*Same-day availability may vary by location.
Starting at $80. Additional items from +$15.
Junk has a way of piling up until it starts taking over the room. Book a pickup anywhere in the Heights, see your real price before you confirm, and get it gone without lifting a thing.
You read the collection rules twice, call the city to ask what actually qualifies, request three quotes and hear back from one. Weeks pass. The pile is still sitting exactly where it was.
Set-outs are capped per collection, bundled material has size and weight limits, and anything past that turns into a paid special pickup. The bigger catch is that it only counts as bulk once it reaches the curb, so the basement stairs are still yours.
Most outfits will not quote a garage load over the phone. A rep comes out, eyeballs the pile, then prices by how much of the truck it fills, so the real number lands after you have already spent a morning on an arrival window.
Thrift and resale operations have to be selective, since they only keep what sells. Stained upholstery, broken frames, and most older electronics get turned away at the door, assuming the piece is small enough to fit in your car in the first place.
A roll-off ties up your driveway for days, often needs a permit the moment it touches the street, and still leaves every item for you to carry out and throw in. On a narrow subdivision lot, it becomes the neighborhood's business by morning.
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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.
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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 Sterling Heights's disposal rules for city bulk exceptions, permits, and restrictions.
Getting a sectional up a narrow finished basement stairwell takes practice, and your Loaders have it. Every one is background checked and rated by real locals in Sterling Heights after each job.
Curbside fits when everything is already sitting at the street or at the end of the driveway, which is simple enough in the subdivisions where the garage opens onto a wide apron. Go full service when the piece is still down in a finished basement, stuck in a detached garage, or inside a condo with no way to stage it outside, and your Loaders 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.
Anybody who has tried to merge onto Hall Road on a Saturday knows the deal. Borrowing a pickup and inching a sectional through that traffic eats the entire day, and the subdivision driveways out here are long and narrow besides. Your Loaders carry it out instead, because people in this city have better weekends waiting.
Basement and garage cleanouts in Sterling Heights rarely produce one kind of junk, so condition decides the path. Your Loaders sort usable pieces from worn ones, aiming for donation or recycling when local options allow.
Items still clean, intact, and working may go to a local resale or reuse organization when one nearby is open and accepting that category, though no donation outcome or receipt is promised.
Pieces too damaged to pass along, like metal bed frames, scrap-heavy exercise equipment, or dismantled above-ground pool walls, may head to a recycling outlet when such options are available and taking that material.
Anything soaked, broken down, or unsafe to pass on leaves your Sterling Heights address for a licensed transfer station or landfill, handled under Michigan rules for the material involved.
Set the wrong item at the curb in Sterling Heights and it gets tagged, left behind, or billed back, so Macomb County rules matter.
Sterling Heights allows bulk and special pickup on your normal collection day, but the city contract limits it to five items per week. Larger cleanouts spread across several weeks or need a separate arrangement with the hauler.
Automated trucks only service closed carts, so anything stacked next to or on top of a lid is passed over and tagged. Left uncorrected for a day, it becomes a billable special collection charged to the property owner.
Sterling Heights requires doors be removed from any refrigerator or freezer set out for disposal, a child safety measure. White goods are then collected by a separate truck on your regular day and routed to recycling.
Federal Clean Air Act Section 608 rules, which Michigan EGLE enforces locally, require refrigerant be recovered from refrigerators, freezers, window units and dehumidifiers before disposal. Many Michigan facilities ask for proof that recovery was done.
State law under Part 115 keeps leaves, grass, garden debris and small brush out of Michigan landfills to preserve capacity and push composting. Sterling Heights collects yard waste separately in approved carts or heavy paper bags only.
Refuse that will not fit a cart has to be tied or taped into bundles no longer than four feet and under fifty pounds, with nails, screws and protruding objects removed before it reaches the curb.
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(678) 884-4738Only on your scheduled collection day through Priority Waste, the city's hauler. Bulk pickup runs weekly with a limit of five items, and nothing can go out earlier than 1 p.m. the day before. Bundled items must stay under 4 feet and 50 pounds. For details call the Department of Public Works at 586-446-2440, option 8.
LoadUp pricing for junk removal in Sterling Heights starts at $80 for a single bulky item, and curbside or driveway pickup takes $5 off. The first item covers the base pickup fee for labor and transport, and each additional piece is a flat add-on, so your full total is confirmed before you book. Traditional haulers typically run $150 to $600 depending on truck volume.
Same-day is often open across Sterling Heights zip codes when you book early in the day, and next-day covers the rest of Macomb County. Availability depends on route openings near your address, so enter your zip during booking to see live dates for neighborhoods like Dodge Park or Maryland Estates.
Priority Waste caps bulk collection at five items weekly and won't take electronics, batteries, or household chemicals in carts. Paint and hazardous materials route to the Macomb County Household Hazardous Waste site at 43525 Elizabeth Road in Mount Clemens, by appointment at 586-466-7923. Larger cleanouts need a special pickup or a hauler like LoadUp.
Loaders try to keep usable items out of the landfill whenever possible. Furniture and household goods in good shape may go to local charities like the Salvation Army on Dodge Park Road, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, or Goodwill, depending on acceptance. Metal and electronics route to recyclers when options allow, with disposal as the last step.
Not for curbside or driveway pickups. Just leave the junk in an accessible spot with access notes at booking. For in-home removals someone should be present or provide entry instructions. Your Loader typically calls roughly 30 minutes before arrival so you know when to expect the pickup.
Mostly the pricing model and booking flow. Companies like 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Junk King, and College Hunks usually charge by truck volume and require an on-site estimate, so your price isn't locked until the crew is at your door. LoadUp prices per item online and confirms the total before anyone shows up.
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