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Hoarding cleanup in Olympia and Tacoma, at your pace, and nothing leaves without your yes.
Caravan Moving LLC does hoarding cleanup across Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Tacoma and the rest of the South Sound, working from our base in Rochester. You decide what happens to every item (keep, donate or discard) and we do the carrying, at the pace you set, with no judgment.
You don't owe us an explanation
This might be your own home, or the home of a parent, a sibling or a friend. Homes fill up for human reasons, and we're not here to gawk or to lecture. We carry things for a living, and we're careful about which things.
Whether you'd call it a hoarder house cleanup or just the rooms that got away from you, the work starts the same way, with you making the decisions. Some homes take one afternoon. Others take a series of visits spread over weeks, and that's fine.
The clearing and disposal side of this work is a general business service. It doesn't run under our household goods moving permit.
- Your pace, one afternoon or several visits
- Nothing leaves without your yes, item by item
- Keep-items packed properly and moved where they're going
- Donation-grade goods genuinely donated
- A family member or case manager welcome alongside, from the first call
- A written plan and a free written estimate before any work starts
From the first call
How a hoarding cleanup runs.
A phone call
The owner answers. Tell us as much or as little as you want, including whether a family member or a case manager should be on the call and on the visits.
A walkthrough with no bags
We come out, meet you and walk the rooms together, with your permission. This visit is only for looking, and nobody has a bag in their hands.
A written plan and a free written estimate
Which rooms first, how many visits, and what happens to what, set out on paper alongside the estimate. The plan is yours to keep whether or not you hire us.
Sorting, at your pace
Item by item you say keep, donate or discard. If the job turns out bigger than the estimate, we write a supplemental estimate and you sign it before we carry on.
Loading, and an itemised invoice
Keep-items are packed and moved, donations go to the charity, and the rest goes to disposal. The disposal ticket is attached to the invoice so you can see what that part actually cost.
Keep, donate, discard
Where your things go, and how the price is built.
Each pile takes a different route out of the house and is priced differently, and all of it is written down before anything moves.
What you keep
Packed with the banker's boxes, paper and bubble wrap we bring, the way our packing service works, then set where you want it in the house or moved to a new address. Packing materials are never billed as a separate line. Jewellery, cash and irreplaceable documents stay with you.
What you donate
Donation-grade goods are pulled out before any of the rest is called waste, and they genuinely get donated. If something is meant for a particular person instead, it goes in the keep pile and we move it there.
What has to go
The clearing side runs the way our junk removal does: donation and recycling sorted out first, the price agreed before anything goes on the truck, and disposal billed at cost with the ticket attached to your invoice.
If the keep pile is moving house
That leg is a household goods move and is quoted as one. Washington prices a shipment travelling 55 miles or less by the hour, measured from the pickup address to the delivery address, and by weight and distance above that. The UTC page on choosing a mover links to the tariff those rates come from.
Discretion, and where our part ends
Discretion starts with the truck. It says moving, and nothing on it mentions cleanup or biohazard, so from the street a sorting day looks like an ordinary moving day. If privacy matters beyond that, say so on the first call and we'll talk it through.
Full biohazard remediation is a specialist company's work and we refer it out. If the walkthrough shows part of the home needs it, we say so then, before the plan is written, rather than on the morning of the job. Hazardous material doesn't go on our truck either.
Counselling isn't our work. If support beyond us would help, a family doctor or a case manager can point the way.
Some jobs sit next door to this one. If the home is a rental and the tenant is still in the picture, our property cleanouts page fits better. A family home being cleared after a death is covered on estate cleanouts. Once the rooms are clear the carpets are often next, and King Carpet Cleaning, a separate company, coordinates with us so both can happen in the same week and invoices you separately.
- A truck that says moving, with nothing on it about cleanup or biohazard
- Privacy talked through plainly on the first call
- Full biohazard remediation referred out to a specialist company
- Hazardous material left for the people who handle it
- Counselling left to the people trained for it
Hoarding cleanup questions
What people ask before they call.
How much does hoarding cleanup cost?
It depends on how many rooms and visits the plan needs, how much is kept and moved, and how much is donated or hauled away. That's why the number comes after the walkthrough, in a free written estimate that's yours to keep. The clearing side is priced before anything goes on the truck, and disposal is billed at cost with the ticket attached to the invoice.
Will you throw anything away without asking me?
No. Nothing leaves without your yes. We go through things together and you decide, item by item, whether each one is kept, donated or discarded.
Can a family member or a case manager be involved?
Yes. A family member or case manager is welcome alongside you from the first call, and we'll coordinate with them on the walkthrough, the written plan and the sorting visits if that helps.
Do you do biohazard cleanup?
No. Full biohazard remediation is a specialist company's work and we refer it out. If the walkthrough shows part of the home needs it, we tell you then, before any plan is written.
Will the neighbours know what's going on?
Our truck says moving, and nothing on it mentions cleanup or biohazard, so from the street it looks like an ordinary moving day. If privacy matters beyond that, say so when you call and we'll talk it through plainly.
Do you do hoarding cleanup in Tacoma as well as Olympia?
Yes. We work across Olympia, Lacey, Tumwater, Tacoma and the rest of the South Sound, out of our base in Rochester rather than an office in each city. Wherever you are in that area, it starts with a phone call and a walkthrough.
When you're ready
Start with a walkthrough.
The first visit is only for looking, and nobody has a bag in their hands. Afterwards you get a written plan and a free written estimate, yours to keep whether or not you hire us.
Caravan Moving LLC · 7016 187th Ave SW, Rochester, WA 98579 · Free written estimate before any work