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Furniture · NJ + NYC · $50/hr per person

Single-piece furniture removal.

The sectional that came in through the window and has to go out through the door. The mattress that the new one needs to replace tonight. The dining set from the in-laws that nobody ever liked. We bring two people, a dolly, a truck, and the dump fee — you point at the piece, we make it disappear, donated if it has life left, scrapped if it is metal, dumped if it is dead.

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Best for

What we knock out on a furniture job.

  • Couches and sectionals — including the L-shaped piece that came in pre-assembled
  • Mattresses and box springs — single pickup or part of a same-night swap
  • Bedroom sets — bed frame, dresser, nightstands, mirror
  • Office furniture — desks, file cabinets, conference table, chairs
  • Recliners and oversized armchairs — including powered ones
  • Outdoor furniture — patio sets, rusted-out grills, deck boxes

What we bring

Gear in the truck.

  • Pickup truck with bed extender and 12-pad blanket set
  • Furniture dolly (4-wheel) and stair-climbing 2-wheel hand truck
  • Forearm-forklift straps for stairwell turns and tight doorways
  • Sawzall for the sectional that has to come apart to clear the doorway
  • Mattress bag for any mattress headed to a donation center
  • Dump and donation drop-off fees included in the hourly

Price examples

Real jobs, real numbers.

  • Single couch from a ground-floor apartment — 45 minutes, 2 crew, $100 total
  • Mattress + box spring swap (haul old, place new) — 1 hour, 2 crew, $100 total
  • Bedroom set haul (bed + dresser + nightstands) — 1.5 hours, 2 crew, $150 total
  • Sectional with cut-down (Sawzall to clear a 28" door) — 2 hours, 2 crew, $200 total
  • Office furniture pickup (4 desks, 6 chairs) — 2.5 hours, 2 crew, $250 total

All examples assume travel inside our NJ + NYC service area. No travel surcharges.

The deep dive

Furniture in NJ + NYC — what actually happens.

Furniture removal is the smallest-resolution call in the labor-services menu and the one customers put off the longest. The mattress that came off the bed three weeks ago and now leans against the hallway wall. The desk in the basement that was perfect for the kid going to college and now sits abandoned since they graduated. The sectional the upstairs neighbor gave you when they moved out, which is too big for the actual living room and has been waiting for "someone to come get it" since June. Brick Labor exists for the in-between problem — too big to drag to the curb yourself, too small to justify a "junk removal" call that bills four cubic yards minimum. We bring two crew and a pickup, charge our flat $50 per hour per person, knock the job out in 45 to 90 minutes, and route the piece through donation, scrap, or transfer station depending on what it deserves. The math comes in around $100 for a single-piece pickup, $200 for a full bedroom set, and the call closes a year-long tab in your head.

Single-piece versus whole-room — which call this is

Furniture removal is the named single-piece or single-room call. You have one couch, or a mattress and box spring, or the entire bedroom set you bought from West Elm in 2017. The hauling-and-cleanout service is the whole-room or whole-property call — basement, garage, attic, estate. Same crew, same truck, same hourly — different job shape. The reason the two are separately listed is that single-piece calls book differently. They are usually same-week, often same-day, and frequently scheduled around a furniture-delivery appointment (the new couch is arriving Friday, the old one has to be gone Thursday night). Single-piece pickups also have tighter expectations on the customer end — we will not move adjacent furniture, we will not "clear a path" through other stuff in the room, and we expect the piece to be visible and accessible when we arrive. Whole-room cleanouts have the opposite expectation — we do all the path-clearing and triage.

Mattress in a sealed mattress bag being loaded into a pickup truck — Brick Labor mattress removal
Mattress + box spring removal — bagged for transport, dropped at the county recycler on the same route.

Sectional and oversized-piece reality

Sectionals are the most common "too big to fit" call. The L-shape was carried in upright through a double front door 12 years ago, the door has since been replaced with a 28-inch single, and the only way the piece is leaving the apartment is in pieces. We bring a Sawzall and a willingness to break it down — frame separated from cushions, cushions out first, frame cut at the joints. The process takes about 20 minutes and creates a remarkable amount of upholstery dust. We bring tarps and a shop vac for the cleanup. Oversized armchairs, sleeper sofas with steel frames, oversized recliners — same playbook, slightly different tools. Bedroom sets and dining tables almost never need cutting; the screws come out and the piece comes apart at the joints. The bag of hardware is yours if you ever want to put it back together (or have us drop it at the donation center alongside the piece).

Donation versus scrap versus dump

A surprising fraction of every furniture-removal call is salvageable. Couches and sectionals less than 10 years old and stain-free get donated — Goodwill, Habitat ReStore, and the Vietnam Veterans of America drop-off centers across NJ all accept clean upholstery. Mattresses under a year old, in a mattress bag, with no visible damage — go to a bedding-charity partner if available, recycled if not. Metal pieces — file cabinets, conference tables with steel legs, exercise equipment — go to the scrap yard, which lowers the dump fee component of your hourly bill. Wood pieces in poor shape, broken-down sectional frames, mattresses past their life, water-damaged dressers — go to the county transfer station. We do the triage; you do not have to label anything. We can text you the dump-receipt or donation-confirmation if you want it for taxes or estate inventory. The default is we just handle it and you never think about it again.

A single-piece furniture-removal call is the easiest house-cleaning win on the calendar. The piece has been weighing on you mentally; in 90 minutes it is gone, the floor is vacuumed, and the room is back to its full square footage. Book the visit on a Wednesday night or a Saturday morning, and on Monday you will not remember which piece had been there.

Why us

Why Brick Labor for furniture removal.

Single-piece furniture removal sounds like a brute-force trade and is actually a logistics-plus-empathy trade. The piece has a story — an inherited dresser, a college-era couch, a child's old bed — and we treat the customer the way we would want our parents treated when they call. The crew is enthusiastic, multi-cultural, and bilingual on most rotations. We are calm when the piece will not fit through the door, calm when the donation center is closed, calm when the mattress is heavier than the customer estimated. Teamwork shows up in the small choreography of stairwell turns. Pride shows up in the empty space and the floor swept clean before we leave.

  • Enthusiastic — single-piece pickups are quick wins and the crew likes finishing them clean
  • Multi-cultural — bilingual crew, comfortable in any neighborhood
  • Calm under surprise — sectional too big, mattress soaked, hidden water damage, all handled honestly
  • Teamwork — two-person carries on every piece, never a solo back-strain
  • Pride in the empty space — vacuumed floor, photo-documented, before invoice

How it runs

How a Brick Labor furniture-removal job runs end to end.

  1. Walk the piece

    On arrival we walk the piece — measure the widest dimension against the doorway, the stairwell turns, the elevator car. We tell you immediately if we need to break it down, and how long that adds.

  2. Protect the path

    Floor protection down on hardwood and tile from the piece to the truck. Door corners get a pad if the dolly has to turn through them. We move plants and lamps that are in the way.

  3. Disassemble if needed

    If the piece does not fit through the door whole, we break it down — Sawzall for upholstered frames, screwdriver for bedroom sets, multi-tool for the conference table. Hardware bagged and labeled if you want to keep it.

  4. Load and strap

    Heaviest piece against the cab, lighter pieces stacked smart, blankets between every adjacent surface. Ratchet straps every four feet so the load does not shift on the highway.

  5. Drop and document

    Donation center first (usable items), scrap yard second (metal), transfer station last (the rest). We text you the dump receipt and a photo of the empty space before invoicing.

Why it matters

Why hire a crew for this at all.

A 200-pound sectional sitting in a living room is a daily reminder of a delayed move-in, a delayed remodel, a delayed donation, a delayed funeral, a delayed life transition. Furniture removal is one of those jobs that takes 90 minutes for us and has been sitting on the homeowner's mental list for six months. Booking the visit usually feels like closing a tab in your brain.

Furniture FAQ

Common furniture questions.

How is this different from your "hauling" service?

Furniture removal is the single-item or single-room call — you have a specific piece (or four) to disappear. Hauling and cleanout is the whole-room or whole-property call where the customer says "everything in here goes." Same crew, same truck, same hourly — different job shape.

Will you take the mattress?

Yes. NJ requires mattresses go to a certified recycler whenever possible (most counties have one), and we drop them off as part of the route. If the mattress is in good shape we look for a donation center first. Either way, included in the hourly.

Can you do same-day pickup?

Often, yes. Single-piece furniture inside Newark or Jersey City usually fits same-evening. Sectionals and full bedroom sets typically book 1-2 days out so we can plan the truck rotation. Worth a call or text — same-day slots open and close fast.

What if the piece is too big for the doorway?

We bring a Sawzall and a willingness to break it apart. Most sectionals come out in 20 minutes — frame separated from cushions, cushions out first, frame cut at the joints, carried out in pieces. You will have spaghetti for upholstery dinner; the room will be clear.

Do you climb stairs?

Yes, every floor. Walk-up to a third floor without an elevator is still $50/hr per person — no "stair fee." We just plan a slightly longer visit and bring the right straps. The fourth-floor walk-ups in Bayonne and Bushwick are why we have forearm-forklift straps in the truck.

Where does the furniture go?

Three places: usable furniture goes to Goodwill, Habitat ReStore, or the local Vietnam Veterans drop-off — we know the routes. Metal goes to the scrap yard (we keep the scrap value, which lowers what you pay). The rest goes to the county transfer station. We can text receipts if you need them.

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Field notes

How we run furniture jobs.

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One Newark crew. All of NJ + five NYC boroughs.

Home base in Newark. We cover 45 New Jersey cities and the 5 NYC boroughs at the flat $50/hr rate. Trace the route, drop into any city, hop into any service hub — all from the map.

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50 cities · NJ + NYC
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By region

NJ counties we hit weekly

  • Essex
  • Hudson
  • Bergen
  • Union
  • Passaic
  • Morris

NYC boroughs

  • Manhattan
  • Brooklyn
  • Queens
  • Bronx
  • Staten Island

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