickly and you pay for less time. We’re glad to help you decide on the day, but a head start always helps.
Pull anything valuable or sentimental out first. Once we’re hauling, we’re hauling. Before the crew starts, do a quick sweep for anything you actually want to keep that’s mixed into the pile: documents, jewellery, the photo box that somehow ended up in the basement. We’d much rather you grab it than have us guess and get it wrong.
Point out the hazards. If there’s old paint, chemicals, a propane tank or anything we flagged earlier as needing special disposal, set it aside and tell us. We’ll steer you to the right drop-off instead of mixing it into the load and getting the whole truck turned away at the transfer station.
Clear a path if it’s easy. Not required, but if the route from the basement to the driveway is blocked with other stuff, moving that ahead of time speeds the carry-out. We’ll work around it either way, it just costs a little more time.
That’s it. Show us what’s going, and the rest is on us.
Junk removal across Toronto and the GTA
We run junk removal and cleanout jobs across the region: downtown condos and old houses in Toronto, the big homes and packed garages of Vaughan and Markham, the established neighbourhoods of Scarborough and North York, and out to Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville and Hamilton. See the full list on our locations page, and browse everything we do on the services page. If you’re outside these and still in Ontario, ask. We very likely cover you.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does junk removal cost in Toronto?
It’s priced mainly by volume, meaning how much space your stuff fills in the truck, plus access (stairs, long carries, downtown parking) and any special disposal items. We give a clear estimate before we start and explain what’s driving it. It’s often cheaper bundled with a move, since the crew and truck are already there. Request a quote with a rough description or a few photos for a real number rather than a vague range.
Do you offer same day junk removal in Toronto?
Often, yes. We run seven days a week and can frequently do same day pickup in Toronto and the inner GTA if you call early enough. It depends on what’s already booked, so call 905-752-7787 and ask rather than assuming. Downtown condo jobs are the exception, because most buildings need an elevator booking with notice.
What can you take, and what won’t you take?
We take furniture, appliances, mattresses, electronics, exercise equipment, and general household clutter from homes, condos, garages and basements. We can’t take hazardous materials: paint, solvents, oil, gasoline, propane tanks, car batteries, asbestos or chemicals, because those need special disposal under Ontario rules and the dump won’t accept them mixed into a load. Fridges and freezers are fine, but tell us in advance so the refrigerant is handled properly.
Do you do commercial junk removal as well as residential?
Yes. We clear offices, retail units, restaurants, warehouses and end-of-lease spaces, including cubicle teardowns and fixture removal. Commercial jobs usually turn on timing and building rules rather than volume, so tell us your hand-back date and any freight elevator or loading dock restrictions when you book. We can provide a certificate of insurance ahead of the date and work evenings or weekends where the building requires it.
Do you do the lifting, or do I have to move it out first?
We do all the lifting. You point at what’s going and the crew carries it out, loads it and hauls it away. You don’t need to drag anything to the curb or the driveway first, and you don’t need to dismantle furniture for us. That’s the whole job we’re there to do.
Can you handle a full estate or property cleanout?
Yes. We clear estates, condos and apartments top to bottom: attic, basement, garage and all. You decide what’s kept, donated or sold ahead of time and we remove the rest. We work at a respectful pace and can schedule around a closing or hand-back date, and for out-of-town family we can often arrange access in advance.
Can you remove junk on the same day as my move?
Yes, and it’s the most efficient way to do it. As we load what you’re keeping, we clear what you’re not, so you’re not paying to move junk across town or renting a separate bin. It pairs especially well with condo and long haul moves, where downsizing matters most and every box you don’t move is money saved.
Where does the junk end up?
Where it’s realistic, we sort for donation and recycling: usable furniture and appliances to reuse programs, metal and e-waste and cardboard to recycling. What’s genuinely finished is disposed of responsibly. We won’t overpromise an “eco” result we can’t deliver, but reuse and recycle first is the default, and we’ll route specific items you want donated wherever we can.
Are you insured, and can you provide a certificate for my building?
Yes. Our crews are fully insured, and we can supply a certificate of insurance for condo or apartment buildings that require one before a crew can work. A lot of GTA buildings ask for this now, so let us know when you book and we’ll have it ready ahead of the date instead of holding up the elevator on the day.
Do I need to be home for the whole job?
For most jobs it helps to be there at the start to point out what’s going and confirm the items, but you don’t have to supervise the whole thing once we’re rolling. For estate or rental cleanouts where everything’s leaving anyway, we can often work with access arranged in advance. Just talk it through with us when you book.
Tell us what you need gone and we’ll give you a clear price and a date: insured crew, no surprise fees, hauled away the same day. Request your free quote or call 905-752-7787.