*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $75. Additional items from +$15.
When junk piles up in the Capital City, it gets old fast. Book LoadUp for a quick pickup and an upfront quote, so it's gone without the runaround.
You search for answers, check the city's site, call a few haulers and wait on callbacks that never come. One quote shows up, then goes quiet. Weeks later, the pile is still sitting in the garage.
Austin Resource Recovery's bulk collection is a solid deal if your address qualifies and your timing lines up. Collection follows the city's own schedule, not your move-out date. Some items aren't accepted, and apartment and condo residents often aren't covered at all. Even then, you still have to drag everything to the curb yourself.
Many haulers won't give you a real number until someone comes out and looks at your load. Then the price depends on how much of the truck they think you'll fill, which is hard to check. You're blocking off a morning for an estimate when you only wanted the junk gone.
Reuse shops around Austin turn down stained mattresses, worn upholstery and broken appliances, and they're right to. They also want you to haul everything in yourself, which is hard without a truck. Usable items can still be donated when local options allow, but the rest has to go somewhere else.
A roll-off container in a Bouldin Creek driveway is a lot of steel for one spare bedroom. You have to book delivery and pickup, check HOA or street placement rules, put up with neighbors staring at it for days, and still do every bit of the lifting and loading yourself.
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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.
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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 Austin 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 Austin's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Your Loader can wrestle a sleeper sofa down a narrow walk-up stairwell or work around a condo tower's freight elevator rules. Every Loader is background-checked and rated by real locals in Austin after each job.
Curbside makes sense when the load is already outside, like storm-downed limbs piled along a hill-country-edge driveway or an old dresser set in a bungalow's front yard. If it's still inside a second-floor rental or a downtown high-rise, choose full-service and your Loaders will carry it out, though loading access and building rules vary.
| 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.
Wrestling a mattress into a borrowed truck during an Austin August, when the heat feels personal, is nobody's idea of a good time. Skip the sweat and the dump-run detour. Your Loaders like showing up to do the lifting and loading, because folks here have earned a weekend that doesn't end in a sunburn.
Austin's mix of older bungalows, student rentals and tight downtown condos means bulky items leave in every condition. Your Loader sorts each load by what's usable, recyclable or headed for disposal, when local options allow.
Sofas, dressers and working appliances in clean, usable shape may be donated when local options allow. Your Loader carries them out and, where available, drops them with a reuse organization instead of a landfill.
Items that are worn but not donatable, like scrapped metal frames, old electronics or broken appliances, may be recycled where available. Refrigerant units and e-waste have special handling, and options vary by facility.
Soaked, moldy or badly broken items, such as a storm-damaged mattress or collapsed furniture from a flooded garage, go to a permitted Central Texas disposal site. Your Loader handles the heavy hauling.
Austin caps each address at three included bulk appointments a year, and extra pickups are billed by estimated weight, so these Austin and Travis County rules matter.
Austin Resource Recovery notes that clearing brush can help reduce wildfire risk. Brush collection takes limbs 5 to 15 feet long, with trunks over 8 inches thick cut to 3 feet or less. Austin and Travis County residents can also drop brush at Hornsby Bend.
Paint, pesticides, cooking oil and grease, automotive fluids, and fluorescent light bulbs go through on-demand household hazardous waste collection. Each appointment is limited to 30 gallons total, and additional bags or items placed in boxes will not be collected.
Railroad ties, often used as landscape edging, appear on Austin's accepted bulk item list only when cut in half. Whole ties do not meet the set-out guidelines, so the cutting needs to happen before the appointment date arrives.
Austin Resource Recovery runs a separate on-demand clothing and textiles collection for reuse or recycling, with its own allotment of three appointments per year. Each pickup is limited to two 13-gallon bags, so closet cleanouts do not use up bulk appointments.
Austin's bulk collection accepts passenger car tires only with the rims taken off, and limits each household to 8 tires. Tires still mounted on rims, or any beyond that count, need another disposal route instead of a curbside appointment.
Appliances qualify for on-demand bulk collection only with their doors removed. They belong in the metal and rigid plastics pile alongside electronics, set at the curb by 5:30 a.m. on the appointment date and kept apart from carpeting and nail-free lumber.
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(678) 884-4738Not unless it falls under a city collection program. Austin Resource Recovery handles bulk and brush collection for residents, and items left out outside those rules can be treated as illegal dumping. Check the city's current guidelines before setting anything out.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Austin starts at $75, and curbside or driveway pickup takes a flat $5 off. The first item includes the base pickup fee, each additional item is a flat add-on, and the exact total is confirmed before booking. Traditional haulers usually price by truckload.
Sometimes. Availability depends on your zip code and how full the schedule is, so enter your address during booking to see live openings. Next-day slots are usually easier to find. For curbside pickups you don't need to be home, but indoor pickups need access arranged.
Not for curbside or driveway pickups. Leave the items out with any access notes. For indoor pickups, someone should be there, or you can leave entry instructions when booking. Your Loaders will usually call or text before they arrive.
Large items, construction debris, and household hazardous materials like paint, chemicals, and batteries generally can't go in your cart. Austin Resource Recovery runs a Recycle & Reuse Drop-Off Center for hazardous items. Check its current hours and accepted items before you go.
Loaders sort items and aim to donate usable pieces and recycle what they can, depending on what local charities and recycling facilities accept. Anything that can't be donated or recycled goes to the appropriate disposal facility. Outcomes vary by job and item condition.
You pick your items and enter your Austin address online, then choose a pickup window and see your total before you confirm. On pickup day, Loaders arrive in the window, load everything, and haul it away. You don't have to do any lifting.
Pricing model and booking flow. Many traditional haulers price by truckload and confirm the final number on site after an estimate. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms your total before booking. For large cleanouts, a truckload hauler can be the better fit.
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