The new sofa is on a delivery truck and the old one is still in the living room. Send us one photo — you'll have a flat price in seconds and, most days, a same-day pickup window anywhere in Raleigh, Cary or Durham. A standard sofa is $170 flat, a loveseat $128, a three-piece sectional $249. Our crew carries it from the room, down whatever stairs are involved, and out. You don't lift an armrest.
One photo — flat price back in seconds
Upload a Photo & Get Quote →One picture of the couch is enough. The photo tells us whether it's a loveseat, a three-seater, a sleeper or a sectional and how many pieces — and that's what sets the price, not a salesman standing in your den.
Same-day is usually open from ITB Raleigh out to Apex, Morrisville and Chapel Hill. Downtown, Glenwood South or North Hills building wants a certificate of insurance before the crew badges in? Say so when you book and we'll send it over.
A vetted local crew lifts it, takes the doors and connectors apart if the hallway demands it, and loads. Anything still sittable goes toward donation. The price on your quote is the price you pay.
One flat number, quoted from your photo, with the carry-out, the stairs, the disassembly, the drive and the disposal already inside it. Couches price by type; sectionals price by how many pieces they break into.
| Type | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Armchair / accent chair | $104 |
| Loveseat | $128 |
| Recliner (single) | $132 |
| Futon | $139 |
| Sofa (standard 3-seat) | $170 |
| Sectional (2-piece) | $190 |
| Sleeper / pull-out sofa | $200 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $249 |
| Sectional (4-piece) | $307 |
$75 minimum on very small jobs. Stairs, disassembly, carry-out and disposal included. Clearing the matching loveseat, the coffee table and a bookshelf at the same time? Put them in the same photo and we price the set together in one quote. No NC sales tax on the service.
For third-party context: Junk Doctors publishes a Triangle rate card of a $135 minimum, quarter truck $298, half $488, three-quarter $608, full truck $738 (junkdrs.com/pricing). McJunk publishes a $175 minimum, quarter $305, half $435, three-quarter $565, full $695 — plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 per tire, $10 per CRT television and a $10–$50 trip charge. Those are volume prices confirmed at your door; ours is an item price confirmed before we leave the yard.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 | Scheduled collection day | Curbside only — you carry the sofa out and down the stairs yourself, and it sits outside until the truck comes |
| Donate it (Habitat ReStore / Goodwill) | Free | Days | It has to be clean and genuinely resellable, and pickup runs on the charity's schedule |
| Haul it yourself to South Wake Landfill | ~$37/ton tip fee + truck rental | An afternoon | You need a pickup or a rented truck, a second set of hands, and a weekday off |
| Traditional truck-fill hauler | $135–$175 minimum, $695–$738 full truck (published Junk Doctors / McJunk rates) | 1–3 days | Priced by how much of the truck you fill, often confirmed on site, and McJunk's card adds item and trip surcharges |
| JunkRabbit | $170 flat for a sofa | Same day, most days | None — one photo-quoted number, no surcharges, we carry it out and donate what's usable |
Competitor and municipal figures above are third-party published rates, not ours. Our numbers are the flat item prices in the table further up this page.
Yes — and the honest answer is that if you have time, muscle, and a curb you're allowed to use, the City program is the cheapest option on this page. City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services collects a Bulky Load for $35 on a scheduled collection day (a special or appliance item is $70, electronics are collected free up to four items a week, and tires aren't accepted at all). A couch qualifies. So why do people still call us?
Three reasons, and they're the whole story. First, it's scheduled, not same-day — you arrange it and then you wait, which does nothing for you when the new sectional is being delivered Thursday morning. Second, and this is the one that surprises people, it's curbside only: the City picks up what's already at the curb. Getting a sleeper sofa down from a second-floor bonus room, through a 1920s Five Points doorway and out to the street is entirely your problem, and a pull-out is far heavier than it looks. Third, in the HOA suburbs — Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Wake Forest, Brier Creek — visible bulk sitting at the curb is exactly what covenants are written to prohibit, so the couch legally can't wait outside for collection day without risking a fine.
That's the wedge. We're not cheaper than $35 and we don't pretend to be. We're the option where nobody in your household lifts a sofa, nothing sits on your lawn in the rain, and it's gone the day you asked. If your couch is already at the curb, you're in good shape and the City is a fine call. If it's still in the den, that's us. (Confirm current Bulky Load details and how to schedule with the City directly at raleigh.gov before you plan around them — municipal programs change.)
Upholstered furniture in decent shape is worth more to somebody else than it is to a landfill, so donation comes first. Habitat for Humanity ReStore runs ten Triangle stores and offers free large-item pickup across Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties — they're the natural home for a clean sofa or a solid-wood frame. Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina, headquartered right here in Raleigh, takes usable furniture across the region as well. When we drop something with a partner and you want a receipt for it, ask and we'll get you one.
A couch that's torn, soaked, smoke-damaged or has a broken frame isn't a donation, it's a disposal, and we handle that end honestly too: it goes to the transfer station and on to South Wake Landfill, where municipal solid waste tips at roughly $37 a ton including the state excise. That cheap local disposal is precisely why a sofa costs $170 here and not what it costs in a coastal metro — we're not padding the price to cover a tip fee. Metal frames and springs get pulled for scrap where the load makes it practical.
There are no basements here. North Carolina builds on slab or crawl space, which changes the whole job: the sleeper sofa isn't coming up a basement stair the way it would in Chicago — it's coming down from a second floor, out of a bonus room over the garage, or off a screened porch. Bonus-room stairs in the newer North Raleigh, Apex and Wake Forest subdivisions are often the tightest turn in the house, and that's where the biggest sectionals live.
Inside the Beltline is its own puzzle. Five Points, Hayes Barton, Historic Oakwood, Mordecai and Boylan Heights have narrow streets, on-street loading and neighbors who notice. We stage compactly, load off the street quickly, and treat a 1920s doorframe and a heart-pine floor like they're irreplaceable, because they are.
Condos and apartments are a coordination job, not a lifting job. Downtown, Glenwood South, the Village District and North Hills buildings mean elevator reservations, loading docks and move-out windows; some management companies want a certificate of insurance naming the building before we come up. It's a far less formal ask here than in a Manhattan co-op, but we carry the insurance and we'll send the COI — just flag it when you book so it's on file before the crew arrives.
The HOA suburbs are why "from the garage, not the curb" is our whole pitch. In Cary, Apex, Holly Springs, Brier Creek and Wake Forest, we pull the couch straight out of the house or garage and into the truck. Nothing is staged where a covenant enforcement letter can find it.
"New couch delivery at 4, old one gone by noon. Photo at 9am, quote by 9:05. This is how it should work everywhere."
"Sleeper sofa, third-floor apartment, no elevator. Two guys made it look easy and the price didn't change at the door. Worth every penny."
"Our four-piece sectional went to a family through their donation partner instead of the landfill. Fast, kind, and the flat quote was exactly what I paid."
How much does couch removal cost in Raleigh?
Flat from a photo: loveseat $128, recliner $132, futon $139, standard sofa $170, sleeper $200; sectionals 2-piece $190, 3-piece $249, 4-piece $307. The $75 minimum applies to very small jobs. Carrying, stairs, disassembly and disposal are included, and there's no NC sales tax on the service.
Why not just put it at the curb for the City of Raleigh?
You can — City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services collects a Bulky Load for $35 on a scheduled day. But it's curbside-only, so you carry the sofa out and down the stairs yourself, it waits outside until collection day, and in the HOA suburbs visible bulk at the curb can draw a fine. We carry it from the room on a window you choose.
Can you take a couch the same day?
Most days, yes — across Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Durham and Chapel Hill. The exception is early-to-mid May, when NC State, Duke and UNC move-out fills the calendar; book a day or two ahead that week.
What if my sectional doesn't fit through the door?
The crew takes it apart at the connectors, legs and recliner backs and carries it out in pieces. Tight ITB doorways and bonus-room stair turns are routine, not a surcharge — a 3-piece is $249 either way.
Is this cheaper than a traditional full-service junk removal company?
For one couch, usually — and the number is fixed before we arrive. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum up to $738 for a full truck; McJunk publishes $175 up to $695 plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 per tire, $10 per CRT TV and a $10–$50 trip charge. Our full truck is $895, so we're not the cheapest way to fill an entire truck — we're the one flat photo-quoted number with no surcharges and no on-site upsell.
What happens to the couch after you take it?
Clean, sittable couches go to donation first — Habitat ReStore's ten Triangle stores or Goodwill of Eastern NC, which is Raleigh-headquartered. What's genuinely finished is disposed of properly at about $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill, with metal frames pulled for scrap where practical.