Scrap value of old cooker

I recently weighed in 160kg of scrap steel and cast iron - worth about £17.

So for ferrous stuff - pennies per kilo. Copper/brass on the other hand, several quid a kilo.

Lets assume my cooker weighs about 100kg. Argos has to send their lorry to my address (and lots of others) during the day and return empty. Why not make up for this by loading up with scrap metal, charging the punters for the service, and making more money from the scrap value?

Seems a bit excessive for a cooker...

Indeed - nothing to lose from their point of view - they get paid twice, once to collect it, and again when disposing. Having said that, there are costs of keeping a vehicle on the road each year, and for other stuff like waste transfer licenses, insurance etc.

They probably make up for it even more by charging for delivery.

Probably £5-£10. So hardly worth driving to the nearest scrap yard.

What sort of insulation do these cookers have in them?

No the pikeys would get your details then sneak around after dark and take it away along with any wire or plumbing they can get their hands on.

Brian

Our local freecycle is a peculiar thing. I have had people ring up within thirty seconds of me putting stuff on there, I think there are lots of pikeys constantly monitoring it. They usually turn up in a transit size van.

But absolutely any bit of s*it, someone will want it and come and take it away. Not all have been pikeys.

For an ordinary 500/600 mm bog standard gas/electric one yes. They are mostly a reasonable one person handle so not much more than 30kg.

If it's an aga, it's a *very* small aga at 100kg...

As for scrap value not a lot, unless you have a scrappy next door you'll spend more in fuel than you'll get for it.

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It failed to shift my almost new spare[1] microwave (about £50 worth) so it's on eBay at 99p now. No bids.

Scrap steel is worth anything up to £150 per ton. Less the hassle and cost of separating the steel from all the other components of the cooker.

I would have thought the average electric cooker is 30-50kg, so at most has a direct scrap value of £5!!

We have people ask for the moon on the stick. Oh wait, no that was me after a spate of really silly requests for things like cars and other expensive stuff.

You can shift almost anything. I tried to get rid of a load of jars and weeks later had replies after they've all gone.

Can be worth selling the grill-pan, shelves etc separately as spares.

Owain

Ur nasty I'm a gypsy we ain't all bad Iv got arga to sell for srcape and come across you bad mouthing my people I hope they put a curse on real bad one and there true and iv seen them worck . U are a wicked

My drive needs re-doing. You wouldn't happen to be doing a job up the road and got some left over tarmac?

mark

Ooer missus. Brian

What you need is some lucky heather. Do you know anyone who sells it?

What he needs is a course on written English by the look of it, but to set the record straight. There are Gypsies, who always clear up after themselves and are no problem at all, and there are travellers who seem to think everyone is a mug and everywhere is a rubbish tip.

Brian

Maybe - but your writing is!

Curse? I've already endured a curse reading that drivel.