APPLIANCE REMOVAL AND DISPOSAL COST

That is the whole answer. The rest of this page is the detail that decides whether you should call us, call someone else, or handle it yourself.

Pricing in Pueblo West is driven by three things: how many units, where they sit, and whether they contain refrigerant.

• Single unit, curbside or garage: $75–$125
• Second unit on the same trip: add $45–$65 (the drive is already paid for)
• Three or more units: roughly $185–$285 total, which is where a partial truckload rate takes over
• Basement or second-floor removal: add $35–$75 depending on stair count and door width
• Refrigerant units (fridge, freezer, AC, dehumidifier): add $25–$40
• Disconnect of a hardwired range or a gas dryer: add $30–$50, and only when the shutoff is accessible

A full-size French-door refrigerator runs about 280 to 340 pounds. A stacked washer-dryer set is roughly 340 pounds combined. A 50-gallon water heater still holding water weighs close to 450 pounds — drain it first or expect a surcharge for the mess.

The Pueblo County landfill on Goodnight Avenue charges a minimum load fee near $30 for a pickup-bed load, plus separate handling on refrigerant units. Add roughly $18 to $24 in fuel for the round trip from Pueblo West and back, and about 90 minutes of your time. That is the real comparison — not $0 versus $110.

> If your appliance is at the curb, works fine, and you can wait a week, you probably shouldn't be paying anyone. Say so out loud before you book.

This is the part most junk removal pages leave out. There are five clear situations where hiring us is the wrong call.

1. The appliance still works and you can wait. A functioning fridge or washer under 10 years old has resale value in this market — $60 to $200 on Facebook Marketplace or the Pueblo West community boards, and it usually moves in 3 to 9 days if you price it at 25% of retail and write "you haul." You net a couple hundred dollars instead of spending a hundred. The only cost is a week of it sitting in the garage and a few texts from people who never show up. If your schedule tolerates that, take it.

2. You're already getting a new appliance delivered. Lowe's, Home Depot, and Best Buy will haul the old unit for $25 to $50, and sometimes free during promotional windows, but only if it is disconnected, empty, and on the same floor as the delivery. If you qualify, that is cheaper than any independent hauler in the county, us included. Ask the delivery scheduler and get it in writing on the order — delivery crews refuse haul-away constantly when the unit isn't disconnected, and then you're stuck.

3. Black Hills Energy's rebate window is open. Colorado utility recycling programs periodically pay $35 to $50 plus free pickup for a working secondary fridge or freezer that meets size and age rules — usually 10 to 30 cubic feet and still running. When that program is accepting sign-ups, it beats us by roughly $150 in swing. It is worth ten minutes on the utility's website before you call anybody. The catch: waitlists run 4 to 8 weeks, and the unit must actually plug in and cool.

4. You have exactly one small unit and a truck. A microwave, a countertop dishwasher, or a 5,000 BTU window AC weighs 35 to 60 pounds. One person, one pickup, one trip to the transfer station. Paying $75 for that is paying for convenience you don't need.

5. Scrap metal prices make a dryer worth hauling yourself. A steel dryer or washer carcass is 90 to 140 pounds of shred steel. At the $0.05–$0.09 per pound local scrap yards typically pay, that is $6 to $12. Nobody gets rich, but if you're already driving to a yard with other metal, don't hand it to us.

Honest limits, because a surprise on job day costs everyone.

• We do not disconnect gas lines. Gas ranges and gas dryers need the shutoff closed and the line capped before we touch them. If you're not comfortable, a licensed plumber charges $120 to $200 for the disconnect. We will reschedule rather than improvise, and that's a lost day.
• We do not cut hardwired 240V circuits. A hardwired range or wall oven has to be pulled from the breaker by you or an electrician. Same rule.
• Frozen-in water heaters and settled washers leak. A washer that sat full for months will drip 2 to 5 gallons across your floor on the way out. We carry mats and towels; we don't carry a wet vac for a flooded utility room.
• Narrow basement stairs stop jobs. Pueblo West homes built in the 1970s and 80s frequently have 30-inch stairwell clearance. A 36-inch-wide side-by-side fridge does not come up those stairs without door removal, and sometimes not at all. We'll tell you on the phone if you measure first.
• We can't take everything that came out of the appliance. Ammonia-based coolant units, commercial walk-in components, and anything with visible mercury switches route differently. Ask first.
• Weather stops us. Pueblo West gets hail and wind events that shut down a hauling day with two hours' notice. February and July are the least predictable months on our calendar.

Hiring out makes obvious sense when the math flips:

• Landlords and property managers on a turnover clock. A vacant unit in Pueblo West loses roughly $40 to $55 per day in rent. A three-day delay costs more than the haul.
• Anyone over 60 or with a back injury. A 300-pound refrigerator down a staircase is how people end up in an ER at St. Mary-Corwin. The ambulance ride alone starts around $1,200.
• Estate and probate situations, where four to nine appliances come out at once. That's a truckload job, not an appliance job — see [estate cleanout pueblo](/services/estate-cleanout-pueblo).
• Anything already broken, rusted, rodent-damaged, or sitting outside for a season. It has no resale value, no rebate eligibility, and it's a liability where it sits.
• Renovation timelines where the countertop crew shows up Thursday and the old range is still in the way.

This is the part of "disposal" that most quotes skip entirely.

Refrigerant-bearing units get their R-134a, R-600a, or older R-12 recovered by a certified tech before the shell is scrapped — that's a Clean Air Act Section 608 requirement, not a preference, and skipping it carries federal penalties in the tens of thousands. Anyone quoting you $50 flat to take a fridge is either eating the cost or venting it, and venting it is illegal.

After recovery, roughly 75% of a typical appliance by weight is recoverable steel, which goes to a scrap yard rather than the landfill. Copper windings from the compressor and motor separate out. Plastic tubs, insulation foam, and door gaskets mostly do not recycle and go to the Pueblo County landfill. So "eco-friendly disposal" honestly means about three-quarters diverted, not 100% — anyone claiming zero-landfill on appliances is rounding hard.

Working units in decent shape get offered to local reuse channels before scrap. That happens on maybe 1 in 6 pickups, because most of what gets called for removal is genuinely dead.

Ten minutes of prep changes the number.

• Count and name every unit. "A fridge and a washer" prices differently than "a fridge, a washer, and whatever's behind the shed."
• Measure the tightest doorway and stairwell. Width in inches. This is the single most common cause of a rescheduled job.
• Empty and defrost the fridge 24 hours ahead. Standing meltwater adds time and mess.
• Drain the water heater the night before. A garden hose and 20 minutes saves you a surcharge.
• Send two photos — one of the appliance, one of the path out. A photo quote is accurate; a phone description is a range.
• Bundle. If the garage also has an old grill, three tires, and a broken treadmill, a combined [junk removal pueblo](/services/junk-removal-pueblo) load costs far less per item than three separate calls. Same logic applies to a [garage cleanout pueblo](/services/garage-cleanout-pueblo) where appliances are just part of the pile.

For appliance-only jobs and current pricing, see [appliance removal pueblo](/services/appliance-removal-pueblo). Service boundaries and drive-time surcharges outside the 81007 core are listed on [areas](/areas), and common scheduling questions are answered on the [faq](/faq).

If your appliance is dead, heavy, downstairs, or one of several, hiring it out at $95 to $175 is a fair trade for 30 minutes of someone else's back and a legal refrigerant recovery. If it works, sits at the curb, and you have a week of patience, you're better off selling it or checking a utility rebate — and we'd rather tell you that now than after you've paid us.

Call with two photos and a doorway measurement, and you'll get a real number instead of a range.