How much does junk removal cost in Rock Hill, SC?
Junk removal is priced by the space the load takes, not by the hour, at one price per trailer load. A single item is $95, a pickup-bed load is $150, and the ladder steps up from there to $700 for a trailer packed full.
The full ladder: single item $95 · a pickup-bed load $150 · a small room $235 · a large room $315 · a one-car garage $395 · a partially cleared two-car garage $475 · a full two-car garage $560 · the trailer packed full $700. That top end is the range for a whole-house clean-out in Old Town, a garage in Country Club Estates that has not been opened in fifteen years, or a landlord turnover where a tenant left everything behind.
A few items carry a surcharge because York County charges us to get rid of them. Those are added to the quote before we load, never after.
- Mattress or box spring: +$25 each
- Refrigerant appliance (fridge, freezer, window AC, mini fridge): +$40
- Tires: +$8 each
- Paint and e-waste: billed at actual disposal cost
- Stairs above the first flight: +$25 per flight
- Heavy or awkward single items (treadmills, large appliances, oversized sectionals): from +$40
- Pianos, gun safes, hot tubs and slate pool tables: quoted separately, not the single-item rate
- Same-day service: +$40
Where can Rock Hill residents legally get rid of furniture, mattresses and appliances?
If you are inside Rock Hill city limits, the city will take a lot of it curbside for free as long as you schedule it in advance with Public Works rather than just setting it at the road. Couches, chairs and household furnishings go out at no charge, and so do most metal white goods: refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers, washers, dryers, water heaters, even basketball goals and bikes. Riding lawn mowers and HVAC units are the notable exceptions and are not part of that free pickup.
The things that catch people out are televisions, computers and tires, which are not free curbside. You either haul them yourself to a York County recycling center or the city collects them and puts the fee on your utility bill. Construction and remodeling debris is its own category entirely: lumber, doors, windows, carpet, siding and shingles are a charged service that starts around $60 and climbs with volume, or you rent a Dial-A-Dumpster and load it yourself.
York County runs a network of collection and recycling centers open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday, for county residents only, and they take glass, electronics and shredded paper that the blue curbside bin will not. The landfill itself charges by the ton at the scale house: roughly $49 a ton for municipal solid waste at the transfer station, $42 for construction and demolition, $36 for yard debris, $20 for metal, white goods, electronics and refrigeration items, and $75 for passenger and truck tires, which require a phone call ahead and an arrival before 2 p.m. South Carolina also bans yard waste from the landfill, so brush and limbs are handled separately through the city's YardCart program and the November-through-February leaf and brush collection.
That system works fine if you own a truck, have a free Saturday morning, and your pile fits the rules. We get called when one of those is missing: you are renting, you are outside the city limits so city collection does not apply, you are on a closing deadline, the item is a mattress and a stairwell, or the pile is a mixed load of furniture, drywall and a dead fridge that no single free program covers.
Do you work in Rock Hill regularly, or is it a special trip?
There is no separate travel line to work out for Rock Hill — it is already inside the number we quote you, confirmed before any work starts, not adjusted afterward. That is true whether you are off Cherry Road at exit 82, near Dave Lyle at exit 79, or down toward Highway 5 at exit 77 — no fuel surcharge, no per-mile add-on, no state-line fee for crossing into South Carolina.
Rock Hill is the largest city we serve outside Charlotte, and I-77 is the spine of the trip either way — about 25 minutes from our Steele Creek base to the Dave Lyle exit on a normal day, longer when the bridge over the Catawba backs up at rush hour. We run that corridor often enough that it is a regular stop on the board, not a special trip, which is part of why one quoted number covers it instead of an itemized add-on. If you have a neighbor, a relative on the same street, or a second unit in the same complex who also needs work done, book them together on the same visit and we quote the whole trip once.
Card payments carry a 3.5% processing fee. Cash, check and Zelle are also accepted with no added fee.
Can you help with a Winthrop University move-in or move-out?
Yes, and the pricing is our standard labor rate: $70/hr for a solo hand or $135/hr for a two-person crew, both with a 2-hour minimum, billed in 30-minute increments after that. In 2026, Winthrop moves new and transfer students in on August 21 and returning students on August 22, with classes starting August 24, so those two days and the week around them fill up fast.
Winthrop's move-in logistics are the reason people hire help here. Everyone checks in at Winthrop Lake through the Coliseum address on Eden Terrace to get keys before going to their hall, the unload zones outside the residence halls give you about ten minutes before you have to move the vehicle to the Cherry Road lot, elevators back up almost immediately, and Margaret Nance does not have one at all. Residence Life has a limited number of bins. A second set of hands that can carry a loaded cart up three flights while the driver moves the car is worth more than an extra hour of circling.
May is the other half of the cycle, and it is a hauling job rather than a moving job. Dorm and apartment move-out leaves behind futons, particleboard desks, papasan chairs, rugs and mini fridges. The mini fridge is the one to plan for: it is a refrigerant appliance, so it carries the +$40 surcharge, and a twin mattress or box spring adds $25 each. The off-campus complexes along Cherry Road, Eden Terrace and Ebenezer Avenue mostly run 12-month leases that flip in late July and early August, which means the student turnover season and the ordinary summer moving season land on top of each other here in a way they do not in most of the towns we serve.
On Saturday and Sunday the two-person hourly crew carries a 3-hour minimum instead of 2. The solo handyman stays at the 2-hour minimum every day of the week.
How much does TV mounting cost in Rock Hill?
TV mounting is flat rate: $99 for sets up to 60 inches, $149 for 61-75 inches, $199 for 76-85 inches, and a custom quote for 86 inches and up, which is a two-person minimum job. Mounting over a fireplace or onto stone or brick starts at $199. A second or third TV on the same visit gets 25% off the mount labor.
Rock Hill's housing stock splits the work in two. The 1920s and 1930s houses along Oakland Avenue, in Winthrop Heights and through the old mill village blocks often have plaster over lath, balloon-framed walls with no blocking where you want the bracket, and a brick chimney breast right where the TV is supposed to go. That is the from-$199 masonry or over-fireplace scenario, and it is worth being honest about a heat-and-height problem before drilling. The newer builds out in Riverwalk, Laurel Creek and the Newport-side subdivisions are the opposite: standard 16-inch stud spacing, drywall, and often a prewired recess above the mantel, which is a straightforward $99 or $149 job.
Add-ons are priced separately and are never discounted, including on additional TVs: stick-on cord concealment $39, in-wall cord routing from $89, a flat mount $40, a full-motion mount $65. If you are renting one of the apartments near campus or off Dave Lyle, the stick-on channel at $39 is usually the right call — in-wall routing means cutting drywall, which most leases here do not forgive at move-out.
Prices assume you already have a bracket. If you do not, add the flat or full-motion mount above.
What does hourly moving, handyman and flooring work cost in Rock Hill?
Hourly labor is $70/hr solo or $135/hr for a two-person crew, 2-hour minimum on both, billed in 30-minute increments after the minimum. If the job needs a trailer, add $35/hr for a utility trailer or $60/hr for the 16ft enclosed, so a two-person crew with the enclosed trailer is $195/hr.
This is the rate for load-and-unload help on a rental truck, in-home furniture shuffles, a piano or gun safe moved from one room to another, appliance swaps, garage and attic reorganizing, and the ordinary punch list of small repairs that older Old Town houses generate between tenants. Weekend note: Saturday and Sunday two-person crew work has a 3-hour minimum, the solo rate stays at 2 hours, and the Sunday +15% applies only to flat-rate services like TV mounting and junk removal — it never applies to hourly crew work.
Flooring is priced by the square foot: $2.50/sq ft for LVP and laminate, $3.50/sq ft for herringbone and premium patterns, plus $1.00/sq ft to tear out and haul the old floor and $70/hr for subfloor prep where the existing subfloor needs leveling or repair. The minimum is 200 sq ft or $500. Rock Hill generates a lot of this work in two places: rental houses and duplexes near campus where carpet gets replaced on turnover, and 1960s-1980s ranches in Ebenezer, Shiland Hills and Sunset Point where the original floors are finally coming up.
Travel is built into every number we quote you. Same-day service, when we can do it, adds $40 — we are often available same day, but we will tell you straight whether we can hit your window rather than promise one we cannot make.