*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up, it takes over your time and your patience. Book LoadUp, see your price up front, and let Birmingham's Magic City hustle carry the load.
You search for options, call the city, then request quotes from haulers. A few never call back. Others want a visit first. Meanwhile the pile stays put, and another weekend slips by with nothing hauled away.
City bulk pickup programs can cost you nothing, but they come with limits on what they accept and how much you can put out. You usually have to request a slot and wait for it. Meanwhile, the junk sits where it is.
Many traditional haulers want to see the pile before they commit to anything. Then they price by the truckload, so the number you hear on the phone can change once the truck arrives. You end up waiting on estimates and still unsure of the total.
Donation centers have to be choosy. Stained, broken, or worn items often get turned away, and many won't send anyone to pick up heavy pieces. You still have to load and drive it all yourself, and you can't count on paperwork.
A rented dumpster makes sense for a gut renovation, not for clearing one room. You may need a permit or approval for where it sits, you have to schedule drop-off and pickup, and a big container can strain relations with neighbors.
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Most companies charge by truck space, and the price often changes on arrival. LoadUp charges by item, based on exactly what you're removing.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Birmingham residents typically pay, so you know what's fair before you book.
Sofas, dressers, bed frames, tables, and more hauled away with ease.
Available in twin, full, queen, king, and California king sizes.
Covers refrigerators, washers, dryers, ovens, dishwashers, water heaters, and more.
Whole-property cleanouts for moves, estates, evictions, and renovations.
TVs, monitors, computers, printers, stereo equipment, and small electronics.
Includes treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, stationary bikes, and home gym systems.
Add a single bulky item like a couch, dresser, or mattress to your booking.
Mixed everyday items including broken goods, old decor, and accumulated clutter.
Bagged trash, loose debris, and general household waste of all kinds.
Covers drywall, lumber, tile, fixtures, and mixed demolition scrap.
Includes branches, brush, grass clippings, leaves, and other organic yard waste.
Desks, chairs, filing cabinets, cubicle panels, and other office items included.
Moving boxes, shipping cartons, and leftover packing cardboard.
First item includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on. *See Birmingham's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader carries a sleeper sofa up narrow basement stairs and down a steep hillside driveway. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Birmingham after each job.
If the old dryer is already at the curb or the end of your driveway, curbside pickup is the simple choice. If you have a treadmill in a back bedroom or a dresser in a second-floor walk-up near Five Points South, choose full-service, and your Loaders will carry it out from where it sits.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $75 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $70 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $85 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $75 |
| Multi-item pickup | Bundle & save | Add-on items in the same pickup for less | from +$15 |
| Item add-on | Optional | Bundle with your junk pickup | from +$15 |
| Full cleanout | Volume discount | Entire room junk removal | Custom |
| Disassembly service | Optional add-on | Large or difficult-to-move items | Custom |
* Starting prices. Final price confirmed by ZIP code and pickup conditions. Volume discounts applied automatically.
Hauling a sagging sofa through Malfunction Junction on a July afternoon is nobody's idea of a Saturday, and Birmingham's heat and hills don't help. Your Loader does the lifting, carrying, and loading, so you can skip the trip entirely. Folks here look out for each other, and your Loaders like showing up for you.
Birmingham homes hold plenty of bulky items, from sagging sofas to worn-out appliances, and where they end up matters. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, working to keep usable pieces out of the landfill when local options allow.
Furniture, exercise equipment, and other items in good, clean condition may be donated when possible and where local options allow. Your Loader will set them aside, but don't count on any paperwork.
Items that are damaged but still have usable parts or materials, like metal frames or old appliances, may be recycled where available. Your Loader will work to separate them when local options allow.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or contaminated bulky items, such as ruined mattresses or water-logged furniture, are taken for responsible disposal. Your Loader handles the lifting and loading out of your Birmingham home.
Bulk trash or limbs set out on the wrong week can be treated as illegal dumping, so here is how disposal works in Birmingham and across Jefferson County.
Birmingham residents can drive to the Eastern Area Landfill's Public Unloading Area, a cement pad that accepts TVs, plastic appliances, furniture, and bagged household garbage. A driver's license proving Jefferson County residency is required, and residential disposal carries no fee.
When a tornado, storm, or other extraordinary natural event leaves excessive yard waste, the director of public works may waive the normal preparation requirements. The same waiver can apply during organized community cleanup programs, so watch for city announcements after severe weather.
The city's resident drop-off dumpsters do not accept commercial construction materials or hazardous items. These drop-off points are meant for household refuse, mattresses, trash, and brush, so renovation debris from a contractor's job needs a separate disposal route.
City code requires bulky objects like furniture and appliances to be neatly stacked, with no further preparation. Since January 2025, bulk trash and brush pickup runs once every other week on each neighborhood's assigned day, which 311 can confirm.
Under Birmingham City Code, branches and heavy brush too large to containerize cannot exceed four feet long or eight inches in diameter and must be neatly stacked. Yard rubbish in approved containers has no limit on the number of containers.
The City of Birmingham provides dumpsters where residents can drop off mattresses, household garbage and refuse, and trash and brush. The city offers these drop-off points as an alternative to illegal dumping, which helps when a mattress cannot wait for bulk week.
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(678) 884-4738Not without checking first. Birmingham Waste Services runs a neighborhood bulk trash route, but the city publishes no curbside item list, so confirm with 311 before setting anything out. Loose garbage in alleys or on the ground isn't collected.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Birmingham starts at $75 for the first item, which includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Curbside pickup takes $5 off. Local haulers often quote around $200 or more for a typical home job.
Often, yes. Same-day and next-day slots are offered in Birmingham when availability allows, and you can check live openings for your address when you book online. For curbside pickups you generally don't need to be home, as long as the items are accessible.
Birmingham residents can use the four district dumpsters or the public unloading area at the Eastern Area Landfill. The city lists no fee for residential disposal with proof of a Jefferson County address. Household hazardous waste is handled separately through free Jefferson County drop-off events.
Loaders aim to donate usable items to local charities and recycle what they can, depending on acceptance. Whatever can't be donated or recycled goes to licensed disposal sites. Outcomes vary by item condition and what local partners will take.
Enter your items and address online to get a price, then pick a time window. Your price is shown before you confirm. On pickup day, Loaders arrive, carry the items out, and haul them away, so you don't have to lift or load anything.
The main differences are pricing and booking. Traditional haulers usually price by truckload and may confirm the cost on site. LoadUp prices per item online with the total shown before booking. For a large cleanout, a truckload hauler may still be a good fit.
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