Scrap value from renovation

diana3564

I am about to start on a big renovation , this will include ripping out the following:
Electrical wiring
Hot water heater cylinder
Old gas boiler
Electric fire place
Gas fire place
2 art deco fireplaces
Built in landing cupboard
Would anyone know what these might be worth?

Best

Diana3564

Poosmate

Take a look at this site for metal prices.

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals

Keep all of your electrical wiring you pull out and the immersion tank and scrap them in.

I'd check out Ebay to see if any of the fireplaces are selling and if so how much they are going for. Same for any internal doors and any radiators if they are any good.

Otherwise, scrap them along with any other metal you get, cookers, fridges/freezers, washing machines if they've been left.

Remember, anything you can flog on Ebay will save you in disposal costs (skip or trip to dump).

If you're hiring a skip for the gutting of the property if you put better bits of wood that you wouldn't or couldn't reuse at the top of the skip someone may take it off your hands for free (skip rats) freeing up space in your skip meaning you may need less of them, reducing your costs.

That's what I would do anyway.

Poo

Dunners

Hi, we got about £60 for 11 old (but not vintage!) radiators and a few other bits of scrap metal, and £45 for an old copper water tank, and a pile of electrical wire which we stripped down, hth x

diana3564

Thanks Poosmate and Dunners

I'll definitely keep the water heater and wiring for scrap, didn't think about the doors, cheers. I am also installing double glazing replacing the old slash windows.
Dont expect I will get much for the windows?

There are no radiators, just an old electric and gas wall heaters.

rygon

If I recall the copper is better to sell if you strip the wires manually rather than burning the plastic sheathing off.
Im sure they will take the heaters as well for scrap

meercatsunited

every time we move we sell anything in the new house we dont need on ebay after checking completed items to see what we should be able to get for them

recently: dbl glazed pvc window 6x4ft £72, central heating boiler 2 years old £280, copper pipe from central heating £160 scrap, 4 burner gas hob 3 years old £32, astracast sink £15, old style toilet where waste goes into ground rather than outside, these are no longer manufactured £31, coal effect gas fire £51, dimplexall heater £13

Poosmate

Way to go Meercat!!

I bet many refurbers would just skip most of that stuff not only losing them money but costing them in the hire of the skips too! So you got over £600 which is the cost of a few skips, probably had to hire one less skip and as (I would think) most people collected the items, so free disposal for you too!

Yay!

Congratulations!

Poo

ETA: Diana, you might want to contact local reclaimation yards to see if they want anything, again saves you having to pay to dispose of them.

Poo