*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's all you notice. Book a quick pickup in Cambria with LoadUp, see your price before you commit, and get your space back.
You search for options, call the county trash line, leave messages with a few haulers, and wait for callbacks that never come. Weeks slip by, and the junk is still sitting in the garage.
Bulk pickup through the local service provider can work well if you plan ahead. You usually have to request a date, keep to item limits, and drag everything out to the street yourself, which is hard on a steep Lodge Hill driveway.
Many haulers want to come out and look before they give you a number, then charge by how much of the truck you fill. You often won't know what you're paying until the work is done, and that's tough when you're scheduling from out of town.
Thrift shops and charities need items they can actually resell, so stained mattresses, worn sofas, and broken furniture often get turned away. Even when they do take something, you're usually the one loading it up and driving it over.
A roll-off bin means booking delivery and pickup, finding level ground on a narrow, tree-lined street, and maybe checking permit rules. Then it sits there for days, taking up parking and catching your neighbors' eyes, all to clear out a single bedroom.
Enter your ZIP code and item details to get a guaranteed upfront price online. No waiting for an onsite estimate.
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No waiting on callbacksLocal Loaders arrive at your location, haul away the junk, and dispose of it responsibly when options allow.
No in-person charges
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 Cambria 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 Cambria's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader carries items up steep outdoor stairs and a sloped hillside driveway to the truck. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Cambria after each job.
Curbside works well when your items already sit at the street or on a flat stretch of driveway. For split-level homes on steep lots, or a rental you manage from out of town, full-service means your Loaders carry everything out from inside, whether it is in the house, the garage or on the deck.
| 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.
Anyone who has wrestled a mattress down a steep, needle-covered driveway in the fog knows Cambria doesn't make clearing out easy, and a trip to a bigger town swallows the afternoon. Your Loader does the lifting, carrying and loading instead. Your Loaders genuinely like showing up for the people who keep this village going.
Cambria sits a long drive from the larger facilities, so where an item ends up matters. Your Loader sorts each piece by condition, steering it toward donation, recycling or disposal when local options allow.
Furniture, housewares and other items in good, clean condition may be donated when possible. Your Loader sets aside usable pieces as they carry them out, where local donation options allow.
Items that are worn or damaged but still hold useful materials, like metal frames or electronics, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates them from the general load when local options allow.
Heavily damaged, soiled or broken bulky pieces, such as a ruined sofa or a water-warped dresser, go to responsible disposal. Your Loader loads them out so nothing lingers on your Cambria property.
Bulky items set out without a scheduled pickup stay at the curb, and some materials are refused outright, so these rules apply in Cambria and San Luis Obispo County.
Under California's mattress extended producer responsibility law, a retailer delivering a new mattress must pick up and recycle the old one at no additional cost. Otherwise, Cold Canyon and Chicago Grade landfills accept up to three mattresses and box springs free per resident.
Cleanup Week setouts in Cambria cannot include items longer than four feet, a limit Mission Country Disposal applies to rugs, tables, pipes, and lumber. Concrete in trash bags is also prohibited, and everything set out must be neatly bundled or bagged.
The San Luis Obispo County Community Fire Safe Council funds a Cambria chipping event to reduce wildfire risk, with reservations required. Under 2025 guidelines, branches had to be under 6 inches in diameter and unbagged, excluding lumber, root balls, palm fronds, yucca, and poison oak.
Cambria bulky item pickups during Cleanup Week must be called in or booked online at least five days before the regular collection day, by the service account holder. Tenants whose landlord holds the account cannot book it themselves, and bulky items carry an additional charge.
Mission Country Disposal's Cleanup Week rules exclude hazardous materials from Cambria curbside setouts. The San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Management Authority operates a household hazardous waste collection facility at Chicago Grade Landfill in Templeton, and its online map lists drop-off sites by waste type.
Each spring and fall, Cambria single-family residents can set out up to six extra 32-gallon bags at no charge, on the morning of their regular pickup day only. Those bags go straight to the landfill unsorted, so pull out recyclables and organics first.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless it's part of a scheduled pickup. Cambria is unincorporated, so trash service runs through the county franchise system, not a city crew. Bulk items left out unscheduled can count as illegal dumping, so confirm bulky-item options with your hauler first.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Cambria starts at $75 for a single item, 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, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Sometimes. Availability depends on Loader schedules along the Central Coast, so enter your address during booking to see live same-day and next-day openings. Cambria is a smaller, more remote market, so booking a day or two ahead is the safer plan.
Not for curbside or driveway pickups. You can leave the items out with access notes. For items inside a home, someone should be there, or you can leave access instructions at booking. Gated or hillside driveways in areas like Lodge Hill are worth noting.
Hazardous materials like paint, solvents, pesticides, and batteries generally can't go in regular junk loads. San Luis Obispo County runs household hazardous waste programs for these, so check the county's rules and drop-off options before disposing of them.
Loaders try to keep items out of the landfill. Usable pieces are donated to local charities when options allow, recyclables like metal and cardboard go to recyclers depending on acceptance, and the rest is taken to a proper disposal facility. Outcomes vary by item condition.
You pick your items and see the price online, then choose a time window. A Loader calls ahead before arriving, removes the items, and handles loading. The price you were quoted is confirmed before booking, with no in-person estimate required.
The pricing model. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King generally price by truck space, often with an estimate on site. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before booking, which suits small jobs. Large cleanouts may fit a truckload hauler better.
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