How much does furniture removal cost in Toronto?

In brief: Furniture removal in Toronto runs from $0 to several hundred dollars depending on who does the lifting. City curbside collection is free but is disposal, not reuse. Dropping items off yourself at a reuse charity is free if you have a vehicle. Charity in-home pickup starts at $150 with Furniture Bank and carries a $150 service fee with Habitat ReStore for 3 items, with the price increasing for more items. Commercial junk removal averages about $240 a job, according to third-party pricing guides.

The answer, up front

Getting furniture out of a Toronto home costs between $0 and roughly $800, and the price tracks one thing: how much of the lifting, driving, and hauling you hand to someone else. Curb it yourself and the City takes it for nothing. Hand everything to a same-day junk crew and the third-party guides put the average bill at $240, with full loads running $590 to $799 or more. Charity pickup sits in between. Furniture Bank’s pricing starts at $150 in the GTA, built from a published fee per item, with no HST and a tax receipt back. Habitat ReStore GTA picks up free at the curb or loading bay and charges a $150 service fee to come inside. What you will not easily find is those numbers side by side, because most of this market does not publish them. The two largest junk removal brands, 1-800-GOT-JUNK and JUSTJUNK, price by truck volume and quote only after seeing your items in person. The averages above come from outside researchers, moveBuddha and Dropcurb, not from the companies. You should not have to reverse-engineer a price from strangers on the internet, so here is the whole market, including us.

What are your four options, and what does each cost?

Option What you pay What you do Where the furniture ends up
City of Toronto curbside $0 per item Get it to the curb yourself on collection day Disposal; curbside furniture goes to landfill
Drop it off yourself $0 Load, drive, and unload at a reuse charity A family’s home, if it passes inspection
Charity in-home pickup From $150 (Furniture Bank); $150 service fee (Habitat ReStore GTA) Nothing. Crews carry it out A family’s home (Furniture Bank) or a ReStore shelf funding affordable housing (Habitat)
Commercial junk removal ~$240 average per moveBuddha; on-site quote required Point at the items Mixed loads; diversion rates are self-reported
  Two footnotes on the free options. City curbside costs nothing per item, and a couch at the curb is a couch in a landfill. Habitat’s free pickup is curbside or loading-bay only; for its crews to come inside, the $155 fee applies and your items must already be on the main floor.

What does Furniture Bank charge, and where does the money go?

Your quote is built from a published fee attached to each item type. Sample fees from the current price list:
Item Pickup fee Tax receipt value
Sofa $100 $250
Sectional $150 $350 to $450 by size
Loveseat $75 $150
Dresser $60 $100
Queen mattress $60 $150
Dining table $60 $150
Dining chair $15 each $50 each
Coffee table $30 $100
Night table $15 $50
  We highly recommend visiting https://estimate.furniturebank.org/ to see how much we would charge you for your pickup. Keep in mind that we charge a minimum of $150 for nearby locations, and this minimum will increase for service areas furthest away from our location. What we charge will also depend on how much space your furniture takes up in the truck. Stackable items that fit well together might be cheaper than a collection of bulky, heavy items.  The fee is not profit and it is not padding. It pays for the trucks, the crews, and the warehouse that move your furniture from your living room into the home of a family leaving a shelter or arriving as newcomers, and it is what keeps the drop-off option free. No pickup fees, no trucks. No trucks, no furnished homes. The price and the mission are one system. There is no HST on the pickup, because the service is charitable. Each accepted item generates a charitable tax receipt at the values above, targeted to reach you the next business day. The receipt softens the fee; it does not erase it. It reduces your income tax by a percentage of the receipt value.

What moves the price up or down?

Item count and item size. A one-bedroom’s worth of furniture costs less to remove than a four-bedroom house, because it takes less truck space and less crew time. Distance matters at the edges of the service area. Bulkiness is also a factor: a stack of chairs will be cheaper and more space efficient than a few large bulky items, like sofas.

When is Furniture Bank the wrong choice?

Three situations, stated plainly. If your furniture is broken, stained, or mouldy, do not pay us or anyone else to donate it. It will not pass inspection, and a family cannot use it. City curbside or a junk hauler is the honest answer, and the junk hauler is only worth the premium if you cannot get it to the curb. If you need it gone today, we are not built for that. Junk removal companies run same-day trucks; that speed is what their price buys. And if you have one low-value item and a way to move it, the free options beat us. A single worn bookshelf does not justify a truck. Drop it off, curb it, or give it away on your street.

What does this look like in practice?

A donor described the trade in a 2022 Google review. She had replaced her mattress, the old one was in great condition, she had no way to transport it, and she did not want it on the curb. She filled in the online request form, called to confirm, and had a pickup slot two days later. Her words on the price: “I will end up paying $150 and I think that’s more than fair.” Her final email noted the tax receipt would follow within a day or two. That is the trade in one sentence: you pay for the truck and the crew, and in exchange the piece gets a chance at a second household instead of a bulldozer.

The full market, for those who want it

Charities first. Furniture Bank picks up across the GTA from inside your home, priced per item, receipt issued per item. Habitat ReStore GTA picks up free at the curb, charges $155 to come inside, requires items on the main floor first, excludes mattresses, and recommends booking ten or more days ahead. The Salvation Army no longer accepts furniture in Canada. Diabetes Canada collects clothing and small goods only, not furniture. Junk removal second. Volume pricing, on-site quotes, same-day capacity. Per the third-party guides: roughly $129 to $160 for a single large item, $370 to $400 for a half truck, $590 to $799 or more for a full load. Both major brands say they divert what they can; those figures are self-reported and unaudited. The City third: oversized items go out with regular garbage collection at no per-item charge, and free is real, but so is the landfill for furniture. Self-haul last: free drop-off at 25 Connell Court, Unit 1, Etobicoke, Monday to Friday from 9AM to 1PM, with the same condition standards at the dock.

Your next step

List your items in the online quote form and the price comes back before anyone visits your home. If the number does not work for you, the table above tells you exactly who to call instead.

Related questions

How much does Furniture Bank charge for pickup? Why does Furniture Bank charge to pick up donations? Who picks up furniture for free in Toronto? Is my furniture good enough to donate? How does the furniture donation tax receipt work? Should I donate, sell, or junk my furniture?
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