Large Appliance Removal

What we take

Refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, water heaters and microwaves. Working or dead, it makes no difference to us.

Stairs, tight halls and basements

Most appliance calls we get are because of where the thing is, not what it is. Second-floor laundry, a basement freezer, a galley kitchen with one way out. That is the part we are set up for, and we protect the door frames and floors on the way through.

Metal gets recycled

Appliances are mostly steel. They go to a scrap processor rather than a landfill, which is better for everyone and keeps the cost down.

Why appliances are their own job

Weight and shape. A full-size refrigerator is awkward before it is heavy, and the combination is what wrecks door frames, bannisters and backs. We bring appliance dollies and straps and move them the way they are meant to be moved, which is slower than dragging one down a hallway and considerably cheaper than repairing a stairwell afterwards.

Replacing an appliance

If a new unit is being delivered, timing matters. Some retailers take the old one away and many do not, and you often find out which when the delivery driver is already standing in your kitchen. Booking us for the same day or the day after means the old unit does not spend a month in your garage.

Several units at once

Rental turnovers, restaurant kitchens and offices clearing a break room usually have more than one unit to shift. That is a single trip for us rather than several, so it is worth grouping them into one visit instead of calling each time something comes out.

Getting it out of the building

The route matters more than the appliance. A chest freezer in a basement with a turn at the bottom of the stairs is a different job from the same freezer sitting in an open garage, and we would rather know which one we are walking into before we arrive. A photo of the unit and a photo of the doorway or stairwell it has to come through tells us almost everything. Where a door has to come off its hinges to make the gap, we will say so before we start rather than discovering it halfway. Second-floor laundry rooms, galley kitchens with a single exit and basements with an outside hatch are all normal for us, and none of them turn into an argument on the day.

After the appliance is gone

The space an appliance leaves behind is rarely clean. There is usually a footprint of dust, a length of old hose, a disconnected vent duct and whatever went behind the unit over the years and was never retrieved. We take that away as part of the same visit rather than leaving you a second, smaller mess to deal with. If the unit was leaking, tell us when you call so we can plan for water damage underneath and bring something to soak it up.