Need furniture hauled out of a storage unit in Queens this week? Photograph the unit, get a flat itemized price in about 7 seconds, pick a slot. Any facility in the borough — you don't have to be there.
Photo of the unit with the door up — every item priced, total at the bottom
Upload Photos & Get Quote →That's the job. Here's how it runs.
Send photos with the door fully up. One from the doorway showing the whole face of the unit, and one from each back corner if you can reach. Light helps — a phone flashlight is enough.
You get a flat price back in about seven seconds, itemized, quoted at the lower of per-item or truck volume. No phone call and no on-site estimate appointment — the same instant-quote flow we use everywhere in NY.
Pick a slot. Same-week is normal across Queens; same-day is often available if you're quoting in the morning.
You don't need to be there. Most people give the gate code and unit number and get before-and-after photos plus the invoice when it's done.
You pay for the volume that leaves, not for the size of the unit you rented. A half-empty 10×10 costs what a half-empty 10×10 holds.
| What leaves | Price |
|---|---|
| Minimum job | $75 |
| Box or bag | $42–47 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| Dresser | $169 |
| Sofa | $170 |
| Mattress + box spring | $192 |
| Quarter truck (4 cu yd) | $325 |
| Half truck (8 cu yd) | $580 |
| Three-quarter truck (12 cu yd) | $790 |
| Full truck (16 cu yd) | $985 |
Storage units are the clearest case for volume pricing, and it isn't close. Contents are mostly boxed, and boxes itemize badly — thirty of them is $1,260 priced individually and under four cubic yards by volume. Anything past a handful of cartons and the truck tier wins by a wide margin. We quote both and charge the lower one, so you don't have to work it out.
By rough volume, so you can place yours before sending photos:
These are starting points, not quotes. The photos produce the real number, and units are almost always emptier than the renter remembers — which is the single most common surprise in storage cleanouts across NYC.
Three things actually move the number.
Empty it in one visit. Storage rent in New York runs high enough that a half-cleared unit is usually the largest avoidable cost in the whole exercise. Clearing in stages feels cheaper and rarely is.
Get a photo quote, not a phone estimate. A number produced from a description can move once a crew is standing in the corridor. A number produced from pictures doesn't.
Donate the genuinely good pieces first. It costs nothing, and a smaller load can drop you a truck tier. Solid furniture in clean, sound condition is worth offering; tired upholstery and particle board generally aren't, and it's better to know that before you arrange a pickup.
Worth knowing if you're weighing doing it yourself.
A unit is denser than the same volume of apartment. A room you live in has air in it — space to walk, half-empty drawers, gaps under furniture. A unit was deliberately packed to use the cube, so the same cubic yard holds considerably more mass. Books, files, tools and crockery are the usual culprits, and they're already boxed, so nobody sees them until the box is lifted.
It doesn't change our price, which is volume-based. It does change how long a DIY clear takes, and it's why a rented van and a Saturday tends to become two Saturdays.
Two identical 10×10s can be very different jobs, and the contents have nothing to do with it.
Drive-up units — common in the Maspeth and industrial LIC corridors — are the fast case. The truck backs to the door and the walk is a few feet.
Interior corridor units mean everything goes on a cart, down a hallway, through a propped door, to a shared loading bay.
Upper floors depend entirely on the elevator, and one freight elevator in a busy building on a Saturday is a queue.
None of it changes the quoted price. It changes what time we need to arrive, so tell us which you have when you send the photos.
Two minutes on the phone to the office removes almost every way this goes sideways.
Also worth assuming you cannot use the facility's own dumpster for a unit clear-out unless the office tells you otherwise — it's generally there for packing waste, and the contents have to leave the site entirely.
A line we won't cross, and it matters.
We don't advise on what a facility may do with contents when an account falls behind, what notice is owed, how an auction works, or what any of the timelines are. Those are questions for your rental agreement and, where property or money is genuinely at stake, for an attorney. A hauling company answering them would be guessing at your expense.
What we will do is clear a unit you're authorized to clear, set aside anything you tell us to keep, and photograph it all. If you've won a unit at auction, that's a different situation with its own clock and we have a page for it.
Western Queens — Long Island City, Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, Maspeth, Ridgewood — is the quickest to schedule, and same-day is common there.
Central and eastern Queens — Flushing, Elmhurst, Corona, Rego Park, Forest Hills, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Bayside — same-week is routine and same-day is frequently available.
Flat pricing is identical across the borough, and identical to what we charge everywhere else in New York City. There's no zone surcharge, no long-carry fee, no stair or walk-up charge and no fuel line — a Queens unit and a Manhattan unit holding the same contents are quoted the same price.
Reusable furniture goes to donation where it's accepted. Mattresses, electronics and metal go to recycling. Only what's genuinely finished goes to a transfer station.
Tell us before the visit if there's anything you want set aside rather than loaded, and it'll be left untouched — that instruction can't be inferred, so it has to be said.
Open the unit, photograph it with the door up, send the pictures. You'll have a flat price in seconds and a slot this week, and you don't have to be at the facility for any of it. The unit stops billing you the day it's empty, which is usually the number that mattered most all along.
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