Storage Unit Cleanouts in Tulsa
JunkLimo clears storage units across the Tulsa metro, priced straight off the unit size: a 5×10 is about $149, a 10×10 about $249 and a packed 10×20 is a full trailer at $425. Nobody needs to be present — the facility name, unit number, gate access and an agreed quote are enough. Units are left swept, with photos sent the same day.
- Priced straight off the unit size
- Gate code and unit number is enough
- Swept out so the facility signs it off
- A mattress and box spring
- One recliner
- A washer or dryer
- Six to eight bags
How much does a storage unit cleanout cost in Tulsa?
Priced off unit size: $85 for a 5×5, $149 for a 5×10, $249 for a 10×10, $339 for a 10×15 and $425 for a packed 10×20.
What each load size means for this job
- Minimum load — $85A packed 5×5 unit
- ¼ trailer — $149A 5×10 unit
- ½ trailer — $249A 10×10 unit
- ¾ trailer — $339A 10×15 unit
- Full trailer — $425A packed 10×20 unit
What changes the price
- How tightly the unit is packed
- A 10×10 with a walkway down the middle is genuinely less volume than a half trailer, and it is priced that way.
- Upper-floor units
- A unit on the second floor of a climate-controlled building means a lift and a corridor carry rather than a roll-up door and a trailer.
- Distance from the trailer
- Interior corridor units are a longer carry than drive-up units. It costs nothing extra but it is the main thing that changes the clock.
- Mattresses and appliances
- Per-piece mattress recycling fee, and refrigerant recovery on any fridge, freezer or window unit.
- Facility access hours
- Gate hours set the working window. A facility that closes gate access at 6pm changes when the job can start, not what it costs.
How does unit size map to the price?
Almost one to one, which makes this the easiest job on the site to quote. Storage units are already sold by volume and so is the trailer.
A packed 5×5 is the $85 minimum load. A 5×10 is roughly a quarter trailer at $149. A 10×10 is about a half at $249, a 10×15 around three-quarters at $339, and a packed 10×20 is a full trailer at $425.
The word doing the work there is "packed". Most units are not loaded to the ceiling, and a 10×10 with a walkway down the middle is genuinely less than a half trailer. The quote reflects what is actually in it, not what the door says — which is why most units come in under their size’s figure rather than at it.
Do I have to be there?
No, and most people are not. This is the single most common reason a storage unit sits paid-for and unused for another six months.
What is needed is the facility name, the unit number, gate access and an agreed quote. Plenty of these are booked by somebody who moved out of state a year ago and has been paying rent on a unit they cannot get to. Photos of the empty, swept unit go out the same day.
The lock is the one thing that has to be sorted in advance. Either your key is on site, or the facility office cuts it for you beforehand — facilities generally will not authorise a third party to cut a lock without the leaseholder’s instruction, and that is the right policy. One phone call to the office prevents a wasted trip.
Can the facility’s move-out deadline be met?
Usually, and it should be stated at booking rather than mentioned on the day. That date is what the job is scheduled against.
Storage bills by the month, which makes the deadline unusually expensive to miss — a unit emptied one day late costs a full extra month of rent, and on a 10×20 that is more than the cleanout. Same-day and next-day slots are realistic across the metro because the drive between facilities here is short.
Auction-won units run on the tightest windows of all. The buyer takes what they want and the rest has to be gone fast, usually within 24 to 72 hours depending on the facility. Anything that looks like documents or personal papers is set aside and handed over rather than loaded — the same policy that applies on estate cleanouts.
What is normally in a Tulsa storage unit?
A house that no longer exists. Furniture from a home that was sold, boxes packed during a move that finished years ago, and a mattress.
Business units run differently: inventory that stopped selling, files and records, office furniture from a downsize, shelving and broken pallets. Those overlap heavily with office cleanouts and warehouse cleanouts, and are often booked together.
Mattresses are the item worth flagging in advance, because they carry a per-piece recycling fee and because most Tulsa dumpster providers refuse them outright — the detail is on mattress removal and disposal. Appliances and window units are the other one: refrigerant has to be recovered by a certified technician before they can be scrapped.
What can and cannot be dumped from a Tulsa storage unit?
Not much of it goes out the easy way, and the reason is that a storage unit is not a residence. The City of Tulsa bulky waste programme serves City utility customers at their service address — it is a residential collection tied to a utility account, scheduled with a Customer ID and Account number, at least three days before that address’s regular refuse day. A storage unit does not have one.
That leaves the facility’s own dumpster, and most Tulsa facilities are explicit that it is for packing material rather than unit contents, with fees for anyone who fills it. Mattresses are refused almost universally — Oklahoma has no state mattress-recycling stewardship programme, unlike California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Oregon, so there is no free drop-off underwriting them and most providers here simply say no.
The realistic self-serve route is Tulsa Recycle & Transfer at 1150 N. Peoria Ave, a state-licensed transfer station open to the public and to commercial haulers, with a rented truck and however many trips a 10×20 takes. Electronics can go to the M.e.t. free at Broken Arrow, Central Tulsa, Claremore, Downtown Tulsa, Glenpool and Sand Springs — though TVs, monitors, air conditioners and anything over 50 lbs carry a fee there.
The storage corridors themselves run along S. Memorial, E. 71st, the Broken Arrow Expressway and up through Owasso, which is convenient in one respect: several facilities inside a short drive means a same-day slot is usually genuinely available.
Clearing the unit yourself versus hiring it out
| Rented truck and a weekend | JunkLimo | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Truck rental, fuel, transfer station tipping fees, plus mattress and appliance fees | $249 for a 10×10, quoted firm before loading |
| Trips | A 10×20 is several loads in a rented pickup or box truck | One trailer, sized to the unit |
| Being there | Required, for all of it | Not required — gate access and a quote are enough |
| The facility dumpster | Usually prohibited for unit contents, and charged if used | Nothing goes in the facility’s dumpster |
| Move-out deadline | Missing it costs a full extra month of rent | Job is scheduled against that date |
A half-empty 5×5 you can reach on a Saturday is not worth hiring anyone for. The maths flips fast at 10×10 and above, and it flips instantly if you no longer live in Tulsa.
What comes out of a storage unit
- Furniture from a house that no longer exists
- Boxes, totes and packing material
- Mattresses and bed frames
- Appliances and window units
- Exercise equipment
- Business inventory and stock
- Files, records and office furniture
- Tools, ladders and yard equipment
- Seasonal decorations
- Auction-won unit contents, sorted
- Broken pallets and shelving
- Final sweep-out of the unit
Don’t see it? Ask. The list of what we can’t take is short: paint, solvents, pesticides, motor oil, asbestos and medical waste.
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Storage Unit Cleanouts across the Tulsa metro.
Same price everywhere. No travel fee.
The storage corridors here are well defined — S. Memorial, E. 71st, the stretch through Broken Arrow, and the newer facilities up around Owasso. South Tulsa, the Union area and Tulsa Hills all have clusters, and Sand Springs, Jenks and Bixby have their own.
Facilities in Broken Arrow, Owasso and South Tulsa come up most often, and there is no travel fee to any of them. Because several facilities sit within a short drive of each other, same-day slots are realistic in a way they are not for scattered residential work.
- South Tulsa
- Union area
- Tulsa Hills
- Broken Arrow
- Owasso
- Bixby
- Jenks
- Sand Springs
- Catoosa
- Tulsa
- Midtown Tulsa
- Brookside
- South Tulsa
- Broken Arrow
- Jenks
- Bixby
- Owasso
- Sand Springs
- Sapulpa
- Glenpool
- Catoosa
- Claremore
- Coweta
Related services
Estate Cleanouts
A whole house cleared for an executor, a family or a listing — sorted, not just emptied.
Mattress Removal
Mattresses, box springs and frames taken from any floor, same day when the schedule allows.
Office Cleanouts
A floor cleared to lease-end condition, worked outside office hours so nobody watches it happen.
Hoarder Cleanouts
A cleanout that goes at the pace you set, in as many visits as it takes.
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