A mattress is the single most common thing people call us about, and it's because there's no easy path to getting rid of one. It doesn't fit in a car, it won't go in the bin, and the city will not take it with your normal collection. So it sits in the garage, or worse, it goes out to the curb and stays there.
Start with what doesn't work. Setting a mattress at the curb and hoping it disappears is illegal dumping in Clark County, and it carries real fines. Bulk pickup exists but it is limited: most residential accounts get a small number of bulk items per year, it has to be scheduled in advance, and mattresses often have their own restrictions on top of that. If you've already used your allotment, that door is closed for the year.
The DIY option is the transfer station. You can haul it yourself to a Republic Services facility and pay a disposal fee. That's genuinely the cheapest route if you already own a truck and don't mind the drive, the weigh-in, and the loading on both ends. In July, in Las Vegas heat, most people who try it once don't try it twice.
Donation only works in narrow circumstances. Most charities in the valley will not accept used mattresses at all, and the ones that do require them to be clean, stain-free, and free of any bed bug history. If yours is genuinely in excellent shape it's worth a call, but don't count on it — and never leave one outside a donation center after hours, which is also dumping.
There's one thing worth knowing about the bed bug question specifically: if the mattress has any history at all, wrap it in plastic before it moves an inch. Not because we won't take it — we will — but because dragging an unwrapped mattress through a hallway is how the problem spreads to the next unit. Mattress bags cost a few dollars at any hardware store.
The reason people call us instead is straightforward: you don't touch it. We come to the bedroom it's sitting in, carry it down the stairs, get it out through the door without scraping your walls, and take it away. There's no scheduling window months out and no allotment to run out of.
One practical tip that saves you money regardless of who you call: if you're replacing a mattress, get the old one out at the same time as anything else you've been meaning to move. Hauling prices by the space a load takes, so a mattress plus the broken dresser and the box in the corner costs barely more than the mattress alone. It's the trip that costs, not the item.
If you've got a mattress you need gone this week, call (323) 961-7795 or send us a photo and we'll quote it on the spot.