*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up quietly, then one day it is in the way and nobody wants to deal with it. LoadUp connects you with a pickup in the Heart of the Rockies, priced upfront online.
You start by looking up what the city takes, end up on hold with someone at the county, then chase two haulers who never call back. A month on, the junk has not moved.
Trash service here is subscription based and varies by address, so there is no standing large-item program to call. Community collection days come around once or twice a year, take a short list of accepted items, and still leave the loading to you.
Most haulers want an in-person look before quoting, which means a window you wait through and a visit that may come from up valley. Then pricing gets measured in fractions of a truck, and you learn the real number once your stuff is already loaded.
Reuse outlets in a valley this size have limited floor space, so they turn down anything stained, broken, or pressboard, and furniture intake can pause when the back room fills. What they decline is still yours to move, during their hours, in a truck you may not own.
A roll-off needs a flat, reachable spot, which is a tall order on a narrow historic district lot or a tight alley, and street placement can mean a permit. Then it sits out front for a week, collecting whatever the neighbors add, all for one room's worth of stuff.
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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 Salida 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 Salida's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sleeper sofa down the narrow stairs of an older home, or a basement packed tight for decades: your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Salida after each job.
If everything is already stacked in the driveway or along the alley, curbside keeps it simple. When the load is still in a basement, an outbuilding, or up the tight staircase of a historic-district home, full-service means your Loaders carry it out for you.
| 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.
Out here, getting rid of a sleeper sofa means borrowing a trailer and committing to a drive on Highway 50, in whatever weather the valley hands you. Mud season and February both vote no. Your Loaders would rather carry it out and take it away themselves, because the people here have better uses for a Saturday.
Clearing out a Salida home usually means a mixed load: a usable dresser, a dead dryer, a stack of splintered deck boards. Your Loaders sort as they go, matching each piece to donation, recycling, or disposal where Chaffee County options allow.
Furniture, housewares, and working appliances that come out of a cabin turnover in solid shape may be passed along to area reuse outlets when they are accepting, though no receipt comes with it.
Your Loaders separate metal bed frames, scrap appliances, and electronics too far gone for reuse, taking them to recycling points when local facilities accept the material. Some items travel out of the valley.
Water-damaged mattresses, collapsed sectionals, and remodel debris with nothing worth recovering usually end up at the county landfill north of Salida, which keeps limited public hours and can close in bad weather.
Mishandled loads get turned away at the gate or draw a nuisance citation, so these Salida and Chaffee County disposal rules are worth knowing first.
The Electronic Recycling Jobs Act keeps televisions, monitors, computers, printers, tablets and game consoles out of every Colorado landfill because of the lead and mercury inside them. Chaffee County Landfill recycles electronics separately, and only from county residents.
Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are taken at the county landfill only when clean and with doors and shelves removed, at $50 per unit. Acceptance was suspended entirely in the past when no certified refrigerant technician was available.
Stoves, water heaters, washers and dryers are charged $15 each at Chaffee County Landfill, and out of county loads are refused. Anything more than seventy five percent metal should be pulled out for the scrap recycling pile.
The county landfill takes construction and demolition debris but turns away asphalt and pavement, hazardous materials, automobiles and smoldering waste. Loads can be inspected before unloading, so a mixed remodel pile may come straight back home with you.
Clean wood branches and stumps go to the grinding pile at Chaffee County Landfill and come back as mulch sold to the public. Keeping yard debris free of trash, wire and dirt is what keeps it eligible.
Salida's municipal code treats accumulated trash, rubbish, litter and junk vehicles on any public or private lot as a nuisance enforceable as a misdemeanor. Leaving material at the retired recycling drop sites around town counts as illegal dumping.
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(678) 884-4738Salida has no municipal bulk pickup, so residents contract private haulers like WM, Apex Waste, or Shamrock Disposal, or haul items to the Chaffee County Landfill off Highway 285. Keep in mind the old recycling drop sites around Salida are closed, and leaving materials there now counts as illegal dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Salida starts at $75 for one item, with a flat $5 off for curbside or driveway pickup. The first item covers the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your total is confirmed upfront before booking. Hauling it yourself means the Chaffee County Landfill charges a $20 in-county minimum.
Same-day pickup is often open in Salida when you book early in the day, and next-day is widely available. Enter your zip code during booking to see live availability for your address, since the mountain location in the Arkansas River Valley can affect scheduling windows.
Yes. The Chaffee County Landfill bans electronics from the trash pile, so e-waste must be recycled separately for a fee. Mixing prohibited items into a load can also trigger the county's $250 Dirty Dumpers fee. Loaders sort these items so restricted materials end up in the right place.
Loaders sort items when possible and aim to donate usable goods to local spots like Caring & Sharing, New Bees, or the ReStore. Electronics route to the landfill's e-waste recycling whenever options allow, and only what cannot be reused heads to the Chaffee County Landfill.
For curbside or driveway pickups, no, just leave items out with access notes. In-home pickups need someone present or access instructions provided at booking. Your Loader typically calls ahead before arriving, and the price you locked in online stays the same.
LoadUp locks your price online per item before anyone arrives, while traditional haulers like 1-800-GOT-JUNK quote by truckload after an in-person estimate. Local trash companies such as WM or Apex Waste handle weekly cans on a route, not one-off bulky junk removal.
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