Yes, but only on delivery day. Home Depot takes one old appliance for each new one it brings, and it has to be the same kind. A new washer buys removal of the old washer, not the dead fridge in the garage. The charge is usually $25 to $50 and moves by store, added in the cart. Crews do not disconnect gas, water, or power, and the exact requirements are set per store. They can still refuse the unit at your door. If nothing is being delivered, there is nothing to buy. Curbside pickup is $109, and you never load it into anything.
What Home Depot's haul-away actually is
Home Depot sells haul-away as a checkbox on an appliance delivery order. You pick the new fridge, you pick a delivery date, and removal of the old one rides along on the same truck. The charge shows in the cart before you pay.
It commonly lands between $25 and $50 per appliance, verified August 2026. It moves by store and by item, so read the number on your own order rather than in an article.
Three conditions come with it, and all three are where people get surprised.
- •Delivery day only. There is no phone number that sells removal on its own, though policies are set per store and change, so call ahead. The crew is at your house because a new appliance is on the truck, and the old one leaves in the space the new one came out of.
- •One for one, same type. A new range buys removal of the old range. The dishwasher sitting in the garage stays in the garage.
- •Disconnected and empty before they arrive. Crews do not shut off gas, pull water lines, or touch electrical, and the exact requirements vary by store. A fridge needs to be defrosted and cleared out. A washer needs to be drained.
When Home Depot is the right answer, and when free is
If you are buying the replacement from Home Depot and having it delivered, tick the haul-away box and stop reading. Around $30 to take away a fridge you have already unplugged beats everything else on this page, us included.
Two free routes are real, and one of them asks nothing of you physically.
A fridge or freezer that still runs is worth money to your electric utility. Many run a recycling program that sends a crew to the house, takes it for free, and mails you a rebate, often $30 to $75 depending on the utility. You do not lift it and you do not drive it anywhere. The fine print is the catch. Usually it has to be plugged in and running when they arrive, roughly 10 to 30 cubic feet, one or two units per household, and a two to six week wait for the appointment.
A washer, dryer, electric stove, dishwasher, or water heater is mostly scrap steel, and many yards take those free at the gate. That one is only free if you already own a truck and have someone to help you load it. Call two yards first. Policies vary by yard and change without notice.
Where the retailer route runs out
Home Depot does not sell appliance removal on its own. It is a line on a delivery order, so it exists only while a truck is already coming to you. Once that truck leaves, there is nothing left to buy. Store practice does vary, so if yours offers something different, take it.
The free routes have their own gate. Anything with a sealed cooling system needs its refrigerant recovered by a certified tech before a yard will scrap it. That covers refrigerators, freezers, and window AC units. Most yards will not take one without proof, and plenty of city bulk programs exclude them outright. A dead fridge also fails the utility program, because those pay only for units that still run.
Then there is the part that actually stops people. A full-size refrigerator is 250 to 350 pounds. A washer is around 200. Neither is going in a crossover, and neither goes into a truck bed with one person. Every free route on this page ends in the same sentence: get it into a vehicle.
And the crew can still decline at the door. Stuck, blocked, or unsafe to move, and they leave it. You wake up expecting an empty spot and end up with a disconnected washer standing in the middle of the laundry room, a new one parked beside it.
Leave it outside. We do the lifting. • Refrigerator or freezer: $109 · plus $59 each extra • Washer, dryer, stove or oven: $109 · plus $59 each extra • Dishwasher: $109 · plus $35 each extra • Water heater: $129 · plus $59 each extra • Stacked washer and dryer: $129 · plus $69 each extra • Microwave, mini fridge or window AC: $79 That is the whole price. Nothing is added on the day, and it cannot change after you book. You do not rent a truck, borrow a dolly, or find a second person. Two haulers arrive with the dolly and the straps and do the load. It needs to be outside when they get there: garage with the door up, driveway, carport, side of the house, porch, or curb. Nobody comes inside, and you do not need to be home. Book by 2 PM and it goes today where same-day is running, seven days a week, in all 50 states. Almost half of pickups are done by noon. You get a text with the ETA before they arrive, and photos once it is gone. A washer and dryer together comes to $168. Melissa Mader, on Google: "I was concerned this wasn't a legit company, but they absolutely are… I was quoted $1500 by another company." Tyler Bond had a couch a mover priced at $250. It went for a fraction of that, forty-five minutes from booking to gone. 5.0 on Google, 150+ reviews · 4.9 on Trustpilot, 125+ reviews · more than 1,000 items picked up every month
See my price for a refrigeratorYou do not need a truck, a dolly, or a second person
This is the real difference between the paid route and the free ones. The free routes are not free of work. They are free of money and expensive in everything else. A vehicle you probably do not own. A ramp or a tailgate. A friend who owes you a Saturday.
Two haulers show up with an appliance dolly and straps. They take the weight, walk it to the truck, and load it. You watch, or you are at work.
The only thing we need is that it is outside. Garage with the door up, driveway, carport, side yard, porch, back patio, or the curb itself. Nobody goes inside the house. So if the old fridge is still standing in the kitchen, sliding it out the door is the one part that stays yours. That is a floor slide, not a lift, and it is a different job from putting 300 pounds into a truck bed.
If leaving something out front worries you, do not leave it out front. A garage with the door up works. So does the side of the house, out of view. You tell us where it is when you book.
And book before you move anything. People wait until the appliance is already outside and then start looking for a pickup, which is backwards. Book it, get your window, then move it on your own schedule before the truck arrives. The price locks when you book.
Getting it ready the night before
This applies to whoever is picking it up, Home Depot included.
- •Refrigerator or freezer. Unplug it a day ahead, empty it, let it defrost, and tape the doors shut. If it has an ice maker, close the water valve and take the line off.
- •Washer. Run a drain and spin cycle, close both taps, unhook the hoses, unplug it, and drop a towel inside for the last of the water.
- •Electric dryer or range. Unplug it. Gas is a different job. The shutoff valve gets closed and the flex connector comes off, and that is worth paying a plumber $75 to $150 for if you are not certain.
Then clear the path from where it is to where it is going. Measure the doorway. Take the door off its hinges if it is tight. Roll up the runner.