Junk Removal in Kissimmee
Vacation rental furniture swaps, Solivita cleanouts, and the pile the city bulk truck charges by the cubic yard to take. One call, a price in writing before anything is lifted, and a crew that carries it out from inside.
- Price agreed before loading
- Same-day and next-day available
- No deposit, pay when done
Free Estimates in Kissimmee
Kissimmee junk jobs come in two shapes: a vacation home being turned over between guests and a long-held house being emptied. We get the pickup arranged for both. Whoever attends walks the rooms, agrees a price in writing, loads from inside the home, and sweeps the spot. The estimate is free by phone, by photo or on site, and the phone is answered seven days a week.
Kissimmee is one of the few towns around Orlando where the municipal bulk truck sends a bill. The City of Kissimmee Solid Waste Division collects furniture, mattresses and some appliances on your assigned bulk day without scheduling, then charges $25.85 per cubic yard on the KUA electric bill, up to $310.20 for twelve cubic yards (kissimmee.gov, Get Large Items Picked Up). A cubic yard is about the size of a washing machine. That changes the math: for a single chair the curb still wins, but for a garage, a sectional and two mattresses together, a hauler who carries it out the same day is often close in price and far faster.
The other thing that shapes jobs here is who owns the houses. Osceola County has more than 30,000 vacation homes (Experience Kissimmee, July 2026), and the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey puts renters at 53.7 percent of occupied Kissimmee homes. Furniture here is replaced on a schedule, and the person booking the pickup is often a property manager who is somewhere else.
What the City of Kissimmee bulk truck takes, and what it charges
Kissimmee collects bulk items weekly on an assigned day with no appointment, and bills by volume. The city lists furniture, mattresses, some appliances, construction and demolition materials, swing sets, large boxes and large tree trimmings as eligible (kissimmee.gov, Get Large Items Picked Up). The rules that trip people up:
- Items go to the curb by 7am on your bulk day, at least four feet from other objects, clear of sidewalks and storm drains.
- Bulk waste must stay separate from yard waste and garbage, and tree trimming piles must sit apart from other bulk.
- Debris left by private contractors doing tree or remodeling work is refused.
- City employees do not enter private property, so everything must already be at the curb.
- Refrigerators go door side down or with the door removed.
- The charge is $25.85 per cubic yard, billed on the KUA electric account: $51.70 for two yards, $77.55 for three, $310.20 for twelve.
Check your address first. Plenty of mail that says Kissimmee is in unincorporated Osceola County, where Waste Management collects up to three cubic yards of bulk a week on the regular garbage day at no extra charge, with appliances and construction materials excluded and scheduled separately (osceola.org, Curbside Collection Services). Supplemental county pickups over the three yards are capped at $12.01 per cubic yard.
A paid hauler earns the job when the pile is bigger than a few yards, when it is upstairs or inside, when it has to be gone before a check-in rather than on a fixed weekday, or when it includes a refrigerant appliance the curb programs will not handle. General junk removal covers the mixed pile; appliance removal covers the fridge.
Vacation rental turnovers around Kissimmee
Short-term rental turnover is the steadiest source of junk work in Kissimmee. More than 30,000 vacation homes sit in Osceola County (Experience Kissimmee, July 2026), concentrated along the US 192 corridor, around Four Corners and out toward ChampionsGate and Davenport, and each one swaps sofas, bunk beds, mattresses, patio sets and the occasional hot tub on a cycle that has nothing to do with a bulk day.
The hauler we route handles those jobs around the booking calendar. A manager texts photos of the old furniture staged in the garage or the lanai, gets a written range, and the crew clears it between checkout and the next arrival. Pool-deck furniture, a dead grill and a spa shell cut into sections on the lawn are all ordinary here. Furniture removal and hot tub removal are the two pages managers use most.
Two practical points for managers. Many vacation rental HOAs restrict how long anything can sit at the curb, so an inside pickup with no curb staging avoids a letter. And the person meeting the crew is often a cleaner or a lockbox code, so the price is agreed with the manager in writing beforehand and nothing is loaded that is outside that scope.
Solivita and the 55+ side of Kissimmee
Estate and downsizing cleanouts around Kissimmee cluster in Solivita, the 55+ community on the Poinciana side with roughly 5,500 to 5,900 homes depending on the directory counted. Kissimmee city itself skews young: only 11.6 percent of residents are 65 or older in the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey, so the cleanout calls come from the gated communities on the edges rather than the older neighborhoods near downtown.
Those jobs run differently from a rental turnover. A family member is often flying in for a few days, the house is full of forty years of belongings, and there is some embarrassment about the state of a closet or a garage. The crew that takes the job sorts keep, donate and haul with the family in the room, and a donation receipt is available on request where a charity accepts the furniture. Gate access, a clubhouse-side parking rule and a single-story floor plan all go into the estimate. See estate cleanout for how a whole-house job is scoped.
Where Kissimmee junk goes: Bass Road and the St. Cloud transfer station
Osceola County does not run a general landfill for furniture; its Bass Road site takes yard waste and appliances and turns furniture away. The Bass Road Disposal Site at 750 S Bass Road is open Monday to Friday, 7am to 3pm, accepts yard waste at $56.87 per ton, white goods at $37.50 per ton and single passenger tires at $1 each with a limit of eight, and refuses household trash, furniture, carpet, clothing and construction debris (osceola.org, Yard Waste Disposal Site). Cards only, no cash.
Furniture and mixed loads from Kissimmee therefore go to the City of St. Cloud Transfer Station, which accepts furniture, carpet, construction debris, white goods, electronics and up to eight mattresses per customer, Monday to Saturday 7am to 3:30pm, at $87.64 per ton with a $3 minimum and a $5 weighing charge (stcloudfl.gov, Transfer Station and Solid Waste Fees). That per-ton rate is a good chunk higher than the Orange County landfill on Young Pine Road, which is why a hauler's Kissimmee price can sit a little above the same load in Orlando.
Appliances take a separate route. Florida Statute 403.708(12) bars white goods from landfill burial, and EPA Section 608 requires refrigerant to be recovered by a certified technician before a fridge or freezer is scrapped. A hauler taking a refrigerator from a Kissimmee rental needs a metal recycler that handles that recovery; ask whoever attends where the unit is going.
What Gets Hauled in Kissimmee
Most Kissimmee calls are furniture swaps, whole-house cleanouts and the appliance the curb program would not take. The services booked most often here:
- Junk removal for the mixed garage or lanai pile
- Furniture removal for rental turnovers
- Hot tub removal from pool decks and lanais
- Estate cleanout in Solivita and the surrounding 55+ communities
- Appliance removal for refrigerators and freezers
A Typical Kissimmee Pickup
The situation: A property manager runs six vacation homes off US 192 and has a check-in on Friday. The owner approved new living room furniture, and the old sectional, two queen mattresses, a bunk bed frame and a cracked patio set are stacked in the garage. The city bulk day is Tuesday and the pile is about five cubic yards, which would run over $125 on the KUA bill and still mean dragging everything to the curb.
What gets done: The manager sends photos from the garage, gets a written range for roughly a half truck, and books a Thursday morning slot. The crew that takes the job meets the cleaner at the lockbox, shows the empty bed, loads from the garage, and shows the fill line before leaving.
How it turns out: The garage is swept, the mattresses and sectional are gone before the furniture delivery, and the invoice matches the number agreed by text. Nothing was staged at the curb, so the HOA never had a reason to write.
What This Costs in Kissimmee
Kissimmee junk removal lands in the national ranges with a modest premium for disposal distance. Fixr (January 2025) puts a typical job at $150 to $600, with a minimum load of about 60 cubic feet at $75 to $125 and a full truck at $450 to $650. HomeGuide (May 2024) reports $150 to $350 per average load, a mattress at $70 to $100 and a sectional at $200 to $375. Every figure is a national range, confirmed by the written estimate before anything is loaded.
What moves the number here: the per-ton rate at the St. Cloud transfer station is higher than Orange County's, so a dense load of furniture and carpet costs the hauler more to dump; a two-story townhome near the Loop adds a stair adjustment; gated vacation communities and Solivita add a few minutes at the gate; and a refrigerator carries a refrigerant handling line. A sectional alone, carried from the garage, sits toward the bottom of the range. A five-yard rental turnover pile sits around a half truck. Compare that with the city's $25.85 per cubic yard at the curb and the difference is mostly the carry-out and the date.
Where a Kissimmee load ends up
An explainer on what happens to a truckload after it leaves the curb.
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Does Kissimmee charge for bulk pickup?
Yes, inside city limits. The City of Kissimmee collects bulk items on your assigned day without an appointment and bills $25.85 per cubic yard on the KUA electric bill, rising to $310.20 for twelve cubic yards (kissimmee.gov). Addresses in unincorporated Osceola County get up to three cubic yards a week included with regular service through Waste Management, with appliances and construction material excluded. Check which jurisdiction your address falls in before deciding; the city's page has a lookup.
Can a hauler clear a vacation rental between checkout and check-in?
Same-day and next-day pickups are available, and turnover windows are the most common Kissimmee booking. Send photos of the staged furniture, agree the range in writing, and the crew meets a cleaner or uses the lockbox. Nothing outside the agreed scope is loaded, and the invoice goes to the manager. Pickups run 7am to 7pm Monday to Saturday, Sunday by arrangement.
Will the hauler take a refrigerator from a Kissimmee rental?
Yes, and it goes to a metal recycler rather than a landfill. Florida law bars white goods from landfill burial, and EPA Section 608 requires the refrigerant to be recovered by a certified technician before scrapping. The city asks residents to set a fridge door side down or remove the door at the curb; a hauler carries it out of the kitchen with the door taped and handles the recycling route. Ask whoever attends where the unit is going.
Is a Solivita estate cleanout priced differently?
It is priced the same way, by the fraction of the truck the load fills, with the gate and the sorting time taken into account. Most Solivita homes are single-story, which keeps the carry simple. The crew sorts with the family, donation receipts are available on request where a charity takes the furniture, and the price is agreed in writing before the first box leaves. Tips are never expected.
Nearby Areas We Serve
Haulers routed to Kissimmee also cover the towns on either side of it.