Scrap Metal Merchants?

UsernameAlreadyExists

Hi,

Where do all the scrap metal merchants take all their scrap metal?

I've done a google search in my local area for scrap metal merchants/dealers and all I can find is people that'll come and collect your metal "for free", including cars, domestic appliances & such like.

I am asking because I'm having my bathroom refitted and now have 8 pieces of a cast iron bath up the side of the house.

I've used the gas/plumber guy before and he seems to have an arrangement with some other guy that'll come and take all the crap/rubbish away so long as he's allowed to keep the metal. So he'll dispose of sanitary ware and all the bits of wood and plaster in exchange for the bath. When doing boilers etc, he'll take the old boiler, water tanks, copper pipe/cable and what-not. It's got to be worth his while otherwise he'd not do it!

I've said leave the crap this time as I am more than happy to take a sink/pedestal and toilet/cistern and a load of broken tiles to the tip (5 mins away), but I feel I am missing a trick on what appears to be a seriously heavy amount of cast iron. It's got to have some value, so how can I realise it?

muckybutt

They will probably sell it onto another bulk scrap metal merchant who will then sell it onto a smelter.

You should get a bob or two for a cast bath

dacouch

Iron goes for circa £120 a ton

Russe11

Small amounts of scrap are rarely worth the time and cost of transportation... if you can get it away with other rubbish to someone who is responsible and disposes it correctly then thats great.

Get a copy of the waste transfer license off the person that collects and keep it on hand, thats just incase your rubbish is fly tipped and it comes back to you.

A cast at most is at most several kilos coming in at a few pounds, having a whole trailer load would make it worth while taking to local merchant as a private seller if your time is not that valuble.

boingsaidzebedee

Best advice from Russe11 above.
Cast iron bath--around 3cwt.---maybe £20.00 at most.
Remember you now need to register with a Scrap Metal Dealer at the yard,provide photo ID and probably recent utility bills-- and payment by cheque or bank transfer if you decide to weigh it in yourself.

southcoastrgi

not worth the hassle or the petrol leave it out the front & the kind men in flat bed trucks will have it away before you wake up

(forum won't let me say p1key)

Leif

southcoastrgi wrote: »

not worth the hassle or the petrol leave it out the front & the kind men in flat bed trucks will have it away before you wake up

(forum won't let me say p1key)

You beat me to it. A drive by piekey does the job.

keystone

Agree its not worth the effort for a single bath. Now collect the bits from 10 and its worth the trip.

Cheers

UsernameAlreadyExists

Thank you all. I'll not bother, I'll ask him to get his guy to collect all the crap and be done with it (if it's not gone already)

As it happens though, I do have some p1keys that live nearby (housing assossication properties) and was thinking about giving them a knock, but scrap that

Funnily enough I did have an oven replaced about 6 months back, and the following morning the old one was gone ! hmmm!

gwdhld

Im guessing if a bath etc is not worth weighing in them a drain system, downcomer etc wont be either, the builder said that it was really heavy and that he thought it weighed over 20 stone for one length and there are 3 of them and a hopper. This made me think kerching, i will weigh this in, so asked him to leave it in the garden for me to dispose of (not having a clue how to do it or if its worth while or how to get it from a 2 b). I have heard of lots of people weighing things in and thought i wouldnt mind a bit of that. Would people pick it up?

drummer_666

worth it if u got a scrappy place nearby tho. not loads of money, but £20-£50 to drive a few miles..

i got a place few roads away, will take my old cylinder and 2 rads next month