TV and electronics disposal in Charlotte

The short answer

The minimum for a visit is $75, so a single small TV or one monitor on its own lands at the minimum. If that is your situation, it is worth adding whatever else is in the house.

Why you cannot just put a TV at the curb here

North Carolina keeps televisions and computer equipment out of the landfill stream. They have to be routed to an electronics recycler instead, which is why regular trash collection will leave a TV sitting where you put it and why a lot of curbside bulky programs specifically exclude them. Check your city's current bulky-item page for what it does and does not accept before you set anything out.

Mecklenburg County operates drop-off centers that accept household electronics, and if you have the vehicle, the time and something small enough to carry alone, that is a legitimately good option. Check the current hours and accepted-items list before you drive out.

What the county drop-off does not solve is the 65-inch plasma in the bonus room over the garage.

The Charlotte bonus room television

This is the single most common electronics call we get in this city, and it exists because of how Charlotte houses are built.

There are almost no basements in the Piedmont — the red clay pushed the region to slab and crawlspace foundations — so the media room went upstairs into the bonus room over the garage. That is standard in the 1990s and 2000s builds in Highland Creek, Steele Creek and Ballantyne, and near-universal in the newer subdivisions out in Waxhaw, Weddington and Indian Trail.

The bonus room stair is typically narrow with a turn at the top. The big rear-projection and early plasma sets went up there when the room was new, weigh far more than a modern panel of the same size, and cannot be carried down by one person. So they stay, sometimes for a decade, with a newer TV mounted on the wall beside them.

A 65-inch-plus set is $73 to remove, from the bonus room, down the stair, no surcharge for either.

The wall mount and the cabinet underneath

Two things usually go with the TV.

The entertainment center it used to sit in is $96 — those big early-2000s wall units in Charlotte dens and bonus rooms are solid, heavy, and generally come apart on the way out.

A TV plus the cabinet is $73 + $96 = $169.

We will take a TV off a wall mount. Tell us when you book so the crew brings the right driver. The mount itself goes on the truck with it.

Home offices and the Charlotte office shuffle

Charlotte gained a lot of home offices in a short period, and a fair number of them are now being unwound as people move, downsize, or go back to an Uptown or Ballantyne office. The standard home-office clearout:

• Desk (standard) — $83
• Office chair — $61
• Computer monitor — $58
• Box of electronics — $77

$83 + $61 + $58 + $77 = $279.

The box of electronics at $77 is the useful line. It absorbs the drawer of cables, the routers, the DVD player, the old laptops, the game consoles — all of it in one price rather than itemized.

Office and commercial electronics

Uptown, South End and the Ballantyne corporate campuses run on a refresh cycle, and floor moves leave equipment behind. A commercial copier or printer is $97. A cubicle or office workstation is $163. A conference table is $260. An executive desk is $208.

If the building is a tower, the certificate of insurance and the reserved freight elevator are the real constraints, not the equipment. We issue the COI and book the window before the truck is scheduled, at no extra cost.

For anything holding company or client data, wipe or pull the drives before pickup. We are not a data destruction service and we will not pretend otherwise.

A note on donating electronics

A working flat panel from the last few years, a recent monitor, or a functioning laptop can often be donated in Charlotte and it is worth ten minutes of calling around before you pay to remove it.

What will not be accepted anywhere: rear-projection sets, plasma sets, tube televisions, and anything with a cracked panel. Those go to a recycler regardless of who moves them.

Booking

Say what it is, say what floor it is on. The price shows before you book and does not change on the day. Carrying it down — the bonus-room stair, the second floor of a Plaza Midwood bungalow, a South End elevator — is included, along with the recycling routing at the far end.

We cover Charlotte and the surrounding towns, including Matthews, Mint Hill, Pineville, Huntersville, Cornelius, Davidson, Waxhaw and Fort Mill.

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