*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it starts running the place. Get it gone with a quick pickup here in the Heart of the Four Corners, booked online, upfront price shown before you commit.
You check the collection schedule, find the next cleanup week is months out, then start calling around. Two companies answer. One wants to see it first. Meanwhile the pile sits in the garage through another season.
City bulk trash collection comes twice a year, in May and October, with everything limited to a single pile set at the street. Freon appliances, televisions, tires, and remodel debris stay on the excluded list. Great if your timing lines up and your address sits on a city route.
Most hauling companies here want to drive out and eyeball the load before saying anything firm. Then the quote depends on how much of the truck you fill, which you find out once they are already standing in your driveway. A second visit burns another week.
Load it up, drive it over, and you can still be turned away at the door. Donation outlets resell what they take, so stains, tears, cracked frames, and most mattresses do not clear the bar. The rest comes home with you.
A container means booking a delivery window, then giving up driveway or alley space for days while you load every piece yourself, wind and all. Many rentals exclude appliances and electronics anyway. That is a lot of steel sitting out for one room's worth of junk.
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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 Cortez 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 Cortez's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A detached garage stacked to the rafters, or a basement stairwell too tight to pivot a sleeper sofa: your Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Cortez after each job.
If everything is already out by the street or sitting at the end of a long gravel drive, curbside service covers it. Pick full service when the load is still inside a back bedroom, a shed, or down a basement step, and your Loaders carry it out from where it sits.
| 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 tied down a trailer load here in April knows how fast that wind takes a tarp, and a dump run still eats most of a morning once you factor in loading and the drive back. Skip all of it. Your Loader handles the carrying, and showing up for folks in this town is good work.
What happens to a load after it leaves your driveway matters in Cortez, where disposal options sit farther apart than they do along the Front Range. Your Loader sorts items by condition, keeping usable things out of the waste stream when possible.
Furniture, bikes, and household goods still in clean, working shape may be passed along to donation outlets when local options allow. No paperwork comes back to you, and no destination is guaranteed.
Appliances, scrap metal, and broken-down furniture frames often carry recyclable material. Where available, your Loader separates those pieces so metal and similar components can move toward recycling instead of straight to burial.
Anything soaked, split, or beyond repair goes the responsible route: a permitted landfill or transfer station serving this part of southwestern Colorado, handled in one trip so a mattress or old sectional never sits in your yard.
Set out the wrong item in Cortez and crews can leave it at the curb or back-charge you; these Montezuma County rules apply citywide.
The city's residential bulk program is limited to cleanup weeks in the third week of May and October. Piles must be one single pile no larger than ten by five by five feet. Household trash is not accepted.
Refrigerators and air conditioners are excluded from Cortez bulk pickup. The Montezuma County Landfill requires a signed Freon compliance statement, so refrigerant must be recovered by a certified technician before the unit is accepted.
The Electronic Recycling Jobs Act has banned televisions, computers, monitors, printers and similar devices from Colorado landfills since 2013. City crews will not take them curbside, and the county landfill accepts e-waste only for a separate fee.
Cortez keeps drywall, roofing, brick, concrete, dirt and sod out of bulk pickup, flatbed loads and cleanup dumpsters. The county landfill takes it in a separate construction area, and loads mixed with plastic or household trash get rejected.
Trimmings set out for city cleanup must run under four feet and stay under fifty pounds per hand-tied bundle, with grass, leaves and weeds bagged. Thorny material like cacti and roses needs boxing or labeling.
Cortez adopted an ordinance in 2014 making unauthorized dumping in city trash receptacles and dumpsters a punishable municipal offense, so offloading a cleanout into a neighbor's or a business container risks a citation.
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(678) 884-4738Only during the city's twice-yearly Clean Up Weeks, held the third week of May and October, when crews collect curbside piles at no extra cost. Outside those weeks, unauthorized dumping is a municipal offense in Cortez. Clean Up piles must be one pile no larger than 10 by 5 by 5 feet.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Cortez starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each extra item is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed before booking. The city's Clean Up Weeks are free but run only twice a year.
Yes, same-day or next-day junk pickup is often available in Cortez depending on Loader schedules. Enter your zip code during booking to see live dates for your address. Since Cortez sits in a rural part of southwestern Colorado, booking a day or two ahead gives you the widest choice of times.
The city skips Freon appliances like refrigerators and A/C units, flat-screen TVs and electronics, tires, hazardous waste, and construction or demolition debris during Clean Up Week. E-waste is only taken at the Montezuma County Landfill. Mattresses and upholstered furniture are collected but back-charged at the landfill rate plus a load fee.
Loaders aim to keep usable junk out of the landfill. Items in good shape may go to local charities like the Habitat for Humanity ReStore of Montezuma County or the Salvation Army Cortez Service Center, and recyclable material is sorted out when options allow. Whatever is left heads to the Montezuma County Landfill.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no, you can leave items out with access notes. For items inside your home that are heavy or hard to move, someone should be present or you can leave access instructions at booking. Your Loader typically calls ahead before arriving.
Mainly pricing and booking. Haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK and College Hunks charge by truckload and often quote on-site, so your price isn't set until the truck arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up. The city's flatbed service, run April 1 to November 1, costs less but requires a trip to the City Service Center.
Yes, LoadUp handles full cleanouts across Cortez neighborhoods from Cortez Plaza to Cornett Heights. The first item carries the base pickup fee and each additional item is a flat add-on, so even a large multi-item job is priced upfront. For oversized loads, the city's seasonal flatbed service is another low-cost option.
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