*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk piles up quietly until the day it's finally in your way. LoadUp keeps it simple here in the Tri-Cities: see a real price upfront, book a pickup time, and it's gone.
You read the collection guide, find out your heavy item week just passed, then call a couple of haulers. One wants to see it first. Another never calls back. Two weekends later, nothing has moved.
Heavy item collection comes around once a month by area, and crews will not circle back once they have passed your street. Refrigerators, freezers, and water heaters need a separate scheduled call, masonry is out, and everything still has to reach the outlawn on your own.
Most hauling companies will not quote until someone looks at the pile in person, which means a scheduling window before the actual pickup window. Then the number arrives as a fraction of a truck, measured by eye, and it can move again once loading starts.
Resale shops have to be selective, since they can only take what will sell. Stained mattresses, cracked particleboard, and anything with a missing part get turned away, and many will not come inside for stairs. That leaves you hauling the rejects somewhere else anyway.
A roll off ties up your driveway for days, may need a permit if it sits on the street, and still leaves every piece for you to lift over the side. For one room, you are renting far more container than the job needs.
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No waiting on callbacksLocal Loaders arrive at your location, haul away the junk, and dispose of it responsibly when options allow.
No in-person charges
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 Midland 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 Midland's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
A sectional that has to come up a narrow basement stairwell takes planning, not muscle alone. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Midland after each job.
If the water heater or old couch is already sitting in the driveway or at the curb, curbside is the quicker and simpler route. Choose full service when the item is still in a basement, a detached garage, or an upstairs bedroom, 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.
Half the year, a Midland driveway is a sheet of ice, and nobody wants to wrestle a sleeper sofa onto a borrowed trailer in February. The rest of the year, the Rail Trail is calling. Your Loaders do the carrying, and showing up for people in this town is the good part of the job.
What happens to a bulky item after it leaves your Midland home depends almost entirely on its condition. Your Loader sorts each piece on site, looking for donation or recycling outlets where available before defaulting to licensed disposal.
Furniture that is clean, structurally sound, and free of odor or pet damage has a second life ahead of it. Your Loader will check whether a Midland-area resale or charity outlet is accepting that category.
Items too worn for resale often still hold usable material. Appliance housings, metal bed frames, and exercise equipment carry recoverable steel, so your Loader looks for a scrap or recycling option when local outlets allow.
Water-stained basement furniture, collapsed mattresses, and splintered deck boards reach the end of the line. When nothing is accepting the material, your Loaders take it to a licensed transfer station or landfill serving the Midland area.
Set a heavy item pile out too early in Midland and you risk a fine, so here is what the city and Midland County actually require.
Midland collects one truckload per month per address, up to ten cubic yards or two piles measuring eight by four by four feet. Additional truckloads are billed back to the resident, and nothing longer than eight feet is taken.
Items may go in the outlawn no earlier than the Saturday before your scheduled collection week, and setting out sooner can result in a fine. Crews do not return to a street once they have passed.
Dishwashers, freezers, refrigerators, hot water tanks, stoves, washers and dryers are not taken on the regular heavy item run. Midland schedules these individually because Freon bearing units are handled specially for recycling rather than simply buried.
Heavy item collection accepts up to three televisions and four tires per address each year, and anything beyond that is left behind. Midland Recyclers accepts electronics year round instead, though fees apply to monitors and televisions.
State law bars grass, leaves and brush under four feet long from landfill disposal, except for diseased or invasive material. Midland therefore collects yard waste separately and requires city stickers on bags and bins from early May through early October.
Building materials are accepted from Midland residences only, and crews leave asphalt, concrete, brick, stone, loose soil, sod and rocks behind. County residents may instead haul three cubic yards of debris to the landfill free once monthly with identification.
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(678) 884-4738Only during your scheduled monthly heavy item collection. The city takes one truckload a month if items sit in the outlawn between the curb and sidewalk, stay under 8 feet long, and are out by 7:30 a.m. on your Monday. Nothing can go in the street, and it can take the full week to reach your block.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Midland starts at $80, and curbside or driveway pickups take a flat $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee, and each additional item is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed upfront before you book. Local haulers that charge by truckload usually quote on site.
Same-day is often open in Midland when you book early in the day, and next-day covers most of the area. Enter your zip code during booking to see live availability for your address, whether you're in Downtown, the Country Club area, or Greystone Woods.
The city caps curbside heavy item pickup at three TVs and four tires per address each year, and hazardous materials are never allowed in regular collection. Midland County runs free household hazardous waste drop-offs four times a year at the landfill on East Ashman by appointment. Latex paint should be dried out first, then set with your regular trash.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and appliances in good shape may go to the Midland County Habitat for Humanity ReStore on South Saginaw Road, depending on acceptance, and metal, electronics, and other recyclables are routed to the right facility when options allow.
You pick your items and lock in the price online, then choose a pickup window. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home if items are accessible with a note. For in-home jobs, someone should be present or provide access details at booking. Your Loaders call roughly 30 minutes before they arrive.
It comes down to pricing and booking. College Hunks, which serves Midland out of Saginaw, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK typically price by truckload volume after an on-site look, so the quote lands when the crew is already in your driveway. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up.
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