*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until dealing with it becomes its own project. Around the Ridge, that part is easy: see your price up front, pick a date, and it's gone.
You start by checking what the city takes, learn that collection depends on whichever hauler you signed up with, then call around for quotes. Two never call back. A month later, the junk hasn't moved.
It's one annual program with limited slots, a short registration window, and proof of residency. Some years it runs as a pickup, other years as a drop-off you load yourself. Townhomes, condos, and apartments typically aren't eligible, and it's one approved item per address.
Most local haulers won't price anything over the phone. You schedule a window, wait for someone to look at the pile, then get quoted a fraction of a truck, a measure that means nothing until the truck is already parked out front.
Thrift shops along the 38th Avenue corridor have standards, and they should: no stains, no tears, nothing with a cracked frame or a missing part. Appliances, mattresses, and anything that sat in a damp basement usually get declined, and most won't send a truck anyway.
A roll-off ties up your driveway or a chunk of the street for days, and anything sitting in the public right-of-way generally needs sign-off first. You still load it yourself, by hand, while the neighbors watch it sit there all week.
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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.
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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 Wheat Ridge's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Narrow basement stairs in a post-war brick ranch make a treadmill hard to move. Your Loaders are background-checked, handle that carry themselves, and get rated by real locals in Wheat Ridge after each job.
If the item already sits at the street or in the driveway, curbside covers it. Choose full service when your Loaders need to bring a hot tub out of a backyard or take an old washer from a detached garage.
| 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.
Every August the Carnation Festival fills Anderson Park, and you'll see families who have been on the same block for three generations. That's Wheat Ridge: people stay, and so does their stuff. Sheds and basements hold decades of it. Your Loaders handle the long walk out to the truck, and they like showing up here.
A dresser from a Fruitdale basement and a rusted shed frame don't belong in the same place, so what your Loaders carry out of a Wheat Ridge home gets sorted by condition first.
Your Loaders set aside furniture, bicycles, and intact exercise equipment to try donation outlets first, when the item is genuinely usable and a nearby organization is accepting that category.
Bent metal bed frames, dead appliances, and old electronics take a different route. Colorado bars waste electronics from landfill disposal, so your Loaders keep those separate for recycling channels when local processors accept them.
Your Loaders take water-damaged mattresses, rotted deck boards, and cracked hot tub shells to a permitted transfer station or landfill when nothing near Wheat Ridge will accept them in that condition.
Illegal dumping and junk stored in the open draw code citations in Wheat Ridge, so these Jefferson County and Colorado disposal rules are worth knowing first.
The city offers residents a free large item program for things like mattresses, couches, washers and dryers that do not fit household carts. Proof of residency is required, capacity is limited, and businesses and apartment complexes are excluded.
The Electronic Recycling Jobs Act has barred waste electronics from Colorado landfills since 2013, covering TVs, monitors, computers, printers, tablets, DVD players and game consoles. Haulers may not knowingly collect them, so they must go to a certified recycler.
Federal law requires certified technicians to recover refrigerant from fridges, freezers and air conditioners before disposal. Jefferson County's household hazardous waste center takes Freon only in a container, not inside an appliance, directing whole units to scrap metal recyclers.
Paint, solvents, pesticides, motor oil and batteries cannot go in curbside trash. Jefferson County residents can use the county hazardous waste center by appointment, where latex and oil based paint is accepted free through the PaintCare program.
The county slash program accepts limbs and tree debris up to eight feet long and six inches thick, plus pine needles and cones. Stumps, grass clippings, rocks, metal and construction lumber are turned away.
Wheat Ridge's nuisance code targets outside storage of junk, excess trash and illegal dumping. Code enforcement can issue a citation to municipal court, and if the property is not cleaned up the city may abate it and bill the owner.
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(678) 884-4738Not without a scheduled pickup. Wheat Ridge uses an open hauler system, so you arrange bulky pickups through your own trash company or the city's free Large Item program. For that program, your item has to be at the curb by 7 a.m. on the date you registered for.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Wheat Ridge starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickups take $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your exact total is confirmed before you book.
Same-day and next-day slots open in most Wheat Ridge zip codes when you book early in the day. Enter your address during booking to see live availability near Applewood, City Center, Fruitdale, and the rest of town.
Yes, but it is limited. The city's free Large Item program takes only one bulky item per address for the first registered households, and it excludes apartments, condos, and businesses. Register through Public Works at 303-205-7611. A paid hauler fills the gap once slots run out.
Loaders sort loads and aim to keep usable items out of the landfill. Furniture and household goods are routed to donation when accepted, scrap metal and electronics head to recyclers like Action Recycling Center in Wheat Ridge, and only the rest goes to disposal.
You get an upfront price online or by phone, pick a date, and lock it in before anyone arrives. On pickup day your Loaders call roughly 30 minutes ahead, then handle the lifting and loading. For curbside jobs you do not need to be home.
Pricing model and booking flow. 1-800-GOT-JUNK and Junkluggers price by truck volume for two or more items and often confirm the cost on site. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it before the truck arrives, so there is no in-driveway estimate.
Loaders skip hazardous materials like paint, chemicals, fuel, and asbestos. Those belong at a household hazardous waste facility such as the Veolia center in Colorado, and batteries can be dropped at Call2Recycle sites. Almost any non-hazardous furniture, appliance, or household junk is fair game.
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