Junk Removal
Junk Removal in Wentzville, MO
Container-based junk removal for Wentzville houses — you load it over a weekend at your own pace, or our crew carries it up the basement stairwell for you. Full basements, packed garages and attics cleared in one go.
Junk removal here comes two ways. We drop a container in the driveway and you load it over a weekend at your own pace, or a crew turns up and carries it out for you. Most Wentzville jobs land somewhere in between: the crew takes the basement, the homeowner handles the garage on their own time. Either way the sizing conversation starts in the same place, and the home cleanout checklist is worth twenty minutes before you decide which version of the job you actually want.
The full basement is where the volume is. Nearly every house in St. Charles County has one, and after twenty or thirty years it holds decades of storage — a workbench and its coffee cans of hardware, canning shelves, the holiday bins, an old chest freezer, a treadmill nobody has used since it went down there, and the boxes from three previous moves that never got opened. The garage and the attic add to it. And every bit of it has to come up a stairwell, which is what really sets the pace of the job.
Damp changes the answer too. Basements in eastern Missouri take on moisture through clay-backed foundation walls, and cardboard, paper and particleboard stored down there for years may already be gone before anyone opens a box. Plan on more trash and less donation than you were hoping for. What is still good goes to a charity first, what is metal gets pulled for scrap, and the rest rides out in the container — recycling and disposal in St. Charles County covers where each stream ends up.
What Actually Comes Out Of A Wentzville House
Full Basement Clear-Out
Decades of storage under one house — shelving, totes, furniture that went down and never came back up, and the boxes from three previous moves. This is the bulk of the job.
Basement Workshop And Bench
A workbench, coffee cans of fasteners, offcut lumber, a bench grinder and the paint shelf above it. Sort the good tools out first, because they are worth real money in a trades town.
Garage And Attic
The garage holds what the basement could not, and the attic holds what nobody wanted to carry back down. Both fill faster than homeowners expect once the loading actually starts.
Old Appliances And The Chest Freezer
That basement chest freezer, a second fridge, a dead washer and dryer. Units holding refrigerant need the charge recovered by a technician before disposal, so tell us what you have ahead of time.
Exercise Equipment
Treadmills, weight benches, an elliptical and a rack of plates. Heavy, awkward on a stairwell, and usually worth breaking down into pieces before anyone tries to carry them up.
Water-Damaged Storage
Cardboard, paper, books, photographs and particleboard furniture that sat against a damp foundation wall. Wet material weighs far more than dry, and it changes the size we bring.
Scrap Metal Worth Pulling
An old furnace, a water heater, sheet-metal ductwork, steel shelving and cast iron. Pulled before the container is loaded, that metal goes to a scrap yard instead of into a landfill.
Donation-First Routing
Furniture, working appliances, tools, books and household goods in usable shape go to a charity pickup before the container arrives. It cuts the load and keeps good material out of the box.
Sizing The Container For A Basement Job
Basement volume is why we rarely bring the small box for a house cleanout. A 20 yard is the honest default when a full basement is coming out along with the garage — it swallows furniture, shelving and totes without weight ever becoming the problem, because household junk is bulky and light. Step up to a 30 yard when the attic joins in, when the basement was finished and carpet and pad are leaving too, or when the house is being emptied for a sale. A 15 yard handles a garage on its own, or one level rather than the whole house. Tell us how many rooms and whether the basement is finished, and we will size it with you on the phone instead of guessing from square footage.
15 Yard Dumpster
Single-room remodels, tear-offs to about 20 squares, garage cleanouts.
View this size →20yd³20 Yard Dumpster
The default here: a full-basement house cleanout, kitchen gut or deck tear-off.
View this size →30yd³30 Yard Dumpster
Whole-home cleanouts, new construction, additions, basement gut-outs.
View this size →What Cannot Go In The Box, And Where The Garage Stuff Goes
The garage is where the problem list lives. Leftover paint, motor oil, antifreeze, mower fuel, lawn and pool chemicals, an open bag of road salt, tires, car batteries and old electronics: none of that rides in a container. It goes to a St. Charles County household hazardous waste drop-off instead, and that trip is worth planning before the loading starts rather than after. Tires and batteries usually go back to a tire shop or a parts store. Electronics have their own collection events. Dried-out latex paint with the lid off is the common exception, and what can go in a dumpster covers the rest of the list. One more local one: plenty of subdivisions here limit how many days a container may sit, so check your HOA rules before we set a delivery date, or ask about a same-day set and pull.
Not sure this is the right service? Describe the job on the phone and we will point you at the right container even if it is a different service page. Call (636) 538-6201.
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How it works
Junk Removal Dumpsters in four steps
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Call us
Tell us the project, your address and when you want it. Two minutes on the phone and you have a flat price.
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We deliver
Our driver walks the drop, lays protection boards and sets the container exactly where you want it.
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You load it
Take your time within your rental window. Keep it level with the top rail and we handle the rest.
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We haul it
Call or text when you are done. We pull it, sort what can be recovered and dispose of the rest properly.
Junk Removal Dumpsters FAQs
Do you load it, or do I?
Both work. Most Wentzville customers take the container option and load over a weekend, which costs less and lets you sort as you go. When the volume is in a full basement and everything has to come up a stairwell, a crew is usually worth it. Plenty of jobs split the difference: we clear the basement, you handle the garage on your own time. Tell us which rooms are involved and we will say honestly which way is better.
What do I do with paint, oil and lawn chemicals from the garage?
Those never go in a container. Leftover paint, motor oil, antifreeze, mower fuel, lawn and pool chemicals, solvents and pesticides all belong at a household hazardous waste drop-off run through St. Charles County. Tires, car batteries and old electronics have their own routes as well. Collection schedules and accepted-item lists change from year to year, so check with the county before you load up the truck.
Is it worth pulling scrap metal out first?
Usually yes. An old furnace, a water heater, sheet-metal ductwork, steel shelving, cast iron radiators and a dead mower deck all carry scrap value, and pulling them before the container is loaded keeps weight out of the box and metal out of a landfill. If you would rather not deal with it, we separate it on a crew job. Either way it is a better outcome than burying good steel.
Everything in the basement got damp. Does that change anything?
It changes both the volume and the weight. Cardboard, paper, books, photographs and particleboard furniture that sat against a damp foundation wall are usually past saving, so the donation pile shrinks and the trash pile grows. Wet material is also much heavier than dry, which matters when we size the container. Mould on stored goods is a health question as much as a disposal one — Missouri health guidance is the place to start, and it does get revised.
My HOA limits how long a dumpster can stay. Can you work around it?
Yes, and we plan for it. A good number of Wentzville subdivisions cap a container at a set number of days, want it on the driveway rather than the street, and expect the board to be told first. Send us the rule and we will book the drop and the pull inside that window, or split the work across two shorter sets. Get the approval in writing, because associations revise placement rules more often than residents hear about it.
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Other things we haul
Residential Dumpster Rental
Driveway placement for basement, garage and attic cleanouts and remodels.
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Scheduled and on-call containers for retail, restaurants, offices and property managers.
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Jobsite roll-offs and next-day swap-outs for builders, remodelers and GCs.
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Weight-rated cans sized by squares and layers, built for hail-season tear-offs.
Learn more →Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-offs across St. Charles County and beyond.
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Call before the cut-off and we can usually get a container to you this afternoon.
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Discreet, patient container service for families clearing a lifelong home.
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Containers and fast swaps for decks, sheds, pole barns and interior gut-outs.
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Dedicated heavy cans for freeze-cracked flatwork, brick, block and clay spoil.
Learn more →Yard Waste & Brush Removal
Separate clean loads for limbs and brush — Missouri keeps yard waste out of landfill.
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Junk Removal Dumpsters across St. Charles County and the western St. Louis metro
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