mattress removal

kathleen37 · 18-01-2025 03:05PM #1

Hi there,

Would anyone have any links/idea's for mattress removal? I'm not buying a new one (I usually buy from somewhere that will take the old one) so just need this one picked up and not dumped somewhere.

Found one place charging €75 - would that be standard price, do you think?

Thank you's

x

kathleen37 · 18-01-2025 07:14PM

Yeah just had another quote for €70 - so that looks like the average price. (I do know there is a charge at the recycling centre for the mattress)

I'll leave this here in case anyone else is looking.

NIMAN · 27-01-2025 11:03PM

Check out this link for locations and prices.

https://www.brysonrecycling.org/donegal-recycling-centres/

It appears a double mattress is €25. If you could fit it into your own car, you'll save yourself nearly 50.

Or if you ever go into Derry, the recycling centres there will take it for free.

kathleen37 · 28-01-2025 06:52PM

Thanks - wouldn't be able to manage getting it in and out of the car on my own, if it would fit (only have a small car!)

And i've been told you have to prove residence to get into the recyling centres in the North - donegal reg car would have no hope, apparently..

NIMAN · 28-01-2025 07:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109892#Comment_123109892

Is it a single or a double? Single would easily fit in most cars, double maybe not without being folded over in itself.

And you've been told wrong. You don't have to prove residence to use the recycling centres in Derry, at least not in the 3 I regularly use. I drive a D reg car. The dumps in Derry are full of Irish reg cars, you'll be grand. I was in one yesterday and just came from one about 30min ago.

kathleen37 · 04-02-2025 05:55PM

Really? Wow - I know I've been turned from the one in Strabane before? (that was a good few years back..) Never thought to try Derry - though it is a double and I doubt id be able to get it in and out of the car myself. Fella that came was good though - he took another few things at the same time.

creedp · 04-02-2025 08:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123109947#Comment_123109947

That's interesting. Does anyone know if centres around Newry take them free also. Would be worth bringing them along next time Im up as I've a couple of mattresses to dispose of.

For such an environmentally conscious State I'm surprised the Govt haven't introduced such an enlightened policy here.

muffler · 04-02-2025 08:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123134595#Comment_123134595

Strabane did put the clampers on people from across the border using their facility. Again thats a few years ago but I havent heard of that changing in recent times.

greasepalm · 04-02-2025 08:46PM

If you were in Dublin ?

https://dublin.ie/work/stories/how-dublin-works-eco-mattress-recycling/

A number of years ago there was a mattress amnisty where vans were at local parks taking electrical waste and mattresses for free. I was lucky as old car took 2 single mattresses for free as was not going to pay 30 -70 each.

NIMAN · 04-02-2025 09:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123135085#Comment_123135085

Not sure about Strabane, but i know for a fact that any dump I've used in Derry has never had issues with DL cars coming in and using their facilities.

kathleen37 · 09-02-2025 07:00PM

Thats really handy to know - I may try the Derry one as I had a car load of stuff to get rid of and had to pay by weight at the Stranorlar recycling place… (couldn't have managed the mattress on my own but had loads of bin bags needing getting rid of) Some of the stuff there - like electrical stuff is free to get rid of, but most everything else you have to pay for - by weight. If i get up the nerve and go, I'll post if I make it to the Derry tip!!

muffler · 09-02-2025 09:13PM

I didnt know they charged by weight. Is that a new thing?

I know in the past they seemed to have set prices for various items but thats a while back.

NIMAN · 09-02-2025 09:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123152492#Comment_123152492

Well when you get to the Derry dumps, there are separate areas for hard plastics, wood and timber, clothes/suitcases/duvets etc, soil and grass cutting etc, glass and ceramics/tiles, building rubble/materials, paint, batteries, small electrical items, mattresses, cardboard, paper, tyres, scrap metal. Everything other than that just go to the landfill skip

elperello · 09-02-2025 09:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058389697/mattress-removal

Donegal County Council had a half price disposal offer last year.

If you could store it there may be another one coming up.

A local councillor might know.

https://www.donegalcoco.ie/en/news/2024/june/2024-donegal-county-council-half-price-bulky-goods-event

NIMAN · 12-02-2025 05:27PM

I was doing a bit of a house clearance today (house in Derry), and was in a Derry dump 5 different times with my roi reg car.

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