Garage Cleanout
Ahwatukee, Phoenix
Ahwatukee sits on the far side of South Mountain, and a lot of these houses have had the same owners since they were built in the eighties and nineties. Thirty years in one family, slab construction, no basement, and a two or three-car bay doing all the storage. We clear it as flat truck-fill from $241, load from inside so nothing sits on the driveway, and sweep before we close up.
How it works
1 · One wide photo
Open the door and shoot from the driveway with the side walls and any overhead racks in frame. The ceiling storage is usually a third of the volume and it is the bit that gets left out.
2 · A flat price back
One fixed number for labour, truck, loading and disposal. No hourly rate, no range, and no revision once you have accepted it.
3 · Cleared and swept
Two people work the bay from the inside out, straight into the truck. Nothing is staged on the driveway and the slab is swept before the door comes down.
Why Ahwatukee garages fill up
Thirty years of one family
Much of the Foothills was built from the late seventies through the nineties and sold to families who stayed. Bikes, cots, sports kit, school projects and three decades of Christmas decorations accumulate in one bay — and the clearance, when it comes, is the whole thirty years at once.
Original owners downsizing
A large share of what we clear here is a downsizing or an estate job. The house is being sold or handed on and the garage is the last room nobody has touched. We work with families on those at whatever pace the week allows.
No basement to absorb it
Slab on grade, same as the rest of the Valley. There is no cellar and the attic is unusable for most of the year, so the garage carries the entire load.
HOAs across the villages
Lakewood, Mountain Park Ranch, Foothills Club West and the other associations run active covenant enforcement. A pile on the driveway waiting for collection day is a letter, so we load from inside the bay.
Golf and desert kit
Clubs and carts, bikes, hiking and camping gear, and pool equipment. Bulky rather than heavy, and it fills a bay faster than people expect.
You are behind the mountain
South Mountain separates Ahwatukee from the rest of Phoenix, and everything comes in via the I-10 or Chandler Boulevard. It affects routing more than it affects you — but it is why we schedule Ahwatukee jobs as their own run rather than as an afterthought on a Phoenix route.
What an Ahwatukee garage cleanout costs
Flat truck-fill, quoted from your photo. A partial two-car bay is usually a quarter to a half truck; a thirty-year three-car garage cleared for a sale is normally three-quarters to full. These are the live Phoenix catalogue prices.
| What we take | Flat price | Typical Ahwatukee job |
|---|---|---|
| Quarter truck (~4 cu yd) | $241 | One wall of the bay and the old paint shelf |
| Three-eighths truck (~6 cu yd) | $338 | One bay plus the overhead rack |
| Half truck (~8 cu yd) | $431 | Two-car garage, contents only |
| Five-eighths truck (~10 cu yd) | $513 | Two bays with shelving and a workbench |
| Three-quarter truck (~12 cu yd) | $587 | Three-car bay, golf and sports kit included |
| Seven-eighths truck (~14 cu yd) | $661 | Thirty-year clearance with the ceiling racks |
| Full truck (~16 cu yd) | $732 | Whole garage to bare slab before listing |
| Small junk pile | $82 | A corner |
| Medium junk pile | $129 | One wall, loose |
| Large junk pile | $208 | A bay’s worth, loose |
| Home gym | $241 | The rack in the third bay |
| Treadmill | $115 | On its own |
| Metal shelving unit | $71 | Per bay, dismantled by us |
| Refrigerator or freezer | $164 | The garage second fridge |
| Sofa | $126 | Exiled from the family room years ago |
| Queen mattress | $103 | Stored flat against the wall |
Minimum charge $100. One or two items are priced as items rather than as a truck.
Phoenix bulk trash, and where it runs out
You are on the city schedule
Ahwatukee is part of Phoenix, not a separate town, so city bulk trash collection applies here on the rotating neighbourhood schedule. Check your own address for your window — it is a real service and worth using when the timing happens to suit you.
The timing rarely suits
You get the window you are given. A downsizing with a closing date, or a family clearing a house over one weekend, does not line up with a rotating collection calendar.
The exclusions are the garage
Appliances, tyres and construction debris are the standard refusals — and a thirty-year garage contains a fridge, a set of old tyres and the leftovers of two remodels.
Somebody has to carry it out
Kerbside means every item is moved from the bay to the street by hand, then sits there until collection day. We load from inside the garage instead.
And the HOA is watching
A pile out front for several days in a covenant-enforced village is a letter waiting to happen. Nothing we do goes to the kerb at all.
Paint, fuel and propane
Those need household hazardous waste handling rather than any truck or kerb. We identify them from your photo and tell you before the day.
What comes out of these garages
Three decades of family storage
Boxes, school and sports kit, decorations, outgrown bikes and the cot that four children used. The bulk of most jobs by volume.
Shelving and overhead racks
$71 a bay for metal shelving, dismantled by us, and the ceiling racks come down as part of the work. No prep from you.
The second refrigerator
$164, with refrigerant handled under the proper regulated process rather than billed as a surcharge.
The gym corner
A home gym is $241, a treadmill on its own $115. Very common in the three-car bays here.
Golf, pool and patio
Clubs, a cart, an old pump and filter, cracked furniture, a spa cover. Bulky and light, priced by volume.
Heat-damaged storage
Warped bins, collapsed boxes, adhesives and photo storage that a Valley summer has already finished off.
Where we work in Ahwatukee
We cover 85044, 85045 and 85048 across Ahwatukee Foothills — Lakewood, Mountain Park Ranch, Foothills Club West, The Foothills, Club West and the Chandler Boulevard and Pecos corridors, plus neighbouring Chandler addresses on the same run.
The same crews work the rest of the Valley: junk removal in Ahwatukee, Phoenix, Chandler, garage cleanouts in Chandler, Tempe and Mesa, plus furniture removal, appliance removal and estate cleanouts. The Phoenix garage cleanout cost guide has the full catalogue.
Ahwatukee garage cleanout questions
How much does a garage cleanout cost in Ahwatukee?
How is this different from Phoenix bulk trash collection?
We are clearing our parents’ house. Can you work with that?
Will a pile be left on my driveway?
Do you take the ceiling racks and the shelving?
Does being behind South Mountain slow you down?
Will you take the garage fridge?
Is there a minimum charge?
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