Getting rid of old radiators - value? scrap?

[Mr. Clueless]

We switched out a few radiators so i currently have:

1x 1760x600
1x 950x600
2x 700x600

I was going to put the top 2 on an auction site as they're strange sizes. I don't expect much but in reality i probably wont get anything.

Where do you take them? Would a scrap metal place give anything for these? I'm not expecting retirement money but if a drive out there is only likely to get me £5 for the lot then i'll chuck them in a skip nearby (have permission before anyone gets excited )

 

[Dan Robinson]

Worth less than the diesel to move them.

even the pikies are getting more selective.

 

[roguetrader]

The dirty water that was inside them would probably have been a better earner.

 

[Corgigrouch]

Leave them at the end of your drive and they'll go in a few hours..

 

[Agile]

In London on busy streets they will sometimes go but its getting far more difficult now.

I have all the steel bits of a large Worcester boiler still waiting after four days.

But in Lancs I would be surprised if anyone would take them.

But in case someone might like them I would say put them on a Freecycle listing in case it will help someone.

That does not cost any petrol.

 

[dilalio]

Rads used to 'disappear' from the end of customers' drives within 2-4hrs, nowadays it's 2-4 days, but they do go eventually... as long as you have an easy going customer

 

[Agile]

I once put one outside and it went within an hour.

Next day I was actually carrying one out when the scrap guy pulled up opposite and so I carried on to his van.

Asked how he knew there would be another and he said "there usually are!"

 

[Mr. Clueless]

Well that's that one sorted then.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give them a listing on some of the free sites. If they go then great, if not then i'll load them up in the car & take them to the metal skip at work.

 

[muggles]

I think steel was 7p per kilo scrap value last time I went

 

[HootingOwl]

best of luck - but you are wasting your time. Steel is next to worthless at the moment so you will be lucky if you don't have to pay to have them taken away. I have a load of scrap that has not been 'taken' for over three months now. Someone is obviously picking over it every month or so to look for copper and brass, but they don't bother with the steel.

 

[Mr. Clueless]

I should've let the plumber take the radiators when he was going to then. I thought i'd be able to shift them, especially the big one. LoL!!!

Oh well. Teaches me to not do research first.

Thankfully it'll cost me nothing to offload them in the metal skip at work other than extra fuel usage due to more weight.

 

[dilalio]

You could always bury them in the floor as under floor heating, in some screed!
Don't laugh... I've seen it done!!

 

[FiremanT]

I should've let the plumber take the radiators when he was going to then. I thought i'd be able to shift them, especially the big one. LoL!!!.

I bet the plumber was gutted.
Frankly, ome customers deserve all that befalls them.

 

[Dan Robinson]