*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $90. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's one more chore you keep putting off. Book LoadUp, see your price upfront, and get it picked up without lifting a thing.
You look up the city's bulk rules, leave a voicemail, and ask two haulers for quotes. One wants to come look first, the other never calls back. A month later, everything is still sitting in the garage.
Municipal pickup schedules can help, but they usually have limits on item types, quantities, and timing. Some things, like certain appliances and electronics, fall under Wisconsin's disposal rules. Rural and lake-area households may not be covered the same way as homes inside city limits.
Lots of haulers want to see the job in person before they give you a number, and then they charge by how much of the truck you fill. You won't know the real cost until the load is on and the bill is in your hand.
Thrift stores and charities have to be careful about what they accept, so a stained mattress, a worn recliner, or a broken grill usually gets turned away. And you still have to load the truck and drive the items there yourself.
For one room's worth of stuff, a dumpster is a lot. You have to schedule the drop-off and the pickup, give up your driveway or yard for days, and maybe deal with permits. You also do all the lifting and tossing.
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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 Chetek 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 Chetek's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader carries a sleeper sofa up narrow basement stairs and out a tight cabin doorway. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Chetek after each job.
Curbside, or outdoor, pickup suits items you have already set out by the street or at the end of a gravel driveway, like a worn recliner or bagged yard debris. Full-service makes more sense when a seasonal place is closing up or a rental unit is turning over, since your Loaders carry everything out from the shed, garage, or spare room for you.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $90 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $85 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $100 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $90 |
| 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.
Chetek runs on lake time, and nobody wants to spend a perfect weekend wrestling a water-stained sofa into a pickup bed. Your Loaders carry it up from the basement and load it, so you can get back to the dock. Folks here look out for each other, and your Loaders like showing up for that.
Bulky items rarely fit in a trunk, and what happens after pickup matters as much as the lifting. In Chetek, your Loader sorts each item by condition, so usable pieces and recyclables are kept out of the landfill when local options allow.
Furniture and household goods that are clean and in good shape may be donated when local options allow. Your Loader sets these aside during loading, though donation is never guaranteed for any item.
Items that are worn or damaged but not fit for donation, like scrap metal or broken appliances, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates them from the rest of the load when possible.
Heavily damaged or contaminated bulky items, such as soaked mattresses or broken furniture, go to proper disposal. Your Loader handles the carrying and loading, so you don't have to haul anything yourself in Chetek.
Garbage left at a recycling site can bring a fine, and oversized brush gets turned away, so know these Chetek and Barron County rules first.
Barron County's tipping rules require loads to be separated by material type. A mixed load may be charged entirely at the rate of its most expensive material. Loads of only metal are taken free if unloading requires no help from facility staff.
Chetek's compost and brush site is open to city residents only, usually from spring through fall. It takes limbs under 8 inches in diameter and shorter than 8 feet. Stumps, oversized logs and plastic bags are not allowed. Bring a city utility bill or a city-issued pass.
Barron County's fee schedule requires refrigerated appliances to be empty when dropped off, with no food or trash inside, and charges a separate per-item fee for them. Clean out garage fridges and chest freezers completely before taking them in.
Chetek's mandatory garbage service will not pick up construction material, and all garbage must fit in the city-supplied can with the lid closed. City Hall sells specially marked bags for extra garbage, and residents can pay City Hall to pick up household items.
Barron County manages recycling in Chetek through a 24-hour drop-off site, and the city warns that anyone caught leaving other garbage there can be fined. County rules require residents to separate containers such as tin, aluminum, glass and #1 and #2 plastics.
Wisconsin DNR says many electronics can't go in the trash and must be reused, recycled or handled as hazardous waste, partly because many contain harmful materials such as lead. Barron County's facility accepts TVs, computer monitors and towers, and laptops for a per-item fee.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless it is part of your regular hauler's service. Chetek has no confirmed free bulk pickup program, so loose junk left outside risks being treated as illegal dumping. Check with the city office or your hauler for what they accept.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Chetek starts at $90 for a single item, and curbside or outdoor pickup takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Sometimes. Availability depends on Loader schedules and your address, so enter your zip code during booking to see open times. Chetek is a small market along Highway 53, so next-day or scheduled slots may be more common than same-day.
Not for curbside or outdoor items, since you can leave them out with access notes. For items inside a home, garage, or cabin that are heavy or hard to move, someone should be there or you can give access instructions when booking.
Barron County runs a Waste to Energy and Recycling Facility at 585 10 1/2 Ave in Almena, phone 715-637-6890. It charges tipping fees by load, though metal-only loads can be accepted free if no assistance is needed. Call ahead to confirm current rates and accepted items.
Loaders aim to donate usable items and try to recycle what they can, depending on acceptance at nearby facilities. Items that cannot be reused or recycled are taken to an appropriate disposal site. Outcomes vary by item condition and local options.
Choose your items online, enter your Chetek address, and see an upfront price. Pick an arrival window, and a Loader will contact you before arriving. They load everything, and you pay the confirmed price with no truckload estimate.
The pricing model differs. Many traditional haulers price by truck volume and confirm the cost on site, while LoadUp prices per item online and confirms it before booking. For big cleanouts that fill a truck, a truckload hauler can still be the better fit.
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