*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up fast, and sorting it out can wear you down. In the American Riviera, LoadUp makes pickup simple: book online, see your price upfront, and get your space back.
You check the city website, call a couple of haulers, and leave a voicemail or two. One sends a vague estimate, another never calls back. A few weekends later, the junk is still sitting in the garage.
City bulk pickup programs can cover the basics, but you usually have to request a date ahead of time, stay within item limits, and get everything to the curb yourself. Some items are excluded, and your timeline has to fit the city's schedule.
Many haulers want to see your junk in person before they give you a number, then price by how much of the truck it fills. You don't find out what you'll actually pay until someone is standing in your driveway sizing up the pile.
Thrift stores and charities often turn away worn furniture, stained mattresses, and anything they can't resell. That's fair, but it still leaves you loading the car, driving across town, and possibly bringing half of it back home.
A dumpster can make sense for a full remodel. For one garage or a spare room, though, you're dealing with delivery windows, a possible street permit, and a steel bin taking up scarce parking on a narrow street while your neighbors watch it fill.
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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 Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader angles a dresser down the tight exterior stairs of a courtyard apartment, step by step. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Santa Barbara after each job.
If your old patio set is already out on the driveway of a coastal bungalow, curbside is the simpler fit. For a sofa in a second-floor student rental or a packed garage behind a hillside home, choose full-service and your Loaders will carry everything 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.
Anyone who has strapped a mattress to a car roof knows the 101 can turn a quick dump run into a lost Saturday. Add tight parking and steep, narrow streets, and it gets old fast. Your Loader carries it out and takes it away, because showing up for the people of this town is the best part.
Big, bulky items are the hardest part of any cleanout, and Santa Barbara homes and rentals produce plenty of them. Where each piece ends up depends on its condition, so your Loader sorts as they load.
Furniture and household goods in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Availability varies by item, and no donation receipt is promised.
Worn or damaged items that no longer suit donation may go to recycling where available. Metal frames, appliances, and similar bulky pieces are sorted by your Loader, though handling depends on local options and rules.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or contaminated bulky items that can't be reused or recycled are taken for responsible disposal. Your Loader handles the carrying and loading, so you don't have to haul anything yourself.
Putting items at the curb on an unscheduled day is treated as illegal dumping, so these are the rules that govern cleanouts in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County.
The City notes that moving waste is often recyclable cardboard and packing paper. When the recycling carts are too small for a move, residents can take flattened boxes to a local recycling center instead of putting them in the trash.
The City lists fluorescent and HID light bulbs and blood pressure devices among the items that cannot go in the trash, along with batteries, electronics, paint and motor oil. Cleanouts of older homes often turn these up in garages and cabinets.
The City keeps palm fronds, agave, yucca, cactus, eucalyptus, oleander and succulents out of yard waste. Palm fronds can be cut to fit your trash container or added to a free bulky item pickup. Succulents go in the trash.
California prohibits putting home-generated sharps in the trash. City residents can get a free mail-in sharps container from MarBorg Industries, which helps when clearing out the home of someone who managed diabetes or other treatments at home.
Every City household, including renters, gets four free bulky item pickups per calendar year, with up to five items each, through MarBorg Industries. Only the items listed when scheduling are picked up, and everything must come from the pickup address.
The City's list of materials that cannot go in the trash includes construction debris and asbestos. Construction and remodeling debris also can't go in the free bulky item program, so kitchen or bath tear-outs need another way to be disposed of.
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(678) 884-4738No. Items left outside your trash or recycling containers count as illegal dumping in Santa Barbara. The city gives residents, renters included, four free bulky item pickups a year through MarBorg at (805) 963-1852. Dumping can be reported to Clean SB at (805) 564-5558.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Santa Barbara starts at $75 for the first item, which includes the pickup fee. Each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Curbside pickup takes $5 off the base price.
It can be, if you are in the city, have trash service, and can wait for a MarBorg appointment. Residents get four free pickups a year. A paid service fits better when you need a specific day, have more than the pickup limit, or want help carrying items out.
Same-day slots can open up depending on Loader availability near your address. Enter your address when booking to see the times actually available. For curbside pickups you generally do not need to be home, and for in-home pickups you can leave access instructions.
Hazardous materials like paint, solvents, and chemicals do not belong in bulky pickups or regular trash. Santa Barbara County runs a Community Hazardous Waste Collection Center for households, and MarBorg's recycling center takes some items like e-waste and antifreeze for free from residents.
Loaders aim to keep usable items out of the landfill by donating them to local charities when options allow. Recyclables like scrap metal, cardboard, and e-waste go to recyclers depending on acceptance. What can't be donated or recycled goes to the proper disposal facility.
You pick your items and a time online, then see the total price before you confirm. Your Loader typically calls or texts before arriving, then removes the items from where they sit, whether that is a curb, garage, or inside your home. Payment is handled after the job.
The main difference is pricing and booking. Many local haulers and truckload companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK quote by truck volume, often after an estimate. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before booking. For a full garage cleanout, a truckload hauler may suit you better.
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