scrap hot water cylinder

[burncross]

on a job today, the plumbers have left the old scrap copper hot water cylinder, the owners of the house said would i remove it for them and i can have the scrap money for it! bit of a bonus!
any body know how much you get for them as scrap?

[Sir Ramic]

not much these days, hardly worth fuel expense.

[Dave]

The price of crap had gone right through the roof...but lately it has fallen again...but if you remove all the brass fittings it will still fetch enough for a few pints...

[Sir Ramic]

Let us know what it fetched. I stopped collecting years ago because the price was so low and you had to take a certain weight before they would accept it.

[burncross]

As long as it gets me few pints in the mucky beer shop, thats sounds good to me!

[burncross]

i'l let you know

[Dave]

Scrap was very good a few weeks back..the chinese were buying it all.....precious scrap like copper etc.....was very high.....even scrap cars were fetching very good money....a few years back an average scrap car would get you about £30 weighed in at scrap yard....this summer, they were fetching about £150 for an average car.....

So a tank like years was fetching good pennies.....

Copper was about £3.50 a kg and now its only about £1.98 a kg......but the prices keep altering...

[dts]

weighed 1 in last week got £22 for it will buy me turkey crown for the saplings

[Mike jackson]

on a job today, the plumbers have left the old scrap copper hot water cylinder, the owners of the house said would i remove it for them and i can have the scrap money for it! bit of a bonus!
any body know how much you get for them as scrap?

They can't have been proper plumbers. No plumber worth his salt would leave any scrap behind. That's beer money.

At it's peak down this way we were getting £3000 a tonne for heavy copper and £2800 a tonne for braziery. It plumetted to 1100 a tonne for heavy and £900 a tonne for braziery. It's now back up to around 2000 and 1800.

Last cylinder that my Mrs took in for me was worth about 25 notes.

Mike

[cornish_crofter]

Slightly off topic but during the summer, someone from our local freecycle group was offering a car.

I e mailed her and questioned her wisdom. As a result she took it to a local car breakers and got £80! She never realised it could be worth anything

One was giving min £100 per car around here, now they just advertise that they'll give 'cash'

[Mike jackson]

3 months ago I was getting £165 a tonne for mixed metals. Just recently a friend of mine got £5 a tonne! It's on the way back up again but you can tell the price is still low because when I take an old boiler out and leave it outside a property no one knocks on the door asking if they can take it away.

Mike

[bathroomboy]

I took a load of copper and brass in the summer and got £150 for it but now the price has crashed,just keep piling it up in the garage till I run out of room for it.

[burncross]

just to let you know, i took it scrap metal merchants today, got £20 for it. It weighed in at 14 kilo
better in my pocket than the plumbers, they earn enough as it is!