*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up, it gets harder to ignore. Book a quick pickup in Portland, see your price before you commit, and get your space back without the hassle.
You reread the town's disposal rules, leave a voicemail at town hall, and request a few hauler quotes. One sends a vague number, two never call back, and another weekend passes with the pile still waiting.
Town programs cover a lot, but they run on municipal pickup schedules and limit what counts as bulky. Items like appliances, mattresses, and electronics often fall under separate state rules. You still have to drag everything up from the basement or out of the barn yourself.
Many haulers want to walk your property before they quote, then price by fractions of a truck you can't really picture. The number can change once things come out of the cellar or down a long gravel drive, so you may not know the final cost until loading is done.
Thrift shops and charities want clean, working goods they can resell, and most expect you to drop them off. A water-stained recliner, a wobbly bookcase, or a bin of rusted tools usually gets turned away. That leaves you stuck with the hardest pieces.
A roll-off makes sense for a gut renovation, not for clearing out one spare room. You have to juggle delivery and pickup windows and check whether the town needs to approve where it sits. Then a steel box takes over your lawn or narrow driveway for days.
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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 Portland 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 Portland's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader handles the steep, narrow stairs of an older home's basement and carries each piece up and out. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Portland after each job.
If your load is already waiting at the end of a long or sloped driveway, curbside (outdoor) pickup fits. For a cluttered barn loft or a packed backyard shed, choose full-service and your Loaders carry everything out from where it sits.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $80 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $75 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before 2 PM | from $90 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $80 |
| 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.
Old Portland houses hold on to things: a basement that has seen decades of projects, a barn with its own geology, a driveway steep enough to make a hand truck think twice. Your Loader does the lifting, carrying, and loading, and honestly, showing up for neighbors here is the good part of the job.
Bulky items pile up fast in older Portland homes, and what happens after pickup matters. Your Loader sorts each item by condition, so usable pieces can be donated when possible and the rest is handled responsibly.
Furniture, bookcases, and household goods in good, clean condition may be donated when possible and when local options allow. Your Loader lifts and loads them with care, so they stay in usable shape.
Items that are worn or damaged but not fit for donation, like a bent metal shelving unit or a broken exercise bike, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates materials when local options allow.
Heavily damaged or soiled bulky items, such as a water-ruined sofa or rotted lumber from a shed, are hauled away by your Loader for responsible disposal at a licensed local facility.
Tossing banned items in the trash can violate Connecticut recycling law. Middlesex County has no county government, so in Portland these town and state rules govern your cleanout.
Connecticut's paint stewardship law adds a small fee to new paint, which funds free drop-off of leftover latex and oil-based paint, stains and varnishes at participating retailers, letting residents clear basement and garage shelves without treating paint as household garbage.
State air rules prohibit burning household trash, construction debris and painted or treated wood. Storm-downed brush can only be burned with a permit from Portland's local open burning official, and not on days with poor air quality.
Connecticut passed the nation's first mattress recycling law. A fee collected when a mattress or box spring is sold funds the statewide program, letting participating town sites accept used ones free and recycle the steel, foam, wood and fiber.
Scrap metal is a mandatory recyclable in Connecticut, so old appliances belong in metal recycling rather than the trash. Refrigerators, freezers, dehumidifiers and window air conditioners also contain refrigerant that federal rules require a certified technician to recover before scrapping.
Connecticut lists leaves as a mandatory recyclable, and state law bars grass clippings from landfills and trash-to-energy plants. Leaving clippings on the lawn returns nutrients to the soil, while fall leaves belong in composting rather than garbage bags headed for disposal.
Under Connecticut's electronics recycling law, covered devices such as televisions, computers, computer monitors and printers cannot go out with regular garbage. The Portland Transfer Station/Recycling Center is a state-listed residential drop-off site, open Tuesday through Saturday, with manufacturers funding the recycling.
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(678) 884-4738Generally no. Portland runs a transfer station at 39 Sand Hill Rd with a SMART pay-as-you-throw program, so trash goes in town-issued bags and bulky junk is handled there. Call the Solid Waste Division to confirm current rules before setting anything out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Portland starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickup takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking.
Yes, you pick a pickup window when you book online, and availability for your address shows during checkout. For curbside pickups you usually don't need to be home. For in-home pickups, someone should be there or leave access instructions.
Yes, if you have a permit. The station is at 39 Sand Hill Rd and is open Tuesday through Saturday, with the scale closing earlier than the gate. Hours change in summer, and fees and accepted items vary, so call the station first. A hauler makes more sense for heavy loads or no truck.
Loaders aim to donate usable items and recycle what they can, depending on acceptance at local facilities. Items that can't be donated or recycled are taken to an appropriate disposal facility. Outcomes vary by item condition and what nearby partners accept.
Choose your items online, enter your Portland address, and pick a time window. You see the total before confirming. On pickup day, Loaders arrive, carry the items out, and load them, so you don't have to lift anything.
The main difference is how you get a price. College HUNKS serves Portland and offers a free estimate, while LoadUp prices per item online and confirms your total before booking. Truckload-style hauling can suit big cleanouts, while per-item pricing tends to fit smaller jobs.
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