Junk removal costs in Albuquerque

There's no season for an Albuquerque large-item pickup. The city's Large Item Pick-Up runs on your next normal trash day, and the request should go in at least 24 hours before it, by online form or 311. One pickup tops out at a standard pickup-truck load.

The list covers most of a move-out: couches, mattresses, bed frames, washers, dryers, stoves, water heaters, lawn mowers, TVs, sinks and toilets, plus up to four tires. Appliances go out empty, and a fridge or freezer goes with its doors taped shut. Set everything five feet from carts, mailboxes, hydrants, parked cars, low branches and poles, so the truck can get in close.

For a bigger cleanout, the city runs three convenience centers. They close at 5 p.m. and stop letting vehicles in at 4:30. Watch the item limits: three mattresses, five tires and five pallets per customer, and picket fencing counts against the pallets. Bag any insulation. Drywall and carpet count as construction debris, and so do roofing materials, so none of them go to a center. Railroad ties, root balls and artificial turf go to the Cerro Colorado Landfill.

Fixing up the yard, too? Concrete, dirt, rock, gravel and brick are capped at 9 cubic feet, which the city puts at about two wheelbarrow loads.