*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up quietly, then one day it's a project nobody wants. LoadUp keeps it simple here in the City on the Lakes: book a pickup online, see your price upfront, done.
You look up what the city takes, find out your street may not even be on that route, then call a couple of haulers. One never calls back. Two months later, nothing has moved.
Collection here varies by address, so not every household is on the same schedule or the same program. Even when yours qualifies, there are limits on what gets taken, it runs on their calendar instead of yours, and the item still has to reach the curb on its own.
Most want to send someone out first, then quote you by how much of the truck your load fills. That number shows up after two people are already standing in your driveway, which is a terrible moment to compare options or say no.
Resale shops only want what will sell: clean, intact, nothing with a tear or a missing leg. Mattresses and older appliances are usually a no. So you load up the good half, and the rest is still sitting in the basement.
A roll-off ties up the driveway for days, and you are still the one carrying each piece out to it. Put one on the street and you may need permission first. For a single room, that is a lot of container.
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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 Cadillac 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 Cadillac's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sectional coming up a narrow basement stairwell in an older home takes planning, not muscle alone. Your Loaders are background-checked and rated by real locals in Cadillac after each job.
Curbside works when you can already get items to the driveway or street, which is realistic on rural Wexford County properties with room to stage a load. Choose full-service when the furniture is still in a basement, a walk-up apartment, or a lake cottage with tight doorways, 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 noon | 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.
Ask anyone here where to take an old chest freezer and the answer involves a trailer, a drive, and most of a Saturday. Frozen ground does not help. Your Loaders already know these streets, the tight older driveways, the stairs in the downtown houses, and they like showing up for the people who live in them.
Most Cadillac cleanouts turn up a mix of usable furniture and items that are simply finished. Your Loaders sort as they load, looking for donation or recycling outlets in the area first and treating landfill disposal as the last step.
Couches, dressers, and working household goods that are clean and structurally sound get looked at for local resale or charity outlets, when nearby options are accepting that category and the item holds up.
Metal bed frames, water heaters, exercise equipment, and dead electronics are checked against scrap and e-waste drop-offs where available, since northern Michigan outlets accept some categories and turn away others.
Anything soaked, moldy, or broken past use heads to a licensed transfer station or landfill serving the Cadillac area, handled under Michigan rules rather than left at your curb for a collection day that may never cover it.
Michigan's litter law turns a careless drop-off into a ticketed offense, so these Cadillac and Wexford County disposal rules decide where your junk can legally go.
The city's contracted hauler takes a single large item per week alongside regular trash, and that item can be furniture or an appliance, but never tires. A full garage or basement clear-out stretches across months at that pace.
Refrigerators, freezers, and central air conditioning or heating units are all listed as unacceptable for Cadillac's weekly large item pickup, because federal rules require a certified technician to recover the refrigerant before the unit is scrapped.
Shingles, concrete, brick, cinderblock, ceramic tile, plaster, sheet rock, dirt, and boards with protruding nails are excluded from Cadillac's large item service. Remodeling waste has to reach a licensed facility such as the Wexford County landfill.
Cadillac collects yard waste from April 1 until late November or the first snowfall, and mixing it into household trash is prohibited. Michigan bans yard clippings from landfills statewide, so the material gets composted instead.
With Lake Cadillac and Lake Mitchell right in town, this one bites. Under Michigan's littering law, putting yard waste into a lake, river, stream, or wetland is a civil infraction carrying fines of $800 to $5,000.
Michigan's electronics takeback law requires manufacturers of televisions, monitors, computers, and printers to provide free, convenient recycling for residents, and the companies handling that material must register with the state environmental agency.
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(678) 884-4738The city contracts trash service with Republic Services, and any resident may put out one large item per week with regular garbage, including appliances and furniture. Tires are not accepted. For anything beyond that single weekly item, you will need a hauler.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Cadillac starts at $80 for a single item, covering labor, hauling, and disposal. Leaving items at the curb takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each extra item is a flat add-on, with your total confirmed before you book.
Same-day and next-day slots open in many Cadillac zip codes when you book early, and availability shows live once you enter your address. For curbside pickups you do not need to be home. For in-home removal, someone should be there or leave access notes.
Cadillac trash service skips tires and household hazardous waste like oil-based paint, lawn chemicals, and aerosol cans. Those go to the annual Wexford County hazardous waste collection day at the Cadillac wastewater plant. LoadUp hauls general junk, not bulk hazardous chemicals.
Loaders sort loads and aim to donate usable furniture and recycle metal and electronics whenever options allow, keeping items out of the landfill when possible. Scrap and recyclables can route through the Wexford County Recycling Center on M-115. Whatever is left goes to proper disposal.
Book online in a few minutes by listing what needs to go and your address, then pick curbside or in-home service. Your price locks in upfront before the appointment. Your Loader usually calls about 30 minutes ahead on pickup day.
Pricing and booking. Local haulers like AAA Rousse and national names like 1-800-GOT-JUNK often quote by truckload after an in-person look, so the price isn't set until the crew arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up.
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