Mattress removal in Pasadena

The Precise Junk Removal crew carries old mattresses out of Pasadena bedrooms, and they work the whole San Gabriel Valley. The team prices the job off a picture, so there is one step to start. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. Mattress removal is the pickup most people cannot solve alone. A mattress will not fit in a bin and will not go in a car. So it leans against the garage wall for months while somebody works out who will take it.

Pricing starts with a picture, because a mattress shows most of what matters in one frame. The size, and whether a box spring is going with it. Once a time is set you get a two-hour arrival window. If the bed is not the only thing going, the list of what goes on the truck is worth a read before you send the photo.

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What goes on the truck

• Mattress and box spring
• Kings, queens and twins
• Bed frames and headboards
• Crib mattresses
• Futons and futon frames
• Bunk beds
• Sofa bed mattresses
• Mattress toppers and pads

Text a photo of yours to (626) 590-3118.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: furniture, mattresses and the mixed pile.

What usually goes out with the mattress

Most of these calls are a mattress and a box spring, because that is what a bed turns into once the sheets and the frame come off. The pair goes out together, because almost nobody keeps one and tosses the other. A bed frame or a pair of nightstands often rides out at the same time, the same as getting old furniture out of a bedroom.

What sets a mattress apart is the shape. It is light enough for one person to tip on its side and too big to go anywhere on its own. Parents clearing a kid's room call. So do landlords turning a unit over between tenants.

What a mattress and box spring cost

The floor on any job is $50, and Precise Junk Removal prices a mattress with its box spring off the photo you text. The number covers the whole job. What moves that number is room on the truck. The pair is bulky, so that is what you pay for.

There are two add-ons. Stairs add about $50 a staircase. A steep slope starts at the same $50, and where it ends up rides on how rough the walk up it is, which the photo shows. The guide to what junk removal costs around here walks through the same math on bigger loads. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118.

Carrying it out of the bedroom

A mattress is soft and used, and it still has to come through a bedroom door and down a hallway. The crew sorts that out from the photo, so they turn up knowing which way the bed is coming and how much room they have to work with. A queen moves through a standard door without much argument. A king takes the widest line in the house.

The team lifts it and carries it out. If the room is still full of other things, show that in the photo and they plan the carry around them.

Getting a king down a staircase

The hard part of this job is the route out of the house. A king will not bend, so the crew looks at the stairs before lifting anything. They check the turn at the bottom and whether the front door or a slider gives them more room. Then the mattress goes up on edge and walks down with them, and the box spring follows on a second trip, because the two do not come out at once.

In a building with a manager or a gate, tell the crew when you text and they will sort out the elevator or the loading door with whoever holds the keys. Both ends of the carry are theirs, so you are not holding a corner on the landing.

Where a mattress ends up

The crew sorts the load first. Anything with life left in it goes to a donation center. A mattress soaked through has fewer places it can go than one off a guest bed nobody slept in. Recycling takes about 75 percent of everything that goes on the truck. "Recycling is his love language" is the owner's own line, and the team means it on a bed as much as on a pile of lumber. Real trash goes to the landfill last. Where a particular mattress lands depends on the shape it is in when the crew gets there, which is one more reason the photo helps.

Hauling a mattress out across the valley

Pasadena is home base, and the same truck runs the length of the valley. The full list of towns the truck runs a mattress out of starts with South Pasadena and Sierra Madre, and it reaches Monrovia and Temple City to the east and Glendale and Burbank to the west.

A run out to Monrovia or La Cañada Flintridge is a longer drive than one across Pasadena, and the arrival window is the same two hours either way. The phone is answered from 8 AM to 8 PM every day, Sundays included, so a mattress that needs to go on a Sunday morning is a normal call. What changes is the house. A king out of a second-floor back bedroom in an older Pasadena place is a different carry than a twin out of a ground-floor room in Alhambra, and the photo is what tells one from the other.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (626) 590-3118. Precise looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $50. The only add-ons: stairs +$50, steep slope +$50. More on how pricing works.

Where Precise does this

All of the San Gabriel Valley. See every town Precise covers for mattress removal.