Apex furniture has a life cycle: the crib becomes a toddler bed, the toddler bed becomes a bunk bed, and the playroom sectional survives exactly one spilled-juice era. A sofa is $170, a bunk bed $165, a crib $90, a dresser $169, with a $75 minimum. We carry it out from the bonus room, the nursery or the garage where it's been "waiting" — and it goes straight into the truck, never onto the curb where your HOA can find it.
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Same-day is usually open across 27502, 27523 and 27539 — Bella Casa, Scotts Mill, Haddon Hall, Sweetwater and the newer builds pushing toward 540 and Beaver Creek.
A vetted local crew carries it down, takes apart what won't clear the stair turn, and loads in the driveway. Nothing sits out overnight. Anything still good is routed to donation.
Every piece has a published flat price and your photo just adds them up. The stairs, the disassembly, the drive and the disposal are already inside each number — there's no bonus-room surcharge and no "we'll confirm when we see it."
| Piece | Flat price |
|---|---|
| End table | $70 |
| Dining chair | $75 |
| Nightstand | $77 |
| Coffee table | $84 |
| Crib | $90 |
| Bed frame | $92 |
| Weight bench | $93 |
| Bookshelf | $97 |
| Armchair / entertainment center | $104 |
| Chest of drawers | $106 |
| Mattress (twin) | $111 |
| Desk (standard) | $112 |
| Patio table | $120 |
| Loveseat | $128 |
| Recliner | $132 |
| Dining table (small) | $138 |
| Mattress (queen) | $139 |
| Treadmill | $155 |
| Bunk bed | $165 |
| Dresser (standard) | $169 |
| Sofa / couch (standard) | $170 |
| Dining table (large) | $174 |
| Sectional (2-piece) | $190 |
| Mattress + box spring set | $192 |
| Dresser (large) | $199 |
| Sleeper sofa | $200 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $249 |
| Sectional (4-piece) | $307 |
$75 minimum on very small jobs. When the pile stops being countable pieces and becomes a truck — a full two-car garage, everything the movers left behind, a whole playroom — we switch to truck-fill pricing, from $295 for a quarter truck up to $895 for a full one, and quote you whichever number is lower. No NC sales tax on the service.
Third-party context: Junk Doctors publishes a Triangle rate card of a $135 minimum, quarter truck $298, half $488, three-quarter $608 and full truck $738 (junkdrs.com/pricing). McJunk publishes a $175 minimum, quarter $305, half $435, three-quarter $565 and full $695 — plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 per tire, $10 per CRT television and a $10–$50 trip charge. Those are volume estimates settled once a truck is in your driveway; the table above is settled before it leaves ours.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Raleigh Bulky Load | $35 — not available in Apex | n/a | Apex is its own town, not part of the City of Raleigh. The $35 program simply doesn't serve your address |
| Town of Apex residential collection | Check apexnc.org for current rules | Scheduled collection day | Curbside, on the Town's calendar — and your HOA covenants may not let a sectional sit out front while it waits |
| Donate it (Habitat ReStore / Goodwill) | Free | Days to a couple of weeks | Resellable pieces only, and the charity pickup runs on their schedule, not the day the new furniture is delivered |
| Rent a truck and self-haul | ~$37/ton at South Wake Landfill + truck rental | An afternoon | The landfill is close and cheap; the sleeper sofa still has to come down the bonus-room stairs and get strapped into a truck by you and a friend |
| JunkRabbit | $70–$307 per piece, flat | Same day, most days | None — one photo-quoted number, carried out through the garage, nothing at the curb, donation-routed |
Municipal, facility and competitor figures above are third-party published rates, not ours. Our numbers are the flat per-piece prices in the table above.
Start with the thing people get wrong most often. Apex is not Raleigh. It's its own town in western Wake County with its own government and its own solid-waste collection, so City of Raleigh Solid Waste Services' $35 scheduled Bulky Load — and the $70 special-item pickup that goes with it — does not serve Apex addresses. That program is for City of Raleigh trash customers. If a coworker in Five Points told you a sofa costs thirty-five dollars to get taken, they were quoting a service you can't book from Bella Casa or Scotts Mill. For what the Town of Apex currently collects, and on what schedule, check apexnc.org directly — municipal rules change and we won't pretend to speak for them.
Now the part that actually decides it for most people here. Whatever the Town takes, it takes it curbside, on a scheduled day — which means the furniture has to be moved out of your house by you, and then has to sit at the front of the property until a truck arrives. In an Apex subdivision, that's the problem. These are newer HOA neighborhoods with covenants written specifically to keep visible bulk, debris and stored items off the front of a lot, and a 3-piece sectional parked at the curb for three days is precisely the picture those rules exist to prevent. Plenty of Apex homeowners have gotten a letter for less.
So the pitch on this page is simple and it's the whole reason we operate the way we do in the western suburbs: we haul from the garage, not the curb. The crew comes inside, takes the piece down the bonus-room stairs or out of the garage, and it goes directly onto the truck in your driveway. It never sits out front, never waits for a collection day, and never generates a covenant notice. That, plus the fact that it's gone the same day rather than next Thursday, is what you're buying — because on price alone, a municipal curbside program will always beat a crew that does the lifting.
A few things we can't take: paint, propane tanks, chemicals and other household hazardous waste. North Carolina also bans televisions, appliances and whole tires from landfills, so those are routed to recycling rather than dumped — we handle that, we just can't treat them as ordinary furniture. Cribs and children's furniture that fail current safety standards are recycled rather than donated.
Apex furniture is unusually worth donating, because most of it isn't broken — it's just outgrown. A crib that lasted two kids, a dresser that doesn't match the new room, a dining set that fit the old house: those are exactly the pieces the Habitat for Humanity ReStore network resells to fund local home construction, and it runs ten stores across the Triangle with free large-item pickup through Wake, Johnston, Durham and Orange counties. Goodwill of Eastern North Carolina, headquartered in Raleigh, takes usable furniture region-wide as well. If you want a donation receipt for something we place with a partner, ask and we'll get it to you.
What's genuinely finished — the pressboard dresser that swelled, the sectional the dog claimed, the crib that no longer meets safety standards — gets disposed of properly. Municipal solid waste tips at roughly $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill, which sits right on the edge of Apex, including the state excise. That's cheap by national standards and it's a real reason the per-piece prices on this page look the way they do: we're not padding a quote to cover a distant, expensive tip. Metal bed frames, bunk-bed rails, shelving and mattress innersprings are pulled for scrap where the load makes it practical.
There are no basements in Apex. Homes here are built on slab or crawl space, so the storage instinct that would send furniture downstairs in Ohio sends it upstairs instead — into the bonus room over the garage, which in a Triangle new-build is where the guest bed, the old sectional and the playroom furniture go to retire. That stair is almost always the tightest passage in the house: a switchback at the top, a hard right at the bottom, a handrail that a sleeper sofa was never measured against. When somebody in Apex says "I need furniture removal," ninety percent of the time they mean "I need someone to get this down those stairs."
We plan crews around that. Sleepers come apart at the frame, sectionals split at the connectors, bunk beds are disassembled rail by rail, and table legs come off — all included, not billed as extras, because in Apex the disassembly is the service. Corners and jambs get padded on the way down; newer builds have soft drywall corners and they show every scrape.
The garage is the second front. With no basement, the two-car garage absorbs everything the house can't hold — and by year five it's a furniture warehouse with a narrow path to the door. We work straight out of it into a truck in your driveway. The crawl space is the third, and it produces the occasional surprise: a headboard, a bed frame, a rolled carpet somebody stashed and forgot.
And the driveway is where we load — not the street, not the lawn, not the mailbox. Ten minutes, gone, no evidence.
"Crib, changing table, glider and a toddler bed — the whole era, gone in twenty minutes. Most of it went to a family charity, which is exactly what we hoped."
"Moved into the new build and half our old furniture instantly looked wrong. One photo session, one flat quote, one empty garage. Painless."
"Bunk bed out of the kids' room and the sleeper sofa down from the bonus room — the two worst carries in the house and I didn't touch either. Nothing sat in the driveway, price matched the quote exactly."
How much does furniture removal cost in Apex?
Per piece, published: end table $70, crib $90, bookshelf $97, twin mattress $111, desk $112, loveseat $128, queen mattress $139, bunk bed $165, dresser $169–$199, sofa $170, sectional $190–$307, mattress + box spring set $192, sleeper $200. The $75 minimum covers very small jobs; a full garage switches to truck-fill from $295 up to $895. Stairs, disassembly and disposal included, and there's no NC sales tax on the service.
Does Raleigh's $35 Bulky Load pickup cover Apex?
No. Apex is its own town, not part of the City of Raleigh, so that program doesn't serve your address at all. The Town of Apex runs its own residential collection — check apexnc.org for what it currently takes and when.
Will my HOA fine me for furniture at the curb?
It can, and in Apex subdivisions that's the usual outcome. Covenants here restrict visible bulk and stored items in front of the home, and a sectional waiting several days for a scheduled pickup is exactly what they're written to stop. We take it out through the garage straight onto the truck — nothing is ever staged out front.
Can you get a sleeper sofa down from the bonus room?
Yes — it's the signature Apex carry. No basements here, so everything retires to the bonus room over the garage, and that switchback stair is the tightest turn in the house. We take the sleeper apart if it needs it, pad the corners, and bring it down. Stairs are in the flat price.
Do you take cribs, bunk beds and changing tables?
Constantly — it's our most common Apex call. Crib $90, bunk bed $165 disassembled and carried, dresser $169, twin mattress $111. Safe, resellable pieces are donation-routed to Habitat ReStore or Goodwill first.
Is it cheaper to take it to the landfill myself?
The tipping is cheap — about $37 a ton at South Wake Landfill, right on the edge of Apex (check Wake County's current resident rules). The loading isn't. Getting a sleeper down the bonus-room stairs and strapped into a rented truck on a weekday is the actual job, and that's what the flat price buys.
Is this cheaper than a traditional full-service hauler?
For a handful of pieces, usually, and it's fixed in advance. Junk Doctors publishes a $135 minimum and $738 for a full truck; McJunk publishes $175 and $695 plus a $40 mattress surcharge, $10 a tire, $10 a CRT TV and a $10–$50 trip charge. Our full truck is $895 — we're not the cheapest truck-fill, we're the flat photo-quoted number with no surcharges and no on-site upsell.
We just moved in and nothing fits — can you clear it all at once?
Yes. Photograph everything that isn't staying and you get one number for the lot. If it's big enough we quote by truck fill instead and give you whichever is cheaper.