*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's one more thing on your list. In the Wheel City, LoadUp gets it picked up quickly, with your price shown before you book.
You look up the city's pickup program, call a hauler or two, and wait on estimates that never arrive. A few quotes trickle in, some don't match, and the weeks pass while the pile in your garage keeps growing.
City bulk pickup programs cost nothing, but they come with limits on what gets taken and when. You usually have to request a slot and wait for the schedule. Anything heavy, mixed, or outside the guidelines stays right where it is.
Many haulers want to see the job in person before they name a figure, then price by how much of the truck you fill. That leaves you guessing, rearranging your pile, and comparing quotes that don't line up.
Donation centers have to be choosy, and that's fair. Stained upholstery, broken appliances, and worn-out items get turned away. Even good pieces may need to be dropped off during set hours, which means loading and hauling them yourself.
A rented dumpster makes sense for a full renovation, not a cleared-out spare room. You may need a permit, a place to set it, and days of juggling delivery and pickup, all while neighbors eye the driveway or street.
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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 Decatur 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 Decatur's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders carry items down steep porch steps of an older bungalow or out of a packed detached garage. Each one is background-checked and rated by real locals in Decatur after each job.
Decatur has plenty of roomy lots, so curbside makes sense when an old refrigerator or bagged yard debris is already sitting at the end of your driveway. If a dresser is still upstairs in a historic home with narrow stairways, choose full-service and your Loaders will lift it and carry it out from inside.
| 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.
Wrestling a dead dryer into a truck in an Alabama July, then sitting at a railroad crossing while a long freight train rolls past, is nobody's idea of a Saturday. Your Loader lifts, carries, and loads it while you stay in the shade. Your Loaders genuinely like showing up for Decatur neighbors, and it shows.
Bulky items are hard to haul alone, and in Decatur what happens after pickup matters as much as the pickup itself. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, favoring donation or recycling when local options allow.
Furniture, appliances, and household goods in good, clean shape may be donated when local options allow. Your Loader sets those items aside for that path, though availability and acceptance vary.
Items that are worn or damaged but still have usable parts, like metal appliances or old electronics, may be recycled where available. Your Loader keeps them separate from general trash when possible.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or broken-down pieces, such as a water-ruined mattress or collapsed sofa, go to responsible disposal. Your Loader lifts and loads them so you never make a landfill run yourself.
Junk left piling up in a yard can be declared a public nuisance in Decatur, so it pays to know how the city and Morgan County sort what goes where.
Decatur accepts corrugated cardboard in curbside recycling, but only after it is flattened and cut to fit inside the bin. Paperboard boxes, like cereal and shoe boxes, should also be flattened, with any waxed paper or plastic wrap removed first.
The Morgan County Regional Landfill accepts construction and demolition debris, tires, and household garbage, but only if the waste is non-hazardous and non-infectious. Special wastes are accepted only when the Alabama Department of Environmental Management has approved them.
Under Decatur's Weed, Junk and Litter Ordinance, it is unlawful to keep property in a condition that counts as a nuisance. Its definition of junk goes beyond broken furniture to include buckets, rubber, glass, tree limbs, and tree stumps left on a lot.
In Decatur, you can recycle empty household aerosol cans, like shaving cream, hair spray, or air freshener, once the lids are removed. Cans that still have product in them, or that held pesticides, herbicides, or paint, can't go in household bins.
Decatur's Solid Waste Department collects furniture, appliances, and other approved bulky items that homeowners generate. Under a city ordinance, homes that get collection from an alley instead of the street pay an extra monthly charge on top of the base service fee.
Grass clippings, leaves, and limbs taken to the Morgan County Regional Landfill are made into mulch that Morgan County residents can use for landscaping. That means branches from spring storms and seasonal cleanup piles don't just end up buried.
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(678) 884-4738Not as a free-for-all. Decatur Solid Waste handles weekly cart collection and bulk waste pickup with its loader trucks, but only for accepted items, and delays happen after storms. Check the city's Solid Waste FAQs for what qualifies before setting anything out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Decatur starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on charge, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Same-day slots are sometimes open, depending on the day's schedule. Next-day is more common. Enter your Decatur address during booking to see live availability. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home, and for indoor jobs you can leave access notes.
Yes. The Morgan County Regional Landfill takes household garbage, construction and demolition debris, tires, limbs and similar non-hazardous waste. The listed rate for general trash and C&D is $30 per ton. Asbestos has a much higher rate, and hazardous waste is not accepted.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever options allow. That can mean donating to local groups such as Habitat ReStore on Central Parkway SW, which takes furniture, household goods and building materials. Acceptance varies, and anything unusable is disposed of properly.
You get pricing online or by sending a photo of your items, then pick a time window. Your Loader typically calls before arriving, carries the items out, and loads them. The price you were quoted is confirmed upfront. Large cleanouts may need an on-site estimate.
It depends on the job size. LoadUp prices per item online, with the total confirmed before booking. Haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King usually price by truckload and may estimate on site. For a few items, per-item pricing is often cheaper, but a full cleanout can favor truckload pricing.
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