Appliance & Furniture Removal
Handis appliance and furniture removal is the pickup service for the items too big for a curbside cart and too heavy for one person — a chest freezer that has been dead for a year, the sectional that does not fit through the new doorway, the mattress and box spring after a bedroom upgrade, the dining set the new owner does not want — from $250 for a single-item appliance or one-bedroom furniture load up to $900 for a multi-item whole-room run. Every refrigeration appliance (fridge, freezer, window AC, dehumidifier) has its refrigerant recovered on the floor next to the unit by an EPA Section 608-certified technician before the unit leaves the property. This is federal law under 40 CFR Part 82 Subpart F — not an upcharge, not a maybe — it is the only legal way to scrap a refrigeration appliance. Mattresses and box springs route to the King County mattress recycling line where the foam, springs, and ticking are recycled separately. Donation-ready furniture goes to a Northwest Center or Goodwill drop with the tax receipt requested in your name. The metal in the load credits against the disposal portion of the invoice.
Service
What Does an Appliance or Furniture Removal Visit Include?
Appliance and furniture removal is the pickup service for the single items the curbside cart will not take and the multi-item loads after a remodel, a move, or an upgrade. Handis runs single-item appliance pickups, two-or-three-item loads, and whole-room or whole-house furniture runs. From $250 for a single appliance or a one-bedroom furniture load up to $900 for a multi-item full-house run. Every refrigeration appliance gets its refrigerant recovered before it moves; every mattress routes to the King County mattress recycling line; every donation-ready piece goes to the donation drop with the tax receipt requested in your name.
Appliances we haul (and the refrigerant law)
Refrigerators, freezers, chest freezers, window AC units, portable AC units, dehumidifiers — every refrigeration appliance gets its refrigerant recovered on the floor next to the unit by an EPA Section 608-certified technician before the unit leaves the property. Federal law under 40 CFR Part 82 Subpart F (Clean Air Act). The recovery happens with a certified recovery machine, the refrigerant is captured in a recovery cylinder, and the recovery is documented on the disposal manifest with the tech's certification number. Washers, dryers, dishwashers, ranges (gas and electric), wall ovens, microwaves, hot-water heaters (electric or gas), and garbage disposals do not contain refrigerant — they route directly to scrap-metal or appliance recycling.
Furniture we haul
Sofas, sectionals, loveseats, recliners, dining tables and chairs, bedroom furniture (beds, dressers, nightstands, armoires), office furniture (desks, file cabinets, bookcases), entertainment centers, exercise equipment (treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes — yes, including the one that has been a coat rack for two years), patio furniture, mattresses and box springs (any size, any condition), and the oversized mid-century cabinets that do not fit through a standard doorway without disassembly. Disassembly is part of the service when the piece will not exit the room intact.
Sort: donation, recycling, or transfer station
Donation-ready furniture (clean, structurally intact, no significant pet damage) routes to a Northwest Center or Goodwill drop with the tax receipt requested in your name. Mattresses and box springs route to the King County mattress recycling line — any condition is accepted (stained, broken-frame, partially decomposed) because the line recycles the foam, springs, and ticking separately. Furniture not donation-ready routes to the transfer station landfill stream. Metal items (washer drums, dryer cabinets, range bodies, exercise equipment frames, bed frames) go to scrap and credit against the disposal portion of the invoice.
What we cannot haul
Hazardous waste — we name it on arrival and route it to a King County Hazardous Waste facility. Common cases we encounter on appliance and furniture removals: a chest freezer with food still in it that is decomposing (the freezer is fine but the contents need household-trash disposal before we move it, or we will move it if it is bagged and managed), an old TV with a damaged CRT or LCD panel (E-waste, routes to the E-Cycle Washington certified recycler), and the half-full bottle of furniture polish that came out of the sideboard.
How Appliance & Furniture Removal Works
Five sequential steps from the on-site walk through the stream-sorted disposal — the actual sequence we follow on every Handis appliance and furniture removal.
Confirm Items, Stair and Doorway Path
We walk the items with you on arrival — confirm what is going, identify any item that needs disassembly to exit the room or the doorway, check the stair path on a basement or upper-floor pickup, and screen for hazardous waste (a chest freezer with decomposing contents, a TV with a damaged panel, a half-full bottle in the sideboard).
EPA Section 608 Refrigerant Recovery on Refrigeration Appliances
Every fridge, freezer, window AC, and dehumidifier gets its refrigerant recovered on the floor next to the unit by an EPA Section 608-certified tech before the unit moves. Federal law under 40 CFR Part 82 Subpart F. The recovery uses a certified recovery machine and a recovery cylinder; the recovery is documented on the disposal manifest with the tech's certification number.
Disassembly Where the Piece Will Not Exit Intact
Sectionals split at the seam fasteners; oversized cabinets disassemble at the cam locks or the screws; large dining tables come down to top-and-legs; bed frames break down to the rails and the slats. Disassembly is part of the service when the piece will not exit the room or the doorway intact and we bring the tools.
Load With Two-Person Crew + Furniture Dollies
Most appliance and furniture loads use a two-person crew with four-wheel furniture dollies, moving blankets, and stair-friendly straps. Single-appliance pickups can run with two crew members or a single tech plus a dolly depending on the access. Stair carry-out on basement or upper-floor pickups adds time to the labor portion.
Donation Drop, Mattress Recycling, Scrap, and Transfer Station + Manifest
Donation-ready furniture to Northwest Center or Goodwill with the tax receipt requested in your name. Mattresses to the King County mattress recycling line. Metal (washer drums, range bodies, exercise equipment frames, refrigerant-recovered appliance shells) to scrap for invoice credit. The balance to a licensed Puget Sound transfer station. Job ends with a written disposal manifest with the EPA 608 recovery documentation, donation receipts, and scale tickets.
Appliance & Furniture Pricing
Final pricing depends on item count, refrigerant recovery (per refrigeration appliance), stair carry-out from a basement or upper floor, distance to the nearest licensed transfer station, and the donation-versus-disposal split. Disassembly is included when the piece needs to exit the room in pieces. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Send a photo of the item and the doorway path — we will quote the pickup and the recovery.
Why Handis for Appliance & Furniture Removal
The refrigerant question is the one most appliance-removal services skip on the call and hope nobody asks about at the curb. Federal law is unambiguous — every refrigeration appliance (fridge, freezer, window AC, dehumidifier) must have its refrigerant recovered by an EPA Section 608-certified technician before the unit reaches the scrap-metal stream. The recovery costs the hauler about ten minutes per unit and a documented certification. The skip-and-hope route costs the EPA a Clean Air Act violation when it surfaces. We do the recovery on the floor next to the unit, document it on the manifest with the tech's 608 certification number, and the appliance moves legally. The same answer on every job.
EPA Section 608 refrigerant recovery on every refrigeration appliance
Every fridge, freezer, window AC, and dehumidifier has its refrigerant recovered on the floor next to the unit by an EPA Section 608-certified technician before the unit moves. Federal law under 40 CFR Part 82 Subpart F — the only legal way to scrap a refrigeration appliance. The recovery uses a certified recovery machine and a recovery cylinder; it is documented on the disposal manifest with the tech's certification number. The recovery adds about ten minutes per unit and seventy-five dollars per appliance beyond the first in a load.
King County mattress recycling line, not landfill
Mattresses and box springs route to the King County mattress recycling line where the foam, springs, and ticking are recycled separately rather than landfilled. The line accepts mattresses in any state — stained, broken-frame, or partially decomposed are all fine. Mattresses clean enough for donation go to the donation drop instead. The recycling stop adds about thirty minutes to the route and keeps a four-by-eight piece of foam out of the landfill stream.
Disassembly when the piece will not exit intact
Sectionals that came in through a window or before the doorway was framed in, oversized armoires that need to come down to cam-lock components, dining tables that need to break down to top-and-legs, bed frames that need the rails pulled — we bring the tools and the experience to disassemble in place without damaging walls or floors. The alternative is a refused pickup with the piece still in the room; we choose disassembly.
Donation drops with tax receipts
Donation-ready furniture (clean, structurally intact, no significant pet damage) routes to Northwest Center, Goodwill, or a specialty drop appropriate to the item before we hit the transfer station. We request the donation receipt in your name and email it with the disposal manifest. Items not in donatable condition route to the transfer station landfill stream — the call on donatability happens at the truck with you, not after the fact.
Insured, background-checked, written manifest on every job
Every Handis crew member carries liability insurance and has cleared a background screening — particularly load-bearing on the unattended portion of a move-out pickup. Every job ends with a written disposal manifest — EPA 608 recovery documentation on refrigeration appliances, donation drop receipts, mattress recycling confirmation, scale-ticket weights, and any metal-scrap credit applied. Nothing leaves your driveway without a paper trail.
Estimate
Tell us the items (count of refrigeration appliances, count of other large appliances, count of furniture pieces, count of mattresses and box springs), the location in the home (ground floor, upper floor, basement), whether anything needs disassembly to exit the room, and whether you have a preference on the donation-versus-disposal split. We send a clear estimate with the refrigerant recovery and mattress recycling broken out.
Customer Reviews
Recent appliance and furniture removal reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
Old chest freezer in the basement, dead for who knows how long. The tech showed me his EPA card on arrival, recovered the refrigerant on the basement floor next to the unit with what looked like proper recovery equipment, then the two of them dollied it up the basement stairs to the truck. Disposal manifest emailed with the recovery documented. Did not feel like a junk run; felt like the appliance was actually handled correctly.
Bought a sectional six years ago that came through a wide window before the deck was framed in. New configuration needed it out and the regular door does not fit it intact. Handis split it at the seam fasteners (took maybe ten minutes), wrapped both halves in moving blankets, carried it out without scuffing the doorway. The donation drop took both halves at Northwest Center.
Two mattresses, two box springs, and a bed frame from a guest bedroom upgrade. The crew loaded everything onto a four-wheel dolly, ran the mattresses to King County recycling specifically (asked about that — wanted them recycled, not landfilled), and the bed frame went to scrap. Clean morning pickup.
Kitchen remodel cleanup — old refrigerator, dishwasher, range, and microwave. Refrigerator got the refrigerant recovery on the kitchen floor before they unplugged and rolled it. Everything else loaded clean. The metal scrap on the four units credited about a hundred dollars back on the invoice.
Moving out of a four-bedroom rental and the new place is half the size. The crew ran a full-house run — couches, dining set, three beds, four mattresses, a treadmill that had been a coat rack for two years, three TVs, kitchen appliances. Donation drops mid-day, E-waste for the TVs, mattress recycling, metal scrap. One full truckload, eight hours, everything sorted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis appliance and furniture removal — pricing, refrigerant recovery, mattress recycling, donation drops, disassembly, and what we cannot haul.