Scrap prices

[Tonycane]

Anyone weighed in any scrap brass/copper recently? What are the prices like? Need to clear the shed

 

[Best]

Yes, - I took some scrap 2 weeks ago and got £2.65 kilo for copper, £2.60 for brazery plus a cylinder, £1.65 for brass
Sadly the trend is downwards. Chinese aren't buying much

 

[Dsp]

Be glad your not weighing in ferrous it's down at £40 per tonne and batteries (lead acid) are down to £300 per tonne from £400/£450 last year

 

[townfanjon]

It used to be a major payday weighing in , not no more !! , it hasnt stopped me crawling on my knees over broken bricks , bits of wood , nails , screws even a dead squirrel this week etc etc to grab a bit of scrap though lol

 

[jonnyswamp]

It used to be a major payday weighing in , not no more !! , it hasnt stopped me crawling on my knees over broken bricks , bits of wood , nails , screws even a dead squirrel this week etc etc to grab a bit of scrap though lol

A man after my own heart, nothing better than free money, even though it's not as good as it was
Now and again you come across a nest of old offcuts under a floor (the older thicker walled copper) it's like Christmas:carolers:just can't leave it there

 

[Dsp]

A man after my own heart, nothing better than free money, even though it's not as good as it was
Now and again you come across a nest of old offcuts under a floor (the older thicker walled copper) it's like Christmas:carolers:just can't leave it there

Oh no you have always got to be a good little plumber and clean it up for the customer I don't belive I have ever left and scrap on any of my jobs

 

[gassafe]

Oh no you have always got to be a good little plumber and clean it up for the customer I don't belive I have ever left and scrap on any of my jobs

Plenty of old plastic tanks left in roof spaces tho I bet... With the brass fill valve missing :rolleyes2:

 

[Dsp]

Plenty of old plastic tanks left in roof spaces tho I bet... With the brass fill valve missing :rolleyes2:

Not too many I use F&E tanks in my garage as storage boxes so always remove them but larger tanks have being known to be left but always dry and clean

 

[AWheating]

price has been pants for yonks. wont get any better for a while.

on the plus side a bundle of 15mm is below £50 so cant complain

 

[Tonycane]

Very true, damn China's crumbling economy!

 

[Rickster123]

Nothing better than doing a combi upgrade, stripping out the airing cupboard and discovering 28mm copper overflows up in the loft! It's amazing how nimble I can be over the joists stripping out spidge!

 

[kozak1968]

I Got £2 a kilo for brazery last week

 

[Tonycane]

I got:-
Brazery £2.15 a kg
Copper £2.45 a kg
Brass £1.75 a kg

 

[Roger Welton]

Yes its rubbish at the moment, i'm weighing in steel but stockpiling non ferrous for the price to rebound.

 

[kozak1968]

Give it another 50 years and we will be weighing in our plastic pipe!

 

[Rickster123]

Give it another 50 years and we will be weighing in our plastic pipe!

And still laughing about fitting it

 

[lucas121]

I got:-
Brazery £2.15 a kg
Copper £2.45 a kg
Brass £1.75 a kg

When on earth do you go for those prices?

Was speaking to our local scrappy, he says prices are dropping and will continue to drop for a while.

 

[Tonycane]

They good?

 

[Dsp]

Weighing in cardboard can be profitable business if you have enough £80 per tonne last time I checked as for plastic it will have a value for recycling but yet again the price will be low and who has 1000kg of plastic pipe???

 

[drip-dry]

took some scrap in the other day...a few new vaillants,veissman,s and alpha's...not offered a lot..as you would expect....:90:

 

[Ray Stafford]

This link will show you the current price that copper is trading at on 3 month future contracts.

Futures contracts indicate what the specialist metal traders think that copper will be trading at in 90 days time. If the graph is going up, then sit on your scrap until prices rise. If the line is level or trending down, then there isn't much point.

All that is if you believe in the wisdom and foresight of the red-braces brigade that trade on the London Metal Exchange. If you think you know better then them, then do your own thing.

 

[drip-dry]

This link will show you the current price that copper is trading at on 3 month future contracts.

Futures contracts indicate what the specialist metal traders think that copper will be trading at in 90 days time. If the graph is going up, then sit on your scrap until prices rise. If the line is level or trending down, then there isn't much point.

All that is if you believe in the wisdom and foresight of the red-braces brigade that trade on the London Metal Exchange. If you think you know better then them, then do your own thing.

well of course the paper price is differant from the physical price..if you want to increase your scrap return,often the best result is to sort correctly before you take in,making sure you separate the pure copper correctly...me ,i price jobs correctly and the scrap is just a bonus at christmas..nothing to worry about..trouble is,as price been so good over past years....folk tend to notice return more and indeed expect a high return

 

[Ray Stafford]

well of course the paper price is differant from the physical price..if you want to increase your scrap return,often the best result is to sort correctly before you take in,making sure you separate the pure copper correctly...me ,i price jobs correctly and the scrap is just a bonus at christmas..nothing to worry about..trouble is,as price been so good over past years....folk tend to notice return more and indeed expect a high return

Sure - cleaning and separating your scrap will deffo improve things.

But the ceiling is the newly mined copper price. No one will pay £3/kilo for scrap, if newly minted metal is trading at £2.99

 

[gassafe]

Weighed in some copper today... I got 2.10 per kilo brazery

25 pound per copper tank with foam etc... Pretty happy with that

 

[SimonG]

2.50 for brazery
1.80 for brass
50p a pump head

Last week.

 

[gassafe]

What's the deal with pump heads? Never knew they were worth anything lol!

 

[Best]

Weighed in some copper today... I got 2.10 per kilo brazery

25 pound per copper tank with foam etc... Pretty happy with that

I replaced a 36" cylinder about over a month ago and old one was 11 kilo and I got almost £30 for it alone. So must have been about £2.70 a kilo then

 

[Best]

What's the deal with pump heads? Never knew they were worth anything lol!

All motors and pump heads are worth money for their copper windings. I heard that on here and now starting to save them rather than just adding them to general scrap

 

[Roger Welton]

Anyone weighed any steel in recently?

 

[SimonG]

I dont bother with the steel anymore. I just let the skip rats take it. Its a 30 mile roundtrip to the scrappies so wouldnt get enough in the van to cover the diesel.

 

[PhoenixServices]

I took in 10 600x1000 singles and got £7.20 it was £40 a ton

 

[GQuigley67]

You take radiators to the scrappy? Sack that! I get a guy to pick mine up for free haha.

I got a very old unvented cylinder couple months back, probably one of the first ever unvented cylinders made, was heavy duty copper with a copper coil inside, got nearly £90 for it. Wish I weighed it in couple years ago haha.

As of 1st of September no more cash for scrap up here

 

[PhoenixServices]

I only take them in if I'm doing a whole house and there is no skip. Although just about to get a metal skip at my lockup to start chucking stuff in. Not had cash for scrap for years

 

[Roger Welton]

I took in 10 600x1000 singles and got £7.20 it was £40 a ton

loads of work for not much reward then and its just too bulky to stockpile

 

[GQuigley67]

I only take them in if I'm doing a whole house and there is no skip. Although just about to get a metal skip at my lockup to start chucking stuff in. Not had cash for scrap for years

Find someone to lift them for you, they take up too much space in the van. I don't even have to pay the guy just give him some rads, small bits of scrap and he's happy, even takes away my cardboard etc