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Chest of drawers and dresser removal
Chests of drawers, tallboys, dressers and dressing tables carried out of the bedroom by two people and taken away. One fixed price from your photo.
- Drawers carried out separately
- Dressing table mirrors unscrewed
- Bedrooms, landings and flats
- Registered waste carrier
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Chest of drawers and dresser removal is a job that looks small until you try to lift the thing. A chest of drawers is a box of solid timber or dense chipboard with nothing to hold except the drawers, which slide out as soon as you tilt it, and a tallboy is top-heavy and taller than the turn on most staircases. Send us a photo, say which floor it is on, and we send one fixed price for carrying it out and disposing of it. You pay once it is on the van.
We collect chests of drawers of every size, from a three-drawer bedside unit to a wide eight-drawer chest, along with tallboys, dressers, kitchen dressers with plate racks, dressing tables with their mirrors, and bedside cabinets in pairs. A two-person crew takes the drawers out, carries them down separately and then carries the empty carcass. A dressing table mirror is unscrewed from its supports and carried flat on its own. If the wardrobe or the bed frame is going at the same time, add them to the photo and one price covers the room.
A chest of drawers is often the last thing left after a bedroom has been cleared, because it seemed easy enough to deal with later and then sat there for a year. Council bulky waste collection is booked ahead and the chest has to be outside on the set day, which means getting it down the stairs yourself. We carry it from the room it stands in and aim for same-day or next-day collection wherever possible. Our guide on how to get rid of old furniture compares the routes.
Furniture Removal is an upper tier waste carrier, registered with the Environment Agency under licence CBDU526130. Solid chests of drawers are among the pieces we most often pass on for reuse, because a sound pine or oak chest with its drawers running is wanted by someone. Chipboard chests, dressers with broken runners and dressing tables with cracked mirrors go to a licensed waste transfer station for wood, metal and glass recovery. The guide on whether a charity will collect your furniture explains what a charity will accept and what it will not.
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
Drawers, dressers and bedside units we collect
- Chests of drawers, three to eight drawers
- Tallboys and narrow chests
- Dressers and kitchen dressers
- Dressing tables with mirrors and stools
- Bedside cabinets, singly or in pairs
- Solid pine, oak and mahogany
- Flat-pack and chipboard chests
- Painted and veneered pieces
What happens on the day
- Drawers taken out and carried first
- Carcass carried empty by two people
- Mirrors unscrewed and carried flat
- Dresser top lifted off its base
- Down from first-floor bedrooms
- Out of flats with or without a lift
- Loaded and strapped in the van
- Wood, metal and glass recovered
How a chest of drawers collection works
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Send a photo
Photograph the chest, dresser or dressing table from the front so we can see the drawers and any mirror. Add which floor and whether there is a lift.
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Get a fixed price
Back comes a single price for carrying it out, loading it and disposing of it. Bedside units and a stool are added to the figure, not charged separately.
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Book a slot
Give us a day and we confirm it by email. Same-day or next-day is offered wherever possible, with an early message giving the best odds.
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Pay once it is loaded
The drawers come out, the carcass follows, and both are loaded. The quoted price is paid once everything is in the van.
Why people use us
On the register
Our upper tier waste carrier licence, CBDU526130, is registered with the Environment Agency and covers England and Wales. Check it, then ask us for a transfer note.
Insured for the carry
A tallboy going down a staircase past your banister is covered by £5 million public liability insurance and £10 million employers' liability.
The price covers the awkward bits
Drawers out, mirror off, tight landing: all of it is in the figure we send from the photo. The crew does not revise it when they see the staircase.
Five stars, five hundred jobs
A 5 star rating on Google, more than 500 jobs and over 15 years of carrying furniture out of bedrooms. Around 90% of what we take is recycled.
How a chest of drawers or dresser leaves the bedroom
Every drawer comes out first. The crew stacks them in the hallway and carries them down two at a time, which takes the weight and the moving parts out of the carcass and leaves a hollow box that two people can grip through the drawer openings. A tallboy is then tipped on its back and carried like a stretcher so it clears the ceiling on a stair turn, while a wide chest goes down upright between two people with the lower one taking the weight. A dresser splits where the plate rack sits on the base, so the two halves travel separately. A dressing table has its mirror and the supporting arms unscrewed and the mirror carried flat, face in, by one person while the other brings the table. Bedside cabinets go out one in each hand.
Empty the drawers, including the one at the bottom that everyone forgets, and check behind the chest for anything that fell down the back. Take ornaments and perfume bottles off a dressing table and put them somewhere else before the crew arrives, because the top is the first thing to be tilted. If the mirror is screwed to the wall rather than to the dressing table, tell us in your message. Nothing else is needed; the crew brings the tools and does the lifting.
A solid timber chest with drawers that still run is offered for reuse first, and chests of drawers are among the pieces we most often find a home for. Chipboard and flat-pack chests, dressers with broken runners and dressing tables with damaged mirrors go to a licensed waste transfer station, where the wood is recovered, the handles, runners and hinges go for metal recycling and the mirror glass is taken out and processed on its own. A waste transfer note is available on request.
Before and after
Other furniture we collect
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Wardrobe
Fitted and freestanding, taken apart in the room
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Bed frame
Divans, wooden and metal frames, bunk beds
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Bookcase and cabinet
Display cabinets, sideboards, TV units
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Any other furniture
Mirrors, coffee tables, cots, flat-pack, whole rooms
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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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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
Chest of drawers and dresser removal questions
Do I need to empty the drawers before you come?
Yes, please. The drawers are taken out and carried separately, so anything left in them would spill. Everything else, including the lifting and any unscrewing, is done by the crew.
Can you take a tall chest down a staircase with a turn?
Yes. With the drawers out the carcass is light enough to tip on its back and carry like a stretcher, which gets a tallboy round a turn that it would never clear upright. Send a photo of the stairs if you are unsure.
Will you take a dressing table with the mirror attached?
Yes. The crew unscrews the mirror from its arms and carries it flat and separately, then brings the table and the stool. If the mirror is fixed to the wall instead, mention it and they take it down as well.
Do you collect bedside cabinets on their own?
Yes. One bedside unit, or a pair, is a normal job and gets the same two-person crew and fixed price. It is often cheaper to add them to a bigger collection, so put them in the photo if other furniture is going.
Is a kitchen dresser with a plate rack covered here?
Yes. A dresser usually comes apart where the top sits on the base, and the two halves are carried out separately. Tell us whether it is solid wood or chipboard and we price it from the photo.
What happens to the chest of drawers afterwards?
If it is solid and the drawers run, we offer it for reuse. If it is chipboard, broken or past repair, it goes to a licensed waste transfer station for the wood, metal fittings and any mirror glass to be recovered. We can give you a waste transfer note on request.
Send us a photo of the chest of drawers
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.