Dunedin collects two pieces of bulk per household per week, all on one day. A bedroom set is five pieces. A garage is closer to forty. That's a lot of Tuesdays.
That's the allowance for a single-family home. A bed frame, a mattress, a box spring, a dresser and a nightstand is five pieces — three weeks of collection for one bedroom. Additional items are permitted curbside but you're asked to call Solid Waste first, and extra charges can apply.
Up to twenty-one bags under fifty pounds each, limbs under four feet, logs under four inches across, and an overall cap of four cubic yards. Go past any of it and what arrives isn't a truck — it's a courtesy notice asking you to call about alternative disposal.
Dunedin runs garbage, recycling, yard waste and bulk on the same single weekly collection day, out by 6:30am, three feet clear of the carts. Miss the morning and the next opportunity is seven days out. For anyone working to a closing or a move-out, that's the whole problem.
Dunedin is a genuinely tight town to work in, and that matters more here than volume does. We run a trailer rather than a box truck, which is usually the difference.
Small lots, alleys, one-ways, golf carts and a lot of parked cars. The jobs are rarely huge but access is the whole exercise. We'll tell you where we plan to park before we come rather than discovering it on the day.
Established mid-century homes with carports, Florida rooms and long-standing sheds. Garage cleanouts, downsizing moves and pre-listing clear-outs — usually a quarter to a half truck.
Seasonal turnover work: units that need to be empty before the next tenant, furniture that didn't survive three winters of renters, and salt-damaged patio sets. Almost always an access and timing question rather than a volume one.
It's worth doing the arithmetic once, because most people never do. A modest three-bedroom house being cleared out — beds, dressers, a sofa, a couple of chairs, a dining set, a desk, some shelving, the contents of a garage — is comfortably forty separate pieces. At two a week, that's roughly five months of remembering to put things out by 6:30 on the right morning.
Nobody actually does that. What happens instead is the pile lives in the garage or the carport for a year, or it goes out all at once and generates a courtesy notice. Neither is what the ordinance intends and neither gets you your space back.
The alternative is one visit. Send photos of each room, get one number that includes labor, hauling and the dump fee, and we'll clear it in a morning and sweep behind us. If it's small enough that two weeks of city pickup would genuinely do it, we'll tell you that — it costs us a job and saves you a few hundred dollars, and we'd rather you call us next time.
Priced by how much room it takes up in the truck — not by the hour, not by the item. Same card for every job we do.
| Load size | What that looks like | You pay |
|---|---|---|
| Single item | One mattress, couch or appliance | $99 |
| 1/8 truck | A few boxes and a chair | $165 |
| 1/4 truck | A bedroom's worth | $225 |
| 3/8 truck | A garage corner | $285 |
| 1/2 truck | Half a garage | $345 |
| 3/4 truck | Large garage clear-out | $475 |
| Full truck | Whole-house or estate clear-out | $595 |
Add-ons: stairs $40 per flight · fridges and freezers $35 · mattresses $25 each · tires $15 each. Hot tubs, pianos, sheds and safes are quoted separately — send a photo and we'll price it.
The number we send you is the number you pay. We don't add fees at the truck.
Roughly, one item that won't fit in the cart — a chair, a mattress, a bed frame, a rolled rug, a patio table. A three-piece bedroom set is three pieces, not one. That's why the allowance disappears faster than people expect.
No. Same flat card: $99 for a single item through $595 for a full truck, everything included. We're up here constantly.
Usually yes — we run a dump trailer rather than a box truck specifically because of streets like these. Tell us the address when you message and we'll work out access before the day rather than on it.
Fine, just tell us the building. Most associations want the service elevator booked and a certificate of insurance on file. We're licensed and insured and can send ours ahead if they ask.
Often the same day, and rarely more than 48 hours. If you've got a tenant turnover or a closing date, say so and we'll be straight about whether we can make it.
Every city has its own rules about what it will and won't collect, so each of these pages covers that city specifically.
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