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Estate Cleanout in Denver, CO

An estate cleanout is clearing a home after a death, a move to care, or a sale, with every personal item sorted before anything is hauled. The owner, Darius, does the work himself: at your pace, with keepsakes set aside, and a price you approve before anything moves.

What It Usually Costs
Most Estates: $749 to $1,499+
$149 for the first 2 cubic yards, then $75 a yard. Most whole homes start around $524, and a second or third trip is never charged. Text a few photos and you usually get a ballpark back within 10 minutes during business hours. The estate cleanout cost guide has the full math.
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  • Photos, papers, and keepsakes set aside, never tossed
  • Lockbox, code, or a key with a neighbor for family who live away
  • Registered & Insured, and you approve the price on site before we start
The Denver Junk Solutions Silverado and dump trailer backed into the driveway of a single-story ranch house
Truck + 6x10 Trailer
We Understand

A Home Holds A Lifetime.

Maybe a parent has passed. Maybe someone is moving into assisted living and a whole house has to fit into one room. Maybe you are the executor, you live two states away, and the closing date is closer than you would like. Whatever brought you here, you are carrying a lot right now.

Our job is to take the heavy, physical part off your plate so you can spend your time on family and on the decisions only you can make. We work calmly, and nobody will make you feel rushed.

The Plain Definition

What Is an Estate Cleanout?

An estate cleanout empties a home whose owner has died or moved into care, so the house can be sold, returned to a landlord, or handed on. The difference from an ordinary cleanout is the sorting: nearly everything belonged to someone you love, so the job moves drawer by drawer, and nothing leaves until the family says it can.

Our estate cleanout services cover the sorting, the carrying, and the hauling. We do not run estate sales, appraise antiques, or buy contents; we come in when the family and any sale company are finished.

What's Included

  • A walkthrough in person, or over photos and video if you are out of town
  • Sorting with you, or for you, into keep, donate, scrap metal, and haul
  • Every room, closet, basement, garage, shed, and patio carried out by hand
  • All transfer station fees, every trip, and a swept floor at the end
  • Photo updates by text for family who cannot be there

What We Don't Do

  • Hoarding cleanups and anything biohazard: animal or human waste, needles, mold, rotted food. A remediation company goes first, then we clear what is left.
  • Estate sales, appraisals, or buying the contents
  • Disconnecting a water heater or pulling up carpet. Once they are out, we haul them.
  • Paint, solvents, chemicals, dirt, or sod
  • Deep cleaning. We sweep; a cleaner mops and scrubs before a listing.
  • Donation receipts. We cannot give them.

Estate Cleanout or House Cleanout?

Same truck, same trailer, same price by the yard. The difference is the job. An estate cleanout follows a death or a move to care, so it is slow and careful with the family's things. A house cleanout is a move-out, a foreclosure, a landlord's turnover, or a whole-house clear where speed matters more than sorting. If you are not sure which you need, text us. It only changes the pace, never the price per yard.

How We Sort

Keep, Donate, Haul: You Decide Every Pile.

Before anything leaves the house, it goes into one of four groups, and you stay in charge of all of them.

Keep

Anything you have marked, plus anything personal we find along the way, set aside in one room for you.

Donate

Some good-condition furniture, clothing, and household goods go to Goodwill or the Salvation Army.

Scrap Metal

Big loads of scrap metal from the garage or workshop are set aside and recycled.

Haul

Everything else goes to an STS transfer station, and the home is left clear for what comes next.

What We Watch For in Every Drawer

Photo albums, letters and cards, jewelry boxes, cash tucked into books or envelopes, keys, military medals, and anything that looks like a will, a deed, a title, or bank and tax records. All of it goes to the keep room, even if you told us the drawer was done. When we are unsure, we ask.

An Honest Word on Donations

Some good items do go to Goodwill or the Salvation Army, but most of a lived-in house ends up at the transfer station. Donation centers turn away worn or stained furniture, and we will not promise that everything gets a second home. We also cannot give donation receipts. If the family wants a receipt for taxes, drop those pieces off yourselves or book a charity pickup before our day.

A Plan That Works

The Best Way to Clean Out an Estate, Step by Step.

This is how estate cleanouts work when they go well: families who follow this order spend less, lose nothing that mattered, and finish on time. We fit in at step five.

  1. 1

    Secure documents and valuables first

    Gather the will, titles, bank and insurance papers, jewelry, firearms, and keys before anyone else walks through.

  2. 2

    Let the family choose

    Give everyone a color of painter's tape and a deadline. Anything taped stays, which keeps the peace and tells us exactly what to leave.

  3. 3

    Hold an estate sale or take a buyout, if there is value

    Antiques, tools, and good furniture are worth a sale company's time; everyday belongings usually are not. The estate cleanout cost guide walks through which order saves money.

  4. 4

    Make your own donation run

    If you want a receipt for anything, donate it yourself now. We can take good items to Goodwill or the Salvation Army on the day, but without a receipt.

  5. 5

    Book the cleanout

    Text photos of each room; a quote usually comes back within 10 minutes during business hours. On the day we count the yards, say every extra out loud, and you approve the price on site. Then every remaining room is sorted, carried out, and hauled.

  6. 6

    Broom-clean and hand off

    Floors swept, photos of every empty room sent, and the key back in the lockbox, ready for a cleaner, a stager, or the new owner.

How long it takes: Darius works every estate himself. A small home the family has already picked through can be one day. A big house with a full basement and garage takes one long day or two, and we can split it around a closing date or a family visit. We always commit to an arrival window, and if weather is going to make him late, he calls ahead.

Estate Cleanout vs a Dumpster

A dumpster looks cheaper until you count who fills it. On an estate that is usually a grieving family on a short trip home, carrying forty years of belongings over a high steel wall. With a cleanout, the carrying, the sorting, and every trip are part of one price. Our junk removal vs dumpster guide runs the numbers side by side.

When You Can't Be There

Estate Cleanouts for Executors and Out-of-Town Family.

A lot of the estates we clear are handled from somewhere else: a son in Texas, a daughter who can fly in for one weekend, an executor juggling a full-time job. You do not have to stand in the house for the work to get done right.

Access Without You

Leave a lockbox, a door code, or a key with a neighbor. We let you know when we arrive and when we lock up. That works the same for a Lakewood ranch or a cabin in Evergreen.

Photo Updates by Text

Photos of anything we are unsure about, before it goes. Photos of each room when it is empty. The family sees the progress without a plane ticket.

Worked to Your Timeline

Your attorney or personal representative sets the probate timeline, and we work to it. Give us the listing or closing date and we plan backward from it.

Condo boards, HOAs, and property managers sometimes want proof of insurance before a hauler walks in. Denver Junk Solutions LLC is Registered & Insured, and we send a certificate of insurance the same day during business hours to anyone who asks. Property managers and landlords will find rental turnovers on commercial junk removal in Denver. Estates up in the hills are covered too; see junk removal in the foothills for how we handle mountain driveways.

Downsizing

Clearing a Parent's Home After a Move to Senior Living.

When a mom or dad moves into assisted living, the house usually has to be emptied while they are still settling in, and sometimes while they are still deciding. The kindest order we have seen: move them first, with the furniture and photos that are going along, and clear the house after. It spares them watching their things leave.

We haul away; we do not move furniture to the new apartment. Book movers for what is going with them, then call us for what is left. If they want to walk the house one last time before we start, we wait. If they would rather not know the details, we text only you.

Many of these homes have a basement nobody has opened in years (see basement cleanouts) and a garage full of tools (see garage cleanouts). Both price the same way, by the yard, with stairs at $25 a flight.

For the Professionals

Working With Realtors and Estate-Sale Companies.

Pre-Listing Cleanouts for Realtors

A house cannot be photographed full. Send us the listing date and the lockbox code, and the home is empty and swept before the stager or the photographer arrives, with photos of every room texted to you. One text gets you a price and a date.

Estate-Sale Company First, Then Us

If the house has value, the sale company should go first. They sell what they can, and what does not sell is our job: usually one trailer load instead of three. We are glad to be the call a sale company or buyout firm makes when their weekend is done.

Pricing

Estate Cleanout Cost, Priced by the Yard.

$149 for the first 2 cubic yards, then $75 a yard. No travel fee, no fuel fee, no dump fee. Most whole-house estates start around $524 and commonly run $749 to $1,499+ (10 to 20+ yards). A full house is often more than one trip on the truck and 6x10 dump trailer, about 9 packed yards a trip, and the second or third trip is never charged. A garage or a single room is usually $299 to $599.

A Worked Example

A furnished three-bedroom ranch, with the family's picks already out, packs down to about 14 cubic yards. That is $149 for the first 2 yards plus 12 yards at $75: $1,049. The basement adds one flight of stairs at $25, so the total is $1,074, for two trips, both dump fees, and a swept house. This is an example of the math, not a past job. The only other extras are a carry over 100 ft (+$40), heavy material like tile or brick (+$25 a yard), and fridges or freezers (+$50 each), and every extra is written down before we start. The full yard table is on the pricing page.

Real Jobs, Honestly Labeled

What We Can Show You.

We have not published an estate case study yet; families rarely want their parent's house on a website. Here is what we can show instead: the biggest job we have documented with receipts, real household loads, and what customers say about Darius.

Scale Proof · University Park, Denver · July 29, 2026

Two Full Loads, One Day, in the Rain

Not an estate: a rental remodel, with a garage packed with cabinets, drywall, and boards. But it is the size of a full house. Two loads, 5.5 hours in steady rain, two transfer station runs and $247 in dump fees, all handled by one person. We charged $700 at the time.

Today the same job is priced by the yard, and the second trip costs nothing extra.

Read the University Park two-load case study
Dump trailer parked in the aisle of a Golden storage facility, loaded with a wood cabinet, plastic totes, file boxes and bags from the unit
From my Golden storage-unit job (a full 10x10, empty in about an hour). Not an estate, but the same kind of household contents, and many estates include a storage unit to clear too.
Shyanne P.
· Google review

Denver Junk Solutions was fantastic to work with. Darius was extremely communicative and was able to schedule my appointment the same day. They went above and beyond with the cleanup, arrived right on time, and were incredibly friendly throughout the entire process. Their pricing was very fair, and the level of service exceeded my expectations. I would highly recommend them to anyone needing junk removal services.

Scott F.
· Google review

On time and did a fantastic job!

Real Google reviews from other jobs, not estates. Every review is on the reviews page.

The Denver Junk Solutions 6x10 dump trailer in a driveway, loaded with a maroon cabinet door, black bags, a bike and children's ride-on toys, the Silverado parked ahead
A full household load on its way out of a driveway. A real job photo, not stock.
Our Promise

How We Treat Your Family's Home.

Discreet

One person, one truck, no spectacle in the neighborhood.

Unhurried

You set the pace. If you need a minute with a room before we touch it, you take it.

Watchful

We slow down for drawers and boxes. Anything that looks personal gets flagged, not tossed.

Upfront

One price you approve before we begin. No hourly meter.

Related Cleanouts

Need Something More Specific?

House Cleanout

Foreclosures, landlord turnovers, and whole-house clear-outs where speed matters more than sorting.

Move-Out Cleanout

Just the leftovers after the movers leave, cleared before the keys are handed over.

Basement Cleanout

Decades of storage carried up the stairs, usually the biggest single part of an estate.

Garage Cleanout

The workshop, the tools, the old paint cans set aside, and a swept slab.

Estate Cleanouts Across the West Metro

We are based in Golden and clear homes all over the west side, with no travel fee: Golden, Lakewood, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Applewood, Edgewater, west Denver, and up the hill to Evergreen. Pricing is by the yard everywhere; see full pricing for every job size.

FAQ

Estate Cleanout Questions.

What is an estate cleanout?
An estate cleanout is clearing a home after its owner has died or moved into care, so the house can be sold, returned, or passed on. It covers every room, the basement, and the garage, and it starts with sorting: keepsakes and paperwork are set aside for the family before anything is hauled.
How much does it cost to have an estate cleaned out?
We price by the yard: $149 for the first 2 cubic yards, then $75 a yard. Most whole-house estate cleanouts start around $524 and commonly run $749 to $1,499+, because a furnished home is often 10 to 20 yards or more. Extra trips are never charged, there is no travel, fuel, or dump fee, and stairs are $25 a flight. You approve the price on site before we start. The estate cleanout cost guide has worked examples.
How do estate cleanouts work?
You text photos of each room and usually get a quote back within 10 minutes during business hours. On the day, we count the yards, tell you every extra, and you approve the price before we start. Then we work room by room, set aside anything personal, haul the rest, and sweep, with photo updates by text for family who are not there.
What is the best way to clean out an estate?
Secure documents and valuables, let the family choose, hold an estate sale if there is real value, make your own donation run for anything you want a receipt for, then book the cleanout for everything left and finish with a broom-clean. That order saves money and keeps anything important from being hauled by mistake.
How do I get rid of estate items?
Keepsakes go to family, valuable pieces to an estate sale company or a buyer. Some good everyday items go to Goodwill or the Salvation Army with us, but we cannot give donation receipts, and worn furniture is often turned away. Everything else goes to an STS transfer station, with big loads of scrap metal recycled.
Can you clear the house if the family lives out of state?
Yes. Leave a lockbox, a door code, or a key with a neighbor. We quote from photos, text you when we arrive and when we lock up, ask by photo about anything we are unsure of, and send photos of every empty room at the end. Once the yards are counted on site, you approve the price by text before we start.
Do you work with realtors and estate sale companies?
Yes. For realtors, we clear and sweep a home before the stager or photographer arrives. For estate sale companies and buyout firms, we come in after the sale and take what did not sell. A certificate of insurance goes out the same day during business hours.
How long does an estate cleanout take?
Darius does every estate himself. A small home the family has already picked through can be one day. A big house with a full basement and garage takes one long day or two, and we can split it around a closing date or a family visit. Hours are Monday to Saturday 7am to 7pm, and Sunday by appointment.
Is an estate cleanout the same as a house cleanout?
Same truck, same trailer, same price by the yard. An estate cleanout follows a death or a move to care, so the sorting is slower and more careful. A house cleanout is a move-out, a foreclosure, a landlord's turnover, or a whole-house clear, and it is on our house cleanout page. On both, hoarding cleanups and biohazard jobs are referred to remediation specialists, and we clear what is left once they are done.
Are you insured?
Yes. Denver Junk Solutions LLC is Registered & Insured, Colorado Secretary of State ID 20261570765. Executors, HOAs, condo boards, and property managers can ask for a certificate of insurance and get it the same day during business hours.

Let Us Carry The Heavy Part.

Call when you are ready, or text a few photos of the home. No pressure, no obligation, and a price you approve before any work begins.

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