Same-day hauling across Santa Monica, from the alleys off Main Street to the courtyard buildings north of Wilshire, with one flat number quoted before we lift anything.
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Santa Monica residents get three free bulky item collections per calendar year, capped at five items each, requested through the city's hauler at (866) 311-7266 and collected within seven to ten days. That covers a couch or a mattress you can get to the curb. It does not cover a garage, a full apartment clear-out, construction debris, or anything still sitting inside the unit. Los Angeles Junk Removal & Hauling handles the jobs that fall outside those three pickups, usually the same day.
Almost every Santa Monica junk call comes down to one of two problems. Either the job is bigger than five items, or it cannot wait ten days. We are built for both. We quote one flat number based on how much truck space the load takes, we carry it out ourselves rather than asking you to stage it at the curb, and we work Monday through Saturday around the clock. See how our pricing works before you call so there are no surprises.
Santa Monica is also one of the few cities on the Westside where the free option is genuinely good and worth using first. We would rather tell you that and get the next job than talk you into paying for something the city will do for nothing.
The city runs its own bulky and abandoned item collection rather than leaning on LA Sanitation, and the terms are specific. Three collections per address per calendar year. A maximum of five items per collection. Requests go through (866) 311-7266 or the city's online form, and the crew arrives within seven to ten days, not the next morning. Extra pickups beyond the free three are billed hourly with a one-hour minimum, which is where a flat-rate haul usually wins on both price and speed.
Use the city when you have one or two items, you can get them to the curb, and you are not in a hurry. Call us when the count is over five, the item is upstairs, the tenant is out tomorrow, the item is a hot tub or a shed, or the load is drywall and lumber from a remodel. Those are the four situations the municipal program is not designed to solve.
| Who runs it | City of Santa Monica, Resource Recovery & Recycling |
|---|---|
| Free collections | 3 per address per calendar year |
| Item cap | 5 items per collection |
| How to book | (866) 311-7266 or the city's online request form |
| Lead time | Collected within 7 to 10 days |
| Beyond the free three | Billed hourly, one-hour minimum |
| Not covered | Indoor removal, construction debris, hazardous waste, staging or sorting |
Source: City of Santa Monica, Bulky and Abandoned Item Collection
Santa Monica's housing stock is mostly small pre-war and mid-century apartment buildings, and almost none of them have a service elevator. A sectional out of a second-floor unit on Fourth Street gets carried down an exterior stair, turned twice on a landing, and walked to the truck. We price for that and we bring the crew for it.
North of Montana the lots are deeper and the driveways are longer, so the carry is the cost rather than the volume. South of the 10 and around Ocean Park the alleys behind the buildings are the loading zone, which is faster for us and cheaper for you if the alley gate can be opened. Everywhere west of Lincoln you are in preferential parking, so we work the load fast rather than leaving a truck sitting in a resident space.
Beach-adjacent buildings add one more wrinkle: sand, salt and decades of storage mean garages here fill with rusted patio furniture, boards, bikes and broken beach gear. A garage cleanout in Santa Monica is rarely just boxes.
Our own crews on Los Angeles County jobs. The junk removal we run in Santa Monica looks like this too: side yards, narrow walkways and the back of the property is where the work actually is.
Usable furniture and household goods go to donation first. Mattresses and box springs go into the state-funded mattress recycling program run by the Mattress Recycling Council under CalRecycle, not to a landfill. Electronics are universal waste in California and cannot legally go in the trash, so TVs, monitors and computers are routed to a certified handler or to a S.A.F.E. Collection Center. The nearest one to Santa Monica is Hyperion, 7660 W Imperial Hwy Gate B in Playa del Rey, open Saturday and Sunday 9 to 3, with a hard state limit of 125 pounds or 15 gallons per visit. Remodel debris goes to a City-certified mixed C&D processing facility, which is a legal requirement for any hauler moving construction waste generated in the City of Los Angeles.
We will tell you where your load went if you ask. Most of what leaves a Santa Monica house is recyclable or donatable, and it is cheaper for us to divert it than to tip it.
Source: LA Sanitation, S.A.F.E. Centers and Household Hazardous Waste
We are on these streets constantly because we are already next door: Venice, Mar Vista, West LA, Marina del Rey, Brentwood. If your job straddles two of them it is still one visit and one number. The full list is on areas we serve.
We are a service-area business with no yard or storefront, so there is nothing to drive to — the truck comes to you. The whole list is on areas we serve.
Apartment walk-ups, beach garages and post-remodel debris are the three we see most.
Couches, sectionals, mattresses in the same trip, beds, desks and wardrobes carried down rather than dragged.
Recycled through a state-funded program, not dumped. Box springs and futons too.
The whole garage in one visit. We sort, donate what is usable and sweep the slab.
A full property cleared with care, on probate or move-out timelines.
Booked and cleared the same day, most days, across LA County.
TVs, CRT monitors and computers. Banned from the trash in California.
The things people actually ask before booking a haul here.
Three per address per calendar year, with a maximum of five items each. You request them through the city's hauler at (866) 311-7266 or the online form, and collection happens within seven to ten days. Extra pickups past the free three are billed hourly with a one-hour minimum.
Yes. A mattress counts as one of your five items on a free bulky collection and it has to be at the curb. What the city will not do is come inside and take it off the bed frame in a second-floor unit. That is the job we get called for. See mattress removal.
Most days, yes. We are open Monday to Saturday 24 hours and Sunday 1pm to 10pm, and Santa Monica is a short run for our crews. Call or text (323) 230-0777 and we will tell you honestly whether today is realistic before you commit.
Yes, and this is one the city program specifically excludes. Mixed construction and demolition debris has to go to a certified processing facility, not a landfill. See construction debris removal for how that works.
We price by volume, meaning how much of the truck your load takes, quoted as one flat number on site before we start. There is no hourly meter and no surprise disposal surcharge. How our pricing works explains it in full.
Yes. Turnovers, evictions and abandoned units are routine for us across Santa Monica, and we can invoice a management company rather than a tenant. See commercial junk removal.
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Fridges, washers, dryers and AC units, de-gassed and scrapped legally.
Drywall, lumber, tile and concrete, hauled to a certified C&D processor.
A full property cleared with care, on probate or move-out timelines.
Couches, sectionals, bed frames and wardrobes carried out and routed for donation or recycling.
Mattresses and box springs taken to a recycler rather than a landfill.
Every Los Angeles County city runs its own program. These guides say which one applies to your address, and what it costs to get it wrong.
Thirteen Los Angeles-area programs in one table: how many free pickups a year, how many items, who to call and what each one refuses.
The state and city penalties, why liability follows the waste back to whoever produced it, and how to get a pile cleared off your street.
Seven checks that take ten minutes, and why the fine for illegally dumped junk follows the property it came from.
Send a photo, get a flat number back. Free, no obligation, no pressure and no call-out fee — and if your city will haul it free instead, we will tell you that too. Most requests are answered within the hour during working hours.
