Mattress Removal in Cary
The new mattress company delivers — but most won't take the old one, and a queen set leaning against a Cary garage door is an HOA letter waiting to happen. We carry the old mattress and box spring straight from the bedroom to the truck: queen $103, twin $82, king $114, full set $143, flat by size, on a window that beats your delivery slot. No surcharge, nothing staged outside.
Twin, full, queen, king — that's the price. Send a photo if there's a box spring, a frame or a whole bedroom going and we'll quote the set together in seconds.
Pick a window before your new mattress arrives. Same-week is standard across Cary, same-day is often open, and you're never left with two beds in one room.
Straps, a tilt through the hallway, and it's loaded. Nothing touches the driveway, nothing waits by the mailbox, nobody in the neighborhood sees a mattress.
Mattress pricing is the simplest thing we do: the size is the price. No weighing, no negotiating at the door, no fuel surcharge, and no separate mattress fee. The carry-out, the stairs and the disposal are already inside the number.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Twin mattress | $82 |
| Box spring (any size) | $92 |
| Full / double mattress | $94 |
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| King / Cal king mattress | $114 |
| Mattress + box spring set | $143 |
| Bed frame | $68 |
| Headboard | $57 |
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 | — | Not available to you. Cary is a separate municipality; Raleigh's program serves Raleigh addresses only |
| Town of Cary scheduled curbside collection | Per the Town's current rules (townofcary.org) | Scheduled collection day | Curbside only — you get it downstairs and out to the street, then it sits in the weather and in full view of an HOA that fines for exactly that |
| Self-haul to South Wake Landfill | ~$15 per mattress or box spring, plus your truck | An afternoon | Cheap at the gate, expensive in effort: a truck or rental, straps, a helper, and the same stair carry you were trying to avoid |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | $135–$175 minimum, up to $695–$738 full truck (published Junk Doctors / McJunk rates), +$30 mattress surcharge at McJunk | 1–3 days | Priced by how much of the truck you fill, often confirmed only on site |
| JunkRabbit | $103 flat for a queen | Same day, most days | None — one size-based number, no surcharge, carried from the bedroom, nothing at the curb |
Here's the thing almost every search result gets wrong for a Cary address. Type "does the city pick up mattresses" from a Cary ZIP and you'll land on City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services and its $35 Bulky Load collection — and then discover, usually on collection morning, that none of it applies to you. Cary is its own municipality of more than 180,000 people, not a Raleigh neighborhood. Raleigh's Bulky Load, its $52 special/appliance pickup and its free weekly e-waste allowance are Raleigh-address services. A Cary resident scheduling around them is scheduling around the wrong program.
What Cary actually has is the Town of Cary's own scheduled curbside collection, run by the Town rather than the county or the City of Raleigh — check current bulky-item rules and how to request a pickup at townofcary.org, because they change. But the shape of it is the shape of every curbside program in America: it collects from the street. The mattress has to already be out there. You do the stairs, the hallway turn, the front door and the driveway, and then it waits.
And waiting is where Cary gets specifically expensive. This is one of the most covenant-heavy parts of the Triangle — Preston, Lochmere, Amberly, MacGregor West, Cary Park — and visible bulk at the curb is precisely what those HOA rules exist to stop. A stripped queen set propped against the garage or the mailbox is about as visible as bulk gets, and it doesn't take long for a violation letter to cost more than this page's flat price. Add a Triangle thunderstorm and a dry mattress becomes forty extra pounds of soaked foam on your lawn.
If you want the genuinely cheapest legal route, we'll name it: drive it yourself. South Wake Landfill takes mattresses and box springs at roughly $15 each — a real bargain, and honestly the right answer if you already own a pickup and have a free Saturday. It just isn't a service. It's a destination, and everything before the gate is still your back. We're the version where a crew comes to the bedroom, and nothing ever appears outside your house.
Mattresses are the item people most want reassurance about, so here it is straight. If yours is genuinely clean, unstained and structurally sound, we offer it to donation partners that accept bedding — charities are strict here, and rightly so, which is why most used mattresses simply don't qualify no matter how well you treated them. Everything else is hauled and processed for proper disposal, with steel innersprings pulled for scrap where the load allows.
What never happens: it doesn't get left behind a shopping center, dropped at someone else's curb, or abandoned in an apartment dumpster corral in Morrisville for a property manager to deal with. Local disposal is cheap enough in Wake County — around $15 a mattress at South Wake Landfill — that there is no economic excuse for doing it any other way, which is also why this page has no surcharge on it.
Cary's housing stock is mostly two-story, which means the bed is almost always upstairs. A king mattress does not want to make the turn at the top of a Preston staircase, and a pillow-top queen fights back the whole way down. That's straps, a controlled tilt, and someone at each end who knows where the drywall corners are — included, not a stair fee.
Then there's the covenant layer. In the master-planned neighborhoods and the newer West Cary subdivisions off Green Level and Carpenter Fire Station, the rules are enforced quickly and by neighbors. Our whole method is built around that: the mattress goes bedroom → hallway → truck, and never stops in between. No staging on the driveway "just while we load," nothing leaning on the garage door.
Cary's apartment and townhome communities near Morrisville and the RTP side add an elevator or a controlled dumpster area and occasionally a property manager who wants a certificate of insurance on file. Far less formal than a big-city high-rise, but we file it when asked. Older intown Cary near the depot has narrower driveways and mature trees; the truck parks where it fits and we walk it.
Customer Reviews
“Arturo was amazing! Excellent service. I took a photo of all my cardboard boxes from moving, got a quote, and they came to pick them up that same day. Arturo was fast and friendly! Will definitely be using this service again.”
“This is a really great service. Very transparent and communicative team. Dwayne was fast and amazing.”
“Communication was excellent, the haulers were so fast and efficient and work so hard. Very grateful for the help today!!”
Flat by size, quoted from a photo: twin $82, full $94, queen $103, king $114, box spring $92, and a mattress plus box spring together as a set $143. Bed frames are $68 and headboards $57 if the whole bed is going. The $75 minimum applies to very small jobs. Carry-out from the bedroom, the stairs and disposal are included, and there is no NC sales tax on the service.
No. Cary is its own municipality, not part of the City of Raleigh, so Raleigh Solid Waste Services' $35 scheduled Bulky Load collection does not apply to a Cary address at all. This trips up a lot of residents who search for whether the city picks up mattresses and land on Raleigh's program. Cary is served by the Town of Cary's own scheduled curbside collection — check current bulky-item rules at townofcary.org — and, like every curbside program, it requires the mattress to be out at the street waiting.
Never — that is the entire point of this page. Cary HOA covenants are strict about visible bulk, and a queen set leaning against a garage door in Preston, Lochmere or Amberly gets noticed within the hour. We carry it from the bedroom straight into the truck on a window you pick, so nothing is ever staged outside.
You can, and it is genuinely cheap: South Wake Landfill takes mattresses and box springs at about $15 each. What it costs instead is a pickup truck or a rental, straps, a second person, and a Saturday driving out and back — and you still have to get a king mattress down the stairs and into the bed of the truck before any of that starts. Free-ish disposal is not the same as a free job.
No. McJunk's published Triangle rate card adds a $40 mattress surcharge on top of its truck-fill tiers. We quote one flat number from your photo and that is what you pay. Local disposal is cheap enough here — roughly $15 a mattress at South Wake Landfill — that there is no real cost to pass on.
Yes — book a window ahead of your delivery slot and the old set is gone before the new one is unboxed. Same-week windows are the norm across Cary and same-day is often available. Mattress retailers frequently will not take the old set at all, or only if it is already stripped and out of the room.
If it is genuinely clean and usable, we route it toward donation partners that accept bedding. Most used mattresses are not donatable, and those are hauled and processed for disposal, with steel innersprings pulled for scrap where the load allows. Nothing is dumped behind a shopping center or left at someone else's curb.
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