Bed frame disposal in Austin, priced by what you actually have

The short answer

Bed frames are priced by build, not by how much they weigh on a scale. A basic metal or platform frame is $68. A solid, upholstered or storage frame - the ones with a real timber rail, a fabric-wrapped surround or drawers underneath - is $126 for twin, full or queen and $152 for king or Cal king. A headboard on its own is $57.

Bunk beds are $123, or $148 if they are solid wood or a loft build. A Murphy or wall bed is $130. A trundle is $100. A flat-pack wardrobe, which usually leaves in the same trip, is $143.

All of it includes carry-out and disposal. The minimum for a visit is $75, so a single headboard at $57 comes in at the $75 minimum.

Why the two-tier price exists

Because the two things are genuinely different jobs.

A metal frame folds, weighs little and goes down a stairwell in one piece under one arm. An upholstered platform with a slatted base and a storage drawer has to be unbolted in the bedroom, carried out in four or five pieces, and it eats real truck space once it is apart. A solid oak headboard and rail set from a 1940s Hyde Park house is heavier than the mattress it held.

Rather than quoting one price and then adding at the door when the crew sees what it actually is, we publish both tiers. You pick the one that describes your frame and that is the number. Nobody arrives and reclassifies it upward.

Prices

No stair fee, no disassembly fee, no charge for a bedroom at the back of a pier-and-beam bungalow with a doorway built narrower than anything sold today.

The Austin frames we see most

Flat-pack platform frames, everywhere near campus. West Campus, north campus and Riverside run on them. They get assembled once, moved twice, and by the third lease the cam bolts have chewed through the particleboard. These are the $68 tier, and they usually leave in a stack of four or five from a shared apartment at the end of July.

Solid wood sets in the older central neighborhoods. Travis Heights, Hyde Park, Rosedale, Clarksville. Heavy rails, a real headboard and footboard, often inherited with the house. These are the $126 and $152 tier, and they are the ones actually worth trying to rehome first.

Oversized upholstered kings in the new builds. Round Rock, Pflugerville, Leander, Hutto. Bought to fill a big primary bedroom, then found not to fit the next house. $152, usually with a matching bench and a $148 large dresser going at the same time.

Bunk beds in the hill-country family houses. Westlake, Steiner Ranch, Lakeway. Built in place, now outgrown. $123, or $148 for the solid-wood and loft versions.

Worked totals

A north campus apartment clearing two bedrooms. Two flat-pack frames at $68 each and two twin mattresses at $82 each: $68 + $68 + $82 + $82 = $300.

A Hyde Park primary bedroom. A solid queen frame at $126, a headboard at $57 and a standard dresser at $126. That is $126 + $57 + $126 = $309.

A Leander kids' room. A bunk bed at $123 and a nightstand at $57 comes to $123 + $57 = $180.

When the list runs past a few large pieces, compare it against the truck ladder. A quarter truck is $241, three-eighths is $338, a half is $431. The quote tool shows you both totals and charges the one that works out in your favor.

Try to rehome the good ones first

Unlike mattresses, bed frames move well secondhand in this city and the donation channels will genuinely take them.

A solid wood frame or a decent headboard posted in a neighborhood group on a Saturday morning in Crestview, Cherrywood or Bouldin usually finds someone by Sunday, and Austin has a steady supply of people arriving for a job with an empty rental and a short shopping list. That is the single best window: the same relocation inflow that fills our schedule is also the demand side for your old frame.

What will not move: anything particleboard that has already been apart once, anything stored through an Austin summer in a garage, and anything with a cracked rail. Do not spend a Saturday trying. Put it on the pickup.

Getting it booked

Type in what you have - frame type, size, and whether the mattress goes too - and the price comes back straight away. There is no walkthrough, no estimator and no phone call where the number moves.

The heaviest weeks of the year for this are the last days of July and the first days of August, when the UT calendar and the standard Austin lease year land on top of each other. If your move-out is then, book the slot well before the final weekend of the month.

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