*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $105. Additional items from +$15.
When junk keeps piling up, it starts to run your week. Out here in the Chair City, LoadUp gets it picked up fast, with a real price before you book.
You search the city website, leave a voicemail at City Hall, and request a few hauler quotes. One calls back, one wants to visit first, one never answers. Meanwhile, the junk keeps its spot in the basement.
In small Massachusetts cities, pickup often comes with stickers, appointments, and item limits. State disposal rules usually mean mattresses, TVs, and appliances need special handling. Even when an item qualifies, you still have to drag it down a sloped driveway to the curb yourself.
Most haulers want to walk through your house before they name a figure. Then they price by fractions of a truckload you can't measure yourself. You give up a morning for the estimate, and the final bill can still change once the crew sees your back stairs.
Thrift shops want clean pieces they can sell, so they turn away a stained mattress, a scratched particleboard desk, or a recliner with a broken lever. Even good solid-wood furniture, the kind this area once built, needs a truck and two strong backs to reach the drop-off door.
A roll-off big enough for a gut renovation can sit in your driveway for days just to clear one attic. On a narrow, hilly street, it can mean a permit, lost parking, and neighbors filling it overnight. You still carry every item out yourself.
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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 Gardner 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 Gardner's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders work a sofa around the tight turns of a steep basement stair in an older multi-level home, and they're background-checked pros rated by real locals in Gardner after each job.
If the brush bags and a broken patio set are already at the top of your sloped driveway, curbside (outdoor) service lets your Loader load them and go. For a refrigerator in the basement or a mattress on the top floor of a multi-family home, choose full-service and your Loaders carry it out from wherever it sits.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $105 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $100 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $115 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $105 |
| 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.
Gardner sits on hills, and anyone who has eased a dresser down a steep driveway after a January snowfall knows how that goes. Between the slopes, the narrow stairwells, and the weather, hauling it yourself is a lot. Your Loader takes the lifting, and genuinely likes showing up for neighbors here.
Bulky items are hard to move alone, especially down steep basement stairs, which is why where they end up matters in Gardner. Your Loader sorts each load by condition, aiming to keep usable pieces out of the landfill when possible.
Items in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader handles the carrying and loading, and donation stays a possible outcome rather than a guarantee.
Pieces that are worn or damaged but not donatable may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates metal, appliances, and electronics from the rest of the load when local options allow it.
Heavily damaged, soaked, or contaminated bulky items that can't be reused or recycled are taken for responsible disposal. Your Loader loads them out of the home, so you never make a dump run around Gardner.
An overstuffed toter gets skipped at the curb, and the transfer station takes no cash or checks, so these Gardner rules in Worcester County are worth knowing first.
Construction waste is accepted at the Recycling Center for a volume-based fee per load. Asbestos, whether friable insulation or non-friable shingles, is a Massachusetts waste ban item that Gardner sends to a specialized outside contractor instead.
The Transfer Station takes household items from Gardner residents only and is not for waste from commercial activities. Property owners who live elsewhere can buy a 1-Day Pass to clear items from a Gardner property, and regular disposal fees still apply.
Nothing can stick up past the rim of the 48-gallon city toter, or it won't be picked up. Overflow goes in yellow Gardner Pay As You Throw bags, which can also be dropped at the Transfer Station with a sticker at no added fee.
Small engines such as lawn mowers are accepted as paid bulk items only when drained of all fluids. The Transfer Station no longer takes used oil or antifreeze, so those liquids have to wait for a household hazardous waste collection day.
Furniture, mattresses, appliances and TVs are not collected at the curb. Residents bring them to the Transfer Station with an annual sticker and a prepaid bulk item tag from the Health Department or online. A new fee schedule took effect July 1, 2025.
Leaves and yard waste are free with a Transfer Station sticker, but they can't be in plastic bags or mixed with construction debris. Curbside yard waste follows a seasonal calendar, and Christmas trees are collected in January.
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(678) 884-4738Not as bulk items. Gardner household trash must go in the city's yellow PAYT bags, and large items go to the Transfer Station at 744 West Street with a resident sticker. Fees for bulk items are prepaid at the Board of Health office or online.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Gardner starts at $105, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on charge. The exact total is confirmed before booking.
Same-day pickup is sometimes possible, depending on Loader availability for your address and the time you book. Enter your zip code during booking to see the live options. For curbside pickups, you don't need to be home.
Yes, if you're a Gardner resident with a permit sticker. The station is for household waste only, not commercial loads, and it doesn't accept cash or checks. Wood furniture is $10 per item, and appliances and TVs are $15 per item. These are fees posted by the city and may change.
Loaders aim to donate usable items and recycle what they can, depending on acceptance by local partners. Items that can't be donated or recycled are taken to an appropriate disposal facility. Outcomes vary by item, so none of this is guaranteed.
You choose your items online and see the price up front. Then you pick a pickup window and give access notes if needed. A Loader typically contacts you before arriving, then removes and loads the items. The total you were quoted is the total you pay for the booked items.
LoadUp prices per item online, so the price is set before anyone arrives. Local haulers and national names like 1-800-GOT-JUNK or Junk King often quote by truckload, sometimes after an on-site estimate. For big cleanouts, a truckload quote may suit you better.
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