Scrap metal pickup in Hillcrest, sorted the same day.

Scrap metal pickup in Hillcrest, and what comes out of it

Hillcrest is the closest suburb on our run, barely six minutes from the yard gate, which is why it is usually the first or last stop of the day.

Hillcrest was built largely as South Australian Housing Trust stock, and the wide linear reserves that cut across the suburb are not parkland by design -- they are the cleared corridor of a Tea Tree Gully railway line that was proposed in the 1950s and never built. From 1993 the state government began replacing much of the older Housing SA housing here, taking the suburb from mostly weatherboard homes on large blocks to smaller dwellings on smaller ones.

That rebuild programme has never really stopped, and it is the reason Hillcrest produces more demolition metal per street than anywhere else we collect from. A weatherboard house coming down gives up galvanised roof sheeting, old steel guttering and downpipes, a copper hot water cylinder and usually a wall furnace. If you are clearing a block here, call before the skip arrives -- the copper and brass in a 1950s house is worth more than the skip costs.

Most Hillcrest blocks are the post-1993 rebuilds, which means narrower frontages and less room on the verge than the old weatherboard blocks had. If the metal is behind a gate or down the side, say so when you call and we will bring the smaller vehicle. The linear reserves make some of these streets awkward to loop back around, so a street number is worth more to us than a cross street.

We come up Grand Junction Road and are on site inside ten minutes, so a Hillcrest job can usually be done the same morning you call.