Freezer Removal in Eagle

Eagle's housing stock runs bigger than most of the valley - garages, shops, and horse barns on acreage north of Beacon Light, custom homes in Two Rivers and Banbury Meadows, and the roughly 630 homes in Lexington Hills. A lot of those properties have room for a second or third freezer, kept for game, garden harvest, or just because there was space for one. When that unit finally quits or gets replaced, it doesn't belong at the curb with the regular trash.

A freezer holds Freon, and that changes how it has to be handled - where it can go, what it costs to drop off, and whether your curbside hauler will even touch it.

Where it goes once it leaves your property

Most freezers removed from Eagle homes end up at the Ada County Landfill - Hidden Hollow, off Seamans Gulch Road in the north Boise foothills, a short drive from Eagle via Hill Rd or Highway 55. The landfill accepts Freon appliances, but charges a fee for them, since the coolant has to be recovered before the unit can be scrapped. That's different from an appliance that doesn't use refrigerant.

Hardin Sanitation runs curbside service in Eagle, but their bulky-item carts won't take Freon appliances - so a freezer has to go to the transfer station directly or get picked up by someone equipped for it. Once the Freon is recovered, the cabinet is mostly scrap metal, which the landfill also takes.

If other household hazardous waste is riding along with the freezer - old chemicals, cleaners, that kind of thing - Eagle runs a quarterly HHW collection at the West Eagle Park & Ride, and the county landfill takes HHW free on Fridays and Saturdays.

What usually turns up in Eagle's freezers

With so many Eagle properties on acreage or backed up to the river, the freezers coming out of garages, shops, and barns here tend to be older units that have run a long time - sometimes still holding game meat, garden produce, or a loose mix of frozen food that has to be cleared before the unit gets moved.

In the larger homes around Two Rivers and Banbury Meadows, it's common to find a second freezer in a finished garage or pool house that's sat unused since a kitchen remodel. Whatever comes out alongside it - old shelving, a broken cooler, scrap metal - can usually be recycled or scrapped with the freezer rather than landfilled as a whole unit.

What moves the price and the time

A few things decide how a freezer removal goes in Eagle:

• How far the unit has to travel to reach a truck - a basement or a detached shop on acreage takes longer than an attached garage
• Whether it's full or empty, and whether it's had time to defrost after being unplugged
• Access - gated entries, long gravel driveways, and narrow barn doors common on Eagle's larger lots all add time
• Whether the Freon fee applies, which it does on any working or formerly working freezer
• Whether it's going alone or alongside other appliances or a garage cleanout, since combining items is more efficient than a single-item trip

A freezer with Freon in it isn't a curbside item in Eagle, and knowing that before pickup day saves a wasted trip. Boise Appliance Removal handles freezer removal throughout Eagle and the rest of the Treasure Valley, and can give you a free estimate before anything gets scheduled.