Furniture Removal in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Furniture removal is usually one of two jobs: one piece that has to go, or a whole house of it. Either way, we do the lifting. Count On Me! is a family-owned business based in Assonet, licensed and insured, with 5+ years hauling junk on the South Shore. We take couches, sectionals, recliners, beds, dressers, tables, desks and office furniture out of any room, down any stairs and away, across southeastern MA. Send a photo for a free estimate and you'll have an exact price before we touch a thing.

What furniture we take, and how it gets out

We take almost any household or office furniture that isn't built into the house: couches and sectionals, sleeper sofas, recliners and lift chairs, bed frames and headboards, mattresses and box springs, dressers, armoires, china cabinets, dining sets, desks, bookcases, entertainment centers, patio sets, filing cabinets and office chairs. One piece or fifty, the process is the same.

Getting it out is the real job. A big piece came in through a door, so it usually leaves the same way, sometimes after the legs or cushions come off. We look at the stairs and the turns first, then carry it out while watching the floors and walls. If a piece truly won't fit, we'll talk it through with you before taking it apart.

Then it gets sorted. Furniture in usable shape is set aside for donation when a charity will accept it. Metal frames and recliner mechanisms go to scrap, mattresses go to a recycler as Massachusetts requires, and what can't be reused goes to a licensed facility. Some donation centers, including some Habitat for Humanity ReStores, don't take upholstered pieces at all, so a stained or worn couch usually isn't a donation candidate. We'll tell you that straight.

What this covers

• Single-piece pickups: one couch, one recliner, one dresser
• Sectionals and sleeper sofas
• Bedroom sets, with the mattresses and box springs
• Dining and living room sets
• Office furniture: desks, chairs, filing cabinets, conference tables
• Outdoor and patio furniture
• Whole-house furniture for estates, downsizing and moves

What’s included

• A free estimate from your photos or on site
• An exact, no-obligation price before any work starts
• Carrying from any room and any floor
• Loading, hauling and disposal
• Donation and recycling where possible
• A sweep where the furniture stood

Furniture removal here: town rules, old stairs and the Massachusetts ban list

Furniture isn't on Massachusetts' trash ban list by name, but a lot of what's inside it is. MassDEP bans metal from disposal and wood from landfills, and since November 1, 2022 it has banned mattresses and textiles from disposal or transport for disposal. A recliner's steel mechanism, a metal bed frame and the mattress on it all have to be kept out of the trash stream. That's sorting a town trash truck doesn't do and a hauler should.

Town pickup is limited. Freetown's curbside service takes town trash bags, and anything 50 pounds or more gets left behind, so a couch doesn't qualify. Other towns in Bristol and Plymouth counties handle furniture through bulky-item appointments, stickers or transfer station drop-off, each with its own fees and limits, and you still have to get the piece to the curb or into a truck yourself. If you can't lift it, that's where we come in.

The houses make it harder. Fall River has about 4,120 triple-deckers among roughly 17,700 buildings, so a couch from a third-floor apartment comes down three flights of back stairs. Older Capes and Colonials across the South Shore have steep, narrow stairs to the second floor, and Cape Cod cottages have low doorways and tight halls. We ask about the stairs and the turns before we quote, because that decides how a piece gets out and how long it takes.

In Rhode Island the rules differ: mattresses go free to most town transfer stations through the state's Bye Bye Mattress program, and Rhode Island Resource Recovery runs a residential drop-off in Johnston. On a Rhode Island job, we follow Rhode Island's rules.

How it works

1. 1

   Send a photo

   Call or text photos of each piece. Tell us the town, the floor, and whether there are stairs, tight turns or a long walk to the truck.

2. 2

   Get your price

   We price from the photos, or come out for a free on-site estimate on bigger jobs. You'll have an exact price before any work begins.

3. 3

   Pick a time

   We book a time that works for you. Same-day pickup is possible when the schedule has room.

4. 4

   We carry it out

   We take each piece out of the room, down the stairs and onto the truck, watching floors and door frames on the way. You don't lift anything.

5. 5

   Donate, recycle, dispose

   We sweep where the furniture stood, set usable pieces aside for donation, pull metal and mattresses for recycling, and dispose of the rest properly.

Furniture Removal questions

Sources (8)

1. mass.gov/guides/massdep-waste-disposal-bans
2. law.cornell.edu/regulations/massachusetts/310-CMR-19-017
3. mass.gov/guides/mattress-recycling
4. freetownma.gov/1208/Curbside-Trash-Recycling
5. newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/rise-fall-rebirth-new-england-triple-decker/
6. newmoa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WorcesterCounty_Handout.pdf
7. byebyemattress.com/rhode-island/
8. rirrc.org/items/stoves