Bulk Trash Pickup in Gilbert, AZ

Cities across the Phoenix metro run their own bulk trash programs, each on its own schedule, each with its own rules about what goes to the curb and how it has to be stacked when it gets there. Those rules are the city's to set, so check with your city for the dates and the limits. If the program works for you, use it.

A city program can be a poor fit in a few common ways. The pile is bigger than the rules allow. The pickup week is three weeks out and the couch is in the way now. The stuff is in a back bedroom, behind a block wall, or at the far end of a gravel side yard, a long way from the street. Or your HOA has rules about furniture sitting out front for days. We come when you call, we load it from wherever it sits, and we take items a curbside pickup may not cover. Same-day or next-day pickup is possible when the schedule allows, and a call in the morning gives you the best shot at it.

You call (480) 202-7195 or send the form and tell us what's going. We look at the pile, or the garage, or the whole property, and give you a price before we touch anything. That price is based on how much space the load takes up in the trailer, not a flat fee per item, and the quote is the price. Weight, how far we have to carry, stairs, and what the disposal side requires can all move the number, which is exactly why you hear it up front.

Then we do the lifting. Garage, backyard, carport, upstairs room, storage unit: you don't need to stage anything at the curb. When the trailer is loaded we sweep up the spot where the pile sat, so what you're left with is clean floor.

Plenty of people start by borrowing a truck and making a couple of trips. A pickup bed holds less than it looks like, a mattress and a box spring need more room than an SUV has, and anything made of metal or solid wood weighs more than it did when it came in the door. In July the thermometer reads over 110, and a third trip to the dump at two in the afternoon is a long one. One trailer load does it in a single visit.

We run morning appointments for exactly that reason, since the early hours are cooler and the work moves faster. If you can book a morning, do.

Not all of it ends up in the same place. Usable furniture and household goods go to donation or resale when the condition allows. Anything recyclable, like metal, cardboard, electronics and appliances, is sorted out and recycled. The remainder is taken to licensed disposal facilities. Some loads are mostly donation candidates and some are mostly broken boards and torn carpet, and each goes where it fits best.

Some jobs aren't a cleanout so much as a dump run. You have the pile built already, or a pile of leftovers from a weekend project, and you want it gone without spending your Saturday behind the wheel. That's junk hauling in its plainest form: we load the trailer, haul it to the disposal facility, and you don't make the trip. Pricing works the same way as everything else, by the space it takes up in the trailer.

Heavy material is the one thing to plan for. Dirt, concrete and similar loads weigh far more than they look, and weight changes the price. If that's your pile, see our page on construction debris removal. If the pile came out of a garage, garage cleanouts are the better fit.

Monsoon season drops palm fronds, broken branches and sometimes a section of fence in the yard in a single evening. It's bulky, awkward green material, and most of it isn't going to fit in the regular bin. Once the storm has passed and the ground is safe to walk, we'll haul the debris out of the yard, the driveway and the gravel along the wall. Call in the morning, and we'll tell you what the schedule looks like. Bigger cleanup of trees and brush in general lives on our yard waste removal page.

An old swing set frame, metal shelving, a rusted grill, a pile of bed rails and bike frames in the corner of the garage: it all adds up, and metal is something we separate out and recycle rather than bury. Appliances count too, since a washer or a water heater is mostly steel, and our appliance removal page covers how those are handled. Scrap goes on the trailer like anything else, so it's priced by the space it takes up.

Gilbert is home base, so Gilbert is the easy one, and Mesa, Chandler and Queen Creek sit close by. In Mesa that might be a garage near Red Mountain; in Gilbert it might be a backyard off Val Vista Drive. We also come out to Mesa, Chandler, Queen Creek and Phoenix; for the farther cities, booking ahead helps. The full list is on the service areas page, and the rest of what we haul is under junk removal. If you want furniture moved out with the rest, furniture removal works the same way.