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Bookcase, shelving and cabinet removal
Send a photo of the bookcase, cabinet or sideboard, get a fixed price, and two people carry it out of the room, glass and all.
- Glass doors and shelves handled
- Fixed price from a photo
- Unscrewed from the wall if fixed
- Wood and glass recovered
Get a fixed price from a photo
Fill this in and we reply by email with a fixed price. Then send us a photo of the furniture so the price is right first time.
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Bookcase, shelving and cabinet removal covers the tall, thin pieces that look light and are not. A solid bookcase, a glass-fronted display cabinet, a long sideboard or a TV unit with a stone top all carry their weight high up or out wide, which makes them awkward to steer through a doorway. Send us a photo of the piece where it stands, with a line about the floor it is on, and we reply with a fixed price for carrying it out, loading it and disposing of it. You pay once it is on the van.
Most of these pieces come out whole, but not all of them. Shelves lift out first so nothing slides about on the stairs, glass doors come off their hinges and travel wrapped, and a bookcase screwed to the wall with an anti-tip strap is unscrewed before anyone lifts it. Flat-pack shelving that was built in the room is often taken back to panels in the room because the glued joints will not survive the stairs. If a wardrobe or a chest of drawers is going too, put it in the same photo and one price covers the visit.
Councils generally offer a bulky waste collection, booked ahead, with the furniture put out on the kerb on a set day. A glass display cabinet does not sit well on a pavement overnight, and a dresser with a plate rack is a two-person lift to get out of the house in the first place. We collect from the room it stands in and aim for same-day or next-day wherever possible. Our guide on how to get rid of old furniture sets the options side by side.
Furniture Removal holds upper tier waste carrier licence CBDU526130, registered with the Environment Agency. A sound bookcase or sideboard is offered for reuse first. Anything past saving goes to a licensed waste transfer station where the timber, the metal fittings and the glass are separated and recovered, and our guide on what happens to your furniture after collection follows a piece through that process. A waste transfer note is available on request.
One fixed price from your photo
Send a picture, get a price for the whole job, pay once it is on the van. If anything looks different from the photo when we arrive, we tell you before we lift it.
What is included
Bookcases, shelving and cabinets we collect
- Tall and low bookcases
- Freestanding shelving units
- Glass-fronted display cabinets
- Sideboards and buffets
- TV units and media cabinets
- Dressers with plate racks
- Corner and ladder shelving
- Fixed shelving unscrewed from the wall
How the piece is handled and disposed of
- Shelves lifted out before the carry
- Glass doors removed and wrapped
- Anti-tip straps unscrewed
- Carried by two people, never dragged
- Sound pieces offered for reuse
- Timber, metal and glass separated
- Licence CBDU526130, Environment Agency
- Waste transfer note on request
How a bookcase or cabinet collection works
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Photograph it where it stands
Take a picture of the bookcase, cabinet or sideboard with the doors shut and send it through the form on this page. Add which floor it is on.
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One price comes back
The reply is a single fixed figure for the carry, the loading and the disposal, with glass doors and any unscrewing already allowed for.
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Choose a day
Say when someone will be in to open the door and we confirm the slot. Same-day or next-day is offered wherever we can manage it.
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Pay on the van
Two people lift the emptied piece out of the room and load it. The quoted price is paid then, with nothing added for stairs or glass.
Why people use us
Registered with the Environment Agency
Upper tier waste carrier licence CBDU526130 covers everything we take from your home. Check it on the public register before you book, and ask for a waste transfer note after.
Insured for glass and plaster
Public liability insurance to £5 million and employers' liability of £10 million are in place while a glass cabinet is being carried past your walls.
Reused where it is sound
A bookcase with its back intact or a sideboard with working doors is offered for reuse first. Across all our collections, 90% of what we take is recycled.
Fifteen years of tall, thin lifts
More than 15 years and 500 or more jobs have taught the crew how a top-heavy cabinet behaves on a staircase. Our Google rating is 5 stars.
Getting a bookcase or glass cabinet out of the room
A bookcase is light at the bottom and heavy at the top once the shelves are in, so the first thing the crew does is lift every shelf out and stack them by the door. The empty carcass is then tipped onto its back or side and carried flat, one person at each end, because a tall piece carried upright catches light fittings and door heads. Display cabinets have the glass doors unhooked from their hinges and wrapped before the carcass moves, and glass shelves travel separately in a blanket. A sideboard or TV unit is wide rather than tall, so it is turned on its end to pass through an internal door and then laid flat again on the landing. Anything screwed to the wall is unscrewed from the bracket, and the crew leaves the screws and strap on the floor for you. In a flat, the lift is measured by eye before the piece leaves the room, and if it will not fit the stairs are used instead.
Clear the shelves before we arrive if you can. Books, ornaments and photo frames are the part of the job that takes longest, and a cabinet full of glassware cannot be lifted at all. Leave the doors unlocked or find the key, since a locked glass door has to be carried in place and is more likely to break. Take anything off the top of a tall bookcase, and if the unit hides a cable run for the television, unplug it and pull the cables through. If the piece is in a first-floor room, a quick look at the stair turn in your photo helps us judge whether the top has to come off a very tall unit.
Afterwards, a bookcase or sideboard that is still square and complete is offered for reuse before anything else is considered. A piece that is not worth saving goes to a licensed waste transfer station, where the solid wood and chipboard are sorted for recovery, the hinges, handles and brackets go with the scrap metal and the glass shelves and doors are kept separate for recycling. We can tell you where it went if you ask, and a waste transfer note is available on request.
Before and after
Other furniture we collect
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Chest of drawers
Tallboys, dressers and dressing tables
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Wardrobe
Fitted and freestanding, taken apart in the room
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Table and chairs
Dining sets, kitchen tables, desks and office chairs
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Office furniture
Desks, pedestals, filing cabinets, meeting tables
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Any other furniture
Mirrors, coffee tables, cots, flat-pack, whole rooms
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Bed frame
Divans, wooden and metal frames, bunk beds
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View every type of furniture we collect
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Licensed waste carrier Upper tier licence CBDU526130
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Rated 5 stars on Google By the people we have collected for
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90% of waste recycled Reuse first, then recycling
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Insured £5 million public liability
Guides that go with this
Bookcase, shelving and cabinet removal questions
Do I have to empty the bookcase first?
It helps, and it keeps the price down because the crew is not boxing up books. If you cannot manage it, say so in your message and we allow for it. Glass and china should be out of a cabinet before anyone lifts it.
Can you take a display cabinet with glass doors and shelves?
Yes. The doors come off their hinges and the glass shelves lift out, and both are wrapped and carried out on their own. The glass is kept separate at the transfer station so it can be recycled.
The bookcase is screwed to the wall. Is that a problem?
No. The crew unscrews the bracket or anti-tip strap from the wall before lifting the piece. We leave the fixings for you and do not fill the holes, so expect two small screw holes in the plaster.
Will a tall bookcase get down the stairs in one piece?
Usually, carried flat on its side with the shelves out. A very tall or very deep unit sometimes has to be taken down to its panels in the room, and the crew decides that when they see it rather than forcing it round a turn.
Can you take a sideboard or TV unit with a marble or stone top?
Yes. Mention the stone top when you send the photo because it adds a lot of weight and comes off first if it is not fixed down. Two people carry the top and then the carcass as separate lifts.
What happens to the bookcase after you collect it?
If it is sound it is offered for reuse first. Otherwise the wood, the metal fittings and any glass are separated at a licensed waste transfer station for recovery. Ask us and we tell you where it went.
Send a photo of the bookcase or cabinet
Email it to hello@furniture-removal.co.uk or use the form above, and we reply with a fixed price and the next slot we have free.