*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 the list. Book LoadUp in Clearlake, see your real price upfront, and get it gone with a quick pickup.
You check what the garbage service will take, call a couple of haulers, leave a voicemail or two, and wait for estimates that may never come. Meanwhile the weekends slip by and the pile stays put.
Free bulk collection, where it's offered, usually means booking ahead, waiting for an open date, and sticking to a list of accepted items. Appliances, electronics, and renovation scraps often fall outside the rules, and you still have to drag everything out yourself.
Lots of haulers want to look in person before they'll give you a number, then charge by how much of the truck you fill. You won't know the final cost until the job is loaded, which makes it hard to plan around.
Thrift stores and charities need items they can actually resell, so a stained couch or a broken dresser often gets turned away. Even when they want something, getting it there is your job, and they don't take mattresses, debris, or worn-out appliances.
For a single garage bay or spare room, a dumpster is more than you need. You have to schedule the drop-off and pickup, find a place to park it, maybe get a permit, and then do all the heavy lifting yourself while it sits in the driveway.
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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 Clearlake 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 Clearlake's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders manage the steps off a raised cabin deck or squeeze into a packed garage to free a sleeper sofa. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Clearlake after each job.
Curbside, also called outdoor, pickup works well for a washer you have already rolled to the driveway or the edge of the road. If a weight bench is stuck in a cabin's back bedroom or buried at the rear of a garage, choose full-service so your Loaders can bring 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.
Cinching a sofa into a pickup bed and crawling along two-lane Lake County highways behind a boat trailer is a whole Saturday gone. Your Loaders do the lifting, loading, and hauling, from Clearlake Park to Burns Valley, because showing up for neighbors who would rather spend the weekend outside is the best part of the job.
Bulky items rarely belong in one place once they leave your property, and in Clearlake that choice matters. Your Loader sorts each load by condition, aiming to keep usable things in circulation and limit what ends up in a landfill.
Furniture and household goods in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader will try to find a suitable outlet, though acceptance varies and no paperwork is promised.
Worn or damaged pieces like broken appliances, metal frames, or old exercise equipment may be recycled where available. Your Loader will try to separate recyclable material, though Lake County's smaller network of facilities limits what's accepted.
Heavily damaged or soiled bulky items, such as ruined mattresses or water-warped furniture, are handled through responsible disposal. Your Loader will load them out and take them to an appropriate local disposal site.
Putting banned electronics in the cart or hauling a mixed load to the landfill can mean violations or doubled fees. These rules apply in Clearlake and across Lake County.
To save landfill space, Lake County's fee schedule allows disposal fees to be doubled on loads containing more than 25 percent recyclable materials. Pulling cardboard, metal and other recyclables out of a cleanout load before the trip avoids that surcharge.
Clearlake Waste Solutions collects bulky items for residential customers, with two free collections per year, but a charge for Freon removal may be applied to refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners. Additional bulky items beyond the two free collections are available for a fee.
Recycling and yard waste collection are included in Clearlake's garbage rate, but all material must fit inside the cart with the lid closed. For larger brush clearing in the dry season, the city lists roll-off boxes as an option for landscape projects.
California treats cathode ray tube televisions and computer monitors as universal waste, so they cannot go in a household garbage cart. Lake County's bulky item program lists televisions, computers and household electronics among its no-fee items.
The City of Clearlake names Clearlake Waste Solutions as the exclusive provider of debris box and clean-up bin rentals in town. Options run from three cubic yard bins for household cleanups to 15, 20 and 30 cubic yard roll-offs for remodels.
Lake County's recycling handbook directs residents to deliver mattresses to Eastlake Landfill or Lake County Waste Solutions, where a fee applies, or to schedule a bulky item pickup through their garbage service instead. Large quantities call for contacting the site ahead of time.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless it's part of a scheduled bulky item pickup from your hauler. Items left out without one can count as illegal dumping, and California law allows fines up to $10,000. Curbside service for bulky items generally requires an active garbage account.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Clearlake starts at $75, 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.
Same-day and next-day slots are often available in Clearlake, depending on Loader schedules and your address. Availability shows live during booking once you enter your address. For curbside pickups you usually don't need to be home if you leave access notes.
Hazardous materials like paint, solvents, and chemicals generally aren't accepted in standard bulky pickups, and Lake County hauler programs also exclude concrete, dirt, and tree stumps. Those typically need a household hazardous waste drop-off through Lake County's waste program.
Loaders aim to donate usable items to local charities and recycle what they can, depending on acceptance. Whatever can't be donated or recycled goes to licensed disposal sites. Outcomes vary by item condition, so donation or recycling isn't guaranteed.
Enter your address and pick your items online, then choose a time window and see your total before you confirm. Your Loader typically sends a heads-up before arriving, then does the lifting, hauling, and loading so you don't have to.
Often yes if you have a truck and a small load, since self-hauling to the local transfer station costs only the disposal fee. Paying for pickup makes more sense when you lack a vehicle, have heavy items, or want the lifting and loading handled.
Pricing model and booking flow. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junk King typically price by truckload with an estimate on arrival. LoadUp prices per item online, so your total is confirmed before anyone shows up.
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