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St. Louis Hoarding Cleanup: List of Cleanup Companies in St. Louis
Five places to call about a hoarded home in St. Louis, and how to tell which kind of company your house needs.
- St. Louis and eleven towns within 28 miles
- Written price before work starts
- Licensed, insured local contractors
- Occupancy inspection rules covered
St. Louis Hoarding Cleanup put this list together for people choosing who to call about a hoarded house in St. Louis. It names companies that appear on public city resource lists for this work and that have a real local presence. It also says which kind of job each one fits, because a biohazard company and a junk hauler are not interchangeable.
How this list was made
There are no paid placements on this list, and no company paid or was asked to be on it. Each company below appears on at least one public resource list published by a St. Louis area city for residents dealing with hoarding: the City of Maryland Heights 2024 resource packet on decluttering and biohazard cleanup, or the City of Brentwood's hoarding help sheet. Each has a local address or service base, and the description of each comes from those lists and from the company's own website, as checked in October 2026. Prices are not listed, because companies set their own and change them.
The ranking puts first the company with the longest visible record of hoarding work in St. Louis on those public lists, and orders the rest by how closely their main service fits a hoarded house.
1. Bio-One of St. Louis
A locally owned franchise of the national Bio-One network, based in Chesterfield, owned by two former St. Louis County area law enforcement officers according to its own site. Its number appears on Brentwood's hoarding help sheet and it is listed in the Maryland Heights 2024 packet, which describes it as working with local authorities, hoarding task forces and apartment complexes. It handles hoarding cleanup along with biohazard, trauma and crime scene work, which makes it a fit for homes at the severe end, with animal or human waste, where a junk hauler cannot work.
Not sure how big the job is? Describe the rooms and what is in them, and get a straight answer on what it usually takes.
Call (636) 216-64902. PureOne Services St. Louis
Based in Sappington in south St. Louis County and listed in the Maryland Heights 2024 packet. Its service list covers hoarding cleanup, biohazard remediation, mold removal, rodent droppings cleanup and fire and water damage restoration. A fit for a hoarded home that also has mold, rodents or water damage, where restoration work follows the clearing.
3. The Junkluggers of West St. Louis
A locally run franchise of The Junkluggers, a national junk removal company founded in 2004, listed in the Maryland Heights 2024 packet with a Ballwin base. Its own site offers estate cleanouts and hoarding cleanouts alongside ordinary junk removal, with an emphasis on donating and recycling what it hauls. A fit for clutter-level hoarding, estates and whole-house cleanouts without biohazard conditions.
4. 1-800-GOT-JUNK? St. Louis
The local operation of the national junk removal franchise, listed in the Maryland Heights 2024 packet for decluttering and bulk waste removal. A fit for lighter jobs: a garage, a basement, a yard or the last few truckloads of a larger cleanout.
5. St. Louis Hoarding Cleanup
This website, included here for transparency, since this article is published on this company's own website. St. Louis Hoarding Cleanup is a referral service rather than a crew: a call is connected with an independent local cleanout contractor for clutter-level hoarding, estates, rentals, garages, basements and yards. It does not handle biohazard work and says so on the call. It belongs last on a list of companies that do the work themselves.
Not sure how big the job is? Describe the rooms and what is in them, and get a straight answer on what it usually takes.
Call (636) 216-6490How to choose between them
Start with what is in the house, not with the company. If there is heavy animal or human waste, sewage, widespread mold, needles or a death in the home, call a remediation company like the first two on this list. If it is belongings, paper, furniture and trash, a cleanout or junk removal crew is the right fit and usually costs less. The hoarder house cleanout page explains what that work involves.
- Ask what the company will search for before anything is bagged
- Ask where the material goes, and how appliances and chemicals are handled
- Ask for proof of insurance and a city business license
- Get the price in writing after a walk-through, not over the phone
- Ask how many days the job will take and how many people will be on it
Where these companies work
All five work across the St. Louis metro, including the inner suburbs and north county. In towns with strict occupancy rules like Webster Groves, ask whether the company has worked to an inspection date there before.
Questions to ask on the first call
Whichever company you call, the first conversation tells you a lot. A good crew asks about the house before it talks about price: how many rooms, how full, whether there is a basement, whether there is a date. It asks what needs to be found. It tells you plainly whether the job sounds like clutter work or remediation, and if it is remediation and they do not do it, it says so.
Be wary of a firm price given over the phone for a whole house nobody has seen, of anyone who wants a large deposit before a walk-through, and of a crew that cannot say where the material is going. Missouri does not license cleanout work at the state level, so the checks that matter are local: a city business license, proof of insurance, a written price and a clear answer on disposal.
Remediation, cleanout or junk removal
The five entries above fall into three kinds of company. Remediation firms, the first two, handle biohazard conditions and are equipped for them. Cleanout crews, including the Junkluggers franchise and the contractors this site refers calls to, sort, search and clear homes full of belongings. Junk removal crews haul what has already been chosen. The comparison of hoarding cleanup and junk removal covers the difference in detail.
Questions people ask
What is the best hoarding cleanup company in St. Louis?
It depends on the house. Biohazard conditions need a remediation company. Clutter, paper and furniture are cleanout crew work.
Are there paid placements on this list?
No. Companies were chosen from public city resource lists and their own published information.
How do I check a hoarding cleanup company?
Ask for insurance and a city business license, a written price after a walk-through, and where the material will go.
Do junk removal companies do hoarding cleanouts?
Many do clutter-level hoarding cleanouts. They do not handle biohazard conditions.
Why is this website on its own list?
For transparency, since the article is published here. It is ranked last because it refers calls rather than doing the work.
Talk it through before anyone carries anything out
Say how many rooms are affected, whether there is a deadline, and whether anything in the house needs to be kept. You will hear what the job usually involves, what it tends to cost, and how long it tends to take.
Call (636) 216-6490