Family-owned since 2014 · 4.99 ★ × 463 reviews · 20,000+ jobs
Mattress Removal in Connecticut
Carried out from any floor, routed through CT's free Bye Bye Mattress recycling program. Pickups from $179 — same-day for most of CT before 11 AM.
20,000+
jobs completed
4.99 ★
463 reviews
Family-owned
since 2014 (12 years)
Licensed & insured
in Connecticut & New York
Last updated: September 6, 2026
Connecticut is one of the few states where getting rid of a mattress is genuinely free — and one where most people still don't know it. The state's Bye Bye Mattress program, run by the Mattress Recycling Council and funded by a recycling fee you already paid when the mattress was new, takes mattresses and box springs at no charge at participating drop-off sites across CT. We route every program-eligible mattress we haul through that stream.
So what you're paying us for is the part the program doesn't do: showing up, carrying the thing down from wherever it lives, and making it gone today. Pickups start at the $179 minimum-load tier across Fairfield, New Haven, Hartford, Litchfield, and Middlesex counties plus lower New London — same-day for most of it when you call before 11 AM.
The program does the disposal. We do the everything-else.
Here's the honest shape of mattress removal in Connecticut, and it's worth thirty seconds before you book anyone:
The recycling is already paid for. Every new mattress sold in CT includes a recycling fee that funds the statewide takeback program. Any used mattress or box spring — regardless of age or where it was bought — can be dropped at a participating site free. Our mattress disposal guide covers the DIY route in full, including the transfer-station permit wrinkle.
What's left is a transportation problem. A queen mattress doesn't fold, doesn't fit in a sedan, and doesn't care that the transfer station closes at noon on Saturday. That's the actual product on this page: a crew that gets it out of the house — around the stairwell corner it barely made it up in the first place — and onto a truck that was coming through your town anyway.
And we use the program too. Program-eligible mattresses we collect route through the recycling stream, not the tipping floor. You don't pay a disposal fee for a mattress the state already covered; you pay for truck space and crew time, which is the only honest thing left to charge for.
When the $50 fee applies — and when it doesn't
The program has one real standard: clean and dry. A mattress with ordinary sag, surface stains, and two decades of faithful service routes through fine. What doesn't: units that are soaked through, heavily soiled, or contaminated past what a recycling line can process. Those get refused at the stream and go to regular disposal, which carries a real per-unit cost at the transfer station.
That cost is the $50-per-unit fee — a pass-through, not a markup, and it applies only to units the program can't take. The same fee applies if you load a mattress into one of our roll-off dumpsters, where everything ships as mixed disposal. We'll tell you which side of the line your mattress is on when we see it (or from your photos), before anything is loaded — never on the invoice as a surprise.
Bed bugs are their own category: if an infestation is in play, say so on the phone. Sealed-bag handling protects the crew and the truck, and it's a plan-ahead item, not a spring-it-on-arrival item.
How often this job comes up — 2026 numbers
Two datapoints from our own books put mattress work in perspective. First, on the junk-removal side: mattresses and box springs appeared on 18% of the 45 itemized jobs in our 2026 detail book — second only to couches — with quoted prices across that whole sample running $125 to $655, median $295. One real example, verbatim from the book: two couches and a twin mattress — $195. That's Fairfield County data and a thin sample — 45 itemized jobs is a thin sample — read these as texture, not a rate card. (Grizzly Junk Pros job data, 2026 detail, Fairfield County, n=45)
Second, on the dumpster side: of the special-item fees we charged on 2026 rentals, mattresses and box springs were ~7 in 10 of them (n=45) — far ahead of freon appliances and tires. Translation: the mattress is the item most likely to sneak into a roll-off and pick up the per-unit fee. If a mattress is most of what you're tossing, the crew pickup with program routing above is usually the cleaner path.
Truck-space pricing — mattresses ride the same ladder
When loading the dumpster yourself isn’t the right call — small volume, awkward access, or you just want it gone today — we send a crew. Pricing runs by truck space used, not by item. Final pricing confirmed before removal begins.
- Minimum Load$179
- 1/8 Truckload$239
- 1/6 Truckload$309
- 1/4 Truckload (~5 yd³)$359
- 1/3 Truckload$419
- 3/8 Truckload$489
- 1/2 Truckload (~10 yd³)$559
- 5/8 Truckload$659
- 2/3 Truckload$759
- 3/4 Truckload (~15 yd³)$809
- 5/6 Truckload$849
- 7/8 Truckload$919
- Full Truckload (~20 yd³)$979
Not sure which tier? Send a few photos and we’ll size it for you.
Get a Free Junk Removal QuoteWhat the pickup itself costs
The ladder above is the same canonical 13-tier truck-space pricing as every junk-removal job we run — no mattress-specific rate card. The two tiers that matter here: a lone mattress rides the $179 minimum load, and "Mattress + box spring, or small couch + a few items" is the written description of the $239 tier — the single most common mattress booking there is.
From there it's just volume: add the frame, the headboard, the boxes from the closet, and the tier moves the way the ladder always moves. Stairs don't change the number, third-floor walkups don't change the number, and the count of mattresses matters less than the truck space they fill. Multi-mattress estate hauls bundle into the load's tier with program routing at no extra charge.
Mattress ready to go? Text us a photo
Snap the pile — or send a Street View link if the driveway is half the question — and text it with your name to (203) 219-8855. A real number comes back, usually the same day.
Prefer a form? Send the junk removal quote form.
Booking to bare bedroom, five steps
- Call (203) 219-8855 or send the junk removal quote form. Say what's going — mattress only, or the whole bed — and what floor it's on. A photo settles the tier fast.
- Same-day or scheduled. Before 11 AM usually means today across most of our service area; otherwise next-day is standard.
- Crew arrives and confirms the tier. The price is agreed before anything is lifted.
- Carry-out. Two-person crew, doorways and stairwells handled — it's the bulk of the job and it's included.
- Routing. Program-eligible units to the recycling stream; anything the program can't take, disposed with the disclosed $50 pass-through you approved up front.
Mattress pickups — customer reviews
Genuine mattress jobs from our review corpus — including one customer who flagged the truck down in her own driveway.
A “Punctual, reasonably priced, excellent office staff. Jason, Lauren and Ashley were very accommodating for my small job of a mattress and box spring removal. Jason and his helper arrived at my home promptly at the requested time, and quickly took the items away at a reasonable price (they beat a competitor's price).”
Y “I came home late from work last night and saw the Stamford Junk Pros truck in the driveway of my highrise. I caught Justin & Phoenix just finishing up with a neighbor and asked them if they could take an old mattress for me. They were friendly and glad to help, and I couldn't be happier I ran into them.”
Mattress removal FAQs
Is mattress recycling really free in Connecticut?
The state program is, yes. Connecticut's Bye Bye Mattress program — run by the Mattress Recycling Council and funded by a recycling fee collected when new mattresses are sold — takes mattresses and box springs at no charge at participating drop-off sites, mostly municipal transfer stations. The 'free' part covers the disposal; getting a queen mattress into a vehicle and across town during transfer-station hours is the part people end up paying us for.
When does the $50 mattress fee apply?
Only when a mattress can't ride the program: units that are soaked through, heavily soiled, or otherwise past the program's clean-and-dry standard get refused at the recycling stream and go to regular disposal instead — that's when the $50 per-unit pass-through applies. Same rule if you load a mattress into one of our roll-off dumpsters. A normal old mattress with ordinary stains and sag routes through the program, and you pay only the truck-space tier for the pickup itself.
What does mattress pickup cost?
A single mattress rides the $179 minimum-load tier; the canonical mattress-plus-box-spring combination is literally the description of our $239 eighth-truck tier. Add more items and the truck-space ladder does what it always does — you pay for space used, never per item. Stairs and carries don't change the tier.
Do box springs follow the same rules as mattresses?
Yes — the state program takes box springs on the same free, clean-and-dry terms as mattresses, and the same soiled-unit exception applies. The one practical difference: box springs are more awkward than heavy, and older ones shed staples and splinters, so they're gloved-crew items even though they weigh half what the mattress does.
What about the bed frame and headboard?
Different category entirely. Frames, headboards, and footboards are furniture, not program material — they ride the normal truck-space ladder with everything else, and metal frames get pulled for scrap recycling. A full bed teardown (mattress, box spring, frame, headboard) is still usually a single low-tier pickup. See our furniture removal page for how the tiers work on bedroom sets.
I have an estate cleanout with five mattresses. How does that price?
As truck space, not as five mattress fees. Multi-mattress hauls bundle into whatever tier the whole load fills — that's almost always cheaper than any per-item math, and we route the program-eligible units through the recycling stream at no extra charge. The mattresses stop being the story and the total volume becomes it, which is how estate pricing should work.
Why hire you when the drop-off is free?
Because the drop-off assumes three things you might not have: a vehicle a mattress fits in, a town transfer-station permit, and a free weekday morning. If all three are true, honestly — use the program, and our mattress disposal guide on the blog walks you through it. When any of them is false, or the mattress is on the third floor, or it's one item in a bigger pile, that's the job we exist for. Same-day for most of our service area when you call before 11 AM.
Related pages
- Junk removal overview — the full service, ladder, and same-day rules
- Mattress disposal guide — the DIY program route, step by step
- Furniture removal — frames, headboards, and the rest of the bedroom
- Appliance removal — the other item with a disclosed pass-through fee
- How pricing works — every fee and tier across all four services
Get a mattress removal quote
Call (203) 219-8855 or send the quote form — mention the floor it's on and whether the box spring's going too. Phones answered 8 AM – 10 PM, 7 days; live team Mon–Fri 8 AM – 4 PM, AI phone assistant other times.