*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $85. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up faster than you can deal with it. Book a pickup online in the Garden City, see your price upfront, and get it gone without lifting a thing.
So you start reading. A call to the hauler that bills your cart, two quotes that never come back, a borrowed truck that never actually gets borrowed. Two weekends later, the junk hasn't moved an inch.
Here, there is no city bulk pickup program to call. Household trash runs through private subscription haulers, so an oversized load means arranging a special pickup with whoever services your cart, on their schedule, and refrigerant appliances and tires follow separate rules anyway.
Most hauling outfits want to look at the pile first, which means a window of time you have to be home for. Then the price arrives as a fraction of a truck, sized by eye, and you learn the real number after everything is loaded.
Reuse and thrift shops around the valley have standards, and they should. Stained upholstery, a cracked frame, anything carrying a smell from a damp basement gets turned down at the door, and what they accept shifts, so you can load it and still bring it home.
A roll-off box means a delivery date, a pull date, and somewhere legal to park it. Along a narrow alley or a shared driveway, that can mean right of way permission, plus days of neighbors watching it sit half empty.
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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 Missoula 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 Missoula's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Getting a box spring up a narrow basement stairwell in older housing takes patience and practice. Your Loaders are background checked, insured, and rated by real locals in Missoula after each job.
Curbside works when everything is already outside at the street, driveway, or alley and clear of snow and ice. Pick full service when the load is still down a basement stairwell, behind a tight doorway, or stacked at the back of a garage, and your Loaders will carry it out for you.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $85 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $80 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $95 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $85 |
| 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.
Nobody wants to wrestle a sleeper sofa into a borrowed pickup, crawl up Reserve Street, and then point it at the landfill on a Saturday. That is the whole day, gone. Your Loaders lift it, carry it out, and haul it off instead, and showing up for people here is the good part.
Bulky items rarely have one obvious destination, which is why where a load ends up matters in Missoula. Your Loaders sort by condition, looking for reuse or recycling when local options allow before anything heads to the landfill.
Furniture, working appliances, and gear that is clean and structurally sound gets set aside by your Loaders, who look for a local reuse or donation outlet when one is accepting it.
Items too worn to pass along, like metal bed frames, exercise equipment, or a broken patio set, get separated for scrap or material recycling where available, since accepted lists change from year to year.
Water-damaged mattresses, mold-touched basement furniture, and mixed cleanout loads rarely have a second life, so your Loaders haul them to the county landfill, the realistic endpoint for material Missoula reuse channels will not take.
Dumping debris on public land in Montana carries civil penalties reaching $5,000, so knowing how Missoula and Missoula County handle disposal matters before anything leaves your property.
The City of Missoula does not provide trash hauling or disposal services, and collection is handled entirely by private companies. That means there is no municipal bulky item program or free curbside amnesty week to wait for.
Missoula County requires an outdoor burn permit, currently $7 annually, and it must be activated on the day you burn. Only natural vegetation and untreated wood generated on site qualifies, and city parcels must reach one acre.
Inside the Missoula Air Stagnation Zone, which extends roughly four miles beyond city limits, burning leaf and grass piles is illegal because of the smoke. Composting or hauling to Garden City Compost is the accepted alternative.
Federal rules require refrigerant to be recovered by a certified technician before a refrigerator, freezer, or air conditioner is scrapped or buried. Scrap and recycling yards in the region typically accept these units only once they are verified Freon free.
Electronics are not part of curbside service in Missoula. Local recyclers accept computers, monitors, and televisions for a fee, while paints, solvents, and similar household hazardous waste are collected through the county's annual September collection event.
Montana DEQ requires every building to be inspected for asbestos before demolition or renovation, regardless of the structure's age or size. Newer buildings are not exempt, so the inspection belongs on the schedule before debris is ever generated.
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(678) 884-4738Missoula doesn't run its own trash or bulky item pickup. Garbage collection is handled by private haulers like Republic Services and Grizzly Disposal, so there's no free citywide curbside bulk day. Items left out without a scheduled hauler just sit there, and foothill neighborhoods also have bear-attractant rules to keep in mind.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Missoula starts at $85 for a single item, covering labor, transport and disposal, and curbside or outdoor pickups take $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee and each added item is a flat add-on, with your full total confirmed before booking. Local haulers charging by truckload typically run $75 to $375.
Yes, LoadUp offers same-day or next-day pickup across most Missoula zip codes when you book before noon. Enter your address during online booking to see live availability for your area. For curbside jobs you don't need to be home, just leave the junk somewhere accessible.
Household hazardous waste like paint, chemicals, motor oil and pesticides can't go curbside or on a junk truck. Missoula residents can drop these through Home ReSource's Household Chemical Disposal program on Mondays, which charges $20 for up to 10 gallons by appointment. Refrigerators and appliances also need their refrigerant removed before disposal.
Usable items are donated and recyclables are processed before anything heads to the landfill. Missoula has strong reuse options, including Goodwill on South Reserve, the Habitat ReStore on Highway 200 East, and Home ReSource for building materials. Whatever can't be reused goes to the Missoula Landfill or another licensed facility.
You book online or by texting a photo of your items, pick a date and time, and see an upfront price before confirming. On pickup day your Loader calls roughly 30 minutes ahead, then handles all the lifting and loading. You can track your order, get an ETA, or reschedule whenever you need to.
The main differences are upfront pricing and online booking. Companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Junk King and local haulers such as Grizzly Disposal usually charge by truckload and quote in person, so your price isn't set until the crew arrives. LoadUp prices per item online and locks it in before anyone shows up.
Yes. For big jobs with many items, LoadUp can provide an on-site estimate instead of item-by-item online pricing. This works for garage, basement, attic and estate cleanouts across Missoula. Smaller single-item pickups still get an instant upfront price online or by texting a photo.
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