We buy cable from cancelled projects
A deferred project leaves new cable banded on a pallet with the invoice still in the wrap. That paperwork is worth as much to the review as the copper inside.
Send the lot
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
Prefer to talk 954-740-1983Projects get paused, redesigned and value engineered out of existence. The cable was bought early because lead times demanded it, it arrived on site, and then the job stopped. What is left is usually the cleanest material in the building: full reels, factory tags, original banding, and a purchase record still in the trailer.
We buy that cable across Greater Austin, and we read the file before we read the reels. Purchase records, submittal sheets and the release signature tell us more about a lot than any photograph of a drum taken in a dark corner of a laydown at the end of the day.
Reels that never left the dock
A never-issued reel is the best case. The banding is intact, the tag is factory print rather than marker, and the drum has not been dragged across a slab. Photograph the tag square on, then take a second frame showing the full drum and the banding.
Storage matters more than age. Two years in a dry warehouse leaves a reel in better shape than two wet summers under a tarp. Tell us where it sat, whether the ground was paved, and whether water stood around the flanges.
When the design moved to another voltage class
Redesigns often change the cable, not just the quantity. A service that moved from 480 V to 600 V, or a feeder resized after a load study, leaves reels of a construction the site no longer needs. Those drums are still standard constructions for the next job.
Write down what the drawing called for and what arrived. If the reel is 4/0 where the plan now shows 350 kcmil, say so, because the buyer will read the tag anyway. Mismatches are common and they cause no trouble when they are declared up front.
Paperwork, title and the release signature
An invoice ties a reel to a date and a purchase. A submittal ties it to a specification. Together they answer questions a buyer would otherwise have to take on trust. Send the invoice pages that list the cable rather than the whole project file.
Ownership is the other half. On a stalled job the owner, the general contractor and the electrical contractor may each believe the cable is theirs. Find out who can sign a release before a pickup is scheduled, and put that name on the lot list.
What this page covers
The rows a buyer would fill in when reviewing this kind of lot. If your cable matches most of them, the submission is ready.
| What we review | Tags, banding, invoice lines, storage history |
|---|---|
| Typical lots | Full reels from one paused or redesigned job |
| Voltage classes | 120 V branch circuits through 35 kV feeders |
| Condition accepted | Never issued, banded, warehouse stored |
| Documentation | Tag photos, invoice pages, submittal sheets |
| Sign-off | Release signed by the party holding title |
Stalled work along the Austin corridor
Greater Austin has had a long run of jobs that broke ground, bought cable early and then waited. Office shells near the Domain, warehouse pads out toward Taylor and Manor, and hotel work around the airport all pause the same way, with material already on site and nowhere to install it.
We work across Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bastrop counties and treat a paused job as paused, not abandoned. We schedule the truck after terms are agreed and the release is signed, and we work around whatever the site is still doing.
Sellers ask
The reels are still banded. Does that change anything?
It helps. Factory banding and an unmarked tag mean the reel was never pulled, so the printed length can be treated as accurate. Send a photograph of the banding with the tag and the review moves faster.
Can you collect before the claim is settled?
It depends on who holds title and who can sign. We need a release from the party that owns the material. If the owner, the general contractor and the electrical contractor are still working that out, wait until one of them can sign.
What if only part of the purchase arrived?
Say so on the list and mark which reels are short. A short reel with a factory tag is reviewed as a partial, and the invoice shows what the full length should have been. Declared shortages are easy, discovered ones slow everything down.
Send the reel list
Six details are enough to start: what the cable is, how much there is, where it is and what condition it is in. Photos can follow by text or email.
Prefer to talk 954-740-1983