How much does junk removal cost in Stallings, NC?
Junk removal is priced by the space the load takes, not by the hour, at one price per trailer load. A single item is $95, a pickup-bed load is $150, and the ladder runs up to $700 for a trailer packed full.
The full ladder: single item $95 · a pickup-bed load $150 · a small room $235 · a large room $315 · a one-car garage $395 · a partially cleared two-car garage $475 · a full two-car garage $560 · the trailer packed full $700.
Surcharges are flat and named before the truck moves: mattress or box spring +$25 each, refrigerant appliance +$40, tire +$8, and paint or e-waste billed at whatever the disposal site charges that day. Stairs are +$25 per flight above the first, a genuinely heavy or awkward item starts at +$40, and same-day is +$40 when the schedule allows. Card payments carry a 3.5% processing fee; cash, check and Zelle are also accepted.
The work that fills those loads in Stallings is predictable. Garages in the late-1990s and 2000s subdivisions off Stevens Mill Road and Chestnut Lane hold a decade of bikes, deck furniture, treadmills and paint cans. Families arriving from out of state unload the moving truck, then need the packing debris and the furniture that did not survive the trip gone in one visit. Estate and downsizing cleanouts on the older, larger lots near Olde Blairs Mill and the original Stallings Road corridor tend to land at the top of the ladder rather than as single items.
- Single item: $95
- Pickup-bed load: $150
- Small room: $235
- Large room: $315
- One-car garage: $395
- Partially cleared two-car garage: $475
- Full two-car garage: $560
- Trailer packed full: $700 — one trip
What will the Town of Stallings pick up at the curb, and what won't it?
The town's contracted hauler collects bulk items only about three times a year, with a limit of four items per household per event, set out on your normal yard waste day during the announced bulk week. Extra pickups outside those weeks have to be arranged directly with the hauler at your own expense, which is where a private haul often costs less than waiting a quarter for a slot.
Even during a bulk week, the prep rules eliminate a lot of what people actually want gone. Most items are capped around 75 pounds. Carpet has to be rolled into four-foot lengths under 25 pounds per roll. Plywood is limited to roughly an inch thick and four feet square. Refrigerators and freezers need the doors removed. Bed frames get dismantled, grills need the propane tank pulled, cast iron tubs are refused outright, only wood fencing is taken, and nails have to be flattened for the crew's safety.
The categories the town does not take at all are the ones that come up constantly in a growing suburb: construction debris, contractor materials, bricks, concrete, drywall, roofing, toilets, pallets, auto parts and hazardous waste. Yard waste runs on its own biweekly schedule with clear biodegradable or paper bags only, capped at 25 thirty-two-gallon bags or 12 sixty-four-gallon bags, and branches must be under four inches across, four feet long and 50 pounds per bundle. If your project produced a bathroom vanity, an old toilet and a pile of demo drywall, none of that is going curbside.
Why does it matter that Stallings sits in two counties?
Stallings was the first Union County town to lie in two counties, and a portion of its addresses, mostly on the Idlewild Road side toward Charlotte and Mint Hill, fall inside Mecklenburg. That single fact changes where your junk can legally go, which is why two neighbors on opposite sides of a line can get different answers from the same hauler.
Union County's residential waste and recycling convenience centers are for Union County residents and are open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays only, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Larger loads and oversized cardboard go to the Union County landfill on Austin Chaney Road in Monroe, which runs weekday hours only and charges by load. If your Stallings address is on the Mecklenburg side, those Union sites are not your facility, and county-run disposal and recycling centers on the Charlotte side, like the one on Pence Road in Hickory Grove, are the relevant option instead.
We sort that out before quoting rather than after loading. It affects routing, the disposal cost passed through on paint and electronics, and whether a Saturday drop is even possible. It also affects timing: a Tuesday or Thursday job on the Union side can hit a convenience center the same afternoon, while a Monday load may sit until the landfill opens.
Which Stallings neighborhoods generate the most hauling and moving work?
Most of our Stallings volume comes from subdivisions built between the mid-1990s and the 2010s, which is when the town went from roughly 3,000 residents to over 16,000. Stevens Mill, Chestnut Oaks, Fairhaven, Woodbridge, Country Woods East and Hunley Creek are full of two-story homes with attached garages, floored attics and bonus rooms above the garage, and all three of those spaces fill up.
The golf-course and pond communities like Shannamara and Emerald Lake, plus the ranch and courtyard-style sections including The Courtyards at Emerald Lake, skew toward downsizing moves: a dining set nobody wants, a piano-sized problem in a formal room, and thirty years of garage shelving. Newer infill and townhome pockets closer to Old Monroe Road and the US-74 corridor generate the opposite job, unpacking labor, TV mounting and closet build-outs within a week of closing.
HOA covenants across these neighborhoods are the practical driver. Most prohibit leaving a mattress, appliance or pile of moving boxes at the curb outside the announced bulk week, so items get stashed in the garage and then removed all at once. Stairs matter here too: the two-story stock and the townhome sections both mean a second flight, billed at +$25 per flight above the first.
What does TV mounting cost in Stallings?
TV mounting is flat-rate: $99 up to 60 inches, $149 for 61 to 75 inches, $199 for 76 to 85 inches, and a custom quote for 86 inches and up, which is a two-person minimum. Mounting over a fireplace or into stone or brick starts at $199. Each additional TV on the same visit takes 25% off mount labor. Travel is built into the number we quote you once per visit, not per TV.
Add-ons are never discounted: stick-on cord concealment is $39, in-wall cord routing starts at $89, a flat mount is $40 and a full-motion mount is $65. Prices assume you already have a bracket unless you buy a mount from us.
In Stallings the two common situations are the stone or brick fireplace surrounds in the mid-2000s builds around Shannamara and Stevens Mill, which need masonry anchors and a plan for where the cable actually runs, and the newer bonus rooms and townhome living walls where in-wall routing is straightforward because the framing is standard and open behind the drywall. Tell us the wall type when you call and the quote will not move on arrival.
Can I hire hourly moving help or a handyman in Stallings?
Yes. A solo handyman is $70 per hour with a two-hour minimum, and a two-person crew is $135 per hour with a two-hour minimum. Add a utility trailer for +$35/hr or the 16ft enclosed for +$60/hr, so a two-person crew with the enclosed trailer is $195/hr. After the minimum, time is billed in 30-minute increments. Travel is built into the number we quote you.
On Saturday and Sunday the two-person hourly crew carries a three-hour minimum, while the solo handyman stays at two hours. Flat-rate services such as TV mounting and junk removal have no minimum at all. A 15% Sunday uplift applies to flat-rate work only and never to hourly crew work.
Hourly is the right call for load-and-unload help on a local move inside Stallings or across the line into Matthews and Indian Trail, for shuffling a household during a flooring install, or for a punch list of small repairs that would be silly to quote item by item. Flooring is priced separately: LVP or laminate at $2.50 per square foot, herringbone or premium patterns at $3.50, tear-out and haul-away at $1.00, and subfloor prep at $70 per hour, with a minimum of 200 square feet or $500.