Is my rubbish worth anything ?
 

Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper. What about the
old single radiators ?

Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump

Is my rubbish worth anything ?
 

On Mon, 31 May 2004 08:50:59 +0100, "Popeye"
wrote:

Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper.

A small amount but probably not worth the transport. If you were
doing plumbing and heating on a daily basis and accumulated a fair
amount of copper from cylinders and pipes possibly. IIRC, somebody
here got about £30 for a van load.


What about the
old single radiators ?

Steel panel ones? Doubtful. If they were old cast iron ones a
reclaim place could be interested.


Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump


If that amounts to a lot of time, is it worth getting a skip?
..andy

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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 31 May 2004 08:50:59 +0100, "Popeye"
wrote:

Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old
water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper.

A small amount but probably not worth the transport. If you were
doing plumbing and heating on a daily basis and accumulated a fair
amount of copper from cylinders and pipes possibly. IIRC, somebody
here got about £30 for a van load.


What about the
old single radiators ?

Steel panel ones? Doubtful. If they were old cast iron ones a
reclaim place could be interested.


Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump


If that amounts to a lot of time, is it worth getting a skip?
.andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

thanks
yes single steel ones

Was hoping someone might just want them for free and save me going to the
dump.

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"Popeye" wrote in message
...
Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old
water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper. What about
the
old single radiators ?


Scrap value, unless the radiators are the old style cast iron type, if so a
salvage company might well be interested.

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"Popeye" wrote in message
...

snip
yes single steel ones

Was hoping someone might just want them for free and save me going to the
dump.


Have you looked in your Yellow Pages for local scrap metal dealers, they
might collect (assuming you don't want anything for the scrap).

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"Popeye" wrote in message
...
Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old
water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper. What about
the
old single radiators ?

Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump

clean copper pays 90p per kilo
scrap steel is about 12 pounds a ton

you have to get it to the scrappie

mrcheerful

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Popeye wrote:

Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper. What about the
old single radiators ?

Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump



In cases like this, I left loads of stuff like that stacked outside my
house. Most of it was taken by passers by. The rest went in a skip.

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Popeye wrote:

Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old
water cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper.
What about the old single radiators ?

Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number
of trips to the dump

Well, I have sold single panel steel radiators in the past by advertising
them in the free local papers which do free small ads. I have usually found
someone willing to pay a fiver per rad (for re-use, not scrap) - as long as
the brackets (and possibly valves) come with them.
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In cases like this, I left loads of stuff like that stacked outside my
house. Most of it was taken by passers by. The rest went in a skip.

Have you done that in Suffolk? Everyone used to put unwanted stuff on
their garden wall where I lived in Bristol which was a road along
which lots of people walked to take the kids to school and the gypsies
came round regularly hoovering up the metal

I assumed that it would be harder to get rid of not-quite-worthless
junk with less passing trade ;-)

Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England
|""""| ~ Plaster conservation and lime plaster repair
/ ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc
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"Lobster" wrote
| In the past I have deliberately left items like these at the
| front of the drive and the pixies have removed them overnight...
| having said that I left two old rads outside a few weeks clearly
| marked 'rubbish - help yoursefl' and they were still there after
| a week, so an enforced dump-run was required. Maybe a reflection
| on the current value of scrap?

Perhaps you should have labelled the radiators "quality pre-owed radiators -
£20 each" then the pixies would have thought they were getting something of
value.

Owain

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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 10:29:29 +0100, a particular chimpanzee named
"Lobster" randomly hit the keyboard
and produced:

I left two old rads outside a few weeks clearly marked 'rubbish - help
yoursefl' and they were still there after a week

Put a chain and padlock on them, and they'll go before you can turn
around.
--
Hugo Nebula
"The fact that no-one on the internet wants a piece of this
shows you just how far you've strayed from the pack".

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Anna Kettle wrote:
In cases like this, I left loads of stuff like that stacked outside my
house. Most of it was taken by passers by. The rest went in a skip.


Have you done that in Suffolk?
Yes.

Everyone used to put unwanted stuff on
their garden wall where I lived in Bristol which was a road along
which lots of people walked to take the kids to school and the gypsies
came round regularly hoovering up the metal

I assumed that it would be harder to get rid of not-quite-worthless
junk with less passing trade ;-)

There are plenty of self employed builders around, and D-I-Yers, and
they took all the old doors and windows for garden sheds etc. Even a
fairly naff mauve cloakroom suite went eventually, apart, strangely
enough, from the basin....

About 1/2 ton of perfectly stacked machine tiles didn't go either.
Probably someone thought I wanted to keep em.


Anna

~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England
|""""| ~ Plaster conservation and lime plaster repair
/ ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc
|____| www.kettlenet.co.uk 01359 230642

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"Popeye" wrote in message
...
Just in the process of replacing a heating system. I will have an old
water
cylinder , which I guess is worth something from the copper. What about
the
old single radiators ?

Would people want these items free, just thinking of saving a number of
trips to the dump

Well these are just the sort of things which get lifted from skips in the
road, so yes. In the past I have deliberately left items like these at the
front of the drive and the pixies have removed them overnight... having said
that I left two old rads outside a few weeks clearly marked 'rubbish - help
yoursefl' and they were still there after a week, so an enforced dump-run
was required. Maybe a reflection on the current value of scrap?

David