Bears Moving Co. hauls junk in Brookhaven — garage, basement, and attic cleanouts, single-item pickups, old appliances and mattresses, post-renovation debris, rental turnovers, and full estate cleanouts. We load it, sweep up, and take it to donation, recycling, or the transfer station.
Pricing is not hourly: we quote from the characteristics of the job — how much of the truck the load fills, what it weighs, what is in it, how hard it is to reach, how far we drive, and what disposal costs — and you get that number on site before anything moves. Licensed GA HHG #9320 and fully insured.
Junk removal is a cleanout service, not a move. We show up with a truck and a crew, you point at what is going, and we do the carrying, loading, and sweeping. Nothing has to be dragged to the curb first and nothing has to be broken down ahead of time — that is our job.
Common Brookhaven loads include condo and apartment cleanouts scheduled through the loading dock, single-item pickups the building's bulk-trash rules will not take, office suite clear-outs of desks, chairs, and files, and appliance and mattress removals that need a freight elevator. Brookhaven jobs are usually condo clear-outs after a closing, bulk items the building's own rules exclude, and small offices emptied over a weekend.
We cannot take hazardous materials: paint and solvents, chemicals, motor oil and fuel, propane tanks, batteries, medical waste, or anything containing asbestos. Everything else — furniture, appliances, mattresses, electronics, yard waste, construction debris — is fair game.
Junk removal is not billed by the hour. Every job is quoted from the characteristics of the load: how much of the truck it fills, what it weighs, what is in it, how hard it is to get out, how far we drive, and what the disposal site charges to take it.
We start with volume, because that is what the truck can carry. We price by how much of the truck your load fills — a quarter, a half, three quarters, or a full truckload — and we quote that on site once we can see the pile, before anything gets loaded. A single-item pickup carries a small minimum because the truck and crew still have to make the trip.
Weight comes next. Dense material like concrete, brick, dirt, roofing shingles, tile, and plaster costs more than the same volume of furniture, because the transfer station charges by the ton rather than by the cubic yard. A half truckload of demolition rubble can weigh more than a full truckload of household goods.
Item type matters where disposal is regulated. Refrigerators, freezers, and window air conditioners carry a refrigerant recovery fee. Mattresses and box springs have their own disposal charge. Electronics and e-waste, tires, and treated construction debris each have handling costs we pass through at cost rather than marking up.
Labor and difficulty are the fourth factor. A pile already stacked in the driveway is the cheapest version of any Brookhaven job. Stairs, a long carry from the back of the house, a tight basement turn, or a hot tub, shed, playset, or swing set that has to be dismantled before it will fit through a door all add crew time to the quote.
A Brookhaven building job is scheduled around the property manager: a booked elevator, a dock window measured in hours, and insurance paperwork on file before the crew is allowed upstairs. We handle all three.
Location and travel are folded in as well: the drive to the property and the drive from the property to the right disposal or recycling facility. Tipping fees vary by county, so where the load ends up is part of what it costs to take it.
Finally, disposal and recycling. Good furniture leaves for donation, electronics are recycled through a certified processor, and only the remainder is weighed in at the transfer station. You see the number before we load, and it does not move unless the pile does.
A Brookhaven building job is usually a quarter to a half truckload, and the elevator window plus the length of the hallway carry set the labor side of the quote.
We move in and out of Town Brookhaven (the apartments above the retail), the Modera Apex, AMLI Brookhaven, Solis on Dresden, the bungalows along North Druid Hills, Hermance Drive, and Mae Avenue, the Lynwood Park older homes, the Ashford Park area near Skyland Park, and the new Brookhaven Heights townhomes.
Our crews know that Dresden Drive's bike lane is enforced and we stage on the side streets, that the Town Brookhaven loading dock is shared and slips by 30 minutes if you're second in the slot, and that the Lynwood Park streets have mature canopies that prevent 26-foot trucks from passing under safely — we use a 20-footer there.
About 20 min north of Atlanta via I-85. A Brookhaven building job is scheduled around the property manager: a booked elevator, a dock window measured in hours, and insurance paperwork on file before the crew is allowed upstairs. We handle all three. The Brookhaven areas we get junk removal calls from most: Ashford Park, Brookhaven Heights, Lynwood Park, and Town Brookhaven.
Brookhaven is one of Metro Atlanta's most diverse housing-stock cities — Town Brookhaven mid-rise apartments and condos sit blocks away from 1940s Ashford Park and Brookhaven Heights bungalows, which sit blocks away from the new construction townhomes off Dresden and the larger Brookhaven Estates and Lynwood Park homes. The logistics shift building-to-building.
Town Brookhaven and the Dresden corridor (Modera Apex, AMLI Brookhaven, the Solis on Dresden) require COIs, freight elevator reservations, and a strict no-blocking rule on Dresden Drive's bike lane during loading. The bungalow streets — North Druid Hills, Hermance, Mae — have original hardwoods, narrow porches, and street parking that fills by 9am.
The new townhouse communities off Buford Highway and around Brookhaven Park have dedicated loading zones but tight 90-degree garage turns.
Good furniture leaves for donation, electronics are recycled through a certified processor, and only the remainder is weighed in at the transfer station. Sorting is part of the job, not an upsell: anything a donation center will accept goes there, metal and appliances go to a scrapper, electronics go to a certified e-waste recycler, and the landfill is the last stop rather than the first.
If you want proof of where something went — common on estate and office cleanouts — ask when you book and we will send the donation receipt or the scale ticket from the transfer station.
A single-item pickup is its own kind of job: one sofa, one mattress, one refrigerator, one treadmill. Those carry a small minimum because the truck still has to make the trip, and they are usually done in under half an hour once we are on site.
A whole-house or estate cleanout is the other end of the range. Those are priced by total volume across the day, sometimes across more than one trip, and we walk the property with you first so the number is settled before we start.
A Brookhaven building job is usually a quarter to a half truckload, and the elevator window plus the length of the hallway carry set the labor side of the quote.
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Yes. Garage, basement, attic, estate, and rental-turnover cleanouts in Brookhaven, plus single-item pickups and construction debris. We load it, sweep the area, and take it to donation, recycling, or the transfer station.
It is quoted by the job, not by the hour. Truck volume is the main factor — a quarter, half, three-quarter, or full load — with weight, item type, difficulty of removal, travel, and disposal fees layered on. A Brookhaven building job is usually a quarter to a half truckload, and the elevator window plus the length of the hallway carry set the labor side of the quote.
You get the number on site before we load anything.
Because the cost is driven by what happens after the truck leaves. Landfill tipping fees are charged by the ton, refrigerant appliances and mattresses carry their own disposal fees, and recycling and donation each have their own logistics. Pricing by the load reflects those real costs; pricing by the hour would not.
No. We do the carrying from wherever the items are — basement, attic, backyard, second floor. Curbside piles are cheaper only because they are faster to load, but they are never required.
We cannot take hazardous materials: paint and solvents, chemicals, motor oil and fuel, propane tanks, batteries, medical waste, or anything containing asbestos. Everything else — furniture, appliances, mattresses, electronics, yard waste, construction debris — is fair game.
Yes. Dismantling is common on Brookhaven jobs and is quoted as part of the labor and difficulty portion of the price, so you see it in the number up front rather than as a surprise line afterward.
Good furniture leaves for donation, electronics are recycled through a certified processor, and only the remainder is weighed in at the transfer station. Ask for a donation receipt or a scale ticket when you book and we will send it after the job.
Yes. Bears Moving Co. is licensed under GA HHG Mover #9320 and carries full cargo and liability insurance on every job, including cleanouts. Building Certificates of Insurance are issued within 24 hours of booking.