Same-Day Curbside Junk Removal in Citrus Heights

Any size mattress or box spring picked up curbside same-day. Most municipal programs restrict mattresses from regular trash — we take them with no questions asked.

Sectionals, recliners, loveseats, sleeper sofas. No disassembly needed — leave it at the curb. Flat-rate pricing, picked up the same day you book.

Desks, dressers, tables, bookshelves, bed frames, entertainment centers. One item or a full room clearout. Transparent pricing with no hidden fees.

Refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ovens, microwaves. We handle Freon-containing units and route to certified recycling facilities.

Same-day TV pickup and certified recycling from $99.

Construction debris in Citrus Heights is the one bucket Republic Services kicks back at the curb and the city explicitly tags as unacceptable in the rule sheet. The City contracts residential garbage, recycling, and organics to Republic Services as the exclusive franchise hauler (customer service 916-638-9000), and none of the three carts — grey, blue, or green — accept C&D as a curbside commodity (per City of Citrus Heights / Neighborhood Cleanup; per Republic Services / Citrus Heights). The free Neighborhood Clean-Up program is the lane every remodeler reaches for and the lane every remodeler bounces off: the city's published Program Guidelines list "Construction materials like concrete, dirt, rocks, bricks, sheetrock, and roofing material," plus "Treated wood," "Commercial waste or contractor waste," and household hazardous waste as Unacceptable Materials, and wood is only collected if it does not exceed 6 ft by 4 in (per Citrus Heights NCU). The NCU runs three collections per year, zoned by street, with a 10-cubic-yard pile cap and a 48-hour set-out window — at the curb no more than two days prior and no later than 6 a.m. on collection day (same source). And as of January 2025, the city's November 2024 amendment authorized Republic Services to impose "Improper Large Item Collection" fees on piles staged outside that window; the first 4-month cycle was educational, with penalties kicking in from the second cycle onward (per Citrus Heights Sentinel, January 22, 2026). The January 2026 Area 2 round added scheduling confusion on top — Morningside Way, Evening Way, Autumn Avenue, Oak Forest Street, and Grand Oaks Boulevard residents received contradictory dates from Republic and the City, with corrected pickups rescheduled to January 26, 2026 (same source). Stack a kitchen tear-out behind any of those friction points and the C&D pile sits until the next zoned NCU window — months out — or it picks up a tag at the curb. The state regulatory frame stacks one more constraint. CalGreen Title 24 Part 11 has required 65% C&D diversion on new construction and most remodels since 2011 (per CalRecycle), which is why the working drop-off venues are county facilities and certified MRFs, not the cart. Residents have three operationally relevant venues. North Area Recovery Station (NARS) at 4450 Roseville Road in North Highlands, (916) 875-5555, sits about 5 miles west of Citrus Heights via I-80 and Roseville Road. NARS runs Monday through Friday 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday through Sunday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the gate closing 15 minutes before posted close (per Sacramento County / NARS). Effective January 1, 2026, the published rates are a $40 Pickup Truck non-weighed flat, a $50 minimum weight charge, Normal Refuse at $89.90 per ton, Green Waste and Clean Wood at $115.65 per ton, Hard-to-Handle Large/Bulky at $202.85 per ton, Special Handling at $347.80 per ton, plus a $25 uncovered-load surcharge if the bed is not tarped (per NARS Fees). Green waste and clean wood must be pre-separated at the Green Waste/Wood Waste area or the load is upcharged. The trap at NARS is treated wood: pressure-treated lumber, fence posts, railroad ties, and piers are not accepted at NARS at all — only Kiefer Landfill takes them in Sacramento County (per NARS). Kiefer Landfill in Sloughhouse sits roughly 25 miles southeast of Citrus Heights via US-50 and Grant Line Road, and it is where the math gets interesting. Effective January 1, 2026, Kiefer publishes a $35 Pickup Truck non-weighed flat, a $45 minimum weight charge, Normal Refuse at $61.35 per ton, Soil/Dirt (certified clean, pre-approved) at $11.60 per ton, Inerts Mixed (up to 36 inches, minimal rebar OK) at $28.45 per ton, Hard-to-Handle Large/Bulky (including treated wood) at $144.90 per ton, and Special Handling at $347.80 per ton (per Sacramento County / Kiefer Fees). The line worth knowing: Clean Inerts at Kiefer are FREE for residential drop-off — asphalt, tile, brick, rocks, stucco, and concrete, with no rebar, no pieces over 36 inches, no dirt or trash mixed in. Clean Metals are also free up to 8 feet, mattresses are free for non-business loads, and appliances are free for the first one or two per day, then $35 each (same source). For a Citrus Heights kitchen-or-bath remodel that generates a clean-concrete-and-tile load with no rebar, the cheapest disposal in the county is a tarped pickup to Kiefer at $0 at the scale. The third venue is GreenWaste Florin Perkins Resource Recovery Facility at 4201 Florin Perkins Road in Sacramento, (916) 443-5120, about 10 miles south. It is Sacramento's only third-party-certified transfer facility and the lane permitted contractors use for CalGreen compliance — GreenWaste markets a 75-percent-plus C&D diversion rate against the state's 65 percent mandate, runs Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., and rents 10, 20, 30, and 40-yard debris boxes with free recycling reports for the Waste Management Plan paperwork (per GreenWaste / Citrus Heights). Heavy materials — concrete, brick, dirt — are restricted to the 10-yard box. Pressure-treated wood, paint, oil, chemicals, and tree trunks over 24 inches are not accepted at any debris-box size. One border quirk catches remodelers whose project straddles the county line: material from Roseville (Placer County) must dispose at the Western Placer Waste Management Authority, not Sacramento County facilities (same source). The full-service hauler tier prices the same load well above the scale-house floor. 1-800-GOT-JUNK serves Citrus Heights out of the Sacramento franchise, lists construction and renovation debris as accepted, books on a free on-site estimate before the truck quotes, holds a brand-wide $150-plus floor, and publishes no online pricing (per 1800gotjunk.com / Citrus Heights). Junk King Roseville covers the city, holds a $389-plus minimum, publishes ranges only, and requires an on-site estimate — the franchise's eco-routing model sends drywall and clean wood through MRFs rather than straight-to-landfill (per junk-king.com / Citrus Heights). College Hunks Hauling Junk runs the Sacramento metro at $150 to $800-plus volumetric with no online quote, and Junkluggers covers Sacramento metro on $200-to-$600-plus volume pricing with on-site quotes — both accept renovation debris, both typically refuse heavy demo. Stand Up Guys is Southeast-US only and does not serve Citrus Heights. The local independent bucket — SacJunk (which lists construction debris cleanup), JunkGuys at 916-471-4916, Simps Junk Removal (also lists construction debris), plus the Yelp 95610/95621 roster that includes Martinez & Davis, K&M Hauling, Junkman, Affordable Junk Removal, and Shawn's Hauling — typically beats the franchises on price but trades the discount back in friction. It is a phone-quote game with no online booking, no photo confirmation, and no insurance trail, and many of the smaller operators decline rebar, dirt, and concrete because the weight kills the margin on a flat-rate load. Dropcurb does not haul true construction and demolition debris. No drywall sheets, no broken concrete, no rebar, no framing lumber, no roofing shingles, no asphalt, no dirt, no tile in bulk, no full-size safes, no hot tubs, no pianos, and no loose hazardous waste like paint, solvents, fluorescent tubes, batteries, oil, or tires. That is what Kiefer (free for clean inerts), NARS (treated-wood-excluded), GreenWaste (CalGreen-compliant boxes), and the roll-off lane are for. What Dropcurb does take from a Sunrise Mall Area, Sylvan Corners, Old Auburn, Auburn Boulevard, Antelope Creek, Crosswoods, or Fair Oaks Boulevard remodel is the residential layer the heavy-debris haulers will not break out item by item: the intact cabinets pulled off the wall and pushed to the garage, the dresser displaced from the bedroom to clear the new flooring, the couch shoved out of the living room before the contractor crew arrives, the mattress retired from the guest room during the closet build-out, the fridge swapped for the new one, the washer the new dryer outgrew, and the old TV replaced for the upgrade. Curb it on the apron before the 12:00 p.m. local same-day cutoff and the pickup lands by tonight; book after the cutoff and the next-day slot locks at checkout in roughly 60 seconds. The canonical ladder is $79 flat for a couch or dresser, $94 for a mattress or box spring, $99 for a TV with the $20 e-waste recycling fee baked into the price, $134 for a fridge or freezer with the $25 refrigerant recycling fee baked in, and $134 for a washer. No on-site walkthrough, no NCU-zone wait for the next 3-times-a-year window, no "Improper Large Item" penalty risk for staging the residential pieces outside the 48-hour curb-out, no $40-vehicle-plus-$50-minimum run to NARS for the dresser, and no $389-plus Junk King floor on the couch. The hauler texts an ETA before arrival and a photo confirmation by text when the curb is clear — receipt evidence that matters in the Sunrise Mall Area, Sylvan Corners, and Antelope Creek pockets where Republic's January 2026 scheduling miss left piles sitting past the actual collection date. The volume problem stacks where Citrus Heights's housing stock did. The city is 87,583 residents at the 2020 Census and 86,239 in the 2023 American Community Survey estimate, with a $77,167 median household income, 57.6 percent owner-occupied and a 42.4 percent renter share, 35,928 housing units at 96.1 percent occupancy, and a 38.6 median age (per Wikipedia / Citrus Heights, California). It is a built-out postwar Sacramento bedroom suburb — platted as Sylvan in 1910, subdivided into 10-acre lots, built out through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, and incorporated January 1, 1997 as the fifth city in Sacramento County, 14.22 square miles at 167 feet of elevation between Arcade Creek and Dry Creek (same source). I-80 runs east–west across the southern edge with Antelope Road and Greenback Lane interchanges; Auburn Boulevard is the legacy north-south arterial through the city center; Sunrise Boulevard and Greenback Lane define the eastern and northern commercial strips. The remodel-cycle pockets are predictable — Sunrise Mall Area (mid-century ranch around Sunrise Mall), Sylvan Corners and the Old Auburn corridor (oldest stock), Antelope Creek and Crosswoods (south-of-Greenback tract), and the Auburn Boulevard and Fair Oaks Boulevard strips (mixed commercial and 1970s residential). Those are kitchen, bath, roof, window, and HVAC-replacement neighborhoods, not ground-up new construction — drywall, cabinetry, tile, asphalt shingles, and original-flooring tear-out dominate the local C&D mix. The 42.4 percent renter share caps owner-paid roll-off demand and pushes more cleanouts toward smaller curbside-fit loads. Most online junk-removal services start around $79; Dropcurb keeps that floor while skipping the in-home estimate.

TVs, monitors, computers, printers, and other electronics. Most curbside programs reject e-waste — we pick it up and ensure proper disposal.

Treadmills, ellipticals, weight benches, stationary bikes, home gyms. Heavy and awkward to move — get it to the curb and we handle the rest.

Multiple items in one pickup. Garage cleanouts, move-out piles, post-renovation debris. Add items to your order and see the total price upfront.