Junk Removal in Chandler, AZ

Chandler collects bulk only when you ask for it. You call the city or fill out its online form, and the pickup lands 7 to 14 days out. Each household's first four bulk pickups or self-haul visits in a calendar year are free, and every one after that has a fee. Appliances with coolant carry a separate per-item charge.

The rules for the pile are specific. It goes in front of the property, within 4 feet of the curb, because the city doesn't collect bulk from alleys. It can't be wider than 4 feet, taller than 4 feet or longer than 16 feet. And no single item can weigh more than 50 pounds.

Plenty still fits the program. Chandler takes appliances, flat-screen TVs and monitors, flattened cardboard, broken-down metal and broken furniture, as long as each piece stays under the weight limit and the cutting rules for yard trimmings are followed.

Fifty pounds sounds like a lot until you start listing what's in the garage. A sleeper sofa weighs more than that, and so does a solid wood dresser, a treadmill, a chest freezer or an upright piano. Those are the pieces we're glad to carry. Furniture removal handles the couch and the dresser, and appliance removal takes the freezer to a facility that handles the refrigerant.

Chandler's bulk also turns away toilets, shingles, drywall, tile and flooring, plus concrete, pavers, rock, dirt and sod. The drywall and flooring from a remodel are construction debris removal. The sod, rock and broken pavers from redoing a backyard go with yard waste removal. Heavy material like that changes the price, and we tell you how before we start.

If you'd rather haul it yourself, Chandler's Recycling-Solid Waste Collection Center at 955 E. Queen Creek Road takes loads from Chandler solid-waste customers who bring a utility bill and a photo ID. It's open Thursday through Monday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with earlier hours in summer, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visits there count toward the same four free uses a year as curbside pickups, and loads are charged by weight once those are used.

Household hazardous waste in Chandler is by appointment only, through the city. We don't take paint, chemicals or other hazardous materials, so that appointment is the route for those.

Ocotillo is a master-planned community with its own community association, and Sun Groves in southeast Chandler is an HOA neighborhood too. Communities like these tend to have rules about what can sit in front of a house. We load from the garage, the backyard or the casita directly into the trailer, so there's never a pile out front waiting for anyone.

Most Chandler cleanouts are a mix: half a garage, a playroom the kids outgrew, a few things from the side yard. We take it all in one visit, priced by how much space it fills in the trailer, not item by item. When a move is part of the plan, local moving can carry what you're keeping to the new place.

Call or text with what's going and where it sits, and send a few photos if that's easy. When we arrive, we confirm the price, then load up and sweep where the pile was. Furniture in decent shape goes toward donation or resale when it can, metal and electronics get recycled, and the rest goes to licensed disposal facilities.

Gilbert, next door, is where we start every day. To the south, Sun Lakes is unincorporated, so bulk trash there comes from private haulers instead of a city program. Every city we cover is on the service areas page, and the full list of what we haul is on our junk removal page.