Junk Removal on Cape Cod

About a third of the houses on Cape Cod are seasonal homes, so a lot of Cape junk piles up in places nobody lives in full time. Count On Me! does junk removal on Cape Cod: furniture swaps between rental seasons, summer house and cottage clean-outs, estate clean-outs, garages, sheds and mattresses. We're a family-owned, licensed and insured business based in Assonet, with 5+ years hauling junk on the South Shore. Call or text us a photo, get a price before any work starts, and we carry it all out.

What Cape Cod properties need

Cape Cod is a second-home market. The state counts about 36% of Barnstable County's housing as seasonal, recreational or occasional use, and the Cape Cod Commission puts the range from about 17% in Sandwich to about 71% in Truro. That changes junk removal: the owner is often off-Cape, the house gets opened in spring and closed in fall, and the furniture, mattresses and grills that wear out get replaced on a schedule, not when someone is home to deal with them. Photos are the easiest way to start: we price the job from them, then talk through access with you.

Rentals are the other half. Half of all short-term rentals registered with Massachusetts are in Barnstable County, and about one in ten Cape homes is registered as one. Turnover days are tight. When a rental gets new couches, beds or a deck set, the old ones have to be gone before the next guests arrive. Property managers and owners can set up pickups ahead of the season or on a regular schedule.

Then there are the estate clean-outs: a family cottage that has been filling up for decades, emptied before it's sold or rebuilt. We set aside what the family keeps, pull out what can be donated, and haul the rest off-Cape. Dead hot tubs and weathered outdoor furniture come out the same way.

Junk removal services on Cape Cod

• Estate CleanoutsFamily cottages and year-round Cape houses emptied before a sale, keep pile first, donations second, the rest hauled off-Cape.
• Scheduled & Recurring PickupsPlanned pickups for Cape rental owners and property managers, timed around turnover days and the start and end of the season.
• Furniture RemovalWorn-out rental couches, beds and patio sets carried out so the new set can go in.
• Mattress RemovalMattresses and box springs from rentals and summer houses, sent to recycling as Massachusetts law requires.
• Garage & Basement CleanoutsGarages, sheds and basements full of beach gear, broken grills and old furniture, cleared in one trip.
• Hot Tub RemovalDead hot tubs at Cape homes and rentals cut down, carried out and hauled away.

Cape Cod transfer stations, stickers and bulky items

Each Cape town runs its own transfer station with its own sticker and fee rules, and they don't match. In Barnstable, the Flint Street facility in Marstons Mills has a bulky items area for furniture, mattresses, box springs and sofas; you don't need a sticker for bulky items, but a disposal fee may apply. In Falmouth, you need an annual sticker to drop mattresses and box springs on the upper level of the Waste Management Facility on Thomas B. Landers Road, a single-trip sticker only covers the lower level, and stickers aren't sold at the facility. If you own a summer house in one town and live somewhere else, check whether you count as a resident before you load the car.

Once it leaves your property, Cape trash leaves the Cape. Waste goes through the Yarmouth transfer station, the Upper Cape Regional Transfer Station at Joint Base Cape Cod or Bourne's solid waste facility, then off-Cape to lined landfills or the SEMASS waste-to-energy plant in Rochester, and the Cape Cod Commission reports that town disposal contract prices have roughly doubled in recent years. Massachusetts disposal bans apply here like everywhere else in the state: since November 1, 2022, mattresses, box springs and textiles can't go in the trash, and appliances, TVs and screens, tires, metal and yard waste are banned too. We sort the load so each of those goes to recycling.

What we don't take: household hazardous waste such as oil-based paint, solvents, gasoline, pool chemicals, propane tanks and asbestos. Barnstable County runs free household hazardous waste collection days from spring to fall, open to residents of any Cape town. Empty or dried-out latex paint cans are fine. We don't rent dumpsters or do structural demolition.

Getting started on Cape Cod

1. 1

   Call or text us photos

   Send pictures of each room, the shed or the pile, plus the town and street. Tell us about stairs, a long driveway or a tight lane.

2. 2

   Free estimate

   We price from the photos, or come out for a free on-site estimate on a whole-house clean-out. No obligation.

3. 3

   Price, then a date

   You get the exact price before any work starts. Give us your turnover day or closing date and we plan around it. Same-day pickup when the schedule has room.

4. 4

   We do the lifting

   Our crew carries everything out of the house, attic, shed or deck and loads the truck.

5. 5

   Sweep, sort, recycle

   We sweep up, then sort: mattresses, metal, appliances and electronics to recycling, usable furniture to donation when we can.

Cape Cod junk removal questions

Sources (8)

1. mass.gov/info-details/cape-cod-housing-snapshot
2. capecodcommission.org/about-us/newsroom/county-administrator-commission-executive-director
3. mass.gov/info-details/what-do-we-know-about-seasonal-homes-and-short-term-rentals
4. ecode360.com/6561956
5. falmouthma.gov/170/Waste-Management-Facility
6. capecodcommission.org/our-work/solid-and-hazardous-waste
7. capecod.gov/?p=14684
8. mass.gov/guides/massdep-waste-disposal-bans