You've finally found the perfect sofa on DoneDeal. The seller is in Drumcondra, the price is unbeatable, but they want it picked up by Sunday and you drive a Toyota Yaris. Sound familiar?
Or maybe you've spent an hour deciding between three IKEA wardrobes in Ballymun, and the sales rep mentions delivery is €120 — three weeks away. The flat-pack wardrobe is €189.
These are the two scenarios that drive a huge chunk of our Dublin furniture delivery business at GoVans.ie. Marketplace pickups and IKEA collections are bread and butter — we collect, deliver, and have the item at your home the same hour. No three-week waiting list, no rental car, no 'sorry, won't fit'.
What 'furniture delivery Dublin' actually covers
Furniture delivery in Dublin generally means one of four things: (1) collecting an item you bought on DoneDeal, Facebook Marketplace or Adverts and bringing it home; (2) picking up an item from a store like IKEA, Currys, Harvey Norman, Decathlon or Brown Thomas; (3) moving a single piece of furniture between two of your own addresses; or (4) collecting a delivery from a courier depot where they couldn't deliver to your door.
All four are perfect jobs for a man-with-a-van service — small, fast, fixed-price. The big national delivery firms aren't set up for single-item runs; they want full pallets. Local Dublin services like ours specialise in exactly this kind of job.
Real Dublin prices for furniture delivery in 2026
Single item across Dublin
€60-€90 for most items moving within the M50. A sofa from Stoneybatter to Rathmines, a wardrobe from Lucan to Tallaght, a fridge from Clondalkin to Castleknock — all flat-rate jobs. The price depends on the size of the item, not the distance (within Dublin).
IKEA Ballymun pickup and delivery
€99.99 flat-rate across most of Dublin. We meet you at IKEA or you give us your order details, we load up, and have everything at your door within 60-90 minutes. Compare that to IKEA's own delivery — typically €60-€150 with a 1-3 week wait.
Cross-county delivery (to Naas, Kildare, Meath)
From €120 depending on distance. We charge a kilometre rate outside Dublin — usually €1.30 per kilometre — so a sofa from Sandyford out to Naas would run around €130-€150. We handle a lot of these for Dublin commuters who buy furniture in town but live in Kildare or Meath.
Same-day delivery
No extra charge in most cases. Most furniture delivery bookings we take in Dublin go out the same day, often within 1-2 hours of booking. The fixed price is the same whether you book now-for-now or schedule for next week.
How to protect your furniture in transit
Damaged furniture is the single biggest fear customers have when booking a Dublin furniture delivery. It's a fair worry — a scratched sofa or chipped wardrobe corner can ruin a brand-new purchase. Here's what a good delivery team does to prevent it:
- Protective blankets on every item, every time. Cheap delivery services skip this and your furniture rubs against the van walls.
- Straps to secure items in the van so they don't shift when braking. Loose items in a van damage themselves and damage everything around them.
- Disassembly where needed. A wardrobe with a removable door, a bed with a separable headboard, a glass-topped table — taking the parts apart is faster, safer, and means we can carry it through your front door without scraping.
- Door, frame and floor protection at your delivery address. A fridge being squeezed through a 700mm doorway will catch on the architrave unless we plan ahead. We carry small foam pads and corner protectors specifically for this.
- Two-person lifts for anything heavy. One mover lifting a 60kg American fridge alone is how injuries (and dropped fridges) happen.
Common Dublin furniture delivery scenarios
IKEA Ballymun
We do at least one IKEA Ballymun run every single day. The trick is timing — go midweek before 12pm and the store is calm, the loading bay is empty, and we can be in and out in 30 minutes. Avoid Saturday afternoons. IKEA collection and delivery is one of our most-booked services.
Marketplace and DoneDeal pickups
These are usually time-sensitive — the seller wants the item gone by tomorrow. We can usually do same-day with 1-2 hours notice. Worth confirming with the seller that they'll be home at a specific window. Marketplace pickups across Dublin typically run €60-€80, including any quick disassembly the item needs to fit through the door.
Appliance transport
Fridges, freezers, washing machines, ovens — heavy and awkward but routine for us. A few tips: with fridges, defrost the night before and leave the doors open during transit. With washing machines, lock the drum if you can — manuals will tell you which screws to tighten. With ovens, disconnect the gas (if applicable) at least an hour before pickup.
Long-distance furniture delivery from Dublin
Dublin to Naas, Dublin to Kildare town, Dublin to Maynooth — we do these regularly. Standard rate plus kilometres outside the M50. A typical sofa from Dublin city to Naas costs around €130-€150 all in.
How to make the booking go smoothly
When you book a furniture delivery in Dublin, share three things: a clear photo of the item, the pickup and drop-off addresses, and any access constraints (steep stairs, narrow doors, no parking). With that, we can give you a fixed quote and an arrival window in 1-2 minutes.
Pay attention to door measurements. A 3-seater sofa that won't fit through your front door is the single most common cause of failed deliveries. If the sofa is 2.1m long and your front door is 0.8m wide, it'll likely come in standing-on-end — but only if there's space to manoeuvre. If you're not sure, send us photos of the door and we'll tell you whether it'll work.
Why local Dublin furniture delivery beats national couriers
National courier companies like DPD, Parcel Motel and An Post are built for parcels. They struggle with single large items — they often refuse anything over 30kg, charge premium rates for fragile or oversized goods, and can't help you carry the item upstairs. They also work on next-day or 2-day timelines at best.
A local Dublin man-with-a-van service handles the same job same-day, carries the item right into your sitting room, and costs roughly the same per kilo. It's the right tool for the job.
What to do if your new furniture arrives damaged
Even with careful handling, things occasionally go wrong. If you're collecting a piece of furniture from a Dublin retailer like Harvey Norman, Currys or DFS, inspect it before we leave the store. Look at the corners, the legs, the upholstery for marks or tears. If anything looks off, refuse the item there and then — the store will replace it without a fuss. Once it's in our van and on your sitting-room floor, the conversation gets harder.
For Marketplace and DoneDeal pickups, take a 30-second video of the item at the seller's house before loading. If something is damaged later, you've got proof of its condition at handover. We do this routinely for high-value items like leather sofas, dining tables and TVs because it protects you, us and the seller from any later dispute.
Eco-friendly furniture delivery in Dublin
Buying second-hand on DoneDeal or Marketplace is the most sustainable furniture choice you can make in Dublin — better than recycling, because the item never enters the waste stream. We handle hundreds of these jobs every month for Dublin customers furnishing their first flat, refreshing a rental or kitting out a holiday let. A second-hand sofa from Rathmines combined with a delivery for €70 still beats a new one with €120 IKEA shipping, and it keeps a perfectly good piece of furniture out of landfill.
If you're disposing of old furniture as part of the swap, we can take it away on the same trip. Most items go to a Dublin charity shop like Oxfam or NCBI; anything that's not resaleable goes to a licensed recycling centre. It's cheaper for you than booking a separate junk removal run, and the whole job is done in one visit.
Book a furniture delivery in Dublin
Whether you've just bought a wardrobe in IKEA Ballymun, a sofa on DoneDeal in Tallaght, or you need a fridge delivered from Currys in Naas to your apartment in Clondalkin, the fastest way to get a quote is to send us a quick WhatsApp message on 087 419 9541 with a photo and the two addresses. We respond in 1-2 minutes with a fixed price and most jobs go out the same day.
