We buy contractor over-orders
Contractors buy over because a pull cannot stop for a missing fifty feet. The reels left at close-out are the best documented surplus on any site.
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 954-740-1983Estimating cable for a commercial job is not an exact exercise. Feeder routes change, pulls come up short, and nobody wants a crew standing idle waiting on a reel. So the quantity goes up by a comfortable margin, and the extra sits on the dock until close-out.
That leftover is usually new, tagged and undamaged, which makes it the easiest lot to review. We buy it across Greater Austin, from a single reel at the end of a job to the accumulated surplus of a contractor's whole year, listed together on one sheet.
New, tagged and never pulled
The typical reel at close-out has factory print on the tag, the original banding and no bends in the wrap. It was delivered, counted and never issued. That is the condition a buyer hopes for and rarely gets on a demolition lot.
Keep it that way. A reel moved three times with a forklift and stored on its side arrives looking used even though it is not. Anything that leaves the drum, the banding and the wrap untouched protects the review and takes the crew no extra effort.
Grouping the short cut lengths from pulls
Pulls leave tails, and tails are the part of the surplus most often wasted. Fifty feet of 3/0 from a feeder pull will not justify a trip on its own, but twenty of them sorted by gauge is a real lot. Keep each one on a drum or a coil with a written tag.
Group by construction and gauge, and note the approximate length on each. Do not wind a copper tail onto an aluminum reel or the other way round, and do not drop a 600 V tail into a pile of medium voltage cut lengths.
One list, several jobs, timed to close-out
A contractor with four jobs running has four small surpluses and no time to handle them separately. Put them on one list with the job name against each reel. One submission and one review beats four conversations, and it lets a buyer plan a single route.
Timing matters. The week before demobilisation is the wrong week to start. Send the list while the trailers are still on site, and schedule pickup for the point where the reels are staged and the crew is still there to load them.
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, wrap condition, pull tails |
|---|---|
| Typical lots | One close-out to a year of accumulated surplus |
| Voltage classes | 600 V branch and feeder through 15 kV |
| Condition accepted | New and unused, plus sorted short tails |
| Documentation | Reel list with job name, tag photos |
| Timing | Staged before demobilisation, loaded on site |
Close-outs from Georgetown to San Marcos
Commercial work in this region closes out constantly: office fit-outs around the Domain and Burnet Road, warehouse shells along SH-130 and US-79, school and hospital additions in Round Rock, Cedar Park and Kyle. Each one leaves a pallet behind and a foreman glad to see it go.
We cover Travis, Williamson, Hays and Bastrop counties and can meet a demobilisation schedule rather than fight it. Give us the job addresses, the staging point and the date the trailer leaves, and the pickup can be planned around all three.
Sellers ask
Is it worth collecting twenty or thirty short tails?
Grouped and labelled, yes. Sorted by construction and gauge with a rough length on each, they review as a lot. Loose in a bin with no tags, they review as scrap. The sorting is the work that creates the value.
Can you meet us at close-out so we store nothing?
That is the best arrangement. Send the list while the crew is still on site and the pickup can be scheduled for the day the reels are staged. It saves you a storage move and keeps the reels as delivered.
Do you want one job at a time or the whole year?
Either, but a multi-job list usually serves you better. One review across several jobs means one route, one set of paperwork and one release, rather than repeating the whole process for each small surplus.
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