Old Sofa Collection & Disposal Eastcote
Sofa, mattress and furniture collection across Eastcote, HA5 — down the turning stairs of a 1930s semi or out of a flat above the Field End Road parades. Two-person crew, all-in fixed prices, specialist disposal included.
Priced by piece and size, from £65 • collected from any room • recycled, not fly-tipped
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Furniture we take away in Eastcote
Metroland semis were not built for modern sofas. Narrow hallways, turning staircases and porches that a big piece will not pass in one go mean we come with tools for quick disassembly and blankets for the tight corners, and we protect the banisters and door frames on the way out. Two crew come on every job.
Pricing is by the piece and its size, all-in. An armchair is £65 and a 3-seater £105 if they are already outside for us; if we carry them out, the job gains a single £30 charge, which covers the stairs and every piece on the visit. A mattress is £75 kerbside and £105 carried out.
Flats above the Field End Road parades need a different plan: parking there is short-stay and yellow-lined in places, so we arrange the nearest legal stop before we arrive. Upholstered furniture and mattresses go for specialist disposal, which is already in the price, and fridges and freezers run as a general load plus their published WEEE fee.
Hillingdon Council’s bulky collection covers HA5 at £53 a slot, £39 if you are over 65 and £94 for landlords, with up to six items in a slot. The catch in a Metroland semi is the stairs: every item has to be at your boundary, at ground-floor level, by 6am, because the crew will not come in. Building and DIY waste, garden waste, rubble, tyres and hazardous items are refused, and collections run Monday to Friday on the next free date. For a few items you can carry out yourself it is the cheaper route, and we will say so — the item list is in our Hillingdon bulky waste guide.
The tip for Eastcote is the Harefield Civic Amenity Site on New Years Green Lane in Harefield (UB9 6LX). There is no booking for cars, but you need a HillingdonFirst card at the gate; vans and trailers need two forms of ID and are held to 12 visits a year. It is open seven days, 8am to 4pm with last entry at 3.45pm, and weekends between 10am and 2pm are the busiest — the council asks drivers not to turn right into New Years Green Lane from Harvil Road, where the junction backs up. Our Harefield tip guide has the rest.
The work in Eastcote
What a job actually looks like — loads, access and the state of things before and after.
Sofa, mattress & furniture disposal prices in Eastcote
You only pay for the space your items take up in the van, plus labour and disposal. Send a photo on WhatsApp for a fixed price before we arrive.
Quick answer
Sofa removal in Eastcote is priced by the piece and its size. A 2-seater is £95 if you put it outside for us, or £125 if we carry it out of any room — same or next day, upstairs flats included. A 3-seater is £105 or £135, a corner sofa £125 or £155, an armchair £65 or £95, a mattress £75 or £105. Extra pieces on the same visit add their own fee, not another call-out: a sofa plus a mattress together comes to £120 outside or £150 carried out. Every price is all-in — the POPs disposal fee is already included, and nothing is added on the day.
| What we collect | You put it outside | We carry it out |
|---|---|---|
| Armchair One armchair, footstool or occasional chair. |
£65 | £95 |
| Mattress One mattress, any size. |
£75 | £105 |
| 2-seater sofa A two-seater or loveseat. |
£95 | £125 |
| Recliner A recliner chair — heavier, with the metal mechanism in. |
£95 | £125 |
| 3-seater sofa A three-seater. |
£105 | £135 |
| Sofa bed A sofa bed, mechanism and all. |
£120 | £150 |
| Corner sofa A corner, L-shaped or four-seater sofa. |
£125 | £155 |
| Recliner sofa A two- or three-seat recliner sofa — the mechanisms make it the heaviest piece we take. |
£145 | £175 |
| Furniture van load Up to ten upholstered pieces — a flat’s worth of soft furniture. |
— | £375 |
Priced by piece and size. Each price is one piece on its own. More than one piece on the same visit? Add them up and take £50 off for each extra piece — a 2-seater plus a mattress comes to £120 outside or £150 carried out; a three-piece suite (a 3-seater and two armchairs) comes to £135 or £165. Carrying it out adds £30 per job — any room, any floor, stairs and no-lift flats included: about 20 minutes of our £89/hr two-person crew, the same whether it is a 2-seater from the front room or a corner sofa down two flights. Every price is all-in: the specialist POPs disposal that upholstered furniture legally needs is already inside the figure, and nothing is added on the day.
Sofa and mattress disposal in Eastcote — your questions answered
Will you dismantle a sofa that will not go round the stairs?
If it genuinely will not come down whole, yes — we dismantle it where it is. Tell us when you book so we allow the time; turning staircases are common in Eastcote’s 1930s semis.
Is the disposal fee extra?
No. Upholstered seating has to be kept apart from other waste and incinerated, and that cost is already inside every price we quote — nothing is added on the day. The one different route is fridges and freezers, which are a general load plus a published WEEE fee.
Can you collect from a flat above the shops?
Yes. Tell us the address and the floor: with short-stay bays and yellow lines by the parades, we plan the loading stop before the van arrives and keep the time on the street short.
Can the council take my sofa?
Only from the boundary: Hillingdon’s bulky crew will not come in, so the sofa has to be outside at ground level by 6am. A slot is £53, or £39 if you are over 65, for up to six items — cheaper than us if you can get it out yourself.
How soon can you collect in Eastcote?
Usually the same day. We are a short run from Uxbridge and work 7am to 10pm, seven days a week including bank holidays; a photo of the piece gets you a fixed price and a slot.
Where we collect furniture near Eastcote
We are based in Uxbridge (UB8) and cover Eastcote seven days a week. As well as HA5 we work across Ruislip, Pinner, Northwood, Ickenham and Hillingdon, and out to Rayners Lane.
What the price includes — and what it doesn't
The most common complaint about clearance companies is a price that grows once the van is loaded. So here is the whole of ours, before you book, including the parts that cost extra.
Included in the price we quote
No line of this is billed separately afterwards.
- Labour — the crew, the carrying and the loading.
- The van, the fuel, ULEZ and the congestion charge — London charges are ours, not yours.
- Disposal and recycling of the load — the tipping cost is inside the price.
- Access from anywhere on the property — any room, up or down stairs, or out of the garden.
- VAT — the price you are shown is the price you pay.
- Waste transfer paperwork for your load, on request — so your duty of care is documented.
Priced separately, or not carried at all
Told to you up front, never discovered on the invoice.
- Upholstered seating and mattresses carry their own disposal fee, because the law forces them down a more expensive route than the rest of your load. The amount is on our pricing page before you book.
- Hazardous items — paint, chemicals, asbestos, tyres and gas bottles cannot travel in a general load and need a specialist route. We will tell you which one.
- Fridges, freezers and electricals have a separate WEEE route — flag them when you book so we arrive with the right van.
- Anything flammable, explosive, illegal, or alive — we cannot carry it, and we will say so before the day.
If there turns out to be more than we quoted for, you hear the new price before anything goes in the van — not once it is loaded, and not on the invoice. The same goes for access: tell us when you book if your street is permit-only or on a red route, or if the job is above the third floor with no lift, and we plan for it instead of pricing round it on the day.
What happens to your waste after we drive away
Most clearance companies stop this story at the word "recycled". Here is the actual route your load takes, including the part of it that nobody advertises.
It goes in by hand
Everything is carried out and loaded by the crew — from the room, the garden or the kerbside. What is in the load matters, because what is in it decides where it is legally allowed to go.
Sorted, not buried
The load goes to a licensed transfer station or recycling centre, where it is separated by material. It is not tipped straight into a hole in the ground.
Recovered by material
Metal, wood, cardboard, textiles and electricals are pulled out for recycling or recovery. Green waste is composted.
The bit nobody advertises
Upholstered furniture cannot be recycled at all. Since January 2023 the Environment Agency presumes every domestic sofa, armchair and padded dining chair contains persistent organic pollutants, so it must be kept apart from other waste and incinerated — never landfilled, never shredded for reuse. That law, not a markup, is why soft seating carries its own fee. Whatever is genuinely left after sorting goes to energy recovery.
- Metal
- Wood
- Cardboard & paper
- Textiles
- Electricals (WEEE)
- Green waste
We do not publish a recycling percentage. You will see "90% diverted from landfill" on a lot of clearance websites. The sorting happens at the transfer station, after our van has left, and we are not going to take credit for a figure we cannot evidence. What we can give you is the route your load takes and the paperwork for it — and if you want to check who handles it, ask us to identify the registered carrier for your collection and verify them on the Environment Agency public register before we load.
Proof, not adjectives
Anyone can type "trusted" and "reliable" onto a website. These are the things about us you can actually check.
We are a small London crew, not a national booking platform, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: we have 27 five-star reviews on Google and 3 on Yell. That is all of them. Every one is public, unedited and one tap away — which is worth rather more than a five-figure review count you have no way of reading.
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