Basement cleanout in Reno

A basement cleanout in Reno, or anywhere else in the Reno-Tahoe area, means Dominic empties the level under your house of everything that piled up down there. Text a photo to (775) 316-7470. What sets a basement apart from other cleanouts is the stairs. Every box and old mattress has to come up a flight of steps before it reaches the trailer, and the room is usually years of storage that went down one piece at a time and never came back up. He has a helper, Jake.

When the garage or a spare bedroom needs clearing on the same visit, that work falls under house and garage cleanouts, and he can quote the whole place at once instead of room by room.

Size doesn't change much about how it goes. A basement with a treadmill and three boxes left in it gets the same attention as one packed wall to wall. A light load starts at the $80 minimum. A packed room fills more of the trailer, and the price climbs with it. His motto, "No job too big or too small," covers basements as much as anything.

What goes on the truck

• Boxes of old storage
• Old couches and recliners
• Spare mattresses
• Leftover paint cans
• Steel shelving and bed frames
• Old treadmills and weight benches
• Kids' furniture and toys
• Damp cardboard and broken bins

Text a photo of yours to (775) 316-7470.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: cleanouts from one room to the whole house.

What usually comes out of a basement cleanout?

Mostly storage that went downstairs and stayed. Boxes of old paperwork and holiday decorations, a couch or recliner that got replaced upstairs, a spare mattress, broken shelving, an old treadmill or weight bench, and kids' furniture that outlived the kids. Paint cans show up a lot too, half full and years old on a shelf. Sometimes an old fridge or freezer is down there as well.

You might be making room, or going through a parent's house as part of an estate cleanout. If you're getting a rental ready for the next tenant, the basement can go along with eviction and rental property cleanouts.

Every piece has to come up the stairs by hand, and the big ones, like a sleeper sofa or a heavy dresser, are the hardest part. After a 1,200 pound grand piano, a dresser on a basement staircase doesn't faze him. That carrying is most of the labor on a basement job, and it's the part you shouldn't try on your own.

Is there anything in a basement he won't haul?

Yes. He won't take a propane tank, anything with asbestos, medical or biohazard waste, or any item that has bed bugs or pests in it. A stored mattress or couch with bed bugs in it has to stay, so say so up front. Hazardous waste of any kind gets turned down too, so anything in that category stays put on its shelf. If an older basement has material you suspect has asbestos in it, leave it alone and mention it when you send photos so it stays out of the job.

Leftover paint goes on the load. Paint cans are part of the job. An old fridge or freezer down there can go on the trailer too. Everything else in the room can usually go.

Where does everything from a basement cleanout end up?

Donation comes first. Whatever still works is set aside for Goodwill, and a lot of basement storage qualifies, because it went down in decent shape and nobody touched it again. Kids' furniture that held up and a recliner that still reclines usually fit that donation pile. The bed frames, steel shelving and a busted weight bench head to a scrap yard, where the metal gets recycled. The paint cans off those shelves end up at Greymar for disposal.

Only the true junk, the stuff nobody can use, rides out to the landfill in Stead or the Carson City landfill. Damp cardboard, cracked plastic bins and anything ruined down there usually lands in that last pile.

How much does a basement cleanout cost?

The floor is $80. Above that, he prices by the share of the trailer your basement fills. Photos of the pile are usually enough for a price, though he'll come look in person when a job calls for it. Basements often do, since a room packed to the walls is hard to judge from a picture taken at the bottom of the stairs.

The quote covers the whole job. That price takes in the loading, the hauling and the disposal, and you'll never see a separate line for dump fees. His quote stands unless the job turns out bigger than your photos showed. For a sense of scale, he quotes a couch at $125 to $225, a mattress at $80 to $125 and a paint can at $10 to $20.

How does he get everything up the basement stairs?

By hand, one trip at a time. It starts when you get in touch. First he wants to know what's going, then he looks over your photos or sets up a visit, and when you okay the price, he puts a day and a time on the calendar. Photos taken from both ends of the stairs help, since they show him the carry along with the pile.

When he gets there, he walks you through the plan before lifting a thing. Then it all comes up the steps and out to the trailer. Once the floor is bare, he tidies the area and walks the space with you one last time. He works Monday through Saturday, any hour, and can get there same day, most days. A 75 mile drive is within his range, so the list of towns he serves around Reno and Lake Tahoe runs a long way past city limits.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (775) 316-7470. Dominic looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back a quote for the whole job. The quote holds unless the job turns out bigger than the photo showed. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $80. More on how pricing works.

Where Dominic does this

All of the Reno-Tahoe area. See every town Dominic covers for basement cleanout.