Aluminum Siding…..worth recycling???
I’m working on pulling down all of the aluminum siding from my house. With scrap
prices on the rise, is it worth the time trying to take it to the scrap yard? My gut tells
me no…. any one do this lately?
-D
I’m working on pulling down all of the aluminum siding from my house. With scrap
prices on the rise, is it worth the time trying to take it to the scrap yard? My gut tells
me no…. any one do this lately?
-D
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It's worth scraping if a couple hundred bucks sound good. Aluminum scrap prices are great right now.
Chuck
you better believe it is...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Seen the price of scrap steel this week?
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yeah....
and have ya tried copper???
yeowzer...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
A mason on my site was telling me last week he had a slew of alum baseball bats for sale at a yard sale..no takers at 5 bucks a pop. He made out better selling them for scrap.
So I think when I see a yard sale, I am gonna keep an eye out for them.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"Welcome to Poo-ville, can I have your socks?Seriously Folks, I need a home for 3 lovers of your life.
The scrap pickers here take anything metal now from the trash.And the lowlifes take anything metal they can sell. There was a bunch that stole about 3000 lbs of copper fittings from Lowes a pocketfull at a time, then they all went to trade it in at the scrapyard where they were promptly arrested. Weeks of "work" for nothing.Had another handicapped woman get trapped in her rental because someone stole her wheelchair ramp. The community helped her out.And another idjit tried to steal live wiring from the trolly bus power pole. He wont be stealing anymore.
here--- thanks to the marvel that is the cordless sawzall
thieves will steal catylitic converters right off the cars at night at car dealerships!
stephen
Same here.
Check this out.
http://catclamp.com/catclamp.asp
Edited 4/27/2008 8:49 am ET by MarkH
dang rite, happened to us at our other location. Took 2 converters off of moving trucks middle of the nite, didn't realize untill they started them up!
In Cleveland they take it right off your house while your at work.....Aluminium siding guards.... the next cottage industry.......
They would take it off the houses in Detroit but they stole it all back in the 80's. Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
probably a conspiracy organized by the vinyl siding industry
Down the road a spell sits the remains of a very old half size bus which looks like something from the 50s or 60s
overgrown with saplings and trees all around it which I've driven by for years but readily seen when no leaves are on the trees.
Other day saw a homeboy tow truck parked near there and a guy walking around checking it out.
Can't readily yank the thing out of there because it is so penned in by trees but I could later see he didn't want to go away emptyhanded
as half the window braces supporting the roof on one side were now missing.
heh heh Musta finally decided it wasn't worth the effort.
"I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch ofpeople in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west." -Richard Jeni
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Click here to visit the beginning of Breaktime
Edited 4/27/2008 11:23 am ET by rez
i think i was quoted 45.00 a 100 the other day for alum. so probably worth saving,but all the nails have to be gone. larry
if a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
My scrap yard takes it nails and all.Steve
50 cents a lb locally.
I took a bunch of bagged al siding - cut-offs - a few weeks ago - pile didn't look like much - got $25. for my trouble.
Jim