Every guide to mattress disposal in Miami tells you "the rule". There isn't one. Miami-Dade is a patchwork of municipalities, each running its own programme — so your address decides your options, not the word Miami. Here's how to find your actual answer, and what your building will want first.
Twin $82 · full $94 · queen $103 · king $114 · set with box spring $143
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Greater Miami is split across many separate municipalities plus large unincorporated areas administered by Miami-Dade County. The City of Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah, Doral, North Miami and the rest each run their own residential collection arrangements, and unincorporated addresses are different again.
So an article confidently stating what day to put a mattress out, whether it needs wrapping, or what the limit is, is describing one of those systems and quietly misleading everybody in the others.
We're not going to do that. What follows is how to get the right answer for your address, and what everything downstream of that answer costs.
Most people don't know, and postal addresses actively mislead — plenty of places with a Miami mailing address aren't in the City of Miami at all.
Check your utility or tax bill, which names the actual jurisdiction, or look your address up on the county's property lookup. That single fact determines everything else.
Then contact that municipality — not a general Miami number — and ask three things: is there a bulky-waste collection for my address, what does it accept, and when.
It's a five-minute call that can save you the whole cost of a pickup, and it's the reason this section comes before ours.
This is the other fork, and in Miami it matters more than the mattress does.
A house is simple. The item goes out of a door to a truck, and your only real question is the one above.
A building is a different exercise entirely. Many condo and apartment buildings here control access to the service elevator, restrict move-out hours, require a loading dock slot, and want paperwork from any contractor before they set foot inside.
Buildings also frequently prohibit residents putting bulky items in the trash room or beside the dumpster, which is where a lot of well-intentioned mattress disposal goes wrong. Ask your management first — every building's rules are its own and we can't tell you what yours says.
The sequencing catches almost everyone, so it's worth stating plainly.
Many South Florida buildings require a certificate of insurance from any contractor working on the property — often naming the building or association as additional insured — filed with management in advance.
That can't be produced on the doorstep. It needs a little lead time, which means the real order of operations is: paperwork, then elevator slot, then mattress — not the reverse.
Tell us the building when you book and we'll handle that side. But the timeline is usually set by what management needs, not by our availability. The condo cleanout guide covers the same ground for larger jobs.
A genuinely South Florida factor, and it shortens every good option.
Mattresses do badly in damp. A mattress stored in an unconditioned garage, left on a patio, or kept in a unit with the air conditioning off through a warm month deteriorates faster here than the same mattress would in a dry climate.
That matters because damp is disqualifying for every route except disposal. Reuse organisations won't take it, resale is finished, and no amount of airing changes the answer once it's gone.
So if a mattress might be donated or sold, the window is shorter in Miami than the general advice assumes. Decide early and keep it dry and indoors while you do. Storm season compounds this for anything staged in a garage.
We'd rather you used one of these than paid us, so here they are first.
Municipal collection, if your jurisdiction offers it for your address. Free where available. Confirm with your own municipality as above.
Donation, if it's genuinely good. Used mattresses are among the hardest items to donate anywhere — most organisations decline them outright, and those that accept want recent, clean, dry and structurally sound. Ask before moving it, and expect a no more often than a yes.
Retailer haul-away, if you're replacing it. Frequently the best deal available, sometimes free with delivery. Ask at the point of purchase, because it's much harder to add afterwards.
Selling is realistically limited to nearly-new. If none of these work, our pricing is below.
Short section, and the important part is what we won't say.
Tell us when you book. That's genuinely helpful rather than awkward — it changes how the item is handled and bagged, and it protects everyone else on the way out of a building.
Seal it before it leaves the room. A disposal bag, closed, before it goes into a hallway or an elevator.
What to do about the room is a licensed pest-control question, not a hauling one. We don't treat, we don't inspect, and we won't offer an opinion on it — that's a job for someone qualified, and getting the sequence wrong there is expensive.
Small thing, easy to miss, worth $52.
A queen mattress on its own is $103. A box spring on its own is $92. Booked separately that's $195.
Booked as a set, a mattress and box spring together are $143 — because they're one lift, one trip and one handling, so they're priced that way.
If both are going, say so up front rather than adding the box spring at the door. It's cheaper and it means the crew arrives expecting the actual job.
Flat rates, quoted from photographs before anyone arrives. Same across Miami-Dade.
| What leaves | Price |
|---|---|
| Minimum job | $75 |
| Mattress — twin | $82 |
| Mattress — full / double | $94 |
| Mattress — queen | $103 |
| Mattress — king / Cal King | $114 |
| Box spring (any size) | $92 |
| Mattress + box spring, as a set | $143 |
| Bed frame — metal / platform | $68 |
| Bed frame — solid wood / upholstered, with headboard | $126 |
| Quarter truck (4 cu yd) | $241 |
| Full truck (16 cu yd) | $732 |
No stair charge, no long-carry fee, no fuel surcharge, and no separate disposal line. A tenth-floor unit is quoted the same as a ground-floor one holding the same things.
A guest room being cleared in a Brickell condo: queen mattress, box spring, and an upholstered frame with headboard.
$269 in total, quoted from three photographs before anyone travelled.
Priced as separate items instead — mattress $103, box spring $92, frame $126 — it would have been $321, so booking the set saved $52. And note what didn't change the price: the building's floor, the elevator, or the distance from the dock to the truck.
Worth knowing if your timing is flexible.
South Florida has a seasonal population. Units turn over as seasonal residents arrive and leave, and both directions generate furniture — including a lot of mattresses, since a bed is the thing most likely to be replaced rather than moved.
That produces predictable busy stretches when buildings, elevators and haulers are all in demand at once. The scarce resource in those weeks is the building's slot, not our truck, so booking earlier matters more than usual.
Outside those stretches, a house or low-rise is frequently same-day.
Use it — it's free. Confirm what your specific jurisdiction accepts and when, then follow their instructions rather than a general Miami guide.
Paid pickup. Queen $103, set $143. Often same-day if you book in the morning.
Ask management first: COI, service elevator, permitted hours. Sort the paperwork, then book. Expect several days rather than same-day.
Ask the retailer about haul-away at the point of purchase. Frequently the cheapest route and sometimes free.
Disposal. Donation and resale are both closed once a mattress has taken moisture, and that's not recoverable.
Compare itemised against a quarter truck at $241. Past four or five pieces the truck tier usually wins — the price guide has the full ladder.
Start by working out which Miami you're in — Coral Gables, Miami Beach, the City of Miami and unincorporated Miami-Dade are different programmes with different rules, so check with the municipality your address actually sits in. If you're in a building, the second question is what management requires: many need a certificate of insurance and a booked service elevator slot, and that has to be arranged before a truck can be scheduled. Paid removal is $103 for a queen, $143 for a mattress and box spring together, $75 minimum.
Twin $82, full $94, queen $103, king or Cal King $114. Box spring alone $92. Mattress and box spring as a set $143, which is $52 less than the two separately. Metal or platform frame $68; solid wood or upholstered with headboard $126. Minimum $75, and no stair, long-carry or fuel charges anywhere in Miami-Dade.
A certificate of insurance, usually naming the building or association as additional insured, filed with management before anyone works on site. Routine in South Florida high-rises, and it can't be produced on the doorstep. Tell us the building when you book and we'll handle it — but the sequence runs paperwork, elevator slot, then mattress.
Be realistic. Used mattresses are among the hardest things to donate anywhere, and the humidity here shortens the window further. Anything damp, stored in an unconditioned garage, or left out during storm season is very unlikely to be accepted. If it's recent, clean, dry and has been on a frame, ask — before you move it — and expect a no more often than a yes.
Say so when you book, and don't move it through the building first. Seal it in a disposal bag before it leaves the room. What to do about the room itself is a licensed pest-control question, not a hauling one — we're not qualified to advise on treatment and won't try.
Yes, and the building usually sets the timeline rather than us. Service elevators are often bookable only in certain windows, some buildings restrict move-out hours, and a COI may need to be on file first — so frequently several days rather than same-day. Houses and low-rise buildings are far more flexible.
Find out which Miami you're in before you do anything else — then ask your building, then ask us.
Two free questions sit in front of every paid option here, and most people skip both. Your municipality may collect it for nothing. Your building may have requirements that make the date irrelevant until they're satisfied. Neither answer comes from a general guide about Miami, including this one.
Once those are settled the rest is simple: a queen is $103, a set is $143, and the floor you live on doesn't change either number.
Flat price · COI handled for your building · no stair or elevator fees
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