I Know A Guy Shady Life Simulator Incinerator Location — Where to Buy and Place It

Short Answer: Where the Incinerator Is

The incinerator is not found in the world; it is bought. Once you unlock it on the bedroom PC, you buy it from the town hardware store, which the community answer names as The Hobarey Depot. You then place it yourself in the back room and use it for jobs that destroy an item. That is the complete chain, and it is the same chain as the washing machine, which is why the two machines keep appearing in the same forum threads.

The confusion in those threads comes from the unlock step looking like an ownership step. The PC tells you the item is unlocked, players read that as "owned," and then they cannot find a machine anywhere in the shop. Developers replied to one of those threads telling the player to check the map, find the warehouse, and visit stores for shopping, and added that better in-game guidance was being worked on.

Step	Where	What actually happens
1	Bedroom PC	You unlock the incinerator in the skill tree
2	Map and town	You travel to the hardware store, The Hobarey Depot
3	Hardware store	You pay for the machine and it is delivered to your shop
4	Back room	You place the incinerator where you want it
5	Back window	You take incinerator jobs and destroy the requested items

How to Get There Without Getting Stuck

The developers' own advice in the thread was to open the map and look for the warehouse, and to remember that the game expects you to travel around town to shop. That advice is worth following literally, because the shop is not the same building as the dark web, and players waste time trying to find machines in the marketplace.

• Unlock the machine on the bedroom PC first; the store will not stock it before that.
• Open the map and head to the warehouse or hardware store rather than searching the pizza shop.
• Buy the machine and confirm it is delivered; a delivery happens after purchase rather than instantly appearing.
• Place it in the back room, away from the front counter, since destruction jobs are back-of-house work.
• Watch for the unlock popup, which the thread notes you should have seen when the machines were unlocked.

Which Jobs Use It, and Why It Is Not a Pizza Oven

Destroying evidence is one of the job categories on the official store page, and the playthrough logs show what that means in practice: a client arrives with a hard drive that needs to stop existing, and asks you not to ask what is on it. The same client list includes a job to wash bloody clothes in the washing machine, which is why the two machines unlock together.

Machine	Job type	Notes
Incinerator	Destroying an item, such as a hard drive	Back-room placement; the store page lists disposing of evidence and burning things in your own oven
Washing machine	Laundering clothing, such as bloody jeans	Same unlock and purchase route; tiered jobs require the matching machine level
Forgery station	Forged documents, from badges to passes	A separate dark web skill-tree talent gated behind an authorization level

A short placement checklist before you burn anything:

• Keep the incinerator in the back room, not beside the pizza oven, so front-of-house customers never see it.
• Leave walking space around it; recommended jobs require you to carry an item across the room.
• Place it near the back door so courier pickups and deliveries do not cross the counter.
• Check the machine level before accepting a job, since tiered jobs require the matching tier.

If a job seems to stall, note that the hotfix added an item-dependent Quest Reset specifically for washing machine jobs, incinerator jobs and item-specific quests such as the chest quest. That reset exists because these quests have had tracking bugs, and it is the documented first thing to try before starting a new save.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
The store does not sell the incinerator	The unlock was not completed on the PC	Buy the talent on the bedroom PC first
The machine is owned but missing	Purchase or delivery was never finished	Visit The Hobarey Depot, pay for it, then place it
The job will not complete after burning the item	A quest tracking issue	Use the item-dependent Quest Reset from the patch notes
A conversation locks the cursor	A reported TAB interaction bug	Hold TAB while clicking the quest accept button
You cannot tell the machine apart from kitchen equipment	Placement confusion	Keep destruction work in the back room, away from the pizza line

One version note: this system has been patched repeatedly since Early Access. A patch fixed a Level 3 washing machine job being completable with a Level 2 machine, another fixed a save migration bug in an early mission, and 1.0.4 fixed procedural quest tracking so forged-document jobs update their quest card immediately. If you are following an older video and the shop does not behave as shown, the version it was recorded on is the likely reason.