Mattress Removal in Orlando, FL
An old mattress is the item people most often have no way to move. Send a photo, get a single-item price in writing, and have whoever attends carry it down the stairs and out to the truck.
- Single-item price in writing
- Carried out from any floor
- Same-day and next-day availability
What mattress removal in Orlando includes
The crew that takes the job comes inside, bags the mattress if you want it bagged, carries it and the box spring down whatever stairs are in the way, and loads it on the truck with the frame and headboard if those are going too. You point, they lift. There is no need to drag it to the curb, prop it in a hallway, or ask a neighbor to take the other end.
A mattress on its own is one of the smallest jobs a hauler takes, and most people who book it are in an apartment, have a bad back, or have a landlord who controls the building's bulk pickup and has not gotten around to it. The pickup is priced as a single item, and it often grows: a bed frame, a dresser, the old sofa in the living room. Whatever else is added goes on the same written estimate before loading starts.
Taken on a mattress job
Every part of a bed is accepted, in any condition.
- Mattresses of every size, from crib to California king, including memory foam and hybrids
- Box springs and foundations
- Bed frames, headboards, slats and adjustable bases
- Futons, sofa beds and daybeds
- Stained, torn, wet or bed-bug-affected mattresses, bagged before carrying
- Pillows, bedding and the rest of the room if you are clearing it
Handled differently
Two situations change how the job runs.
- Bed bugs: say so at booking so the mattress is sealed in a bag before it leaves the room and goes straight to the landfill rather than near anything bound for donation
- A clean mattress in good shape: some charities refuse mattresses on condition grounds, so donation is possible only occasionally; ask and a receipt is available on request where it applies
How a mattress pickup is priced
A mattress is a single-item price, written down before it is lifted, and that figure is the one you pay when it is on the truck. Haulers in this market price multi-item loads by the fraction of the truck bed they fill, from a minimum load through quarter, half, three-quarter and full, with single items like a mattress, a sofa or a washer priced on their own. When a mattress is the whole job it usually falls at or just under the minimum load. When it is one piece of a bedroom clearout, the load is priced by truck fraction and the fill line is shown to you before and after loading: a half truck means the bed is half full, and a decent crew lets you see that.
The adjustments that move a mattress price are stairs, a long carry from a back unit to the parking lot, and an elevator that has to be booked through the building. None of those is a surprise if the floor and the building type are in the booking. Nothing is paid up front and no tip is expected.
| National benchmark | Typical range | Source |
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| Mattress, single item | $70 to $100 | HomeGuide, May 2024 |
| Minimum load, about 60 cubic feet | $75 to $125 | Fixr, January 2025 |
| Per load, average | $150 to $350 | HomeGuide, May 2024 |
| Junk removal, typical job | $150 to $600, about $300 average | Fixr, January 2025 |
Each figure is a national typical range; the written estimate confirms the number for your pickup.
Cheapest way to get rid of a mattress in Orlando?
The cheapest route is the curb, if you have one and can get the mattress to it. Florida has no mattress landfill ban, so a mattress is an ordinary large item in both local programs. City of Orlando residents can set out two hand-loadable large items free on their yard waste day with no scheduling (orlando.gov), and a mattress and box spring count. Unincorporated Orange County collects up to three cubic yards of large items per household each week on yard waste day, set out before 6am (ocfl.net), and mattresses are on the accepted list. Retailers delivering a new mattress will often take the old one away for a small fee, which is worth asking about before the delivery date.
Those routes fail for a specific set of people. Apartment residents, who make up most of the roughly 60.5 percent of City of Orlando households that rent (2023 ACS), usually have no yard waste day of their own; the complex has a dumpster and a bulk-item rule set by management, and the mattress waits on the manager. Anyone on an upper floor without help cannot get a queen down a stairwell alone. Many HOAs limit how long an item may sit at the curb, so a mattress put out on the wrong day draws a letter. And a bed-bug mattress should not sit anywhere near a shared dumpster.
A paid pickup is the better call in those cases, or when the mattress needs to be gone on a date, such as the day a new one is delivered or the day a lease ends. Same-day and next-day pickups are available, 7am to 7pm Monday to Saturday and Sunday by arrangement.
Inside a mattress recycling plant
A recycler's own footage of a mattress being pulled apart into steel, foam and fiber, which is the process Florida has no statewide program to fund.
Video: RetourMat Group on YouTube
Why mattress calls spike in May and August around Orlando
Mattress removal in Orlando follows the lease calendar more than anything else, because nothing in city or county code sets this item apart. The sharpest spike is student turnover. UCF enrolled 70,674 students in fall 2025, more than 80 percent of them living off campus around Alafaya Trail and University Boulevard, and spring housing closes in early May while fall move-in lands the third week of August. Mattresses pile up beside complex dumpsters in both windows, and the people booking a pickup are the ones who cannot leave a mattress there without a fine from the complex. Jobs in that corridor often run through Oviedo as well as east Orlando.
Vacation rentals are the second driver. Short-term rental homes around Kissimmee and Four Corners swap mattresses on a replacement cycle set by guest reviews, and a property manager will often clear six or eight beds in one visit, which turns a single-item job into a priced truck fraction. The third is ordinary turnover in a city where most households rent: move-out day, a new bed delivered, and an old one with nowhere to go.
A mattress is a strange item to apologize for, and people do. It has been slept on; it looks the way a used mattress looks. The crew has carried hundreds of them and will carry yours bagged and without comment.
Where an old mattress ends up
Most mattresses collected in Orange County go to the county landfill on Young Pine Road, and the honest version of the answer starts there. The Mattress Recycling Council estimates that 15 to 20 million mattresses are discarded a year in the United States and that up to 75 percent of a mattress by weight can be recycled: the steel springs, the foam, the wood of a box spring, the cotton and polyester fiber. Recycling at that scale happens in the handful of states that fund it through a fee on new mattresses. Florida has no such program and no mattress landfill ban, so here the recycling route is a hauler who pulls the steel springs for scrap when it has the time and space to do so, and the landfill for the rest.
Ask whoever attends where the mattress is going. The straight answer is the Orange County landfill at 5901 Young Pine Road, where a mattress goes in as Class I garbage at $56.40 per ton with a $10 minimum charge (rates effective October 1, 2026). A gate receipt is the proof. Dumping a mattress in a wooded lot is the alternative some people take, and Florida's Litter Law, Fla. Stat. 403.413, makes dumping between 15 and 500 pounds a first-degree misdemeanor with a fine of up to $1,000; a mattress and box spring are well inside that band.
The checks on a mattress hauler are the same as on any other job, and they take a minute by phone. Ask for proof of liability insurance from the hauler we route, since the carry is through your stairwell and past your door frames. Get the price in writing from the photo before the lift. Confirm that inside the home, upstairs and elevator buildings are all fine, because a crew that refuses the second floor on the day is a complaint people repeat. Pay when it is loaded, with no deposit. Florida has no state license for junk hauling; the haulers routed from here hold an Orange County Business Tax Receipt and carry liability insurance, and whoever attends can show both. If the bedroom is coming out with it, furniture removal covers the rest, and a whole-unit clearout is an eviction or turnover cleanout. Who answers the line is covered at about; the photo form is at contact.
The services that usually sit beside this one
Most Orlando pickups mix two or three of these, and the pages below describe the ones that most often ride on the same truck.
- Furniture Removal: Sofas, dressers, sectionals and mattress sets carried out from any room and hauled.
- Eviction and Foreclosure Cleanout: Whatever a tenant left behind, cleared so the unit can turn over on schedule.
- Junk Removal: Mixed household loads priced by the fraction of the truck they fill, agreed before loading.
A mattress on its own is a small job, and the about page explains when it makes more sense to wait for the free curbside day.
How a mattress pickup is arranged
Four steps, most of them on your phone.
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Send the size and the floor
Call (407) 326-0014 or use the form with the mattress size, whether a box spring or frame goes too, and which floor it is on.
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Get the number in writing
The estimate names the mattress as a single item, with any stairs or long-carry adjustment shown. You agree before anyone lifts.
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Carry-out
The crew that takes the job bags the mattress if asked, carries it and the box spring down to the truck, and takes anything else you add to the written price.
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Pay when it is on the truck
Card or invoice for the agreed figure once the bed is loaded. No deposit, no tip expected.
Why book a mattress pickup through this line
Three things that hold on every mattress job routed from here.
One written price for one mattress
A mattress is quoted as a single item from a photo, with the floor and the stairs priced in, and the number is written before the lift. If the job grows on the day, a frame, a dresser, a sofa, the additions go on the same written estimate before they are loaded, so the figure you agreed to is the figure you pay.
HomeGuide (May 2024) lists mattress removal at $70 to $100 nationally as a single item.
Upstairs, apartments and condos are the normal job
Most mattress calls in Orlando come from renters, and most of those from an upper floor. The haulers we route carry from inside the unit, down stairwells and through elevator buildings as the standard service, and say so at booking rather than on the landing. If the building needs an elevator booking or a vendor insurance certificate, say so at booking and whoever attends brings it; the floor is priced on the written estimate, so the figure does not change on the landing.
60.5 percent of City of Orlando households rent (2023 American Community Survey).
Bed bugs are handled as a sealed-bag job
A mattress flagged for bed bugs is bagged in the room before it moves, carried straight to the truck, and taken to the landfill without touching anything bound for donation. Say the words at booking and the crew arrives with the bag. The box spring and any infested frame are bagged and routed the same way, and the pest treatment of the room is left to a pest control company before or after the pickup.
Orange County landfill, 5901 Young Pine Road: Class I garbage $56.40 per ton, $10 minimum, rates effective October 1, 2026 (ocfl.net).
What Reddit Says About Mattress Removal in Orlando
Mattresses are the sore spot of every disposal thread on Reddit. Posters report municipal haulers refusing them or demanding they be sealed in plastic because everyone is afraid of bed bugs, city pickup fees quoted anywhere from $10 to $100 per item in their own towns, and charities that turn up and leave the mattress behind over its condition. The default advice is to give it away or get it to the curb, and the people who hire anyway explain why: they live in an apartment where bulk pickup does not reach them, they have a bad back and nobody to take the other end, or the landlord controls the building's bulk-item account and stalls for a week or more.
The vetting advice is short because the job is small. Get the single-item price from a photo, and ask whether stairs change it before the day. Ask whether the crew bags the mattress; a bagged carry through a hallway is what apartment residents want. One warning repeats: do not cut a mattress apart yourself to get it in the car, because some contain fiberglass.
Operators on the same threads admit that a single mattress is priced low because six times out of ten they end up hauling more, which is why a sensible crew asks what else is going before it arrives. Across every junk thread the praised pattern is the same: text photos, get a firm number, pay that number when it is on the truck. A mattress pickup arranged from here works that way, with the carry from any floor included and the price written before the lift.
A typical mattress removal call from an apartment near UCF
The situation: A lease in a student complex off Alafaya Trail ends in the first week of May. The queen mattress, box spring and a particleboard frame are on the third floor, the complex fines residents for leaving furniture by the dumpster, and the tenant's parents are driving over with a sedan that will take boxes and nothing else.
What gets done: The tenant sends one photo of the bed and one of the stairwell. The written estimate names the mattress and box spring as single items and the frame as a third, with a third-floor carry noted. The crew that takes the job arrives in the afternoon window, bags the mattress in the bedroom, carries the three pieces down the exterior stairs, and asks whether the futon in the living room is going; it is, and it goes on the same written figure before it moves.
How it turns out: The unit is empty an hour before the move-out inspection, the tenant pays the agreed figure by card, and the load goes to the Young Pine Road landfill with the steel springs pulled for scrap. No fine from the complex, and the sedan leaves with the boxes.
Mattress removal questions
What people in Orlando ask before booking a mattress pickup.
Call (407) 326-0014What is the cheapest way to get rid of a mattress in Orlando?
The curb, if you have one. City of Orlando residents get two hand-loadable large items collected free on their yard waste day, and unincorporated Orange County takes up to three cubic yards of large items weekly, mattresses included. Retailers often haul the old one away at delivery for a small fee. A paid pickup makes sense when you are in an apartment without curbside bulk pickup, cannot get a mattress down the stairs, need it gone on a set day, or have a bed-bug mattress that should not sit by a shared dumpster. The single-item price is written from a photo before anyone lifts.
Can you get a mattress out of a third-floor apartment?
Yes, and that is the most common mattress job in Orlando. The crew that takes the job carries from inside the unit, down exterior or interior stairwells, and through elevator buildings as standard. A third-floor carry is noted on the written estimate as an adjustment rather than discovered on the landing. If the complex requires elevator booking or a certificate of insurance for vendors, say so when you book so whoever attends has it ready.
Do you take box springs and bed frames too?
Yes. Box springs, foundations, slats, headboards, metal and wood frames, and adjustable bases all go on the same pickup, each as its own line or folded into a truck fraction if the whole bedroom is coming out. Many people add a dresser or nightstand once the crew is there, and anything added is written onto the estimate before it is loaded so the final figure matches what you agreed to.
Will you take a mattress with bed bugs?
Yes, with the mattress sealed in a bag in the room before it moves. Tell the dispatcher at booking so the crew arrives with mattress bags and tape, carries it straight out without resting it in a hallway, and takes it to the Orange County landfill rather than anywhere near items bound for donation. The box spring is bagged the same way. Pest treatment of the room itself is a job for a pest control company, before or after the pickup.
Do old mattresses get recycled in Orlando?
Mostly no. Up to 75 percent of a mattress by weight can be recycled according to the Mattress Recycling Council, but the programs that do it at scale are funded by a fee on new mattresses in a few states, and Florida has none. Here a mattress is an ordinary large item that goes to the county landfill; a hauler with the space may pull the steel springs for scrap first. A clean mattress in good shape can occasionally be donated, and a receipt is available on request where it applies.