*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up, it wears on you. Freeport, let LoadUp take it from here with a quick pickup and a real price you see before you book.
You search online, call city hall, leave messages with a couple of haulers, and wait. One never calls back, another wants to come look first. Meanwhile the garage stays full and another weekend slips by.
City bulk pickup programs can work well if your timing matches the schedule. Some items get turned away, many need advance requests, and you still have to drag everything to the curb yourself. That's a tough ask for an older basement with narrow stairs.
Many haulers want to send someone out for an in-person estimate before they'll give you a number. Then the price depends on how much of the truck you fill, a guess you can't check ahead of time. You often won't know the final total until the job's done.
Donation centers need items they can actually resell, so stained upholstery, worn pieces, and broken appliances often get turned away. Even when something qualifies, getting it there is up to you, and anything they decline ends up back in your driveway.
A rented dumpster is built for a full renovation, not a spare bedroom. Depending on where you put it, you may need a permit, and you'll have to coordinate drop-off and pickup dates. It also takes up your driveway for days while the neighbors watch it fill.
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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 Freeport 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 Freeport's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders handle steep basement stairs and tight turns in older two-story homes, lifting every piece out by hand. Each is background-checked and rated by real locals in Freeport after each job.
Choose curbside when items are already on the driveway or beside a detached garage, so your Loaders can load up and go. Full-service fits a rental turnover or estate cleanout, where your Loaders carry furniture and boxes out from upstairs rooms and back bedrooms.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $80 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $75 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before 2 PM | from $90 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $80 |
| 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.
Plenty of Freeport's older houses have steep basement stairs and tight turns, and a northern Illinois winter makes every porch step a gamble. Hauling a dresser out yourself is a good way to lose a weekend and a shoulder. Your Loaders do the lifting and carrying, and they genuinely like showing up for this town.
Where a pickup ends up matters as much as the haul itself, especially for the bulky furniture and cleanout piles Freeport households tend to have. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, aiming for reuse first.
Items in good, clean condition may go to donation when possible. Your Loader lifts and loads them separately, so usable furniture and household goods have a chance at a second home through local options.
Items too worn to donate may be recycled where available. Your Loader pulls out metal, cardboard, and other recyclable materials when local options allow, though some electronics and appliances with refrigerants have restrictions.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or contaminated bulky items are disposed of responsibly at an approved facility. Your Loader handles the carrying and loading, so you don't have to make a dump run in Freeport.
Mixed leaf piles get refused at the curb, and contractors caught dumping at the city's woody debris site are fined, so these rules for Freeport in Stephenson County matter.
Branches under 4 inches go to the free Woody Debris Collection Area, which is open only to Freeport residents who check in at the office. Contractors caught dumping there are fined. Branches 4 inches or larger, stripped of leaves, go to the Timber Industries lot instead.
Freeport's scheduled curbside bulk service covers boxes, barrels, crates and furniture that one driver can lift without help. Appliances, tires, car batteries, TVs and electronic waste are excluded because Illinois bans them from direct landfill disposal, so they need a separate recycling route.
Freeport collects leaves in repeating west-to-east cycles until the first snowfall and doesn't take requests for single piles. Piles must be leaves only, raked into a continuous row at the curb. Grass clippings, sticks, brush or trash can clog the equipment and get the pile refused.
Freeport households get one 95-gallon cart through Gill's Freeport Disposal, the city's contracted collection service. Extra trash can go out in bags or personal cans, but each one must be no more than 32 gallons and no more than 50 pounds.
Illinois lets local governments set their own leaf burning rules. Freeport's code allows the Fire Chief to ban open burning when smoke, odor or local conditions make it hazardous, and to order fires put out. Burning commercial waste is illegal everywhere in Illinois.
Re-Fresh Freeport was created to cut down on illegal dumping. On the first Saturday morning of each month, city residents with ID can bring trash and bulk items to the Freeport Transfer Station for free. Tires, paint, oils, TVs, computers and electronics aren't accepted.
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(678) 884-4738Not as a standing option. Freeport's regular collection through Gill's Freeport Disposal (815-233-5644) covers normal household trash, and the city actively discourages illegal dumping. For bulky items, use a scheduled option such as the monthly Re-Fresh Freeport event or a hauler.
Yes. Under Re-Fresh Freeport, city residents can bring trash and bulk items to the Transfer Station at 2133 S. Walnut Road on the first Saturday of each month, 8-11 a.m. Bring ID and tarp your load. The city canceled June and July 2026, with plans to resume in August 2026.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Freeport starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickup takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on charge, and your exact total is confirmed before booking.
Same-day slots are sometimes available, but it depends on Loader availability in your area. Enter your address during booking to see live openings. For curbside pickups you generally don't need to be home, and for in-home pickups someone should be present or leave access notes.
The Re-Fresh Freeport event does not take yard waste of any kind, tires, hazardous waste such as paint and oils, or TVs, computers and other electronics. The city runs separate electronics recycling events, and a hauler can be a good option for mixed loads between those dates.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill by donating them when options allow, and they try to recycle what they can. Local places like Goodwill on W. Galena Ave. may accept some items, but acceptance varies, and whatever can't be reused goes to proper disposal.
The main difference is pricing and booking. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before you book. Traditional truck-based haulers, including Two Men and a Truck's Freeport junk service, often quote by load or after contacting them. For a few items, per-item pricing can be simpler.
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