What our furniture delivery service actually does
You found a sofa. It is sitting in a warehouse in Round Rock, or in a stranger’s garage in Kyle, or on the loading dock behind a store that will only put it on the curb. Our furniture delivery service picks that piece up and brings it into your house, up the stairs if there are stairs, into the room you want it in, reassembled if it came apart. Most single-item deliveries in the Austin area run one to three hours of crew time, and you get the number in writing before we roll.
This is a real arm of the business, not a favor we do between moves. Titan Moving & Delivery is family owned out of Del Valle, seven crew, and owner Lee Lucio has been hauling furniture since the late 1990s. He quotes the jobs himself.
Who moves one piece of furniture
Almost nobody, which is why this page exists. A moving company that only sells full house moves does not want a two-hour job. A freight carrier will get a couch to a dock or a driveway and leave it there. The store you bought from will often deliver to the threshold and nothing further, and a lot of secondhand furniture has no delivery option at all.
We take the one-item job. That covers a few different situations that all end the same way.
- Store and warehouse pickup: you bought it, they will not bring it in, or their delivery window is three weeks out. We collect it and deliver it, into the room, same as if we had sold it to you.
- Marketplace, estate sale and auction pickup: the seller wants it gone this weekend and you drive a sedan. Give us the address, the pickup window and the item, and we handle the load-out.
- Appliance delivery and haul-in: refrigerators, washers, dryers, ranges, chest freezers. Doorways that are an inch too narrow are a normal problem, not a reason to reschedule.
- The heavy specialty pieces: marble table tops, gun safes, hot tubs. These get their own equipment and their own quote. Our specialty moving page covers how those are handled.
What is the average delivery charge for furniture
For a single item picked up and delivered inside the Austin area, most jobs land between about $150 and $400. That is not a made-up range. It comes from the same math as everything else we do: crew time at roughly $120 to $180 an hour for two movers and the truck, plus drive time between the pickup and the drop.
Four things move the number, and we will tell you which ones apply before you book.
Distance is the first. A pickup in South Austin going to a drop in South Austin is one thing. A pickup in Georgetown going to a drop in Buda is most of a morning, and the truck is running the whole time. The second is stairs. A sectional up to a third-floor apartment with no elevator takes longer than the same sectional through a garage door. The third is the item itself. A marble-top table or a 600-pound safe needs more hands and more equipment than a nightstand, and the price reflects the people on the job. The fourth is assembly. If the bed frame or the dining table has to come apart to fit through the door and go back together on the other side, that is time, and we would rather quote it honestly than surprise you with it.
Where the trucks sleep matters here more than on a full move. The yard is in Del Valle, right off SH 130, so a drop on the east side, out through Manor and the neighborhoods along US 290, costs less in drive time than the same piece going across town, and drive time is a real part of a single-item bill.
Adding a second or third item to the same trip is usually cheap, because the drive is already paid for. If you bought a sofa and a dresser from two sellers a few miles apart, tell us and we will run one trip.
How much to collect and deliver a sofa
A sofa is the most common call we get, so here is the real answer. A standard three-seat sofa collected and delivered across town, ground floor to ground floor, is usually toward the bottom of that range. A sleeper sofa is heavier than it looks, often 250 pounds or more with the steel frame inside, and it goes up a turning staircase slowly. A large sectional comes in pieces, which helps.
The honest variable nobody mentions on the phone is the door. Measure the narrowest point between the truck and the room: the front door, a hallway turn, a stairwell landing. If a sofa will not fit, it will not fit no matter who carries it, and we would rather know before we drive to the seller’s house than after. Send a photo of the piece and a photo of the doorway when you ask for a quote and we can usually tell you.
What is the cheapest way to send furniture
If you are moving one piece a long way, across states, freight is usually the cheapest number on paper. It is also curb-to-curb, on a pallet, on a schedule you do not control, and you are responsible for getting it inside. That trade is fine for a bookshelf and bad for your grandmother’s china cabinet.
Inside the Austin metro, the cheapest way is almost always a local crew and one truck trip, which is what we do. Two things you actually control lower the price: consolidate the stops so the truck runs once, and clear the path before we arrive. Take the storm door off. Move the car out of the driveway. Have the room emptied of the old piece if the old one is leaving.
What we do not do is haul off the old couch as junk. We are movers and we deliver. If the old piece is going to a friend or to a donation center, we will take it there on the same trip. If it is going to a landfill, that is a different company.
Delivery is not a move, and it is not freight
Worth saying plainly, because customers arrive confused by what the search results promise. A delivery is one item or a few items, picked up somewhere and dropped somewhere, usually in a single trip. A move is your household. If you are emptying a whole home, you want local moving instead, where the truck and the crew are yours for the day and the pricing works differently.
Freight is a pallet on a semi. It goes to a dock or a curb. Our delivery crew carries the item into the room, sets it down where you point, takes the legs back on, and hauls the packaging out with them.
Getting a quote on a delivery
We need four things: the pickup address, the delivery address, what the item is (a photo is better than a description), and any stairs or tight doorways at either end. Most deliveries we can quote from that in one phone call, and there is no deposit to get the number.
Titan Moving & Delivery is licensed and insured, with our own interstate authority, so a piece can go to Houston or out of state on our own truck with no broker in the middle. Our numbers are public on the FMCSA and TxDMV sites, and you should check them before you let anyone put your furniture on a truck. We hold 4.7 stars across 47 Google reviews, 44 of them five stars. For everything else the crew handles, see our moving services.