*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up faster than you can deal with it, it starts to weigh on you. Book a pickup around your schedule, see your price upfront, and get your Caliente property cleared.
You look up county rules, call your trash hauler, and request a few quotes. One company never calls back, another can't give a firm date. Weeks go by, and the pile in the barn is still there.
Caliente has no city program of its own, so any bulky pickup goes through county-level or hauler-provided services, and what's offered can change from one address to the next. Item limits, booking steps, and long waits often leave a full cleanout only partly done.
Many haulers want to come out and look before they give you a number, and that visit can take days to set up this far out. Then the price depends on how much of the truck your load fills, so you don't know the real cost until loading starts.
Donation centers need things they can resell, so a chipped dresser, a stained recliner, or a rusted patio set will probably get turned away. They also don't pick up scrap lumber, broken fencing, or old appliances, and the closest drop-off can be a long drive from the foothills.
A rented dumpster means booking delivery and pickup, finding a level spot your driveway can handle, and loading every heavy piece yourself. Then it sits on your property for days. For clearing out one shed or a single room, that's more container and more work than the job needs.
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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 Caliente's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Hauling from a barn loft or a packed shed down a long gravel drive means extra steps over uneven ground. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Caliente after each job.
If you can stage items near the house or at the edge of your driveway, curbside pickup keeps things simple. When pieces are still tucked in a workshop, a farmhouse back room, or a detached garage set well off the road, full-service lets your Loaders carry them out for you.
| 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.
Out here, a dump run is never just a dump run. It's a loaded truck bed, a winding road, and half your Saturday gone before you're back through your own gate. Your Loaders handle the lifting and loading, barn to driveway, and they like showing up for Caliente neighbors.
Out past the edge of town, the question after a cleanout is where everything ends up. In Caliente, your Loader sorts items by condition, aiming to keep usable pieces in circulation and send only what's left to disposal.
Furniture, tools, and household goods that are clean and in working shape may be set aside for donation when possible. Your Loader can pull these out first, where local options allow.
Items that are worn or broken but still made of useful material, like metal fencing, old appliances, or scrap, may be recycled where available. What's accepted depends on nearby facilities.
Waterlogged, rotted, or heavily damaged bulky items, such as collapsed shed lumber or ruined sofas, go to an appropriate disposal site. Your Loader handles the lifting and loading from the property.
Bring the wrong load to the wrong Kern County site and you can be turned away at the gate. These rules apply to Caliente residents across unincorporated Kern County.
Hot ashes are on Kern County's list of materials that no county landfill or transfer station will accept. Liquids of any kind are on that list too. In a mountain community where many homes heat with wood stoves, ashes need to be fully cold before they go anywhere.
Kern County classifies fencing, railroad ties and telephone pole type materials as treated wood waste. Only the lined landfills at Bena, Shafter-Wasco and Taft are allowed to accept it, and the county requires you to contact Public Works before delivering it.
California treats TVs, computer monitors and other devices with a screen as waste that cannot go in household trash. The Tehachapi Transfer Station takes them from residents at no charge. The nearby Keene site accepts no electronic waste at all.
The Tehachapi landfill switched to a temporary transfer station in February 2026 as it neared capacity. It no longer takes concrete, dirt, trailers over 12 feet, or loads over 10 cubic yards. Those now go to Bena or Mojave-Rosamond.
State law requires 100 feet of defensible space around homes in fire-prone areas like the Caliente foothills. Residents can self-haul tree limbs and branches without a gate fee. Under SB 1383, loads must arrive separated by material or be sorted while unloading.
Kern County pays for resident disposal through the Land Use Fee charged to property owners. That means you pay no gate fee at county landfills and transfer stations when you haul your own furniture, mattresses, clothing, or stoves, refrigerators, washers and dryers.
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(678) 884-4738Not as a way to dump it. Items left out without a scheduled pickup can count as illegal dumping under Kern County rules. Kern's free curbside bulky pickup covers unincorporated metro Bakersfield, so rural Caliente may not qualify. Confirm with Kern Public Works first.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Caliente starts at $75, 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 charge, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Often, yes. Same-day or next-day pickup is offered when you book before 12pm, depending on Loader availability for your address. Enter your address at booking to see open times for Caliente and nearby areas like Bealville, Keene and Marcel.
Not for curbside or outdoor pickups. You can leave items out and add access notes at booking. For items inside a home or barn, someone should be present or you can leave clear access instructions. Your Loader gives notice before arriving.
Kern County Public Works Solid Waste runs the landfills and transfer stations that serve rural areas, and it holds household hazardous waste events. Paint, chemicals and batteries should never go in a junk load. Check current gate fees and hours with the county before hauling it yourself.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill. Depending on acceptance, good furniture and household goods may go to donation partners, and metal, cardboard and electronics may be recycled whenever options allow. Whatever can't be reused or recycled goes to a proper disposal facility.
You choose your items online, see the price, and pick a pickup window. A Loader typically calls or texts before arriving, then loads the items and takes them away. Because pricing is per item and confirmed upfront, the total doesn't change when the Loader shows up.
The main differences are the pricing model and the booking flow. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King usually price by truckload and often confirm the final cost on site. LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before the pickup, which suits small jobs. For a full-house cleanout, a truckload quote can make more sense.
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