*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up quietly, then one day there's nowhere left to put it. In the Hub of the Western Slope, book a pickup in minutes, see your price upfront, and skip the hauling.
You start with a few searches. Then a call to the trash department, a voicemail with a hauler who never rings back, a quote that depends on someone seeing it first. Two weekends later, the pile hasn't moved.
What's free here isn't really a pickup. The city's spring cleanup is a drop-off site you load and haul to yourself, open to city trash customers, and it turns away tires, paint, and TVs. Anything large the rest of the year gets scheduled by phone and billed to your utility account.
Most haulers want to look before they quote. That means a window spent waiting on an estimate, then a number based on how much of the truck your load fills, judged after it's already loaded. Out here, that visit alone can eat a workday.
Thrift and reuse shops run on what they can actually sell. Stained, torn, missing a part, older electronics: those get declined at the door, and most won't take a mattress at all. Even a good donation run leaves you with the half nobody wants.
A roll-off makes sense mid-remodel. For one room, you're renting by the week for an afternoon of actual work, then finding a spot where it won't block a shared drive. Street placement can need city sign-off. You still lift every piece yourself.
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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.
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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 Montrose 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 Montrose's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A chest freezer wedged into a basement corner, a sectional through a narrow doorway: your Loaders are background-checked, insured, and rated by real locals in Montrose after each job.
If the items are already out at the curb, in the driveway, or sitting beside an outbuilding on an acreage lot, curbside keeps things simple and your Loaders handle the loading from there. Choose full-service when the washer is still in the mudroom, the mattress is upstairs, or the load is buried behind a decade of garage storage.
| 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.
Everybody ends up on Townsend Avenue eventually, and nobody wants to crawl through it with a sofa strapped down and a long drive to a drop-off waiting at the far end. Half the region shops in this town. Your Loaders do the lifting and the driving, and they like showing up for the people here.
Getting rid of a sofa or a dead washer in Montrose means deciding where it actually ends up. Your Loaders sort items by condition, looking for donation or recycling outlets first when local options allow.
Dressers, patio sets, and exercise gear in clean working condition may be worth a second life. Your Loaders check whether a local reuse or thrift outlet is accepting that kind of item that week.
A broken dryer or a mattress past donating still holds metal, foam, and other materials. Where a recycling outlet in the area accepts them, your Loaders take that route first.
Some loads are soaked, moldy, or crushed past any reuse. Those head to a permitted landfill or transfer station serving the Montrose area, within whatever that facility currently accepts, so you skip the gate trip.
Illegal dumping in Montrose is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and jail, so these City of Montrose and Montrose County rules matter.
Routine Montrose trash collection excludes furniture, construction materials, large items, appliances, tires, landscaping materials, paint and hazardous waste. Everything must fit inside the cart without overfilling, and crews leave items stacked beside a container or dumpster.
State law has barred televisions, monitors, computers, printers, tablets, stereos and similar devices from Colorado landfills and household trash since 2013. Montrose residents must take them to a recycler or to the county landfill, where e-waste is weighed separately.
The Montrose County landfill accepts refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerated appliances only with a certificate showing the refrigerant was recovered first, since venting it is illegal. Appliances also carry a per item charge on top of the load fee.
Tree limbs and landscaping materials are not part of routine collection. Montrose residents can use the city's annual leaf collection and spring clean up, arrange a special Public Works pickup, or haul green waste to the county landfill.
Montrose County requires all loads in open top vehicles and trailers to be tarped, and untarped loads are charged the normal rate plus an added fee. Construction and demolition debris is weighed and billed by the ton.
Paint, solvents, automotive fluids and similar household hazardous materials must never go in city trash containers, and no year round disposal facility exists in town. The city and county instead host collection events, typically each summer.
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(678) 884-4738No. Routine city trash collection does not include furniture, appliances, large items, construction debris, tires or landscaping materials. You can request a special pickup through Montrose Public Works at 970-240-1480, and fees are added to your monthly utility bill based on what gets collected.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Montrose starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off that base price. The first item includes the pickup fee for labor and hauling, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your exact total is confirmed upfront before you book.
Same-day service is often available in Montrose when you book early in the day, and next-day is common across the Uncompahgre Valley. Enter your zip code during booking to see live availability for your address before you commit.
Montrose has no local hazardous waste facility, so paint, chemicals, batteries and electronics should never go in city carts. The Montrose County Landfill on Landfill Road takes many items for a fee, with appliances around $12.80 and mattresses around $11.80 each. Loaders can handle most bulky household junk directly.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and household goods may go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on North Townsend Avenue or the Salvation Army, and Loaders aim to recycle when options allow. Anything left over goes to the Montrose County Landfill.
You pick your items online or by phone, get an upfront price, then choose a pickup window. On pickup day your Loaders call ahead, usually about 30 minutes before arrival, then carry everything out and load it. You don't need to drag heavy junk to the curb yourself.
Mostly pricing model and booking flow. Traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK charge by how much truck space you fill and quote on site, so your price isn't set until the crew arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up.
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