Recliner removal across the Golden Isles.

Motorized and power-lift recliners are where some haulers raise an eyebrow. The motor adds weight, the disassembly adds time, and stair carries are harder than they look. We don’t refuse them. We’ve moved more recliners out of Sea Island and St. Simons homes than I can count — including some that were too big to fit through the front door whole and needed back-detachment in the living room.

The most common call is living room or bedroom furniture replacement. Sometimes the call is from an estate cleanout where the recliner was the most-used piece of furniture in the home — common in long-time residents’ houses where the same chair has been the dad’s spot for thirty years. Sometimes the motor on a power recliner stops working and the homeowner replaces rather than repairs. Sometimes a power-lift recliner (the medical-grade kind that helps users stand) gets retired when the family member it served is no longer with the home.

Operationally, manual recliners are standard furniture work — lever-pull mechanism, no motor, two-person carry on the dolly, no special concerns. Motorized recliners add weight from the motor and the battery if it’s a battery-backup model — typically twenty to forty pounds heavier than manual. Power-lift recliners are the heaviest — medical-grade builds carry a serious motor and a tilting frame, and the back almost always needs to detach for stair work.

The disassembly trick on most recliners — manual or powered — is the back-detach. The seat-back-and-frame separates from the seat at clips or screws hidden under the upholstery at the back. Recliner-back detached, the chair becomes a much smaller carry — the seat and the back ride separately on the dolly, and the doorways and stairwell turns that were impossible whole become easy in two pieces. We bring the right tools and we know which brand uses which mechanism. The customer doesn’t need to figure it out.