Furniture Dismantling Service Cardiff

The usual list is beds, wardrobes, desks, dining tables, bookcases, bunk beds and anything bought flat. Cardiff's terraces make the job more common than it should be, because a Victorian staircase that turns at a half landing will not take a king size frame or a double wardrobe in one piece.

A single wardrobe or flat pack unit has its own price on our wardrobe and flat pack moving page. This page covers the bigger version: a whole house of furniture taken down, moved and put back up, room by room.

Dismantling furniture is not the same as disconnecting appliances. The British Association of Removers notes that, unless it is agreed in advance, a removal company will not disconnect gas or electric appliances such as cookers, or white goods with water hoses such as washing machines and dishwashers. Those need sorting before moving day, and the association's packing tips cover what to drain and defrost first.

The part of a rebuild that goes wrong is never the furniture. It is the bag of screws that went into a box in another room. Every piece we take apart has its fixings bagged, labelled and taped to one of its own panels, so the bed's bolts travel with the bed and the wardrobe's cams travel with the wardrobe.

Chipboard furniture is designed to be built once. Every time a cam lock or a screw is taken out and put back, the hole it sits in gets a little weaker, and a piece that has already been moved two or three times can be close to its limit. We will tell you honestly if we think something will not rebuild solidly, before we take it apart rather than after.

Solid wood and metal frames are a different story and come apart and back together as many times as you like. Mention what the big pieces are made of when you ask for a quote, and it helps us allow the right time.

RoSPA's advice is plain: furniture and tall kitchen appliances at risk of being pulled over should be secured to the wall, and a set of drawers looks like a climbing frame to a child and pulls over easily if it is not fixed. Moving is exactly when those fixings come off, and exactly when they tend not to go back on.

Where a wardrobe or a chest of drawers came off the wall with an anti-tip strap, we refit it at the new place when the wall will take a fixing. If the new wall needs a different fixing or a stud finding, we leave it safe and tell you, rather than guessing at a plasterboard wall. RoSPA sets out its guidance on accidents to children at home.

Bunk beds and cots have safety rules built into their design, from the spacing of the bars to the height of the guard rails, and those only work if the bed goes back together exactly as it came apart. We rebuild them to the instructions, check every guard rail and slat is back in place, and do not leave out a part because it looked optional.

If a cot or bunk bed is missing parts or its instructions, say so before the move. It is better to know before the day than to discover at bedtime that a rail has no bolt.

Sometimes the honest answer is that an old flat pack wardrobe is not worth dismantling, moving and rebuilding. In Cardiff, household furniture in good resaleable condition can be collected free by the YMCA, and the council runs a bulky collection for items that are not good enough to donate, booked on the Cardiff Gov App.

If it is simpler to have it taken away on the same day as the move, our rubbish removal service can clear it at the same visit. Tell us what is staying behind when you ask for a quote.