Old broken tvs.

miss-toffee

Hello,

we have 2 old tvs with the big backs on them and they weigh a ton. One is downstairs and one is upstairs and we need to get rid of them. The problem is we cant lift them to get them outside or down a flight of stairs. I cant seam to find anyone who will come into the house to take them away. Does anyone know of anyway we can get rid of them.
Thanks

TimBear

I think you can pay the council to come and remove large electrical items. Or advertise on facebook or similar if you have it for scrap men to come and get them - they usually don't charge.

miss-toffee

Thanks Timbear. We called our council and they said we would have to put them out but we cant lift them to get them out of the house especially the one up stairs. I will try local scrap men I never thought of that. Thanks xxx

Owain_Moneysaver

Don't you have any younger/fitter neighbours?

grahamc2003

miss-toffee wrote: »

Hello,

we have 2 old tvs with the big backs on them and they weigh a ton. One is downstairs and one is upstairs and we need to get rid of them. The problem is we cant lift them to get them outside or down a flight of stairs. I cant seam to find anyone who will come into the house to take them away. Does anyone know of anyway we can get rid of them.
Thanks

Hope you have better luck in giving them away than I did. I had a perfectly working large wide screen TV on a decent stand which in its day cost a fair packet. I registered with Freecycle, stating it was big and would need a strong man or preferable a couple to lift it. One reply said he'd take the stand off my hands but not the tv, the other said he'd have it if I could deliver it to them. When I wrote back to the 2nd saying if he wants it, he'll need to pick it up himself, I got the very curt reply, in capitals, 'I AM DISABLED', as if I should have somehow known! So it went to the dump, me thinking it may get recycled there, but I doubt it did - it just joined hundreds of others.

spgsc531

grahamc2003 wrote: »

Hope you have better luck in giving them away than I did. I had a perfectly working large wide screen TV on a decent stand which in its day cost a fair packet. I registered with Freecycle, stating it was big and would need a strong man or preferable a couple to lift it. One reply said he'd take the stand off my hands but not the tv, the other said he'd have it if I could deliver it to them. When I wrote back to the 2nd saying if he wants it, he'll need to pick it up himself, I got the very curt reply, in capitals, 'I AM DISABLED', as if I should have somehow known! So it went to the dump, me thinking it may get recycled there, but I doubt it did - it just joined hundreds of others.

How thoughtful of you!

SailorSam

Some people on Freecycle make you laugh.
You're offering them stuff for nothing and they expect you to deliver it.

thenudeone

Try putting it on freecycle.

There is so much copper an other valuable metal in a TV that someone may be prepared to collect it for free. However, there is a risk that it will end up dumped and / or smashed, leaking toxic chemicals into the environment, so if you want a clear conscience, get someone to do it properly even if it means paying something.