*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up quietly until it's suddenly a problem. Book a pickup anywhere around FoCo, see your price before you confirm, and skip the heavy lifting entirely.
You skim the city's bulk item rules, realize your load is too heavy to qualify, then start calling haulers. One wants to see it in person, one never calls back, and another weekend passes with everything still sitting there.
The contracted city program includes a couple of bulk items a year, but it screens for size and weight, so a sleeper sofa or a chest freezer often falls outside what's included. Scheduling happens in advance, thresholds change periodically, and larger apartment buildings sit outside it entirely.
Most hauling companies want to look at the load before they'll commit to anything, which means an appointment window just to get a number. Then you're paying by how much truck space you fill, estimated by eye, on their side of the clock.
Reuse and thrift operations take what they can resell, so anything stained, torn, cracked, or missing hardware gets turned away at the door. What they accept shifts with the season and their floor space, and most won't climb a basement stairwell for a dresser.
A roll-off means a container parked on your driveway or in the street for days, plus possible permitting when it sits in the public right-of-way and an HOA conversation in the newer southeast subdivisions. For one garage, you're renting mostly empty steel.
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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 Fort Collins 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 Fort Collins's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sectional stuck in a narrow basement stairwell, a treadmill wedged behind a packed detached garage: your Loaders handle both. Every one is background-checked and rated by real locals in Fort Collins after each job.
Curbside makes sense when the load is already sitting at the street, the driveway, or the alley apron and nothing is iced in. Go full service when it is still in a basement, a detached garage, or a second-floor apartment near campus, and your Loaders bring it out from where it stands.
| 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.
Everyone here has waited out a train at a Mason corridor crossing, and nobody wants to do that with a dryer strapped into a borrowed trailer. Add the stoplights down College and your afternoon is gone. Your Loaders carry it out, load it up, and go, because this town is worth showing up for.
Getting junk out of a Fort Collins garage is only half the job. Where it lands matters too, so your Loaders sort each item by condition and keep usable pieces out of the landfill when local options allow.
Furniture and appliances that are still clean and working may be offered to area reuse outlets or nonprofits, depending on item condition and what Larimer County organizations are accepting at the time.
Broken exercise equipment, scrap metal, and electronics that Colorado treats differently from ordinary trash can head to recycling processors where available, assuming the material is still separable and accepted locally.
Water-logged mattresses, crushed particleboard, and remodel debris that no one can reuse are hauled by your Loaders to a permitted disposal site, since landfill and transfer options across Larimer County keep changing.
Mixing the wrong item into a Fort Collins curbside cart can get the load rejected or trigger a citation, so Larimer County rules matter here.
Colorado's Electronic Recycling Jobs Act has barred televisions, monitors, computers, printers, DVD players, game consoles and screens larger than four inches from landfills since 2013. Haulers may not knowingly collect them, so electronics must go to a recycler.
A 2013 city ordinance makes throwing clean corrugated cardboard in the trash illegal anywhere in Fort Collins. Flatten and recycle it instead. Only waxed or heavily food-soiled cardboard is exempt and may be composted or landfilled.
Larimer County charges thirty-six dollars per appliance containing Freon, such as refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners, and twenty dollars for appliances without it. The refrigerant must be professionally recovered before the unit is processed.
Fort Collins contracts residential collection for homes of seven units or fewer, and every service level includes two bulky item collections per year plus seasonal yard trimmings. Anything beyond that allowance falls outside the included service.
Fort Collins requires new buildings, additions and remodels over 2,500 square feet to submit a construction waste management plan at permit application, including recycling of concrete and masonry, wood, metals and cardboard.
Drywall, lumber, concrete, siding and similar demolition material are excluded from Fort Collins residential collection entirely. These loads go to the Larimer County landfill or transfer station, where disposal is priced by volume or weight.
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(678) 884-4738Only through the city's contracted Republic Services program, which includes two free bulk items a year for items under 60 pounds with no dimension over 6 feet. Larger or heavier pieces cost extra by size and weight, scheduled at 970-416-2012. Setting junk out without a pickup can count as illegal dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Fort Collins starts at $75 for a single item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, and each added item is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed before you book. Local full-truck haulers average around $575.
Same-day is often available across Fort Collins when you book before noon, and next-day covers most of Larimer County. Enter your zip during booking to see live windows for Old Town, Midtown, Harmony, or wherever you are. Your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes before arrival.
Colorado bans electronics from the trash, and fridges, freezers, and AC units need certified Freon handling, so scrap yards and curbside programs won't take them loose. The city's Timberline Recycling Center handles hard-to-recycle items for a $5 entry fee. LoadUp can haul these with no tag required.
Loaders sort when possible and aim to keep usable junk out of the landfill. Working goods go to local thrift and donation outlets when they're accepted, electronics and metals route to recyclers like the Timberline Recycling Center, and only what's left goes to Larimer County Landfill.
You pick your items online, get an upfront price, and choose a day and time block. No in-person estimate needed for most jobs. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home, just leave the junk accessible. For in-home removal, someone should be present or leave access notes.
It comes down to pricing and booking. Junk King and 1-800-GOT-JUNK charge by truckload volume and usually quote on site, so your price isn't locked until the crew arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before anyone shows up, which is often cheaper for one or two items.
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