The pair beside the bed is leaving. The bed is not. Look for two small tables, one on each side, or for two that have been moved and still belong to that bed. Empty them, name both, and write “bed staying”. A booking that says “the bedroom” will be read as the bed, the mattress, the wardrobe and everything else in the room. This note is the pair, and nothing else.
The whole room, including a chest of drawers, a dressing table and the bed, stays on the bedroom furniture guide. Come back here when the only pieces are the two bedside tables. The bed frame stays on the bed-frame guide. The mattress stays on the mattress guide. The wardrobe stays on the wardrobe guide. A camp bed stored behind that wardrobe is the camp-bed note. The photo of one bulky object and the route it has to pass stay on the bulky-item note. Dining chairs that leave while their table stays are the dining-chairs note. They are not these tables.
Name the pair
Stand at the foot of the bed and look left and right. A table on the left and a table on the right are the pair if both are leaving. Write “left table” and “right table” as you look at the bed, and say which room. If the bed faces a different way, use “window side” and “door side” and stick to those names.
If only one of the two is leaving, this is not a pair. Write “one bedside table, the other staying” and name which one leaves. Do not call a single table a pair. Do not book both because they match. The one that stays must be obvious in the note and absent from the leaving photograph.
If both tables have been moved off the bed, say where each one is now. “Left table in the hall, right table still by the bed” is a location. “The tables” is not. A third small table in the room is not automatically part of the pair. If it is a lamp table from the corner, write “corner table, separate” or leave it. Do not make the count three so the message looks tidier.
Look at the size. If the two tables match, write “matching pair”. If one is taller, wider or a different material, write that. The larger one is the one to measure. A smaller table does not prove the larger one will pass a door.
A chest of drawers is not this pair, even when it stands beside the bed. A wide chest, a tallboy and a dressing table stay on the bedroom list. This page does not split them out. If the chest is leaving, say so as its own line on the bedroom inventory, not as a third bedside table. If you only wanted the chest collected, you are on the wrong page.
A shelf fixed to the wall above the bed is not a table. Leave it. Do not unscrew a wall shelf on this page. If a table is fixed to the wall with a bracket, write “fixed to the wall” and do not pull it off. A table that stands on the floor, even if it is pushed against the wall, is the table this page means.
Empty both tables
Open every drawer. Look on the top, in the drawer, and on any shelf underneath. A bedside table is where people leave things they still need. Those things are not the table.
Take out medicines, glasses, documents, jewellery, keys, cash, chargers, letters and photographs if you are keeping them. Put them somewhere that is not the table. A drawer that still holds a passport is not empty. Write “drawer emptied” only after you have looked. If you are sending the contents as well, they are not the table. Bag them and name the bag, or leave them out of this note until you have decided.
A lamp on the table is not the table. Lift it off if it is loose. A table lamp with a shade and a cord is its own line if it is leaving: “lamp from the left table”. Unplug it at the wall, coil the cord, and set it aside. If the lamp is staying, move it off the table before you photograph the table. A floor lamp taller than the doorway is a different object. That shade and that opening are the floor-lamp note. Do not list the floor lamp as part of the pair.
A clock, a book, a glass of water, a remote. If you are keeping them, they leave the photograph. If a book is leaving, it is not the table. This page does not require a polished top. It requires a top you can see.
Look behind the table, between the table and the bed, and under the table. A dropped charger, a sock, a box. If the box is yours and you are keeping it, move it. If a cable runs from the table to a socket and the cable belongs to something you are keeping, unplug it and free the table. Do not cut a cable. Do not pull a cable out of a device you cannot see.
If a drawer will not open, do not force it with a tool you do not have. Write “drawer stuck” and say which table. A stuck drawer still counts as contents you have not seen. Say that. If the drawer then opens and you find something you are keeping, update the note. An unseen drawer is not an empty drawer.
A glass top needs a look at the edges. If you can see a chip, write “glass chipped” and say which table. Do not slide a glass top off a frame unless it is already loose in your hands. If it lifts straight off and you can hold it, set it beside that table and write “glass top off”. If it is fixed, write “glass top fixed”. Do not carry the table by the glass.
A stone or marble top is heavy for the size of the table. Write “stone top” if that is what you see. Do not assume you can lift it alone because the table looks small. Leave the top on the base unless it is already separate. Say “top still on”.
Drawers, legs and what stays whole
A drawer that pulls out completely can come out. If you take it out, keep it with that table and write “drawer out, left table” or the name you are using. Do not put both tables’ drawers in one pile. A drawer without its table is easy to leave behind, and a table without its drawer is a different object from the one you photographed.
If the drawer runs on a rail and stops, leave it in. Write “drawer in”. Do not bend the rail to get the drawer out. The general question of whether furniture should come apart is the dismantling guide. That page is furniture built to come apart. A small table that already stands as one table is not that job. Do not take the legs off because a shorter table would be easier to imagine through a door.
If a leg unscrews by hand, and you can see it was made to come off, you may unscrew it, bag it with that table, and write “legs off, by hand”. If the leg needs a tool, or the joint is glued, leave it and write “legs still on”. Do not saw a leg. A table with legs still on is the honest measurement.
A knob or a handle that is loose can be bagged with that table. Write “knob loose”. If it is still on and tight, leave it. Do not start removing hardware for its own sake.
Wheels or small castors change the carry. If a wheel comes off a peg you can press, bag it and write “wheel off”, or leave it and write “wheel on”. If a wheel is missing, write “wheel missing”. Do not book the table as standing level if it rocks.
Look at the back of each table. A cable hole, a felt pad, a scribble, a water mark. You do not have to describe the finish. You do have to mention a crack you can see, a drawer front that is hanging, or a leg that folds under the weight of an empty top. Write what you see on that table, not a general word such as “old”.
If the two tables nest, or one is a different height so they can stack, stack them only if they sit without sliding. Write “stacked” and say which is on the bottom. If they do not stack, do not balance one on the other for the photo. Two tables side by side, named, are clearer than a pile.
The opening the larger table has to pass
Walk to the doorway the tables have to pass. Open that door as far as it opens. The clear height and the clear width are the gap you can see. A robe on the back of the door is part of the opening until you move the robe. Move what you are keeping, then look again.
Measure the larger table’s height, width and depth as it will travel. If the drawer is out, the depth includes the drawer only if the drawer is travelling in the table. If the drawer is bagged beside it, measure the carcase and say the drawer is separate. Name which table is the larger one. If you have no tape, write “not measured”. Do not invent the numbers. This page does not keep a standard door size.
The bed is not a door. If the bed blocks the path, do not dismantle the bed on this page to free a table. Move the table clear if you can do that without taking the bed apart. If you cannot, write “bed in the way” and “table still beside the bed”. The bed, if it is leaving, follows the bed-frame guide, and the mattress follows the mattress guide. If the bed is staying, it stays. The tables leave only when they are clear of it, or you have said they are not.
A wardrobe in the path stays a wardrobe. Do not take a door off it on this page. If a table is in the gap behind the wardrobe, and you can slide the table out without moving the wardrobe, slide it. If you cannot, write “wardrobe in the way”. The wardrobe’s own note is the wardrobe guide. A camp bed in that same gap is not a bedside table.
Name the door that limits the larger table. If a second door is tighter, name it. Add a lift note only if you have already been given one. If you have none, write “no lift instruction yet”. Do not invent a lift size.
The bulky-item note is the method of photographing one object and its route. Use this page for what the pair is: two tables, emptied, named, with the bed left out. Use the bulky-item note if you still need the route photos explained as a method. Do not turn this page into every bulky object in the flat.
If other household items are leaving the same day, and they are not these tables, they are other household items in the same visit. Name them on their own lines. Do not hide a bag of clothes, a lamp you have not decided on, or a chest of drawers inside the pair.
What is not the pair
The bed, the headboard, the mattress and the wardrobe are not bedside tables. A request that lists them has left this page. Send those pieces to their own guides, or to the bedroom guide if the room is the job. This page will not quietly become the room.
A chest of drawers, a dressing mirror on a stand, and a desk in the same room are not the pair. Leave them on the bedroom inventory. This page does not open a separate guide for a chest.
A dining chair, and a dining table that is staying, are the dining-chairs note when the chairs are what is leaving. Do not call a bedside table a dining chair because both are small and wooden.
A camp bed is a folding bed. It is not a table you found beside the mattress. If the object folds out into a bed, use the camp-bed note.
A high chair, a stroller and a cot are not these tables. If one of them is in the bedroom and it is leaving, it has its own name. Do not put it on top of a table in the photograph and call the result one item.
A table you are moving to another room to keep using is not a collection. This note is for the tables that are leaving the property. If someone is taking them to a new address to keep, say that to the person who is moving them. Do not use a disposal booking as a way to relocate a table you still want.
If a tenancy list or a written note says the tables stay with the property, leave them off the booking. A marked top is not permission. The person who may release them writes that release. This page does not interpret a contract.
Whether someone else could use a sound table is not decided here. This page does not add a test or a standard. If you have decided the pair is leaving, the drawers and the bed are the work. If you have not decided, do not book them.
One table from a living room, used beside a sofa, is not this pair unless it is one of the two from the bed and you have said so. A coffee table in front of a sofa is not a bedside table. This page does not cover it. Name it on its own if it is leaving, or leave it.
Photos of the two tables
The picture is a mattress beside a bedroom doorway. It does not show a bedside table, a drawer or a pair. Use it only as a reminder that the bed’s mattress is not these tables. Your own photos still have to show both tables, emptied, and the bed left out of the leaving group.
Send these views.
- Both tables where they sit, before you move them, so the bed and the side of each table are visible.
- Each table after it is clear of the bed, or the same spot with the words “bed in the way” if you could not move it.
- Every drawer open, or a stuck drawer named.
- The tops, after lamps and personal items you are keeping have been removed.
- Any glass or stone top, still on or off, and any crack you can see.
- The doorway the larger table has to pass, open as far as it goes.
Add the room name and the floor. Add which table is left and which is right, or the side names you chose. Add whether they match. Add the height, width and depth of the larger one, and the clear opening of the door that limits it. Add “bed staying”, and say if the mattress and the wardrobe are staying too.
If only one table is leaving, the photos must make the other table look like a keeper. A photo of two tables with no sentence will be read as two tables leaving.
If you have no tape, write “not measured”. Take the photos in the light the room already has. If that light does not work, say so. A photo of the made bed, with the tables cropped out, does not show the pair.
One line in the booking
You can book a small furniture pickup once both tables are named, the drawers are empty or the stuck drawer is named, and the bed is not pretending to be part of the pair. That page is the furniture leaving the room. It is not a request to take the bed apart, and it is not a request to saw a leg off a table.
Say, in one message:
- a pair, or one table with the other staying
- the room, and left and right, or the side names you used
- matching, or how the two differ
- drawers emptied, drawer out, or drawer stuck
- lamp off the table, or no lamp
- glass or stone top, if that is what you see, still on or off
- legs on, or legs off by hand
- the height, width and depth of the larger table, and the clear height and width of the doorway that limits it
- bed staying
- anything that is not the pair: a chest of drawers, a wardrobe, a mattress, a camp bed, a dining chair
Do not write “bedside tables” as the only words. Do not write “drawer emptied” if you have not opened it. Do not ask for a table to be cut because the figure is larger than the gap. The figure is the report.
If a drawer still holds something you meant to keep, you are early. Empty it, or name the thing and take it out of the load. Send the pair you can stand in front of and check.
The bedroom page remains the room. The bed-frame page remains the frame. The mattress page remains the mattress. The wardrobe page remains the wardrobe. The bulky-item page remains the photo and the route. This page remains the pair of bedside tables, and nothing else.
The morning the tables leave
Look in both drawers again. A phone left overnight is still a phone. A drawer you closed is not a new excuse to skip the look. If someone put a glass back on the top, move it before you treat the old photo as current.
Check the names. If the tables were swapped overnight, the left one is whichever is on the left now, or correct the note. If one table was moved back into use beside the bed and you are keeping it after all, change the note to one table leaving. Do not leave the word “pair” in a message that is no longer a pair.
Open the door to the gap you measured. A bag in the opening changes the width. Move it before you treat the old figure as current. If the larger table is a different one from the one you measured, measure again or say so.
Point at the two tables as the tables. Point at the bed only as the bed that is staying. Point at a lamp only if it has its own line. Leave the wardrobe, the mattress and a chest of drawers out of the gesture.
Do not stand the tables in a shared corridor the night before to clear the bedroom. The corridor is not the gap you photographed. If the only place they can wait is the room they are already in, leave them there, clear of the doorway, empty, with the bed still a bed.
When they have gone, look at the floor on both sides of the bed. A drawer you meant to include is still a drawer if it is under the bed. A lamp you meant to keep is still a lamp if it left on a top. The useful record is the sentence from the first look: the pair, or the one table that was leaving, drawers accounted for, bed left as a bed, and the doorway’s clear opening written beside the larger table.
