The short answer

Bed frames are cheap to remove and annoying to move. The price depends on construction, not on how much you paid for it.

  • Bed Frame (Standard / Metal / Platform) — $68
  • Bed Frame (Solid / Upholstered / Storage) — Twin, Full or Queen — $126
  • Bed Frame (Solid / Upholstered / Storage) — King or Cal King — $152
  • Headboard on its own — $57
  • Bunk Bed — $123, or $148 for solid wood or a loft bed
  • Daybed — $89, Trundle Bed — $100, Murphy Bed — $130, Crib — $67

Minimum $75 per visit, so a single $68 frame lands at the $75 minimum. Pair it with anything else and that stops mattering.

Why the price splits by construction

A steel rail frame folds flat and one person carries it out. A solid oak sleigh bed or an upholstered platform with a storage base does not fold, does not come apart without tools, and weighs what a piece of furniture weighs. Storage bases are the worst of the three — a hollow box the size of a mattress, rigid, with no good handhold anywhere on it.

That is the whole logic. We publish both prices so you can look at your own bed and know which one applies before anyone turns up.

Bungalow hallways and townhouse stairs

Houston's older inner-loop housing stock fights you on this. Montrose and Heights bungalows from the twenties and thirties have interior doors around thirty inches, hallways that turn, and a front door at the top of a raised pier-and-beam porch. A king platform bed went into those rooms in pieces and it has to leave in pieces.

The newer problem is the opposite shape. Three-story townhomes in Rice Military, EaDo and the Washington corridor put the primary bedroom on the third floor above a garage, with two tight switchback stair runs and a landing that will not take a nine-foot length turned horizontally. Crews here carry beds down those stairs constantly. It is included, and there is no stair charge.

Do I need to take it apart first?

No. If you already have, fine — a disassembled frame is faster to load. If you have not, leave it. Crews carry tools and will break down what needs breaking down, and the price does not change either way.

What does help: strip the bedding, pull anything out of under-bed storage drawers, and tell us at booking if it is a king so the crew arrives expecting to disassemble rather than expecting to carry.

Flat-pack, humidity and the garage graveyard

Particleboard and Houston do not get along. A flat-pack frame that spent two years in a garage in Cypress or Katy swells at the joints, the cam locks strip, and it will not go back together once it comes apart. That is why so many of them end up leaning against a garage wall behind the lawn mower rather than going to a second home.

If yours is already in that state, do not spend a Saturday trying to sell it. A swollen flat-pack frame has no resale value here and every buyer who comes to look at one can see the damage from the driveway.

Bed frame plus everything else

Nobody removes a bed frame alone. The usual bedroom clear, with the addition shown:

  • Queen mattress, box spring and metal frame: $103 + $92 + $68 = $263
  • King mattress, box spring and a solid king frame: $114 + $92 + $152 = $358
  • Kids' room — bunk bed, two twin mattresses: $123 + $82 + $82 = $287
  • Guest room — daybed, twin mattress, nightstand: $89 + $82 + $57 = $228

If you are clearing more than one room, compare against the truck-fill ladder: a quarter truck is $241, three-eighths is $338, a half is $431. Volume pricing often wins once a second bedroom is involved.

Curb, or book it

A disassembled metal frame is one of the few bed components that a municipal bulky collection will usually accept without argument, if the city serving your address runs one and you are inside its window. Check your own city's current bulky-item page, and if you are in unincorporated Harris County remember there may be no city collection behind your street at all.

An assembled king platform on a third-floor landing is not a curb problem. It is a two-person carry, and that is what the flat price buys.

Frequently asked questions

How much does bed frame removal cost in Houston?

$68 for a standard metal or platform frame, $126 for a solid, upholstered or storage frame in twin through queen, and $152 for a king or Cal King. A headboard on its own is $57.

Do I have to disassemble the bed before you arrive?

No. Crews carry tools and will break it down as needed. The price is the same whether it is assembled or already in pieces.

What about bunk beds and cribs?

A bunk bed is $123, or $148 for solid wood or a loft bed. A crib is $67 and a trundle bed is $100.

Third-floor townhouse bedroom — is there an extra charge?

No. There is no stair charge and no walk-up fee, which matters in this city because so many inner-loop townhomes put the primary bedroom on the third floor over the garage.

Can I just put the frame at the curb?

Possibly, if your city runs a bulky collection and a disassembled metal frame fits its rules. Check your own city's current bulky-item page first, and note that unincorporated county addresses may have no municipal collection at all.