Old mattress, box spring, or a whole set — gone same-day at one flat photo-quoted price. A queen is $139, a twin $111, a king $154. The big franchises publish a separate $40 mattress surcharge on top of their truck-fill price; we don't have one. Just a single number, carried down from the bedroom, with no NC sales tax on the service.
Snap a photo — flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One picture, taken where it sits. Size is all we need — twin, full, queen or king, with or without the box spring — and the flat price comes back in seconds. No walkthrough, no "call for a quote."
Same-day is open most days from ITB Raleigh out to Cary, Apex, Morrisville, Durham and Chapel Hill. In May, when campus empties, book a day ahead — that's the one week the calendar fills.
The crew wraps it, walks it down the stairs and loads it. You never fold a queen through a doorway or tie it to a car roof. Disposal is already in the price.
Flat, quoted from your photo, with the carry-out, the stairs, the drive and the disposal already inside the number. Mattresses price by size; a mattress and its box spring together price as a set.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Twin mattress | $111 |
| Box spring (any size) | $124 |
| Full / double mattress | $126 |
| Queen mattress | $139 |
| King mattress | $154 |
| Mattress + box-spring set | $192 |
| Bed frame | $92 |
| Headboard | $77 |
$75 minimum on very small jobs. Carry-out, stairs and disposal included. Clearing the frame, the headboard, a dresser and the nightstands in the same trip? Put them in one photo and we price the whole bedroom in a single quote. No NC sales tax on the service, and no separate mattress fee.
Third-party context: McJunk publishes a Triangle rate card of a $175 minimum, quarter truck $305, half $435, three-quarter $565, full $695 — and adds a $40 mattress surcharge on top, plus $10 per tire, $10 per CRT television and a $10–$50 trip charge. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum, quarter $298, half $488, three-quarter $608, full truck $738 (junkdrs.com/pricing). Those are volume prices settled at your door; ours is an item price settled before we leave.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 | Scheduled collection day | Curbside only — you drag the mattress downstairs and out, and it sits in the weather until the truck comes |
| Drive it to South Wake Landfill | ~$15 per mattress tip fee + truck | An afternoon | You need a pickup or rented truck, a helper, and a weekday trip out to Holly Springs |
| Donate it | Free | Days | Charities are strict about used bedding — it has to be clean, unstained and structurally sound, and most used mattresses simply aren't accepted |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | $135–$175 minimum, $695–$738 full truck (published Junk Doctors / McJunk rates), +$40 mattress surcharge at McJunk | 1–3 days | Priced by how much of the truck you fill, and often confirmed only once the crew is standing in your bedroom |
| JunkRabbit | $139 flat for a queen | Same day, most days | None — one photo-quoted number, no mattress surcharge, we carry it down for you |
Municipal and competitor figures above are third-party published rates, not ours. Our numbers are the flat item prices in the table above.
Technically yes. City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services runs a scheduled curbside Bulky Load collection at $35, and a mattress qualifies for it (a special or appliance item runs $70, electronics are collected free up to four items a week, and tires aren't taken at all). If you have the time and the muscle, it's the cheapest line on this page, and we'll say so plainly.
What it isn't is convenient, and mattresses are the item where that bites hardest. It's a scheduled service — you arrange it and then you wait, which is no help at all when the new bed is being delivered Saturday and the old queen has to be out of the room first. It's curbside only, meaning the mattress has to already be at the street: you're the one folding it around the stair turn from a second-floor bedroom or a bonus room over the garage, and a king with a pillow top fights back. And because it waits outside for collection day, a Triangle thunderstorm can turn a dry mattress into forty extra pounds of soaked foam sitting on your lawn.
Then there's the covenant problem. Across the HOA suburbs — Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Brier Creek — visible bulk at the curb is precisely what neighborhood rules exist to stop, and a mattress propped against the mailbox is about as visible as bulk gets. Plenty of our Wake County calls start with a homeowner who did the math on the $35 and then realized the mattress isn't legally allowed to sit outside long enough to be collected.
That's the whole trade. The City is cheaper. We're the version where nothing gets dragged, nothing waits on the lawn, and it's gone the day you asked. Verify the current Bulky Load rules and how to schedule directly with the City at raleigh.gov before you plan around them — municipal programs change.
We'll be straight about this, because a lot of junk-removal copy isn't: most used mattresses cannot be donated. Charities that take furniture are rightly strict about bedding, and anything stained, sagging, or of unknown history gets turned away at the dock. When a mattress genuinely is clean and sound — a guest-room bed used a dozen nights, a barely-slept-on set from a staged house — we route it toward donation first, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore (ten Triangle stores across Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties) or Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina, which is headquartered here in Raleigh, are where it goes.
Everything else is a disposal job, handled properly. Mattresses and box springs tip at roughly $15 each at South Wake Landfill — and that number is the quiet reason this page exists. Because getting rid of a mattress locally is cheap, there is no honest justification for a $40 surcharge on one; it isn't a hazardous item, it isn't a landfill-banned item the way North Carolina bans televisions, appliances and whole tires, and it doesn't need special handling. Steel innersprings get pulled for scrap where the load makes that practical. A mattress should be a cheap add to any load, and on our quote it is.
No basements in North Carolina. Homes here sit on slab or crawl space, so the guest mattress isn't stored downstairs — it's in a bonus room over the garage, in a second-floor bedroom, or shoved into the attic access. That means mattresses in the Triangle almost always come down a staircase, and in the newer subdivisions of North Raleigh, Apex, Holly Springs and Wake Forest the bonus-room stair is usually the tightest turn in the house. We plan for it; you don't have to.
Inside the Beltline, it's the doorways. Five Points, Hayes Barton, Historic Oakwood and Mordecai are 1910s–1930s houses with narrow halls, steep original stairs and heart-pine floors. We wrap, pad and load off the street quickly, because these are narrow streets where a truck can't idle across a neighbor's drive.
Apartments and condos are about the elevator, not the lift. Downtown, Glenwood South, the Village District, North Hills, Morrisville and Brier Creek buildings mean a loading dock, a reserved elevator, and sometimes a certificate of insurance naming the building before the crew comes up. It's a much lighter lift than a Manhattan co-op board, but we carry the insurance and we'll send the COI — just tell us when you book.
Dorms and student rentals have their own clock. Campus move-out windows are enforced to the hour, so we schedule around a hall's stated deadline rather than against it, and we stage on the street rather than in a fire lane.
"Dorm move-out near Hillsborough St — mattress and a bunch of furniture, same day. Flat price from a photo, no add-ons. Lifesaver during finals week."
"Upgraded beds in Cary and needed the old queen and box spring gone. One flat number, no surcharge nonsense. Carried it down from the bedroom themselves."
"Ninth Street apartment turnover in Durham — two mattresses out, quoted from a photo, gone next morning."
How much does mattress removal cost in Raleigh?
Flat from a photo: twin $111, full $126, queen $139, king $154, box spring $124, mattress and box-spring set $192. The $75 minimum applies to very small jobs. Carry-out, stairs and disposal are included, there's no mattress surcharge, and there's no NC sales tax on the service.
Do you charge a mattress surcharge?
No. McJunk's published card adds $40 for a mattress on top of its truck-fill tiers (plus $10 a tire, $10 a CRT TV, and a $10–$50 trip charge). Mattresses tip at about $15 each at South Wake Landfill, so there's no cost to pass on — you get one number.
Will the City of Raleigh take it instead?
A mattress qualifies for the City's $35 scheduled Bulky Load, but it's curbside-only: you get it downstairs and out to the street yourself, it waits outside for collection day, and in the HOA suburbs it can't legally sit there. We carry it from the bedroom on a window you pick.
Can you do same-day during college move-out?
Yes — early-to-mid May near NC State, Duke and UNC is our busiest stretch and we run same-day windows through it. Book a day ahead that week if you can.
Do you take multiple mattresses?
One, or a whole four-bedroom student house, or a landlord's turnover stack. Each is priced flat and quoted together, and frames ($92) and headboards ($77) can ride along.
Is this cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
For one or two mattresses, generally yes, and the price is fixed in advance. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum up to $738 for a full truck; McJunk publishes $175 up to $695 plus surcharges. Our full truck is $895, so we're not the cheapest way to fill a whole truck — we're the flat, surcharge-free number for the items you actually have.
What happens to the mattress afterward?
Genuinely clean, usable ones go toward donation (Habitat ReStore's ten Triangle stores, Goodwill of Eastern NC). Most used mattresses aren't donatable and are hauled and disposed of properly, with steel innersprings pulled for scrap where practical.