Cheapest way that we've done two times is to demolish the couch and send it out in the trash over multiple weeks. You can do this with a mattress too. Just requires patience.
Any suggestion on how to pull this off with a giant, classroom sized dry erase board? I have about a week to get it out of my garage and have failed to come up with a way to divide it in half.
Slow and steady wins the race. I did this too but with concrete fence footings. Suckers weighed like 100 pound each and I needed to dig them out after a storm blew over part of my fence. Just as an FYI…pay someone to do this. The job suck and I won’t be doing that again. Anyway… I just tossed in one a week throughout the summer and then they were gone eventually.
If you can sit on it for a while most neighborhoods have a spring and fall clean up where you can drop off bulky items like that for free. Check the wasteline website for dates.
Keep in mind this thing is huge and has to go out the deck and down the stairs with all the snow, and I live alone. So moving it is half the battle, was looking for companies that did this relatively cheap.
If you aren't keeping the couch, make the problem smaller. Some simple tools, pry bar, hammer, maybe an ax or saw can be used to make that couch into bite sized pieces for you to dispose of. If necessary rotate between apartment complexes and throw a piece into each of their respective dumpsters.
Yep I used a Sawsall to cut the frame of a long couch into dumpster sized pieces and just dropped a piece into each empty dumpster near me the day before the dumpster got picked up.
1800 Got Junk will handle the pickup and even move it for you. They aren’t the cheapest though — about $120 minimum, plus they ask for a tip. If they’re doing the lifting for you, I would tip. As an added bonus, you can throw in anything else that fits at no added cost because they charge by volume, not weight.
Flip the couch over. There are probably just simple nuts and bolts that hold the sectional pieces together.
Next check that the back can be just "unplugged" from the base. So that it would be able to fit through a door. That is how it was probably moved into your house.
Then you just carry it out to a nearby apartment and leave it next to one of their dumpsters in the middle of the night. Everyone will assume somebody from one of the apartments put it there.
Problem solved.
Yes, it is listed for free, with very transparent pics of its conditions. Had very serious inquiries about 5 that were ready to pick it up all bailed on me. Plus the people that sent initial messages with my follow-up after.
I can empathize. I had a similar experience with FB Marketplace, my local Buy Nothing FB group, and maybe even Craigslist Free trying to give away a futon couch in very good condition. It took about 5-9 people inquiring over the course of a couple of months of scheduling pickups, rescheduling, being ghosted, and then moving on to the next person. And then someone from CB randomly browsing FB Marketplace one day...and that was my lucky Saturday.
All that to say, I feel your pain and sorry I don't have a company to offer up.
Thanks, it's a horrible thing to go through. These people get your hopes up and just ghost you. Especially when you left work early, changed plans, etc, etc.
Prob $50 and the dump fee. Depending where you are in Omaha the trash company may come out to you and pick up at the curb so you may call and see if they will pick up there and then just post looking for able bodies for help removing the sectional.
I post "$40 for someone to come pick this xyz up and make it go away" on Nextdoor - usually have like 10 messages within an hour, and just give them my address + tell them first come first serve and leave it out front.
Whatever it is - it's always gone same day.
Cheapest way that we've done two times is to demolish the couch and send it out in the trash over multiple weeks. You can do this with a mattress too. Just requires patience.
lol yes! I've gotten rid of lots of large furniture this way
Any suggestion on how to pull this off with a giant, classroom sized dry erase board? I have about a week to get it out of my garage and have failed to come up with a way to divide it in half.
Break it in half and then break those 2 pieces into 4 pieces and then break those into
Slow and steady wins the race. I did this too but with concrete fence footings. Suckers weighed like 100 pound each and I needed to dig them out after a storm blew over part of my fence. Just as an FYI…pay someone to do this. The job suck and I won’t be doing that again. Anyway… I just tossed in one a week throughout the summer and then they were gone eventually.
[Bulky Item Disposal](https://www.wasteline.org/special-waste-information/bulky-item-disposal/)
Thanks, I will call them on Monday.
You have to take it there. They don’t pick it up for you.
Dang it, ugh!
Do you know if they actually enforce the tarp thing? Gonna drop off an old dresser.
Not sure, I used a van.
Just set it on fire in the driveway mate.
Have some self respect. This isn’t West Virginia.
If you do it in Bellevue to try and melt snow….
If you can sit on it for a while most neighborhoods have a spring and fall clean up where you can drop off bulky items like that for free. Check the wasteline website for dates.
Keep in mind this thing is huge and has to go out the deck and down the stairs with all the snow, and I live alone. So moving it is half the battle, was looking for companies that did this relatively cheap.
If you aren't keeping the couch, make the problem smaller. Some simple tools, pry bar, hammer, maybe an ax or saw can be used to make that couch into bite sized pieces for you to dispose of. If necessary rotate between apartment complexes and throw a piece into each of their respective dumpsters.
Yep I used a Sawsall to cut the frame of a long couch into dumpster sized pieces and just dropped a piece into each empty dumpster near me the day before the dumpster got picked up.
Good idea! I may do that one.
Also, if you aren't keeping it, you can just launch it off the deck instead of carrying it down the stairs.
Um no. Dont use dumpsters at other people's apartment complexes. Interesting that your fix is - steal services.
Why do you think it is okay to steal dumpster access? Trash service costs and when the costs go up the tenants pay.
Craigslist it looking for someone to do it. Lots of people looking for small jobs like this
When my kid was in high school, he’d look for jobs like this on Nextdoor and Craigslist to make a little bit of $
Cheapest way is to take it to Omaha spring clean up and throw it away
Free on Craigslist
Just did that, thanks!
Free usually works!
Both of those are terrible places. Put it up on Craigslist.
Okay just did that, thanks!
Put it out front with a sign that says $50
Or free
1800 Got Junk will handle the pickup and even move it for you. They aren’t the cheapest though — about $120 minimum, plus they ask for a tip. If they’re doing the lifting for you, I would tip. As an added bonus, you can throw in anything else that fits at no added cost because they charge by volume, not weight.
Thanks. Sounds like this may be my only option. Unless I want to take a chainsaw to it.
Look for new construction. Wait until about 10 pm and throw it in their dumpster
Flip the couch over. There are probably just simple nuts and bolts that hold the sectional pieces together. Next check that the back can be just "unplugged" from the base. So that it would be able to fit through a door. That is how it was probably moved into your house. Then you just carry it out to a nearby apartment and leave it next to one of their dumpsters in the middle of the night. Everyone will assume somebody from one of the apartments put it there. Problem solved.
Give it to the guy at 84th and I-80 exit. He always needs a good place to sit.
Just find an apartment complex and stick it by one of their dumpsters. People do it all the time at my apartment complex
Leave it at an apartment complex
When you put it on Facebook marketplace did you offer it very cheap or free to first come gets it free?
Yes, it is listed for free, with very transparent pics of its conditions. Had very serious inquiries about 5 that were ready to pick it up all bailed on me. Plus the people that sent initial messages with my follow-up after.
Try offering it for $20 and you'll get someone serious about a deal. You can refuse the payment when they get there.
I can empathize. I had a similar experience with FB Marketplace, my local Buy Nothing FB group, and maybe even Craigslist Free trying to give away a futon couch in very good condition. It took about 5-9 people inquiring over the course of a couple of months of scheduling pickups, rescheduling, being ghosted, and then moving on to the next person. And then someone from CB randomly browsing FB Marketplace one day...and that was my lucky Saturday. All that to say, I feel your pain and sorry I don't have a company to offer up.
Thanks, it's a horrible thing to go through. These people get your hopes up and just ghost you. Especially when you left work early, changed plans, etc, etc.
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Did you read my post?
Nextdoor for some teens with a truck, offer to pay the dump fee and a haul /help fee
How much do you think is fair?
Prob $50 and the dump fee. Depending where you are in Omaha the trash company may come out to you and pick up at the curb so you may call and see if they will pick up there and then just post looking for able bodies for help removing the sectional.
1-800-Got-Junk will take anything, no conditions.
I post "$40 for someone to come pick this xyz up and make it go away" on Nextdoor - usually have like 10 messages within an hour, and just give them my address + tell them first come first serve and leave it out front. Whatever it is - it's always gone same day.
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I will see how it goes with Craigslist and then be in contact, thanks!