TV and Electronics Disposal in Gilbert, AZ

Tube TVs are the worst of it. The big old cabinet sets weigh much more than they have any right to, and the weight sits in the front, so lifting one down a hallway or a step is how people hurt their backs. Early flat screens are heavier than their slim look suggests, and newer ones are light but fragile: the screen cracks if you lean it wrong, and a large one is awkward to get through a door even with two people. Wall-mounted sets still have the bracket and the bolts to deal with.

Then there's what to do with it afterward. Most people end up with a TV in the garage because nobody wants to drive to a drop-off point with a heavy set that might not fit in the back seat. For TV recycling near you, this is the version where you don't have to load anything.

Tell us what you have and where it is: how many TVs, what kind, whether there's a pile of computers too. We give you a free estimate. The price follows how much room the load takes in the trailer, plus access (a second-floor bedroom costs more effort than a garage by the driveway), and you hear the number before we start.

On the day, we come to you, carry the equipment from the room, garage, closet or backyard shed, and load it ourselves. You don't need to box anything up, and we handle the tube sets on the stairs. After the load goes out, we sweep up the spot it sat.

Old TVs, tube and flat screen, are what most people call about first. After that come the desktop towers and laptops, the monitors stacked in a spare room, the printer that quit, and the box of keyboards, cables and power bricks that has been collecting in a drawer. Game consoles and the controllers that went with them, old stereo receivers, speakers, DVD and VCR players, routers and cable boxes all ride along too. Computer disposal is a common reason for the call, usually because a machine has been replaced and the old one has no clear place to go.

Anything with a plug and a circuit board is electronics, and it can go in the same load. A single TV is a fine reason to call. So is a whole room of equipment left behind by a business that closed, a relative who moved, or a tenant.

Once a device is loaded, it's gone for good, so a few minutes of prep is worth it. For a computer or laptop, sign out of your accounts, copy off any photos and files you want to keep, and then reset the machine or erase the drive if you know how. For a game console, sign out of your account and clear any saved profiles. Phones and tablets get the same treatment: back them up, sign out, and run the factory reset in the settings menu.

If you aren't sure whether a hard drive is clear, say so when you call, and you can keep the drive and decide what to do with it. Tangled cords can go as they are.

Electronics are made of metal, plastic, glass and circuit boards, and they're built to be taken apart for the materials inside rather than buried whole. That's why we treat e-waste disposal as its own kind of job. Think of this as an electronics recycling pickup at your door: the equipment is separated from the rest of the load and routed to recycling, and metal and other recyclable material gets sorted out. The pieces that can't be recycled go to licensed disposal facilities.

Anything still working and in good condition may go to donation or resale when its condition allows, though an old tube TV rarely qualifies, and most dead sets go to recycling.

Electronics often turn up in the middle of something bigger. A garage cleanout turns up a stack of old monitors. An estate can have three TVs and a closet of computers. A remodel leaves a flat screen behind. If that's you, the garage cleanout page and the estate cleanout page cover those jobs, and appliance removal is the page for the refrigerator and the washer that came with them. Everything we haul is on the junk removal page.

We're based in Gilbert and cover the East Valley and the Phoenix metro. Chandler and Mesa are close to home base. We also drive out to Scottsdale, Tempe and the rest of the cities on our service areas page, and booking ahead helps for the farther ones.