*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it's all you notice. Book LoadUp for a pickup in Scarborough that's simple to schedule, with your price shown before you commit.
You look up town rules, call around for quotes, and wait on haulers who never call back. A week goes by, then a month, and the junk is still sitting in the garage.
Municipal pickup schedules can help, but they usually come with conditions. Some items are left out, pickups may need to be requested ahead of time, and you still have to get everything to the curb yourself. A loaded attic or a cottage cleanout rarely fits those limits.
Lots of haulers want to come out and look before they'll give you a number, so you lose an afternoon just getting an estimate. Then they price by how much of the truck you fill, and the final bill can turn out higher than the number you heard.
Donation centers need things they can actually resell, so stained upholstery, worn mattresses, and broken furniture often get turned away. Even when a piece qualifies, you still have to load it, drive it over, and figure out what to do with everything else.
A dumpster makes sense for a full renovation, but not for clearing out one spare room in Dunstan or Oak Hill. You'll have to plan the delivery, maybe check on permits, and have a big steel box sitting in your driveway for days. Then you 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.
Across all options, not just ours: a real breakdown of what Scarborough 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 piano, hot tub, or safe 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 Scarborough's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader works a dresser down a narrow, steep cottage staircase one careful step at a time. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Scarborough after each job.
If you can roll an old grill or bagged yard debris to the end of your driveway in Oak Hill or Dunstan, curbside is the simpler fit. For furniture tucked into a Pine Point cottage loft or a finished basement, choose full-service and your Loaders will carry it 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.
Maine gives you about three good weekends a year, and in Scarborough everybody wants to spend them on the water, not hauling a sofa to the dump. Your Loader arrives, carries it out, and clears the garage while you do something better. Your Loaders like showing up for Scarborough, year-round neighbors and summer people alike.
Bulky furniture and cleanout piles only help once they leave your property, and where they go next matters. In Scarborough, your Loader sorts items by condition at pickup, aiming to keep usable things in circulation when local options allow.
Furniture and household goods in good, clean condition may be set aside for donation when local options allow. Your Loader carries them out carefully, and availability depends on what donation channels are accepting.
Items that are worn or damaged but not fit for donation may be directed toward recycling where available. Your Loader separates materials such as metal or wood at pickup when this is possible.
Heavily damaged, soiled, or broken bulky items that cannot be reused or recycled are taken for responsible disposal. Your Loader clears them from your Scarborough home, garage, or yard so you don't have to haul them yourself.
A load that mixes the wrong materials can mean an extra fee or a second trip out of town. Here is what applies to Scarborough households in Cumberland County.
Outside the annual collection day, Scarborough points residents to Maine's PaintCare program, which takes leftover paint any time of year. That helps anyone clearing out a basement in fall or winter, when the town's hazardous waste event is months away.
Scarborough has a town contract that lets residents with proper ID drop off leaves and grass clippings at the Casella Transfer Station in Westbrook free of charge. The town asks residents not to mix small branches or other yard debris in with the leaves or grass.
Scarborough's Silver Bullet recycling containers are electronically monitored around the clock. The town says no electronic waste, hazardous waste or large items may be placed inside or outside them. E-waste has its own route in the town's recycling guidance.
Scarborough has no town-owned dump. Residents can bring furniture, appliances, construction material and other bulky waste to the Casella Transfer Station in Westbrook or the Riverside Recycling Center in Portland. Both charge a fee, and prices are subject to change.
Scarborough holds a household hazardous waste drop-off at Public Works each spring. It is free with proof of residency. Residents can also use the Saco and Biddeford collection days at no cost, which helps if a garage cleanout happens later in the year.
The Silver Bullets at Scarborough Public Works take paper, plastic, cans and cardboard, and boxes should be broken down first. When a recycling load reaching ecomaine is more than 25 percent non-recyclable items, the town pays the recycling rate plus the trash rate.
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(678) 884-4738No. Scarborough's curbside service covers trash and recycling carts only. The town says large or bulky items, electronics and hazardous waste can't go in or beside the carts or the overflow "silver bullet" bins. Bulky waste has to be taken to a facility for a fee.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Scarborough starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on charge. The exact total is confirmed before booking.
Same-day and next-day junk removal are often available in Scarborough, depending on the schedule. Availability shows when you enter your address at booking. For curbside or driveway pickups you usually don't need to be home. For indoor jobs, someone should be there or leave access instructions.
Scarborough has no town-owned dump. Residents can take bulky waste, for a fee, to the Casella Transfer Station at 594 County Road in Westbrook, or to Riverside Recycling Center at 910 Riverside Street in Portland. Call ahead to confirm current prices. Hauling it yourself is cheaper if you have a truck.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill. Depending on acceptance, they aim to donate furniture and household goods to local charities and recycle metal, cardboard and electronics whenever possible. Anything that can't be donated or recycled goes to the appropriate disposal facility.
You book online, choose your item and pickup time, and see the total before you confirm. On pickup day, Loaders arrive in the scheduled window, carry the junk out, and load it. This works for homes in Pine Point, Higgins Beach, Prouts Neck, Oak Hill and elsewhere in town.
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