Furniture Removal in
the DMV

Furniture removal, made easy

Whether it's a single piece or the whole living room, you shouldn't have to wrestle a heavy sofa down a Dupont walk-up or up from a Capitol Hill basement yourself. We carry the couch, sectional, or dining set out of any floor — no stair fee — and in the Downtown, Navy Yard, Rosslyn, and Bethesda high-rises we file the COI and book the freight elevator. Everything's priced flat by item or as truck-fill from a photo, usable pieces donated. Same-day is usually available. (DC adds sales tax at checkout; MD and VA don't tax the service.)

Just getting rid of a couch? There's a dedicated page for that — couch & sofa removal in DC — with the full seating ladder and sectional piece counts.

How much does furniture removal cost in DC?

Flat per item, quoted from a photo. The carry-out, the drive and the disposal are already in the number, and there's no per-flight charge whether it's a fourth-floor Adams Morgan walk-up or a Capitol Hill cellar.

Seating

The seating ladder climbs with weight and piece count, not with mystery: loveseat $119 → sofa $126 → sectional 2pc $141 → sleeper $149 → sectional 3pc $185 → 4pc $228 → 5pc $271. A sleeper sofa costs more than a plain sofa because of the steel pull-out mechanism inside it, and a sectional is priced by how many pieces we actually carry.

Case goods, tables & storage

Case goods ladder the same way: nightstand $57 → bookshelf $72 → dresser $126 → large dresser $148 → dining table $163. The minimum order is $100, so a single end table or mirror bills at the minimum — which is exactly why most people add the rest of the room to the same photo. Multiple items combine into one flat number, not a stack of separate charges.

At about a room's worth, per-item stops making sense and truck-fill takes over: 2/8 truck $241 · 3/8 $338 · 4/8 $431 · 5/8 $513 · 6/8 $587 · 7/8 $661 · full truck $732. That's the usual shape for an estate downsizing, a whole-apartment move-out, or a row-house clear-out — and we'll tell you which side of the line you're on before you book.

For an outside benchmark on the volume side: HomeGuide's 2026 junk-removal pricing research puts a 1-800-GOT-JUNK half truck at roughly $400–$600 and a full truck at $700–$1,000, and College HUNKS at $260–$500 for a half truck, $600–$800+ for a full one — both quoted on site rather than published. Our full truck is a published $732 and our sofa is $126 from a photo. DC adds sales tax at checkout; MD and VA don't tax the service.

Does Washington DC pick up furniture?

Some of it, for some addresses, at the curb, on a date the city picks. DC DPW runs a free Bulk Trash Collection program — you request it through 311 or at dpw.dc.gov — and furniture is exactly what it's for. Four rules decide whether it works for you:

• Single-family homes and buildings of three units or fewer only.
• Up to seven items per appointment. That cap is tighter than it sounds — a 3-piece sectional counts as three items, so a living room clear-out (sectional, coffee table, two end tables, a rug) is already at the ceiling.
• No renovation or construction debris, which rules out the built-ins, the old kitchen cabinets and the subfloor from a row-house remodel.
• Condos, co-ops and apartment buildings of four or more units are excluded entirely and must have bulk items removed by a private, licensed hauler.

That last one is the structural fact behind this whole page. If your furniture is in a Navy Yard, NoMa, West End, Wharf, Rosslyn, Ballston or Tysons building, the free program was never available to you — hiring a licensed private hauler isn't the convenient option, it's the required one. And even in a Petworth or Brookland row house where the program does apply, it's curbside: DPW stops at the street. Nobody from the city comes up to the third floor for the dresser, or down to the English basement for the sofa bed. That carry is the job.

Across the line it's the same shape with different rules: Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax County each run their own scheduled or on-call bulk-collection programs, each with its own item caps and exclusions — confirm your jurisdiction's current terms directly before you plan a move-out around one. All curbside, none same-day.

What happens to your furniture after pickup

Donation is the first route, not the marketing line. Clean, undamaged furniture goes to Goodwill of Greater Washington, Habitat for Humanity ReStore or the Salvation Army, and — for the pieces that matter most — to A Wider Circle in Silver Spring, which furnishes homes for families leaving homelessness and issues a donation receipt on request. If you're clearing a Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac or McLean home and want the dining set and dressers to go somewhere useful, that's the routing to ask for, and it's the one we default to.

Metal frames, bed rails and shelving go to scrap. What's genuinely broken — the water-damaged particleboard, the sofa with a snapped frame — is tipped responsibly at the Fairfax I-66 Transfer Station or the I-95 landfill and energy-recovery complex, or at Montgomery County's Shady Grove facility. Disposal in the DMV is genuinely expensive — Fairfax County's published commercial rate is about $90 a ton for FY2026 — which is exactly why some haulers quote low and then re-price on site. Ours is already in the flat number.

When people call us for furniture removal

• PCS and federal relocation — Permanent Change of Station military moves peak in summer, and federal and contractor transfers run year-round. The furniture that doesn't make the weight allowance goes.
• May university move-out — UMD in College Park plus Georgetown, GWU, Howard, American and Catholic all empty at once, leaving desks, futons and dressers behind in student apartments.
• Row-house renovation — Petworth, Logan Circle and Capitol Hill remodels need the room emptied before the contractor starts.
• Estate downsizing — Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac and McLean homes being cleared discreetly, with the good pieces donated and receipted.
• Condo turnover — managers and owners flipping a unit between tenants on a deadline, in a building that requires a licensed hauler anyway.
• Congressional and administration turnover — Hill offices and staff residences clearing out in bursts on the political calendar.
• The IKEA-to-adult upgrade — the new sofa is being delivered Saturday and the old one has to be out of the living room first.

What furniture-removal customers say

Furniture removal across the DMV