A used mattress is the one thing nobody will take. Donation centers refuse it, the HOA won't let it sit at the curb, and the city's bulk program now costs you one of only four appointments you get all year. We carry the mattress and the box spring down from any floor and haul them — flat photo-quoted price from $111, same-day when a slot's open, no stair fee, and no Arizona sales tax on the service.
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Same-day is usually open from Downtown out to Mesa, Chandler and Glendale. In summer we run early-morning windows to stay ahead of the heat; towers that need a COI get one filed before the crew rolls.
The crew takes it off the frame, walks it down the stairs or through the freight elevator, and loads it. You never drag a queen through a breezeway in July.
Priced flat by size, quoted from your photo before anyone shows up. The carry-out, the drive across the Valley and the disposal are all already inside the number.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Twin mattress | $111 |
| Full mattress | $126 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| King mattress | $154 |
| Box spring (on its own) | $124 |
| Mattress + box spring set | $192 |
| Bed frame | $92 |
| Headboard | $77 |
| Futon | $139 |
| Bunk bed | $165 |
| Crib | $90 |
The ladder is simple: the bigger and heavier the sleep surface, the higher the flat rate, and a mattress plus its box spring booked together as a set is $192 — less than paying the $139 queen and the $124 box spring separately. Clearing the whole bedroom? Add the frame at $92 and the headboard at $77 to the same photo and it comes back as one number, not four invoices. $75 minimum on any job. Disposal and carry-out included. No Arizona sales tax on the service.
For outside context: independent 2026 market surveys put a typical metro Phoenix junk-removal job at roughly $226–$237, and national flat-rate services such as LoadUp list mattress pickup starting around $100 — but usually as a curbside or garage-level price. Ours includes walking it down from a third-floor unit.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Phoenix bulk trash appointment | Free | Up to ~3 business days out | Only 4 collections per calendar year — one mattress burns a slot. You drag it out yourself and it sits at the curb until the truck comes (HOA exposure). |
| Donate it | Free | — | Effectively a dead end. Goodwill of Central & Northern AZ, St. Vincent de Paul, Habitat ReStore and Salvation Army take furniture but refuse used mattresses on hygiene grounds. |
| Self-haul it | $55/ton gate rate + your truck | Half a day | The SR-85 Landfill is City-owned and not open to the public, so it's a 27th Avenue or North Gateway transfer-station run — in a borrowed truck, in the heat. |
| Traditional full-service hauler | ~$150–$600+ | 1–3 days | Priced by how much of the truck you fill; 1-800-GOT-JUNK averages about $240 a job and won't give you a number before an on-site estimate. |
| JunkRabbit | $111–$154 flat | Same day | None — photo price up front, carried down from any floor, no stair fee, no tax line. |
It will — but the program changed, and most residents haven't caught up. The City of Phoenix Public Works bulk-trash service (the city calls it "uncontained trash") is now appointment-based. The old rhythm where you piled everything at the curb on a quarterly schedule and the truck eventually came for it is gone. Today you book a collection, you're capped at four collections per calendar year, appointments are scheduled up to three business days out, and items may not be set out more than seven days ahead of the appointment.
Do the arithmetic on a mattress. Spending one of your four annual appointments on a single queen leaves you three for everything else the year throws at you — the garage purge, the patio set, the storm debris after a monsoon microburst takes a fence down. And for the days between booking and collection, a mattress is lying against your curb where the whole street can see it. Across the Valley's HOA-saturated suburbs — Chandler, Gilbert, Peoria, North Scottsdale, Ahwatukee — that staged bulk item outside the allowed window is precisely what earns a violation letter, and apartment complexes near ASU treat a curbside mattress as a chargeable dumping offense.
If you're outside city limits, the picture changes again: Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa and Scottsdale each run their own bulk schedules with their own caps and their own set-out rules, so check your own city's Public Works page before you count on it. What none of them do is come inside and take the mattress off the bed for you. That's the gap we fill — we come to the bedroom, on your schedule, and the mattress never touches the curb.
Arizona has no statewide mattress-recycling mandate the way a few coastal states do, so nothing forces a hauler to do anything but dump it. We'd rather not. Mattress recyclers do operate in the Valley, and a mattress that's dry, intact and free of contamination gets routed to one — a mattress is roughly steel spring, foam, cotton fill and a wood-frame box spring, and all four of those have a second life once they're separated.
We'll also be honest with you, because the internet is full of green-washing on this exact item: most used mattresses are too far gone to recycle and go to responsible disposal through a City of Phoenix transfer station. Box-spring lumber and metal frames are the reliable win — those go to scrap. Anything else on the same job that is donatable, like the dresser or the nightstand that came out with it, goes to Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona, St. Vincent de Paul or a Habitat ReStore instead, with a receipt on request.
Where the mattress lives determines how hard this job is, and in the Valley it's rarely on the ground floor. The apartment belt around ASU — Apache Boulevard, the blocks off Mill Avenue, the older complexes through south Tempe — is stacked with third-floor walk-ups with no elevator, exterior stairs and tight breezeway turns. A queen and box spring down three flights is the standard job for us, and there is no stair fee; it's the same $192 set price as a ground-floor unit.
The Tempe Town Lake and Downtown Phoenix high-rises are the opposite problem: no stairs, but a management company that won't let a vendor near the freight elevator without a certificate of insurance naming the building — typically $1M general liability — and a freight-elevator window reserved days in advance. We file the COI and book the window; you don't chase the front desk.
Out in the slab-on-grade suburbs there are no basements, so the mattress usually goes from the bedroom straight through the garage — which is exactly how the HOA prefers it, since nothing is ever staged at the curb. And from June through September we start early: crews work morning windows to stay ahead of 110-degree heat, which is safer for them and means your mattress is gone before the day gets ugly.
"Third-floor walk-up near ASU — carried the queen and box spring down and out same-day. Flat price, no stair fee, no tax line. Perfect."
"Booked the mattress plus an old couch in one quote. Gone in an afternoon. Way easier than the dumpster fine."
"Upgraded the bed — old king and box spring gone same-day, flat price. Easy and cheap."
How much does mattress removal cost in Phoenix?
Flat by size: twin $111, full $126, queen $139, king $154. A box spring alone is $124; the mattress and box spring together as a set is $192. Frames are $92, futons $139, headboards $77, bunk beds $165, cribs $90. $75 minimum, carry-out and disposal included, and no Arizona sales tax on the service.
Does the City of Phoenix pick up mattresses?
Yes, through bulk trash — but it's appointment-based now, capped at four collections per calendar year, booked up to three business days out, and items can't go out more than seven days early. One mattress costs you a quarter of your annual allowance and sits at the curb in the meantime. Suburbs run their own schedules and caps; check your own city.
Can I donate a used mattress instead?
Realistically, no. Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona, St. Vincent de Paul, Habitat ReStore and the Salvation Army all take usable furniture, but used mattresses are the standard hygiene exception across the board.
Is there a stair fee for a walk-up?
No. Third-floor walk-ups with no elevator are routine around ASU and the apartment corridors, and carrying the mattress and box spring down is included in the flat price. High-rises get a COI and a booked freight elevator instead.
Can you come same-day?
Usually, when a slot's open, with no same-day surcharge. From June to September we run early-morning windows to beat the heat, and during ASU move-out week in early May we fill up fast.
Does the mattress get recycled?
When it can be. Arizona has no statewide mattress-recycling mandate, but Valley recyclers exist and a dry, intact mattress gets routed to one. Most used mattresses don't qualify and go to responsible disposal — we'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. Metal frames and box-spring lumber go to scrap.
Is it cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
For a mattress, yes — and you know the number first. 2026 market surveys put the average metro Phoenix job around $226–$237, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK averages roughly $240 a job with the price withheld until an on-site estimate. Our queen is $139, carry-out included.
Almost never. Thrift operations refuse used mattresses on hygiene grounds. Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona, St. Vincent de Paul, Habitat for Humanity ReStore and the Salvation Army all take usable furniture across the Valley, but a used mattress is the standard exception. Donation is a dead end for this one item, which is why so many mattresses end up leaning against a dumpster.
We carry it, and there is no stair fee. Third-floor walk-ups with no elevator are the norm in the apartment belt around ASU, along Apache Boulevard and off Mill Avenue, and the flat price already covers getting the mattress and box spring down and out. In the Tempe Town Lake and Downtown Phoenix towers we file the certificate of insurance and reserve the freight elevator instead.
Usually yes, when a slot is open, and there is no same-day surcharge. From June through September we start early in the morning to work ahead of 110-degree heat, so the earliest windows fill first. During ASU move-out week in early May we book out faster than usual.
Arizona has no statewide mattress-recycling mandate, but recyclers do operate in the Valley, and when a mattress is dry and intact we route it to one so the steel springs, foam and cotton fill get separated out. Being straight with you: most used mattresses are too far gone for that and go to disposal through a City of Phoenix transfer station. Frames, box-spring lumber and metal go to scrap wherever we can send them.
For a mattress, yes, and the number is known before we arrive. Independent 2026 market surveys put the average metro Phoenix junk-removal job at roughly $226 to $237, and 1-800-GOT-JUNK averages around $240 a job while withholding the price until an on-site estimate. Our queen is $139, quoted from your photo, with the carry-out and disposal already inside it.