Is the price of copper still high at the moment. A friend is having his
conventional CH / DHW system changed to a condensing combi. I told him not
to let the plumber take the copper hot water cylinder, but to either scrap
it or put it on ebay.

How much would one get scrapping a copper hot water cylinder?

Slider wrote:
Is the price of copper still high at the moment.

No

According to

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/me...rchive2008.jsp

braziery copper (i.e. copper pipe etc with brass fittings on it) is down
from £2900/tonne to £1200

A friend is having his
conventional CH / DHW system changed to a condensing combi. I told him not
to let the plumber take the copper hot water cylinder,

What did the contract say about scrap materials?


but to either scrap
it or put it on ebay.

I'd be surprised if many people are buying secondhand indirect
cylinders, given the number of people converting to combis.


How much would one get scrapping a copper hot water cylinder?

£15-£20 perhaps? Less if you go to one of the rag-and-bone man types of
yard.


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In article ,
Kevin Poole writes:
How much would one get scrapping a copper hot water cylinder?

£15-£20 perhaps? Less if you go to one of the rag-and-bone man types of
yard.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, a builder I was talking
with said scrap yard won't pay him anything for a copper hot
water now (or two weeks ago). Aparently there's a backlog of
copper in the chain and suddenly no demand for it. They would
only pay for clean copper. They would still take the rest, but
wouldn't pay anything for it.

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In article ,
Kevin Poole writes:
How much would one get scrapping a copper hot water cylinder?

£15-£20 perhaps? Less if you go to one of the rag-and-bone man types of
yard.

As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, a builder I was talking
with said scrap yard won't pay him anything for a copper hot
water now (or two weeks ago). Aparently there's a backlog of
copper in the chain and suddenly no demand for it. They would
only pay for clean copper. They would still take the rest, but
wouldn't pay anything for it.


So does this mean the Pikey's will now stop nicking it?...
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Tony Sayer