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Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
When junk keeps piling up, it stops being a small chore and starts weighing on you. Book a quick pickup in the Pomperaug Valley and see your real price before you confirm.
You check the town website, call about the transfer station, and request quotes from a few haulers. One never calls back, another wants to visit first. Weeks later, the junk is still sitting in the garage.
The town's own disposal options can help, but there are usually limits on what's accepted, how often, and who qualifies. You may still have to haul everything yourself or wait for a scheduled window, which is hard when the items are heavy or the basement stairs are steep.
Many haulers want to see the job in person before they'll give a number, then price by fractions of a truckload that are hard to check. You can block out a morning for an estimate and still not know the final cost until the truck is loaded.
Donation centers look for clean, working items that will resell, so worn upholstery, older appliances, and broken pieces often get turned away. Most also expect you to drop things off yourself, and that's a lot to ask when you're downsizing or clearing out a parent's house.
A roll-off container can sit on your driveway for days, take up space your car needs, and tear up the lawn on a long rural lot. For a single garage or spare room, you end up paying for capacity you'll never fill, and you still do all the lifting yourself.
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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 Southbury's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loaders carry a treadmill up narrow basement stairs or walk a rusted mower out of a back barn. Each one is background-checked and rated by real locals in Southbury after each job.
On Southbury's larger lots, where the street can be a long walk from the house, curbside works well if you have already moved things like bagged brush or an old grill to the end of the driveway. Choose full-service when a dresser is still upstairs or a garage or barn needs emptying, 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.
A treadmill that took two people to carry down to the basement does not get lighter on the way back up, and Southbury's long driveways and sloping lots do not help. Your Loaders do the lifting and loading, so the Route 6 trip stays off your Saturday. LoadUp and your Loaders enjoy showing up for the neighbors here.
Bulky items rarely fit in a trunk, so where they end up matters as much as getting them out. For a Southbury cleanout, your Loader sorts by condition, aiming to keep usable things out of the landfill.
Furniture, exercise gear, and household goods in good, clean shape may be donated when possible. Your Loader sets them aside for reuse, though donation depends on what local options accept at the time.
Items that are worn or damaged but not ready for reuse, such as old appliances or metal frames, may be recycled where available. Your Loader separates them when local options allow.
Heavily damaged, soaked, or contaminated bulky pieces, like a collapsed sofa or rotted lumber, go to proper disposal. Your Loader handles the lifting and loading, and no particular facility is promised.
If you show up at the Southbury transfer station without a valid permit or a checkbook, you will be turned away. These rules apply to cleanouts in Southbury, New Haven County.
Replacing a heating system in a Connecticut winter often leaves an old furnace or water tank behind. Southbury's transfer station takes furnaces and small water tanks as white metal and charges for each item separately.
Southbury gives free permits to residents only, one per person. You can't pick one up for someone else or for a vehicle you didn't bring. Under town ordinance section 8-23, if you won't let staff attach the permit, you can't use the facility.
Connecticut's e-waste rules require every town to offer a convenient recycling location for televisions, monitors, computers and printers. In Southbury, that location is the transfer station. It's open Tuesday through Saturday and closed Sundays, Mondays, and holidays.
Southbury's transfer station charges for each tire. Rates differ for passenger and light truck tires, larger truck tires with or without rims, and tractor and loader tires. Removing the rims first lowers the charge for 18 to 22 inch truck tires.
When residents recycle at the transfer station, the town pays less in tipping fees to haul away trash and may earn money from the recyclables. Sorting materials during a cleanout, instead of bagging everything as trash, helps lower town costs.
Southbury treats refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, and dehumidifiers as white metal and charges for each one at the transfer station. The facility doesn't take cash, so pay by check made out to the Town of Southbury.
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(678) 884-4738Don't count on it. The Town of Southbury treats its Transfer Station at 231 Kettletown Road as the primary place for solid waste, and bulky items there are charged per item. Leaving items curbside without arranging pickup risks being treated as illegal dumping.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Southbury starts at $80, with $5 off for curbside or driveway pickup. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each additional item is a flat add-on, with the exact total confirmed before booking. The town Transfer Station charges $10 to $20 for most other items.
Same-day slots are sometimes available, depending on the Loader schedule near Southbury. Enter your address during booking to see live availability. For curbside pickups you generally don't need to be home. For in-home pickups, someone should be present or leave access notes.
Often yes, if you have a truck and the time. The Transfer Station lists $20 for a couch, $25 for a sleeper couch and $20 for a bathtub. Hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pickup makes more sense for heavy loads or when you can't haul it yourself.
Loaders aim to donate usable items and recycle what they can, depending on what local charities and recyclers accept. Items that can't be reused or recycled go to an appropriate disposal facility. Donation and recycling aren't guaranteed for every item.
Pick your items online, choose a time window and see the total price before you confirm. On pickup day your Loader arrives, removes the items from the curb, driveway or inside your home, and takes them away. Your price is set at booking, so there's no estimate on arrival.
The main difference is how pricing works. College HUNKS offers a free estimate for Southbury jobs, and many traditional haulers price by truckload. LoadUp prices per item online and locks the total before booking. For a full-house cleanout, a truckload quote can still make sense.
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