How much is lead pipe worth?

SALogan

My landlord recently had a plumber come in to do some work which included replacing a bit of lead pipe, with some new copper pipe. The piece replaced was perhaps 9-12 inches long and 0.5-1 inch in diameter (I believe it was part of the lead main inside the house).

I didn't keep too much of an eye on the guy, but today I suddenly realized that he had taken the bit of pipe with him, and I just wondered if it would have been worth much to him.

I'm not concerned about it, just interested.

keystone

No not on its own - few pence maybe but not worth the trip to the scrappy to find out.

Cheers

tanith

Plumbers perks, they save it up and then cash it in when they have enough to make it worth while... I'd say they earn it for hoiking about all that very heavy lead ...

forgotmyname

Dad used to work for a lagging company they would get aluminium boxes for the pipes & fill those with insulation.
He used to collect all the offcuts and weigh them in for an extra xmas bonus. They would normally go in the skip.

He now works on building sites & collects bits of ol;d copper pipe, Said its worth more. Same again though small pieces
not worth anything so everyone throws the bits away.

Company not interested in wasting time & money to collect & store the small bits for the sake of £10 a bag, Probably £20-£30 for copper.

gas4you

Just over a pound a kilo at present.

27col

I collected odd scraps of copper brass and lead when I was working. I even took old switches and sockets to pieces for the brass scraps. This was long before recycling became fashionable. Eventually enough was collected to make a trip to the scrappie worth my while. I always hated the thought of valuable metal being used for land fill. The stuff I collected was so little at a time that no-one would have picked it up. But over a period of time it became enough to be worthwhile.

LauraLeah91104

we removed some old piping in our house, it was heavy, but we had about 3 lengths of around 2-3foot in lenth, i remember we got just under £60 for it. it was certainly worth the 5 min car journey from home to scrappy. had a nice family meal with profit, and it saved it from sitting in a corner of my garden looking unsightly

gas4you

Problem with metal prices is that the !!!!!! are nicking it every day.

Had £300's worth of copper and the tubes it was in, nicked off my van last night. Grrrrrrrr