*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $100. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until dealing with it feels like a whole project. Book a pickup here in the Bristol Bulldog town, see your price upfront, and skip the trip to the transfer station.
So you check the town site, learn the drop-off won't take it, and start calling haulers. Two answer. One promises to call back and doesn't. Meanwhile the junk sits through another weekend, then another.
There isn't one, really. The town doesn't run a bulk collection day, so oversized items generally head to the district transfer station over in Middlebury, on its hours and its accepted-item list. That works if you have the morning free and the muscle to load it.
Rural routes mean a lot of waiting: someone has to drive out and look at your stuff before anyone will name a number, and then the number moves once the truck is loaded. Fractions of a truckload are a judgment call, and the judgment isn't yours.
Reuse shops run on limited floor space and volunteer hours, so they turn down stained upholstery, older mattresses, anything with a wobble or a missing part. They also expect you to deliver it. A basement full of decades doesn't sort itself into donation quality.
A roll-off means a delivery window, days of it parked in your driveway or on the street with permission, and you still making every trip out to it. On a village lot with frost heaves and spring mud, that container becomes its own project.
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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.
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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 Bristol's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A treadmill wedged at the bottom of a bulkhead cellar stairway, or a dresser on a narrow farmhouse staircase: your Loaders are background checked and rated by real locals in Bristol after each job.
If the load is already staged at the end of the driveway or beside the road, curbside is the faster route, and it still works on a long dirt drive during mud season. Pick full service when the couch is down a cellar stairway, out in a barn, or up a tight second-floor hallway, 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 $100 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $95 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $110 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $100 |
| 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.
Mud season is the real calendar here, and frost heaves do not care what you strapped into the truck bed. Nobody wants to spend a thawing Saturday wrestling a busted sleeper sofa down toward Middlebury and back. Your Loaders would rather carry it out for you, because folks in this town have better ways to spend a morning.
Most of what leaves a Bristol basement or barn still has some life in it, and Vermont's disposal bans limit what can simply be thrown away. Your Loaders sort each load by condition before anything reaches a landfill.
Furniture, dressers, and working appliances that are clean and structurally sound get set aside first. Your Loader will look for a nearby reuse or donation outlet when one is open and accepting that item.
A torn mattress or dented washer is rarely donatable, though its steel, foam, and wood often are. Where area processors accept them, your Loaders separate those materials instead of discarding the whole item.
Heavily damaged, moldy, or water-soaked bulky items are handled as disposal at a permitted site. The district transfer station near Middlebury accepts bulky waste from this area, so Bristol loads stay within legal channels.
Dumping or burning discarded items outside a certified facility is a civil violation in Vermont, and Bristol follows Addison County district rules on top of state law.
Vermont law requires waste to reach a certified solid waste facility or a licensed hauler. Bristol relies on the Addison County district's drop-off and transfer station network instead of a townwide bulky item collection day.
Vermont's Universal Recycling Law removed metal, glass, plastics one and two, paper, cardboard and food scraps from the trash stream. There is no minimum amount allowed, so even small quantities mixed into a load violate the ban.
Leaf and yard debris and clean wood have been banned from Vermont landfills since 2016. Addison County town drop-offs collect this material seasonally between April 1 and December 15, and backyard composting remains a legal alternative year round.
Vermont's clean wood ban covers lumber that was never painted, stained, treated or glued, so renovation scrap has to be sorted. The district transfer station in Middlebury accepts natural wood and other bulky construction materials.
Televisions, computers, monitors, printers and peripherals cannot be landfilled in Vermont. The state's E-Cycles program lets households drop off covered electronics at participating collection sites at no charge, which removes any cost reason to bag them.
Refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners and dehumidifiers contain refrigerant that federal Clean Air Act rules require an EPA certified technician to recover before disposal. Venting it is illegal, so facilities handle these units separately from ordinary scrap metal.
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(678) 884-4738Bristol has no town-run bulk pickup, so junk has to go through a licensed hauler or the Addison County transfer station. Leaving items curbside without a scheduled hauler risks an illegal dumping violation. Vermont's universal recycling law also keeps recyclables and food scraps out of the trash.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Bristol starts at $100, and leaving items outside for curbside pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, with your total confirmed before you book. The ACSWMD Transfer Station in Middlebury instead charges by weight at $171 per ton, with a $9 minimum for small loads.
Same-day is available in many Bristol zip codes when you book early, and next-day covers most of Addison County. Enter your address during booking to see live availability. Bristol runs no municipal same-day service, so a private hauler is usually the fastest way to clear junk quickly.
The ACSWMD Transfer Station in Middlebury won't take residential trash by the bag, and appliances with refrigerant like fridges, freezers, and window AC units cost $15 each because of Freon rules. Electronics and household hazardous waste run through separate free programs for residents. LoadUp can haul these items in one scheduled pickup.
Loaders sort what they collect and aim to donate usable furniture or recycle metal and electronics whenever options allow, keeping material out of the landfill when possible. Addison County's system already diverts recyclables, food scraps, and e-waste, so leftover junk heads to the right facility rather than the nearest dump.
For outdoor or curbside pickups, no, just leave items accessible and add notes at booking. For in-home removal, someone should be present or you can share access instructions ahead of time. Your Bristol Loader typically calls about 30 minutes before arrival.
Pricing model and booking flow. Local cleanout haulers like JR & Sons and national names like 1-800-GOT-JUNK usually quote by truckload or after an in-person estimate, so your price firms up later. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before a Loader ever shows up.
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