The short answer
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| TV (under 42") | $62 |
| TV (42" to 65") | $68 |
| TV (65"+) | $73 |
| Computer monitor | $58 |
| Box of electronics | $77 |
| Entertainment center / TV stand | $96 |
| Copier / printer (commercial) | $97 |
| 3D printer | $82 |
| Microwave (countertop) | $30 |
| Ceiling fan | $41 |
Visit minimum is $75, so a single $62 TV is a $75 visit. A TV plus its stand is $68 + $96 = $164, which clears the floor.
Why electronics are not ordinary trash
Screens, boards and batteries carry materials that do not belong in a landfill: lead in older CRT glass, mercury in backlights, lithium in anything with a rechargeable pack. Ohio handles this through a mix of county programs, retailer take-back and private recyclers rather than one statewide mandate, which is why the answer to "where do I take this" changes depending on who you ask and when.
Franklin County's solid waste authority runs and publicizes electronics collection arrangements; check their current schedule rather than a three-year-old forum post. Several national retailers take small electronics in store, with limits on size and quantity.
What none of those routes do is come and get a 200-pound console television out of your basement.
The Columbus basement TV
There is a specific object this article exists for. It is a late-nineties rear-projection or tube console television, it is in the finished basement of a house in Clintonville, Whitehall, Northland or Reynoldsburg, it weighs more than the sofa next to it, and it has not been switched on since the digital transition.
Two people got it down there when the basement was finished. Since then the stairs have not got any wider. It is $73 if it is a 65-inch-class set, $68 for the 42-to-65 band, carried up whatever you have: an open-riser flight, a turn at the landing, a low header you have to duck under.
Free drop-off recyclers will often take it if you can get it to them. Getting it to them is the entire problem.
Wipe the data first
Nobody does this and everybody should. Before anything leaves the house:
- Smart TVs. Factory reset. Your streaming logins and your home wifi credentials are stored on it.
- Computers. Pull the drive or wipe it. A quick delete is not a wipe.
- Phones and tablets. Sign out of the account, then erase, in that order.
- Printers. Office machines hold scanned documents in memory. Clear it.
If you are clearing an office in the Arena District or a converted warehouse in Franklinton and the machines held client data, handle the drives yourself before the pickup rather than trusting the chain afterward.
Office and small-business clearouts
Columbus has a lot of small offices sitting in converted space: Short North upper floors, Grandview brick buildings, Franklinton warehouses, the office parks off Polaris and Easton. When one of them downsizes or goes remote, the electronics come out with the furniture.
Priced together: a commercial copier or printer at $97, computer monitors at $58 each, boxes of miscellaneous electronics at $77 each, a cubicle or office workstation at $163, an executive desk at $208, an office chair at $61, a conference table at $260.
Four monitors at $58 each comes to $232, and two boxes of electronics at $77 each comes to $154. With one copier at $97, that is $232 + $97 + $154 = $483. Compare that to a half truckload at $431 and take the half load.
The annual January spike
Columbus has a predictable electronics-disposal season and it is the first three weeks of January. A new television arrives before the holidays and the old one goes into the basement or the garage "for now." Then the garage is full and the car is out in the weather, and by mid-January somebody wants it gone.
The same pattern hits the box of electronics: old routers, a DVD player, three generations of phone chargers, a printer that stopped working in 2019. That is a $77 box, and it is genuinely worth doing in one visit alongside the TV rather than living with it for another year.
What we do with it
Electronics come off the truck at the recycling stream rather than going to the landfill with the furniture. That is inside the flat price. There is no recycling fee, no CRT surcharge and no separate handling charge added on the day.
The honest limit: we are a removal service, not a certified data-destruction vendor. If you need a certificate of destruction for regulated records, use a specialist for the drives and book us for everything else.
Booking
Add the screens, the boxes and anything the TV was sitting on, and see the total. If it is only a small TV and you are under the $75 minimum, walk the house first: a countertop microwave is $30, a box of books is $45, a bag of clothes is $35. Anything you add is priced at the same published rate, and you only pay one visit minimum.
Franklin County and the surrounding suburbs run at the same prices, same-day often available.
Frequently asked questions
How much does TV removal cost in Columbus?
$62 under 42 inches, $68 for 42 to 65 inches, $73 for 65 inches and up. Recycling is included in the price.
Will you carry an old console TV up from the basement?
Yes, at the same flat price. That is the single most common electronics call we get in Columbus and there is no stair charge.
Can I just put a TV on the tree lawn?
Usually not the right route. Screens are handled through electronics recycling rather than regular collection. Check Franklin County's current arrangements, or book it and we will route it properly.
Do you charge a recycling fee for electronics?
No. Disposal and recycling are inside the flat price. There is no surcharge for screens, CRTs or batteries.
What is a box of electronics?
$77 for a box of miscellaneous small items: cables, routers, players, chargers, old phones. Cheaper than pricing each piece and the usual way people clear a drawer.