*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
Junk builds up slowly, then all at once it's in the way. Schedule a Stumptown pickup for a day that works, see your price before you confirm, and the hauling gets handled.
It starts with a call about the town's bulk program, then a look at county drop-off rules, then two quotes, one of which never comes back. A month passes and the junk is still sitting there.
The town handed collection to a contracted provider, so bulk pickup is arranged by phone in advance and is no longer bundled into your trash service. Nobody walks into the house for it, either. Everything has to reach the curb first, and electronics are handled somewhere else entirely.
Most haulers will not quote over the phone. Someone drives out, eyeballs the pile, and prices it by how much of the truck it fills. That is one arrival window for the estimate, another for the pickup, and no real number until both are behind you.
Resale is a condition test. Water-damaged dressers, mattresses, and exercise equipment nobody wants get turned down, sometimes after you have already loaded them. Even a good donation day leaves the broken half of the room sitting exactly where it was.
A roll-off means a delivery date, a pickup date, and a driveway wide enough to hold it without blocking your garage. Street placement pulls the town into it, plenty of subdivisions here limit how long a container can sit, and you still load every piece 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 Matthews 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 Matthews's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Getting a chest freezer up basement steps or through a tight garage door takes practice. Every Loader is background checked and rated by real locals in Matthews after each job.
If the item is already sitting at the end of a driveway or by the street, curbside keeps things simple. Choose full service when a treadmill is still in an upstairs bonus room, a townhome entry is narrow, or backyard gates and older in-town lots make the carry-out the hard part.
| Pickup Option | Highlight | Best For | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-home pickup | Full-service | Removal from anywhere inside your home | from $75 |
| Curbside pickup | Save $5.00 | Place items outside, skip the appointment | from $70 |
| Same-day pickup | Add $10.00 | Urgent pickups booked before noon | from $85 |
| Next day pickup | Flexible | Book next-day or up to 90 days ahead | from $75 |
| 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.
Anyone who has idled at the downtown tracks while a freight train takes its sweet time knows Matthews runs on its own clock. Add a borrowed pickup and a mattress you cannot carry alone, and the afternoon is gone. Your Loaders handle the lifting and the timing, and they genuinely like showing up for people in this town.
Where an item ends up matters as much as getting it out of the house. Junk collected in Matthews is sorted by condition, and your Loaders keep what they can out of a landfill when local options allow.
Clean, structurally sound pieces like a dresser or a barely used treadmill may be offered for reuse when a nearby outlet is accepting them. Availability shifts, so nothing is promised.
Broken furniture and dead appliances head a different direction. Metal frames, a chest freezer shell, and scrap components can often be separated for recycling, though what gets accepted depends on the item and the day.
Water-damaged mattresses, rotted deck boards, and storm-split fence panels usually have no second life. Your Loaders take those to a licensed transfer station or landfill serving the Matthews area, handling restricted materials separately.
Mishandled junk in Matthews gets left at the curb or draws a violation, so Town of Matthews and Mecklenburg County disposal rules are worth knowing first.
The sideloader trucks serving Matthews cannot crush furniture, mattresses, appliances, shelving, bicycles or toilets, so anything that size has to be handled as a scheduled bulk collection for a fee rather than stuffed in the cart.
Mecklenburg County's four full-service recycling and disposal centers accept bulky waste, yard waste, electronics and household hazardous waste from residents who display a free blue entry sticker, available on site with proof of county residency.
State law keeps TVs, monitors, computers, printers and scanners out of landfills because of the lead and mercury inside them, so Matthews households route electronics to county full-service centers or manufacturer take-back programs instead.
White goods are banned from North Carolina landfills, and federal Clean Air Act rules require a certified technician to recover refrigerant from refrigerators, freezers, window air conditioners and dehumidifiers before the metal can be recycled.
North Carolina law keeps yard waste out of landfills, so Matthews collects it separately in paper bags, tarps or a container marked yard waste. Limbs must be cut short and stacked; stumps, trunks and root balls are not collected.
Lumber, fencing, drywall, metal, dirt, rocks and other contractor debris are excluded from Matthews curbside service and belong at a county full-service center, where construction and demolition loads are weighed and charged disposal fees.
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(678) 884-4738No. Waste Pro runs Matthews collection and bulky junk like furniture, mattresses, and appliances can't go in your roll-out cart, since the sideloader trucks can't crush them. Call Waste Pro at 980-325-3640 to schedule and pay in advance, and pickup happens on your regular trash day.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Matthews starts at $75 for the first item, which covers labor, transport, and disposal, and each additional item is a flat add-on with the total confirmed before you book. Curbside pickups take $5 off. Waste Pro's town bulk service runs $25 for one item, but you haul it to the curb yourself.
Yes, same-day is usually open across Matthews zip codes when you book before noon, and next-day covers the wider Charlotte metro. Enter your address during booking to see live availability for your spot. For curbside jobs you don't need to be home.
Those count as household hazardous waste and won't be collected curbside or by most haulers. Mecklenburg County takes them free at its four full-service recycling centers, including Foxhole on Lancaster Highway, open Monday through Saturday from 7am to 4pm with a free blue resident entry sticker.
Usable items get sorted for donation and recycling before anything heads to a landfill. Mecklenburg County's full-service centers handle electronics, scrap metal, and hazardous materials, while reusable furniture routes to local charities. North Carolina law also bans yard waste from landfills, so that stays separate.
You get an upfront price online or by texting a photo of your items, pick a date, and your Loader does the lifting on pickup day. For a big cleanout like a garage or attic, an on-site estimate is available for many items at once. Your Loader usually calls ahead before arriving.
Pricing model and booking flow. Junk King and College Hunks send a crew for an in-person estimate, so your price isn't locked until they arrive. LoadUp prices per item online before anyone shows up, with the first item including the base pickup fee and each extra item a flat add-on. College Hunks notes it donates up to 70% of what it hauls.
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