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
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.
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.