Furniture removal & pickup service

If you’re looking to upgrade your home or move out, you may find it hard to get rid of your old furniture.

Here are some quick ways to dispose of old furniture -

1. Take it to a landfill site near your city

Find a local landfill site near your city and ask them if they accept the type of furniture that you want to dispose of and if they are open for public dumping. Once they confirm that they will accept your furniture, you can load it into a pickup truck and carry it to the landfill site. The landfill sites usually charge a fee to dispose of your furniture.

2. Donate it to a local charity

If your furniture is still in a good usable condition, you can carry it to your local charity and donate it. You can also ask the charity if they are willing to pick-up your furniture from your home. Some organizations that offer pick-up may take multiple weeks to come by, so this may not be ideal if you need the furniture gone quickly.

3. Talk to your local scrap metal dealer

Most metal furniture can be recycled at a recycling facility. First you need to determine if the metal is ferrous or non-ferrous. Hold a magnet close to the metal furniture and if it sticks, it’s ferrous. Non-ferrous metals can cost a little more to recycle so you need to confirm from the scrap dealer if they accept such metal furniture.

4. Rent a roll-off dumpster

Roll-off dumpsters vary in size. Hire a roll-off dumpster that would easily accommodate all your old furniture, and the dumpster company will drop it off at your place. Load the furniture into the dumpster and contact the company to pick up and take it away. You will have to manually load them into the dumpster, and risk others filling up the dumpster with their items if it is left overnight.

5. Contact a junk removal company in your city

Local junk removal companies such as 1-800-GOT-JUNK? can help you dispose of your old furniture for a fee in an eco-friendly manner where possible. With our services, we can often pick up your old furniture on the same day you call, and we’ll even sweep up when we leave. If possible, we also donate them if they are in working condition and carry it to the local charities. You won’t have to lift a finger!

It’s best to avoid throwing your couch in or near a dumpster. It may seem like the easiest way to get rid of your old couch, but many garbage services aren’t equipped to handle couch removal. And even if they are, they often require old couches to be broken down before they can be removed.

It depends on where you are located and the type of living space you have. Some city guidelines do offer furniture pick up, while others do not allow residents to haul their furniture to the curb and will fine you for doing so. If your building has a strata manager, check on whether this is allowed. It can get stressful if no one ends up taking the item, and having to find another tactic.

Taking apart your couch is a multi-step process. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Gather the tools you’ll need—common examples include:
   • Screwdriver
   • Allen wrench
   • Staple puller
   • Box cutter
2. Remove the cushions from the sofa
3. Turn the sofa on its back in order to take apart the legs
4. Use a staple remover or screwdriver to take apart the upholstery
5. Disassemble the wood frame
6. You’re done! Now, you can dispose of the couch’s individual components

You have a few options when it comes to old furniture removal:

• Check with your city and see if they offer free pick up for large items. Regulations vary depending on the location you are in.
• Sell or give your old furniture away for free and have the buyer pick it up from your home.
• Donate it to a local charity. Some may offer to pick up the items for you, but you may have to drop it off yourself.
• Haul it yourself to the dump. However, this can be tricky to organize, especially if you don’t already have a truck that can fit all your items.
• Hire a professional junk removal service like 1-800-GOT-JUNK? to handle furniture pick up for you.

Our full-service junk removal offers straightforward pricing based on how much space your items occupy in our trucks—anything from ⅛ to a full truckload. When you haul away furniture with us, you only pay for what you use, whether it's large furniture or smaller pieces. Furniture removal costs vary by location due to local disposal fees, but we always offer a competitive price. 

Since most offices contain a large amount of furniture, take an inventory of everything you don’t need to take with you when it comes to a commercial move. This helps keep track of what you want to take and what you need to get rid of.

Consider selling or giving furniture to your employees or donating them to your local charity. You can also call your city or local scrap yard to see what type of large items they are able to take. A professional junk removal service like 1-800-GOT-JUNK? can make the office furniture removal process easy for you.

Yes, depending on the type of wood used. If you have items that are made from untreated wood, these can be recycled and sometimes even composted. Most furniture is made of treated wood, which means it has been pressure-treated, stained, painted or varnished. This type of wood, along with particleboard and chipboard, is very difficult to recycle due to the chemicals in the varnishes, paints, adhesives, and other wood treatment products. The best thing to do with old treated wood furniture is to find a way to reuse it.

While we can remove old furniture in most situations, there are some instances in which we can’t dispose of unwanted items. We cannot handle hazardous materials, including chemicals, solvents, oils, and asbestos. Additionally, our removal services can’t accept items like storage and oil drums unless they're empty and both the top and bottom are removed. Oil and waste storage tanks also fall outside the scope of what we can properly dispose of while ensuring safety and compliance with environmental standards in the communities we serve. Learn more about what we can take, as well as our commitment to the environment.

It can get frustrating to dispose of your old furniture especially if they are large, bulky, and heavy. It becomes hard and sometimes dangerous to move it and carry it outside the house.

There are a few ways to get rid of your old furniture depending on the condition and if it’s damaged.

Usable condition

• Donate them to charities or NGOs
• Put them out on garage sale / online sale
• Leave them on the curb (however, this option is potentially unsafe)

Broken, Damaged, unusable

• Take them to the junkyard
• Call a professional junk removal service to take your old furniture and dispose them / recycle them in a proper way

At 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, we provide a safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly furniture removal service. We make sure the old furniture ends up in the right place which can be a donation to a charity if they are still in good shape, or look to take them to a recycling facility if they are damaged beyond use.

No matter what, we do the heavy lifting for you and dispose of your old furniture responsibly. All you have to do is point, and the junk disappears.