Furniture Assembly Prices in Cairo 2026 — IKEA, Bedrooms, Wardrobes

Furniture assembly prices — indicative table

These are comparison ranges, not an official tariff. The key thing to understand: this trade prices per piece, not per hour and not per apartment. A bed, a wardrobe and a dresser will typically be quoted as three lines and totalled.

And these are labour only. The furniture itself, plus brackets, wall plugs and screws, are not included. If what you actually want is a wardrobe or kitchen built to measure, that's a different service at a much higher price — see the carpenter guide.

Assembly vs. carpentry — the distinction that saves you money

People conflate the two and end up paying the wrong price. The difference is simple:

An assembler: the piece already exists — you bought it from a showroom or IKEA, or moved it from your old flat — and he builds, levels and anchors it. Skill and precision, no materials, so the price is modest.

A carpenter: makes the piece from scratch — measuring, cutting board, buying hardware. His price contains materials, so it's in a different bracket entirely.

Practically: if the box is already in your home, you need an assembler, not a carpenter. If you need something built to a size nobody sells, that's when a carpenter earns his fee.

What pushes the price up

• Number and size of pieces — a four-door mirrored wardrobe with drawers is not a small chest. Big wardrobes usually take two people to stand up, and two people get billed.
• Wall type — the extra that surprises people most. Anchoring into brick or concrete needs a proper drill, the right plugs, and time. Plasterboard is a different problem again: you cannot hang anything heavy on it without finding the metal stud behind or using specialist anchors, and any honest technician will tell you that before starting.
• Dismantling — if the piece has to come apart, travel, and go back together, that's a second job. Dismantling is arguably the riskier half, because the screw holes are already worn.
• Floor and access — heavy boxes carried up stairs with no lift is real effort, and it's fair for it to appear in the price.
• Missing instructions or parts — lost manual, one bolt short? He'll improvise, but that's time.
• Second-hand or budget furniture — chipboard that's been assembled and dismantled before has widened holes, and screws spin in place. It takes longer and needs tricks a new piece doesn't.
• Urgency — same-day or a public holiday costs more. That's fair; what matters is being told in advance.

IKEA and flat-pack: what to know first

Flat-pack has its own rules. None of this is a criticism of it — it's just how it behaves.

• Don't assemble and dismantle it repeatedly. Cam-lock fittings weaken every cycle, and the piece starts to wobble. If you know you'll be moving soon, say so — there are assembly choices that make a future dismantle cleaner.
• Tall wardrobes must be anchored to the wall. This is not an upsell, it's a basic safety step, especially with children in the house — a light, tall unit can go over when a child pulls an open drawer.
• Uneven floor? You'll see it in the doors. If the two wardrobe doors don't line up at the bottom, the piece itself usually isn't level — a good technician checks with a spirit level before closing it up.
• Have the boxes in the room before he arrives. He's coming to assemble, not to carry; if you need boxes brought up from a car or a storeroom, agree that as a line item up front.
• Keep the spare fittings. IKEA includes extras deliberately, and you will want them later.

Red flags, and what to ask

• Ask: does the price include anchoring to the wall, or assembly only? (A big difference, and people discover it late.)
• Ask: are plugs, screws and brackets on you or on me? Usually on you.
• Ask: is dismantling included or extra? If you're moving a bedroom, that's half the work.
• Red flag: drilling into a wall without asking what's behind it. A competent technician checks for pipes and cables first — drilling into a water pipe inside a wall costs far more than the whole assembly.
• Red flag: "it's heavy enough, it doesn't need anchoring" about a tall wardrobe. It does.
• Red flag: asking for more money mid-job, once the piece is apart and can't be put back. Agree the full number before the first bolt.
• Before you pay: open and close every door and drawer while he's still there. A sticking drawer or a misaligned door takes two minutes to fix with him present and becomes your problem once he's gone.

Eidak: bids instead of the showroom's flat fee

Assembly has one of the widest price spreads for identical work — and what a showroom charges for "assembly service" is often well above what a good independent technician charges. On Eidak you post the job with photos of the pieces (even a photo of the box and model name works) and the number of items, and nearby technicians bid.

A precise description is what produces a precise bid. Say how many pieces, which floor, lift or no lift, brick or plasterboard walls, and whether anything needs dismantling first. Then the offers you get are real, and nobody comes back mid-job claiming it was bigger than expected.

You don't hand over cash beforehand. The money is held in escrow until you've inspected the piece yourself — opened the doors, checked it's stable and level — and only then is it released. Minimum task value is 200 EGP, Eidak adds 10% on top of the bid, and the technician receives 100% of what they bid.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to assemble a wardrobe?

A four-door wardrobe runs indicatively 400–1,000 EGP, rising if it's larger, mirrored, or needs two people to stand it up. That covers assembly and anchoring — plugs and screws are usually on you.

How much to assemble a full bedroom set?

If it's being dismantled in one home and rebuilt in another, indicatively 800–2,000 EGP, depending on the number of pieces, their condition and the floor. If everything is new and boxed, technicians usually price line by line — a bed at 200–500 EGP, a wardrobe at 400–1,000 EGP — and give you a total.

Do I need a technician for IKEA furniture, or can I do it myself?

Small pieces — a desk, a table, a shelf — are genuinely doable yourself, and the instructions are clear. What warrants a technician is anything tall, heavy, or wall-anchored: wardrobes, beds, and anything that must be fixed to the wall, because a bad fixing is a safety issue rather than a cosmetic one.

Is wall anchoring included in the price?

Ask explicitly, because it varies. Some technicians include it; others bill it separately, particularly for hard concrete or for plasterboard that needs specialist anchors. Either way, don't leave a tall wardrobe unanchored if there are children in the house.

The technician is asking for more money mid-job. What now?

That happens when the agreement was vague to begin with. Prevent it by fixing the full price, and what it covers — dismantling? anchoring? fixings? — before the first bolt. On Eidak the scope and price are written into the task and the chat, and the money is already held in escrow, so there's little room for a mid-job surprise.