Demolition cable buyer in Florence, SC
Cable from a strip-out is cut at the panel and pulled through the ceiling, so it arrives in short pieces with no tags and no footage.
- Florence County
- I-95 and I-20
- Strip-out and tear-out
Demolition cable in Florence
Demolition cable is not a cable type. It is a condition. The same THHN, MC or tray cable that went in as a documented installation comes out cut at both ends, mixed with conduit and strut, and piled in a roll-off. The building’s drawings may still exist somewhere. The tags almost never do. What remains is copper and aluminium in identifiable sizes with unrecorded lengths.
There is a difference between decommissioning and demolition, and it decides the quality of the material. A plant shut down properly has its cable pulled, coiled and labelled, and that material reviews like surplus. A building being gutted for redevelopment has its cable cut and thrown in a bin. Florence produces both, and they are not priced the same way.
The strip-out work here follows redevelopment rather than heavy industry. Older commercial buildings in and around downtown, mill-era structures along the rail lines, and the commercial strip out toward the interstate all get gutted in turn. The cable sits in dumpsters, in piles on the floor, or already separated into a copper pile and an aluminium pile by a crew that knows the difference.
Condition is what you would expect. Jackets are cut, ends are bare, and insulation is often abraded where it was dragged through a ceiling void. Some of it is wet. What matters is whether the pieces are long enough to be worth coiling, and whether the metals have been kept apart. A crew that separates as it strips saves everybody a day.
Why this material gets reviewed properly
Cut lengths are a group lot
A dumpster of three and four foot cut-offs is not a reel and never will be one. It is reviewed on weight, conductor size and how cleanly the metals have been separated. Short lengths of large conductor are worth more per pound than short lengths of small conductor, and the description has to capture that difference.
Metal separation starts on the floor
The most useful thing a demolition crew can do is keep copper and aluminium apart from the first hour. Once mixed in a roll-off the separation happens at a yard, by hand, at a cost. Kept apart, the two piles can be described and reviewed separately, and the basis for each is clearer.
The building tells you what is inside
A 1960s mill building and a 2005 office building do not hold the same cable. One has older rubber and cloth insulated conductor, the other has THHN and MC. Knowing the vintage and the previous use lets a review start with an expectation, which is then checked against what is actually in the pile.
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Questions on this material
Do you need the cable separated before you look?
It helps a great deal, but it is not a condition of looking. We will review a mixed pile and quote a basis that assumes it is mixed. If copper and aluminium are separated and the conduit is out, the basis improves because the sorting work has already been done. Neither version gets refused.
Can you work behind a demolition crew on a schedule?
That is often how it works, with the cable coming out ahead of the structural work. We ask for a date range rather than a fixed hour, because strip-out timings move. Where the material has to leave the site the same day, say so at the start and the logistics get arranged around it.
What about cable with conduit still on it?
It is reviewed with the conduit counted against it, because the weight includes material that is not cable. Where the conduit is copper that changes things. Where it is steel or PVC it is a cost to the seller rather than a benefit. Strip what comes away easily and leave the rest.
Is a dumpster load too small to bother with?
No, but it is a different review from a reel. A roll-off is assessed on weight and metal mix, and the numbers are what they are. Where a site produces several loads across a project it is usually better to consolidate them and review once rather than price each one separately.
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