Bed Frame Disposal in New York City

The frame is priced separately from the mattress

People usually search for one and need both. They are different items with different prices, and you can take one without the other.

Frames:

Mattresses and bases:

So a bed frame in this city runs from $92 for a plain metal platform to $205 for a solid king. The minimum for a visit is $75, which every frame on that list clears on its own.

Which frame do you actually have

The $92 bracket covers the light stuff: a metal bed frame on casters, a simple slatted platform, a basic bolt-together frame with no upholstery and no drawers.

The $169 and $205 brackets cover anything with real mass. Solid wood. Upholstered frames with a padded headboard and side rails. Storage beds with drawers built into the base or a gas-strut lift deck. Those are heavier than the mattress they carry, they come apart in more pieces, and the difference between the brackets is size rather than material — twin through queen at $169, king and Cal king at $205.

If you cannot tell, photograph the bed from the foot with the bedding pulled back. We price it from the photograph before booking.

The flat-pack problem, which is everywhere here

A very large share of New York bed frames were assembled in the bedroom they now occupy, by someone sitting on the floor with an allen key. Those frames did not come through the doorway assembled and they will not leave that way.

Taking them apart is included in the price. There is no disassembly charge on our list. That matters more than it sounds, because a storage bed with a lift deck is genuinely twenty minutes of work with a drill, and it is twenty minutes that some quotes treat as an extra you discover at the door.

Two practical notes. Strip the bedding before the crew arrives so the frame is visible. And if the frame is against a wall in a small bedroom, clearing a meter around it saves real time on a job where the truck is parked in an alternate-side window.

Bunk beds, lofts and children's rooms

Bunk beds are their own category because they are tall, they are bolted, and in a New York children's room they are usually wedged between a wall and a radiator.

Loft beds in particular show up in converted lofts and small second bedrooms, often built tall enough that dismantling them is a two-person job with a ladder. That is included. What is not included is the mattress on top, which prices separately — a twin at $111, a full at $126.

Murphy beds and anything attached to the building

A Murphy or wall bed is $175 to remove. It is the one frame that is usually fixed to the structure, either lagged into studs or, in a prewar apartment, bolted into a masonry wall through a cabinet surround.

Two things to settle before booking. First, whether the surrounding cabinetry is going too, because in many installations the bed and the cabinet are one assembly and the cabinet is what is actually holding it up. Second, that removing it will leave anchor holes and, in an older building, likely take plaster with it. We take the bed out; patching the wall afterwards is a plasterer's job.

In a rental, check the lease before you remove anything fixed to the wall. A landlord who installed the bed may well consider it a fixture rather than furniture.

Waterbeds, adjustable bases and hospital beds

Waterbeds must be drained completely before the crew arrives, and that is not a quick job — plan a day ahead with a pump and a hose. Adjustable and hospital bases contain a motor and a transformer and are considerably heavier than they look; they come apart, but it is a crew job rather than a solo one on a stair.

Stairs, elevators and why none of it changes the price

A queen storage bed leaving a fifth-floor walk-up in the East Village is the same $169 as the identical bed leaving a lobby on Riverside Drive. There is no stair charge, no walk-up fee and no disassembly fee in our pricing, which is a deliberate choice in a city where most housing has no lift.

What the building changes is the schedule. In a doorman or managed building the crew needs a certificate of insurance naming the building and the managing agent before it gets past the service entrance, and the freight elevator is usually released in fixed weekday windows that book out. Ask the managing agent for the exact COI wording and the available windows when you book, and we will issue the certificate.

On brownstone blocks the constraint is street level instead: alternate-side rules decide which side of the road the truck can legally stand on, which is why an arrival time is a window.

Doing the whole bed at once

Most people are replacing the bed rather than just removing one, and the delivery of the new one is the deadline. Priced together, a full queen setup is the frame plus the sleeping surface: $169 + $192 = $361 for a solid queen frame with its mattress and box spring. A lighter setup comes out at $92 + $139 = $231 for a metal platform and a queen mattress.

If the bedroom is being emptied entirely, add a standard dresser at $169 and a nightstand at $77, and check the truck ladder as well — a quarter truck is $325 and three-eighths is $455. We quote both the item list and the truck share and charge the lower one.

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