Furniture
Couch removal across the Golden Isles.
Sectionals, sleeper sofas, recliners. Two-person carry. We do the lifting, you point at the door.
The short version
Couch Removal at a glance.
- What it is
- In-home couch and sofa removal — sectionals, sleeper sofas, and recliners — with our crew doing the lifting and carry-out.
- What’s included
- Sectionals, sleeper sofas, and loveseats
- Recliners and chaise lounges
- Disassembly when a piece won’t fit the doorway
- Stair and tight-doorway carry-out
- Donation routing where the couch qualifies
- How pricing works
- What moves the price is the stairs and whether it’s a sleeper — the internal frame and springs push a sleeper past anything two people want to carry up a flight. A loveseat on the ground floor is the lightest version. We quote a real number after a photo or a quick look.
Part of our Furniture Removal service
Couches are the most common single-item job we run. Brunswick, the islands, Camden County — every week, somebody calls because a sofa needs to leave the house and they don’t want to handle it themselves.
The reality of couch removal isn’t complicated, but it isn’t always quick either. Sectionals come apart at the seams. Sleeper sofas carry an internal frame and a spring assembly that pushes the weight past two-hundred pounds before you account for the upholstery. Narrow stairwells, tight doorways, and second-floor walk-outs add minutes — sometimes hours. We come ready for the room the couch is in, not just the couch itself.
The couch is almost never the problem. Access is. It’s the hallway, the turn at the landing, the front door that was framed to 1960s dimensions — twenty-eight inches wide on a lot of the older island houses, with a hallway you walk down sideways. Roughly one couch job in three or four involves stairs, and that number is higher than people expect for a reason: a lot of the beach houses on St. Simons have the living space on the second floor because of flood codes, so the couch went up an exterior staircase when it arrived and has to come back down the same way. Every so often we meet the couch that was assembled in the room it’s sitting in. You stand there looking at the door, then at the couch, and the answer to “how did this get in here” is almost always a different couch, or a different door.
Coastal Georgia is hard on upholstery, which is why we see what we see. Bonded leather looks good in the showroom and starts peeling after a couple of summers in this humidity. People move to the coast with furniture that did fine inland and find the damp got to it faster than they planned for — musty smell, swelling, mold in the frame.
What we don’t do is rush a job because it looks straightforward from the curb. We get the angle right, we protect the floor, we don’t bang the wall on the way out. The couch is leaving regardless; the rest of your house should look the same after we’re gone.
What we haul
Specifically, what we take for couch removal.
- Sectional couches
- Sleeper sofas and pull-outs
- Loveseats and apartment-size couches
- Recliners and lift chairs
- Chaise lounges
- Modular and L-shaped couches
How we work
How we actually handle it.
Most couch jobs run on a two-person carry, in and out in under an hour. The exceptions are the ones we plan for: sleeper sofas with internal frames push the weight past anything two regular guys want to carry up a flight, and sectionals sometimes need to come apart in the room before they’ll fit through the doorway. We bring straps, dollies, and a knife — most of the time we don’t need to cut anything, but if a couch was assembled in the room and the room has been remodeled since, cutting is the only honest answer.
Recliners come apart at the swivel base. Sleeper sofas come out the door upright when the doorway allows it, sideways when it doesn’t. Bedbugs are the one hard line: a couch with active bedbugs doesn’t get loaded like a normal pickup — that’s how an infestation rides home to the next customer’s house, and we won’t do that to anybody. Tell us before we arrive; once the infestation has been professionally treated and cleared, we can evaluate the pickup from there.
Nasty is not the same as disqualifying, and it’s worth saying plainly because people apologize to us about it constantly. We’ve taken couches soaked through by roof leaks, couches a cat claimed as a litter box for years, couches that have been absorbing cigarette smoke since the Clinton administration. Pet hair is on roughly half of what we pick up — that’s just life with animals down here. If it’s unpleasant but not hazardous, it goes on the truck. Heavy mold we’ll still take, but we wrap it tight in plastic first and put coverings down on the path out. You don’t solve one problem by creating another in somebody’s clean hallway.
Most couches end up at the landfill rather than donation. Realistically, maybe one in five that we pick up is in shape somebody would actually want — structurally solid, clean, no major staining, no permanent odor, and not so dated that nobody’s looking for it. Broken frames, torn seating surfaces, missing cushions, smoke, urine, mold, any sign of pests: donation centers turn all of that down, and they’re right to. Nobody should be sitting on a couch that reeks of cat urine just because they can’t afford better. That isn’t charity. We’re honest about which one yours is on site rather than promising a second life that isn’t coming.
Pricing
How pricing works.
Couch pricing scales with size, weight, and where the couch is. A loveseat from a ground-floor living room is the lightest version of this job. A leather sectional in a third-floor bonus room with a single narrow stair is the heaviest. Sleeper sofas always cost more than they look like they should because the internal frame is the issue.
Call us with what you’ve got and we’ll give you a real number. We don’t do per-item flat rates that pretend every couch is the same — your job is your job, and we price it that way.
The honest exceptions
What we won’t take — for this item.
A short, honest list of edge cases we either won’t take or want to discuss before we show up. When in doubt, call us — we’ll walk through it before scheduling.
- Bedbugs: Tell us before we arrive and point out exactly what is affected — don’t hide it from the crew, and don’t drag it through more of the house trying to help. Affected material may need containment or different handling so nothing spreads to the rest of your property, our crew, or our equipment, and some jobs need pest-control treatment before we can safely proceed. We’re junk-removal professionals, not exterminators.
- Couches contaminated with hazardous materials
Questions
Frequently asked questions about couch removal.
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Common in
Where we haul couch removal most.
We haul couch removal regularly across the Golden Isles, especially in Brunswick, St. Simons Island, Kingsland, Darien, and Jekyll Island.
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Last reviewed: April 26, 2026