Five real ways to move an old sofa out of your valley home — Republic's curbside bulk pickup, donating it, hauling it to Apex yourself, a traditional full-service hauler, or a flat photo-quoted pickup. Here's what each one actually costs, the Las Vegas rules that trip people up, and whether the city will even take it. A flat pickup starts at $170, all-in, with no Nevada sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →An old couch is one of the most awkward things to get rid of in Las Vegas: it's too big for the trash bin, too long for most curbside rules, and — in a slab-built valley with no basements — it's usually sitting in a living room, a garage, or a second-floor apartment that somebody has to carry it out of. There are five honest ways to deal with it, and the right one depends on the couch's condition, whether you can move it yourself, and how fast you need it gone. For a price anchor, home-service marketplace Homeyou puts junk removal in Las Vegas around $95–$550, and a traditional full-service hauler typically quotes $150–$600+ for a couch once they've sized up the load on-site. A flat photo-quoted pickup lands inside that band — a standard sofa is $170 — but you know the number before anyone drives out.
Your Republic Services trash account already includes a curbside bulk (bulky-item) pickup, so this is the free option — if your couch fits the rules. In the City of Las Vegas the program runs every other week, caps items at roughly 6 feet, wants everything at the curb by 5:00 a.m. on your bulk day, and — this is the part that stops most people — crews will not step onto private property. That means you drag the sofa out to the curb. A couch stuck in a garage, up an apartment stairwell, or behind a gate simply doesn't qualify, and a long sectional blows past the 6-foot limit. If you can walk a standard sofa to the curb and you can wait for the next collection, use it — that's exactly what it's for. Republic bulk line: 702-735-5151.
A clean, structurally sound couch is worth donating, and Las Vegas has real options: Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Deseret Industries, Savers, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, Opportunity Village, and Salvation Army (1-800-SA-TRUCK). Several offer free home pickup for larger furniture, and you get a tax receipt. The catch: they only take resellable pieces. A sagging, stained, torn, or pet-damaged sofa gets turned away at the dock, and pickup slots book out. Call ahead and confirm they'll accept yours before you count on it — otherwise you're back to the other four options with a wasted afternoon.
You can load the couch and drive it to a Republic transfer station or the Apex Regional Landfill (~20 miles northeast on US-93). Disposal here is genuinely cheap — the posted gate rate is around $37.54/ton, and a single sofa is well under a ton — but the tipping fee is the small part. You still need a pickup truck or a rental, straps, a second set of hands to lift it, and a couple of hours for the round trip out to the desert and back. Between the rental, the gas, and a possible short-load minimum, the "free" dump run rarely stays free, and in summer you're wrestling a couch in 105°+ heat. Fine if you already own a truck and a strong friend; a bad trade otherwise.
The old-school route: call a hauler or a national chain, get a rough phone range, and let a crew carry it out. The work gets done — but the real number is revealed on-site, priced by how much of the truck they estimate you'll fill, with a brand premium baked in. For a single couch that typically runs $150–$600+ depending on the company and how they measure the load, and by the time they've quoted it in your driveway the truck is already there. It's full-service, which beats DIY — but you're finding out the price after you've committed, not before.
Send a photo of the couch, get a set flat price — a sofa is $170, a loveseat $160, a sleeper sofa $200, a futon $150, a sectional $190–$365 by piece count — and an insured crew carries it out of the home from any floor, splits a sectional if it has to, keeps it off the curb so your HOA never sees it, and routes anything usable to donation for you. Often same-day. The price is locked at checkout before anyone drives, disposal is included, and there's no Nevada sales tax on the service. No truck to rent, no schedule to wait on, no lifting. It's the option most people land on once they've priced out the other four.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Republic curbside bulk | Free (with trash account) | Every other week | You drag it to the curb; ~6-ft limit; crews won't enter your property |
| Donation | Free | Days (by appointment) | Good condition only; pickup slots limited; damaged pieces refused |
| Self-haul to Apex | ~$37.54/ton + truck & fuel | A half-day | You supply the truck, the muscle, and the desert drive — in the heat |
| Traditional full-service hauler | $150–$600+ | Scheduled | Real price revealed on-site by truck volume, brand premium included |
| JunkRabbit flat pickup | $170 (sofa), $190–$365 sectional | Same-day when open | None — flat photo price, we carry it out, donation-routed |
Homeyou puts Las Vegas junk removal around $95–$550. JunkRabbit prices are flat and photo-quoted; $75 minimum, disposal included, no Nevada sales tax on the service.
Technically yes — practically, only if the couch cooperates. Republic Services holds the valley's residential collection franchise, and every trash account includes a curbside bulk pickup. But the program was built around one assumption: you do the moving, and the crew only grabs what's already at the curb. So the fine print does the disqualifying. It runs every other week, not on demand; it caps items at about 6 feet, which rules out most sectionals; everything has to be curbside by 5:00 a.m.; and crews will not enter private property. Put those together and a huge share of Las Vegas couches don't actually qualify: the one in a second-floor apartment off Maryland Parkway or in Winchester (nobody's carrying it down for you), the one in the back of a Summerlin or Green Valley garage, the one in a guard-gated community, or the long sectional that's over the size limit before it even reaches the street.
Henderson and North Las Vegas run their own Republic-contract schedules, so the exact cadence shifts by city — but the shape is identical: free, curbside, periodic, self-serve, size-limited. That's the precise gap a paid full-service pickup fills. We come into the home, carry the couch out from wherever it's sitting, handle the oversized and the sectional, and keep the whole thing off the curb — which matters in the master-planned valley, because in Summerlin, Enterprise, Aliante, Green Valley and most HOAs, a sofa parked at the curb between bulk days is exactly what earns a violation letter.
Flat, photo-quoted before anyone drives. The labor, the drive across the valley, and the disposal are already in it. Prices are per piece; combine a couch with anything else and it's still one flat quote.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Sofa / couch (standard) | $170 |
| Loveseat | $160 |
| Recliner | $132 |
| Sleeper / pull-out sofa | $200 |
| Futon | $150 |
| Sectional (2-piece) | $190 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $249 |
| Sectional (4-piece) | $307 |
| Sectional (5-piece) | $365 |
$75 minimum on any pickup. Disposal and donation routing included; no Nevada sales tax on the service. Add a mattress, a chair, or a whole garage and it prices as one photo quote — see the full Las Vegas price guide →
A pickup isn't automatically a landfill trip. If the couch is still resellable, we steer it toward donation — Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Deseret Industries, Savers, a Habitat ReStore, or Opportunity Village — so it earns a second life and, where it applies, a tax receipt for you. Frames and metal are routed to recycling where possible. Only what's genuinely spent goes to Republic's Apex Regional Landfill, where disposal is cheap enough that we can divert first without it changing your flat price. Nevada has no state mattress- or furniture-recycling mandate, so this is a choice we make because it's the right one, not a rule we're following.
The reason a flat pickup beats the free curbside program in Las Vegas comes down to where couches actually live here. In the Maryland Parkway / UNLV rental belt and the older Winchester and East Las Vegas apartments, a sleeper sofa is on the second or third floor and there's no way one person is getting it to the curb — we carry it down. In a Strip or Downtown high-rise (Turnberry, Panorama, Veer, the Ogden), a sectional has to come apart to fit the freight elevator, and the building wants a Certificate of Insurance on file before a vendor uses the dock — we split it and file the COI. In the master-planned suburbs — Summerlin, Enterprise, Green Valley, Aliante — we load straight from the living room or garage and nothing sits at the curb, so the HOA has nothing to flag. And in the summer, we do the lifting in the 105°+ heat so you don't have to. None of that carries a surcharge; access is already in the flat quote.
"Old sleeper sofa was stuck in a third-floor apartment by UNLV and there was no way I was getting it down alone. They carried it out, flat price from a photo, done the same afternoon."
"New sectional coming, old one had to go, and our Summerlin HOA won't tolerate anything at the curb. They loaded it straight from the living room — nothing out front, no letter from the HOA. Easy."
"Sacaron un sofá viejo y un futón de mi apartamento en Sunrise Manor. Precio fijo desde la foto, sin sorpresas, el mismo día. Muy recomendable."
How much does it cost to get rid of a couch in Las Vegas?
A flat pickup is $170 for a standard sofa, $160 a loveseat, $200 a sleeper, $150 a futon, and $190–$365 for a sectional by piece count. The minimum job is $75, disposal and donation routing are included, and there's no Nevada sales tax. A traditional hauler typically runs $150–$600+, priced on-site; Homeyou puts the local average around $95–$550.
Does the city pick up couches?
Republic's curbside bulk pickup will — but only every other week, only up to about 6 feet, and only from the curb, because crews won't enter your property. A sectional's too long and a couch you can't drag out yourself doesn't qualify. Republic bulk line: 702-735-5151.
Can you take a sectional or a sleeper sofa?
Yes. A sleeper is $200; sectionals are $190 (2pc), $249 (3pc), $307 (4pc), $365 (5pc). We split a sectional to get it down a stairwell or into a freight elevator, so size is never the problem it is at the curb.
Will you donate my couch instead of dumping it?
If it's resellable, yes — we route usable couches to Goodwill of Southern Nevada, Deseret, Savers, Habitat ReStore, or Opportunity Village, and only what's spent goes to Apex. Donation routing is included in the flat price.
Do you carry it out, or does it have to be at the curb?
We carry it out — living room, garage, backyard, second-floor apartment, or a Strip high-rise. Nothing has to touch the curb, which keeps HOA communities compliant.
Can you come the same day?
Often, when a slot's open — same-day at the same flat price, no rush surcharge. Send a photo and we'll quote the soonest window.