Table and chairs removal

Table and chairs removal is usually a set rather than a single piece: a dining table and four, six or eight chairs, a kitchen table with a bench, or a desk and the office chair that went with it. Send a photo of the whole set where it stands, with a line about the room and the route to the door, and we send back one fixed price that covers the lot. Two people carry it out and load it, and you pay when the last chair is on the van.

The table is the awkward piece. A solid oak table can weigh as much as a wardrobe, a marble or granite top is heavier still and cracks if it is flexed, and an extending table has a mechanism underneath that shifts as it is lifted. Glass tops come out separately and are carried upright. The crew takes the legs off where that is the safest route and carries the top on its edge through the door. Chairs are light but bulky, so they go out two at a time. If you are clearing an office rather than a kitchen, the office furniture removal page covers desks and chairs by the dozen.

Dining sets go when a kitchen is refitted, a house is sold or an open-plan room is rearranged, and often a sideboard or display cabinet goes at the same time. Put it all in the photo and the visit is priced as one job. The council bulky waste collection is the alternative, booked ahead with the table and chairs left outside on a set day, and it often limits how many items you can put out. We take it from the room and offer same-day or next-day collection wherever possible.

Furniture Removal is an upper tier waste carrier, licence CBDU526130, registered with the Environment Agency. Dining sets are the furniture most likely to be reused, because a solid table with four matching chairs still has a long life in it, so we pass sound sets on before anything else. Tables and chairs that are past it go to a licensed waste transfer station where the timber, the steel chair frames and the glass are recovered. For what a set costs to shift, and why, read what affects the cost of furniture removal.