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April 25, 2009
I want to freecycle my kitchen
I am a Tribeca resident; on Monday I start a gut renovation. I have a perfectly usable, though not high-end, 20-year-old kitchen and would rather see it re-used than landfilled. The person who was going to do it has just flaked out on me. The kitchen is totally emptied and cleaned and can be disassembled in a day. IT MUST BE DONE TOMORROW. This includes side-by-side fridge, range with microwave, stainless steel double sink, faucet, kitchen island, Corian countertops and roughly 25 linear feet of white plywood cabinetry. STOOLS AND DW NOT INCLUDED. If you are interested, or would like more information, please call me today, Saturday, at 212 577 2303 or 917 316 3560. Serious inquiries only, meaning you must have at least two people, be capable of disassembling the cabinetry (hanging on brackets), have a truck to remove everything, and be ready to do this tomorrow.
Comments
The kitchen looks like early Ikea.
You are looking for free labor in nyc? Nice try.
Hope you find somebody willing to spend their money on a rental truck with supplies, tools and a helper. Lets not forget the parking tickets.
Don't be a shnorer pay someone to remove it
Don't use the word green or recycle.
You are a shnorer and a disorganized one.
People are smart. They know1
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 25, 2009 1:52 PM
There is also plumbing involved in your so called free give away.
You better make sure you have a shut off valve that is working near your gas pipe before
you die of asphixiation.
When you disconnect the water pipe
Turn off the water first with the shut off valve near the sink. you need to measure the pipe so you can cover it with a cap. If not you will smell sewer gas..
As your neighbor Robert di Nero would say .....Just thinkin about it gives me agita
PAY a pofessional.
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 25, 2009 2:22 PM
Wow, ysabelle forgot to take her meds.
Posted by: mshook at April 25, 2009 2:27 PM
"I have a perfectly usable, though not high-end, 20-year-old kitchen [which I want to get rid of]"
Guess bear market ain't there yet.
Posted by: cmu at April 25, 2009 3:19 PM
It makes a lot of sense to recycle these appliances and cabinetry...not sure what Y's problem is...
Posted by: brownstoner at April 25, 2009 5:28 PM
It makes a LOT more sense to NOT redo a working kitchen at all; though OP has his heart in the right place by wanting to recycle, but how much better if he did a cosmetic upgrade and kept the appliances?
Brownstoner, Y wasn't being any more snarky than usual...are we snark limiting now?
Posted by: cmu at April 25, 2009 6:17 PM
It's very nice of the OP to make this offer.
It'll cost peanuts to have his contractor rip it out and throw it away, so he's obviously just throwing the offer out there to try and limit waste and help somebody in need.
Posted by: IronBalls at April 25, 2009 6:37 PM
Snarky.....Mr response had nothing to do with snarky. I am glad that he men who complained still have a third grade reading level.
It must have been men because woman are more practical and less impulsive in their decision making.
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 25, 2009 7:11 PM
i will apologize for the rotten spelling.
mr is supposed to be my.
he is supposed to be the.
sorry for the faux pas.
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 25, 2009 7:27 PM
Sorry, Y, was trying to defend you. Snarky may have been the wrong word. But I was surprised as brownstoner's interjection.
Posted by: cmu at April 25, 2009 9:18 PM
OP: In the event of communication gap or failure, or otherwise inability to comprehend unwarranted public flogging, please note: Ysabelle and CMU, the
self-selected, non-proletarian, green-right-past-their-manure-brown-eyes members of the Renovation Politbureau have deemed and denounced as insufficient the
20 years time-in-service of your non-high-end kitchen. Repent and recant immediately. By way of emergency response to the seriousness of your transgression, and the hubris displayed by your public posting to the unwashed though possibly desirous general public, a special investigatory committee is
already combing the Brownstoner archives in search of your full name, address
and occupation, with a specially created vacancy carved just for you in the Wretched Refuse/Freecycle Violation Re-education Camp. That’ll learn ya.
Posted by: vinca at April 25, 2009 9:42 PM
When I posted a free radiator cover on the forum one week ago, I received 15 responses in one hour.
It seems to me that this kitchen could be useful to a lot of brownstoners. The cabinetry configuration is very versatile and Corian is the easiest countertop material to resize.
Posted by: southslope at April 25, 2009 10:00 PM
cmu
Thank you for trying to pull my ass outta the fire. I appreciate it.
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 26, 2009 12:46 AM
sheesh -- no good deed.....
I can't use your kitchen. Any chance Habitat for Humanity would come?
Posted by: slopenick at April 26, 2009 7:25 AM
And, yes, clearly I am a man.
Posted by: mshook at April 26, 2009 8:53 AM
Ysabelle & CMU,
Are you insane? It takes any decent contractor about 4 minutes and 30 seconds to sledge hammer this kind of kitchen into 5 cubic square feet of land-fill-ready dust and splinters. And very little money to cart it away. It is part and parcel of most renovations. Why in hell would the poster bother to "trick" people into taking their kitchen off of their hands, which would involve working with other people, coordinating schedules and probably helping quite a bit?
And the irony in Ysabelle's making fun of the kitchen as being "circa early Ikea" and beyond what any rational human could ever want, and then CMU's excoriating the owner's for not being perfectly happy with it and having the self-entitled nerve to renovate at all, is enough to give ME agita.
Go have a freakin' cup of coffee. Both of you. With a quickness.
Posted by: Nokilissa at April 26, 2009 10:32 AM
It sounds like this option won't work for you, RobertB, but for other readers - Green Demolitions will take our your old, reusable kitchen for you at reduced cost, and resell it to support a non-profit. You save money and get a tax deduction, the landfill isn't filled up with reusable material, another homeowner gets a bargain, and a non-profit gets support.
If I had I truck I'd come over there right now and take this kitchen - ParkPlaced and I just bought an old brownstone and we need a transitional kitchen until we have enough money to do our new one. But I don't the debris would fit on our bikes :).
For future reference, though, check these folks out - both for taking out an old kitchen, and for a (CHEAP!) green new-to-you kitchen.
http://www.greendemolitions.org/
Posted by: UnprotectedWrecks at April 26, 2009 12:07 PM
I think it would be great if someone feels the need to make editorial comment on someone photo, that they should be required to post a like photo from their home. Ysabelle, would love to see a photo of your kitchen. Cheers.
Posted by: pig three at April 26, 2009 12:31 PM
Y-belle,
Why are you spewing info that is common knowledge like you are some sort of expert when it is something you just learned yourself? The is Wikianswers for those who don't know. Get a hobby.
Posted by: pig three at April 26, 2009 12:42 PM
Y-belle,
Why are you spewing info that is common knowledge like you are some sort of expert when it is something you just learned yourself? There is Wikianswers for those who don't know. Get a hobby.
Posted by: pig three at April 26, 2009 12:43 PM
If this comment thread hasn't shown what a completely obnoxious bunch of losers brownstoner has turned into, I don't know what does.
Y-belle...you sound like a bitch. Plain and simple.
Posted by: 11217 at April 26, 2009 1:23 PM
Nok: please see Times article today on "No, you can't get an Upgrade" Quote:
"[Americans] have been known as epic upgraders...headed towards a bigger house..."
"When we buy a TV, it's rarely because we lack a TV. We need a thinner TV, or a bigger TV or a TV with features that sound beguiling even if we have no idea what they do."
[After 3 cups of coffee] Hey it's just in fun. I don't expect OP (or anyone else) to actually listen to me.
Posted by: cmu at April 26, 2009 1:29 PM
CMU—Your default refuge: "it's just in fun." See these links, as well as the wealth of additional information online. It's not the least bit green to continue using a
20-year-old appliance. They consume 2-3 times more energy than most modern appliances, certainly modern Energy-Star rated appliances: http://extension.usu.edu/files/publications/factsheet/Fact_Sheet_1.pdf
http://www.energy.gov/applianceselectronics.htm
Posted by: vinca at April 26, 2009 2:20 PM
Cmu,
Is your tv on a milk crate or cinder blocks and a pine plank?
Posted by: pig three at April 26, 2009 2:46 PM
God Bless brookyn the land of free speech.
Free speech is acceptable only if you think like your neighbors? Some of you guys must live in a fishbowl. This world is big and there is room for everybody. Diversity in thinking is a good thing. Diversity is also good for the economy.
About the early ikea kitchen remark. There is nothing wrong with an early ikea kitchen.
Ikea is famous for making the same product line year after year. If the door breaks it is easy to replace and cheap.
A sledge hammer?
Removing kitchen cabinets is not the same as breaking out of sing-sing.
The idea is to keep the kitchen cabinetry in tact for the so called free giveaway.
The less damage done to the wall the better for a new installation.
Who wants to inhale dust.?
It is healthier to inhale pot.
No I don't smoke pot. it is just an example.
If you don't want editorial comment of a posted photo of a kitchen.. Don;t put the photo up for the world to see.
What a tough crowd.
I am tougher because I am not judgemental
Posted by: Ysabelle at April 26, 2009 2:57 PM
Yet no photos of you bs kitchen
Posted by: pig three at April 26, 2009 7:12 PM
Actually, I was being facetious, as most people have no idea what being un-wasteful is.
Vinca: That's not a 20year fridge in the photo! Maybe 5-10. Yes, a new fridge is more efficient. But if you compare the lesser energy use ($5-6/month) against the energy cost of producing a new one and disposing off an old one, you should keep your a not-too-old fridge until it fails. Probably more important to not get the icemaker and a too-large unit but who'd think of that?
The range look pretty new too. Are you going to claim new ranges save energy too?
Posted by: cmu at April 26, 2009 8:26 PM
geez, what a crapfest.
robertb, this was a nice idea and i hope something worked out. sorry you got so many useless replies from the site's special ed students.
Posted by: z at April 26, 2009 11:46 PM
FWIW, we SOLD our entire 7x9 galley kitchen (15 years old, white and taupe Formica cabinets and countertops + black&white enamel appliances) on Craig's List a few years ago when we were starting our own kitchen renovation. We had our contractor carefully remove all the old cabinets, countertops, dishwasher and stove (it took them only a few hours and we weren't charged extra for it) and it all sat in our livingroom for a few days until a lovely couple who'd just moved into a kitchen-less loft in Williamsburg responded to the ad and said they'd be happy to take it all off our hands for $1200. They rented a truck and my husband and I helped them load everything into it. They paid cash and that $1200 was a nice supplement to our new kitchen budget. It would have cost us about $500 to have it carted away and disposed of so selling it meant we saved that $500, plus made a nice chunk of change on top of that.
I actually ran into that couple in a restaurant not long ago and they are still very happy with our old kitchen and feel like they got a great bargain.
Posted by: laurie11201 at April 27, 2009 12:08 AM
I hope RobertB got someone to take the stuff on short notice and reuse it. For this kind of thing you might be better off selling dirt cheap rather than giving it away. I found when I tried to give away the old fridge in my garage on freecycle and craigslist people would reply saying they want it but were mostly flakes who couldn't actually get it together to pick it up and take it. Next time I'll offer it for 25 bucks.
Posted by: Bklnite at April 27, 2009 9:07 AM
I so wish I had seen this earlier. I hope someone came and took it off your hands. I would have loved to get the cabinets. It was a great idea. Just in case it's still available I am emailing a friend who might be interested.
Posted by: bxgrl at April 27, 2009 9:38 AM
My goodness.. this is a tough crowd.. this person is just trying to be nice and help the environment at the same time GEEZ ...I agree with Nokilissa ..goodness. can't do anything nice in this city anymore.
Posted by: scarter at April 27, 2009 9:45 AM
It's gonna take another generation or two before dinosaurs like Ysbelle die off, but in the meantime I applaud the pioneers who have the work ethic and conscientiousness to roll up their sleeves and recycle. Even if it still COSTS MORE to take this cabinet off the walls, transport it, and put it up elsewhere, that is one less bunch of crappy furniture sold by one more stupid ikea/home depot crap factory.
But I have a feeling it will save money, as well as landfill space.
Posted by: iz at April 27, 2009 12:50 PM
If still needed, or for those looking in the future, can also try Rebuilder's Resource (don't have their info handy). Don't think they disassemble, but they haul away just about anything and you can get a tax write-off. They offer it to others to reuse in their renovation. And for those giving OP a hard time, get over yourselves!!
Posted by: mh at April 27, 2009 1:11 PM
Thanks poster. Can't use it but admire your effort.
Posted by: superstooper at April 27, 2009 3:56 PM
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