Furniture Transport in Amsterdam & Utrecht

What furniture transport actually covers

A secondhand sofa you can’t fit in your own car. A wardrobe that needs to move from your parents’ house to your first apartment. A mattress heading to a charity shop, or a new dining table you’re picking up across town. That’s furniture transport: one or more pieces moved from address A to address B, without you lifting a finger.

At FurniturePickup, this isn’t a full house move with a truck full of boxes. It’s targeted transport for specific pieces: exactly the kind of job where you need a bit of extra muscle: too heavy to carry alone, too big for the car, or you simply don’t have time to sort it out yourself.

When this service makes sense

You’ve found a secondhand wardrobe on Marktplaats or Vinted, but the seller lives across the city and hiring a van feels like overkill for one item. You’re studying in Utrecht and your parents finally want that old desk out of their garage. Or you’ve just ordered a new sofa and the old one needs to be gone before it’s delivered tomorrow.

A full moving company is too much for any of these, and carrying a wardrobe up a staircase with one friend is asking for a dent in the wall, or your back. Furniture transport fills that gap: focused, quick, no unnecessary extras. It’s also popular with people selling on Marktplaats, since the buyer never has to arrange their own collection.

How a request works

There’s no quote form with ten questions about floor plans and building years. You send a photo of the item on WhatsApp to 020 308 6033, along with the pickup and delivery address. We reply with a price within 5 minutes. If that works for you, we book a time: that’s the whole process.

A photo tells us more than a dropdown menu ever could, and it’s faster than a call where you’re stuck on hold before anyone can even answer your question.

What it costs

We deliberately don’t publish fixed prices on this page. The cost depends on the item itself (weight, size, how fragile it is), the distance between the two addresses, and how accessible each one is: lift or stairs, ground floor or fourth floor, wide doorways or a narrow stairwell. Asking for a photo instead of a form lets us price a job quickly and accurately, with no surprises added on the day.

What we transport and what we don’t

We move nearly everything you’d find in a home: sofas, wardrobes, beds, tables, chairs, appliances like washing machines and fridges, and smaller items like boxes or shelving. Fragile or unusual pieces, a display cabinet, a piano, are usually possible too: send a photo with the exact dimensions and we’ll work out the right approach and bring the right equipment.

What we’re not set up for is hazardous materials or illegal goods. Not sure whether something qualifies? Send a photo and we’ll give you a straight answer.

How your furniture is protected

Scratches and dents are exactly what you’re worried about when you hand a job to someone else. That’s why we work with blankets, corner protectors and straps, and lift using proper technique to protect the item as well as your walls, door frames and stair rails. If a doorway or staircase looks genuinely tricky, we’d rather talk it through on WhatsApp beforehand than run into a surprise on the day.

For households and businesses

Most requests come from private individuals: students, people who’ve just moved, or anyone buying or selling secondhand. But we work just as often with offices replacing a desk, landlords turning a room around between tenants, and Airbnb hosts who need to swap out a piece before the next guests arrive. Businesses use the same process: a photo on WhatsApp, a price within 5 minutes, and a time that fits.

Furniture transport vs. renting a van

Renting a van sounds cheap until you add it all up: the rental fee, fuel, a parking fine because you overstayed in a blue zone, and the time it takes to check you have the right licence category, collect the van, load it, drive it, unload it and bring it back. For a single item, that can eat up half a day, plus the risk of two people wrestling a wardrobe up a staircase and putting a dent in the wall, or their back, in the process.

With FurniturePickup you pay for the result, not the logistics around it. You send a photo, we handle the van, the lifting and the route. Often you’ll be done with the request and the scheduling faster than it takes to book a rental van on its own.

How long does a typical job take?

For a single item within the same city, expect an hour to ninety minutes including loading and unloading. Larger loads, or transport between Amsterdam and Utrecht, naturally take longer. When we quote a price on WhatsApp, we’ll also give you a realistic time estimate so you can plan the rest of your day around it.

Furniture transport in Amsterdam

Amsterdam has its own quirks: narrow canal houses with steep staircases, blue zones with short loading windows, and cyclists everywhere. That calls for drivers who know the city and can get a sofa up a spiral staircase to a third floor without marking the walls. Read more about how we handle canal houses and tight loading windows on our Amsterdam page.

Furniture transport in Utrecht

Utrecht is compact and cycle-friendly, with a one-way city centre and student housing full of narrow stairwells. In a city where a large share of residents move every couple of years, fast and flexible furniture transport is genuinely useful. See how we approach it on our Utrecht page.

The furniture we move most often

Sofas and corner sofas top the list, followed by wardrobes, box springs and mattresses, dining tables with chairs, desks, and appliances like washing machines, dryers and fridges. Smaller but awkward pieces, mirrored wardrobes, sideboards, bookcases, come up regularly too. Don’t see your item here? Send a photo anyway; we move almost anything that fits in a home.

Send a photo today, sorted by tomorrow

You don’t have to wait until you “finally have time” to move one piece of furniture. No multi-day wait for a quote, no van to load yourself, no sore back from carrying something with one other person. Send a photo on WhatsApp to 020 308 6033, get a price within 5 minutes, and pick a time that suits you. A small job doesn’t need to be a big project.