Copper hot water cylinder - how much is it worth

[hepy]

I am having my boiler replaced and as result we don't need the copper hot water cylinder any more.

Just wondering if anyone knows how much these are worth, as I could weigh it in for scrap, or should I just leave it outside for someone to take away on the back of a transit?

[Rawwr]

About £80.

[eskidavies]

I done my scrap the other day and only had one tank £47

[Rawwr]

Though mine was a few years ago.

[BrabusMog]

Probably about £40-£50.

[hepy]

Thanks for your help, might try Ebaying it first, see if it can still be used in a heating system.

[imagineifyeswill]

Price of scrap is pretty low just now, theres not really much weight in a hot water cylinder I would think £20 might be optomistic.

[gsxrblue]

Price of copper is currently around £2500 per ton so weigh it in.

I got £48 for a cylinder about a month ago that came out of a renovation project.

Another good one is old electric cable.

[robwilk]

Got 30 quid the other week for one.
Depending on how its been installed they might have to put a hole in it to drain it out, we did as its quite heavy full of water.

[austinsmirk]

Weigh it in!!'

I renewed the Central heating in my house about two years ago. The copper and lead pipes and tank were worth £398 in total as scrap.

Result !

[gtidriver]

I think you would get more for it if you got rid of the insulation that covers it.

[Hooli]

hepy said:

Thanks for your help, might try Ebaying it first, see if it can still be used in a heating system.

Sounds a plan to me.

Give it a few months & we'll be looking for one to fit to replace the one Caravan Utilising Nomadic Traveller folk stole a bit over a year ago. Seems the larger ones are about £200 new.

[soad]

BrabusMog said:

Probably about £40-£50.

That's plumbers Beer Money gone!

gtidriver said:

I think you would get more for it if you got rid of the insulation that covers it.

There are two rates for copper, clean an dirty, more money for clean copper. Go the whole hog - remove the insulation jacket and take off all the brass.

The new cylinders weigh roughly 12 kg each, the older ones weigh more (bigger, and thicker copper used).

[BrabusMog]

soad said:

BrabusMog said:

Probably about £40-£50.

That's plumbers Beer Money gone!

gtidriver said:

I think you would get more for it if you got rid of the insulation that covers it.

There are two rates for copper, clean an dirty, more money for clean copper. Go the whole hog - remove the insulation jacket and take off all the brass.

The new cylinders weigh roughly 12 kg each, the older ones weigh more (bigger, and thicker copper used).

Sure is, the guys that rewired my house weren't too happy that I'd had their beer money as well

[eskidavies]

Price is low at the mo this lot netted me £663,this amount in the past I've had £800 odd quid.



The red tub and bag are all nuts taps/ brass ,the tank and all other bags are copper pipe.10 in total
Had to weigh it in it was getting in the way,need to start another pile now.

[soad]

eskidavies said:

Price is low at the mo this lot netted me £663,this amount in the past I've had £800 odd quid.

Many a dirty takeaways to be had with those funds.

[eskidavies]

soad said:

eskidavies said:

Price is low at the mo this lot netted me £663,this amount in the past I've had £800 odd quid.

Many a dirty takeaways to be had with those funds.

The cars having a major service ,haldex and brake fluid,the rest will go on DTAs