The Springs has no city bulk-trash pickup — that one fact shapes everything about getting rid of big items here. Add the biggest PCS calendar in the country (Fort Carson, Peterson, the Academy) and you get these guides.
Residential trash here runs on a contract you signed, not a city schedule. These five categories are the ones that contract almost always leaves out.
An outdoor condenser or heat pump is $115. Hail season generates more of these calls here than age does, and the unit is almost never where it is convenient.
A standard metal or platform frame is $68. A solid, upholstered or storage frame in queen is $126. We take it apart, carry it out, and the price does not…
Our prices do not move with demand, so this is not about getting a better rate. It is about getting the slot you want and a driveway the truck can actually use.
The honest answer is that it depends on a contract you signed, not on an ordinance. And on the Front Range, a couch at the curb rarely stays where you put it.
There is no single cheapest route — there is a cheapest route for your volume. Below a certain amount, one visit wins. Above it, the truck ladder does.
A standard refrigerator is $164, carried out and disposed of. The hard part in this city is almost never the fridge in the kitchen — it is the second one in…
$62, $68 or $73 depending on size, including the old glass sets nobody else wants. Electronics are their own waste stream here, which is why the curb is not…
Short version: yes. The longer version is about who ends up holding the bill, and out here that is decided by whatever piece of paper is still inside the couch.
Real numbers, published before we come. The minimum is $75 a visit, and everything below includes the carry-out and the disposal.
One is a fixed price for a finished job. The other is a rental with variables attached, and in this climate one of those variables is the weather.
There is no one mattress ordinance covering the Pikes Peak region. Three separate layers decide what you can do with yours, and only one of them is written…
A queen is $103, carried out and disposed of. The word "recycling" is doing more work in most quotes than people realize — here is what it actually covers.
A 10×10 emptied is $587. A 5×10 is $397. The number that usually decides it, though, is how many months of rent you have already paid on a unit you have not…
Nobody publishes a real price list as a round number ending in nine. Here is what an actual Colorado Springs price list looks like, and why the vague…
Four routes, and the right one is mostly decided by how many days you have. In a city where half the moves run on orders, that number is usually smaller…
Two things make this city unusually exposed: hail season brings crews who were not here last year, and half the moves run on a deadline nobody controls.
The 2026 flat-price list, by item and by truckload.
Nothing is recyclable in the abstract — a destination exists only if someone will take that thing, in that condition, within a drivable distance. Four receivers, three tests, and no invented percentage.
Ask where it goes before you ask what it costs — the load leaving your driveway has your name written inside it. Five questions worth asking anyone, including us, plus where our own model falls short.
Debris is priced per cubic yard, not by truck fraction — a yard of tile and subfloor weighs several times a yard of sofa, so it takes less room and costs more.
Colorado Springs has no municipal bulk collection, so nothing ever leaves a property on its own — that missing release valve explains the volume better than anything about the people who live there.
The only clearing job whose maximum size you know before opening it — ten seconds of arithmetic puts a hard ceiling on the price, and boxed contents are the clearest case there is for the volume tiers.
Your tenant's move-out date is set by orders, not by your lease planning — so control the four things that hang off it instead: the booking, the photographs, the set-asides and the invoice.
Start from the floor plan of the new place and work backwards — it turns an open-ended sort into a bounded fitting problem, and "doesn't fit" is easier than "not worth keeping".
Big garage, no basement, an HOA and a long drive to anywhere that takes rubbish — four features that decide what leaving actually looks like.
Everything you added, you take back out — and the category that catches people is what they installed years ago and stopped noticing.
Everything ends up shipped, carried, or left behind — and only the third pile has a number you can pin down today.
Everyone plans the cutting; almost nobody plans the material afterwards — which is bigger, costlier, and why half-finished mitigation sits on properties all summer.
Measure the job in recovered parking, not bin bags. The finish line is whether a car fits with the doors opening — and every item is just floor or wall.
A rental truck is built for moving things you want to keep — disposal is the one job it's worst at. One question settles which you're actually doing.
A container starts a clock — sometimes that's exactly what you're paying for, sometimes it's the whole problem. Plus why the Springs suits containers better than most cities.
One survey decides everything — measure the narrowest point between the tub and the truck. Flat $390 whole or sectioned, plus what a licensed electrician must do first.
Sort electronics by how much of you is inside them, not what they're made of — three tiers, the printer nobody thinks about, and why CRTs get no price here.
One question decides everything — does it still work? Working units have value and free routes; dead ones are scrap with a recovery requirement.
Seven job shapes priced both ways with the cheaper one quoted — four come out itemised, three by volume, and the pattern tells you which way yours will go.
Mostly no — and the page says so up front. Five genuinely free routes, each with its real limit, and who is actually absorbing the cost in every one.
The price tracks volume; the job tracks sorting. What drives the number, what has to happen before anything leaves, and why an unsorted house is not a same-day job.
A bed is three objects with three different answers — plus the $71 set saving most people miss, and why the frame is the one part somebody actually wants.
Six models sorted by what you're optimising for — cost, certainty, speed, capacity, paperwork — including the cases where a franchise, self-haul or a charity beats us.
Refusals explained from the charity's side — the six constraints behind every no, why upholstery fails five of them, and how to ask so you get a real answer.
The gate fee is the smallest number in the calculation — the trip costed hour by hour, plus a six-line template you fill in with your own figures.
No city collection means no city answer — what your private subscription actually covers, the cart test, and why your neighbour's answer may be wrong for you.
Private-hauler city, no free curbside route: your real options for big items.
The companion guide: donation, self-haul and flat-price pickup compared.
Flat $126 with the carry-out — and what the alternatives really run.
Empty for the walk-through — flat truck-fill pricing, deposit-safe.
Fort Carson, Peterson, the Academy — what to shed before the movers weigh in.
The base-wide playbook for orders season.
The Fort Carson gate town — PCS clears on gate-town timelines.
Fort Carson's other gate — se habla español.