How to Choose an Office Furniture Removal Company in Milwaukee

If your Milwaukee-area business is relocating, downsizing, renovating or reaching the end of a commercial lease, figuring out what to do with your existing office furniture can become a major project. Desks, cubicles, conference tables, filing cabinets and hundreds of office chairs cannot simply disappear when the lease ends. They need to be inventoried, dismantled, removed and directed to the right destination. That is where a professional Milwaukee office furniture removal and decommissioning company can help.

Office Furniture Resources (OFR) has been helping businesses manage commercial office furniture since 1991. With a Milwaukee location and decommissioning capabilities throughout Wisconsin and nationwide, OFR provides businesses with a more complete alternative to basic furniture hauling.

What Is Office Furniture Decommissioning?

Office decommissioning is the process of clearing furniture and related assets from a commercial space when a business moves, closes, downsizes or renovates.

A complete decommission can include:

• Office furniture removal
• Cubicle and workstation disassembly
• Furniture liquidation and resale
• Commercial office cleanouts
• Furniture recycling
• Donation coordination
• Moving and storage
• Asset inventory
• Project management
• Sustainable furniture disposal
• Final removal before lease turnover

Instead of hiring separate companies for moving, furniture disposal, recycling and resale, businesses can work with a decommissioning company that coordinates the project from beginning to end.

What Should You Look for in a Milwaukee Office Furniture Removal Company?

1. Local Milwaukee Experience

Working with a company that understands the Milwaukee market can simplify a commercial move or office closure. With over 30 years servicing the Milwaukee area, OFR has a long-established presence in Southeastern Wisconsin and is headquartered in a Milwaukee facility at 8787 W. Brown Deer Road.

Our local team can evaluate your furniture in person, understand the scope of the project and develop a removal plan based on your building, inventory and timeline. OFR serves businesses throughout Milwaukee and surrounding southeastern Wisconsin communities.

2. More Than Just Furniture Removal

Furniture hauling is only part of a successful office decommission. Before anything leaves the building, it’s important to determine what furniture can potentially be resold, reused, refurbished, moved to a new space, donated, or recycled.

A basic hauling company may primarily be focused on getting furniture out of the building. A commercial furniture decommissioning company can evaluate what happens to those assets afterward. Sustainable furniture removals make a major difference in both project cost and environmental impact.

Can Used Office Furniture Have Resale Value?

Absolutely – one of the first questions Milwaukee businesses should ask before disposing of office furniture is whether any of it still has value. It’s very likely that your furniture still has life left in it! Commercial-grade furniture from manufacturers such as Steelcase, Herman Miller, Knoll, Haworth, Allsteel and other major brands often have an active secondary market depending on its model, age, quantity, configuration and condition.

OFR is both an office furniture dealer and a commercial furniture liquidator. That means our team understands the used furniture market and can evaluate assets for potential resale. When qualifying furniture has resale value, a furniture credit may help offset part of the overall cost of the decommission.

Choose a Sustainable Milwaukee Office Furniture Removal Company

Sending an entire office of furniture to the landfill should not automatically be the first option. OFR evaluates furniture individually and looks for opportunities to extend its useful life.

Depending on the furniture and project, assets may be:

• Resold through retail or wholesale channels
• Refurbished for future use
• Redeployed to another location
• Donated to community organizations
• Separated into recyclable materials
• Processed through other landfill-diversion channels

OFR can achieve up to 99% landfill diversion on qualifying decommissioning projects. Businesses can also receive detailed sustainability reporting documenting where furniture and materials were directed after removal.

What Happens During a Milwaukee Office Decommission?

Every project is different, but OFR’s process typically begins with an evaluation of the space and furniture.

Step 1: Evaluate the Office

An OFR representative can visit the location and review the furniture being removed. Information such as furniture quantity, building access, square footage, project deadline and furniture condition helps determine the scope of work.

Step 2: Identify Resale and Reuse Opportunities

Furniture is evaluated to determine whether it can be resold, redeployed, refurbished or donated. This should happen before assuming everything needs to be disposed of.

Step 3: Create a Removal Plan

The project team develops a plan around the building, available loading areas, elevators, work schedules, furniture quantities and lease requirements. For larger projects, this may involve multiple phases, crews and truckloads of furniture.

Step 4: Remove and Redirect the Furniture

OFR coordinates furniture disassembly and removal while directing assets to the appropriate resale, donation, recycling, storage or other destination.

Step 5: Document the Results

For businesses tracking environmental goals, OFR can provide sustainability reporting detailing the final destinations of furniture removed during the project.

Can OFR Remove Cubicles and Workstations in Milwaukee?

We can. OFR provides commercial cubicle and workstation removal in Milwaukee for businesses ranging from small offices to large corporate facilities.

Systems furniture often requires more planning than freestanding desks and chairs. Workstations may include panels, electrical components, overhead storage, pedestals, worksurfaces and other interconnected components. Because OFR also buys, sells, installs and refurbishes commercial cubicle systems, our team understands how these systems are constructed and how usable components may be given another life.

How Much Does Office Furniture Removal Cost in Milwaukee?

There is no standard price for a commercial office decommission. Project costs can depend on factors including your offices’ square footage, the quantity of furniture, furniture type, removal deadline, labor requirements, resale value – and so much more.

Furniture value can also affect the final project cost. If an office contains desirable commercial furniture in usable condition, OFR may be able to recover value through resale and provide a credit toward the project.

Start Planning Before Your Milwaukee Lease Ends

One of the biggest mistakes businesses can make is waiting until the final weeks of a lease to determine what will happen to hundreds of pieces of furniture. Starting earlier provides more time to evaluate resale opportunities, identify donation partners, coordinate recycling and develop an efficient removal schedule. This becomes especially important for larger corporate offices where hundreds or thousands of pieces may need to leave the building before a firm lease deadline.

Milwaukee Office Furniture Removal FAQs

Milwaukee Office Furniture Removal & Decommissioning

If your organization is downsizing, relocating, renovating or closing a Milwaukee-area office, start planning your furniture removal before your lease deadline approaches.

Office Furniture Resources provides Milwaukee businesses with office furniture removal, liquidation, cubicle removal, resale, recycling, donation coordination and complete decommission project management.

Our goal is not simply to empty the office. We help determine the most cost-effective and sustainable next destination for the furniture inside it.

Milwaukee Office Furniture Resources
8787 W. Brown Deer Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53224
414-353-9725

Planning an office decommission? Request a site visit or decommission quote from OFR to get started.