White goods & e-waste removal in Gladesville
The fridge dies on a Tuesday and the new one lands Thursday, which leaves eighty-odd kilos of dead appliance in the middle of the kitchen. We carry it out, and it leaves properly: refrigerant recovered, e-waste sorted, everything received by facilities licensed to take it. One fixed figure in writing before anything moves.
Off the general pile and along the regulated route. That's not a favour, it's the job.
Two kinds of urgent
The first kind is the appliance that quits: the fridge warming overnight, the washer that flooded its last load, the TV that went dark mid-season. It's heavy, it's awkward, and it's suddenly in the way of its own replacement. If you arranged takeback when you ordered the new one, the delivery crew will cart the old one off, and you should let them. When that box didn't get ticked, or the delivery has been and gone, that's where we come in.
The second kind arrives with a lease date attached. Gladesville's unit stock turns over constantly, and nearly every end-of-lease clearout has an appliance in it: the fridge that isn't making the move, the microwave nobody claims, the drawer of dead phones and tangled chargers. An agent's checklist doesn't accept a fridge as a parting gift, so it has to be gone, along with everything else, before the final inspection. We price it inside the one clearout figure, not as a surprise on top.
Either way the pattern holds: you tell us what died and which floor it's on, we put one figure in writing, and the thing is carried out and routed right.
One fridge, two kinds of building
Half of Gladesville keeps its appliances three floors up behind a lift booking; the other half keeps a second fridge in the garage and a chest freezer under the house. Same suburb, same afternoon, different job. We do both, and the figure is written for the building you actually live in.
- In the unit blocks along Victoria Road and Wharf Road, a fridge leaves the way a full clearout does: lift booked with the building manager, curtain hung, dock window held. The fridge just rides alone.
- In a walk-up, stairs cost sweat, not a surprise. Three flights go into the written figure, never onto the day.
- In the ridge-street houses, the job is usually the garage fridge that outlived its beer or the freezer that's been under the floor since the nineties. Low doors and narrow side paths are half our week out here.
- Old hallways, new fridges. A 1920s hall was drawn before double-door fridges existed. We measure, tilt and pad at the corner rather than learn about it there.
What we take, and where it actually goes
White goods and e-waste don't ride the general pile, because they legally can't: refrigerant has to come out before a fridge is scrapped, and screens and circuit boards carry lead and mercury that don't belong in landfill. So every item on this list has a route, and the route is part of what you're paying for.
| The item | How it leaves |
|---|---|
| Fridges & freezers | Refrigerant recovered by a licensed technician first, then the shell goes for metal recovery. Never scrapped with the gas still in it. |
| Washers, dryers, dishwashers | Hoses disconnected and drained at the tap, carried out, off for metal recovery. |
| Ovens & cooktops | Carried the moment they're loose. Hardwired units need your electrician to disconnect them first; that's their trade, not ours, and we'll say so on the sheet. |
| TVs & monitors | To a licensed e-waste facility, where glass, boards and casings are separated. Not the red bin, whatever its size. |
| Computers, printers, the dead drawer | Same e-waste route. Small enough to ride along with any other load we're taking that day. |
| Microwaves | E-waste, not general waste. The transformer inside is most of the weight and most of the reason. |
| Air conditioners | Same rule as the fridge: gas recovered first by a licensed technician, then metal recovery. |
NSW backs this with a duty of care: whoever carries the waste answers for where it lands, and it can only lawfully land at a place licensed to take it. The NSW EPA spells that out, and it suits us fine. The route is the service.
You'll notice we don't quote a recycling percentage anywhere on this page. We don't audit one, so we won't invent one. What we can tell you is the route, item by item, and it's written above.
Not on the truck
Loose lithium batteries are a fire risk in a moving load; supermarket and hardware drop-off points take them for nothing. Gas bottles go back through a swap cage or a licensed depot. We'd rather point you right than load them wrong.
The free ways to lose an appliance
Three of them exist, and we'll tell you when one fits better than we do.
The takeback box. Most stores delivering a new appliance will remove the old one if you arrange it when you order. Tick the box. It's the cheapest removal there is, because it's already on a truck that's coming anyway.
The council cleanup. City of Ryde gives each property five booked collections a year at no cost, 1.5 cubic metres a time, with about ten days' lead on the booking. If the year's bookings survive, the timing fits and the booking accepts your item, use one; just know that anything the truck leaves behind has to go back inside your boundary. And Gladesville addresses split between two councils, so check whose scheme you're actually under before you drag anything to the kerb. The full comparison is written down.
The e-waste drop-off. TVs and computers have free drop-off points under a national recycling scheme. If the boot can take it and no date is forcing your hand, the only cost is the drive.
Where a paid pickup earns its keep: the fridge needs to be gone this week, not in ten days; there are stairs or a lift between it and the street; it's coming out with a load of other stuff anyway; or the lease ends before the next free slot exists. Then the maths is simple and we'll put it in writing.
How the job runs
Send it, with a photo
What died, which floor it's on, stairs or lift. The make and model matter less than the doorway it has to fit through, and a phone photo answers most of our questions before we ask them.
One figure, in writing
The carry-out, the lift or dock arrangement if your building needs one, and the regulated route's fees, all inside one fixed figure you agree before we lift. If the job grows on the day, we re-quote before we keep going, never after.
Carried out, routed right
You empty it; we do the rest. Doors taped shut, the shell strapped upright to the trolley, floor protection down where floors deserve it, hoses drained at the tap. Then it leaves along the route on the docket, and the space it was hogging goes back to being a kitchen.
Asked about the dead fridge
The new fridge arrives Thursday. Can the old one be gone by then?
Usually, yes. Send the job as soon as you have the delivery date and we'll book the pickup against it, same-day where the run allows. What we won't do is promise you a clock; we'd rather name a window we can actually hit and then hit it.
Do I need to defrost the freezer first?
Empty it, that part's yours. Defrosted travels cleaner, so a day's head start helps if you have one. If it died overnight and there's no time, tell us; we bring towels and a drip tray and the job still happens.
Why can't the TV just go in the red bin?
Screens and circuit boards hold lead, mercury and other metals no tip face should bury, so the law gives e-waste a separate path that ends at a licensed facility. NSW puts the duty of care on whoever carries the waste, and we carry a lot of it, so we run the route properly every time. The NSW EPA has the long version.
We're clearing the whole unit at lease end. Is the fridge extra?
No. Appliances get named on the sheet like everything else and priced inside the one clearout figure, degassing route included. Nothing about a fridge turns into a surprise line item on the day. How the end-of-lease job runs.
The washer still works. Do you buy it?
No, we remove things, we don't deal in them. If it genuinely runs, give it a week on a kerbside-listing site or offer it to a charity that collects; a working machine deserves the chance. If it's still sitting there after that, send us the photo.
A straight answer costs nothing
Tell us what needs to go and where it is. We come back with a plan and a fixed price, in writing, and nothing gets lifted until you have agreed it.
Your enquiry goes straight to the crew, and we ring you back on the number you leave.