The One Thing The Town Definitely Won't Take
Most Grimsby residents find this out the hard way. You can tag extra garbage bags, you can book up to four large items per collection through Green For Life — but appliances and metal household items are excluded from curbside collection entirely. Your options are a trip to a Regional depot with a vehicle that can carry a fridge, a scrap yard run, or a call to us. Given that a full-size fridge weighs around 250 lb and doesn't fit in a Corolla, most people call.
Fridges, freezers, dehumidifiers and air conditioners also contain refrigerant, which has to be recovered by a qualified handler before the unit is scrapped — it's not legal to just crush it. That's part of what you're paying for, and it's why the disposal end of an appliance costs more than the hauling end.
What We Take
- Fridges, freezers and chest freezers (including garage beer fridges)
- Stoves, ranges, wall ovens, cooktops and range hoods
- Washers, dryers and stacked laundry units
- Dishwashers and built-in microwaves
- Water heaters, water softeners and sump pumps
- Furnaces, AC condensers and dehumidifiers
- BBQs, patio heaters and propane appliances (tanks removed)
- Loose scrap: shed metal, eavestrough, rads, bed frames, exercise equipment, lawn mowers
What Appliance Removal Costs in Grimsby
- Single appliance (stove, washer, dryer, dishwasher): about $80–$150
- Fridge or freezer (refrigerant recovery included): about $100–$175
- Water heater or furnace: about $90–$175
- Full kitchen or laundry swap-out (3–5 units): about $200–$350
- Mixed scrap metal load: often discounted — if there's enough clean metal, the scrap value offsets part of the haul
Basement stairs, a laundry unit that has to be disconnected, or a fridge that's been sitting full and warm all add a bit. Tell us on the phone and the quote covers it.
Before We Arrive
Unplug the unit and, if you can, disconnect the water line on a washer, dishwasher or fridge with an ice maker. Empty the fridge or freezer — a warm one full of food is a different job, and we'd rather you knew that before we're standing in your kitchen. Propane tanks have to come off BBQs and be kept separate; we can't put a live tank in the truck. If you can't do any of this yourself, that's fine — just say so and we'll handle it as part of the quote.
Where It Goes
Working appliances under about ten years old get offered for reuse. Everything else goes to a certified recycler: refrigerant recovered, metal separated, plastics and glass pulled out. Very little of an appliance actually needs to be landfilled, which is exactly why we'd rather make the scrap-yard stop than the Niagara Road 12 stop.
Doing a kitchen renovation? The drywall, cabinets and flooring come under construction debris removal. Clearing a whole property? Look at estate cleanouts — bundling is cheaper than separate trips.