If you're cleaning out your house and have junk to get rid of, you may be looking for someone to haul the stuff away. A good choice is a junk removal service. They make it easy since they lift heavy items for you. They'll take furniture and other junk from your home so you don't have to struggle to get things to the curb. Here are three tips for using a junk removal service. 

1. Have Everything Ready To Go

Unlike renting a dumpster where you can throw things out at your convenience as you clean over several days, you'll need to have everything ready to haul away when the junk removal service comes. The service might be able to help you gather junk and sort, but this will cost more than if you organize your junk yourself.

You might collect light things in your garage and make a list of heavy things you want them to remove from the rest of your house. You'll probably need to complete most of your sorting and cleaning in the days or weeks ahead of when you have your junk hauled off.

2. Get A Quote Before Work Begins

It's a little difficult to get an accurate quote for the cost of junk removal services over the phone since the workers need to see how much junk you have first. The cost is usually based on how much room your junk takes up in their truck. They might also charge by the hour if they have to do extra work like help you sort belongings.

One of the first things the junk removal service does is look over the amount of junk, furniture, and belongings you want them to take so they can give you a quote for the work. This way you know upfront how much you have to pay.

3. Consider How You Can Save Money

Since a junk removal service may charge you by the amount of space your things take up on the truck, you might want to minimize the amount of junk you have hauled away. Junk removal is ideal for getting rid of old furniture and other large things that won't fit in your garbage bin.

Instead of putting bags of clutter and trash on the truck, you might hold these in your garage and get rid of them a little at a time with your regular trash pickup. If you have a lot of bags, you may not want them sitting around taking up space though, so in that case, it may be worth it to pay the junk removal service to get rid of them all at once.

Contact a local junk removal service to learn more.