Refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, or a dead water heater in the basement — heavy, awkward, and something the city flat-out won't take. We recover the refrigerant on fridges and freezers with EPA-certified handling, carry the unit up the basement stairs or out of the garage, and scrap the metal. Flat price from a photo — fridge $221, washer $179, dryer $172, dishwasher $147.
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Flat rates, photo-quoted before anyone shows up. Refrigerant recovery on fridges, freezers, and AC and the metal diversion are already in the number — and there's no Colorado sales tax on the service to tack on at the door.
| Appliance | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Dishwasher | $147 |
| Mini-fridge | $155 |
| Electric range / oven | $172 |
| Dryer | $172 |
| Gas range / oven | $176 |
| Water heater (tank) | $176 |
| Washer | $179 |
| Chest freezer | $196 |
| Upright freezer | $201 |
| Refrigerator | $221 |
| Large / built-in refrigerator | $246 |
| Washer + dryer together | $255 |
$75 minimum. A tankless water heater is $121 and a window AC starts at $117. Refrigerant recovered on fridges/freezers/AC; disposal and scrap-metal diversion included. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
Two or more units on the same visit price together, so a fridge-and-washer swap or a whole kitchen-and-laundry remodel is one flat number, not a sum of retail line items. For scale: national full-service franchises typically quote $150–$600+ for a single-appliance visit once their minimums and add-ons land — our flat photo-quote is the whole price up front, no day-of reveal.
| Option | Cost | Speed & effort | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Large Item Pickup | Free | Won't take it — appliances are excluded | Nobody: the city can't haul appliances |
| Haul it yourself to a transfer site | ~$24/yd, $88 min + your truck & a helper | Slow; freon must be recovered first; a two-person basement carry | The DIY-with-a-truck crowd |
| Retailer haul-away on delivery | $0–$50, but only the piece you replace | Same-day-ish, but only if you're buying new from them | A like-for-like replacement |
| National full-service franchise | $150–$600+ | Same-day, they carry it — but on-site pricing | Those okay with a truck-side quote |
| JunkRabbit | $147–$255 flat | Same-day, we carry it up from the basement, freon recovered | A known flat price and a legal, recycled disposal |
The honest difference: the franchises are on-site quoted and the city won't touch an appliance at all. We photo-quote a flat number, carry it out of the house, recover the refrigerant, and divert the metal for scrap.
No — and this is the whole reason an appliance page exists. Denver's free curbside program, Large Item Pickup, runs only about once every nine weeks, takes five large items at the curb, and excludes appliances, electronics, and tires entirely. A refrigerator, freezer, washer, dryer, dishwasher, or water heater is simply not on the list the city will haul. You can schedule it through Denver 311 all you want — appliances aren't accepted.
There's a real reason beyond the schedule. Any unit with refrigerant — a fridge, freezer, or air conditioner — requires EPA-certified freon recovery before it can be legally recycled or disposed of, which a curbside crew can't do at your curb. So Denver residents genuinely can't self-solve a fridge with the municipal program. That's our lane: we do the recovery, keep the documentation, and get the appliance into the right stream.
Appliances are the greenest thing we haul, because almost all of it is recoverable. First, the refrigerant comes out of any fridge, freezer, or AC under EPA-certified handling. Then the unit goes to a scrap-metal recycler — a fridge, washer, dryer, or water heater is mostly steel, copper, and aluminum, and diverting that metal keeps it out of the Front Range landfills. A working appliance in good shape can be routed to a reuse partner instead. And because Colorado sites charge double for an unsecured load, every load leaves your place tarped — a compliance and safety habit that also keeps your flat price fair.
This is where a Denver crew earns it. Wash Park, Park Hill, and Platt Park bungalows sit on full basements, so a dead chest freezer or a spare fridge is a carry up the basement stairs, not a wheel to the curb — and we do that as part of the flat price. Out in Central Park, Lakewood, Arvada, and Wheat Ridge, the old washer and dryer live in the attached or detached garage, and in HOA neighborhoods we load straight from the home so nothing sits at the curb. Downtown in the LoDo and RiNo lofts and the Cherry Creek towers, a built-in fridge goes out the freight elevator and loading dock on a COI we file with building management — no curb involved at all. Up-front, no per-flight or high-rise surcharge: Denver is flat, and the carry is in the price.
"Dead deep freezer in the Wash Park basement plus an old fridge from the garage. They carried both up the stairs, recovered the freon, flat price from a photo. The city literally won't take these — so glad I didn't try."
"Kitchen remodel in Central Park — old fridge, dishwasher, and range gone in one trip, loaded from the garage so the HOA never saw a pile. Exactly the number they quoted."
"Water heater blew in Arvada. New one in, old tank wrestled up out of the utility closet and hauled same day. Flat price, no tax surprise, done."