Junk Removal in Lubbock, TX

There are two honest ways to get junk out of a Lubbock house. One is a crew that shows up, carries everything out and charges by how much of the truck you fill. The other is a container in the driveway that sits there for a few days while you work through the garage a shelf at a time. Most of what we do here is the second kind, because the sorting is the slow part and nobody makes good decisions with two guys standing in the doorway waiting on them.

The volume is never where people expect it, because Lubbock houses are slab-on-grade with nowhere below the floor to put anything. Everything that would go under the stairs somewhere else ends up in the garage, up in the attic, out in the backyard shed or in a rented unit across town. West Texas attics get brutally hot, and by the time those boxes finally come down the cassette tape has warped, the vinyl has gone wavy, the photographs have fused together and the candles have collapsed into their own jars. Our Lubbock home cleanout checklist walks it room by room.

The garage is the problem room, and not because of how much is in it. Paint, motor oil, fuel cans, pesticides, tires, batteries and electronics do not go in a container at all, and pulling them out first keeps the rest of the load clean and keeps the truck moving. Those items belong at the City of Lubbock citizens collection station instead. Anything still genuinely usable should go to a donation before it ever touches steel — the Lubbock County accepted-materials guide covers the rest of the list.

What Actually Fills A Lubbock Junk Load

Sizing A Container For A Self-Load Cleanout

The 15 yard is what we set most often for household junk. It takes a two-car garage plus the attic without running out of room, it sits low enough to load over the side, and it still leaves room to walk past it on a normal Lubbock driveway. Step up to a 20 yard when furniture is the bulk of the job or when you are clearing a whole house rather than one room. Drop to a 10 yard for a single-room purge, a shed, or anything dense enough that weight rather than volume ends the job. The mistake we correct most weeks is somebody booking the biggest box on the list for a light load and then fighting the wind for three days to keep it in there.

Wind, Caps And What Never Goes In The Box

Lubbock is one of the windiest cities in the country, and a junk load is exactly the kind of load the wind wants. Cardboard, packing foam, clothing, insulation and loose paper will redistribute themselves down the block on a 40 mph afternoon. Load heavy on top of light, keep everything below the top rail, and tarp or net the box any time you walk away from it — the wind and dust loading guide covers how we do it. The other half of the job is what stays out. Paint, solvents, motor oil, fuel, pesticides, propane cylinders, tires, batteries, refrigerant appliances and electronics are all rejects, and they head to the City of Lubbock citizens collection station rather than the container. Pull those first, stage them in one corner of the garage, and the rest of the cleanout runs clean.