The first thing to know: Metro mostly doesn't pick up bulk trash — the "free" route is hauling it to a convenience center yourself. Everything downstream of that fact is in these guides.
Seven categories of option, what each is genuinely good at, and the one question that eliminates most of them for your particular property.
Every bulk-collection program has an exclusion list, and it is always the same five categories. Here is what they are and what each costs to handle properly.
Window unit $87 or $109, portable $85, outdoor condenser $115. Refrigerant handling is part of the job and never a line item.
A studio that has been stripped is usually a quarter truck at $241. A fully furnished one-bedroom left behind is usually a half at $431. Here is how to tell…
A metal frame is $68. An upholstered king is $152. The difference is not the size, it is whether the thing comes apart.
The price is the same on a Tuesday in October and a Saturday in August. What changes is whether you can get the slot you want.
Sometimes yes, on a schedule you have to look up. Put it out early and you get a codes complaint and a soaked sofa. Removal is $126.
Cheapest is not always free. A sofa hauled out is $126, and the free routes cost you a week, a truck rental, or a soaked couch on a sidewalk.
A dumpster rents you space. Junk removal buys you labor. On most Nashville lots the deciding factor is whether the container can physically sit anywhere.
A mid-century ranch in Crieve Hall that one family lived in for fifty years is rarely one truck. Plan on $732 for the first full load and price the rest…
Half a truck is $431 and a full one is $732. In a city where most houses have no basement, the garage absorbed everything for thirty years.
A full truck is $732 and a serious hoarding cleanup is several of them. The number you need is truckloads, and the way to find it is to book one and count.
A hot tub or spa is $390, flat. Everything else on this page is about how it gets from your back deck to the street, which is the part that varies.
A sofa is $126, flat, carried down from wherever it sits. Everything else on this page is the arithmetic of why people still try the other three ways first.
A queen is $103. The set with the box spring is $143. Nobody will take a used mattress off you for free, and here is why that is not going to change.
Standard fridge $164, side-by-side or french door $183. Defrost it two days out, take the door off if it is going outside, and do not tip it on its side.
$62, $68 or $73 depending on size. The tube TV in the basement costs the same as the flat panel, which surprises people every time.
A refrigerator is $164, a washer $133, a dryer $128. Refrigerant recovery is part of the job and never a line item. The prep is on you.
Four red flags do most of the work: a deposit before anyone arrives, a price quoted on arrival, nothing in writing, and cash only.
Four months of high dew points in an unconditioned garage finishes off most furniture. A sofa is $126 to remove, a large pile is $208.
Short version: yes, and it is enforced. A sofa removed legally is $126. A sofa abandoned on a back road in Joelton is a citation with your name on it.
Every price, published, before anyone drives. $75 minimum per visit, $732 for a full truck, and everything in between on this page.
This is a comparison of models, not a scoreboard of numbers. We publish flat prices; the on-site model quotes you in your driveway. That changes how your…
A quarter truck is $241 and a half is $431, the same figure every month. The expensive part of a turn is never the removal, it is the days the unit sits.
There is no Tennessee mattress take-back program to fall back on, so your real options are the curb, a truck, or a flat $103 for a queen.
Recycling a mattress is real, labor-intensive, and almost never free here. A queen taken away is $103 and it happens on a day you pick.
Every move ends with a pile the movers would not load. A quarter truck is $241, a half is $431, and the sofa on its own is $126.
Most of this city sits on a crawlspace. The houses that got a real basement have been filling it since the forties, and it is usually three-quarters of a…
Construction debris $120, masonry $219 per quarter truck, 20 bags $259. Renovation waste is heavy, and weight is why it prices differently from furniture.
A 5x10 is usually $241 and a 10x10 usually $431. The harder question is why you are still paying rent on furniture you have not seen since 2021.
The infill duplexes in East Nashville and The Nations put your furniture on the third floor and gave you one staircase with a turn in it. The price does not…
The $99 in the ad is a doorway number. Our minimum is $75 and a sofa is $126, and both of those are the real price of the real job.
TVs are $62, $68 or $73 depending on size. A box of assorted electronics is $77. The old tube TV in the basement is the one that is genuinely hard to move.
The truck rental is the cheapest line on the DIY receipt and the only one people count. Here is the whole receipt, next to a $126 flat carry-out.
Not a range, a list. These are the job shapes that actually get booked in this city and the exact arithmetic behind each total.
Six routes, and five of them only work under conditions most Nashville furniture does not meet. The last one is $126 for a sofa and it ends on a day you pick.
Sorted, then donated or recycled where a genuine route exists, then landfilled. Here is the honest version, including the parts that do not recycle.
A standard fridge is $164, carried out of a Green Hills basement or a Donelson garage for the same price. The other routes are free, slower, and pickier.
The saving on an uninsured hauler is small. The exposure is your drywall, your deposit, and your name on an illegal dump site.
The furniture that fit a 1,300 square foot bungalow does not fit a new build in Nolensville. Most of these cleanouts are a half truck at $431.
Real 2026 flat prices, by item and truckload.
No, mostly — here are the free and paid options that actually exist.
Free if you have a truck and a Saturday — the honest comparison.
Flat $126, sectionals from $185, carry-out included.
Flat from $75 — and the tax math that favors service.
Flat photo-quote from $75 vs the on-site estimate.
Vandy and Belmont turnovers — twin mattress $82, flat from $75.