No stair fees, and that is not a promotion
Some companies price access — floors, carries, "difficult removal" lines that appear once the crew has seen the staircase. Our SF prices are built the other way: the catalog assumes this city's buildings from the start, because our crews climb them all day. Richmond and Sunset walk-ups, Nob Hill buildings older than the elevator, Bernal hillside entries where the front door is a story above the truck — the flat price already contains every one of them. The floor you live on never appears on your bill.
The two sofa prices, side by side
The honest complication is not height but width. Every stairwell has a turn it cannot pass, and San Francisco specializes in them — Victorian switchbacks, narrow landings, doorways trimmed a century before oversized furniture existed. So the catalog carries two sofa lines:
| Line | When it applies | Flat price |
|---|---|---|
| Sofa / Couch | Leaves the building in one piece | $126 |
| Oversized Sofa (Disassembly / Cut-Apart) | Has to be broken down to leave | $185 |
That $59 difference is the entire stairs story. It pays for the extra labor and tools of taking a frame apart cleanly inside your apartment — floor protected, sections carried down, nothing dragged. Same truck, same disposal, same crew courtesy; just more work between your living room and the street.
How to tell which sofa you have
Ask how it arrived. If it came up the stairs assembled, it can leave the same way — standard $126. If it was delivered in pieces and built in place, or it predates your memory of the apartment, measure the shortest doorway and the tightest landing against the sofa's depth. When you book, tell us the floor and the turns, or just text a photo of the sofa and one of the stairwell to (628) 221-0102 — we confirm the right line in minutes, and the price is settled before the crew is dispatched, never renegotiated on a landing.
The rest of the walk-up catalog
Everything below is priced with stairs already included, from any floor in San Francisco:
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Loveseat | $95 |
| Sleeper sofa | $149 |
| Sectional (3-piece) | $185 |
| Queen mattress | $103 |
| Bed frame | $68 |
| Wardrobe / armoire | $123 |
| Dresser (standard) | $126 |
| Refrigerator (standard) | $164 |
| Washer | $133 |
| Treadmill | $115 |
| Home gym / multi-station | $143 |
| Upright piano | $290 |
Note the sectional: it looks like the hardest object in the room and is actually the easiest, because it already comes apart — each piece walks down a stairwell a one-piece sofa never could. The genuinely tricky category is dense and rigid: sleeper sofas with steel mechanisms, treadmills, old wardrobes. All still flat-priced; they just decide our crew size, and crew size is our cost, not yours.
Three walk-up jobs, priced
Third-floor sofa, no elevator, Inner Richmond. Fits the stairwell — $126 flat, same as anywhere in the city. Typically twenty minutes door to door.
Sleeper sofa down a Victorian switchback, Noe Valley. The mechanism makes it rigid; the landing makes it tight. If it clears, $149; if it needs the saw, $185 cut-apart — and you know which before booking, from two photos.
A bedroom emptied from a fourth-floor walk-up. Queen mattress ($103) + bed frame ($68) + wardrobe ($123) = $294 flat, four flights included, nothing extra for the climb.
What we will say no to
Rarely, an object truly cannot leave safely — a piece that would need window rigging, or structural disassembly beyond furniture. When that is the situation we say so up front and put it in writing before you pay anything, rather than improvising on your staircase. It is uncommon; the cut-apart line exists precisely so that almost everything has a legitimate way down.
How booking works
Describe the items on the quote page or text photos to (628) 221-0102. Mention the floor and any tight turns — it changes nothing about the price of a normal item; it just guarantees the right crew arrives. Same-day windows across SF are usually open if you book by mid-afternoon, and payment is a secure card link, settled before pickup, so the stairwell conversation is only ever about angles.
The bottom line
In this city the stairs are a given, so we made them free: every flat price includes every floor. The only fork is fit — one-piece sofa $126, cut-apart $185 — and two photos settle it before you spend a dollar. Get your price or call (628) 221-0102, and let the crew argue with the landing instead of you.
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Frequently asked questions
Is there a stair fee for junk removal in San Francisco?
Not with us. The flat price already assumes San Francisco buildings as they are — a $126 sofa is $126 from a fourth-floor Richmond walk-up, a Bernal hillside entry, or a ground-floor garage. No stair fees, no floor fees, no long-carry fees, and the crew size needed to do it safely is our cost, not a line on your bill.
How do you get a couch out of a walk-up?
The same way it went in: measured, angled, and carried by two people who do this daily. Most standard sofas clear SF stairwells fine and price at the normal $126. When a piece genuinely cannot make the turns — an overstuffed sofa in a Victorian with a switchback landing — it books as cut-apart removal at $185 flat: the crew breaks it down inside the apartment and carries it out in sections. You know which price applies before you book, not on the stairs.
What does cut-apart sofa removal cost in San Francisco?
$185 flat — the Oversized Sofa (Disassembly / Cut-Apart) line on our published SF catalog, versus $126 for a sofa that leaves in one piece. The premium buys the extra labor and tools, done cleanly with floor protection, and it is the entire difference: same truck, same disposal, same everything else.
Do you remove pianos from walk-ups?
Yes — an upright piano is $290 on the SF catalog, stairs included. Uprights are the classic how-did-this-get-up-here object, and the answer is usually a bigger crew and patience, which is our problem to solve. Tell us the floor and any tight turns when you book so the right number of hands shows up.
What should i tell you when i book a stair job?
Three things: the floor it is on, whether the stairwell has tight turns or a narrow landing, and roughly how the piece got in — through the stairs, or before the building grew around it. A photo of the item and one of the stairwell answers all three in ten seconds and lets us confirm the exact price and crew before anyone is dispatched.
Can a sectional come down narrow stairs?
Usually yes — sectionals are the easy case, because they already come apart. A 3-piece sectional is $185 on the SF catalog and each piece walks down a stairwell a whole sofa never could. It is the one-piece overstuffed sofas and sleeper sofas ($149) that sometimes need the cut-apart route instead.
Describe what is going and get your exact price in about a minute on the quote page, or call (628) 221-0102. More about how we work.